The Revivers

Chapter 11

A/N Ok this chapter is kind of short, but the next few are gonna be sooo intense and I just can't wait to get to them! We're almost halfway through the story so bear with me!!!

Percy POV

“She hasn’t come out of her room since last night when you brought her home. I couldn’t get her to tell me why she even left in the first place.” Thalia told me, “I’m a little worried, Percy. She looked kind of crazy.” To be honest, I was surprised none of us had gone too crazy so far. I mean, dead people are walking around eating us. That isn’t exactly something you just get used to.

“I’m gonna go see her.” I said. Thalia wished me luck and headed downstairs to take her turn on guard duty.

Annabeth’s door was cracked open, and every now and then I could see her moving inside. I knocked lightly on the door, but she didn’t answer. I heard muttering coming from the other side, so I just pushed open the door.

“Annabeth?” She was standing with her back to me, looking down at the kitchen table.

“Will this…? No that can’t be… why didn’t it… oh crap…” She just kept on muttering to herself, not even hearing me.

“Annabeth?” I said a little bit louder.

“Oh no that won’t work… I wonder if this would do it…no, no, no…” I watched for a second as her hands shook above the table. A tiny vial among about thirty slipped from her fingers and fell to the floor with a crash. It was empty, but Annabeth looked down at it like it was her heart she’d just broken.

That’s when she went completely over the edge. Annabeth started to scream and cry and rock back and forth on the floor.

“Annabeth!” I shouted, and went down to her side. I don’t think she even saw me. She just huddled into my chest and I wrapped my arms around her shoulders. She shivered and put her head down on her knees.

“I can’t do this anymore. I just… I couldn’t do it. I thought I could, but I couldn’t, and now there’s nothing that I can…”

“What are you talking about?” I interrupted her babbling. She looked up at me with red eyes and a tear streaked face.

“The cure, Percy. I thought I finished it and I went out to test it and it just… it just didn’t work. The kid attacked me, and the sound brought all the others…” Oh… that explains things. She buried her head again.

“Shh, shh, it’s ok.” I whispered, stroking her hair.

“We’re all gonna die. We’ll run out of food or those things will get us. I can’t do anything about it, and now we’re all just gonna die.” She cried.

“I won’t let you die, Annabeth. I won’t let any more of us die.” I assured her, even though I couldn’t even assure myself of that, “We’ll be ok. We’ll find a way to fix things, I promise. Just calm down.” She stopped whimpering, but she didn’t stop shivering.

“I’m so sorry.” She said in a shaky voice, “I wasn’t ready to let go and it almost got me killed. You saved me, and I punished you for it. I’m so sorry, Percy. I’m so, so sorry.” She said into my shirt.

“It’s ok, Annabeth. It’s over now.” I bent my head and rested my lips on her hair.

“I love you Percy.” She sniffled.

“I love you too.”

“It’s about time you two made up! We were gonna host an intervention soon.” Leo teased us. We were all seated around Grover and Juniper’s living room eating dinner. Annabeth sat by my side, acting perfectly natural. It was almost like she didn’t have a meltdown a few hours ago. Frank had told me they’d heard her screams, but figured they shouldn’t check it out. Leo kept grinning at us, so I figured someone must have come down, seen us, and left.