Chapter 27
Annabeth glanced at Thalia. "How do you…know my name?"
"Oh my God!" Thalia looked horrified. "You died. How the hell are you standing here…in front of me. Oh God, I'm going to faint."
Annabeth's mouth was ajar. "Do you think I'm a ghost or something? I've never died—actually, I have but like, you were not there and…who are you? I don't even know you."
"You don't remember me?" She suddenly looked hurt but it passed quickly. "Even worse, you don't remember your own fiancé?"
Annabeth's eyes widened. "Who was my fiancé?"
Thalia grabbed Percy by the collar and stood him up. "My idiot of a cousin who is even stupider then you!"
"Excuse me?" Annabeth snapped. "You did not just call me stupid."
Thalia half rolled her eyes. "Whatever Annie, I know your all smart and everything but don't get so offended."
"Don't call me Annie!"
Thalia looked at the rest of the people in the room, ignoring Annabeth's request. "Okay but am I the only one here with a memory, or…?"
Nico stood up. "No, no. Just wait." He paused. "I remember her too."
"But you died four years ago!" Piper exclaimed, now also standing.
"Giving birth to Olivia!" Jason added, now also standing.
Apollo looked more confused than anyone.
Annabeth looked down. "Arachne knew," she whispered. "Percy!" She turned towards him. "Arachne knew!" she repeated.
Percy was looking around at everything. All the chaos from one person standing up, wanting to introduce herself. Percy almost laughed out loud. It was ridiculous how much damage one person could do. Finally, he grabbed a glass and a spoon, and created noise, silencing everyone. "Okay, stop! We need to figure out what happened from the beginning."
The yelling dispersed and everyone was quiet.
"We just need to sit down and figure this out," Percy said calmly.
Jason smirked. "I think I can help with that."
They were all huddled around the laptop. Jason sat in the large seat, fiddling with his video camera. As he did this, he explained.
"I took a video with this camera four years ago. It should explain some things."
Once he got the video up onto the laptop, he was able to broadcast it onto the nearby TV.
A video came up. You could clearly see both Percy and Annabeth. The camera was shaky, but soon steadied. On the other side of Annabeth was Annabeth's mother. Apollo came into view and placed the baby in Annabeth's arms.
"Just be careful Annabeth, you've lost a lot of blood."
Annabeth nodded. Percy and Annabeth took a selfie. Afterwards, Annabeth asked to see it and had Percy send it to the printers to have it framed.
"Aww," Bianca in the video said.
"She's so cute," Thalia added.
The real Thalia cringed. "Is that what I sound like?"
In the video, Percy and Annabeth then went on to how they came to name Olivia. The Olivia now was sitting on the carpeted floor, watching carefully.
Once Olivia was in Athena's arms, Athena described Olivia's weight which Apollo and Annabeth both explained.
The real Annabeth looked down thoughtfully. "I…had a fight with my mother about…Percy."
Percy glanced at her before turning back to the video. Annabeth proceeded to breastfeed Olivia. Afterwards, Annabeth's father suggested Annabeth sleep, which she did. A few seconds later, you can hear Thalia asking Percy what's wrong and then you see Annabeth's body go limp.
"Jason, pause the video," Thalia commanded. Jason obliged and Thalia turned to Percy. "I think Olivia should go now."
"Why?" Percy asked.
Jason answered for her. "Because Athena's only daughter just died and she's about to blow up and say some not so nice things."
Percy followed Thalia's advice and tried to send her to her room. Of course she wouldn't budge without eating any dinner so Percy filled up her plate and sent her upstairs.
"Definitely Percy's child," Annabeth muttered.
Once they heard her close the door, they resumed the video. Nurses began running around and trying to bring her back to life but nothing worked. Apollo came back in and announced Annabeth as dead. As expected, Athena blew up at Percy and forced him to leave not before throwing the engagement ring.
"I still have that ring," Bianca muttered.
After that, the video stopped.
"Just wait a second," Bianca mumbled before leaving the house. She came back about half a minute later. She went straight towards Annabeth. "I…I was keeping this for Olivia. I carried it around a lot, but I almost forgot why." Bianca laughed a little. "I remember now. This belongs to you."
Bianca dropped the diamond ring into Annabeth's hand.
Annabeth nearly cried. She recognized the ring she had fallen in love with easily. The way it had been presented to her—the memories kept coming. Her brain was overflowing with information.
Annabeth turned to Percy. He took the ring from her gently. Smiling slightly, his hair falling in front of his eyes, he slipped it on to her finger.
Annabeth looked up at him. He leaned down and kissed her.
Bianca was grinning so much it looked painful.
And in one sudden motion Bianca had her camera in hand and she snapped a photo.
Percy and Annabeth both jumped due to the flash, bringing everyone out of the moment.
"That was so amazing, oh my goodness, that was freaking gold. Jeez, I need to sit," Bianca said, exasperatedly.
Some of the guests laughed, and many people jumped into conversations with each other.
"Well, Olivia was right," Annabeth whispered to Percy.
Percy nodded.
"Percy, you don't even know. Your daughter is so smart she figured a lot of this out on her own I just didn't even believe her and, wow."
Percy pulled her closer. "She gets that from your side."
Annabeth smiled.
"After that," Nico said, once most people had stopped talking. "Like, straight after that, Percy got into a car accident and suffered from amnesia. And we," he gestured around the room, "made the consecutive decision not to tell him about Annabeth because we didn't want him to hurt."
"But I guess over the course of four years, we forgot about Annabeth too," Frank added. "We came to realize that she was gone."
"But she's not gone," Piper said. She turned towards Annabeth. "How is it that you're…alive?"
Annabeth shook her head. "I have no idea." She walked towards the front door.
Percy followed her quickly. "Where are you going?"
"Can you call down Olivia for me?" Annabeth requested, as she grabbed her jacket.
"Olivia!" Percy yelled, then asked his question again.
Annabeth pulled on her jacket. "To find answers," she finally answered, opening the front door. Olivia had just reached them and Annabeth was grabbing her jacket out of the closet. "I'm going to my mother's house and I need to take Olivia with me."
"Wait!" Percy said. He grabbed her wrist. "I am most-definitely going with you."
"Me too," Thalia added.
Nico nodded, agreeing. Soon, Annabeth, Percy, Thalia, Nico, Bianca, Jason, Leo, Frank, Hazel and Percy were all going with her—which was not the plan.
The whole time, Apollo just stood there with an odd expression on his face—like he didn't know what to say. He looked so genuinely confused.
They took two separate cars and Annabeth led them towards her large Californian home. As her house came into view, Annabeth sighed. They were one more step towards all the answers.
Hi guys! So sorry this is so late. But alas, I've been busy. Anyways, here in Canada it's nearly Thanksgiving so Happy Thanksgiving to the other Canadians. I've been working on another story so that's still a possibility. Also, this story could have a sequel if you guys would be interested. Do you guys want another Percabeth baby because that's always a possibility. I think it would be conceived in the last chapter of this story. Okay, so happy birthdays to:
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I know this story's main weakness is lack of detail so for future fanfictions, that is something I will focus on. Um...yeah, okay. I think that's all I have to say. Okay bye.
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