Hey guys. See, you didn't have to wait long for this one. But this is the last chapter and I hope that this is good enough.

Wedding! Yay! I don't really focus much on the ceremony itself but more on the vows and stuff. Hopefully, I didn't make it OOC since I don't want that.

Disclaimer: I don't own PJO and HoO but I do want them for Christmas.

Warning: Fluff overload.

So I did get my invitation an entire month after.

It was a summer wedding, something that suited them so perfectly. I wanted to be there and watch two of my new friends get hitched. Thankfully, Mindy and I are going strong and I guess this is a relationship that I'm sure will last. We're very good at mending each other's hearts and she's doing her best into helping me with my broken family ties. I'm trying my best for hers as well.

So, on the day itself, I had to force Lil to wake up early if she wants to attend the ceremony. My parents were still very disapproving of such a young marriage but they couldn't do anything to them. If their paths were headed for divorce, something I clearly doubt would happen, then they know it's not meant to be. But everyone who sees them together will be 110% sure that their souls were fated to be together.

As if it couldn't get any more cliché, the venue was at Montauk beach. It was exactly where Percy's father and mother met, exactly where he spent most of his childhood at, exactly where he proclaimed his love for a beautiful woman and swore to her his entire self forever. But, nonetheless, it was beautiful.

I sat on the third row, waiting for the bride to walk down the aisle and watching the groom fidget slightly in his place. Since he couldn't choose between his two best friends, he made both Nico and Jason his best men. I overheard them talking about how those two always got Percy's back so it was just right for them to get such an honored title.

Annabeth was gorgeous in her customary pure white wedding gown. Though, what seemed quite unusual was that the hem was gold, almost resembling the costume of a Greek goddess. Her arms were bare and the only jewelries she wore were the elegant diamond engagement ring that would soon be replaced with her wedding band and those ever-present pearl earrings that were given to her by her soon-to-be husband.

The background was well chosen. Instead of timing the ceremony at sunset, they made it at dawn. When I asked Piper why that's so, she explained that Percy and Annabeth didn't want their new commitment to end in darkness. They wanted to make it feel as if, after their vows and "I do"'s, there would still be a morning to look forward to. It was quite weird at first but I soon realized how perfect it fit their relationship- hope for the better.

When it was time to say their vows, they held no pieces of paper. Percy took one of her hands in his and used his other to stroke her cheek lovingly. "Annabeth, my Wise Girl, I guess I can't really go into detail about what we've been through together since a lot of our guests wouldn't understand a word I'll be saying so I won't even try." A lot laughed at this, some shook their heads at how Percy it is. "To be honest, I only came up with what I'm going to tell you just last night, when your side of the bed was empty because a certain someone stole you away from me." He shot a glare through the crowd, landing on Thalia, Piper, and a woman who was the epitome of beauty. "Since the very first time I saw you, when we were just twelve years old, I knew that you were the one. Of course, I wasn't so sure about how I felt back then but I just knew that you were important.

"Somehow, through all those years, you stayed with me. You kept up with my idiocy and accepted the friendship that I offered you. What we've been through is just something that no one ever should and I just hope that it will get better for us. Yet, no matter what happens, I know that I will always be with you. Remember, I won't ever leave you again. You are the most important person to me and I have absolutely no idea how my life would be if I haven't met you. Would I still be the same person? The answer is no.

"There would be times when the hell we've been through would just resurface in our memories. I swore to myself that I would protect you from it, that I would take all the blows of Tartarus for you. Clearly, you aren't the kind of person who would let me get away with that so easily. And I love how you always managed to stand strong even when everything else in the world falls apart, even when I'm falling apart. I wouldn't have made it out alive without you. You were the only one that kept me going. I just knew that I had to save you.

"I know that whatever wounds we gained from that experience will take time to heal, and some are so much deeper than the others. The scars we have won't just fade so easily. I'm not even sure how much time we have left in this planet. I'm not sure what will just take our lives away from us. Maybe some of the wounds wouldn't have healed even, when that happens. I just want to spend every possible moment with you.

"You are my best friend, my first love and my last love. I swear that even the Fates can't separate us now and I will do everything in my power to keep you until you don't want to be with me anymore. Don't listen to what others think of us because once, they thought that the earth was flat and look at how wrong they were. I will always trust you to watch my back and I'll always watch yours. Because that's just how it is between us. I love you more than words can explain. And life with me wouldn't be easy but I'm sure you've always loved a good challenge."

Somewhere between his words, both of their hands found each other and Annabeth's tears have spilled. She took a good shaky breath and raised her stormy gray eyes to his sea green ones.

"I know that this will surprise you but I also only thought of what I'm going to say last night and it won't be as beautiful as the words you just told me. I may be a strategist and I may be a leader but thinking of poetic things just isn't my thing. So I decided not to do it. Looking back, I wondered why I even stayed with you all this time. You were a pain in the ass yet you were still my best friend and you still are both. But I can't imagine a future without you standing at my side.

"No matter how much you deny it, you are perfect in every way possible. And I don't know how I could possibly deserve someone like you. When you question why I stay with you, I ask the same thing. I would look at you at night and just question why, of all people, you've chosen me to be your wife.

"It's terrifying for me to think that I will soon be yours entirely, no matter how beautiful it sounds like. You know that I have trouble with commitments because I'm afraid that I might get too attached and they'd just leave me. Everyone I love just leaves me. But you never did. Time and time again, you would come back to me and tease me and joke around with me. You could have saved yourself from suffering from hell yet you didn't. You told me that you would never leave me again. And what you did proved how much you loved me.

"And even when I have nightmares about that place, you would hold me together and whisper your love for me and repeat 'We're together' over and over again. I love that about you, you know? The fact that you don't say 'Everything will be fine' or 'You're okay'. You know better than that. You just say that we're together and hope that it's enough and it always is. You know me so well. Should I be worried?

"The wounds are closing now, Percy. Slow as it may be, it still is. A wound will heal and the scar will fade. The pain will leave no matter how intense it is. What matters is that you learn from that single experience and you hope that what you did was worth it. I know that all of these marks aren't very attractive yet you find me beautiful through it. I know that you would do everything just to make sure that it never happened but I wouldn't do the same thing. This is what reminds me of how much you love me. I would have had it so much worse if you didn't care. And I love that you do. Soon, this will all be part of your memory and you'd hold on to it as tightly as you can and the scars will help you remember. It's the proof that we fought a hard battle yet we came out of it alive. We came out of it alive. And I owe my life to you and more.

"You are my other half, the heart to my brain. You are my soul and I was dead when you were gone. But most importantly, you are the Seaweed Brain to my Wise Girl. We may be exact opposites but they say magnets attract. There will always be that pull between us that no one can ever get past. I will love you even after the tide stops pulling at the land. I will love you even after I
lose my life. I will love you so much that I would wait by the gates of Elysium until we're together again. And no matter what happens between us, don't forget that."

Many of the women were in tears after that. The love they share was palpable, almost concrete in the air around them. And I was an idiot to try and get between them. I was blinded by infatuation and I now know better than to just think of myself and my feelings.

Percy and Annabeth are meant to be together and it's just as easy as that.

It was a year and a half after that when I got a call from Piper.

I was done looking for a good career choice for myself even though law wasn't really doing it for me. What really hooked me in was counseling and I just loved helping other people with their problems. I know firsthand how it felt when no one was there to give you advice when there are so many things wrong in your life. I don't want the same thing to happen to those children.

"Hello?" I asked, confused as to why she was calling me at 5 in the morning.

"Mike! Gods, I thought you'd never answer. I have good news and I guess it was just right for me to share this."

Ever since the wedding, Percy and Annabeth kept in touch with me. They forgot about the conflict we had and we were just good friends. Every once in a while, they would call and ask if we could meet up. It's been an entire three months since I've last heard from them and I was starting to worry so I contemplated on calling them myself when Piper beat me to it.

"What is it?" I sat up and looked over towards the woman beside me, smiling slightly to myself. She looked beautiful while sleeping. Then again, she's always so beautiful. I've always known that our relationship would last and I'm glad that Mindy is still mine to keep.

"Well, if you must know, Annabeth went to the doctor today and guess what she found out!" She sounded excited, barely controlling her emotion through the phone.

"Continue." I was too tired to say anything more than that, really.

"Annabeth's pregnant to their first baby! Isn't this exciting?" She squealed

I didn't even process it. My scream even woke up my sleeping girlfriend and she looked at me in annoyance. "WHAT?!"

Lol Mike what?

Anyways, if you want me to write a sequel, just tell me but it's okay if you think that it's better if this story stands alone and whatnot.

Anyways. Thank you for all the support all throughout the making of this story and I seriously didn't know what I'm going to do without you guys.

Think of this as an early Christmas gift from me:)