Broken Loyalty Broken Spirit (Unfinished)

Is This All My Fault?

Annabeth POV:

Fifteen Minutes Before

Oh, Percy where did you go! I sat on the dusty clearing for the next few minutes.

My mind started thinking logically. Get up your fine. Go search the forest first, that is where he ran.

But my heart was saying the opposite of whatever my mind thought. Nothing will ever be okay again! Everything is broken! Don't move and everything might be alright. My heart won over, for the time being.

And I sat crying, despair, anguish, and especially unreasonable guilt flooded over me. I don't know why I felt guilty. It was not my fault that Jace had done what he'd done but I felt it could have been prevented.

If only I'd refused to go with Jace behind the cabin, if only I'd tried harder get away.

Tears welled behind my eyes and once again I could not hold them back. I finally forced myself up and I followed Percy's trail into the trees.

Through the haze of my tears I saw foot prints in the decaying leaves and patches of golden dust.

I stumbled through across the roots of trees. I heard crying and I ran through a thicket of shorter trees. As I pushed a branch aside I saw something I never would have thought imaginable.

Grover, Juniper, and Percy were standing in a grassy clearing. Percy's eyes were red and troubled. He looked at Grover and Juniper like they were terrifying monsters, ones he could not defeat.

Percy grabbed Riptide off of the ground and pointed it at the couple in front of him. Percy, what are you doing! Stop, they're your friends! I couldn't force the words to come out of my mouth and I could not move even a finger, I was frozen.

Percy looked close to insanity. It tore me to peices seeing him this way. I thought I had no more tears left to shed but a fresh stream fell from my cheeks.

"I didn't do anything! Please, don't be angry! What did I do Annabeth!?" Percy cried out, like a lost child.

I wanted to scream in anguish, I wanted to run to Percy and wrap my arms around him but I was stuck, I was not able to move and it hurt more than anything in the world ro see Percy this way.

Percy's anguished gaze met mine as he turned and fled farther into the forest. I fell to my knees and sobbed. I didn't think I had any more tears left in me.

I just sat there filled with utter despair, my soul was crushed and all that was left were salty tears.

Water like that from the sea. Oh, Percy! COME BACK TO ME!