Percabeth One Shots💅🏻✨

16. What if (Tartarus, AU)

Annabeth POV

So... today, is the day that we're supposed to meet up with Percy since he fell into Tartarus. He probably hates me, or- or, he's d- no I can't think like that.

Hazel got us to the elevator where he should be coming out. We wait the 12 minutes and out falls a broken, traumatized shell of my boyfriend.

"Oh Gods! Percy!" I run to his side. He looks up at me, and his sea green eyes that looked at me with nothing but love, are broken, shattered, and just not the same.

"A-Annabeth?"

"It's me Percy, I'm right here."

"No, no its not you, you're a trick, you're a trick of that place."

"No Percy, its really me, see?" I hold his hand, its brittle and cold.

"Stop you're not real! None of you are."

"Perce its really us." Jason stepped in. "Hey Pipes, do you think you could charm speak him into believing us?"

"I can try— Percy, hi, its us your best friends, you remember us. You remember your girlfriend Annabeth, your close friends Frank and Hazel..."

"Stop! I-its a trick, snap out of it Percy they're not real, you need to get back to the real them. You gotta get up." He tries to get up but he's so weak. I can't take it anymore, I cry into Piper's shoulder.

They eventually get him on the Argo II. The waters are so untamed, and rocky.

I'm at the table with the rest of the crew minus Percy, and we can hear his wails from bellow deck.

"I'm going to be sick."

"Me too." Hazel throws up over the side of the boat. I meant a different type of sick. I'm heartbroken sick. I thought that maybe if we could get him back and we saw each other he would be relatively okay.

"I'm going to go try again with him, I refuse to give up. I know he's in there somewhere." I head down and walk into his room. I find him rocking on his bed holding his pillow attempting to muffle his wails, but its not working.

"Go away."

"No Percy. I know you're in there somewhere. I'm not giving up on you."

"I'll fight whatever you need me to fight, just... leave me alone." I don't know what to do so I try to kiss him but he backs away. "What are you doing? Y-you're not her." I can't let him hurt me. He fell in because of me. I won't let him down this time.

"Percy. I need you to look at me." He picks his head up and looks at me. Broken green on gray. I pray to all the gods, split personalities and all that at least one of them will help me get through to him.

"All you need is love." Aphrodite? Love? Uh yeah Aphrodite.

"Okay. Percy, what can I do to prove to you that I'm not a trick?" okay Annabeth, think, what can I do to prove to him that I love him. He won't let me get close enough to kiss him, he won't listen. Maybe I need to trick him into thinking it really is a trick... I'm going to need Hazel, Frank, and Piper.

"Okay gang everybody understand the plan?" They all nod. We get into position waiting for Percy. When he steps out of his room like he does once a day to go to the bathroom we'll get him on the way back.

On his way back, Hazel adjusts the mist so that we're back in the tunnels. We have to replay the scene of getting him out until he believes he's out.

"Percy?"

"A-Annabeth?"

"Yeah Percy its me." I couldn't put the emotion that was needed, I was losing hope. My heart was breaking.

"Why are you sad Wise Girl?" Wait. D-did he just— Wait.

"Wait did he just? Did you just?"

"Wise Girl? I missed you, I-I-I'm never leaving you again."

"You better not." He collapses into my arms, he's still so frail. I rub his back. I might not have all of my Seaweed Brain back but at least he finally knows he's out. "Can I get you anything?"

"I just need to hold you." That's fine with me.

'"Okay, can I bring you to your room?" He nods and I try my best to help him get up. He stumbles getting up but I get him back to his bed. I lay down and he puts his head in the crook of my neck, I am so thankful he is okay. He might not ever be the same, but slowly he'll come back.