I either still have major writers block or I am just to lazy to write longer chapters. Gahhhh
When I wake again, many people are standing and sitting around my bed with worried faces. I look into the faces of Thalia, Chiron, Grover, Nico, Rachel, Clarisse, Leo, Piper and Jason. They all looked down at me with concerned faces, particularly Chiron and Jason's face. "Well, look at that. She's alive," Clarisse says, putting her hands to her mouth to mock Grover's reaction to my condition, and then leaves. "What's her problem?" I ask weakly, and realize that I'm restrained to the table. I pull at the restraints and start to get angry. "What's going on? Why am I strapped to this table?" I yell, practically waking everyone in the infirmary up. "Annabeth, your strapped to the table because…you kind of lashed out at a couple of the doctors as they were taking a blood test, and kind of make a few of them bleed with a pen…" Said Jason. I look up at each of their faces and stop on Piper. I look curiously at her, and she steps forward. "How you feeling, Annabeth?" She says sweetly, probably trying to coax me out of my bad mood. I notice that she has a protruding stomach, and my eyes grow wide. "Piper, you're…" She laughs, and then looks at Jason. "Yeah, about that." She smiles and stands next to Jason, who is blushing.
I should have known Thalia was going to make a cutesy comment. "Aww, so you ARE pregnant, Piper! I should've known! You and Jason are going to be great parents." Thalia smiles warmly. I suddenly want to punch her square in the face, but instead I settle for tears. I burst out in sobs and everyone's attention is now on me. Man, I wish I could cry silently.
Thalia's words reminded of a childhood memory of Percy and me-a dream of mine that one day we were going to be parents together. I remember being 13, and I remember the day when we just sat out on the pier together, sharing a smoothie. We sat for hours and just talked. That night, I dreamt that Percy and I were going to grow up together, leave camp together, move in with each other, get married, and have kids. That dream became a reality for me, just the fact that Percy decided to fricking leave me here alone pregnant, wasn't included in the dream.
I was still sobbing uncontrollably, my whole body shaking from the tears as they stream violently down my face. Chiron yelled for a doctor, and Piper and Jason were ushered out of the infirmary because they were the ones who triggered my melt down. As soon as they left, I felt a sharp pain in my abdomen and yelled out in pain.
Suddenly, I was surrounded in a world of white lab coats and chemical smelling sterile gloves. I could still feel the sharp electric-feeling jolts going through my stomach. "Ow," I said stupidly, emotionless. The doctors continued to crowd around me and managed to poke me with a needle, I guess numbing the pain. They wheeled me into a tiled room and after that, everything turned black as night.
I wake up to Thalia and Jason shaking me. Apparently I've been out for a few hours, since they delivered the babies. I passed out from the blood or something, so they had to do an emergency c-section, which really sucks because now I'll have a scar there for the rest of my life-something that I have enough of already. When I awoke, Thalia and Jason were smiling like maniacs, making me more freaked out as ever. I quickly shifted away from them, because their creepy faces were, in fact, creeping me out.
"How you feeling, Annabeth?" Jason asked sincerely. "Icky. Where's the shower in this place?" They both laughed and looked away. Then they turned back to me and asked "Aren't you wondering where your babies are?" I shook my head. "I don't want to see them. Ever, Thalia. Get that in your head." They stared at me in complete and utter shock and confusion. "What? Ever heard of enough stress and confusion for one day?" I said, looking toward the cribs across the room of the infirmary.
"Annabeth, are you sure you don't want to see them? They're…breathtakingly beautiful children," Thalia explains. "Oh, is that so? What makes them so beautiful? " I ask, disgust obviously showing plainly on my face. Thalia gives me a disapproving look, and Jason still has a horrified look painted on his face. "Well, for starters, they are you and Percy's children." I smile at the comment, and then become completely sad and depressed. Percy wasn't here for the birth of his children. Our children, something he always was excited to talk about back at home, when he was still here. Where has that life gone? Thalia continues while looking at Jason. "And, the little girl looks exactly like you. I mean, exactly. She could be your long lost…" I could tell by the smile that disappeared from her face that she was going to say 'daughter' and was thinking of Percy.
Jason continues because he can see that Thalia is becoming teary-eyed. I'm sure she misses Percy, too. "Though the girl has a hint of Percy's eyes. The baby boy looks exactly like Percy, to be frank." I look up at him thankfully, and then turn my head away from them. I don't feel for these babies. I'm pretty sure that they came along just to destroy my life. I quickly turn to Jason and Thalia to snap a rude and rash remark. What I find makes my heart leap to my throat. Thalia was crying.
First of all, Thalia doesn't cry. I mean she doesn't, ever. Seeing her cry makes me cry, and Jason now has two girls to comfort. When he comes over to me, I push him away and point at Thalia. He waddles over to Thalia and just stands there and hugs her. In the process, Grover and Piper come in with huge smiles on their faces, just to find Thalia and I sobbing, and Jason giving Grover and Piper worried looks. He mouths something I can't understand, and then I continue to sob uncontrollably. Grover is the first to recover, and comes bounding over to me. He comforts me just as Percy would, hugging me and rocking me back and forth. Piper is no where in sight, though in a way, I'm glad she's gone. I don't want to see her belly.
A few minutes later, Piper and a nurse come slowly into my room, each carrying a small heap. At first I thought it was food, because I noticed that my stomach was growling uncontrollably. But I was terribly wrong. See, Piper didn't know I didn't want to see my babies. So, my reaction wasn't…typical good girl Annabeth behavior.
I was still sobbing as I peeked through my hands and saw Jason start to argue with Piper. "Get them out of here, Piper! Annabeth doesn't want to see them!" He whispered/shouted. "Why? They're beautiful! And they're not even Aphrodite's descendants!" Piper said selfishly. I looked up at Piper with pleading eyes, as if to say 'please, take them away. I don't ever want to see them.' She looked at me curiously, and then signals the nurse to leave with the babies. Thalia is still crying, but more softly now. Piper asks Jason to bring Thalia and Grover outside while she wanted to talk to me.
I didn't want to deal with talking to Piper. But I guess I have no choice. I smirk, then cringe as Piper starts to speak. Her voice is like melted chocolate. Thick and creamy, drawing me to her voice. I realize she is charm-speaking me into seeing the babies, and how I will love them the minute I see them. I shake my head to signal refusal, but Piper doesn't give up. I finally agree to see one baby, whatever one. Piper signals a nurse to bring in one of the babies, and she stays sitting next to me, shooting compliments about how beautiful they are, even though they aren't related to Aphrodite. I roll my eyes occasionally just to tell her how much I don't care.
A few moments later, a nurse comes in slowly, bouncing a baby up and down, cooing softly. The baby is obviously awake and alert, because it is waving its arms around, its hand landing on the nurse's shoulder. She notices that Piper and I are staring oddly at her, and she says, "Well, sorry! We don't ever really have babies at the hospital!" Piper and I chuckled. "Well, bring the baby over!" Piper exclaimed. The nurse toddled over to Piper and I, and gingerly set the baby down in Piper's arms, then left without word. Piper looked at the baby with loving eyes. "You ready, Annabeth?" I nodded regretfully, and held out my arms.
Piper carefully handed me the baby. I held him at a comfortable distance, which earned me a disgusted look from Piper. "Don't shun him, Annabeth!" Piper cried. I carefully unwrapped the blanket that was piled up around his head and took a good look at him. I gasped and looked into his perfect sea-green eyes.
How'd you like it? I didn't want to birth scene to be icky or descriptive…so ya. REVIEW:D