Tether // percabeth

chapter twelve: dream world

DEVEN'S POV: 

  Listening to Percy's stories was excellent, although I was jokingly skeptical they were all true. Not even Hercules was able to do all of that. Yet one look in his eyes, the eyes that looked thousands of years old, I believed every word. His stories of adventures that always ended with happy endings were most likely the only thing keeping us prisoners going, you could almost feel the hope levels slowly crawling back toward normal. All except for Percy, his hope only seemed to dwindle.  

  I also haven't been too well recently, but that has nothing to do with my hope. I have no idea how long I've been here, but it feels like a really long time. The torture is only getting worse, and I'm only getting weaker. Last week I caught a cough that took four days just to shake, and I knew that was the first of many if things keep going the way they were. Sleep is becoming more precious, as it becomes rarer. I have no idea how much longer I have before they inevitably... put me down. 

  They came to get me as I was curled on the floor, and the cyclopes seemed to tower over me. He grabbed my arm and pulled me to my feet. I didn't stay in the land of the standing very long though before my knees turned to jello, and I fell to the ground, and I felt a sharp pain in my shoulder. I felt the large hand on me again, but just then someone shouted for him to stop, I looked up to see Percy looking desperately at the guard standing at the door.

  "Stop." he cried again. "He'll die. He's not strong enough right now. Give me his punishments. That's what you want, right? I'm the one who killed Kronos and Gaia! So punish me instead!"

  A creepy grin distorted the guard's dark face, "Are you saying you want to take his sentence onto yours? Are you sure boy? The boss doesn't take refunds."

  Percy lowered his head before nodding. I tried my best to argue, but the guard had already motioned for the cyclops to take Percy. He allowed the oversized hands to grab him and lead him out. And as I lay there with a nasty taste in my mouth, screams that were supposed to be mine began to fill my ears.

  ANNABETH'S POV:

  The van dropped us off at the train station, and we agreed the place the prophecy must be talking about was the northern pole. So we took the soonest track north. I immediately took the window seat, hoping it would calm my nausea. I felt Nico's hand on my arm,  and I turned.

  " you alright?"

  " I'm fine, just a little morning sickness."  I faked a smile, trying to avoid this conversation.

  "Do you think we'll find Percy?" His question caught me entirely off guard.

  "I don't know, but I don't like the broken hearts line. I also think we really should be beware of the costs, whatever they are." He nodded his agreement.

  "But do you think he'll be in the north pole?"

  I could feel the tears building up in my eyes. " I don't know, Nico."

  "But-"

"I DON'T KNOW!" My words came out a lot louder than I had intended. I looked around at all of the startled faces. I looked down at my hands in embarrassment. Will finally spoke up. 

  "Are you okay?"

  " what do you think? I'm pregnant with my missing boyfriend's baby, and now I have to go to the north pole, and he might not even be there. No, I am not okay!" 

  I started falling apart. I hid my face behind my hands to hide my ugly sobs. Who am I kidding? I'm not okay. I haven't been okay in years. This world only seems to bring me and Percy down, and NOW I was stupid enough to bring a child into this same world. 

  But who knows, maybe this baby will change things. Maybe if I fight hard enough I can make this miserable world of ours not so miserable for Percy's baby. Because Percy deserved that perfect world, but we didn't fight hard enough when we could. I'll fight hard enough now, for our baby. 

  I wiped my eyes, "I'm sorry. I don't- don't know where- I guess- I- not- not much sleep... hormones, you know?" I tried to smile, which wasn't nearly as hard as I had thought. 

  Nico spoke up, "You don't have to be okay, Annabeth. It's okay to not be okay." He wrapped his arms around me. Will leaned over and hugged me too. This seems to have become a habit, but I think it was a really nice habit.

  "It's alright guys, really, I'm alright. It's just been really stressful."

  Will snorted. "No kidding."

  I started to laugh, and Nico followed behind me. After a few seconds, we all had tears in our eyes, and I couldn't even remember what we were laughing about. Just then we heard screeching. The train halted to a stop, and the emergency lights flickered on. I listened to the screeching of metal ripping apart as I realized something.

   I was going to have to fight a little harder for my dream world.

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                                                                                           A/N

(hi! here is chapter twelve. it took a while to come out but I hope you all had a good 24th of July weekend!!!! and I am so sorry for the cliffhanger lol. I'm about as in the dark about what is about to happen as you guys are, so ya. Hope you enjoyed this chapter! and have an amazing day!!!!!!!!!!!!)

                                                                        -Livinginvibes

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