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No.
No.
"No!"
Annabeth flung herself onto Percy, but she passed right through his body. Her face hit the bed, and her tears soaked the sheets.
"No, no, no!" she cried desperately. "No!"
"Annabeth," Percy said calmly.
"This can't be happening!"
"Annabeth," he said, a bit more sternly.
"Why?!"
"Annabeth!" Percy shouted.
"WHAT?!" Annabeth screamed. "Don't you dare tell me to calm down! I am not going to hear it!"
"That wasn't what I was going to say!" Percy said defensively, raising his hands in the air. The duct tape had fallen through him, since he was now more of a ghost. Not that it mattered anymore. "I just think that my last few moments shouldn't be spent like this."
Annabeth sniffed. She knew that he was right.
But Percy was about to be gone. Gone forever. There would be no rebirth, no afterlife.
Just nothing. Nothing forever. And Annabeth would have nothing but memories to remember Percy by.
In one last desperate act of love, she placed her lips on his, though she felt nothing.
She thought of all the little moments they had had together. Walks in the park. Percy pretending to be a walrus with fries in his mouth. The time they fell asleep on the Argo II. Trips to the library where Percy complained about wanting to leave, which always ended with a kiss.
She remembered college at New Rome. Percy always putting things off until the last minute. Late night parties Percy forced her to go to.
She tried to recall every single little detail of their lives together. She saw their lives flash before her eyes; two lives that became one. She was filled with hope and love.
When that hope and love filled Annabeth's heart, something miraculous happened.
She could, although very faintly, actually feel Percy's lips on hers.
Her heart was bursting with joy and relief. She didn't know of any science or myth that could explain how or why, but she didn't care. There was a chance. A chance.
She thought of some of the darker details of their relationship. Fighting monsters together. Seeing him at the Big House for the first time, when she was still young and innocent. Their quests together.
She remembered seeing him after Mt. St. Helens, and how relieved she had been to see him. She remembered falling into Tartarus together, and how Percy had refused to let go of her. She remembered how she had taken the poison knife for him. She remembered losing him for six months.
She remembered every single detail that reminded her how bittersweet love was.
But it also reminded her of how strong love was, too. They had been through thick and thin together. Nothing had been able to separate them. Nothing, Annabeth realized, would ever again.
The feeling Percy's lips was becoming stronger and stronger.
She recalled every truly amazing moment with Percy.
She remembered their first kiss in the lake at Camp Half-Blood.
She remembered graduating from New Rome together.
She remembered Percy proposing to her.
She remembered saying "I do" on her wedding day.
She remembered bringing home each of their children.
She remembered everything.
That spark of hope that had started in her heart had engulfed her in a raging fire of happiness and love.
Love was eternal. Love is eternal.
Love will always overcome any odds.
A warm hand ran through her hair. She opened her eyes to see the smiling face of a fully-formed Percy. His eyes were dancing with love and joy.
Somehow, though she didn't know how, they had shared the memories together. They both had their lives flash before their eyes, in a display of how love could overcome anything.
And love will overcome this, too, Annabeth thought.
In one final act of desperation, she tipped the entire bottle down Percy's throat.
He swallowed it like one might swallow water. For a moment, no one moved.
And then everyone cried out in joy. They laughed. They cried. They hugged. Percy threw his arms around Annabeth, sobbing. To be fair, though, she was sobbing, too.
Everything was perfect.
But they had forgotten one thing.
They had forgotten to tape his mouth shut.
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