Drown with me || Percabeth AU

Chapter 23

It's must have been getting late. The smoke was making me so drowsy and the warmth from Percy's shirt was so comforting.

It's so cliche, the boys gives the girl his shirt because he e is cold and he is a strong boy who can handle the cold. I don't mind this though.

"Do you want me to make you a marshmallow?"

"That's would be awesome Seaweed brain".

I looked out over the ocean. The moon light caught the waves white caps so they glowed against the black backdrop of ocean.

"Annabeth you know how I talked about how my mom dated this guy, Gabe"

"Yeah, smelly Gabe  your jerk stepdad"

"It's was a rough time for my mom and I, we needed to get by. Gabe has money, a car and apartment and would protect us, or atleast that's what mom told me he would do".

"I hated the guy, he was a useless drunk. He barely worked and all he did was lie around all day and be cruel to my mom but that wasn't the worst of it."

"I had just gotten expelled from my sixth school and had come back home for the summer. Gabe was worst than usual he was drunk more often, I had become numb to the cruel things he would say but on day I came home from summer job and I heard yelling and screaming. I ran up to our apartment and saw my mom cowering in the kitchen. She saw me as I walked in and tried to hide her face but I saw, I saw she had a bloody nose and a black eye. I felt so angry at Gabe he had been beating my mother and that was the final straw. I ran at him and jumped between my mother and him. I yelled about how he was a jerk. He screaming about how I was a useless piece of ..... well I tried hitting him and he just laughed and began beating me up really nicely. I was brushed and barley conscious but I remember him getting a electrical cable and beating with with it..... it.. it hurt so much"

I was holding back my tears.

"My mom was fine with letting herself be his punching bag but not me, she said that she just called the cops on him but I saw his mug shot and I know that she must have kicked the absolute crap out of him. But... but that scar the one under my arm, it never fully healed."

The marshmallow was melting and falling off percys stick. His didn't cry he just looked furiously into the fire, like he wanted to find Gabe and murder him for what he had done, I wanted to murder Gabe after what Percy just told me.

"Percy... I-I" I felt my eyes burning and I couldn't say anything.

I shuffled over to him and gave him a big hug. After that we just sat in the fire light. I could her his breathing as I leaned against his side.

I felt such sorrow, my pain was nothing compared to his.

We ate marshmallows and just sat in silence for the rest of the night.

I must have fallen asleep and Percy carried me home because when I woke up the next morning, I was in my bed.

The gentle sunlight wafting in.