Epilogue
You've guessed it right. About 2 more years later, we finally got married, in the wonderful garden in Mt. Olympus. Right now, Annabeth and I live in New York, which she proudly designed. Thank the gods I had a smart and awesome architect as a wife.
The morning light wakes me up, and Annabeth wasn't beside me. I get up, rushing down the stairs, Riptide with me.
"Annabeth, Annabeth!" I scream frantically.
"Percy, relax. I'm just here." she shouts from the kitchen.
I sigh in relief. The last time she wasn't beside me, well, she left early in the morning for the grocery and got attacked by a hellhound.
Annabeth comes to me, kissing my lips softly. "Hey, I'm okay, Percy. I just cooked breakfast early because I knew you would wake up late. I know you went overtime during work last night." she says, as she held my hands.
I was the one cooking for the past months, because I didn't want Annabeth to get tired.
"I'm just worried about this guy, that's all." I said, as I caressed her tummy, softly.
"Hey, don't worry, he's fine. You know why? Because he has a super protective daddy that keeps her mother resting and healthy all the time." she says, and I smile.
I kiss her a little harder this time, and Annabeth drops the spatula on the ground, her hands going up to my face. I pull her closer, but I couldn't because her stomach was on the way. Still, our lips are together, and by the gods, every time I kiss her always felt like the first. Right now, I feel like I'm floating on a cloud with-
"Eewwwww!" my little girls scream, stopping our kiss.
Annabeth and I glared at them, giving them the why-did-you-interrupt-us look.
Alti and Meg just shrugged their shoulders. "it's not our fault, we just saw it."
Alti and Meg are our 6 year old twins, born on December 1st, of 2005. They are fraternal, but sometimes like these, they think alike.
Althea Sierra was born first, and is about 2 minutes older than Megan Anne.
Alti looked exactly like me, dark, raven hair, and sea-green eyes. Meg, on the other hand, was a carbon copy of her mother; curly blonde hair and stormy grey eyes. When you stare at her for a long time, you'll think that she's Annabeth. Sometimes it's scary.
"You didn't see anything. Now come on, give us a good-morning kiss." Annabeth said, snapping me back to reality.
"Good morning, daddy!" they squealed, hugging me tight.
"Good morning, my pretty little girls." I said, ruffling their hair.
"Let's eat, everyone!" Annabeth calls, carrying some plates with her left and a bag of bagels with her right hand.
As if an instinct, I run to her, snatching the plates and the paper bag away. "Don't tire yourself. I'll do this." I say.
Annabeth chuckles lightly as she sat down. "You're starting to sound like your mom."
I roll my eyes, as I passed some plates. Meg and Alti immediately grab a bagel, while Annabeth just stared at them amusingly.
"So, I have a surprise. Close your eyes, everyone!" I say excitedly.
Meg and Alti giggle, covering their eyes with their hands.
"I hope it's a new Advanced Algebra Math book!" Alti squealed, who got the smarty pants genes from her mother.
"I hope it's a new bathing suit. Or a water gun!" Meg shouted, who obviously, adored water like me.
I glance at Annabeth, who was still wide-eyed.
"You too." I whisper.
She looks at me weirdly, but she closed her eyes too, and I brought it out to the table.
"OPEN!" I scream, and they all open.
"Plane tickets to San Francisco! Oh my gods!" Annabeth squeals, while the twins looked a little lost.
"Dad, why do we need plane tickets? Can't we just drive to the Empire State Building?" Alti asked, and Meg nodded in agreement.
I chuckle, pinching them on their noses. "Not Grandpa Poseidon, girls. Grandpa Fred! In San Francisco!" she says.
Their faces light up, Annabeth's father loves kids, so the twins get spoiled from time to time.
"Yey! We're gonna ride an airplane!" Alti said, while Meg shook her head.
"I don't like flying." she mutters under her breath, and I pat her back in sympathy. "Don't worry, Meg, you're not the only one."
I put our stuff at the compartment as I glance at Annabeth, who was carrying the girl's bags.
I sigh heavily, grabbing then from her. "Didn't I-"
"Yes, I know. Sorry." she says, kissing my cheek as she went back inside to get the kids.
By the time we land in San Francisco, we hail a cab, now on the way to Annabeth's old house.
Annabeth's POV
"Ding dong!" Meg and Alti exchange in pressing the doorbell, and finally, dad opens up.
"Grandpa!" they both squeal, engulfing their still young-looking grandfather in a warm hug.
"Hey, what a surprise! Nice to see my little grandchildren again." he said, pulling them up and squeezing them tight.
"Where's Uncle Bobby?" Meg asked.
"And Uncle Matthew?" Alti added.
My father smiled, pointing to the stairs. "Check their rooms, why don't you surprise them?" he says, and the twins giggled and ran upstairs.
"Nice to see you again, Mr. Chase." Percy said, shaking hands with him. I giggle softly, even when we're already married, he still calls him Mr. Chase.
"Hey, dad." I say, engulfing him in a hug. He kissed my forehead, and then stepped back.
"Wow, another one already?" The last time I saw you, you were still carrying two babies in your arms. Pretty fast, huh." He jokes, nudging Percy on the arm, making us both blush.
"Dad! Stop it. And guess what, it's a boy!" I say, and he grins wider.
"Well, I can finally play soldiers and planes with my grandchild. Now come on, get in, Bobby and Matthew would be happy to see you." He says, gesturing us to step inside.
Percy holds my hand and waist and helps me walk in.
"Percy, I'm just a pregnant woman, and not your grandmother. I can still walk, you know." I say, but Percy just rolled his eyes.
"Annabeth, you're here!" Bobby shouts from the stairs, Matthew following behind him.
"Hey, I missed you guys. You've grown bigger!" I said, hugging my two brothers.
Matthew stares at me. "And you too." He jokes, and I pinch his nose.
"Hey Percy." They greet him, and he ruffles their heads.
"So, where do you want to go? We have until tomorrow afternoon." Percy asked me, and I tapped my chin.
"Hmm, it's kind of hot today, why not we get to the park and get some ice cream! I've got some serious cravings on Mint Chocolate Chip." I say, and Percy nods.
"Alright, the park it is. Come on, let's all go." Percy said.
"Oh, we'd love to come, but we have to do some homework." Bobby said, Matthew nodding behind him.
"And I have to pick up Anna () from the grocery. You just go as a family, okay?" dad said, and I just nodded.
Percy's POV
We arrive at the park, and let me say, it looked exactly like before. Some benches at the side, slides and seesaws all around, and the ice cream shop right at the middle.
Luckily, it was a weekday, so there were only a few kids playing and there was no line.
"Wow, you have a family now, Annabeth dear?" Mr. Smith greets us, as he eyed on our twins.
He still looked the same, maybe just a little more wrinkles than before, and his hair was now pure white.
"Hey to you too, Mr. Smith! Well, it has been a long time before I last visited." Annabeth says, remembering the time we went here, just newly wed.
"And I see another one's coming up, real soon, eh? Now, what would you like?"
"The same." Annabeth and I say in unison.
"Here you go. And for the two lovely ladies?" he said, as he leaned down to Alti and Meg.
"Cookies and Cream for me, please." Alti said.
" And chocolate for me." Meg said too.
"Here you go." He hands it to them, and they both lick on their ice cream at once.
"Thank you, Mr. Smith." I say as I handed him the money.
"No problem, Percy. And Annabeth, you stay safe, okay?" he said, eyeing her.
"I'll make sure." I said, as we walked off and sat down on a bench.
"I sure miss talking with that guy." I said, as I licked on some ice cream.
"Me too." Annabeth says, as she watched over the twins, who were having a good time on the slide.
"Wow, I knew you two would end up with each other." A voice from behind says, and we couldn't help but turn around.
Matt's POV
"Matt, it's nice to see you again!" Annabeth squealed as soon as they saw me.
"And it's good to see you too." I hugged her tightly, and gave Percy a handshake.
"I didn't have the opportunity to thank you, man, for telling her about Madge. Without you, we wouldn't be together." Percy said.
"Nah, that's nothing. So, is this your first?" I say, as I pointed to her tummy.
"Oh no, this is our third. Alti, Meg, come here!" she shouts, and two beautiful girls run to our direction.
"Matt, this is Althea and Megan, our twins." She said, and I both shook their hands.
"Wow, so they're fraternal. So who's older?" I ask.
"I am." Alti said quickly, but Meg frowned.
"Now, I am!" she squealed, and Alti frowned too.
"No you're not." She retorts.
"But I, AM, OLDER!" she almost shouts.
"Well, technically, according to the average number of times that mom and dad told us, I was born 120 seconds earlier than you, which concludes that I arrived in this world first and I am older." She explains, and Percy and Annabeth clamped their mouths.
"Wow, she sounded smart." I say, and they all laugh.
"So, Matt, enough about us, what about you? Are you still single?" Percy asks, and I scratch my head.
"Well, no, I'm engaged now, actually." I say, showing them my ring finger.
"Oh, how sweet! Where'd you meet her?" Annabeth asked curiously.
Why does she always have so many questions.
"I met her in work, she was my new secretary, and well, that's where it started." I say simply, and they nod.
"And, what about Madge? Did you hear any news on her?" Annabeth asked again.
"Nope. Nothing about her."
Just then, my phone rings. "Hey, I'd love to talk more, but my fiancee's calling me. Why don't we have dinner, and I'll bring her with me. Perbacco, maybe?" I suggest.
"Hmm, sounds good. Alright, we'll get going. See you later!" she said, as they waved at me.
I waved back, and watched them walk away, a happy family indeed.
Percy's POV
I try to do my tie when Annabeth walks in. "Hey, Percy, do I look okay?"
My jaw dropped, and I felt like I was back in the past, standing in front of her door, her looking absolutely gorgeous.
Her hair was in curls, and she wore a sea green maternity dress. She topped it off with some low, black sandals and a few accessories.
I gulped. "Beautiful. Absolutely perfect." She smiles, and walks over.
"You look good too, but I think you need some help on your tie." She chuckles, as I she tries to redo it.
I watch her, as she fixed my tie. Her face was perfect, she had only a little powder, and only some light lipgloss. Her stormy grey eyes stood out, focused only on my necktie.
"I'm glad that I could compliment you all the time, now that you're my wife. Before, I couldn't say anything because you looked too hot I couldn't speak." I say truthfully.
"There." She says, and I stare at myself in the mirror, my sea green tie matching with her dress.
"Thanks." I say, and she responds with a soft kiss.
"Come on, let's say goodbye to the kids."
We peek through the kid's room, to see Bobby and Alti laying down on the floor, some books and pencils scattered around them.
"But Alti, how is that possible?" Bobby asked, a confued look on his face.
"Bobby, don't you get it? When you write a perfect square trinomial as the square of a binomial, make sure that the constant in the binomial is one-half the value of the coefficient of the x-term in the perfect square trinomial." Alti finishes, and I wanted to puke.
"My gods, Annabeth, what did you do to her." I whisper, but Annabeth just watched proudly at her daughter.
"And how did you know all of this?" Bobby asked, probably amazed like me.
"Intermediate Algebra, piece of cake. I learned that when I was four." She said, and shrugged it off like it was no big deal.
"Hey, is Alti helping you out?" Annabeth suddenly speaks, entering the room.
"Oh yeah, well she explained some stuff to me, but I still don't get it." Bobby says, looking up to her.
Annabeth takes a peek at his brother's homework. "Bobby, that's easy. Remember that the coefficient of x has to multiplied by the-"
"And we have to go to dinner. Alti, you continue helping him. Bobby, watch over the twins, okay?" I say, pulling Annabeth away from her simple-reminder-almost-turned-lecture-in-Math-class.
"Come on, let's go." I say, finding Meg and Matthew playing at the front yard. They were having a water fight.
"10 points for me, and none for you." Meg said, whose clothes were now soaking wet.
"Good job, Megan." I say, as I give him a high-five.
"But that's not fair! She used her powers and I only have a water gun!" Matthew complains.
I chuckle. "That's okay, Matthew. Try harder for the next round, okay?" I say, and he just nods.
"We're going to have dinner. Follow whatever Bobby says, okay?" Annabeth says, and they both shout 'okay!' and continued to the next round.
We were only a few blocks from Perbacco, when traffic comes. We've been in the same spot for about 15 minutes now, and Annabeth glanced at her watch.
"Percy, why don't we walk? It's only a few blocks away, they've probably arrived already." She says.
"Are you sure? Can you handle it?" I ask, I always wanted to be sure that she's safe.
"Course I am. Come on!" she says, and I hand the driver some money and step out of the taxi.
Annabeth's POV
We walk together, hand in hand. I spotted the restaurant's sign when Percy stopped walking, and just stared at the floor.
"Do you remember?" he asked, and in just one glance, I knew this was the place.
I stare at the ground, remembering the time we bumped into each other at this very spot.
"Of course I do. This was where we first met in 5 years." I whisper, and he smiles, also feeling very nostalgic.
"Thank the gods we saw each other again, or else we wouldn't be together now." I said, smiling.
"Yes, thank you, Madge, where ever you are, for bringing me here, to your beautiful, amazing 'best friend'." He says, putting some quotation marks on 'best friend'.
My smile melts, also remembering that moment when he and Madge kissed, a total make-out session that made my heart shatter into a billion pieces.
Percy must've seen my face, and read my mind. He pulls me into the alley, cupping my face with his hands.
"I'm sure you wanted your turn too, don't you?" he says, his face only inches from mine.
"Oh Zeus, of course I do." I whispered, and closed the space between us.
And, just for your information, we never got to dinner that night.
And, there was the epilogue! I hope you like it. Thank you so much for reading! I would really appreciate it if you review, it warms my heart so much. You guys inspire to write more. Please comment, rant, anything! I will miss writing this story soo much. Until next time!
-Meg (Yes, I named one twin after me)