PPOV:

"Annabeth?" I asked the figure in front of me.

"Yes Percy?" She responded walking towards me her hips swaying slightly.

"An-Annabeth?" I asked again.

"Percy. I think we need to take that next step..." She said, her voice slightly husky.

"What do yo-" I started but was cut off when she crashed her lips to me.

The force knocked us both backwards and onto my bed, which was right behind me. She fell on top of me and knotted her hands in my hair; I placed my hands on her hips. We moved our lips in perfect sync, for what seemed like ten minutes, but then again it could have been ten hours and I wouldn't know the difference. I felt her tongue trace my bottom lip and I opened my mouth, groaning into her's. We explored each other's mouths for another ten minutes or so, then we pulled away and she opened her mouth to speak, but instead of words, a blood-curdling scream came out.

I shot up and just as I thought I was about to whack my head against Annabeth's I realized, it was a dream. I opened my eyes, but I still heard her screaming. I ran over to her bed and looked down at her. Her legs were tangled in her sheets; the fish comforter had fallen to the floor, her shirt had ridded up to expose most of her stomach (that didn't help below the waistband after the dream, if you know what I mean), and she was writhing on her bed, turning this way and that, and still her eyes stayed close.

Apparently Nick and Katerina were really deep sleepers because they hardly stirred. I shrugged it off and ran over to Annabeth. I tried to wake her up but it didn't work, she just kept on screaming. Her arm flew out and hit a fish bowl that had been sitting on a nearby table, luckily there was no fish (in 20 questions we learned when she was little, Katerina had a fish in there and it jumped out. it started to 'dance' and she goes 'dance fishy dance' then the fish stopped so she started crying. One of the naiads had to explain what happened to her and she kept the bowl as gravestone of sorts.). Before Annabeth hurt herself or something else I climbed onto the bed and pinned her arms down. That didn't work since I got a knee to a certain area down south, and it hurt like hell. I lay down so I was on top of her but i was still holding up all my weight. I used my legs to pin hers down, with my arms still pinned down by my arms.

"Annabeth! Annabeth! Wake up!" I yelled. How are those two still asleep.

"No don't hurt him! Percy!" She cried out in distress.

"Annabeth! It's okay! I'm right here. It's okay Annabeth!"

"No! No! Don't! Don't hurt him! Don't! I love him!" With that last sentence I almost fell on top of her, but then I realized she was probably talking about Luke. I mean it made sense. She had always liked him, even when he turned evil, maybe she liked him a bit more than we all thought. I had been attacking Luke today, or well, Luke's body. Then again, he had been attacking me more than I had been attacking him. She couldn't possibly be talking about me... or could she?

"Annabeth! Wake Up!" This time her eyes shoot open and I leaned away from her, still straddling her lower stomach.

"Oh my gods! Percy!" She shouted and she flew up and threw her arms around me. I sat there frozen, but only for a moment, then I wrapped my arms around her waist. It felt so good to have her wrapped in my arms, to know she was safe. It made what had happened earlier today, from killing Kronos to getting yelled at by my new-found sister, disappear, I just forgot about everything; everything except Annabeth.

"Annabeth? What happened? You were screaming bloody murder." I asked after we sat there for a few minutes.

"You and Luke, I mean Kronos. You and Kronos were fighting and, he was about to kill you and there was nothing I could do to stop him." She started to cry softly into my shoulder.

"Don't worry Annabeth, I'm right here. I'm safe. You're safe. Kronos is in Tuataras again. And we are at the bottom of the sea. There is nothing to worry about." I said, trying to calm her.

"Percy? Ca-can you st-stay here with me? Just for tonight? Yo-You don't have to if you don't want to but..."

"Don't worry Annabeth, I'll stay with you." I said.

"Um Perce. You're awesome and all, but can you get off of me?" She asked, indicating how I was straddling her.

My face turned red, "Sure." I said as I started to slide off of her, but she grabbed my thighs and held me in place.

"Thank you. For waking me up I mean." She said. My face turned even brighter red, after all I did have a bit of a... dilemma... going on and her hands were pretty close to the trouble spot...

"No problem Annabeth. You would've done the same for me." I said, swear my face just kept getting redder and redder.

Her hand came up and her fingers brushed my cheeks, "You're cute when you're embarrassed." She said as she trailed her fingers up and down my cheek.

I decided to use the only thing that got me out of situations like that, my good friend, sarcasm, "Wow Annabeth, first you ask me to sleep in bed with you, then you say I'm amazing, and now I'm cute? God if I didn't know better, I would think you loved me." I taunted.

"Percy Jackson! Shut up and go to bed!" She yelled as she turned onto her side, her waist brushing against my troubled area, and I think I just got into more 'trouble'. I lay down behind her, still above the covers. She huffed and turned around to face me. "You know, you can get under the covers. I thought we were over the whole cooties stage." I crawled under and since it was a single bed, I was all but squished against her. This was going to be a long night.

APOV:

"Not so tough now, are you Jackson?" Luke/Kronos taunted.

"Luke! Luke stop! Don't!" I cried. I watched as Luke/Kronos held a knife to Percy's throat.

"Annabeth! Annabeth! W-" He yelled, but Luke/Kronos pressed the knife harder and he stopped.

"No don't hurt him! Percy!" I called out. I couldn't live without Percy. I just couldn't.

"Annabeth! It's okay!" He said in a strained voice, there was more, but I cut him off.

"No! No! Don't! Don't hurt him! Don't! I love him!" As I said it I realized it was true. I was in love with Perseus Jackson, but he wouldn't ever love me back.

"Annabeth! Wake Up!" Percy's voice yelled, but this time his mouth didn't move. My eyes shoot open. I looked around. I was freaked out. I went from being in the gods' throne room to being in a dark room with something on my stomach, then there was this strip that was kind of hard. I looked a little farther up and I saw that it was Percy.

"Oh my gods! Percy!" I shouted and I flew up, throwing my arms around him. He froze, crap what did I just do, but then I felt him wrapping his arms around my waist and all the negative thoughts went away. Honestly everything went away except for Percy and I.

"Annabeth? What happened? You were screaming bloody murder." He asked after we sat there for a few minutes.

"You and Luke, I mean Kronos. You and Kronos were fighting and, he was about to kill you and there was nothing I could do to stop him." I started to cry into my shoulder. I felt like such a freakin' wuss, I mean after all I had gone through, here I was crying over a nightmare that couldn't come true.

"Don't worry Annabeth, I'm right here. I'm safe. You're safe. Kronos is in Tuataras again. And we are at the bottom of the sea. There is nothing to worry about." He said. I knew he was trying to calm me. And it worked. My tears stopped, but still had a bit of a quiver to a voice.

"Percy? Ca-can you st-stay here with me? Just for tonight? Yo-You don't have to if you don't want to but..." I felt so stupid asking that, but I already was an idiot anyway for crying to Percy.

"Don't worry Annabeth, I'll stay with you." He said. I let out a breath I didn't realize I had been holding.

"Um Perce. You're awesome and all, but can you get off of me?" I asked, the way he was sitting on me was making me hot in places.

His face turned red, "Sure." He started to slide off, but I grabbed his thighs and held me in place; What? I didn't want him to leave me. Crap. He was looking at me weird. Think Annabeth Think.

"Thank you. For waking me up I mean." I said. His face turned even brighter red, I felt the hard-ish thing get even harder against my lower stomach. That couldn't be his...No. It was too big and he didn't like me like that. Did he?

"No problem Annabeth. You would've done the same for me." He said, I swear his face just kept getting redder and redder. He looks so cute when he's embarrassed.

Before I could stop myself, my hand went up and my fingers brushed his cheeks, "You're cute when you're embarrassed." I voiced my opinion before I could stop it. My cheeks flared red.

"Wow Annabeth, first you ask me to sleep in bed with you, then you say I'm amazing, and now I'm cute? Gods if I didn't know better, I would think you loved me." He taunted. Crap! I talk in my sleep sometimes!

"Percy Jackson! Shut up and go to bed!" I yelled and turned onto my side, my waist brushing against the hard area and it got harder. Hmm. He lay down behind me, still above the covers. Just like Percy. Such a gentleman, he didn't want to take advantage. I huffed and turned around to face him. "You know, you can get under the covers. I thought we were over the whole cooties stage." Wait, what if he didn't want to? But my thoughts were proven wrong when he crawled under and since it was a single bed, we were squished together, I got even hotter down there. This was going to be a long night, but it wouldn't be a bad night.