Percabeth 4 Ever part 3

Percy's Pov.

" But mother I do love him. Ever since he saved me in the Sea of Monsters. I love him now and I will in 10 years." Annabeth exclaimed. When I looked over at her she removed her gaze from mine.

I was shocked. I never knew that Annabeth loved me since our trip to the Sea of Monsters to rescue my best friend Grover. I mean I suspected it when she kissed me in Mt. Saint Helens but even then I thought she kissed me only because she thought I was going to die soon after.

"Do you really love my son as you claim you do, my dear?" My father asked as he smiled away as if he were drunk.

"With all my heart sir." Annabeth answered as she rose her gaze.

I stood up from the couch I was sitting on and walked over to Annabeth's side. I took ahold of her right hand because I could see that she was shaking because of her mother. She looked over to me when she felt my hand take hers.I smiled at her as my thumb moved along her hand.

I knew Athena couldn't harm me and she wouldn't harm her own daughter or at least I hoped she wouldn't. I saw the face Athena made when she saw I took her daughter's hand. She was pissed and her face showed me she was confused in whatever else she felt.



" Do you love my daughter, Percy? Tell the truth to me or Zeus so help me." Athena asked me as she closed her eyes. Her finger was pointing right at my chest.

"Do you think I would be doing what  was just doing with your daughter if I wasn't in love with her. She is my heart Athena and now she will always will be. The thing I don't know is why you keep asking the same questions knowing that you will recieve the exact same answers each time." I answered her. I looked over to Annabeth to see her smile. The smile I would die to see one last time.

"You are telling the truth aren't you?" Athena asked me.

I looked her into her gray stormy eyes, identical to Annabeth's own, " I would never lie about my love for your beautiful daughter Annabeth."

There was a flash of pink light. A scent of roses blew past my nose and I knew then and there who was going to appear out of that smoke.

Sure enough Aphrodite, the love goddess, appeared shortly after cooing " Aww that is sooo cute!!!"

" Why are you he-" Athena began but she never got the chance before she was engulfed in pink light and she dissappeared.

"She is such a love - pooper. She is always stopping love from blooming." Aphrodite complained. She checked her make up, even though we all know she doesn't need to, and then smiled at me when she was satisfied with her looks.

" Thank you for coming my dear." Poseidon told Aphrodite as he kissed her on the cheek.

"It is no big deal Poseidon." Aphrodite stated.

My father came over toward me and Annabeth. " I am glad you guys will express your feelings to her. She wouldn't listen to me when I said you both love each other. And she saids I am the oblivious one. At least I saw that." Then he clasped his hand onto my right shoulder and asked. " Can I talked to you in private? I meant to come earlier but I had to occupy Athena."

"Sure Dad." I let go of Annabeth's hand and followed my father out into the open sea. I never took my eyes off of Annabeth until she was lost from my sight because of the cave walls.

Being in the water made me feel great. Fantastic even. The water just made me feel better. Like it washes away all my worries away. When I caught up with my father he smiled and said. ' You are very lucky to have a girl like Annabeth Love you. Don't let it go."

"I know I am lucky and I won't let it go until the last breath in me." I told him. I couldn't help but smile.

"Soo what did you want to talk to me about?" I asked him.

"You sure know a way to get straight to the point, don't you?" He rose one of his eyebrows at me. " I want you to go back home. I mean to your mother's apartment."

"Why?" I was intrested. I mean my mother is everything to me. She is the only woman that I love that outranks Annabeth but don't tell either of them that, please.

" Since you helped defeat Kronas, the titans who were fighting against us have been plotting on how they could take revenge on you for helping us Gods. I have been thinking about how they could do this and killing or capturing or mother was the one that caught my attention. Go and protect her. Please." I have never seen my dad beg and in any other situation I might have laughed at him for doing so but I would never laugh at how my father loves my mother.

" You don't have to beg. I will go." I told him urgently.

"Thank myself!!" My father exclaimed. He has been doing this a lot latly. I mean the thanking himself part. I mean he is a God so he can thank himself.

"I will go straight in the mourning. After I have told Annabeth." I told him.

"Good. Now go on then. Annabeth is probably waiting for you inside the cave." Then with a smile, he was gone.

I swam back into the cave but I couldn't see Annabeth. I walked back into one of the deeper parts of the cave to see Annabeth sitting on the bed that was back here. She was holding the jewelary box that I had brought for her.

" Have you opened it yet?" I asked her.I guess she didn't know I was back in the cave because she startled at the sound of my voice.

" No. I found it by the portal and I don't have the courage to open it yet." She answered me. I went and sat next to her. I wrapped my arm around her waist.

" Open it. It's for you." The look on her face when she saw what was in the box could have made me laugh for years if I had gotten it on film.