A/N I am sooooooo sorry, I went totally blank on what to do next in this story. But I got it now, and you can expect much quicker updates.

Percy POV

My dreams were weird... but good at the same time. There were strawberry fields, a big blue house, sneaky looking twins, something underwater...

Annabeth too. There was a lot of her. Her laughing, her slapping my arm, her calling my name...

"Percy!" I gasped and bolted up in my bed, very nearly hitting a shadowy figure standing over me. It stumbled into the moonlight, and I realized that it was Annabeth.

"What are you doing in here?" I hissed, "It's the middle of the night! Do you want us to get in trouble?" I couldn't help the rush of blood to my cheeks. I had a major case of bed-head, morning breath, and there was a puddle of drool on my pillow. Not exactly a pleasant sight...

"You're turning 17 in a few months, don't tell me you're worried about getting grounded by Coach Hedge." She chuckled.

"Uh, have you seen his baseball bat." She rolled her silvery eyes and crossed her arms.

"Come on, Seaweed Brain, I want to show you something." And she had to show me at 3 in the morning?

"Am I allowed to brush my teeth first?" A small smirk graced her lips.

"You better! And why don't you comb your hair while you're at it?"

"Yes, mom!"

Some toothpaste and a hasty battle with my hair and the two of us were tiptoeing through the silent halls of the Argo II.

"Where are we going?" I whispered as she scurried along in front of me.

"To my favorite place aboard the ship." That narrows it down. This thing is huge! The two of us passed a big room filled with a bunch of wires and metal stuff. The engine room.

"Only me and Leo know how to work it, and just barely!" Annabeth said gleefully.

"How reassuring."

"Oh calm down, it's only threatened to explode once or twice." I didn't get the chance to respond because she pulled me down deeper into the ship.

Finally we halted to a stop in front of two wooden doors. With a quick push Annabeth shoved them open to reveal... stables. Did she have a horse or something? I walked in and she quickly shut the doors behind us. We stood in a fairly big room with big horse stables lining one wall. The floor had a big glass square on it, and I realized that it was actually the bottom of the ship.

"See-through hull?" I asked. Annabeth didn't answer, she brushed past me and spread a blanket out on top of the window.

"Sit with me," She said and went criss-cross onto the blanket. I took a seat beside her.

"Leo built this place because he thought the pegasi would like it. He didn't realize they'd rather fly, so this place is never occupied." She explained.

"How exactly would they get in here?" I doubted the horses would want to climb through the ship. Annabeth leaned down and tapped the glass with her finger.

"These are actually doors, sort of like a bomber, you know?" A chill ran up my spine.

"So we're sitting on doors? And what if they open?" Annabeth shrugged.

"They won't... probably. If they did we'd probably fall to our impending deaths." What a pleasure. I was getting confused, was this girl a genius or a nutcase?

"How fun," Annabeth smirked and rested her chin on her pulled up knees.

"Do you know why I like it here, Percy?" She asked. A slight patch of goosebumps came up on my arms when she said my name. I shook my head, and she sighed.

"I guess you wouldn't." She muttered, "It reminds me of... better times." She explained.

"A stable?" Annabeth nodded.

"Yep," She turned to look at me, "Back when we were twelve, you and I went on a quest together to find Zeus's master bolt. We had to spend one night in the back of a couple of poachers's truck." I wrinkled my nose.

"And that was better times... how exactly?" A small laugh escaped her lips.

"Because, it was the first time you and I really talked to each other. Before that you just irritated me." She ignored my rolling eyes, "But after that, we became friends." Her storm grey eyes stared into mine.

"I wish I remembered." I said softly. She nodded.

"Me too, Percy. You have no idea." I sensed double meaning to her words. There was this weird look in her eyes that she got every time she looked at me, including now. It looked like she was sad, mad, jealous, confused, hurt, and overly ecstatic all at once. It took me a minute, but I recognized the look.

It was love.

What I didn't know was whether it was friend love, or brotherly love, or family love, or couple love. I wasn't sure what kind I felt for her, but I was pretty sure it wasn't friendly.

"Annabeth?" I asked.

"Hm?" I paused for a second before asking her. This was bad, this was so bad. This was cheating on Reyna, this was crossing into dangerous territory that could make the rest of this trip extremely awkward if her answer was different than what I was hoping it would be.

I couldn't do it.

"Nothing." She blinked, longer this time. When her eyes re-opened they were just the tiniest bit shiny, as though she was about to cry.

For the rest of the night we just sat there, talking. She told me all about our adventures together. Annabeth told me about all of our quests, about my mom and stepdad, about Tyson, about my other friends at camp, and about the Second Titan War.

I must say, I'm awesome.

She was finishing off the story of the Titan War just as dawn light started to brighten the highway beneath us, "And then Tyson and I baked you a blue cupcake for your birthday," She said, "And when you and I were eating it, the other campers came out of the bushes and threw the two of us into the canoe lake!" She retold it with enthusiasm, but there was something in her facial expression that told me she was editing the story, "After that, you and I spent hours in an air bubble under the lake... planning ways to get back at the rest the campers." She finished. There was that look in her eyes again...

"Sounds like fun," I said. She nodded, and the tiniest smile came across her face.

"It was," I didn't notice that we were unconsciously leaning closer to each other.

"We hung out under the water a lot that summer," She said, "It sort of became our go-to place."

"I can imagine..." I said huskily. Her lips were about five inches away. I could feel her breath lightly flutter against my cheeks. She smelled nice, like lemon soap...

Her eyes fluttered shut as she leaned closer to me too. Three inches, two... one...

"There you guys... Whoa!" We jumped apart as Frank burst into the stables.

"Frank!" Annabeth said irritably. The poor guy looked down at his hands and shuffled his feet, cheeks as red as cherries.

"Er... sorry... we were just looking for you guys... You see you weren't in your rooms, and everyone thinks you got kidnapped or something..."

"We were here," I said, standing up awkwardly, "We're fine."

"Yeah... good..." Frank bit his lip, "Well, I'll just... go tell Hedge what you guys where doing... I mean not doing! I mean... bye!" Frank raced out of the stables faster than Reyna charging into battle. Annabeth looked at me with a flustered pink in her cheeks.

"We should go." She said, a hint of disappointment in her voice.