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Percy and Annabeth were swinging their legs, sitting on a ledge near a river. Both were as silent as can be. They said nothing for a long time and just sat there sitting close together. The silence stretched between them like a taught piece of wire. Annabeth half-wished this was a dream, but no, it wasn't. At least it didn't seem like a dream. No movement around could be heard or seen. Then, suddenly, as if struck by an impulse, both began to lean forward, closing the gap between them. Annabeth closed her eyes.

When she opened them again, she saw a pair of sea-green eyes staring at her intensely. She realized one thing; in her peripheral vision, instead of the green nature, white background, like that of a room could be seen. This is not a dream.

She jerked her head as fast as possible to one side, startled, half-shrieking as she did so. "OH MY GODS!"

Percy was laughing hard, standing by the bed, holding his sides, and tears streaming down his face. Annabeth had turned red, as she remembered the dream and she said out loud,"PERSEUS JACKSON! Don't ever do that again!"

Percy didn't stop laughing. His laugh first made Annabeth smile, then grin and finally laugh. After a few minutes of happiness and pain (Their stomachs were hurting like hell from laughing) both of them finally managed to end the laughter.

"Oh, Gods! Your face, Annabeth! It was pure shock!" Percy said, wiping his tears of laughter.

"Oh, stop it." Annabeth replied, lying down on the bed.

"Anyways, how did you sleep?" Percy asked, coming to lie down by her.

"Not bad. You?"

"Same as you."

"What I don't understand is, I slept with my friends, and woke up to find a nuisance in my room and the others gone. Where are the girls?" Annabeth asked, turning to one side to face Percy.

"You think I am a nuisance?" Percy asked feigning a hurt tone to match his face.

"Come on. Get to the point, Seaweed Brain." Annabeth said, with a slight tint of irritation in her voice.

Percy hesitated. "Uh... You have to promise you won't be mad at me or the others. Promise?" Annabeth did as she was told, though she was a bit confused. Percy continued."Uhh... See, considering your health and condition yesterday, we decided to let you sleep until you wake up. If you had got up late, we would have woken you up in time for the trip. But as you didn't get up, and we were early, we thought we would go in the nearby garden for a walk." All this was said as fast as he could in one breath, and now Percy stopped to look at Annabeth. "Sorry." He added hurriedly.

Annabeth's first reaction was anger, but as she understood the kind intentions of her friends and the love and caring hidden behind them, she gave a sudden smile, which surprised Percy. "It's okay. I understand." She said, looking at Percy, who had his mouth open.

She reached out and closed his mouth, a grin never leaving her face and said,"What?! I'm not that mean, okay?"

Annabeth's cold fingers on Percy's chin shook him to his senses."Yeah, I know."

Annabeth asked again, a thought occurring to her."Wait, you said the others went for a walk." At this, Percy nodded."So.. why didn't you go?"

Percy rubbed the back of his neck. "I just thought it would be rude to just.. leave you alone with a note that says we have gone to enjoy a walk. So, I stayed behind." He was hiding the real reason which was I didn't go because I didn't want anything to happen to you in the time, and I didn't want you to feel hurt.

Annabeth was really touched. "Thanks, Percy." She gave him a hug and Percy blushed at the touch. When she pulled away, Annabeth said with a mischievous grin. "I didn't know you were such a gentleman, Percy."

Percy stood up. "Okay, now that's enough.." He flinched and stopped talking, when something soft hit his face hard. As the pillow fell down at his feet, a laughing Annabeth came to his vision. Percy grinned."Oh no, you didn't."

Then, started a full-on pillow fighting match between the two, which ended in the two lying on the bed, exhausted, laughing like maniacs.

When finally, Percy was in a state to stand up, he asked,"Want some cold coffee?"

"Sure!" Annabeth answered, between her laughter.

Percy went to the nearby table, set two cups and prepared the coffee. He walked back to the bed, handing a cup to Annabeth, who replied her thanks with a smile.

They talked for a few minutes and when all the things that came to their minds had passed between them, an idea occurred to Percy. He asked Annabeth,"You feeling okay, now?"

Annabeth shrugged."I could punch someone real hard, if that's what you mean."

Percy grinned in response."That would not be a good thing to do right now. But, follow me."

"Where?" Annabeth asked, confused as Percy set down his cup and disappeared out of the door.

"Just follow." Came the muffled reply. Curious, Annabeth followed him out of the door, and upstairs. They stopped when they came to an old wooden door, covered with spider webs at the top corners. Annabeth shuddered as she saw them. Spiders.

Noticing this, Percy said assuring her,"It's okay. Look on the inside not the outside. That's where the beauty lies." That made Annabeth laugh.

After a few tugs at it, the old door gave way and they opened it to come inside a small but cozy room, inside. It was full of hay, arranged in small bunches if ever needed to sit on. There was also a small window through which you could see outside. Annabeth took a few steps ahead in this room, which she thought to be a small piece of heaven.

"Wow! This is beautiful!" She exclaimed with delight, turning to Percy, who stood behind her with folded hands.

"Glad you like it." Percy replied, a warm feeling like honey spreading through his heart."We used to come down here when there were rains. I thought you would like it."

"I don't like it."

"Huh?" Hearing Annabeth's second response confused him. Just now she had said it is beautiful.. Now what?

"I don't like it." Annabeth repeated her face serious. Then, she broke into a grin."I love it!"

Percy gave a low whistle,"Jeez, Annabeth. You scared me."

Annabeth laughed, a breezy laugh like the wind. Then, she went to sit down a stack of hay, beckoning to Percy to join her. Percy came and pulled a stack of hay right in front of Annabeth's and sat down.

They were sitting in front of the small round window, which glanced down to the garden. Annabeth smiled when she noticed Hazel, Nico, Reyna, Leo and Frank walking in a group."Look there they are!"

Percy followed her gaze and sure enough they were all there. He noticed one thing though."Where are Jason and Piper?"

Annabeth raised her eyebrows at him and turned back to the window to scan the garden quickly. She soon spotted them."Look, there they are. Near that rose bush. They're standing together... talking?"

Percy stared."Okay.. What's going on between them?" The two of them, Piper and Jason, were standing facing each other and talking about something quite intently.

Annabeth cleared her throat."You know, it's not nice to peek at what one's doing."

Percy agreed."Yeah, you're right. Although, I shall ask him what he was doing."

"Yeah, me too. Now, can we change the topic or something?" She asked turning to Percy.

He shrugged."Sure, what do you wanna talk about?"

"I don't know. You tell."

Percy thought for a moment."Hey, promise, if I ask you this, you'll reply?"

Annabeth furrowed her eyebrows."Okay, no. Depends on what you ask."

Percy sighed, but continued anyways."I.. I want to know what happened between Luke and Thalia." Annabeth gasped. "I know Luke was always a bad guy, flirting with girls, cheating, doing bad things. But what happened to Thalia?"

Annabeth was visibly shaken and looked down at the wooden floor, refusing to look up at him. "I-I can't tell you, Percy. I'm sorry. Please, ask anything but that."

Percy took her hands in his own. Annabeth looked up and saw the desperation in his eyes. "Annabeth, I can't ask Thalia. It seems Leo knows but he won't tell me either. Please, I gotta know. I'm her cousin after all."

Annabeth looked at him sadly."I can't, Percy. I'm sorry."

Percy pleaded again and again till she finally conceded."Okay, okay. I'll tell you but be sure that Thalia doesn't know about this or she'll kill both me and you. Swear it." Percy swore."Okay, so, months ago, Thalia was dating Luke. Or you could say the vice versa. Luke was dating Thalia. They were on the point of breaking up. So he took her on a party as a apology. In the party, he got drunk. Well, she didn't like drinking so she was in her senses, but Luke lost his. He verbally abused Thalia and then threatened to kill her if she left him. Thalia was frightened and she tried to run away but Luke caught her and ... I can't go on. I'm sorry." Annabeth shook her head.

Percy wrapped her palms in his own and gently said,"Go on. What happened?"

Annabeth took a few shaky breaths."Luke tried to abuse her. He almost did. But she succeeded in running away. All of that had left her traumatized and we had to coax her for many days until she could recover." A tear slid down her cheek.

Percy brushed it aside with his finger. "Hey, it's okay. It's over now. You don't have to cry."

Annabeth nodded against his hand. She cheered up significantly when the talk changed to funny incidents in school. They were soon laughing again, sharing jokes.

Both of them were so lost in talking that they didn't realize when the others came. Only when Thalia and Jason called their name multiple times and came running upstairs, checking in doors, did they hear the footsteps and realized they were back.

But before they could move the door of the room opened and Thalia and Jason were met with the sight of Percy and Annabeth sitting in front of each other and holding hands. Of course, both of them whipped their hands away turning a shade of red.

Thalia and Jason couldn't help grinning at them. Jason said,"Oh, Thalia, we should go. Maybe we were interrupting something."

Thalia replied, still grinning,"Yeah we should. Let's go."

Percy got up from his stack of hay, saying to them."Guys, honestly we weren't doing anything. We were just sitting and talking.."

"Oh really?" Thalia said with mock surprise."I didn't know you had to hold hands to talk or sit in a cozy room.."

Percy rolled his eyes."I just brought her up to see the view. And you, you of all people, shouldn't say anything."Percy said turning to Jason, who turned red.

Thalia did the same."Yeah, you shouldn't say anything."

Annabeth walked up to them and standing beside Percy said,"Honestly, you guys stop it! Enough of the teasing. Let's go down. As for me and Percy, nothing passed between us, Thalia, so don't worry." And with that, she walked to the stairs, leaving three people behind, staring at her.

Oh, I'm in so much trouble, she muttered to herself, as she climbed down to meet the others. What she didn't know was that Percy was thinking the same thing.

Awesome! Now that that's over we can move to Jasper again! Please comment your thoughts! Loving your reviews by the way! Thanks for the support! Love you! 3 3