The Sword and The Shield

Chapter 4

My dreams weren't as pleasant as the outside world. Spiders filled my mind with the memory of the Mark of Athena. Percy when he disappeared. Falling into tartarsus. Fighting Gaea. My home being destroyed.

SPIDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Wake up. Annabeth. Wake up.!"

I bolted up, which was an instant mistake. Pain seared throughout my whole body. I looked down and saw that the rest of my sleeve had been ripped off to make a make shift bandage. I smelled something very sweet on my shoulder. I didn't even need to know what it was. It was my not birthday cake. "Hhhhhhuuuugggggghhhhh" wow I really needed to learn how to talk under pain. I looked up to see his worried sear green eyes and black wavy hair leaning over me. "Annabeth", he said gently, "Lay down." He gently grabbed my shoulder and my waist, so he wouldn't cause anymore pain, and laid me down. I looked around the room and found I was inside the Big House. I was on a green fluffy couch. Percy sitting next to me, all my friends at the long table, a beat up Octivian tied up in the corner, and-

"LEO????" I croaked, while sitting up again.

"Yes Annabeth, he's back, but lay down." Percy told me. He had no aggression or order in his voice. He never did when I was hurt. When I was hurt he put every that he wanted behind him, and made sure I was fine and getting better.

"Aaahhhh now she awakes." Said a chuckling voice from the shadows, but I knew who it was. Chiron would always kid around with me and call me Sleeping Beauty when I was younger because I would sleep in until the very last minute.

Leo- I realized- was on a couch to being tended to a stab wound by a, very pretty ginger haired girl. Leo was squirming, and she said to him "Leo hold still. You're still bleeding." She held his arm steady, though there was no fierceness I her grip. As she finished she turned to me and started to take off my bandage.

"Hello Annabeth. My name is Calypso." I already knew who she was. "I know." I replied. She raised her eyebrows. "Oh really, so you know I have met Percy before?" Oh yes I knew this. "Yes I did know, but it is great to finally meet you." She continued to re-bandage my shoulder. Percy was wide eyed. "Annabeth, I never told you." He said. "I know you didn't, but I knew right away that you were lying." I replied. "How did you know I was lying?" He asked. "Percy don't be silly. I have know you since you were twelve. I think I know when you lying." I said, like it was obvious. "But how did you know it was Calypso's island?" He said like he had this conversation down. "Percy, I have been learning all about the Greek history since before I ran away, and I am a daughter of Athena. I think I won this argument." I said, smirking. He narrowed his eyes and then sighed. He knew I won. "You're right you won. Do you think you can step outside with us?" He asked. "Yes." Was the reply.