The After Journey

Another Beach.

Annabeth's POV
I watch as Taiylor reaches for me while crying and all I do is stand there and look at her. She cries out "I'm so sorry, Annabeth." I stare at her confused on what she means. "I don't understand?." And she walks away.

I'm shifted to another area where Percy is holding me while I cry. Why am I crying? My mother stands across from me with a sad look in her eyes. I don't understand any of this. I look around wiping my eyes and I see Percy's mom walking over to me and she wraps her arms around me and I start sobbing even harder.

I wake myself up with a jolt and I sit up breathing hard. I rub my face looking around. What the hell was that? I haven't had a dream like that..ever. I try and understand but I just can't.

Percy reaches for me and I take his hand gently. He mumbles tiredly. "Are you okay?" I say "I um..yeah." He pouts sitting up while rubbing his eyes. "Go back to sleep." I sigh looking at him. "Why are you upset, babe?."

"I just had a bad dream, that's all."

"It seems like it was pretty bad."

I shrug a bit. He looks at me with a pouty face and I kiss his cheek and go to the bathroom. I get in shower hoping this will help. It does for a little bit but when I get out of the shower and walk out of the bathroom Percy and Taiylor are staring right at me.

"What?" I ask looking back at them while brushing my hair.

"Did you have a nightmare?" Taiylor asks me shaking a bit. I nod. "Why?"

"Because we all did. And it seems like they were all pretty much the same. Are you okay?" She asks me and I don't get why they're both acting so different. We get nightmares almost every single night. What's so different about this?

"I'm sure it's nothing.." I try to reassure them but I don't think I'm reassuring myself.

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That evening we get to Florida and we're at Daytona Beach. Another beach but I'm not surprised to be honest. Since Artemis had approached Percy, and since this is his quest, it makes sense that we would be where he feels most comfortable.

Percy's POV
I've been keeping an eye on Annabeth, even though she says she's fine, I know she's not. It kind of upsets me that she won't tell me what's bothering her about the dream.

My thoughts are stopped when I see my dad standing right in front of me about fifteen feet ahead.

The Prophecy said "You will head south and meet someone you know." Or something like that, I forget easily. I can't believe I didn't think of my dad until now. I'm stupid.

I walk over to him with Taiylor and Annabeth following behind me. "Hello son." He smiles and waves at me.

"Hi." I smile slightly, unsure of what he's going to say. "I'd like to talk with Annabeth please." I look at her and she nods, and they are off.

Annabeth's POV
I follow Poseidon along the beach, he doesn't stop anywhere, so we just walk along the shore in quiet for awhile.

He glances at me every once in a while and I do the same, I wish he would just talk already.

I finally say "If you're going to say something, then just say it. Okay?" He then looks at me with teary eyes and I'm almost shocked. Nobody ever sees the gods cry, besides Aphrodite, unless it's something absolutely major.

"What's wrong?." I say with a worried tone in my voice. He shakes his head a bit. "All I can say is that I'm so sorry. Then next time I see you will be in Olympus, and still then you won't know until after. But just know that we're all here for you and Percy, and your friends and family."

I stare at him completely shocked, I wish he would just tell me. "I don't..I don't understand? What could possibly be so bad?" He shakes his head again.

I sigh "Do we have your blessing?"

"Of course you do. I'll see you in Olympus, Annabeth. Tell Percy that I hope he's doing well." I nod and walks back over to them holding me stomach, I feel like I'm going to be sick.

"What's wrong? Are you okay? What'd did he say?" I get swarmed with questions and I lean over and throw up everything that was in my stomach, Percy holds my hair back and Taiylor covers her ears and closes her eyes tightly, I can't blame her. This is really disgusting.

After I clean my mouth up I tell them what he told me and they both stare at me, dumbfounded. I cross my arms uncomfortable with the stares and look away.

Percy is giving me this scared and sad look, almost like a lost puppy. I tell him that it'll will be okay and whatever it is that we'll get through it. But will we? I feel so anxious right now that I don't think I can eat anything for the rest of the day.
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We walk into a smoothie shop and we each order a smoothie to hopefully make us feel better, because none of us were in the mood to eat a meal. So we settled on this so we could keep our energy up.

I sit in the back corner with my smoothie while they both look around. I bring my knees up to my chest and sip my drink slowly. I have no appetite and if I wasn't pregnant I probably wouldn't eat anything right now.

I haven't even really thought about what is going to happen. And I don't know if I want to. If this was you and you knew something bad was about to happen and everyone knew but you and they weren't telling you, would you want to know? Or wait until it happens? I would want to wait, I mean, I should enjoy my happiness while it lasts. No reason to rush sudden depression on whatever this is about.

Percy sits next to me and he wraps his arms around my waist pulling me closer to him, I lay my head on his shoulder and sigh a bit. I wish I could just move on, but I can't seem to.

He whispers in my ear "It's okay..I promise." "Don't promise anything." I respond. He nods and says "Okay." I look into his eyes searching for..I don't know what I'm searching for. Sadness? Assurance? Maybe both.

Taiylor interrupts my thoughts by saying "Can we take a day off and not travel? If that's possible. Because I just want to sleep." I chuckle softly and look at Percy. "Yeah I guess we can, we've been moving pretty quick and ahead of schedule so I don't see why not." She smiles widely.

She's really in love with sleeping, if you give her a tv and a bed she'll fall asleep. But it is nice to have a day off.

"We can splurge a bit and get a nice hotel too if you guys want." He tells us and we both nod "I'll pay for my own room, I think you guys need your privacy." Taiylor tells us, and I quietly thank her.

We finish our smoothies and throw our stuff away and are off to find a nice hotel that doesn't smell like dog pee and alcohol.

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After a few searches we finally find a decent one and Taiylor goes and crashes in her room next to ours and we settle into our room. He showers while read a book that someone's left here.

Oddly enough it's a Greek Mythology history book and I read paragraph after paragraph of all these stories. I already knew most of the stories but reading them again is so interesting.

Percy comes out of the shower in just his sweatpants and he lays on the bed and he pulls me closer to him. I put the book down and lay down with him and turn to face him.

He smiles and kisses me softly, still even at the slightest touch I get butterflies in my stomach. He strokes my cheek with his thumb and I shiver slightly. I look up at him and ask "How bad do you think whatever this is, is?" He replies with

"Bad.."

A/N Hey guys! So I'm back with another chapter, hope you guys enjoy! This chapter is more on the laid back side, I want these next few chapters to be more subtle and then on the chapter when the quest ends it will be like BOOM. Haha probably not. Anyways, if you've forgotten or didn't know I have made a new Fanfiction called In The Shadow and pleaseeeee go check it out! Also please vote, comment, and follow! Thanks so much for everything, hope you have a great day. 💕