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Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson. Annabeth does. And Athena and her father own her. And Rick Riorden owns them. It will be a sad day, if I ever own Percy J. My writings no where as good as Ricks.

I Missed You. Chapter 18

Annabeth's POV.

It was time. Time to go home. Finally.

I had Percy back, all of my friends were alive, the Romans didn't kill us, and we were on our way back to Camp Half-Blood. Life was good.

That is, until he decided he wanted to come too.

Octavian just irks me to no end. I mean, I didn't think anyone could annoy me more than Leo, or the Stoll brothers. But apprently, someone can. Besides Percy I mean.

He kept following me around the Argo 2. Where ever I went, Octavian was behind me. It wasn't only me who was getting annoyed by this. Everyone was. Thalia right now was aiming her bow right between his eyes, because he interupted our conversation.

He looked terrified. She pulled back and,

"THALIA!"

Darn it. So would have been worth it if she let go.

"Thalia, come on. You can't just go shooting everyone who annoys you. I thought we taught you this 3 years ago. Apprently, you seem to have forgetten." Percy smirked.

"Are you telling me, Kelp Head, to control my temper? Oh the irony. And you can't say you don't want this idiot dead. I know you better than that." It was true. Percy looked like he wanted to slice this guys head off, but was controling himself. This was new. Percy's never had much control. If he had control, the world would have ended a long time ago.

"Okay okay. Shoot him in the arm, we can have Mari heal him later." He ammended. Thalia grinned and let her arrow fly. It peirced his shoulder. He cried out and fell to the ground. Thalia went an retreived her arrow.

I looked at Octavian and said, "This is what you get when you stalk me. I'll go get Marigold."

I smirked and ran to Mari's cabin. I knocked, and she shouted "Come in!" I walked in to find her crouched in the corner, bow out. I tensed. Then, I whipped out my knife and hurled it to the corner she was looking. It embeded itself in the wall.

It would have embeded itself in Nico, but he shadow traveled over to Mari.

Marigld burst into histarical peels of laughter. "I (Laugh) told you (laugh) she'd do ( laugh) it!" I looked at her confused, as Nico shrugged and helped her up.

"What were you guys doing?" I asked.

"Oh we heard Thalia shoot the augur. So we came in here and I bet Nico, that I could get you to throw your knife at him. As you can see, I won." she giggled. I laughed. Am I really that predictable?

"Annabeth! What's taking so long? Octavian won't stop whining. Can we throw him over board?"

I rolled my eyes. He was the one defending him in the first place! Percy really bugs me sometimes.

"No you can't throw him overboard, not matter how apealing it is. You were the one who told Thals to shoot him." I said. He grinned.

"I was under the pretense that you were going to get Mari-".

He stopped and looked shocked. I did too. Marigold, right after Percy said mari, just had to add the 'ed'. Percy glared at Mari grabbed her arm and pulled her into the hallway shutting me in her room. What is going on?

Percy's POV

"Marigold Annabelle Carter! Why did you do that? Now she's gunna know what I have planned for when we get back to camp! You are completly ruining the surprise."

Marigold rolled her eyes, looking just like her father when she did. "Oh come on Percy. Annabeth's not stupid. She would have figured it out anyways, by the time you took her to the beach. She's a daughter of Athena for crying out loud! She's actually smart unlike yourself. I had to put the 'ed' on the end of mari. You know i did. Because you two will be married one day. I would have been better if you had said, 'Under the pretense that we were going to get Mari'. Cuz then, it would have fit better. But nooooo. You had to be your stupid self. You should ask her soon though. I mean you already have the ring." she stopped ranting for a moment and looked at me curious and alarmed.

"You do still have the ring right? Hera didn't take it when she stole you did she? Cuz then, you have total rights to punch her in her godly face."

Mari talks alot.

"Okay for one thing, I am not stupid. Two, how do you know she would have figured it out? She doesn't actually know everything, though she may make it seem that way. Three, I am smart, ask Annabeth. I just prefer not to show it. Wheres the fun in that? And yes, I still how the ring. I asked the Hecate cabin to put a charm on it, so that it always returns to my pocket like Riptide. Till I give it someone else, then it returns to their pocket. See." I pulled the ring out of my pocket.

It was pretty simple. Just a silver band with a dimond in the center, and a emerald on either side. I was confident that she would love it. If she didn't... Then I'm screwed.

"Whoa. It's gorgeous. She'll love it." Mari cooed. What is it with girls and jewlery?

"Well, I'm gunna ask her when we get back. Theres something I wanna show her."

I heard foot steps running down the hall, and quickly put the ring back in my pocket. It was Thalia. She looked thoroughly annoyed.

"When the Hades, is someone going to heal that, that," she couldn't seem to find a word harsh enough. Mari grinned and said, "Im on it," winked at me, and ran off.

Thalia walked over to me. "Sooo, you ask her yet?" I looked at her and rolled my eyes.

"I'll take that as a no. Leo said he had something to show us, up on deck. Get Annabeth and lets go." She said, bossily.

"You're not my mother." I said, childish.

Now it was her turn to roll her eyes.

"No, I'm not Kelp Head. But, you better go see her when we get back. Or I swear, I will shoot you. Sally is so worried about you. Almost as much as Annabeth, but no one could out do Annabeth with worry. Not even me."

I looked at her. I think she just said that she missed me. Huh. Who knew. Thalia Grace has emotions. Other than anger I mean. I smiled and hugged my cousin. I hadn't done it yet. I'd only hugged Annabeth. "Sorry Pinecone Face. Didn't mean to make you worry. Blame Hera"

"Yeah yeah. Just get Annabeth and get on deck. I'll find Nico and everyone esle." She said, though she was smiling.

"Actually, Nico was in there," I pointed at Mari's door, "With Mari, and still is. So find everyone esle" I said smiling. She punched me and ran off.

My cousin is so weird. I chuckled to myself and opened the door.

Annabeth's POV.

I was evesdropping. Im sorry, but you have your boyfriend go into the hall with another girl, even if said girl has a boyfriend, and not evesdrop on them.

He's going to ask me to marry him. We're only seventeen, but I get the feeling he doesn't mean right now. Maybe when we get back from saving the world. Again. That is if we survive.

"So find everyone esle." I heard and scrambled away from the door. I went and sat in the corner trying to look like I'd been there the whole time. I glared at Nico, asking, more like telling, him not to tell Percy. He nodded right before the dor opened.

Percy walked in chuckling. He walked over to me and pulled my up. "Leo has something he wants to show us up on deck." I nodded. Percy motioned to Nico that he needed to come too.

We walked to the deck hand in hand, in a comfortable silence. Nico was trailing behind us, with Marigold, who came after fixing up Octavian. We got to the top deck to see that Leo put up a tent like thing around it.

He was standing in the middle of the deck, gestering for us to hurry up. "Come one! I wanna show you guys something!" He was bouncing up and down, looking excited. Piper, Jason, Thalia, Frank, Hazel, and Renya were already there. Leo kept glancing at Renya. Great. Another girl for him to flirt with.

We stood next to them looking at the tent thing. "Leo, what's up with the tent?" Percy asked. Leo looked like he was going to explode. He brought out a remote and said, "It's hiding, this." And pressed the little red button on the remote. The tent fell away, revealing...

CLIFFY!
What do you think it reveals? Tell me in reveiws! Most of you will probably get it. I mean it's kinda obvious.

Percy's gunna ask Annabeth to MMMMAAAARRRRYYYY him! As you can see this is not a Mark of Athena fic. I will not be writing the flight to Rome and the battle and Greece and all that. No, i will skip that. And then the sequel (Yes sequel) Will be all the stuff after that.

Are you guys as excited as me?

For My Other Story, Rather Than: Anyone have any nicknames for Malcolm? Cuz, I'm getting tired of writing Malcolm. I need like a nickname like Percy and Annabeth's nicknames. Thalia needs one too. Can I call Malcolm Mal? does that work? Like for just, said Malcolm, things. Do you get what I'm saying? I hope so.

Anyways, Thanks to everyone who reveiwed last chapter. Would you be so kind as to reveiw this one? Thanks!

Peace, Love, Percy Jackson.

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