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Chapter 8: The Merge
Percy's P.O.V
My eyes fluttered open as I woke up and I gently lifted my arms up and stretched them, yawning softly. As I was bringing them back down, I noticed that Annabeth was in the same bed as me and she was under the covers... I slowly lifted up the quilt on the motel bed and glanced underneath... Good, I had boxers on, but that was it. I dropped the covers back down and they floated to a halt again. As I was regaining my senses I realised that Annabeth was wrapped around me, her bronzed leg was draped over my hip, holding me in place and her left arm was wrapped around my upper body, her head was buried into my chest and I could feel her breath rising and falling evenly. At this angle I could see down her black, lacy bra perfectly... I blushed inwardly and immediately looked away, cursed myself for invading her privacy, not that I could really escape. I closed my eyes and curled my arms around Annabeth's warm midriff, I could definitely get used to waking up like this.
"Maybe another hour." I thought to myself as I pulled Annabeth's beautiful, sleeping shape into me. I heard her mutter something undecipherable into my chest and smiled to myself, once again I was losing myself in her heat and then I fell into a pit of happiness that I didn't ever want to leave.
I woke up for the second time when Annabeth started to shift underneath my arms, I flung them out of the way as she started to rise. I saw her cheeks flush as she noticed that we were in the same bed wearing nothing but under garments. Her blonde hair swept across her chest as she looked down at me, her face started to turn crimson as she realised her leg was wrapped around my hips and her hand was pressed down on my bare chest, when she removed her hand off my chest I leaned up and brushed her messy curls out of her face, kissing her passionately, I then leaned over the top of her bringing her back down onto the bed, I lifted my lips from hers to go get dressed, as I started to put my jeans on, I swear I heard her sigh. Once we were both fully dressed and cleaned up, we went to check on Grover.
I knocked on his door lazily as Annabeth slowly shifted on her hips beside me, he answered the door, and looked at me accusingly. I grinned at Annabeth as her cheeks lit up like a Christmas tree once Grover started stared at her in a disappointed way. Once we were inside Grover finally said something.
"Do you know why the empathy link was shattered?", I shrugged in question as he started to devour an apple.
"The best I can think is that he hit me hard enough for it to break... I guess?" I said questioningly.
"No, Percy that's not how the empathy link works," he said, "you can't just, break them like a pane of glass, it feels like it was EMP'd or something. The good thing is that I can feel it slightly, especially when you feel an emotion very strongly, so that means that it might repair itself." He looked at both of us pointedly, and then he froze.
"What the? Can you smell that, guys?" He stammered.
"What Grover, we can't smell things like you Satyrs?" Asked Annabeth.
"It's smells like... Nothing." Grover answered, confused.
"Nah, it's alright G-man, you can tell us what it is." I said as reassuringly as I could.
"No, Percy, it literally smells like nothing, it's like there is a small space around you where there is no scent. I doesn't make sense, usually I can smell sea salt when I'm around you but right now, you smell like... Absolutely nothing.".
"Wait..." Said Annabeth questioningly, "doesn't that mean that monsters can't smell Percy either?"
"I guess it does, doesn't it." Grover said, still clearly confused.
I shifted my backpack on my shoulder, because it had started to dig into my shoulder.
"Shouldn't we, y'know try to kill the 3rd robot." I said awkwardly.
"What robot?" Annabeth said sharply, and then I remembered that they had no idea what they were doing here. For the best of half an hour I told them exactly what had happened and why I was here, about half way through my speech, Justin trotted into the room and sat down making the conversation a full circle, I felt like I was giving a pep talk to my team... Yeah, my team.
At about 1:00pm all of us were ready to go and slay a giant robot, whatever shape it came in. Grover, Annabeth and I walked to the closest car rentals, which happened to be only 5 minutes walk down the road, once we were there Grover rented a car.
"Really, Grover?" I whined, jokingly. "Did you really have to get the yellow one?".
"Yes Percy, it's way more inconspicuous that the black one." He stated it like it was fact.
"Yeah, right." I thought, as I looked down at the sunflower yellow Hyundai. This... Thing couldn't have been more conspicuous if it tried. From past experiences I realised that arguing with Grover about colours would be pointless, so I just hopped in the back and strapped myself in, ready for a long car trip, Annabeth hopped into the back seat with me and we sat together in silence as Grover opened the passenger door for Justin, oh yeah, good time to mention it, apparently Grover can talk to Justin because of the whole "Animal and Satyr" thing, which is good for us because now we don't have to let him lead us on foot, he can just sort of just... Direct Grover in the right direction.
The car jolted to a start and we set off at a solid 80mph.
"This is gonna be a long trip, from what Justin has to say guys, so settle in" Grover called from up front, " not that it will be hard for you two." He muttered quietly afterwards. I smiled at Annabeth as she pulled out Daedalus' laptop from her backpack and started fiddling with it. I stretched out and slung my arm over her shoulder as she shrunk into my chest, somehow I thought that this car trip might not go long enough.
