Chapter 26

There was small pool party at Percy's, so all their friends were there. Since the sun was almost setting, the massive deck lights were turned on. People were lounging on pool chairs and floating in the pool and spa. The water looked crystalline. It was one of those fancy glass pools where the water would simply pour over the edge like a waterfall.

Annabeth hadn't come yet, as well as Thalia and Piper. So Percy kept himself busy, talking with some of his guy friends and hanging out— all shirtless and hot. He was going to get another drink, when a black haired girl slipped onto the deck. She didn't look like she belonged, since she wasn't wearing a swimsuit of any kind.

That was probably because she was not invited or wanted there. Thanks to Percy.

"What the hell is she doing here?" Nico asked him.

"Did you invite her, Perce?" Jason asked him.

Percy simply started walking over to the girl in silent fury.

"Get out." he said to her dangerously low.

"No."

"Get out. Before I throw you out myself." he snapped.

Her eyes widened at his threatening gaze, but caught sight of something past him.

Percy looked where she was looking.

Thalia and Piper walked out on the deck. All the eyes turned to the two beauties who had just arrived. As for them, their eyes immediately were narrowed on the black haired girl next to Percy. Crystal looked a bit taken back by them, but remained calm.

They walked up to her and Thalia did something that made everyone stop dead in their tracks.

She slapped her— hard.

"You dare show your fucking face here?" Thalia said in a deadly quiet voice.

Crystal looked absolutely shocked that she had actually been hit. She had never been slapped in her life. So she let out a incredulous scoff.

"You hit me?! How dare you?" she said a little less confidently than she would have liked.

Thalia glare became so fierce that Percy thought Crystal was going to explode from the lasers coming out of Thalia's electric eyes.

"You fucking deserve it!" Thalia said through gritted teeth.

"I don't see how I deserve any of this." wrapping her fingers more tightly over the straps of her purse.

"I'll make you see it, bitch!" Thalia shouted at her.

She was about to hit her again, but Percy caught her arm.

"Stop Thalia. You're making a scene."

Thalia kept her glare on Crystal, but slowly lowered her hand. Crystal's green eyes were glaring back with a haughty smirk planted on her lips.

A girl came out onto the deck interrupting the glare contest.

"Annabeth!" Piper said to the beautiful blonde now standing on the deck.

She waved at her and saw the four of them standing there. Walking over to them, her smile vanished when she saw that Crystal was there. Thalia still looked like she wanted to beat the shit out of the girl and so did Piper, who was normally the patient, sweet one.

But Annabeth surprisingly was ... very calm.

Percy couldn't make out what was going on in her head. It was hard to decipher what she was thinking any time, but right now in particular— she was wearing a mask bereft of any emotion. She wasn't wearing a swim suit either. Just a t-shirt and some fitted jeans. His gut wrneched knowing she felt the need to hide herself.

Annabeth gave a small smile towards Crystal.

Percy looked incredulously at her.

Why was she not furious with her?

"Annabeth."

"Hi Crystal." she said acknowledging her.

"I want to talk with you to make something clear." Crystal said.

"Okay. I'm all ears."

Crystal looked straight into her eyes, "I know what everybody thinks and what you might think, but… I'm not sorry."

Percy's glare shot at her lividly. And Thalia was about ready to beat her to a pulp. She grabbed Crystal's collar, about to pummel her, but Piper stopped her.

Annabeth simply looked curiously back at Crystal and then said something that shocked everybody, "I never said to anyone that you were at fault."

Crystal looked at her like she was crazy then smiled wickedly,

"Ha! You're lying! I know you think I am to blame for everything."

"And why would you think that?" Annabeth said, her intelligent grey eyes sparkling silver from the reflection of the pool water.

Crystal looked taken back.

"That is. Unless, you somehow think deep inside that you were at fault." Annabeth continued.

"No!. I— I don't…" She said flustered.

"Don't seem so sure to me."

Crystal's face reddened and she gave Annabeth her worst glare.

Annabeth smiled warmly at her, "I know you came here to apologize, Crystal. No need to keep your pride." she said to her.

Crystal was about to scoff at her, but she couldn't do it— because what Annabeth said was right. Deep inside, she was sorry and Annabeth knew it, like she did with everything. The girl annoyed her to her guts. But, as Crystal hated to admit it, she was glad Annabeth was so… understanding. Gods, how the girl could frustrate the shit out of her so easily.

Her green eyes looked away from Annabeth in shame. She hated accepting defeat, but she knew that Annabeth deserved it.

"Fucking bitch." she said.

Annabeth smiled her brilliant smile and it was high school again- when Crystal would always attack and bully Annabeth for being the rich goody two shoes of the school. She was always jealous of the girl and she hated feeling it all the time. Annabeth would always smile back at her like she understood everything. It was infuriating.

"Bye Crystal. I don't think you're wanted here." Annabeth said.

Her face went bright red and she stormed out of the party and out the door.

Percy watched the whole interaction in shock. In ten minutes, the black haired witch was stumped and was defeated. And it was all because of Annabeth.

She had acted the most mature out of all of them, when she was the one who had actually been hurt by Crystal's actions. It made him sort of ashamed of himself. Though he knew it would take some— no, a lot— of time to come to forgive his sister.

Her back was was turned to him as he wrapped his arms around Annabeth's waist and smiled into her hair.

"You're something else entirely, Annie."

She turned her head and smiled up to him, "You didn't know that before?" she said with a brow raised.

He laughed and tightened his hold on her, "Of course I did." he said.

She pulled away from him and smiled, "Of course you did."

"Annie, you sure you're just going to leave her just like that?" Thalia asked.

"Yup."

"Why, Annie?" Piper asked.

Annabeth shrugged, "She's looks like she's suffering from the guilt as it is."

Percy led her over to the bar to get a drink for her. They talked and laughed as the party continued with Percy glaring down any guy who came a bit too close to Annabeth. And she always laughing at him when he did so.

He couldn't help but notice her getting startled whenever there was a loud noise and her wincing when she bumped into something. She hid it well, but he knew better.

He tried to get her to rest, but she refused.

Her and her socializing. God damnit.

-Line break-

"Mr. Jackson. A girl by the name of Calypso wants to see you, sir."

"Calypso? Send her in."

Percy looked down to his work until he heard the door to his office open.

He looked up to see an absolutely gorgeous girl was standing there. She had beautiful caramel eyes that matched her lusciously styled hair which reached below her chest. She was in business clothes.

"Hey Percy. Long time no see." she said with a pearly white smile.

He looked at her curiously at first, then his brows started to raise, "Callie?"

Callie— his small childhood crush and his first kiss.

She nodded, "I hope I didn't surprise you too much."

"No, no. Of course not. Please, sit." he said gesturing to the couches. As she sat on one side of the couch, he sat on the other. "So, what brings you here?" he asked.

"I actually work here now. You're my boss now."

His eyes widened, "Oh. Wow. That's great."

She smiled at him, "I've missed you, Percy. How long has it been?"

"Since high school."

"Wow. How have you been?"

"Great, I've been doing really great."

"Dating anybody?" her brows raised suggestively, a knowing smile on her lips.

He was about to answer, but his secretary popped her head in, "Um, Mr. Jackson, sir. You have a business meeting in ten minutes. Just to remind you."

"Yes, thank you." he said.

He turned back to Calypso, "I hope we have more time to talk, Callie? It's great to see you again."

"Yeah, how about I give you my number?"

"Sure."

She wrote it down on a post it note and handed it to him, smiling, "Hope we can talk soon, Percy?" she said before leaving his office.

He stayed sitting there with his arms crossed.

Callie.

Calypso.

She had definitely gotten prettier and fuller around her curves. But, of course—

his heart was taken forever by someone else.

"I love you honey bun."

"No, I love you more sugar cakes."

"No, I love you the most Nikky bear."

Annabeth made a disgusted face. "Nikky bear?"

She started massaging her temple with her fingers as she drove with the other hand on the wheel— along with Thalia on the phone with Nico in the passenger seat.

Her fingers reached out to turn the radio up higher to make Thalia hang up the phone. It was playing Fancy by Iggy Azalea.

Annabeth started to lip synch with the lyrics, annoying Thalia. She eventually started singing along out loud, making Thalia finally hang up. She crossed her arms over her chest. Annabeth simply looked over at her and laughed before singing again at the top of her lungs.

Five seconds later…

Both Thalia and Annabeth were singing out of tune at the top of their lungs.

22 by Taylor Swift was on and they were both dancing in the car so hard the car was shaking. It was a miracle that they didn't get stopped by cops for drunk driving.

They got to their apartment and Annabeth killed the engine, still singing and laughing at Thalia's lip synching.

When they got inside, Thalia crashed on the couch and turned on some TV. Annabeth went to the kitchen and whipped up a sandwich for herself.

Her sketchbook was on the counter so she flipped through it. On the last page there was the design for the A.R.G.O II project. It was a rough sketch, but she still hadn't pitched it to Leo— not that she was in the position to, but she wanted to at least show him the designs.

She finished the sandwich and closed her sketchbook, gathering it along with her purse.

"Thalia, I'm going out again."

"Alrighty. I'll be right here."

Annabeth went out and got in the car and sped off to the O.L.M.A building.

A blonde middle aged woman stumbled into the bathroom of her hotel and held her upper abdomen in pain as she vomited in the toilet. She felt nausea hit her as she stood and went over to the sink to wash her mouth out.

Vomiting.

Nausea.

Pain and bloating in upper abdomen.

Lethargy.

Weight loss.

All symptoms. Symptoms she didn't want to show anybody. She needed to keep her face for Annabeth.

She didn't want her to know. She was too prideful.

But she might just have to…

very soon.

"Wow. This design is amazing, Annabeth." Leo said to her, "You're really a genius. Gods"

She smiled at him. She was standing in his office, showing the design from her sketchbook.

"Thanks, Leo. You'll consider it, right?"

"Of course I will! I'll definitely use it! How could I not? Thank you so much. We've been struggling with the design of it. You're a life saver, Annabeth."

"No problem."

"I just wish you didn't have to quit."

"I know. I do to." Her grey eyes looked back down to the design on the sketchbook paper.

"Anyways, come by any time if you have another brilliant design idea." he said smiling brightly at her, "You are welcome any day."

"Will do, Leo." she said as she left the office.

Annabeth's head was thinking about too many things at once that she didn't notice the person walking towards her. She bumped the woman's shoulder and said a quick 'excuse me' before walking away.

"Annabeth?" A voice called her.

Annabeth turned around to see a beautiful brunette with caramel colored eyes and sweet pink lips. A splash of freckles on her perfect button nose.

"Callie?"

The brunette smiled, "You recognized me a whole lot faster than your brother— Or ex-brother."

"Oh my gods." Annabeth said, as Calypso brought her into a hug. She smelled of coconut and roses.

"It's so great to see you, Annie. You're so beautiful now. You used to be this cute adorable little girl with those cute pony tails." she said as she pulled away.

Annabeth laughed, "Thanks. You too. But, wait… I didn't know you worked here."

"Oh, I just got a job here."

"Wow, that's great."

Calypso smiled her perfect, pearly white smile, "I know. It's been great."

Annabeth smiled back at her. She had always liked Calypso like an older sister. And she always teased Percy about liking her when they were little. Oh, the good old days.

"Annabeth?" A voice called from down the hall. It was Percy and he soon noticed Calypso standing next to her.

He walked over. "Hey. Annabeth." he said swooping down to kiss her cheek, not minding Calypso there, "I see you've met Callie."

"Yeah. I have." Annabeth said, smiling at Calypso.

"Well, I have a business meeting to go to, so I'll catch up with you later." Percy said as placed another kiss on Annabeth's forehead. "Bye Callie." he said to the brunette before walking in the other direction.

Calypso turned to Annabeth, "I'm happy for you, Annie."

Annabeth looked at her curiously as if to ask her what she meant.

"Rumors spread quickly." Callie said in a lowered voice.

"Right." Annabeth said with a nod, "I guessed that."

She laughed, "So, do you want to talk over some coffee? I'm on my break right now." the beautiful brunette said.

"Yeah sure. Why not."

-Line break-

"So, how did it happen?" Callie asked with those warm caramel eyes that matched with the coffee she was drinking. Annabeth envied her eyes. They were so much more prettier than her cold stone grey eyes.

"Um. Well, to start off— I basically ruined his whole wedding."

Callie stifled a laugh when she said that.

Annabeth smiled back then started telling her everything, excluding Luke as much as possible. Callie was a great listener. She smiled at the parts that were meant to be genuine and laughed at the parts which were simply ridiculous.

When she was finished, Callie had finished her coffee.

"Well, that's one long story."

"Yeah. It is. I'm sorry. Did I bore you?"

"No. not at all. It was really sweet. Your love story should be made into a movie or something."

Annabeth laughed, "Wouldn't that be the highlight of the year."

Calypso laughed back, "I really am happy for you. I mean, at first, I was a bit jealous to be honest. But, I'm glad it's you, Annie. Percy deserves you."

"Thanks. I appreciate that."

Calypso smiled and reached out to touch her arm, "Of course, Annabeth."

The moment Percy got off work, he drove over to Thalia's apartment. After seeing Annabeth at his work, he couldn't resist the urges that were coursing through him afterwards. She had looked amazing in the yoga pants she had been wearing. Yoga pants were on her a lot more often these days to be more comfortable. She had her hair up in a pony tail, tempting Percy to just give her a love bite right then and there on her delicious neck. But of course, he couldn't do that with Calypso right there. If he stayed a few minutes longer, he would have jumper her right there.

Hey, he had an excuse, alright? She might be leaving in less than two weeks.

He got to Thalia's apartment and knocked on the door. Thalia came to the door and smirked at him.

"Funny, how you two think alike."

"Why?"

"Annie went over to your place to wait for you when you got back from work."

A wide grin spread across his face.

"Oh gross. Display your love somewhere else."

Percy smiled at her, "Thanks, Thals." he said as he got in his car and went over to his apartment.

He walked through his front door to see that the living room was empty. The door to his study was open and he walked in to see Annabeth resting her head on his desk, with a open book as her pillow. She looked extremely cute especially in those glasses he loved.

Percy smiled and walked up behind her to see that the book was her sketchbook. She was designing more plans and ideas.

He took a hold of her hand lightly and moved it off the book. Lifting her head gently, he slid the sketchbook out and closed it— putting it somewhere else on his desk.

She kept sleeping with her perfect soft lips parted slightly. Percy chuckled softly and slid the glasses off her face, so that she was more comfortable.

He then started placing light kisses from her cheek down to where her jaw joined with her ear. He moved down to her neck, lightly grazing her skin with his lips— reveling in the feel and taste of her and saying her name sweetly against her skin.

Her eyes fluttered awake from his kisses and she turned her head to him as he stopped with the kisses.

"Hi." she said still groggy from sleep.

"Hey, beautiful." he said back before kissing her temple.

She rested her head back down on the desk.

"How long have you been here?"

"I just came not too long ago." he said, continuing to kiss her neck.

She turned again and took his face in her hands.

"Good, because I was getting impatient."

He chuckled before leaning closer to kiss her lips fully. He rested one of his hands on his desk next to her and ran the other in her curls.

He hadn't had a chance to kiss her in a while and boy did it feel amazing.

She seemed to think so too, because her fingers slipped under the hem of his shirt and started feeling up his toned abdomen, earning her a low groan from him as his lips kept kissing her. Percy then dipped down to her neck again, lightly kissing her skin down to her collar bone and finally to the tops of her breasts, making her moan and tug on his hair. His hands grazed underneath her shirt, before he slowly pulled it up and lightly touched over her bullet scar. She let out a soft gasp from the shocked feeling and pulled the shirt fully off of herself, taking his lips just after she did so.

His hands went down to her jeans, unbuckling them with a flip of his fingers and soon- the jeans followed the shirt onto the floor.

"No fair." she said against his lips as her fingers went to the buttons of his shirt. He chuckled and flung his shirt onto the floor as she jumped onto his hips, never letting their lips part.

Percy carried her upstairs to the bedroom and let themselves fall onto the bed. His hands roamed all over her god-gifted, perfect bod as he licked and kissed around the tops of her lovable supple breasts. Her bra was soon unhooked and thrown who knows where. He kneaded one with his hand while his mouth worked on the other making her tug on his hair even harder. Her pants were getting faster as he soon worked his way down her stomach. The moans she was making was driving him insane as he slipped his fingers underneath her panties and pulled them down off her.

Twenty minutes later…

He got off of her and crashed back onto the bed— his breathes still heavy from the raging bliss making his body limp. Annabeth leaned closer to him and kissed his chest, before getting off the bed to go to the bathroom.

She pulled on her underwear and splashed water on her face, looking up at her reflection. She looked stronger, less scared— like the life that had been sucked out of her was now filling her up. Her hair was it's usual luscious golden color and her skin had that healthy golden tan to it.

Her grey eyes exuded confidence and intelligent beauty like they always had.

She never knew she could go back to what she was before ever and this quickly for that matter. But she knew it had one hundred percent to do with her friends, especially Percy.

Her eyes looked down to her arm, where her horrific, brutal scars were there was now black permanent markings. She smiled and went back to the bedroom.

Percy had on his boxers as he lay there, waiting for her to come back. He wrapped his arms around her right as she lay down on the bed again and she soon fell asleep to his sweet kisses and caresses.

Yeah, she could get really used to this.

Author's Note:

Hey you beautiful peeps! Hope you liked this chapter and the Percabeth. Haha, because I did.

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