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SHOUT OUT TO: Musicismyblood for winning the Song Lyric Contest! Hope you enjoy picking out the theme for Annoyance- and thank you for forgiving the chapter mistake.

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Percabeth freaks: You all should be freaking dancing with happiness. I will let you know that while I do like happy Percabeth reunions, I am a angst writer. Take a long look at my favorite list and you will see the Angst group is on there quite a lot. Non-remembering/ totally Roman Percy just have a freaking better plot to me in my honest opinion.

But no. For this I have gone through all the sappy, fluffy Percabeth meet-ups that I liked and wrote this. Feel freaking sappy for it too.

THIS DOESN'T EVEN SOUND LIKE ME.

But I like it anyway. :)

This is: Hero

I don't own PJO.

Annabeth, Percy

Summary preview: The depths of which I missed you, you kelp brain idiot...

Take a deep, calming breath, Annabeth.

Yeah. Because that was working so well.

"Leo! What are you doing?" I demanded, watching the mechanical Hispanic try not to get even more tangled up in the steel rods then he already was. He shot me a sheepish grin, right before tripping again and falling hard to the ground.

"Ow." came his muffled voice as Leo stood back up, shook his head a few times, then got untangled.

"Sorry 'bout that, Annabeth. Someone suddenly has the nervous twitching habit and the ship keeps rocking back and forth, which I am sure you have noticed," Leo adds, switching his pointed glare from Jason to a nervous smile at me, probably remembering one of the many screaming sessions I had with other campers in front of him when they insulted me in some way. "Which caused the rods to spread out in my path of walking... yeah." Leo trailed off, rubbing the back of his neck.

I scowled and turned around, ignoring Jason's reply, praying to the gods that Piper would wake up and make them shut up.

Gods.

And then, the Stoll come running up the stairs with a furious Clarriss behind them, cursing them to the bottom of Hades. Thankfully one of the Apollo kids trips the brothers, and Will Solace puts a restraining hand on Clarriss' arm.

Katie Gardner helps the two brothers up and I open my mouth to thank her when the ship falls twenty or so feet.

"Jason!" I snapped, clutching the rail, forcing myself not to start screaming, like half the crew was.

The ship abruptly stopped falling, and Jason took a deep breath.

"Sorry." he said in a shaky voice, then gave me a grim smile. "But I think we are almost ready to land."

I glance down, and feel my heart pick up with the sudden burst of happiness coming from that one part of my mind that keeps repeating You're almost there.

"They will allow us to land, right?" Katie ask, leaning over the ship's rail to get a better look, right as Piper appears with a distressed look.

"What was that? Is everyone okay?" she demands, looking around as though she will immediately be able to find someone clutching their side in silent agony.

"It's fine, Beauty Queen. Chill. Jason just had another nervous twitch."

"Shut up, Leo." they both say at the same time, even if for different reasons.

I rolled my eyes when Piper immediately blushed and Jason determinately stared at the horizon.

Idiots.

We start to descend, and the closer we get to the ground the louder the part of my brain going You're almost there got.

And the harder it was to breathe.

I glanced back at Piper and Jason, and noticed the awkward way they move around each other. I know for a fact that Jason suspects that the girl named Reyna was his girlfriend and doesn't want to hurt her by dating Piper even if he doesn't remember their relationship. That kind of gives me a little bit of hope.

But then again, Hera likes Jason. She has a reason for giving him back his memories so soon. Hera despises Percy. For all I know she didn't even give him his name, and he has been completely remolded into someone I could never understand, let alone love.

You love him.

And I know I do, and I know that I never had a chance to tell him, and I know that it is a possibility that he doesn't care who I was to him, that he even resents it-

Deep breaths, Annabeth.

I did as I advised myself, and try not to let the fact that my hands are shaking be advertised to everyone else.

We group together before leaving and I only notice when Conner takes my arm and gently pushes me forward.

"You've been our leader for eight months now, Annabeth. Don't give up on us yet." he says me, and I see the rest of the crew nodding with him, some smiling encouragingly, some of them using their expressions to dare me to leave them to their fate.

I give them a short nod, and look over at Jason.

"Come on, Grace. We've got a revolution to led." I tell him, only half-teasing.

But Jason smiles anyways, and we step off the ship, facing the lined up army.

I hear his sharp intake of breath even as my nerves start screaming at me to get back on the ship, that if I don't move right now then I will be killed, and how stupid I was to even think that I could help bring us together-

And then Jason has my wrist and is whispering, "Be calm, collected, and whatever you do do not show weakness. The camp should have elected a new praetor in my place yesterday, and if it is Octavian, like I suspect it is, he will stop at nothing to make sure you are all destroyed. And then he will dance on your graves."

I narrowed my eyes. "Nice guy." I mutter. Jason laughed, a harsh, humorless sound.

"You have no idea. I just hope to Jupiter that Terminus doesn't start yelling about security issues. You don't want to get into it with him, and that will just put Camp Jupiter on the edge even more. Just follow my lead." he tells me, and together we walk a bit in front of the Greeks, stopping at what even the Stolls can tell is a barrier line.

The Romans watch us warily, and part, letting two people I assume are the praetors, through.

The girl on the right with long, thick, dark brown hair and piercing eyes must be Reyna. Something in the back of my mind shuffles and I realized that she is familiar, even if I can't place her at the moment.

I look at Jason and see a soft smile on his face, and his shoulders relax even more.

Then I turn to the guy beside her.

Messy black hair, sea-green eyes staring at us curiously, tan broad shoulders, as proud as any royal.

Percy.

I compare him to the hero in my memory and find that for once, my memory has failed me completely. He almost has seemed to grow yet another few inches, his skin tone isn't an almost washed out color as the image in my thoughts, but a perfect tan, and by the gods, his smile is amazing.

Oddly enough, the first thought through my mind is, If this was a monarchy, the Percy and Reyna would certainly be the King and Queen.

The second is how great it feels to see his gaze stop on me, and see him slightly tilt his head.

A grin that I would know anywhere breaks across his face as Percy says, "I am so glad you aren't just a figment of my imagination."

And then we're laughing, and I cross the boarder, not caring about Jason's whispered hisses, and then Percy's arms are around me, and for the world can burn and die for all I care, as long as I can stay where I am.

I breathe in, and commit his sea-wind smell to my memory which has done him so little justice.

Then he pulls back, studies my face, still wearing his smile, and laughs.

"I've missed you, Wise Girl." his eyes are shining, and then he looks over my head and grins even more before turning back towards the Romans.

"I would like to introduce you to my friends from Camp Half-Blood." Percy told them, and while Reyna is nodding along with him, her gaze is still fixed on Jason.

Percy leans down and whispers in my ear, "I really have missed you."

I blink and smirk up at him. "Seaweed Brain, do you honestly think I didn't know that?" I ask him, even though I spent countless nights freaking out over whether or not he had.

And maybe it's just the hormones of seeing Percy again, but at that moment looking around at the half-hopeful, half-suspicious Romans, and the excited yet wary Greeks, I am certain that we can do this.

We can make our parents proud.

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Next Chapter: Annoyance-

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