Percy:

I smiled to myself as I hung up the framed paperwork that made Sarah Aguilera become Sarah Jackson and legally my daughter.

I couldn't help but continue to stare at it.

When I had thought about this day, I had thought that I would feel pained because of the fact that, though we shared the same DNA, she was just now my legal daughter. But I didn't feel that. I felt overall happiness swell inside me. I felt pride for my daughter on how wonderful she was, and to see that smile on Annabeth's face was amazing.

The only thing that could break me out of the joyful trance of staring at the document was the laughing sound from my two favorite girls.

I turned around and smiled at the two of them, Annabeth and Sarah.

It seemed like Sarah was looking more like her mother every day, though she seemed to also be looking like me in some ways. But she was the spitting image of how her mother looked when she was a little girl.

And I began to see things from Annabeth's father's perspective. I began to see why he had never liked me, and why he had hated me when he found out that I was dating Annabeth. And I began to wonder how many times Annabeth had defended me so that he didn't kill me. I wouldn't of had the strength not to kill me when Annabeth got pregnant if I was Frederick.

"Do I have to go to bed?" Sarah complained as Annabeth continued to brush her hair.

"Yes, you do, Sarah. We have to get up early tomorrow. You're going to spend the day with your Uncle Malcolm."

Malcolm owed us a lot of babysitting time with Steven, which I hadn't minded since I loved to be around babies. But I had been happy to ask for it in return when it came to this.

Sarah pouted but let her mother continue to braid her messy black curls.

"Oh come on, you know you want to see your cousin," I sat down on the couch beside her, and Sarah mulled it over.

"I guess," Sarah crossed her arms.

"I'm going to put away the brush. But it's bedtime right after that," Annabeth told her, but I didn't even believe her. I knew her very well, well enough to know that we'd probably be up until midnight when Annabeth would finally get her way and get Sarah to bed.

"Are you going to ask her tonight?" Sarah quickly asked me, forgetting her earlier anger.

"Sort of."

"Sort of?" Sarah looked at me skeptically.

"It'll make sense tomorrow, Kiddo."

Sarah continued to stare at me, as if she was deciding whether or not to believe me.

"I promise, Sarah."

"Alright," Sarah finally nodded, and I could hear the bedroom door close, which meant Annabeth was back on her way here.

XXXXX

I blinked my eyes open.

I had never really gotten to sleep. I had just kind of drifted from being full awake to being half-asleep. But Annabeth had basically passed out the second her head hit the pillow, well not a pillow but my chest.

I brushed Annabeth's hair out of her eyes, though she was asleep anyway, and I smiled as she 'Hmm'ed and curled up closer around me.

I tried to remember if I had smiled like this when I had woken up with Calli curled around me. But I couldn't think of an instance. Only with Annabeth.

I thought back to my promise to Sarah.

I had planned on proposing tonight before we fell asleep, but Annabeth didn't give me a chance.

Which is why I had a new plan.

I reached into my nightstand drawer and reached for the ring box inside.

I opened it up and looked at the ring for a while.

It was simple looking. It was the kind of ring that I knew Annabeth, unlike how Calli had demanded a flashy ring, which she had taken with her when we got divorced. This ring was a teardrop shaped diamond with diamonds surrounding it.

I smiled down at it and looked at Annabeth's hand, and I slid the ring on.

Annabeth:

I groaned as the alarm clock beeped, and I was about to reach over Percy and beat the hell out of the machine. But Percy turned it off before I could, and I just tried to go back to sleep, realizing that I had fallen asleep on him.

Yesterday, as can be imagined, was stressful enough, but it had been so late to get to sleep. And it was so early that I was expected to get up.

I was about to ask Percy if he could take Sarah to Malcolm's and let me sleep when I heard him speak.

"Morning, Annabeth."

I mentally sighed but opened my eyes.

"Good morning,," I smiled and looked into his green eyes.

Percy leaned down and kissed me, and I kissed back, hoping it would wake me up.

I was running my fingers through his hair when I noticed something different.

My finger felt kind of heavier.

….Like something was on it.

I separated from kissing Percy to look at my hand, and I gasped.

"Will you marry me, Annabeth Chase?" Percy took my hand and kissed the ring.

I couldn't speak. I wanted to scream repeatedly my acceptance, but I was so shocked that I couldn't speak. I could see Percy become worried, as if my silence was to warn him of my declining. But I still couldn't tell him that I would.

Seeing as I couldn't speak, I pulled his head to kiss me again.

"I'll take that as-" Percy's lips separated from mine long enough to say that, but I just kept kissing him until he got a chance to finish it, "-as a yes."

I smiled against his lips, and he was wrapping his arms around me when the door opened.

Sarah stood at the door for a minute, giving us enough time to stop kissing and look at her, and a smile spread across her lips.

"You finally proposed!" Sarah ran up to us and jumped on the bed, where she hugged the two of us.

"Finally?"

"Maybe I've had the ring for a while," Percy smiled, and Sarah continued to congratulate us.

Okay, so I basically have this thing planned out as to how it's going to end.

Don't worry. You have over seven chapters left.