Hey guys! Chapter 24, here! YAY!
Okay, so my playlist well be up soon(: I might incorporate all my Percabeth songs into Moments.
Dear Ninja,
That's Edward and Bella's song though...but I see why it could be them. I would think more Jeyna for that one, though. Just my opinion.
But, if you like Jeyna, go read AthenaGreyEyes98's new songfic! It's called All Too Well and it goes to Taylor swift's song. It's adorable(:
Okay. Chapter 24! Whoo! I kind of switched to third person in the middle of one of the Percy parts, so yeah. I might fix it later.
I woke up with my face on the floor. Glamorous place, I know. I groaned and hoisted myself up onto my elbows. My head felt foggy and my muscles were sore. I slowly stopped.
My world stopped when I realized I was in Annabeth's room on the Argo. I had only been in here a couple times. The first time he remembered very well.
She was sitting on her bed looking at her laptop. Her brow was furrowed and she looked like she was concentrating very hard. So, why not bug her? I walked into the room quite loudly, startling her like I hoped to. I flopped down onto her bed and set my chin into my folded hands that were held up at my elbows. I gave her a cheeky smile and looked at the screen. She was looking at a map of Rome.
"So, anything interesting about Rome?" I asked her. She gave me a funny look and didn't answer.
"Oh, so you're not talking to me?" She didn't answer again, she just continued looking at the screen. She didn't even smile. She barely gave me a passing glance. I rested my chin on her knee and looked up at her through my eyelashes. She glanced down at me. I recognized something in her eyes. I only saw it once. When we were on Olympus and Luke was being a butthead. It was after he hit her. I stretched my leg so I could reach the door that was ajar. I kicked it shut and closed her laptop. I set it down on the floor and sat up. I scooted up next to her and leaned against the pillows. I started to trace small circles on her back. She was still staring at the bed as if the laptop was still there.
"What's wrong, babe?" I asked softly. I hardly ever call her 'babe'. She doesn't really like it, so I only reserve it for when I wake her up and when I want to tease her.
She just shrugged her shoulders. Something told me she was trying really hard not to cry. She told me she was scared very quietly. I pulled her to my chest and held her. I rubbed her back slowly and kissed her forehead. We stayed like that until dinner. We didn't say another word to each other, we just laid there.
It was a bittersweet memory. I didn't like the fact that Annabeth was scared and sad, but I longed for the feel of her in my arms again. It was one of the best feelings in the world.
I noticed that her bed wasn't made. I furrowed my brow. She always made her bed. She was very particular about how it was made, too. It had to be equal on both sides and the pillows had to be color coordinated. But, the pillows were all over the place. Her blanket was all ruffled. I walked over to the side to investigate. It looked like the blanket was pulled over someone's head. He tried to pull them back, but they wouldn't budge.
"It's not going to work." Percy whipped out his sword and turned around. It was just Piper. He lowered his sword and set it on the bedside table.
"You might want to put that away, actually," She told him. He nodded and did it, even though he wasn't sure why she said that. Percy looked at Piper. She looked weird. He noticed that her eyes turned to a bright gray, but Percy didn't dwell on that. He was more interested in why her image was flickering.
"Are you an Iris Message right now?" Percy asked. Piper shook her head and held out her hand. Percy touched it and, sure enough, she was solid. Percy was confused.
"Then, why…?" He trailed off. Piper shrugged.
"Because I don't have as strong a connection to you."
"Piper… start from the beginning," Percy said as he sat on the edge of the bed. The person under there scooted away from him towards the other edge of the bed.
"Well, Annabeth isn't dead." Percy stood up.
"What?"
Hazel woke with a headache. She was on the floor of Franks cabin. Frank was sitting on the end of the bad, looking down at her.
"Hey," He said quietly. Hazel groaned and sat up, rubbing her head.
"What happened?" She asked him. He shrugged.
"I was nabbed by Leila. What happened to you guys?"
"Well, Jason and I were sparring and then we decided to go spy on Piper and Annabeth. We didn't see Piper, but we saw Annabeth through the window of her cottage. There was a man; Tony, there and she did something really weird. But after she walked out and I wanted to try talking to her, to see what would happen. We walked with her on her way to Calypso's."
"How was she?" Frank asked her. She shrugged.
"She was okay. She was very fidgety and scared, I think, but she was nice. She didn't like Jason very much."
"What do you mean she did something weird?"
"What do you mean?"
"You said she did something weird when she was with Tony, what was it?"
"Oh, well she was standing there. He was yelling at her. Her eyes started to glow and then this wall of energy, I guess, just burst out of her and threw Tony into a wall."
Frank furrowed his brow. "That's weird."
"I know. Anyways, then we turned around and Tony was standing there. Another man came up from behind me and pinned me and Jason tried to talk our way out of it, but it didn't work very well because we didn't have our weapons."
"Why didn't you have your weapons?"
"We didn't want to scare Annabeth so left them at the cottage."
"Okay, continue."
"Then Percy and Nico showed up out of nowhere. Percy fought tony and knocked him out and that's all I can remember."
"They threw a dart at you," Frank said, holding up said dart. "I think it was laced with sedatives." "Yeah. That would make sense," Hazel mumbled, rubbing her neck. Frank patted the space on the bed next to her and she got up and sat next to him. Frank took her hand in his and smiled at her.
"So, how are we going to get out of here?" Hazel asked him, resting her head on his shoulder. He shrugged lightly, as not to disturb Hazel.
Their serene moment was disturbed by someone else being thrown into the room. Someone Frank and Hazel had never seen before. Someone with red hair.
"So, she didn't die, they brought her back to life and now you guys have this weird ESP thing going on and that's how you two know everything? But, she thinks we're all trying to hurt her because she doesn't remember anything except hallucinations of us trying to hurt her, so now she thinks we're the enemy?" Percy clarified. He couldn't believe what he was hearing. How could Annabeth not remember anyone? Who would do that? "That's horrible."
"Well, she's not sure who the enemy is, that's the problem. She woke up programmed to be sided with Leila, but she trusts me but not you guys and she trusts Leila, but not the other guys."
"But, she doesn't remember anything about any of her relationships with people from before?" Percy said, deflated. Piper shook her head.
Percy put his head in his hands.
"It's going to be okay, Percy," Piper said quietly. Percy didn't know if he believed that. How would it be okay if Annabeth, the most smart and devoted half-blood he knew, didn't remember anything? What if she trusted the other side more? What if she never wanted to see him again?
"Where is she?" Percy asked, his voice breaking a little. Piper pretended not to notice. She nodded her head towards the bed. Percy stood up and turned around.
"Be gentle," Piper whispered in his ear. Percy nodded. He could do gentle.
"Very gentle," Piper mouthed at him as she stood in the corner of the room. Percy walked around and knelt down next to the edge of the bed where Annabeth was closest.
"Annabeth?" He said softly. He looked to Piper for approval.
"Don't touch," She mouthed. Percy nodded and clasped his hands behind his back to avoid temptation.
"Annabeth? It's Percy. Can we talk?" Percy watched as the bed started to shake and she shook her head. He looked at Piper. She beckoned him over to her.
"What?" He whispered.
"Don't go back over there. Give her space. She'll trust you a bit more since you respected her wishes," She told him quietly.
"Well, I can't just go," Percy argued.
"Just stay over here. Don't talk to her. Talk to me," Piper said. Percy sighed. This was going to be hard. He looked back over to the bed. She was still shaking.
"She's shaking," Percy whispered, his voice breaking again.
"She's scared. She probably doesn't want you to talk. Everyone else, she's scared of them getting close to her because they physically abused her. You, you verbally abused her," Piper told him. Percy mentally cursed. She was sensitive. That was a smart play on Leila's side. He didn't respect her for it, in fact he hated her for it, but that would definitely ensure that Annabeth wouldn't take Percy's side. She couldn't trust him anymore. Percy's shoulders slumped. Piper looked sad. She looked longingly between them. Her image started to flicker more.
"I have to go, Jason is waking up." She told Percy. He nodded dejectedly and slumped against the wall. He didn't notice when she had left completely. He just sat at the desk, watching Annabeth shake under the covers.
Jason awoke in his cabin on his bed. He rubbed his eyes and sat up. Piper was sitting at the foot of his bed, reading the book Hercules gave to them. She noticed him and smiled.
"Hey."
"Hey," He said groggily as he stretched. "What happened to you?"
"I saw a jet fly off the island and I went to investigate. A girl grabbed me."
"Leila?" Jason guessed. Piper shook her head.
"No, but she looked like her. Maybe a sister?" She guessed. Jason shrugged.
"Is everyone on here?" He asked. Piper nodded.
"Yeah. You guys were the only ones here for a while, and then Leila showed up. She had Leo, Calypso, Frank, and Annabeth. She put them in the rooms. They're locked from the outside. The paired them us up as the couples," She said, scowling. Jason understood her confusion. If they were a couple, then they obviously work best together. Jason sighed and stood up, stretching as he went. He walked over to the bathroom. He splashed water in his face and looked in the mirror. He looked better than he thought he would. He noticed something in the corner of the mirror. He saw a reflection of a vent.
He walked over to it and examined it. It was close to the ceiling, but he could reach it. It was big enough for someone very small to fit through. Or, something very small. Jason smiled.
"Piper!" Jason practically yelled as he walked out of the bathroom. He startled her, causing her to turn towards him in alarm.
"What?"
"There's a ventilation system on the ship," He told her, smiling. It took her a minute to register it. But when she did, a grin spread over her face.
"We could get out of here."
