Torture

4

I'm back with another miserable part

Piper POV

(2 days after Percy umm you know)

"Annabeth? Can I come in?"

"Go ahead." A miserable voice answered and muttered something I couldn't hear.

I opened the door and looked at my best friend. 

Her blonde hair was messy and Annabeth didn't even bother tying it. He stormy grey eyes were dull grey ever since she left Tartarus. She had an book in her hand.

"Hey"

"Hey Pipes"

I sat next to her on the bed. 

"You ok?"

"I honestly don't even know"

She said as she looked at the photo's in the book.

One of the photo's had a picture of a guy that looked about 14 with sandy hair and blue eyes, a girl with chopped black hair and lightning blue eyes, she looked about the boys age. Maybe Thalia? Jason's sister? And in the middle of them was a girl about 7, she had blonde hair in a ponytail and bright grey eyes that shone in happiness.

"Annabeth, who are those?"

She stared at the photo.

"The boy, his name is Luke Castellan, son of Hermes. The girl with the black hair, you probably know, Thalia. And the blondie, that's me."

When she said Luke's name her eyes watered.

"Annabeth? Was Percy the first guy you liked?"

She shook her head.

"I thought I really liked Luke. Then he sided with Kronos. Became his host. Most Greeks think it was Percy who killed Kronos but, it's not true. Luke- he, he was manipulated. Percy didn't believe me. But later. In the battle of Manhattan. It was me, Grover Underwood, Thalia and Percy. Hera was on my bad side. She didn't like me or Percy.

She tried to drop a statue on me and kill me. Thalia pushed me out of the way and the statue broke her legs. And then. It was just us 3. The original trio. And Kronos. Luke kept breaking through Kronos and trying to take control. And then he broke through for a minute. Begged us to kill him to kill Kronos.

Both him and Percy, they bathed in the Styx. Luke asked Percy for my dagger. I was injured. Grover was desperately trying to heal me and keep Percy alive. Percy was hesitant. Both were weaponless. Percy trusted Luke, he gave him my dagger. The same one Luke gave me when him and Thalia found me.

Then- then he stabbed himself. In his Achilles heel. With the dagger that know is under a river in Tartarus."

It was silence for a few minute.

I pointed at the book, "may I?"

She nodded and wiped her eye.

I took the book and opened the next page.

It had a picture of 2 boys. Both looked like they were siblings. Maybe Apollo's sons. I pointed at them.

"Micheal Yew, and Lee Fletcher. Both dead. Half brothers sons of Apollo. Lee died in the battle of the labyrinth. He was a cabin counsellor. After his death, Micheal took over. Then he died in the battle of Manhattan. Then Will Solace took over." She pointed at a picture of a boy with blonde hair and blue eyes.

"Percy- he said that him and Micheal were fighting together. They were retreating. I was injured in my shoulder and back at our base building. Percy came back with tears in his eyes."

I flipped over the next page.

I pointed at a picture. "Why is Percy getting his head dunked in a toilet?"

"Clarisse from the ares cabin decided to stick his head in a toilet. Percy wasn't claimed yet. I tried to stop her but we'll, clarisse told me Percy can take of himself. Then she proceeded to get wet with toilet water because Percy is a sea spawn. He got me wet too."

I smiled and flipped the next page.

Her expression turned said at the next picture.

"Who-"

"That's bianca and her brother."

"Bianca?"

"Yes, she's dead. But her brother is still alive."

"You know him don't you?" I asked.

She nodded, "her brother, is Nico Di Angelo."

I paused, "what? I saw a picture from Hazels room. Nico looks nothing like that."

"After his sisters death. Nico ran away from camp. Percy told us he was a child of Hades, begged us not to tell Chiron or anyone else. We looked and looked but he wasn't there. The next time we saw him. Well" she pointed at a picture of a 11 year old boy with pale skin, black hair and dark brown eyes.

I flipped the next page and annabeth told me about each and every person.

I stopped at a picture.

It was annabeth and Percy. They were both sitting at the Poseidon table, there was blue cake on the table. The next one showed them 5 seconds away from kissing.

"Um who took this?"

She smiled and the flipped over the page. "After the battle, we were victorious. We went back to camp and the next day percy turned 16. Just like in the prophecy."

"What was the prophecy?"

"A child of the eldest gods/ shall reach sixteen against all the odds/ and see the world in endless sleep- the heroes soal/ cursed blade shall reap/ a single choice shall end his days/ Olympus to preserve or raze. The child was Percy. Thalia became Artemis's lieutenant a day before her sixteenth birthday. Nico was still too young to be the child of the prophecy and so Percy and I led the war. We all saw Manhattan in endless sleep.

Morpheus's fault. The heroes soal was Luke's. He was the true hero. And the cursed blade was my blade. Cursed because Luke gave me the knife as a promise he would protect me. Cursed blade shall reap. Luke used the knife to kill himself. A single choice shall end his days. Percy's choice. He chose to give Luke the knife. And so on."

I flipped over the page.

It was off the entire camp. They all looked happy. Percy had his hand around annabeth and annabeths shoudler was bandaged. The entire camp looked happy to be there. I guessed it was after the battle. A lot of their campers had died.

Another one showed a funeral pyre.

Nico di angelo stood in the middle. Lighting each pyre and he looked like he was chanting a blessing.

Annabeth stroked a red coral reef on her necklace.

"Percy gave me this when we started dating. He said it was from deep in the ocean where only a child of the sea or his father would go. He gave it to me as a token of all we have been through."

"How did you get injured in the shoulder?"

"Percy had this small spot on his back. It was his Achilles heel. An enemy demigod almsot stabbed him. I had no idea it was his heel. I felt like he needed help so I got in the way and he stabbed me instead. The dagger was poisoned. Percy almsot killed the demigod. He looked angry. He got someone, I think his Pegasus to get me to Will."

I closed the book gently and hugged my friend.

"It's going to be okay Annabeth. Percy is one heck of a demigod."

She hugged me back. "I hope it will otherwise I'd go to hades and demand percy be brought back then I'd kill percy myself"