A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR: Hay guys! I've read a few stories where people will mess with Camp Half-Blood's ability to operate. Basically handicapping them. I find this an interesting concept. I also always wondered how all the demi gods that survive the fights are not seriously wounded like in the story I wrought bellow. Any way. Here is the story.

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Chapter 1: Waking up

POV: Percy

I was standing on Half Blood-Hill as a war raged around me. There were screams of fighting and screams of the dyeing. Those screams would haunt me for years. But at the moment I was standing amidst the battle looking for an enemy to fight. I glanced up when a screaming projectile flew over my head and saw it collide with Festus the flying metal dragon. The resulting explosion was blinding. Every one on the ground looked away from the explosion to protect their eyes, my self included. When I looked up I saw a flaming chunk of mettle a foot from my face. It slammed into my eyes and nocked me on my back. My head slammed into the floor and I blacked out.

When I came to I was lying in a soft bed. I opened my eyes to see where I was but was met with darkness.

What time is it? I thought. I looked around, trying to catch a trace of moon light but found none.

"He's awake!" I herd a voice next to me shout. I recognized it immediately as Annabeth. "How do you feel, Percy?" She asked me.

"Where am I, Annabeth?" I asked her.

"The infirmary." She told me. "How do you feel?" I shifted in the soft bed and took stock of my various aches and pains.

"Fine, I guess." I said. "My head hurts though." I paused. "What time is it?" I asked. Annabeth paused like she was debating telling me the answer.

"You've been out for almost a day." she said. I frowned.

"I've been out longer than that." I said in a nonchalant tone. "But that doesn't answer my question." I said. "What time is it?"

"It's about twelve now." She answered. I frowned.

"Why are you up?" I asked. There was silence.

"What do you mean?" She asked me. I was becoming confused now. It was twelve at night only about eight hours after the busiest day of our lives and she was still awake. The fact that she was still awake astounded me.

"Because you must be tired." I said. There was a silent pause before she answered.

"I jest woke up a little while ago." She said.

"An hour or two of sleep doesn't count." I said about to send her away before she cut me off.

"I slept for about twelve hours." She said. That confused me even more. If she jest woke up after a twelve hour sleep, that would put the time of day into the next day. Why was it so dark in here?

"Hay," I began. "can we turn on some lights or something?" There was a long, silent pause before she answered.

"Look at me Percy." She said. It was too dark for me to see anything. How was I supposed to look at her? I welt a hand under my chin that tilted my head to the right. "Oh my gods." Annabeth murmured. "Will!" She shouted.

There was a small commotion as people moved around the room. There was a good number of them from the sound of it. The hand under my chin moved away from me. Then I felt a hand slip into my right hand and give it a small squeeze. Another hand was stroking my hair. I wasn't shore but I was fairly confident both the hands belonged to Annabeth.

"It's all right." She said as I stared into darkness. "Your going to be all right."

"Annabeth?" I asked.

"Yes." She answered.

"What's going on?" I asked. I felt really lost. I wished some one would turn on the lights.

"What's up Annabeth?" Asked a new voice.

"Will, look at his eyes." Annabeth said quickly.

What? I thought. What's wrong with my eyes?

"I herd Will gasp and felt two new hands start to mess with the aria by my eyes. I knew it wasn't Annabeth because she was still holding my right hand and stroking my hair.

"What's going on?" I asked. "What's wrong?" No one answered.

After a while the hands stopped messing around near my eyes and I herd will say. "Annabeth. Can I have a word with you?" I didn't hear a response but as I herd Will walk away I felt Annabeth's lips next to my ear as she continued to stroke my hair and hold my right hand.

"I'll be right back." She said. "I promise I won't be far." With that I herd a chair slide back and her footsteps became farther away.

I could hear her whispering with Will but I couldn't make out what they were saying. By now I was beginning to guess what was wrong but the idea scared me too much to think about it. After what felt like forever a pair of foot steps approached me. I heard a chair scrape the floor as it was pulled up to the bed. A hand worked it's way into my right hand and another one started to stroke my hair.

"I'm so sorry." Annabeth whispered. I was too stunned to respond. She sounded like she was about to cry. "Percy?" She asked after a few seconds.

"Yes." I responded. I knew what she was about to say but I prayed I was wrong.

"Percy," She began. "Can you see anything right now?" She asked. I shook my head. She was silent for a little while before saying. "I really am sorry, Percy"

She continued to stroke my hair which actually helped calm me down. I was getting antsy and feeling Annabeth hold my hand and stroke my hair was probably the only thing stopping me from freaking out.

"Annabeth?" I asked. "Are the lights on in here?" There was more silence. "Annabeth?"

"Yes." She finally answered. "They're on."

It hit me like a freight train. The darkness was me. I was blind.

"Can it be fixed?" I asked. "Can my eyes be fixed?"

She was slow to respond which was the worst part. Without my sight I was waiting in the dark. Un able to see her face, figure out what she was thinking. When she finally answered my heart dropped.

"Will says it's permanent." She said. "He said that the Nectar we gave you when you were un-conscious healed your eyes but it can't fix the vision." Her hand stopped stroking my hair and mover to the right side of my face. "I'm sorry, Percy." She sounded like she was about to cry. Her left thumb was stroking my right cheek bone as he right hand squeezed my right hand in an affectionate way. "I'll just give you some space then." She said and pulled her hand away from me. I herd her chair move back as she stood up.

"No!" I shouted lunging in the direction she was. My right hand landed on and arm and I clung to it.

"What's wrong?" Annabeth asked.

"Please don't leave." I pleaded. She was silent for a moment.

I was afraid she would say she had to go. I didn't want to be alone. I couldn't see. I barely knew where I was. I was terrified of being alone.

"Please don't leave." I repeated.

"Ok." She said in surprise.

"Please." I asked. Even though she answered my plea I was still terrified of being left alone. "Please don't leave."

"I won't." She promised. "I'm not going anywhere."

I herd her chair move again and I knew she was sitting down because my hand was still on her arm. She gently pulled my hand off her arm and held it so I knew she wasn't leaving. I was still panicking a little until she started to stroke my hair again. Annabeth just knew me. She knew how to calm me when I needed it.

"Thank you." I said. There was more silence for a moment before she talked.

"You don't need to thank me Percy." She said. I felt her hand continue to stroke my hair.

"I just don't want to be alone." I said. I felt it was important for her to understand.

"I know." She said softly. "When I was cursed in Tartarus, I was terrified. So I know how you must feel."

I smiled in her general direction and remembered how she was temporarily cursed with blindness and how she was cursed with the feeling that I abandoned her. I remembered her frightened screams calling for me as she stared into blackness. That was how I felt now. I didn't want to let her go. I didn't want to be left alone and blind, screaming for her.

"I love you Annabeth." I said. "I should have told you more just how much you mean to me." She was silent. "Annabeth?" I asked. Her hand was still in mine but the other one removed itself from my head. I herd a sniffle before the hand was placed on my head again. When the stroke reached the back of my head this time it lifted my head off the pillow. I opened my mouth to say something but was cut off by a kiss. I felt Annabeth's lips on mine. Well, I hoped they were Annabeth's or I was dead meat. "Annabeth?" I asked when we finally broke off.

"I love you too Percy." She answered. "And Im here for you. Your not alone."

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POV: Annabeth

I sat next to Percy's bed in the infirmary. He was caked in dry mud and a dried blood. Most of the wounded from the battle were on their feet again by now and only the more serious ones remained. I stared at the boy I loved as he went in and out of panic attacks as he coped with his lack of sight. He would jump a foot in the air every time the door to the infirmary would open and he looked terrified when I didn't respond immediately to what he was saying. The worst was the look I got from him when I got up to leave. I was going to give him some alone time to come to grips with being blind when his eyes bugged out of his head and he lunged towards me. He almost fell out of the bed in the proses but he garbed my arm.

"No!" He shouted.

I thought that something was really wrong. Maybe he was screaming about being blind?

"Please don't leave." he begged me. The fear in his sightless eyes yanked at my heart and I couldn't find any words to say. When I didn't answer his face contorted into pure fear and it looked like he would start sobbing any second. "Please don't leave." He repeated.

"Ok." I said softly. He was scaring me a little. The fact was he was the strongest person I knew. He jumped into Tartarus just to be with me, and now he was begging me to stay with him like a scared little boy. The fear in his faded green eyes was so intense that I could practically feel it.

"Please." He continued. "Please don't leave."

Seeing Percy like this made me feel like I was going to burst into tears any second.

"I won't." I promised him. "I'm not going anywhere."

I sat down and held his right hand but he really didn't calm down until I started to gently stroke his hair.

A few hours later Will came back to check on Percy and said he was free to go back to his cabin whenever he was ready. Percy turned pail at that. I thanked Will and Will understood it was my way of saying I need to talk to Percy.

"You ok sweetie?" I asked after Will had left. Percy frowned.

"I don't know if I can do this." He said. "I'm not shore I can even find the cabin."

I couldn't help but smile a little at that.

"That's why I'm here." I said. "I'll be with you the hole way."

He seemed to relax a little at that and I couldn't help but laugh a little.

"You don't actually think I would make you walk around by your self do you?" I asked.

Percy smiled a little and gave my right hand a squeeze with his. His sightless eyes perked up a little when I kissed hi again.

"I love you." I told him. "Your not alone and you never will be."

He nodded and sat up.

"Then lets get this over with." He said as he swung his legs over the side of the bed to stand up.

POV: Percy

I kept my hands on Annabeth's shoulders as she led me back to my bunk. I could feel her hands on top of mine. I wasn't shore if that was for any reason in particular but it did put a nice sense of comfort in this hellish walk so I wasn't complaining. We were walking slow but I was grateful that I wasn't walking into anything. When we reached my cabin Annabeth helped me to my bunk and then I herd her rummaging through something.

"Annabeth?" I asked with my left hand out stretched for her. "Where are you?" I asked as the now familiar sense of panic set in.

"I'm by your dresser." She answered. "I'm trying to find you a clean pair of cloths because the ones you are wearing are filthy." I nodded in response. Eventually I herd foot steps and then I herd my cabin door swing shut.

"Annabeth?" I called. I was afraid she left me.

"I'm here." She said. "I was jest closing the door so you could change."

I frowned at that. I hadn't really considered how I would change myself. I couldn't see my cloths and I couldn't even walk my self yet. I herd something light land next to me on my bunk. I guessed it was my change of cloths.

"Take off your shirt. Annabeth ordered.

I paused. I wan't shore if I wanted to change in front of her.

"Um," I began.

"Percy," Annabeth began. "You need a shower and you can't even walk yourself anywhere yet." She said. "So I'm going to help you. Now you can't get a good shower if you're still in your dirty cloths."

"I thought I was just changing cloths?" I asked in confession. She sighed.

"You really do smell right now, Percy." She said. "So you need a shower."

My cheeks blushed.

"I was blacked for about a day and I spent even longer jest sitting there under thouse hot blankets." I protested. "Not to mention all the fighting before that and the-" Annabeth cut me off.

"I know, I know." She said in a patient tone. "I'm not blaming you for it but you do smell." She continued. "So you have to take a shower."

"Can't I just strip in the shower stall?" I asked. I herd another sigh.

"And if you do do you think you can get all that dried mud off of you?" She asked. I frowned.

"There's mud on me?" I asked.

"And that is exactly my point." She said. "I promised you I would be here for you." She said. "Well I'm trying to help you so just let me." I hesitated but eventually agreed. "Good." Annabeth continued. "So take off the shirt."

I obeyed her command and she took the dirty shirt from me.

"Now the sox." She said and again I obeyed.

"Pants too." She said.

I frowned, not liking where this was heading. I mean I had thought about me and Annabeth a few times but this wasn't like that. This was me exposing my self so I cold be treated like a baby.

"Percy," She said. "Your not going to take a shower in your pants." I frowned at the floor because I didn't know where to angle my head towards. Then I slowly removed my pants. I felt like an idiot standing there in my boxers, waiting for Annabeth to lead me to the shower.

"And the boxers." She said.

I froze.

"My..." I began "My,-"

"Yes your boxers." She said. "They're filthy, Percy."

I shook my head. "I'll take them off in the shower." I said.

"I'm giving you a shower any way and I have a plastic bag here with your dirty cloths in it so you might as well strip so I can put them all together." She said.

I starred into the blackness, feeling useless and exposed. Slowly I removed my boxers and let Annabeth take them. Then she put my hands on her shoulders and led me into the bathroom. She then took my hands off her shoulders and guided me by the hand into the stand up shower stall. I expected her to turn the water on but she didn't.

"Hold on a second." she said. I waited, feeling vulnerable in the darkness. "Ok." She said. "I'm turning on the water now."

I heard a noise of the shower nob turning and felt the water run over me. I willed myself to get wet as I felt Annabeth begin to scrub my back with a soap bar.

"You've got mud caked every where." Annabeth noted as she washed my lower back. She continued to wash the back of my arms, legs, back, neck, ears, and even my butt. I jumped at that one at first but she just laughed. "If you want your butt to stink then fine" She said. I eventually let her though.

I hatted being blind so far. I couldn't even clean my self properly so I needed my girlfriend to do it. A few days a go if you told me Annabeth would bath me I would have been happy but this was embarrassing because it wasn't by choice.

"Ok, turn around." She ordered.

I slowly rotated and stopped when she put a hand on my chest. I got really red because my senses knew what was happening and it made me 'excited'. I couldn't see Annabeth's face but I figured she as looking either furious or embarrassed. Either way I didn't like this. She just continued like nothing happened though, which I was grateful for. After she had washed most of me with soap she paused.

"I'm not quite sure how to was that." She said at last. I frowned. "I mean your...um."

"Oh." I said. "Well I can ash it though I can't really see if I'm getting the dirt off."

I reached out in her direction near the door of the shower to find her arm. My intention was to get the soap bar from her. Instead my hand lightly bumped a squishy part of Annabeth.

"Sorry." I murmured. Then I realized after I pulled my hand away that it felt kind of flesh like.

Is she naked? I thought.

"Um, so, what was that?" I asked in embarrassment. She didn't resound at first. "Annabeth?" I asked.

"That was my breast." She said in an embarrassed tone.

My eyebrows went up in surprise.

"I didn't want to get my cloths wet and I figured you couldn't see me any way." She said. I frowned.

"Wait." I said. "You're naked?"

She didn't answer.

"Lets just finish cleaning you up." She said. Then she shampooed my hair and I washed my groin as she guided my wrist to the dirtier arias. When we were done she turned off the water and I used my powers to dry us both off.

"Just give me a second." She said as she walked off to do something.

I guessed she was putting her cloths back on. When she came back she put my hands on her shoulders and led me back to my bunk and helped me get dressed. I felt like a useless idiot.

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