Wedding

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A/N: After all of these proposals, I feel like we now need to find out what happens at their wedding. Picture above is their wedding rings.
Annabeth's P.O.V
Everything was going well. I had spent the last year and a half planning this wedding and now it was finally happening. Thalia walked into the Athena cabin, where I was (we were getting married at Camp Half-blood, obviously). She was wearing a blue dress. (Use your imagination. I'm not good with dresses)
Behind her came Hazel, Calypso, Rachel, Reyna, Juniper and Piper, all wearing matching blue dresses (getting Thalia and Reyna to agree to wear a dress was the hardest thing I've probably ever done).
"You ready?" Thalia asked.
"Getting cold feet?" Piper said.
"No cold feet." I smiled "Percy's the only one I want to spend my life with. He's my soulmate."
"Well, remember, if he breaks your heart..." Thalia cracked her knuckles threateningly.
"Thals, it's fine. He'd never do anything to hurt me."
"Well, let's go get you married then."
I exited the cabin, my bridesmaids in tow, and walked to the top of Half-Blood hill, where the ceremony was taken place. There were white chairs in rows for all of the guests that were facing a white arch covered in blue flowers.
At the front were all of our closest friends and family: Sally, Estelle, Paul, my stepmum and stepbrothers, Magnus and his friends from Hotel Valhalla, Leo, Jason, Frank, Malcolm, Nico, Will, Tyson and Ella, Coach Hedge, Mellie and Chuck. Even some of the gods were there: Athena and Poseidon, bickering as always, Dionysus (I think Chiron forced him to come), Hades and Persephone, Aphrodite, squealing about her ship and Area, grumbling something about hating Percy but graciously not killing him. Behind them was most of Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter, including the rest of the Athena Cabin, Clarisse and Chris, Travis and Connor, Katie, Miranda and Lou Ellen. Stood to the sides of the seats were Mrs O'Leary, Blackjack, Porkpie, Guido, lots of other horses and sea animals, including Bessie the Ophiotaurus. Past the hill, down in the sea, was a bunch of fishes, Rainbow the hippocampus and a few of his friends and a squad of squids. Right at the front, there was a row of empty seats. Stood directly in front of me, under the arch and next to Chiron, who was officiating, and Grover, his best man (best goat?) was Percy. He was wearing a black suit with a blue tie and his raven black hair was still messy, despite our efforts to tame it. His sea green eyes filled with love as they met mine.
I was so happy; everyone I loved was her in one place. No monsters, no quests, no nothing. Just me, Percy and our crazy awesome friends.
Then I froze. I'd seen something that made my blood freeze and my heart stop...
Percy's P.O.V
It was the best day of my life. We were all together, all able to celebrate for one day in peace. Grover was next to me, smartly dressed in a shirt and jacket with a blue tie that matched mine and no trousers or shoes, showing off his goat legs and hooves.
I locked eyes with my dad, Poseidon, who was sitting in the crowd by the rest of the gods. He smirked and mouthed I'm proud of you, son. Then I looked over at my mum, Paul and Estelle, who was struggling against my mum's arms that were wrapped around her, trying to stop her going to pet Mrs O'Leary. She was in a light blue dress that already had cookie crumbs all over it and her messy black hair was untamable. She was only 4, but already just like her older brother.
The music started (played by Kayla, Austin, Apollo and the nine muses) and Annabeth appeared at the other end of the aisle, followed by her maid of honour, Thalia and her bridesmaids.
My eyes met with Annabeth's and for a second, everything seemed perfect. She smiled and then her face morphed into one of terror. I froze. What was it? What's wrong? Is it a monster? Annabeth's shaking now, Thalia talking to her softly, trying to calm her down, but her eyes couldn't move from just above my head. I turned to see what she was staring at and suddenly understood why she was petrified. Hanging from the arch was a spider.
"Excuse me." I smiled at everyone watching, then drew Riptide and smacked the spider to the ground, killing it instantly. "Okay now?" I smiled at Annabeth, capping Riptide and putting it back in my pocket.
"Thanks." Annabeth smiled in relief.
The music continued and Annabeth walked up to me, arm in arm with her dad and Thalia.
"Take good care of her." Frederick nodded at me.
"I will."
"Friends, family, random gods who decided to come," Chiron began "We are gathered here today to celebrate the love of Annabeth Chase and Perseus Jackson. I'll skip the boring speech, as most of the people here are ADHD, but I will say that I have watched Percy and Annabeth's relationship grow from a childish, distracting friendship to a childish, distracting courtship and now to what I'm sure will be a childish distracting marriage."
(A/N: Yes, I know this is from Brooklyn 99, but so what?)
"I believe you've prepared your own vows?"
Annabeth nodded.
"Perseus Jackson... The day you stumbbled over the Camp boundary was the best day of my life. Because of you, I got to see the outside world, which was always my dream. You understand me more than anyone else in the world and I know that you will always be there for me, no matter what. You never gave up on me when everyone else thought I'd died falling off that cliff and I never gave up on you when Hera kidnapped you for 9 months. No matter what, I know that we'll be okay if we have each other. I love you so dam much."
I smiled "Annabeth Chase, my Wise Girl, when we first met, I was terrified of you... And that has not changed since then. In fact, I'd say I'm more scared of you than I used to be."
She giggled. Gods, I love making her smile.
"I will always, always be there for you, and I will always keep you safe, no matter what, like when, just after our first kiss in the volcano, I told you to run and that I had a plan. Honestly, I didn't have any idea what I was going to do. I never do. My plan is always just to follow your plan. All I knew was that I had to get you out. You quickly became the most important person in my life and my love for you is so strong that even Hera, the Queen of the gods, couldn't make me forget you... When you were going to fall into Tartarus-"
She flinched at that word and so did I, but I needed to say this.
"I was terrified at the thought of losing you. I couldn't let go of your hand. I would've held on forever if I could, but you were slipping so I fell in with you. Anything would be better than having to live without you. I'd already been through 9 months of it.  I preferred to literally go through Hell than to go through that again. I'm so lucky to wake up every day with you by my side. I love you. I love you so much, my Wise Girl. Whatever happens, no matter how many monsters there are, no matter how many arrows are flying, I'm going to be right there with you, always by your side."
"Annabeth Chase, do you take Percy to be your husband?" Chiron asked.
"I do." She smiled through her tears.
"And do you, Perseus Jackson, take Annabeth to be your wife?"
"I do."
"Then, by the power vested in me by the gods of Olympus, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the groom." He said to Annabeth.
Standing on her tiptoes, she pressed her lips against mine.
"I love you, Seaweed Brain."
"I love you too." I kissed her back and for a moment nothing else mattered. Then our friends cheering brought me back down to earth.
"Now you finally have something permanent." I smiled as I put the ring on her finger.
Someone yelled "It's about time!" I think it was Clarisse.
After the ceremony, there was a massive party to which everyone was invited. It was dark, the stars twinkling in the sky, when Nico walked up to us, Hades begrudgingly following him.
"I think it's about time I have you my present to you." He smiled slightly and turned to his dad expectantly.
"Oh, alright then. You've all earned it." He sighed and waved his hand.
At the end of the aisle materialised a twenty foot tall giant. From the waist up, he was humanoid, with cherry-red skin, a beard and hair the colour of rusted iron, bushy eyebrows, and multiple scars on his face. His dreadlocks were decorated with tufts of grass, leaves and swamp flowers. From the waist down, his dragon legs were red and he had claws on his feet. Next to him stood someone slightly taller than him, with wild Einstein silver hair that stuck up in every direction, a scraggly long beard and pure silver eyes. He was wearing a blue janitor's uniform and carrying a massive push broom. Curled up on his shoulder was a small white cat with orange and brown patches.
"It can't be..." Annabeth murmured.
"All of the gods agreed that they should be freed." Hades explained "With a bit of convincing (Read:threatening) from Nico."
"Percy! Annabeth!" Bob yelled "Look what I found!" He held up a backpack that looked vaguely familiar.
"Is that...?"
"My backpack! But... But I lost that in Tartarus years ago. How does he-"
Damasen held up a knife that looked tiny in his hands "I think this is yours, too."
"My knife!" She ran over to them.
"Thank you, Nico." I smiled then ran over to them, giving Bob a huge hug.
Annabeth gasped "Daedalus' laptop! It was in my backpack." And it still was. That's gonna keep her occupied for the next few centuries.
I still couldn't believe it. Bob and Damasen had been freed from Tartarus and I was marrying the woman of my dreams. It was the perfect day.
Bob gazed up at the starry sky "Hello, stars." He smiled.
*Time Skip*
I was stood next to Nico when Annabeth came up to me and asked "Hey, Percy, what's the deal with the empty row of chairs?"
"Oh, umm. Well, that's for Lee Jordan and the one next to it's for Michael Yew. Then there's Bianca, and Silena and Beckendorf, Zoë, Daedalus, Ethan, and... and Luke." I smiled sadly "They would've liked to come."
She kissed my cheek.
"They did. I can sense their spirits. They were here." Nico said.
I looked at the chairs and, just for a second, I thought I could see them.
Zoë was rolling her eyes, muttering about boys being gross, Bianca was smiling, Beckendorf had his arm around Silena as she squealed excitedly about her ship. I swear I heard Luke's voice whisper in my head 'Take good care of her.'
I will I thought.
Then they were gone.

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