The Other Half (Percabeth Fanfiction)

Chapter 2: Can't You Hear Me?

***Percy's POV***

Wandering aimlessly, I repeatedly find myself back at the Athena cabin. Annabeth was the other half of me, the better half, and now she's gone. I feel like my heart is split in two and I know she must feel it, but she won't talk to me. It's like I don't exist to her. She changed the schedule so we would have no activities together. All I need is closure. Doesn't she feel the insistent yearning to be together? I thought we were soul mates. She can't just ignore that.

I spend a whole day sitting outside the Athena cabin, waiting for her to come to it, but I never see her. Malcolm passes though and touches my shoulder. "Sorry man," he tells me, "you aren't gonna find her."

"But I just need to see her. Can you please tell her that?" I beg.

"I can try, but she doesn't even come back to the cabin most nights. And when I do see her it's like she's not even there, she just sits and stares at the water, or hides somewhere. All of us can see it, she's clearly not doing okay."

I feel the same way as her. Why can't she just let me tell her?

***Annabeth's POV***

I saw Percy sitting outside the cabin and another rip was made in my heart. Percy, my heart calls. We need to go to Percy. No, I firmly reply. We can't. Remember what he did to us. Don't lose strength now. It was hard. So very hard. Percy's big seal eyes were rimmed with red from crying and countless days of not sleeping. His forlorn expression crushes me. But I can't cave in. I am stronger than him. He doesn't deserve me.

I stay where I am, watching him. He isn't leaving and I don't want him to. I don't want to watch him walk away, even though I can't stand to be near him. Eventually I just take out my Yankees cap and walk past him invisible. After that I watch him from a window, still invisible. Malcolm goes by and talks to Percy. I can feel the tears well up in my eyes as I listen. He's right there yet I feel as if we are a million miles apart.

I leave the cabin walking past Percy again. I look at him and see him dozing. His bangs hang lightly across his face. The face I know and love. He mumbles in his sleep, just a single word, "Annabeth."

***Percy's POV***

A sudden wind wakes me. I hope I wasn't asleep for too long, that I didn't miss Annabeth. In the air hangs the faint scent of lemons. Annabeth?! My heart jumps wildly, but no. Malcolm said she rarely ever comes to the cabin. I'm not going to see Annabeth today. Dejectedly, I get up and go back to my cabin.