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Promises

I tapped my foot against the floor nervously, waiting for Chiron to return from the fields.

Earlier today Chiron had asked to speak with me after lunch, and here I was. But Chiron? Still out running in the fields.

As I waited my mind kept returning to the reason he wanted to talk with me. I hoped it was for a quest. It had been a while.

"Percy, good, good you came!" Chiron exclaimed upon seeing me as he walked in the door. Uh huh. I've been here for half an hour waiting for you, I thought. I mean, of course I came. He asked me to. The centaur walked around his desk to stand behind it and I stood up across from him.

"I assume you have been wondering why I asked you here," Chiron began.

"Yes, actually, I have been," I cut in, wincing at the unintended attitude in my voice. Oops.

"There is a quest that you have been chosen for," he continued, ignoring my comment. My heart soared at the idea of going on an adventure.

"Where to?" I asked eagerly, wanting to know more.

"Crete." And there goes my heart, plummeting into the ground.

"Crete. As in where the Minotaur is? That Crete?" I asked, my voice rising at the end. The Minotaur had attacked my mother and I when I first came to camp, almost killing us. I wouldn't be able to face it again, my nightmares would take over. I shuttered at the mere thought of looking at the beast.

"There has been trouble with the Minotaur and the gods have been pushing us to send someone to handle it," Chiron told me, explaining the need to send someone there questing in the first place.

I tried to push my fears out of the way, wanting to make the gods and my father proud. I could do this. I could do this. I could do this. I repeated this in my head like a mantra. Annabeth was always telling me to have a mantra. I guess I found one.

"Your father wanted you to do this," Chiron added. Well, that pushed the fear right out of the picture.

"I'll do it!" I immediately burst out, while my mentor just stood there with an idle smile playing across his lips.

"I expected you would. The boat leaves at sunrise tomorrow, be there," he finished before walking outside and leaving me floored in his office. What the hell had I just signed up for?

And sunrise? Damn.

Time Jump – Two hours later

I knocked on the door to of Athena cabin, knowing Annabeth had come here after dinner, as she always did, even if I wasn't there myself. I had been running around camp, gathering weapons and packing, basically majorly procrastinating. I was dreading saying goodbye to Annabeth, not because I thought it would be our last goodbye, but because I knew how angry she would be for taking this quest. She knew, just like everyone else, how dangerous it was to go to Crete these days. I also knew that she would throw a ton of statistics at me, giving me reasons not to go on the quest I was already going on, and scaring the shit out of me.

"Come in," I voice called faintly through the door.

I walked in and flinched, seeing the sight I knew was coming, but wasn't ready for. She was sitting in the middle of a big ring of books and maps, all showing Crete.

"Hey Wise Girl," I said, trying to ease the tension in the room as I sat down next to her.

"When were you going to tell me?" she asked, not turning to face me. I sighed. This was obviously upsetting her.

I didn't even have a good excuse. Grover was gone on a quest of his own and I had no one else to say goodbye to here.

"Now. That is why I came here," I replied, teasing her. But I was worried now. Annabeth was the smartest person I had ever met, and she hadn't realized that. I started slowly rubbing circles on her back, trying to soothe her. I felt her shiver and chuckled. Even mad at me she reacted to my touch.

"Oh yeah. Of course," she whispered, embarrassed. I wish I could see how red her face was.

"I have been researching Crete and the Minotaur again, and…" she stopped. Then she quickly spun around and buried her face in my chest, starting to silently cry. I wrapped my arms around her and put my chin on top of her head, a million thoughts running through my head.

Annabeth never cried. Never. I had seen her cry once in the entire time I had known her, and that had been happy crying when I told her I loved her, but this was sad and scared crying, and it shared the shit out of me. I tried to stay calm for her though.

"That bad, huh?" I asked lightly, trying to ease her nerves.

"Yeah Percy, that bad," she replied, pulling herself back together and wiping her tears away.

We stayed silent for a moment, each of us lost in our own thoughts before Annabeth spoke again. "Promise me something Percy," she said somberly.

"Anything, Wise Girl," I told her on response.

"Promise to come back to me?" she asked, as if she needed confirmation.

I pulled her in for a long slow kiss. "I will keep coming back to you for as long as I am alive. I promise," I told her, completely serious.

The Annabeth slumped against me, "When did we become that couple?" she joked, immediately lightening the mood and dispersing the remaining tension from the room.

"No clue," I told her as we both chuckled, her laughs reverberating through me and mine her.

Time Jump – The next morning

Annabeth:

As Percy waved to me from the back of the boat as it sailed away. But I couldn't shake the feeling that something was going to happen to him. That he would have to break his promise.

I forced a smile onto my face, even though I knew that Percy would realize it was fake, and waved back slowly. He had to come back. He promised, and Percy never broke his promises.

As the boat disappeared into the horizon, the thought kept repeating in my head. He would come back. He would come back. He would come back. I said it over and over to myself, my mantra. One of the ones Percy was always making fun of me for having.

Time Jump – Two years later

I had a new mantra now. I shouldn't have let him go. I shouldn't have let him go. I shouldn't have let him go.

I should have made him stay with me.

It had been two years since Percy had left for Crete, two and a half since he was declared dead, and we held a memorial for him at camp, his father and my mother showing up to it. Athena had only come for me though, and I knew it.

I shouldn't have let him go, I shouldn't have let him go. I shouldn't have let him go.

Percy had broken his promise. He hadn't come back to me.

I shouldn't have let him go, I shouldn't have let him go, I shouldn't have let him go.

No one understood. My father and step family were all clueless about my world and probably just thought I was way too hung up on a boyfriend who had dumped me. And I hadn't been able to get myself to return to Camp Half-Blood since he had died. There were too many painful memories haunting that place that I had once called home. So I grieved alone, never getting over it, never talking about it, and barely talking at all.

I shouldn't have let him go, I shouldn't have let him go, I shouldn't have let him go.

A loud knocking on my front door brought me back to my sad reality. My family was gone so I had to get it. Great.

I didn't even bother changing out of my bathrobe or brushing my hair, I just walked down the stairs and opened the door.

And then I was staring directly into the eyes of my long dead boyfriend and the only boy I would ever love.

Percy:

When the door opened I was greeted by the most beautiful face in the world. My Wise Girl. My Annabeth. My love.

She was standing in the doorway in a bathrobe, her hair messy, and her red, puffy eyes filled with tears.

When she saw me her face took a rollercoaster of emotions.

Shock, sadness, fear, they all crossed her face before she finally landed on anger.

Fury blazed up in her eyes as she looked at me, "WHICH GOD ARE YOU? WHICH GOD? Pretending to be my dead boyfriend. Which one?" she almost whispered the last part, after blowing her voice out on the beginning shouting.

Of course. Everyone thinks I'm dead.

"It's me, Percy. It's really me Wise Girl," I said, my eyes filling with tears as I looked at her for the first time in forever, finally hearing her voice.

Annabeth's face morphed into disbelief as she heard her nickname that only I called her. Then joy, and then she filled with love.

Then she tackled me off of the front steps, and onto the ground. Then she kissed me, and I reveled in the taste of her, and the feeling of her lip on mine. "It's really you, Seaweed brain!" she breathed, finally pulling back from me. I pulled her close to me, both of us still on the ground.

"Of course it's me. I made a promise didn't I?" I said, not letting go of her.

Then my Wise Girl started crying for the third time since I had met her. "I thought you were dead. We all did!" She said, disentangling herself from me and sitting up in the grass.

"Yeah, well so did I at one point," I told her as she leaned her head on my shoulder. I stroked her hair as we sat there, a content pair of people, finally being with the one we love the most for the first time in years. We must have looked odd to her neighbors though.

"I love you so much Annabeth," I told her, remembering the days when I would have given my life to have told her that one more time.

"I love you too Seaweed Brain," she whispered back, making my heart swell with love.

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