"Annabeth are you serious right now?" Percy asked really angry entering the nursery, with ruffled hair and in pjs, his wife that was looking down at the crib turned around.

"What?" She asked coldly.

"Cant you see she's crying?" He motioned to the crib where their baby was wailing, red faced.

"I know she's crying, I'm trying to calm her down"

"Calm her how? Are you actually doing anything?!"

"Yes, I was talking to her before your stormed in and it was working" He looked at her as if she was crazy, Sophia was crying probably worse than before they woke up because she was crying.

"So, as you're speaking to her did she tell you if she was hungry, or maybe she needs a diaper change? As you two were having such a conversation..." She rolled her eyes

"You're insufferable, don't you think I'd have checked? She already eat and no, she doesn't need changing, I did that too." She tried to keep her voice down but she was so angry and tired.

"And?" He demanded.

"What do you mean 'and'?!"

"I have work tomorrow! Or more like today"

"Then go to sleep, I never called you" She tried to speak over the baby's cries now and it was starting to be impossible. "I never asked your help!"

"Gods! I know that but I still want to help you, besides do you think I can sleep when she's crying like that?!"

"I know Perseus I know! And I'm trying this thing..."

"Please stop! Stop!"

"I don't know why I even bother to explain anything to you, go away"

"This is a baby we're talking about you can't take stuff literally from a book when it's about a freaking baby!" Annabeth's eyes were stormy as ever and she gritted her teeth and cursed in Greek.

"You know nothing! It was working!"

"For gods sake! Stop lying to yourself, it was not working, whatever it is she's crying worse."

"She's crying worse since you entered the room and started yelling! That clearly is not helping!" She looked furious and he lowered his tone because she had a point.

"Cant you see it's not working?" He sighed and tried not to look at his daughter.

"But..." She hesitated "she's going to learn to calm herself down, you have to give it time"

"Its been three and a half weeks Annabeth!"

"Is this because of your precious hours of sleep?!"

"What!? Of course not!"

"You knew you wouldn't be sleeping eight straight hours Percy! You knew what you signed up for!"

"I didn't know what I signed up for and neither did you. We're supposed to learn about it while she grows up!"

"Why won't you let me do this my way?! She's going to calm herself you'll see"

"You can't expect her to calm herself down at night when you're holding her all day."

"I hold her all day?!"

"I'm not here! But its either you, my mother or Piper or Leo or whoever is visiting"

"I tried to hold her as little as possible, she needs to be indepe-"

"She's two months old she's not going to be indepented for gods sake! You seriously want her to calm herself down When she has you half the day and then the other half you leave her alone?!"

"I don't leave her alone! I'm right here aren't I?" Annabeth exploded

"You know what I mean! Doesn't she break your heart?! What is wrong with you?!"

"Doctor Anderson says..." She tried to explain that stupid theory that he had listened at least 56 times.

"Do you listen to yourself? She's a baby Annabeth! Gods she's not a thing! She's not a thing! Things work with manuals, persons don't! She's asking so bad for you right now, can't you see it?" He picked her up softly and got the baby to his chest, she was still crying loudly. He kissed the side of her head and rubbed her back up and down "we did this your way long enough, now we're doing it my way" He could see the hurt in her eyes for a second but then she was furious again.

"We are supposed to do this together!" Annabeth cried when he was about to get out of the room.

"Who's we? You and doctor leave-your-baby-crying?" He looked over his shoulder and she was left speechless for a moment "we are supposed to do it together; you said it, not me"

"Percy!" But he closed the door leaving her inside the baby's room.

He expected her to follow him and keep torturing him about that stupid baby theory but she didn't.

Annabeth had read books all throughout the pregnancy and it was normal of her, he expected her to read every book about babies there was. She got pregnant after almost a year and a half of trying so she had lots of time. In the middle of the pregnancy she found out about this doctor and his theories and she got really invested in it and read similar books, she explained almost every little detail about this self calming theory to him and he thought it was completely rubbish from the very start and when she started putting it in practice he confirmed that it really was rubbish.

"Shh, shh" He whispered and cradled little Sophia in his arms, moving slowly. She kept her cries steady as of demanding something "I know I'm sorry"

He entered the room he shared with Annabeth and left the door ajar. "Does your tummy hurt?" He turned her around carefully, he was still so scared of dropping her or hurt her, he put her facing down in his arms to be massaging her stomach with his hands and surprisingly after about 10 minutes she calmed down. He would have to thank his mom later, she gave him this tip and it worked.

He sat in the bed and pulled the covers up, he sighed when she calm down completely. Somehow he wanted to prove himself that he could do it, that he was suitable for the job.

"You're stubborn for a two months old huh? Don't looked at me that way; you're just like her aren't you?" Her big green eyes looking up at him and he couldn't help but smiled. He kept his tone calm and soft but high enough "Gods Soph, I never thought I'd ever feel this with anyone but your mom but I think I'm love with you too. Don't tell her though; I don't like her to think I'm cheating. You know...it makes a statement that we started fighting more often since you are here...we never fight this way, well just for our usual bickering but its incomparable, look what you do little one!" He touched her little hand and yawned.

His daughter gripped his finger tightly in her little hand. "Sometimes I looked at the three of us and it amazes me, we have come a long way your mommy and I. You'll have to forgive us; nobody really prepares you for this. It's pretty freaking scary to be honest and after 27 years of life I thought that I've known all kinds of scary, gods of Olympus I was so wrong!" He yawned again

"See that alarm clock? It's going to go off in about three hours, so you should sleep no pressure though. It's a good thing you're terribly cute because it makes tolerating you a lot easier." He put her down against the mattress softly and she complained, then he lay beside her holding her against him "shh shh, I'm right here. You need cuddles, that's all you need. I'm a good cuddler your mom tells me" He pulled the sheet up and tucked her in and kissed her little cheek, he could see it coming before she even started complaining again with her little cries "you want her to come don't you? Go on, call her I give up. Just kidding don't cry please baby girl"

He moved Annabeth's pillow beside her and tucked her in again, massaging her stomach and she calmed down again "Here, in mom's pillow, doesn't she smell amazing? It's unique and sweet like...home. Well you smell just fine too" Percy couldn't have enough of his baby's smell, he smiled down at her "We are lost you and me, we are both too in love with her. Let me tell you a secret...I really thought I would mind sharing her a lot more than I do." He breathed out with relief when she started blinking slowly, praying to all the gods for her to fall asleep, he slowed his voice and steadied his tone, holding her little warm body close to his chest "I'm going to tell you a good bedtime story...the first time I realized I was in love with your mom. It was a long time ago and I was really young, I had zits and your mom was taller than me. We were in the gods throne room, that I hope to show you some day.
Your mommy remodeled it and it looks even better now. Anyway, I had crossed the entire country looking for your beautiful mom, pretty amazing of me don't you think?" He grinned at his baby "The thing is Artemis was offering your aunt Thalia to be a hunter and I thought she meant your mother and I completely freak.
Since day one when she appeared to annoy the Hades out of me I knew I like her but this crush, I realized in that moment, was not a crush anymore. I really couldn't do without her; gods image realizing that at barely 14! It was crazy and I was having a nervous breakdown thinking she would leave me and I started stammering trying to get it out, to say out loud something I barely understood and after that we went to a party where we danced and while I looked at her And tried not to step on her feet I remember to be like wow, I think I'm in love with this girl and her clever eyes and her blond hair and Yankees cap and her smart mouth and having her call me Seaweed Brain and rolling her eyes at me and probably the thought might have made me blush uncontrollably.
Not loving her is unthinkable; it's pretty much like not loving you. You're both essential parts of me...And the moral of the story is that it's probably how you feel now, you are not in her belly anymore and it might be awful to think that she's going away, she's not, she loves you so much even though she wanted to prove this crazy theories on you, and I love you too that's why I'm writing to that Doctor Crying Method tomorrow telling him a few things...because he should prove his theories before writing them down, don't you think?" When he looked down again she was breathing softly against his side and he tried to move slowly away from her without waking her "And Hypnos is a great god and I swear later I'm burning something for you, thank you so much!" He continued in the same tone but he looked up to the ceiling with a thankful face.

He remembered about Annabeth and started to get up to apologize, he felt so bad now, they really haven't fought that way in years. When he looked towards the door she was there, standing with her arms crossed against the door frame, the door still half close, messy hair and red eyed and when he looked at her, her eyes started to water again.

"I'm sorry" They whispered at the same time, and she opened the door and he put his arms around her.

"No, I'm sorry Wise Girl, I yelled at you." She buried her face in his chest.

"I'm so stupid..." She started.

"No, you're not. Don't cry" He said softly in her ear and kissed her temple. "Please forgive me"

"No, I'm sorry Percy I really thought it might be the best, I don't know what the hell I'm doing. I'm scared"

"Its okay, you don't have to follow any book, Love. You have to trust your instinct, your wits, it saved us too many times before. You already are a mom, I believe in you"

"I just don't want to screw up"

"We will screw up, it's part of it but I get it, I don't want to screw up when she's involved either. We just have to keep her alive for the next eighteen years or so, should be easy!" He joked and she laughed a little.

"I'm sorry, you were right. We should move the crib here like you suggested in the first place, but I didn't want to bother you"

"Was that the only reason?" He looked at her knowingly and pressed his lips to her hand.

"Well...part of it" She replied biting her lip.

"You know I don't mind waking up, I told you already. We can move it in tomorrow and move it back when you start working at the office again, we'll see how it goes, okay?" She nodded and he cleaned her teary face.

"I saw you calming her down, you handle it like a pro" He smirked and she kissed his jaw. "It was so cute, everything you said to her. You never told me that before"

"Didn't I? Well now you know. I love you too much"

"I told you it's not healthy a long time ago" She smiled a little and he laughed "You made her fall asleep faster than I ever could"

"I think it was your pillow really. It's you she wants all the time, and seriously it's the most reasonable thing in the world because who wouldn't want you around them all the time?" Annabeth's smile widen and rolled her eyes. She sighed against his shoulder and he saw how tired she was. "Tell me the truth, I know you, did you wanted to keep on doing it even though it wasn't working? Tell me you didn't want to hold her and kissed her at least once?"

"Are you trying to prove I have a soul? Only a souless person would leave her baby crying for half an hour" He started to say something but she pressed her face against his chest again and he could sense she was crying again.

"Did I hurt your feelings? I didn't mean it Wise Girl. I'm sorry" She shook her head and he run his hand over her back soothing her.

"I probably deserve that. No more books" She promised looking up at him and cleaned her tears with her sleeve "sorry, for crying, I'm a mess"

"Don't worry, used to crying" He grin his usual silly grin and motioned back at their small baby sleeping, the bed seemed huge compared to her little wrapped up silhouette. Annabeth shoved him a little shaking her head at his remark but Percy pulled her in her arms again and spoke in her ear "You're not a mess, you're perfect even though you made a mistake and you should trust me more often and probably listen to what I say and let me handle things every now and then and..."

"Okay, okay I get it" She laughed a little "Gods you're going to be using this against me for the rest of our life aren't you?"

"Most probably" His smirked widen.

"Wiped that smug expression of your face Seaweed Brain" Annabeth rolled her eyes and he kissed her cheek repeatedly.

"I love you so much" He tightened his arms around her and kissed the top of her head. "I don't like fighting with you"

"Me neither, and I love you so much too" She breathed his sea in, calming down "you say it's my smell, you have no idea how calm the sea can be, so it was probably you. You have no idea how much she longs for you to come home and hold her, and you're probably going to say she's two months old how can I know that, but I see it in her little eyes and her mood completely changes when you're around, smiling at her" He smiled and kissed the top of her head.

"I like coming home to you two, too"

She grumbled remembering that he had work tomorrow "Agh Percy skip work, say you're ill" He laughed.

"Gods, I wish I could"

"Who are you? When did you turn all responsible?" She asked mockingly and kissed the side of his mouth.

"I have to bring the bread home for my family with the sweat of my forehead" He stated really serious

"Gods, shut up Seaweed Brain" She stifled a yawn.

"Come here, let me tuck you in too" Annabeth smiled and climb on the bed, next to Sophia and Percy draw the covers over them "Should we moved her?"

"No, I dont want to risk waking her up after all your work but you're regretting this so much in two years when you can get her to sleep in her own bed" He shrugged and went to the other side to lie down beside them with their baby in the middle.

"We'll deal with that soon enough" He put his arm in Annabeth back pulling her closer "don't tell me this isn't nice" She smiled but then bit her lip.

"What if we crushed her while sleeping or something"

"We won't. You clearly skipped the chapters about co-sleeping in some
of the baby books. It's beneficial because the baby imitate the parents breathing at unison and stuff" Annabeth knew that all right but she was very impressed.

"Percy Jackson don't tell me you actually read a book" He smirked smugly.

"Just the stated chapters that went against doctor I-Dont-Like-Hugging stupid theory" She shook her head.

"Unbelievable, you're so lucky Sophia is here or I will be smacking you so hard" He laughed softly.

"Well and now that we are on the subject: did you know that co-sleeping makes babies to be independent sooner because they want their own bed"

"It also makes the parents uneasy, specially the daddies because they don't get as much sex as they usually will" Percy's face dropped and he squinted at her trying to remember that in the few pages he read but couldn't and she grinned, but he recovered and answered.

"We still have the sofa, the kitchen table, the shower. Don't worry Wise Girl, there are always places" He winked and she rolled her eyes.

"We won't go with co-sleeping either, no more books" She said and he nodded and sat up to leaned down and kissed her mouth.

"Alright but look how happy she looks, snuggled between us, warm and comfortable, not all the way in her room, alone scared" Annabeth looked down at the perfection that was her daughter, she really looked peaceful.

"Oh stop trying to make me feel worse that I already do" She whispered and brushed a finger over Sophia's cheek. Percy lifted her little arm and let it dropped, Annabeth looked at him reproachful.

"See? Dead weight, she has never fallen in a deeper sleep. And Again thank you oh great lord Hypnos" Annabeth thank the god in Greek, turned off the lamp in the nightstand and closed her eyes, her face really closed with their babies' and Percy couldn't help but smile.

Percy laid his head down against the pillow and closed his eyes too, thinking over Annabeth's offer of faking illness and skipping work, it looked so tempting, he wouldn't have more than two hours of sleep and couldn't dare to look at the alarm clock, it was a ticking bomb.

At least he could enjoy his daughters and wife warmness against him and have a few minutes of quiet dozed.

He woke up later a little scared that he had slept past his alarm but it hadn't went off yet so he turned it off and got up and stayed a minute looking at Annabeth and Sophia who were sleeping close together and it made him fuzzy all over, he couldn't help but smile and wanted to take a picture of such cute moment. He head for the shower to get a little energy in the water and probably to have a few squares of ambrosia and a huge mug of coffee for breakfast.