Finding The Way Back To You

Five: It's Just Indifference (I Forgot You Existed)

MattMcWise

A/N: sorry for the short chapter :)

Last Summer...

Percy rolled over on the air mattress, and traced circles into her back.

"That tickles." She mumbled.

"Sorry." Percy retracted his hand.

"No, no, it's cute." She rolled over to face him.

"You're cute." He said, rolling his eyes.

"So cute that you stayed in Greece for me." She giggled.

Percy sat up. "That's not why I stayed. I stayed because this is an opportunity I can't pass up. Annabeth understands that." He sighed.

"It doesn't hurt that the sex is fantastic." Calypso giggled.

"You giggle a lot." He noted.

"Is it a problem?"

"No," he smiled. "It's actually adorable." He scooped her up in his arms and held her in his lap.

"You're adorable." Calypso ran her hand over the hard lines of his face.

Percy could feel his stomach swirling with every twist and turn  of her hand.

Calypso was like a dream. Percy wasn't sure she was even real until she would kiss him. Her amber eyes looked like a sunset that he could get lost in. Not unlike a storm that would swirl around his brain, clouding his vision of any other person in the world. A storm he wished sucked him in, and kept him safe in the eye.

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Present...

The following day, the palpability of the situation he's put himself in hit him like Sisyphus realizing he'd made it to the top, only for his boulder to roll back down the treacherous mountain he had just fought against.

Annabeth woke him up when she tripped over him on her way to the bathroom for her lovely morning-sickness induced puking fun.

"Beth, are you okay?" Percy leaned in the doorframe, waiting for a response before realizing that she would have a hard time responding with all the fluids leaving her body from her mouth.

He sat next to her on the tub and rubbed soothing patterns into her back, letting her know he was there.

"I'm fine. It's normal." She said, wobbling to her feet, using Percy's knee to stand up.

"I know it's normal, but that doesn't mean you feel good." Percy reasoned.

"Obviously, Percy, I don't feel good."

"You don't have to keep this baby, Beth, I'll understand, if at any point, you decide that you don't want to keep it." Percy shifted his weight nervously as she started to brush her teeth.

"I appreciate you stating the obvious." Annabeth said through a mouthful of toothpaste.

"I know it's obvious, but I just want you to know I'm here to support you, and whatever decisions you want to make when it comes to this baby."

"As much as I appreciate your moral support, I would appreciate food a whole lot more right now."

"How do pancakes sound right now?"

"Not good."

"Eggs?" Percy tried to think of things that would be easy on her stomach, but Annabeth gagged almost involuntarily. "I'll take that as a no... what about...."