Best Underwater Kiss

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A/N: The picture above is the engagement ring. This is also my favourite Percabeth proposal.
Annabeth's P.O.V
I had been looking for Percy all day until Juniper told me that he was sitting at the bottom of the lake and had been all day. Sighing, I walked over to the lake. Whenever he got mad or wanted to avoid people, he just sat at the bottom of the lake for hours.
I reached the edge of the lake and shouted down into the water "Percy! I know you're down there! Why are you mad this time? Just come up and talk, you can't stay down there forever!" I mean, technically, he could, but oh well. I was about to get mad when a hand grabbed my foot and pulled me into the lake.
"Percy!" I screamed "You're gonna get my clothes wet!"
"Don't worry, I've made a bubble around us." He laughed.
I looked around and saw that he was right. We were surrounded by a bubble that stopped us getting wet and let me breathe. We were under the lake, where we had kissed on his birthday 9 years ago.
"So, why're you down here then?" I asked.
"I've just... Been thinking...... Do you know what day it is?"
I thought. I knew it was our anniversary soon, but that wasn't for a few weeks. I couldn't think of anything.
I shook my head.
"The all-knowing Annabeth doesn't know?!" Percy gasped.
"Shut up." I hit him. "Tell me then."
"It's exactly 10 years since our first kiss... At the volcano, just before it exploded, remember?"
I smiled "How do you remember that?"
"Well, it's about you and therefore it's important, so..." He shrugged.
"Oh, Percy." I leant forwards and kissed him. He pulled me closer, wrapping his arms around me.
I felt water lapping at my feet and I looked down to see that some water had got into the bubble. That only happened when Percy got distracted.
"So... You're distracted by something are you?" I teased.
"Oh, shut up." He smiled but then his face turned thoughtful and distant.
"Percy? What you thinking about?"
"It's just..." He reached for something on the floor - a shell - and got down on one knee.
"...Percy?"
"Wise girl, I love you more than anything. I remember when I first came to Camp and you terrified me, but even then I thought that you looked like a Princess, like a goddess, even. I'm so glad that you came on that quest because I would have died a million times without you. When I went back to school after that summer, I was sure that I'd imagined it all because I never thought that someone as perfect as you could ever exist. Then I saw you again when you saved my butt from the Laistrygonian giants and it was one of the best days of my life because I knew it wasn't a dream... When you fell off of that cliff fighting the Manticore, I refused to believe you were dead and I'm so glad I did. I would have done anything for you and when it came to holding the sky, it seemed like nothing compared to how I had felt when I thought you had died. When I thought you were going to join the Hunters of Artemis, I was terrified at the prospect of losing you. You have no idea how happy I was when it turned out to be Thalia. Then, in the Labyrinth, when you and Rachel were at each others throats, I was so confused. In Mount St Helen, I had no plan. The only thing that I knew was that I had to get you out safely, even if I died on the process. When you kissed me, you killed my only brain cell from the shock. Then I returned to Camp later to see you burning my shroud and the look on your face broke my heart... When I was in the river Styx, I saw your face. You were the person I lived for, my lifeline. You took a dagger for me when you didn't even know that it was going to hit my Achilles spot. When we fought Kronos, I didn't care what happened as long as you survived. You were the only thing that mattered. When I was offered immortality, I turned it down because the thought of leaving you was more horrible than I dared to think of... Then you kissed me under the lake and my dreams came true...... Then Hera wiped my memories but even she couldn't make me forget you. The thought that kept me going throughout my quest to free Thanatos was you... And when you were hanging onto the edge of Tartarus, I held on as much as I could but I couldn't last. I would never let you go. Never. After everything we'd been through, I could not leave you. I would rather fall with you than let you go, so I did. I fell straight into Tartarus. As long as we were together, nothing else mattered. But we survived and we defeated Gaea and United the Camps and the last years have been amazing. No quests, no monsters, I just get to be with you. As long as we're together, we can do anything. I love you so much, more than anything else in the world. Annabeth Chase, will you marry me?" He opened the shell to reveal a beautiful pearl ring.
Tears had come to my eyes while he was talking. Remembering everything we had been through made me know how much I loved him. I knew that he was the one for me, the only person I could ever love. My Seaweed Brain.
"Of course! Of course I will!" I kissed him "I love you, Seaweed Brain. I love you so much."
"I love you too Wise Girl." He kissed me back.
And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss ever...

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