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Chapter 11

Annabeth fought back a few tears as she hauled his unconscious body to somewhere safe. She didn't know where 'safe' was. Definitely not her house, her dad would freak and kick him out of the house. And she couldn't bring him to his own house either- even though no one was there.

Seeing as Annabeth didn't know where to bring him, she decided to call his cousins. Hopefully they would know what to do. Since she already had their phone numbers, she quickly scrolled down the list of numbers and first dialed Nico's number.

Annabeth waited impatiently for the number to go through, and looked at Percy again. She didn't cry, knowing that he would still be alive. The problem was, that maybe he had too many past injuries. What if he couldn't make it? She thought sadly, but had to try to be optimistic. For Percy. For herself.

"Hello?" The grumpy voice of Nico came through the line.

"Nico, its Percy." Annabeth tried to say but Nico interrupted her.

"Why do you sound like a girl?"

"Nico, it's me, Annabeth. The problem is Percy. He's severely injured."

"Annabeth? Whoa, didn't expect that. Don't worry about Percy, he's always getting himself in trouble-"

"Don't you understand? Percy got shot in the shoulder!"

Nico's breath hitched. "I'll be right there... Where are you?"

"I'm on the beach; here he usually likes to go."

"I'm coming, and call Thalia!" Nico yelled over the phone, before hanging up, leaving Annabeth to hastily call Thalia's number.

"Thalia?" Annabeth talked first, seeing as she knew Thalia could be annoyed if she got a prank call. "Percy got shot. I'm on the beach he likes to hang out a lot, come quickly."

And before Thalia could say something, Annabeth hanged up the phone quickly, and looked at Percy again. Rummaging in her backpack, she tried to find something that would help him. Anything. And that meant, ripping the bottom part of her shirt and placing it on his shoulder to try and stop the blood from seeping out.

Nico and Thalia arrived at the same time, and even though their cousin was shot, it looked like they had a race of who got there faster. They parked their motorcycles and ran over to Annabeth and Percy.

"What happened?" Nico asked.

"His stepfather got out of the house-" Annabeth explained.

"He never gets out of the house!" Thalia yelled, shock in her face.

"Well he did. He had a gun with him, he was about to shoot me first. But he took the hit for me."

"Where's that little bastard now?" Thalia growled.

"He drank an entire bottle of liquor and fell on the sand, clearly drunk."

While Thalia and Annabeth were talking about the details of how it happened, Nico was busy looking at his unconscious cousin. He didn't know what to do. Except... No, he couldn't do it. But he had to. He didn't know why, but he didn't know if they would come or not. They never did. But maybe if he just tried...

Apollo, Nico thought, please help my cousin, and technically, he's your half-cousin too. And if you don't think the injury is important, then I'll tell you what the injury is. He's been shot in the shoulder.

"So now, he's been shot, and I don't know what to do!" Annabeth said in frustration.

There wasn't even anyone on the beech to witness it. It seemed as if people had decided to stay home.

"Thalia," Nico nudged her. "I tried praying to Apollo."

"He never comes! What's the point-" Thalia replied but stopped before she could even finish her sentence.

A Maserati Spyder came screeching quickly around the corner. It was almost like the Grey Sister cab that Annabeth had once sat in. Very noisy.

"He came," Thalia whispered. "He never came before.

"Who are you talking about?" Annabeth asked curiously, still looking at Percy and holding the piece of cloth.

"One of the Olympians. He's the best doctor around, and owns an entire chain of hospitals and pharmacies." Nico answered while looking at Apollo in shock.

Apollo's car parked quickly, and Apollo himself came out of car and took an entire suitcase with him as he rushed towards Percy.

Instead of talking, Apollo hastily ran forwards to his patient and opened his suitcase.

"I know you want to stay here with him, but I need to do this privately." Apollo said.

Thalia and Nico knew that Apollo had a brotherly friendship with Percy. They knew he was determined to make him live even though he only got shot in the shoulder, not the heart. So when Apollo told them all to leave, they did so without any hesitation.

Annabeth, however, was a little harder to go. It was her fault he got shot, she wanted to be there to say sorry when he woke up. But he would never wake up peacefully if Apollo didn't heal him soon. Sighing, she left along with the cousins.

"So Annabeth," Thalia waited for Annabeth to catch up with them before speaking her next line. "Why were you there with Percy?"

The cousins were more relaxed now that Apollo had come. Every Olympian had a very busy and tight schedule, so this was actually rare, him saving Percy. But like before, they were good friends and treated each other like brothers.

"He told me his story," Annabeth began carefully.

Annabeth didn't know if Percy told his cousins his story, so she picked her words carefully just incase she gave something away.

Thalia and Nico stopped making footprints in the sand, and stared at Annabeth in shock.

"He told you that?" Thalia asked her incredulously.

Nico whistled. "He must trust you to tell you that."

"What?" Annabeth asked him in confusion.

"Percy doesn't really trust anyone since his mom died. He must trust you a lot to tell you that." Nico replied.

"He told you?"

"We're his family. Since his mom died, we stick by him. But still, it took a few days before he told us. Sally was the best mom anyone could have. She treated me and Nico like we were Percy's brother and sister. It hurt us too when she died."

Nico nodded in agreement to Thalia's words. And that was when Annabeth didn't know what to think. Should she be happy that Percy trusted her? Or should she feel guilty that she had been annoying him just to satisfy her curiosity?

A scream of pain was heard. And that was when the cousins and Annabeth knew that Percy had woken up.

A/N: I accept suggestions, but I already have the ending planned out. Thank you for the people who reviewed, alerted, or did a favorite. I appreciate it, and many more to come!