Annabeth,

I groaned as the sun peered through my bed curtains and into my eyes.

I pushed away the sheer curtain and sat up in bed.

First, I went to the closet and put on simple dress and a pair of sandals before unlatching the door to my balcony.

I breathed in the sweet fresh air and took a look outside. The sun was high in the sky, reflecting over the placid lake water, telling me it was almost noon. The small house stood in the very center of a small island in the middle of the large lake, secluded from the rest of the world.

Everything felt like it did three months ago, when Percy had come to my kingdom for the summer.

Everything but the wedding band on my finger.

Sometimes, like now, it didn't feel real.

I was afraid to fall asleep because I was worried I would wake up to see it was all a dream. That I would wake up and it would still be the beginning of the summer, where I still had to marry Luke and Percy still had to marry Katarina. That I would wake up and Percy wouldn't love me…

"You're up?"

I turned around to look at King Persues.

King Persues.

Now, when it goes to his head, I do wish that part wasn't real.

"You let me sleep," I crossed my arms.

"You've never tried to wake you up," Percy laughed as he came to stand beside me.

"Are you okay? It sounded like you were having a nightmare last night."

I hesitated before telling him.

"It happened again."

"Again?"

I nodded.

For the last week, I had been having the same dream over and over again.

"Agapē!"a girl with intimidating blue eyes and black hair yelled, trying to yank her feet free from the grass growing around them. She seemed to be the youngest one there. The entire group seemed to be seventeen to sixteen, but she looked like she could be fifteen at the maximum.

A girl with carnation red hair, Agapē, blushed, only she turned green instead of red.

With that, the girl with black hair raised her hand, and a sudden wind aimed at Agapē .

"Not fair, Elise!"

Elise smiled.

"You used your nature magic!"

"Guys!"

A girl with blonde hair jumped up from her seat by the lake, trying to get her friends to stop fighting. But they didn't even seem to hear her.

Finally, the girl raised her hand, and two large spheres of the lake's green water started to rise from their place and started to make their way to the fighting teenagers.

Elise noticed too late.

"Elpida!" she screamed as the sphere broke, and the water poured down on her.

Soaked, the two friends seemed frozen as they looked from each other to Elpida.

As Elise's rage grew and grew, the ground began to rumble, making the boy who had been sitting with Elpida earlier fall off the bench and get covered in the sand. A boy, being the only one who wasn't effected by the earthquake, who seemed to be Elise's brother grabbed her by her waist and started to pull her off, making it all subside.

All now on the ground, the teenagers looked at each other.

There was Agapē, who seemed to be healing a flower that she had crushed when she fell on it.

Elpida, who was helping up the boy she had been sitting beside earlier, Luck as she called him, and pulling her coat back to hide something.

Luck, who reminded me so much of Luke that it was scary.

Another boy, who running his hand through his hair as he came to sit by Agapē.

Elise and her brother, who she called, Nick.

And then two little twelve year old twins, a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes and a boy with brown eyes and hair, who were so caught up in fencing that they didn't seem to notice the earthquake.

"You are so weird, Agapē," the nameless boy smiled at her.

"You really don't fit your name, Philia. I thought Philia meant friendly love," she seemed playful with the way she said it, like it was an ongoing joke for them.

Philia nudged her.

"Do you want me to dry you off or not?"

Agapē hesitated but finally nodded.

As he touched her forearm, her cheeks turned green.

And his cheeks started to turn red.

Luck began to hum a wedding song in Elpida's ear, and she tried not to blush.

"Be nice, Luck," Elpida nudged him.

"I am being nice, Elpida," Luck nudged her back.

"Then thank the gods I only see you in the summer," she smiled.

"You know you miss me."

Elpida hesitated, showing that she did.

"I'm going to go calm them down," Elpida nodded towards the twins, knowing that this couldn't be any harder than breaking up fights with her other siblings, all of whom weren't there.

"I'll come to your funeral," Luck clapped her on the back, and Elpida rolled her grey eyes as she came up to the twelve year old twins.

"Basilissa? Hercules?"

"Basil!"

"Harry!"

Elpida took the swords while the twins were still yelling about how they hated being called the names her parents had given them even though they fit it perfectly. Basil was just like a superior queen, and Harry was amazingly strong to be only twelve.

"Elpida!" they yelled together, and then they stopped to yell at each other again.

"Stop that!"

Together again.

"No, you stop that!"

The all tried not to laugh, but it was the best they could all do not to start rolling on the beach laughing.

It was a normal demigod dream, the kind that I thought I had outgrown, but it didn't seem to be aimed at me. And I didn't know any of the people in them.

It wasn't even an important moment!

"I'm sure it's nothing, Annabeth," he kissed my forehead, and I tried to believe him.

"Yeah," I nodded, pushed my hair behind my ear.

"On the lighter side, there's something I want to ask you, Annabeth."

I knit my eyebrows in confusion.

"So, we're going home tomorrow."

I nodded.

"Yeah," I nodded.

"What do you think about having a baby?"

"A baby?"

"Yeah, why not?"

"You realize we've been married for a week, right, Perce?"

"Listen, as soon as we get home, people will want us to have a baby. And I don't want to have a baby because every audience I have with someone is them begging me to produce an heir."

Point one for Percy.

"And I'm ready to have a baby."

Three points for Percy.

"I love you, Annabeth."

And a million points.

"Alright, but not right now. Let's just calm down and get used to being married and running a kingdom, okay?"

Percy, smiling because he got what he wanted in the end, picked me up and swirled me around.

"I love you, Annabeth."

I responded by kissing him.

But I pulled away when someone knocked on the door.

"Come in," Persues groaned as he let me go.

"King Persues," a man, who I didn't know was even on the island, bowed, "I come from the castle. There is an urgent matter that needs your help now, your highness."

"I'll let you guys talk," I smiled as I left, hurrying out of the house and towards the garden in the back.

Sure, it was nothing to the gardens back home, but it was still a place where I felt relaxed. And, for the last week, my nerves have been giving me pure Hades.

I was leaning down to smell a rose when I felt the sudden heat and saw the glow behind me.

As soon as the glow died down, I spun around, praying that Hera was still too busy to visit me.

"Mother?"

There she was, in the form I hadn't seen in ten years.

She looked like the woman who had been queen in my kingdom, the one who had given birth to three children and "died" ten years ago. Her curly hair was light brown, and her face looked exactly like mine, right down to even the smallest little things.

"Annabeth," she smiled, opening her arms for a hug.

I couldn't help but rush into my mother's eyes and close my eyes tightly as she stroked my hair.

"How are you, Annabeth?" Athena smiled at me, acting like a mother instead of a goddess.

"Good, I guess."

"I have your wedding gift," Athena smiled, and I suddenly felt something heavy on my neck.

I looked down to see a silver amulet of an owl.

The eyes were a black diamond, and the rest of the owl was made up of regular diamonds. But it was the metal that interested me. I could almost feel it buzz, like there was something more important for it to do than just sit around my neck.

My mother pressed on the eyes, and I turned invisible.

I gasped as I looked down at myself.

Or where I was supposed to be.

I fumbled around for the owl necklace and pressed the eyes again.

"You'll probably have to hide it from your kids so they won't go spying, but…" Athena shrugged with a smile.

"I love it, Mom."

"This isn't my only gift, Annabeth," Athena took a few steps back, and a little box appeared in her hand.

The box alone could have been the gift. The tiny little thing was decked out in enough gold and diamonds to feed a starving country for the next millennia.

"This is for my little grandson," she handed me the box.

"So, you heard me and Percy talking about having a baby?"

"No."

"Then how do you-"

"You know, that dream last night hasn't been the only dream with Elpida and Philia in it."

Suddenly, I saw it all.

I had outgrown the dreams.

They hadn't.

I looked down at my stomach, my eyes wide.

Elise.

Agapē.

Nick.

Luck.

Basilissa.

Hercules.

Thalia's mother was named Elise.

Juniper's favorite word is Agapē.

Nick could be short for Nico.

Luck is what Luke called our son in that dream.

Basilissa means queen, so does Reyna.

Hercules, like how Jason is a hero in the old stories.

Elpida and Philia, my children.

"You mean I'm-"

"One week pregnant," Athena finished for me.

Percy,

"Alright, we'll be home by tonight," I nodded towards the servant, and he bowed before leaving.

One week on the job, and we already have a crisis.

No wonder my dad was so willing to pass this down to me.

I began to prepare how I'd tell Annabeth we had to leave.

She loved it here so much, so did I.

Here I wasn't king. Or son of the sea god. Or any of that.

I was just Perseus.

And Annabeth was just Annabeth.

We were just us.

No titles. No royalty.

Just people.

"Knock, knock."

I smiled.

"Come in, Annabeth."

Annabeth came in and shut the door behind her.

"Is that necklace new?"

"Uh, yeah, from my mom," Annabeth sat down on the edge of the bed.

"Athena was here."

Annabeth smiled as I began to shake.

"She just left, Percy."

I sighed with relief.

"Oh."

"So, Perce," Annabeth bit her lip, "You were serious about wanting a baby, right?"

Two Years Later

Annabeth,

"I love you, Annabeth," Percy kissed the side of my head, and I told him the same.

If anything, I loved him more every day we were married, which is something not a lot of people can say about the people they married.

"Gods, I wish Sparta could just shut up for a couple of days."

"In three days, someone else will have to worry about it. And we'll be sitting by a beach with our old friends and family, not even thinking about work," I smiled, and Percy kissed me again.

Every summer we went back to the kingdom I had been born in to take Eli home. And we always spent a month there with our old friends, Thalia, Nico, Jason, and Reyna. And, this summer, I have even more of a reason to go home since Thalia just wrote to me telling me that she was pregnant, and then of course there is my announcement, too.

"I'll see you later," he smiled, and I nodded.

Percy left, and I went back to the mirror and to see if I was showing yet.

When Aphrodite had come to give me the good news that I was pregnant, I basically had to hit her upside the head not to tell me if it was a boy or girl or what name it would have or what destiny it would fulfill. For once, I wanted to have a child the normal way.

To not know if it was a boy or girl until it was born. To not know its name until we had picked it out. And to not know what it would do in its life until it had grown up.

And it had taken the last month to get it through the gods' thick head that I didn't want to know all of this.

Satisfied that it would still be a while until people could look at me and immediately know that I was pregnant, I left the room and started walking the short distance down the hall.

My smile widened as I opened the door.

Azabella was rocking Elpida while her twin brother, Philia slept in his grand crib, and Azabella smiled as she looked up to me.

"Here's Mommy, Elpida," Azabella handed me my daughter, and I smiled as I kissed the top of her head.

"How's my little girl been?"

"She's been great, just woke up early this morning," Azabella smiled.

"That's my baby," I pushed her blonde hair out of her grey eyes.

"Ma Ma."

I stared at my daughter in disbelief.

"Go get Percy."

Azabella quickly ran off to do so, and I hugged Elpida, closing my eyes tightly as I thought about how much I loved her and her brother.

"Did Elpida say her first words?"

Percy.

I smiled to myself as I looked back to my husband.

Percy took the baby girl from my arms, and I felt pride swarm inside with something else mixed in.

Right then, I knew that I was the luckiest girl in the world.

I had a husband I loved. I had two beautiful children and one on the way. And I had my first child, who really wasn't my child, Eli, here with us, too.

"It's Philia's turn now," I smiled as I looked between the baby in the crib and Percy, who looked exactly alike I might add.

"Looks like Elpida lucked out over here, Philia," Percy picked up the other baby, "They got the brains. But we still got the looks."

I laughed and smiled at my husband.

"I still love you though, Philia. And, you, too, Elpida," Percy walked the short distance to me, "And you, too, Annabeth."

"Elpida said her first word?"

I broke away from Percy to look at the little blonde in the doorframe.

Eli had grown up so much, but he was still my little baby.

I nodded proudly, and he ran over to see his little niece.

Sometimes, I worried that Eli forgot that Elpida was his niece, not his sister.

Carefully, Eli took Elpida from Percy and sat her down on the floor to play with her, and I had to remind myself not to be over protective and that he could do it.

"Do you think the next baby will be this smart?"

We all looked down to Eli.

"You know about the baby?"

"I heard you guys talking about it when we went to the lake last week," Eli shrugged.

Percy and I looked to each other, and a smile played across Percy's lips.

"Well, it's official. We're having a baby."

The End

If you'll notice, the begining is almost word by word what happens in the first chapter! And the dream came true!

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