Her hair right now was in a messy pony tail. Hideous. Finally, someone 'ahemed' and Annabeth snapped her head to the direction of the noise.

Apologizing for Father-Chapter 8

Percy POV (A warning in this chapter: F-bomb is used.)

Percy saw the blonde turn her head towards Nico. She seemed to glare at him but then came back to reality as he grabbed her by the forearm gently. It was gentle, yet very firm, as in she wasn't escaping. Her face however made it look like she wanted to go with him. Nico led the girl to him and said, "Percy, this is Annabeth. Annabeth is the one I called you about."

A slight blush appeared on the blonde's, now known as Annabeth, face. It went away and was replaced by a furious red when Percy responded with an, "Oh."

Annabeth looked ravenous as she nearly screamed, "Real smart, I can't believe I actually believed people when they said you were decent. Nico says I wanted to meet you and you respond with 'Oh' like some dumb Seaweed Brain. I mean is that all there is up there? Kelp?" She turned to storm off but out of reaction Percy's hand grabbed her wrist.

It wasn't a strong hold, but soft. If she wanted to storm off she could've. At his touch however she halted all her movements. For a second, Percy thought that she was going to turn around and glare at him, thinking 'How dare he even touch me?

Percy saw this as a 'Screw up and you'll never see me again' moment. He gave a sad look as she looked at him. Percy cleared his throat and said, "Please, tell me why you wanted to meet me."

He noticed that Annabeth was stiff and blushing once again from his touch so he let go of her wrist. Annabeth looked around at his friends and family; then noticing everyone was paying attention to someone besides them continued. "I wanted to meet you and your mother, Percy. You see… my mom is Minerva Chase."

Percy's face fell; he knew this story all too well. Annabeth apparently noticed because she added, "Yes, the one your father left."

SHIT.

Percy's thought basically yelled at him.

Wasn't ruining moms and mine life enough? No. Now he has to go and ruin other people's lives up as well!"

Percy looked at the blonde in front of him and her scowl. If this scowl had words it said, 'You should really say something so I can smash any thoughts of you getting on my good side.'

Percy knew he wasn't going to win but he'd try to right the wrong here, for his mother's sake, not his fathers.

"Listen, I just wanted…" That was all he was able to get out before the petite curly blond in front of him shook with anger.

"No, you listen, PERSEUS Jackson. I don't know who you think you are, but if you're going to defend the man who destroyed my mother and my life then I swear I'll rip you apart!"

Annabeth was panting at this point from her mini-rant. Percy, well he knew of all the things his father had done. He knew had hard his mother had taken it when she lost Minerva as a friend. His father deserved no defense, but his mother did. She was the nicest person he had ever known. This only confirmed his belief that the nicest people had the worst luck.

He hung his head until she calmed down and then asked softly, "Feel better?"

This wasn't how she thought he'd respond apparently because she gasped and covered her mouth in an embarrassed-like-way.

"I'm sorry, Chase. Yeah I know the whole story. My mom told me long ago. Please do not be upset with her for she truly is the nicest lady you'll ever meet. She had drunk too much alcohol that night because of my father and her choices were impaired. My mom, well I love her with all my heart, so I won't let you criticize her. My father is fair game, but so you know, mom is off limits."

He took a breath then started his speech he'd practiced for just such an occasion. "Next, I know this sounds stupid but I mean it. I apologize for being 'here' like for my existence. I know that if I wasn't here your mom would still be happy and our moms' would still be friends. I am sorry, Miss Chase. I really am. Please, don't hate my mom. Hate me for being here, not her."

Percy didn't look away from her eyes as he could feel tears forming. Even though he knew it was dumb to cry over something so childish he couldn't control it. He had longed to apologize to the girl whose life he had destroyed for just being alive. He had meant every word but couldn't stop the tears nor would he. Surprisingly enough, Annabeth said nothing. She only raised her hand to wipe away the few tears that were still making trails down his face.

He then noticed her whole demeanor had changed. No longer did she look like a sadistic killer that wanted to destroy him and his existence but this Annabeth. Well, she actually looked sorry.

"Percy, my name is not Miss Chase. That's Minerva my mother." She said with a small smile. Once again however, his brain didn't move as fast as his mouth.

"I don't deserve to use your real name. You hate me."

"Percy, call me Annabeth. All my friends do. To tell you the truth, though, I did hate you until now. In fact, Seaweed Brain was meant as an insult to explain how dumb you were."

Percy was shaking from his slightly controlled laughter. "Seaweed Brain? That's actually really good. Thalia has made up a ton of names like that but that's probably my favorite insult."

Annabeth tried to hold back laughter but failed, "Well glad you seem to like it?"

"Yes, yes I do. Now I just need to think of a good one for you." He said with a dumb grin.

"Well, I'll let you work on that." She said as they joined the rest of the group who was giving them weird looks. It was finally Paul who spoke.

"We all thought Annabeth was going to kill you, Percy! It would've been a shame too 'cause we're all going to the apartment to have some of Sally's cookies!"

Thalia joined in laughing along with everyone else, "Trust me, Annabeth, you don't want to miss blue cookies!"

Everyone started walking to the parking lot when Percy saw Nico's clothes. He had changed, probably after he introduced Annabeth and I. He stopped her with a soft hand and said, "Wait for me, I need to change." He gave her his best, 'I'm pathetic, a lowly worm' look to which she shrugged and said, "Hurry up."

As the door behind him was closing he heard what sounded like jazz music and then a ringtone he knew all too well from dating Rachel, "Michael Buble" and the door shut.

He changed as quickly as he could and was almost back to the door when Coach Ares called him back to the locker room to discuss the game.

When he finally walked out he saw a piece of paper on the ground but to his surprise, no blonde girl. He called out to her but no answer he heard. He picked up the paper to throw it away, inwardly cursing the guys on his team for being animals. However, it was from Annabeth.

Seaweed Brain,

Sorry I took off without waiting for you. I got a call from my roommate Silena. She said it was an emergency and I'll let you know later if it was or wasn't. I wanted to leave my number and an explanation so you didn't think I just bailed. Text me, and I'll tell you what it was. Catch ya later. ;-)

(Insert your horrible nickname here)

P.S. Until you can think of a good nickname.

Percy laughed at her note and grabbed his phone from his bag to save her number. He debated whether or not he should call now but thought against it.

She's driving in New York. She doesn't need me getting her killed.

Then he ran and caught up with the group and informed them about Annabeth. They drove back to his parents apartment and had blue cookies. He always had blue food since he could remember. He never asked but when Paul did he found out. Apparently Poseidon hated the color blue.

A few days later he was looking for his work's phone number on his bed to ask if he needed to come in today hoping they'd say no, when he saw "Annabeth". He smiled and decided to text her.

'Hey wise girl, what's up?'

A few moments later he opened the text that buzzed at him.

Who the hell is this?

An odd reaction but Percy had gotten worse before. He didn't know Annabeth so he figured she was either a potty mouth like Thalia or cussed like Rachel did when she was having a bad day…

Maybe I should just call her, he thought.

Before he could talk himself out of it he pushed, "call" however, the voice on the other end wasn't Annabeth. In fact it wasn't even a female.

"Hello?" said an extremely familiar voice.

He hung up, barely able to breathe. Why the hell was Luke Castellan at Annabeth's apartment answering her cell phone? He started at the phone hoping that some logical explanation would occur. He hoped that he had accidently called Luke…except he didn't have Luke's number.

One minute passed by.

Three minutes, five minutes, ten minutes had passed before he was able to breathe regularly again. He was about to get up from his bed when the phone buzzed and 'Annabeth' showed up on his caller ID.

Oh fuck…well here goes nothing I guess.

"Hello?"

This time however, Annabeth was on the line.

"Hi, I just got a call from this number and my boyfriend said you hung up. May I ask who this is?"

Percy's throat clenched, 'Her boyfriend?' This practically confirmed his suspicion that Luke was cheating on Thalia with Annabeth and vice versa. Percy really didn't hate Luke, he just didn't like Luke with Thalia and plus Luke kept trying to get Thalia to 'make love' to him as he called it. Percy knew he just wanted to get laid.

"Uh, hello?"Annabeth asked again. He took a deep breath and then said clearly as he could.

"Hey, its…uh Percy. Remember Seaweed Brain?" He was hoping sincerely that Annabeth hadn't pulled a prank and had given him a false number, that'd be embarrassing.

"SEAWEED BRAIN!" His eardrums throbbed as she screamed."Uh why didn't you text me last week! I was waiting so I could insult your intelligence some more! Ah, I'm just kidding. You're still a bum for not talking to me though."

Percy laughed at the childish insult and then said, "I didn't want to mess with you while you were on the road. So I waited. What witty comeback do you have now?"

He heard a laugh and then, "That's a lame excuse, but this does explain why Luke got jealous all the sudden. He hates when guys call me. Apparently, since I don't go to his school he thinks I sleep around with every guy here."

Shit! That's definitely Luke! He's like the most jealous guy I know!, Percy thought.

"Hey, this probably sounds weird but what is Luke's last name? I know weird, but he sounds like a guy named Luke here in the dorms."

He heard a sigh then, "Oh yeah, he goes to NYU. Last name, Castellan."

Fuck! I hate it when I'm right about this stuff!

"Hey Annabeth, don't tell him about me, we…uh had a…well a very loud conversation last week and he may not like you talking to me."

She laughed, "No problem, but hey uh…crap he just left. Anyway Percy, does your school allow girls in their dorms?"

He thought the question random but answered her as much of a jerk as possible, "Annabeth, Thalia told you she and I were roommates…right? And here I thought you were the smart one. Good job, wise girl!"

"Oh shut up you dumb Kelp head! So you figured out my nickname? That's not very good Percy; it's more of a compliment….Oh damn, hey Percy, I got to go. Apparently, he wanted to go to a movie. Text me! BYE!"

"Oh yeah, uh bye," He stuttered out and hung up the phone.

'What the hell am I going to do now?'

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