When We Were 'Us'

He's Awake-Annabeth POV

I woke up still feeling like I was floating from the night before. I was snuggling Neró, and as I buried my face in the plush toy, I realized it smelled like Percy, which only made me happier.

"Annabeth, breakfast in 10 minutes." Malcolm poked me as he passed my bed. His hair was sticking up at all angles, and I guessed he hadn't woken up much earlier than I had.

"Alright, thanks."

He paused at the door. "How was your date?"

I smiled. "Amazing, as usual."

After quickly getting dressed in sweatpants and a camp t-shirt and pulling my hair up into a ponytail until I could get a brush through it, I left the cabin and headed for the dining pavilion.

A hand slipped around my waist, but I knew it wasn't Percy because of the size and angle.

"Hey Piper." I grinned at her.

"Hey. I heard you had a good time yesterday. Where'd he take you?" She asked.

"Well, first we went to this little French restaurant inside an old inn called Mirabelle."

"Isn't that in Stony Brook?" Piper frowned. "How'd you get there?"

"Percy's car. He got Leo to make it for him and it's pretty cool."

"Okay, I gotta see that sometime. Where'd you go after the restaurant?"

"We went to a nearby carnival. Percy dropped a girl into the dunk tank, and from the way he reacted and what he's told me, the cold water she fell into should have been colder."

Piper nodded slowly. "It was that Nancy girl, wasn't it? He's mentioned her once or twice."

"Has he? Never to me. Anyway, after that, we walked around for a while, I tried an archery game and won a stuffed dolphin I named Neró-"

"Ocean." Piper nodded like she approved.

"Yeah, and we bought cotton candy, then drove back here and I went to bed while he went to tell Chiron we were back."

"You guys are so cute." Piper said. "I'm glad he treats you so well."

"He kept playing romantic songs on the radio. I don't know if he planned it or not, but they were cute."

We reached the dining pavilion and and split up to go sit at our tables.

Percy passed me and gave me a soft kiss on the top of the head as he headed for the fire to sacrifice part of his meal.

After breakfast, I went back to my cabin and changed into a sports bra, white shirt, shorts and tennis shoes, not bothering to run my brush through my hair just yet. I had training then free time, I was going to take a shower after I worked out.

Grabbing my iPod Nano, which we had found out didn't work the same way as a phone for alerting monsters, I plugged in my headphones as I walked to the arena for my training session.

Luckily, I was skilled enough that instead of sparring, I could just work out. Chiron allowed some of us older kids to follow our schedule more loosely, and I took full advantage of that.

Slipping a pair of boxing gloves onto my hands, I squared off with one of the punching bags and began going through my workout routine: twenty minutes of kickboxing, ten minutes afterward of stretching to cool down, ten minutes of knife-work and sword-work with my weapons, another fifteen minutes of kickboxing, then using the walk back to my cabin as a cool down so I could grab my towel and go straight to the showers when I got done with my workout.

The sound of my kickboxing playlist offered me a way to time each part of my workout. Twenty minutes of Fall Out Boy, then twenty of the Offspring which I split up between the first cool down and the technical work, then the rest was Panic! At the Disco.

I was ten minutes into my Panic! At the Disco playlist, I faintly heard someone shouting over the loud sounds of Brendon Urie's voice.

Pausing the playlist, I pulled my earbuds out and turned to see who was calling for me.

"Annabeth!" A young girl was running towards me. Her straight brown hair was pulled away from her face and she was waving her arms frantically.

"What's up?" I asked as she reached me. "Is something wrong?"

The girl shook her head. "Will went to check the kids in the infirmary after his archery practice, and he sent me to get you!"

"Is someone injured?"

"No, he told me to tell you he's awake."

My heart skipped a beat and began to race.

"That's exactly what he said?"

"Yeah!" The girl nodded.

I sprinted for the infirmary.

Will was waiting for me outside.

"You're serious?" I asked him, my heart fluttering and my mind racing.

"Absolutely. He wants to see you."

"Can I?" I asked excitedly.

"Of course, just remember he's still weak. Don't go jumping all over him."

"Right, no super physical contact." I pushed past the son of Apollo and rushed into the infirmary, heading for the curtained off bed in the back of the room.

"Careful, Annabeth!" Will shouted behind me as I narrowly avoided running into one of his sisters.

I flung the curtain aside and stared down at the bed in front of me, my chest heaving. I felt my face break into a grin at the familiar face smiling back up at me.

"Hey, Annie." Luke said softly.

[A/N So what happened is Luke and Ethan's places were switched, except they got Luke out of the way of the fall and so he was just in a coma for a long time. Ethan was Kronos' host and Luke just worked with him and when he got stabbed in the stomach with the blade he used to try and kill Ethan it hit him in the stomach and he went into a coma from the blood loss]