Remember Me

Chapter Five

Annabeth's POV

As she led him to the dining area, she couldn't stop thinking about the feeling she'd gotten just moments earlier. She decided this was worse than him missing for all of those agonizing months. Now she had Percy back, but she didn't have Percy back. She missed him more than anything, but he was standing right in front of her.

She opened the door and found what she was looking for. She pulled out two chairs, gesturing for him to sit in one as she sat in the other.

He sat and followed her gaze.

"Anything?" she said after a little bit.

He squinted in concentration at the screen Leo had installed, showing live footage of Camp Half-Blood's strawberry fields. Annabeth couldn't help but think about the numerous times she and Percy had walked hand in hand through those fields, talking and laughing. She shook the thoughts from her head.

Percy sighed exasperatedly. "No... wait. Yes. I've seen this same shot through mist at some point. An Iris message?"

Annabeth nodded. "We messaged camp from a car wash on our first quest. But... anything else?"

Percy shook his head.

"Ugh. I thought that would at least spark more than one memory," Annabeth said.

"It's not all gonna come back right away," he said. "Like they say, Rome wasn't built in a day."

"I guess, but I just figured... I don't know."

"What? That just because you're here I'm all of a sudden gonna start remembering everything?" The heaviness he put on the word "you're" made Annabeth flinch.

"What's that supposed to mean?" She retorted.

"You can't expect all my memories to come flooding back! It isn't my fault I lost them in the first place."

"I never said it was, I just think you could try a little harder!" Her voice rose slightly.

"Try harder?" His voice was rising as well.

"You think I'm not trying? All I've been doing for the past few weeks is try! I'm sorry that the goddess who stole my memory isn't giving it all back just because I was reunited with my ex-girlfriend!"

Annabeth's eyes began to sting at his last remark. "Yeah, well I'm sorry I tried to help in the first place! And last I checked, you never exactly 'broke up' with me or anything."

"Well, sorry if I don't want to get all lovey-dovey with someone I just met, okay? Just take a step back and think about how it is for me!"

That was what did it. The Percy that Annabeth knew would never, ever, tell someone to 'think about him'. Percy was the most selfless person she knew.

Her voice became dangerously low. "I don't know who you are, but you are not the person I met four years ago."

She stood up and walked towards the door, blinking tears out of her eyes.

Right before she reached the door, it opened, revealing Leo, Jason, and Piper.

"Annabeth!" Leo said. "We just sent Hazel and Frank to go find you. We were thinking we should make a game plan and have some food."

She pushed passed them. "I'm not hungry," she said, trying to make her voice sound normal.

She heard Leo say "Time of the month?" followed by a slap from Piper before she got to her room and shut the door.

She flopped down on her bed, staring at the wooden ceiling and listening to the lull of the ship's engine. Tears flowed silently down her cheeks.

She tried to pull herself together, but it was a lost cause. She couldn't get over the fact that he had said 'ex-girlfriend'. She told herself that it was a heat-of-the-moment thing and he hadn't meant it. But a small voice inside her head told her that he had meant what he said, and he had no intention of returning their relationship to normal.

She knew she shouldn't have shot back at him, but gods, sometimes he got on her last nerves. Sure, things had always worked out in the end after their arguments, but what if this was different? What if he didn't remember enough of the good times they'd had together to care about fixing this?

Annabeth cursed herself. Maybe he didn't care, but she did. She didn't have to wait for him to apologize. If she wanted this to work out, she would have to actually do something.

She stood up and opened her door. The silence told her that the others had finished their meeting, or given up since their main plan-maker wasn't there.

She walked to his room but found that it was open and empty. Not knowing where to look first, she began to wander the ship.

Her feet automatically carried her to her favorite place on board: the pegasus stables.

She sighed and slumped down against a wall close to the glass window.

On her way to Camp Jupiter, she had been excited to show Percy this part of the ship. It reminded her of the back of the Kindness International truck, when she had heard a nagging voice in the back of her head say "You like him". At the time, she'd told that voice that they were just friends, but she slowly began to welcome her feelings for Percy Jackson. She hadn't known if that truck had the same significance for Percy, but she knew it would at least bring back a fond memory.

Not anymore, she thought. Now I'm just "a girl he barely knows".

She watched the clouds shooting past through the glass doors in the floor before remembering what she had been trying to do in the first place.

She sighed, rubbing her temples and standing up. She noticed that she was fidgeting with the hair tie on her wrist.

Great. On top of everything else, my ADHD is acting up.

Was it so much to ask for just one thing to go right for her? She was blonde, making everyone assume she was some kind of idiot. She had ADHD and dyslexia, her own mother didn't approve of her, and she was being forced to go on two quests this summer: one to save the world (again) and the other to 'avenge' her oh-so-loving mom who couldn't do a thing for herself even if her life depended on it. She'd been forced to run away when she was seven, then spent a few years crushing on a guy who would never like her. Then she met Percy, and things had started to work out. Well, minus the fact that he was too obtuse to realize that she liked him until years later. Two months of bliss was all she got before he was whisked away to that stupid Roman camp, forgetting his entire life and everything to do with her.

She heard footsteps approaching the stables and immediately looked for something to do that wouldn't seem suspicious. Not that anything she was doing was suspicious, but she still hadn't come up with a valid excuse for skipping out on planning.

Her back was to the door, but she heard the footsteps stop and Percy say: "Annabeth?"

Lovely, she thought. The last person I want to see right now.

No, a different voice in her head chided. He's exactly the person you need to see right now.

She turned and plastered a look of fake surprise on her face.

"Percy," she started. "Look, I--"

She was interrupted by a blood-curdling scream that came from the above deck.

A/N: Yep. I made them fight and finished with a cliff hanger. Am I sorry? Not at all.
Sorry that this chapter took a little while, I was a little too busy freaking o it because WE FREAKING DID IT!!!!
^^For those of you who don't know by now, although I'm sure you all do, DISNEY IS ADAPTING PERCY JACKSON
Anyways hope you all are doing well and thank you for 200 reads!!