The Mark of Athena

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ANNABETH: When Piper had gotten slashed and had passed out, Jason completely lost his focus. I had to save him from the Ice Monster's breath about three times, and now it was about to become 4 times. I searched for a weak spot on the giant's huge back, and finally found one.

'There!' I thought and jumped up toward the spot. I slashed and stabbed the spot until finally the giant seemed to disintegrate. I thought I had killed it, but I noticed that Leo's fight with Khione had apparently ended, because the room was not extremely freezing anymore or because Hazel, Frank and Percy were starting to defrost. Wait. Percy's in an ice cube? I try to remind myself not to kill anything that comes in my way just because I'm furious at Khione for freezing my boyfriend right to the point where he might be dead.
'NO.' I thought to myself. 'Percy isn't dead. Leo is making the room warmer so that their friends could melt and could return to their normal un-frozen state.' I knew I was right, because Leo was walking around the room muttering to him about how awesome he had been fighting Khione and how he wanted to see Reyna more than anything right now. For once, we were actually thinking of something similar. He was thinking about how great it would be to see his girlfriend, whereas I was thinking about Percy, and how good it would feel right now if he had his arms around me.

As if on cue, two huge hands closed around my eyes and I immediately knew it was Percy.

"Guess who?" he asked, almost silently giggling.
"Percy." I said.

"How do you always know?" Percy asked me, annoyed.

"Because anyone who would've covered my eyes and said "Guess who?" except you would've gotten skewered by my dagger." I informed him.

Percy sighed. "You've got a point." He said, and then muttered, "Like always…"

I didn't answer because even though that annoyed me, it was true, so I allowed him to have his tiny moment of Victory.

"So… How did being an ice cube feel like?" I questioned him, not really expecting him to answer.

He scoffed and said "It was absolutely positively freezing. End of story."

Well. I had already figured it would be freezing, but I didn't have anything else to ask him…Well… I did want to ask him what he did to become Praetor.

"Percy?" I asked.

"Hmm?" he replied

"What did you do to become Praetor?" I inquired.

"A lot of things, which would take a long time for me to tell you." He replied.

"We've got about 8 hours until we get home. We got loads of time." I told him.

"Alright, fine. But let's go to my room first, okay? I have a present for you." Ooh. A present. I feel excited, since he's never given me a present, except for that kiss under the lake last summer. Wait. I started that kiss, I thought. Yes, but he kept going with it. He didn't try to stop you. I argued with myself. I sighed with anticipation. I couldn't wait to see my present. I hadn't even realized that we were in front of his room. I guess my arguing with myself had made me lose track of time, which happens all the time with Athena kids. We get so involved in thinking; time just fly's out the window.

Percy opened the door for me and gestured for me to go in. I giggled, as that was what boyfriends did all the time for their girlfriends. I love Percy so much, he doesn't have to give me anything, I thought. But it made me feel special that whatever he had done for me had come from his heart. His beautiful, kind heart.

Percy cleared his throat.

"My present to you." He said, and pointed to the bed where there was a small gift box in the center of it. He walked over to his bed and plopped down, and I did the same.

I opened the box and inside was two things. The first, a gorgeous necklace and the second was a letter.

It read:
Dear Annabeth,

I love you so, so much. I could say that a million times and you would still not know how I feel about you. I know we are too young for an engagement ring (believe me, I will get you one) I laughed at that. But how about an early promise? I'm giving you this necklace to show you how much I love you. I want you to know that as soon as we are old enough, I do intend to buy you an engagement ring. Do you accept?

Love,

Seaweed Brain

I looked up at Percy like, "are you serious?" He nodded. There was absolutely no silliness in his words. He was dead serious.

"Of course! I love you, too." I exclaimed and threw my arms around him. I am sort of shocked right now, because I've always been the one to make the moves in our relationship. But I guess he wanted to make the most important move.

"You know, your mom's probably going to kill me right?" he asked me.

"She'll get over it. She has to." I said.

"Whatever you say, Wise Girl." He grinned his crooked grin at me and I smiled back.

Nothing could make me happier right now. I have everything I have always wanted. To share my entire life with Seaweed Brain. But a demigod's life is never too happy. Just then, Jason ran in.

"Guys. You have to come. Now." He said.

"What is it?" I asked, horrified.

"It's Piper. She's dying." Jason managed to choke out. He sounded miserable. ALL of my blood turned to ice. One of the Seven is already dying, and we haven't even gotten to Rome yet. How will we survive?