The Effects of Betrayal

Chapter one

Percy's Point of View

I wasn't sure what to do anymore, Annabeth and I had been together for nearly six years, but Apparently, she got tired of me and basically threw away all the plans we'd made for a life together.  I'd been starting to think about proposing to her, but there's no point now since I saw her with another guy and it seems she's more interested in him than me these days.

She'd seemed a bit distant lately, but I hadn't even considered that she might be cheating on me, after all as far as I knew she still loved me just as much as I love her. Like we had planned we'd been going to the university in New Rome, but it seems like every time we get some peace when we can just be happy it eventually comes to an end sooner or later.

Obviously, I found out that she no longer wanted to be with me, but I almost couldn't believe it. I hadn't been able to bring myself to stay in New Rome after that, and I'd decided to leave despite my friends' protests. Camp Half-Blood wouldn't be any better, so I just left. It had been a few days since that day, and I had encountered quite a few monsters. Honestly, after Annabeth betrayed me I sometimes thought that it might just be easier to let one of the monsters kill me. I couldn't bring myself to do it though, and I just continued to kill them whenever they would find me.

I'd loved Annabeth so much, and now my heart was shattered. Since my fatal flaw was loyalty that just made it worse and I doubted that I'd get over her any time soon. Even if I did eventually move on, I didn't think I would be able to trust someone enough to have a long-term romantic relationship with them after Annabeth betrayed me.

Over the next few days, I just traveled trying to decide what to do with my life now that I wasn't returning to either of the camps. Although I considered returning to New York to stay with my mom and Paul. I quickly tossed that idea though since I would just put them in danger by returning. I hadn't even contacted them to tell them what had happened. I knew I should, but technically they probably wouldn't even be that concerned about me since she probably thought I was still in New Rome. For that reason, I put contacting them off for a little longer partially to avoid worrying them. I knew mom could always tell when something was bothering me so if I contacted her I would just have to explain what had happened and I wasn't ready to do that.

Over the next few days, I continued to travel defeating any monsters I encountered, but when there weren't monsters to fight I would usually end up thinking about Annabeth and how much she had hurt me. Dwelling on her betrayal certainly wasn't helping me but I just couldn't stop. After a while, though that led to me doing something that you might consider cowardly, but at the time it seemed easier than living with the pain.

I tried to kill myself, but it seems that it wasn't my time to die since before I passed out I heard a voice in my head, a voice that was annoyingly familiar. The voice said that it wasn't my time to die. After that, I passed out and the next time I woke up I was somewhere else entirely.  I could tell it wasn't the underworld, so I was sure I wasn't dead, but I still couldn't really figure it out. The room I was in looked like an infirmary, but I was sure it wasn't the one at Camp Half-Blood.

I'd guessed that I'd been sent here by the same person who I'd heard in my head since I could tell that my wounds were bandaged and if I hadn't been sent here I probably would have bled out and died. I finally figured out where I was when someone walked into the room. I quickly recognized that someone as Apollo. Great, I thought since I knew he would probably want me to explain what had happened, and I didn't really want to.

Apollo said, "what happened to you cuz, I came in here and found you lying there unconscious and bleeding,"

Forgetting that Apollo is the god of truth I came up with a lie to try and hide the fact that I'd inflicted the wound on myself. I replied, "I ran into a large group of monsters, one of them managed to get the better of me. I'm pretty sure the fates sent me here since I heard one of them speak in my head saying that it wasn't my time to die," Technically part of that was the truth since I was pretty sure it was one of the fates who spoke in my head and they must have sent me here for Apollo to heal me.