A/N: Whale…I suppose I should mention that I started dating phantomgal01 that I dedicated an earlier chapter to…it's pretty awesome. And most of the reason I wrote this chapter. The other (much smaller) part is that this idea just came to me. So yeah, do enjoy. :) Love ya Hallie :D
Percy's POV
I walked out the back door onto the porch and I saw her. Her beautiful blonde hair flapping in the winds behind her, like a flag, as she chased the little jet black haired girl around the back yard, both their pairs of gray eyes close to silver and shining in the setting sun. A little blonde haired, sea green eyed waddled after them, his toddler legs struggling to keep up. The blonde woman stood straight for a moment and stretched, a little baby bump revealing itself as her shirt slid up. The little boy had finally caught up to her and latched himself around her legs, and she laughed as he did so. The little girl ran up to her and threw herself into the blondes arms, who somehow caught her. She finally turned towards me and smiled at me, her eyes full of love, still containing that excitement. The two children turned their head in my direction as well and screamed "Daddy!" The girl ran to me at terminal velocity while the boy waddled towards me behind her, chanting the word at a squeal.
He smiled at the memory, and set the picture frame down. It was Annabeth, grinning and slightly crying down at him on one knee, holding a velvet box with a small, shining ring inside it.
The old man sighed. That was such a long time ago…
He then picked up a picture of his daughter, Sky, in her own white wedding dress, arm in arm with her husband. John, or something? Percy always forgot his name….
And then another of Luke, arm in arm with his wife in her white wedding dress. Angelica. I'll always remember her ever since he brought her home to visit us. The old man released a wheezy laugh and pushed his graying, but still wild, hair out of his forehead.
As his old eyes fell on the last picture he had on his night table, tears filled his eyes. It was the last picture he had with the Wise Girl, holding her hand on her death bed, passed out, his head resting on her thighs. Everyone had simply assumed she was sleeping as well….
He rose from his chair with much difficulty and quite a lot of wheezy moaning. But he managed to after a few minutes. He was almost tempted to call for Avery, but he decided not to bug her. Better things to do than help the old man across the hall sit up, with her in all those "AP" classes.
He looked at the last frame he had in his room, hanging on the wall. Even Avery tried to set it level, but it refused to. As he read it over again, the tears streaked down his face.
"The Last Will and Testament of Annabeth Jackson." it said on the top, in big, curvy, fancy letters. That was all he could ever stand to look at before he had to turn away, eyes drowning in his own tears.
Knock knock. His head perked up, confused at the noise. Knock knock. He took a deep breath and walked over to the door, moving as fast as his legs would permit.
He opened it to an old woman, probably as old as him, standing there. She looked vaguely familiar. Something about her eyes, the way she looked at him.
"Hey Perce…" she whispered gently, looking deep into his eyes.
"Reyna? I never thought that…that you'd visit me…"
"Of course I would Percy…I-I mean, I love—"
"Mr. Jackson? I was wondering if you could tell me about Obama's rise to presidency in—wait, who is that?" Avery asked me, looking up from her hundredth essay this week and noticing Reyna.
"This, ah…just an old friend of mine, Avery. Anyway, come on in. I'll tell you everything about Obama that I can remember," I told her, smiling gently.
"Thanks Mr. Jackson," she said, looking down at her essay again as she brushed past Reyna to reach my front door. Reyna politely took a step back to make room for her, and glanced at me nervously.
"Come on in Reyna," I said, taking a small step back to give her space as she walked past me. "It seems that we have quite a lot to talk about…."
A/N: I'll leave the rest of that meeting to your own separate imaginations c: I hope you guys liked it, leave a review if you so desire, and have a great life! :D
