A Promise Never Kept

A Party in Ruins

"Hey Luke" I said approaching him. "What's going on, is everything alright?"

"No Percy, everything's not alright. We need to leave now." He hissed.

"What do you mean? What's going on?" I asked taking a step back.

"There's no time for questions, let's go!" He insisted but I couldn't make myself. I was confused and slightly scared and I wasn't going anywhere until he told me what was going on.

"No. First tell me what's going on and then we can leave."

"You wanna do this the hard way. Fine we'll do this the hard way." My eyes widened as he pulled out his gun and pointed it straight at me. There were only a few people in the room now, the rest were already in the backyard. All conversations stopped and the only noise in the room was the music blasting out of the speakers.

"L-Luke what are you d-doing?" I asked shakily eyeing the gun in his hand. I think I already knew the answer but I desperately wanted to be wrong. I wanted him to put the gun back in his pocket and say 'gotcha!' and laugh at me. But no such luck. The gun remained positioned at my heart and the glare that Luke had been giving me grew even more malicious if that was even possible.

"You wanna know what's going on Perseus-" I cringed as he said my full name, I never really liked it. "-what's going on is that he has waited too long and he can't wait any longer."

"Luke..." But he cut me off.

"Don't say a word." He ordered and I immediately shut up. "Empty your pockets and walk to the car silently. For every word you say I will shoot someone and I am sure you don't want yet another death on your conscience do you."

I merely shook my head in reply and dropped my phone on the floor.

"Good now walk."

"Luke why are you doing this?" A teary eyed Thalia yelled from where she stood.

"That is of no concern to you Grace." Luke spat bitterly. "Now shut up and nobody move."

The next thing I knew Luke had cuffed my hands behind my back and led me to the car. As we got there, he pressed a syringe on my neck and I suddenly felt drowsy.

The last thing I could think about was how much this was going to hurt my dad and my cousins and friends. And most of all, how much this was going to hurt Annabeth. How much it would hurt my Wise Girl. Then the darkness took over and I knew nothing.

Annabeth PoV

My knees shook as I watched Luke push Percy out the door, with the gun still pointed at him. As the pain that had been slowly building up in my heart from the moment I saw Luke pull the gun out became unbearable I slid down the wall and curled up into a ball. I held my knees to my chest and rested my head on them, pressing my back to the wall.

Someone sat beside me and held me in a tight hug. It was then that I realized that I was sobbing. I didn't care though. At that moment all I could care about was the fact that Percy had been taken. He had been betrayed someone he had called a friend and now he was in danger. It was obvious that Luke was going to take him back to Atlas.

I remembered what Percy had said right after he had told me what had happened. 'He always gets what he wants and he wants me dead.' He had said. Dead. The possibility of Percy dying made me cry even harder. He had been through too much already, couldn't he get a break. No, the psycho kidnapper has to want him dead. It took me a few minutes to calm down.

When I finally did I looked up to see that it was Silena who was hugging me in an attempt to calm me down, probably. I looked around to see Thalia screaming for everyone to leave, telling them that the party was over while frantically dialing a number on her cell phone. Rachel was sitting on the couch in front of me with her head in her hands.

"Rachel come on we need to get to Percy's house, Uncle P's not picking up his phone." Thalia said walking over to the redhead then turning to me she said "You should come to Annabeth."

I simply nodded. I didn't know why I would have to come as well but I didn't care right now. Plus if I go I would at least get to know a little about the situation.

"Um Juniper do you mind making sure that everyone leaves. We need to go right now and we-"

"It's no problem I'll have Grover help me." She said cutting her off. "Go."

Thalia nodded gratefully and just then the door opened to reveal Nico di Angelo. He looked at all of us with a confused expression and said "I forgot my phone."

Thalia simply engulfed her little cousin in a hug and finally cracked and started crying.

"Thalia what happened where's..." Nico trailed off realizing what must have happened. "Oh My God! Thalia where's Percy? What happened?"

"It was Luke." Rachel said finally looking up. "He was working for Atlas. He threatened to start shooting people if Percy didn't co-operate. He took him to Atlas. We were just heading over to Percy's house. Poseidon's not picking up his phone and he's the only one who could do something about this."

"No no no. He couldn't be gone." Nico stuttered then he looked at Thalia and Rachel's tear streaked faces and his expression steeled. "We need to leave now. Come on."

Five minutes later I found myself sitting in the passenger seat of Nico's car with Thalia and Rachel in the backseat and Nico driving. I looked at Nico and could tell how guilty he felt right now.

"We will get him back." I tried to reassure him.

"I told him I hated him and that I wished it had been him and not Bianca who had died that day. But I didn't mean it you know. I was just angry. What if I don't get to tell him though? He would think I had meant it and he would hate me. I don't want that to be the last thing I ever said to him. I just want to say sorry you know. Tell him I was wrong, that it wasn't his fault and now I might never get to say it."

After that there was utter silence. All I could think of was the last time I had talked to Percy. How I had wanted him to call me Wise Girl again. How we had stared into each other's eyes. I remembered how much I had wanted to kiss him. But I didn't and now I couldn't help but wonder-What if I never get the chance?

Don't hate me. But I had to have him kidnapped again. It's the only way the story would have worked out. Also, I know most of you are cursing Luke for doing what he did. But don't judge too fast, all I am gonna say is that he has his reasons. That's all.

Anywho, do let me know what you think in the comments!

Till next time.

-Scarlet