Percy and Annabeth-Their future

5, 4, 3, 2, 1....

"Five!" I felt my heart quicken with every count.

"Four!" Glancing at Percy, I knew he felt the same way.

"Three!" I shouted along with everyone else, my throat aching with pain.

"Two!" I only had two seconds left of it- and time ran far too fast.

"One!" This was it. It was over.

"Happy New Year!"

I'm not sure why, but that New Year's, I felt horribly and awfully sick. Everyone still came over to watch the ball drop, but I was stuck laying on the sofa, and coughing, coughing, coughing.

"Do you need anything, Annabeth?" Percy asked for the billionth time.

"I'm fine," I smiled weakly. "Really, go enjoy yourself. I'm just going to shut my eyes for a minute."

The moment they closed, I felt the world close around me, and spin, faster and faster until I felt nauseous. I could feel the bile rising up in my throat when-

BAM. It was over. I stood up, not knowing whether or not I was dreaming. If I wasn't, I was definitely not on the couch at home, nor was I in Kansas anymore. No, I was somewhere completely different. A bookstore.

A voice in my head spoke slowly, softly, almost like a mother cooing to her newborn baby. "You have five hours... anything you put in the bag comes back with you. If you alter this universe at all, you will pay the price."

Alter the universe? How on Earth would I do that? Slowly, I waltzed around the bookstore, hoping for some clue as to what this place was. The books were entirely different. Harry Potter? The Mortal Instruments? The 5th Wave? I continued walking down the aisles, scanning the titles when-

"Mom, please!? It's the 10 year anniversary edition!" I watched as a teenage girl pleaded with her mom, who was standing her ground.

"Kirsten, you already own every Percy Jackson book there is to own!"

"But Mom, I'll buy it with my own money!"

"That's what you want to spend it on?"

"Yes!"

"Fine, then... but it's all your money."

I stood, waiting for the girl to leave before I practically sprinted to the spot where she'd stood. Percy Jackson books? What in Hades name was this place, and since when were there books about Percy?

Sure enough, on the table in the center of the entire bookstore was the complete series of "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" and "The Heroes of Olympus". I picked up one called The Lightning Thief, and turned through the pages, shell-shocked. My name was in these books.