Drabble A Day Tumblr Challenge
Day Eight
Characters: Annabeth Chase, mentioned Percy Jackson.
It's been two days, thirteen hours, twenty-nine minutes, and fifty-three seconds since they first met.
What she first thought about him was that he was going to be the one. This dirty, tired, sleeping was going to be a hero, and she stretched that belief for the entire time that they knew each other and–oh look. Update the counter; it's now been four years, two months, one week, twenty-six days, thirteen hours, forty-seven minutes, and eleven seconds. That's how long PercyandAnnabeth were a team. They were unbeatable, weren't they? The other campers certainly said so. Annabeth doesn't even bother in trying to correct them anymore.
Because no; they weren't unbeatable. Percy's been kidnapped by Hera and is with harsh, unforgiving, ruthless Romans, and Annabeth is still trying to keep herself together and make a plan. She's crying now, she's forcing herself to walk away from the Poseidon cabin, she's trying not to collapse and shatter and break. Who knows what Percy is doing right now? He probably doesn't even remember her.
It's been six months, three weeks, fifteen days, two hours, twelve minutes, and thirty-eight seconds since her boyfriend; her best friend; her team-mate; her loyal, funny, charming companion went missing. Today is going to be the day, she thought as she leaned by the railing of the Argo II, that Annabeth Chase is going to get him back.
com·pan·ion
n
one of a pair; match
