Ahh! Guess what, guys? FEA was cancelled and now I can write more! YAY. So, I'm watching Big Bang Theory right now. BEST. SHOW. EVER.3. Do you guys like it? I'm in loooovvee.

Anyways, Important announcement time: I'm adding in Annabeth and Piper P.O.V.s and they will be in FIRST PERSON because it is important to the plot. Now, this isn't set in stone because I may need to write it in a different order or something. Order as of today goes: Frank, Annabeth, Percy, and Piper. And I had more to say, but I can't remember. I wrote like most of this chapter/ AN already and my mother exited out of it. Joy.

Summary for P&A: They are searching for the magical item in the nonmagical shrub to close the Doors. Luke & Beckendorf gave them a map to follow and they only have FIVE DAYS. In case if ou didn't read the AN. I'm not mad if you didn't, I never do.

Now, Are you guys ready for some Percabeth fluff? I know I am!

Chapter Four: Annabeth

It felt like we were walking for hours. But that wasn't the bad part. The bad part was that Percy wouldn't shut up.

"So I was thinking about the whole orange thing," Percy was saying,changing the subject for the umpteenth time.

"Yeah," I said dejectedly. Right when I think he would stop talking. I really had no interest in his questions about oranges. At all. None.

"Which came first? The color or the fruit? Like was the fruit first and they named the color after it or was it the other way around? "

"I don't know, Percy," I sighed.

"And what's up with the name? Like who just sits there, holds up and orange and thinks, ' orange'? And it doesn't even ryhme with anthing-"

"Percy! Can you stop talking for ten minutes? Please?" I begged him. A look of shock passed over his face, but was quckl replaced by his hurt puppy dog look.

"Okay," He said quietly. With a groan, I stopped him and wrapped my arms around his waist.

"I'm sorry. I'm just a little stressed," I told him.

"A little?" Percy scoffed. I swatted his arm. He rubbed his arm and pouted at me.

"You know, you're being really mean today. You keep hitting me and now you just yelled at me. You're like the Big Bad Wolf," He told me. He then spun on his heels and walked ahead of me.

"Wait!" I called. He slowed a little bit to let mecatch up.

"Are you apologizing?" He asked as he took my hand.

"No. I just need the light," I told him with a smirk. His mouth dropped, but he didn't throw another temper tantrum. Thank the gods. Just because we're in Tartarus doesn't mean it's okay to act like you're two years old.

"Whatever. Just keep using me for the light," He grumbled.

"Kay," I said with a smile. He stuck his tongue out at me.

"Very mature, Percy," I said. He gave me a cheeky grin and slipped his hand inside mine and we continued our search for the magical shrub. And the best part? He didn't say a word. We just walked in silence with our arms swinging and I had a ridiculous smile on my face, but I didn't care. I was with Percy and that's all that mattered. Besides the saving the world stuff.

It also gave me time to think about this quest. Luke wrote on the map that we only had five days. Which seems like a short amount of time and it also seems like a long time. We've had less time to complete a quest before, but I have no idea how much time has passed an I have no way of figuring it out. My phone was in my backpack, but I lost that. And my laptop. And my knife. I felt useless. Percy isn't only going to have to defend himself, but he's also going to have to defend me if a monster attacks. And that will probably happen because we are in Tartarus.

And the whole Luke Beckendorf thing just shocked me. I freaked out at first because I knewhe had been reborn, but Ididn't know if it was Gaea's minions or if it was Kronos and he still looked like Luke. I just didn't know so I freaked out. That and I was worried it would complicate things. Which, it still could because Luke said he had been reborn. Don't get me wrong, I love Percy to death and I would never choose Luke over Percy, but I didn't know if he knew that.

Maybe I should tell him that I love him. I mean I've said it before, but it wasn't anything meaningful. It was usually during battle or after battle or just a random comment, but it didn't mean anything. I've told Piper I loved her before after she did something or whatever. Hell, I've said it to Leo. I jus kind of throw it around sometimes. And that was something that really bothered me when he went missing. I never said it to him and he could of been dead.

"Hey, Percy?" I said quietly.

"Hmm?"

"I-" I was interrupted by something slamming into us. Well, it more of slammed into Percy but it brought me down with him. I heard growling and was immediately alert. I saw Percy's sword lying on the ground but no Percy.

"Percy?" I called out shakily as I stood up. I was met with silence. Crap. I ran over to his sword and picked up. Suddenly, a hellhound came into my view. This was going to be bad. I hadn't fought with a sword in a long time. I swung at it, but the hellhound easily dodged it, which was okay. It was more of a pre-strike. The hellhound lunged at me and I swung at its leg. I hit it, but with th flat instead of the blade. I groaned in frustration. How did Percy do this?

"Annabeth, it's a knife but longer just stand farther away," Percy groaned. Oh, yeah. Gods, I need sleep. I did what he said and I easily killed the hellhound.

"Percy, where are you?" All I heard was groaning.

I found him sprawled out on his stomach. He had long gashes on his back and his shirt was hanging bya thread. Thanksfully, they weren't bleeding too heavily, maybe I could just get creative with his shirt. I started to lift it over his head, but he groaned in protest.

"Percy, get over it, I have to stop the bleeding," I grumbled as I lifted it over his head. He collapsed back onto his arm whle I tried to measure with me eyes what I have to do with his shirt. I managed to wrap most of it around the worst part,but that's all the fabric I had to work with. When I was done I tried to get him to move over to the wall so that we weren't in the middle of the walkway and so maybe monsters wouldn't see us as easily. It turned into me just dragging him over to the wall.

"Ow," He complained.

"Well if you would have cooperated, then I wouldn't of ad to drag you," I told him as I sat down against th wall and propped his head up on my lap. He didn't respond so I leaned my head against the wall and closed my eyes.

"What were you going to tell me?" He murmured. I was quiet for a long time before answering. I wanted the moment to be special, but I wasn't sure if now was the right time. I decided to jut go with it.

"I love you," I said quietly while looking down at him. He looked up. His eyes were bloodshot and he had seat beaded on his forehead. He was absolutely filthy and he had scrathes all over the place. But I didn't care. Irobably looked the same, if not worse.

"I love you, too," Percy said with a grin. I bent down and kissed him.

"Go to sleep," I commanded as I settled down to do the same.