Chapter 2: breaking the news
Mr. Chase
Percy found it difficult to talk to Mr. Chase and he always had, what he was about to tell him made it all the worse.
"Um, Mr. Chase, can I meet with you?" Percy asked over the phone, it didn't feel right telling him over the phone.
-Later-
"She...d-drowned," Percy told Annabeth's father through tears while looking down at the twins in their stroller, so blissfully unaware, he had explained that she had died but this was the hardest part for him, admitting that she had died in the sea, a place he was meant to feel comfortable in, a place he was meant to be able to control, and some part of him blamed himself, if he had been there...
Mr. Chase simply sat there, as if waiting for Annabeth to pop up out of a bush and reveal it was a hoax, but finally he broke down as well.
"The last thing she said to me was 'I hate you'," he admitted, they had been arguing about some trivial thing and she had said that and hung up. Percy didn't know what to say so he just sat there, tears in his eyes.
Sally
Sally knew before Percy told her, he didn't know how she knew but she showed up at his house with a blue cake the day it happened. His eyes were red and puffy and he had just gotten back from the park with Mr. Chase. He didn't know or care how she heard although he had a strong feeling Poseidon had told her. The moment he answered the door she pulled him into a hug and he cried into her shoulder for a minute until the blue cake digging in to his back became to uncomfortable. Sally came in and played with Clara and Harry for hours while talking to Percy, eating blue cake and looking through photo albums.
Athena
He went to Athena the day after Annabeth died. He purposefully avoided Poseidon, he wasn't ready for that. He explained to her that she had drowned while he was out and by the end of it he was in tears as he had been with Mr. Chase. He told her how he blamed himself and understood why she hated him. Then Athena did something completely unexpected, she hugged him, she held on to him as his mother had the day before and cried into her shoulder for at least an hour.
She said with a sad smile, "You know what Percy, you always were my favourite son-in-law."
Poseidon
Percy put off going to see Poseidon for three days, he knew he would already know but he felt it was his responsibility to go see him. When he went to Olympus he put up every defence and was cold as he told Poseidon, Percy blamed him, she had died in his domain, under his watch, so Percy blamed him. Poseidon tried to console him but he just pushed the god away.