The Sun's Sea

chapter 8

Apollo's POV

Artemis said he had nightmares. That was an understatement. They were more like night terrors. I heard his screams and ran down the hall to check on him. He was thrashing and screaming in his bed. I ran to him and pulled him into a hug.

"Hey," I said, " it's okay, you're not there."

This calmed him down and he slept peacefully again. I stayed with him the entire night and he had no more nightmares.

* Later that morning *

The next morning when he woke up he was a little disoriented. I explained to him what happened last night.

"Oh," he said, blushing, "sorry for waking you."

"Don't worry about it, you have nothing to be sorry for. You had a nightmare. Let's get breakfast."

While we are I asked him what happened in his nightmare. Surprisingly he told me.

"Annabeth and I were in Tartarus and we were being hunt down by monsters. And Annabeth got possessed by an eidolon and made her kill me. But then I had to watch her die. Even though we aren't together anymore I still care about her. It just felt so real."

I looked at Percy and could see that by just talking about it made it scare him again. I thought for a moment.

"Did you and Annabeth talk about your nightmares when you were together?"

"Yeah, we would talk about them. It felt nice to know you weren't going through it alone."

"Maybe we should talk about some of the nightmares you had recently, maybe some that have been reoccurring."

He nodded in agreement and started talking about his nightmares. I listened and helped him through talking about some of the hard things.

I felt horrible knowing he had to see these things. I felt worse knowing that if it weren't for us gods he wouldn't have nightmares. I knew from this point on I had to help him.

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Sorry for not updating I've been busy and had writers block and alot of you know how that is.

Also some of you guys in the comments keep calling Annabeth, Annabitch and that annoys me because I do like Annabeth and I only made her this way for the story line. I respect her because of all the shit she went through and still remains strong. I also love percabeth but I wanted to do this story because there weren't alot for this ship.

And it will be a wait for another chapter because I'm doing different stuff to get my inspiration back so hopefully it won't take too long.

Hope you guys had a happy Thanksgiving if you celebrate it and a good Thursday in November if you don't and goodbye for now.

P.S. If you have any ideas for a good short story not relating to any fandom P.m. them to me and I'll post them in a separate book. I'm trying free writing to get my inspiration back.