PERCY
Boom. Cue entire world being tipped upside down. Without even bothering to explain to the teacher I scooped Annabeth up bridal style and legged it from the room, practically jumping down the step ladder from the classroom. I could hear faint shouts and curses echoing down the hallway. I could have been being chased by Zeus himself, but he couldn't have caught me. All that mattered right now was my child, and Annabeth. Nothing else, and it was killing me that I couldn't do anything about her faint groans and whimpers of pain. "Hey Annie?" I softly said as I was sprinting past the DADA classroom and a brilliant plan popped into my head. "What Perce?" She said through clenched teeth after a few seconds, the pain building. I quickly spit it out before I could annoy her or chicken out; "Will you marry me?" I can tell you all for a fact that she definitely did not expect that one. Her breath caught in her throat, and a small tear escaped her beautiful stormy eyes. For a moment, I think her pain ceased as her body fell limp in my arms, and I was slightly worried that she was going to say no. "Well- I mean if you don't want-!" She smiled at me tiredly as she put her finger to my lips, effectively silencing me. "I thought you would never ask Seaweed Brain"
We made it to the Room of Requirement in three minutes, a personal record for me. You see, I had been practicing for when the time came and I had to take Annie here, so I had been running from each of my lessons to here to see how quickly I could do it. I practically kicked open the door to find Apollo already there, stood next to a large tank of water. Forgettign the seriousness of the situation, I raised an eyebrow at Annabeth. "Is he planning to drown us or something? Because if he is we might be here for a while..." She rolled her eyes but then squeezed them shut as another contraction hit. "PERCY!" Oops, yeah... Baby... "Sorry! Um, Apollo, might be time to do your thing...? And really, what is it with the cyclops sized bath?" Apollo laughed good-naturedly and motioned for me to put Annabeth into said bath. "Well, seeing as your dad is Poseidon and he is here, I figured you might want a water birth?" I placed Annie in the water, and turned to see an over excited Poseidon. I exhaled with relief, I was gonna need him here, "Dad... I wasn't sure you would come!" He engulfed me in a hug and ruffled my hair. "I was not going to pass up seeing my new grandchild first!" I laugh at that, and was about to reply with some witty remark, when a loud scream tore through the air. Apollo looked over at us, and saw our faces like toddlers caught with their hands in the cookie jar. He sighed as he stated "Get your asses over here and help me! Can't do it all by myself, even though I am amazing... Hmm, that makes me think of a Haiku! - " Poseidon and I rushed to my fiancés side, while Dad clapped Apollo round the head. "Not the right time Apollo!" His eyes widened "Oh yeah! Annabeth, gonna need you to push now" Annabeth rolled her eyes "When this is over I swear to all the gods I will beat you up so bad!" The best part was when Apollo realised she wasn't kidding and gulped loudly.
For the next few hours, all that could be heard were Annabeth's earsplitting screams, while Apollo was calm as anything, seeing as he had done this a thousand times. Poseidon was using the water to support Annabeth and make her as comfortable as possible, while she was gripping my hand so hard I even felt my thumb dislocate, and I had to keep popping it back in every now and again. I figured that the pain I was feeling was nothing compared to hers so I said nothing. When it got to the point when I wasn't sure I could take it anymore, another scream joined Annabeth's. This scream however was much higher pitched, and not as loud. I pried open my red eyes, feeling the tears rise as I looked down. floating in a small dimple in the water was a tiny pink child, screaming its lungs out. My child. Annabeth's child. I know it sounds cliche, but it was by far the happiest moment of my life. Apollo scooped it up, and I had to quickly remind myself that this was Apollo, and he was harmless to my baby. Apollo quickly snipped the umbilical cord and tied a neat little knot, and wrapped the baby in a golden blanket whilst muttering, "Okay, born March 14th, 10pm..." My eyes had been glued on my son or daughter, and I hadn't noticed Annie being moved to a bed. Apollo guided me to the exhausted Annabeth, Poseidon at my heels with Apollo smiling brightly. "Its a Boy!"
I stood in awe looking at our son, my eyes wider than I thought could have been possible. Annabeth had him cradled gently on her chest as he sucked his tiny pink thumb. He was perfect, and already had a little tuft of black hair sticking up wildly on the top of his head. I have a feeling I know who that came from... Annabeth stopped caressing him for a moment, and looked up at me. "He's beautiful Perce...Do you want to hold him?" I looked at her, then Apollo, then Dad, pure terror in my eyes, What if I dropped him?! It would be something I would do... Poseidon rolled his eyes and grunted. "For Hades sake Perseus! Hold your son or I will!" I sat down gingerly on the plush chair that appeared out of nowhere next to Annabeth, as she gently laid him in my arms, then put her head on the pillow and passed out from exhaustion. I sat there in complete awe, the tiny bundle laid on my outstretched forearms, his head cupped in my hands. My hands were bigger than the top half of his body. I nearly had a heart attack when he opened his little mouth and yawned and slowly binked open his eyes fringed by dark lashes. His eyes... They were a very familiar, startling stormy grey, gazing at me curiously. I hadn't even noticed my hair flopping into my face until he reached up his already olive skinned arms and reached for it, giggling. Guess thats Greek genes for you, naturally tanned babies... I hadn't even realised I was laughing and crying at the same time until I felt a large rough hand on my shoulder giving it a squeeze. "I cried when you were born as well you know," Poseidon smiled down at me. I quickly wiped my eyes, and cuddled my son close to my chest, and kissed him on the forehead. I felt his tiny hands graze over my late night stubble and grab my chin, and I laughed at his toothless smile, that was so adorable I found it hard to breathe. I clutched him close to me as I stood and faced my father. "Do you want to hold him Dad?" Poseidon looked at me, and smiled so big I worried that it would blind us all permanently, and nodded his head vigorously. I handed my son gently to Poseidon who cradled him like a pro, and amused us all by creating a tiny water Pegasus to fly around my son's head. "You know," He said, looking at the baby curiously, "He looks so like you, it seems like the day I was holding you instead..." My baby giggled and grasped at the flying water, his grey eyes large in fascination. Poseidon looked at me, with his hand hovering over the baby's chest. I understood quickly that he was asking my permission to bless the child, and I nodded, smiling that he cared so much. A short flash of blue green light later, it was over and Apollo was at my left shoulder. He looked at the baby, and stated, "You know what? That has got to be the best looking baby I have ever delivered in all my immortal years. And I can promise you I have delivered a heck of a lot of kids in my day. May I ?" I nodded more slowly as Apollo scooped up the child, just as Annie woke up. She immediately saw my empty arms, and asked "Where's Luke!" I looked at her to my father quizzically. "Oh," She flushed. I just had this dream, and she relaxed as she spotted the baby in Apollo's arms. "You want to name him Luke?" I asked her, and she quickly replied "Well, If you don't want to we can -" I surprised everyone else in the room by cutting her off with a kiss. "I wouldn't have it any other way" She gazed at Luke as Apollo blessed him, and golden glow filled the room, and an oversized pair of aviator shimmered into existence on Luke's giggling head. "Well, I can promise that even Aphrodite herself will have a hard time staying away from this one, and he will have a damn fine singing voice!" Apollo beamed and removed the glasses to give then to me later, as Annabeth rolled her eyes and Poseidon and I laughed. Annabeth's eyes were drooping again and I kissed her gently on the forehead. "Go to sleep Wise Girl, we will look after Luke as you rest. You have had a heck of a tough day" She smiled sweetly and I took Luke off Apollo so she could kiss him goodnight. As she yawned, she whispered, "Don't forget to introduce him to Thalia and Neeks Perce..."
Once Annie was asleep, I handed the still smiling Luke to Poseidon as I walked to the door at the end of the room, rubbing my eyes in exhaustion of the traumatic experience. I quietly opened the heavy wooden door, to find both Thalia and Nico pacing in opposite directions snap their heads in my direction. They both took in my large smile and heavy bags under my eyes, and rushed forwards to hug me. When I finally was able to breathe again, I beckoned them in. "Annie is asleep, but I would like to introduce you all," I smile as Poseidon turned to face us with the curled up bundle in gold. I took him from my father gently, and cradled him against my chest "To Luke Athens Jackson. I thought that seeing as Athena doesn't know about him yet I should probably give her some sort of tribute. Hope you don't mind Dad?" He smiled gently. "I think that is wise, Son, It might be the only thing that keeps you alive!" He chortled and we joined in. Thalia and Nico stepped closer to Luke and I, who was now beginning to feel the effects of birth I guess. They huddled around me, and stared down at the bundle of crazy that had his thumb back in his mouth and curled against my chest. He rolled over, and lazily looked up at the new family he was being introduced to. I heard the instant intake of breath they both sucked in when they saw his bright grey eyes, identical to my Annabeth's. I picked up his little hand, and waved it gently at my cousins. He smiled that toothless smile again and reached up to touch Nico and Thalia on the lip as well, which was about as high up as he could reach, smiled again, then curled back up into my chest. I looked up to see Thalia crying softly into Nico's shoulder, who was also crying. I chuckled at them, then looked at Apollo and Dad, standing by the door, guarding it. Already overprotective huh ... "Are you guys crying?" I cheekily nudged Thals with my hip, having both my arms taken up with Luke, and wiggled my eyebrows at Nico. "No..." They both sniffled at the same time. I laughed quietly at them both, and Nico looked curiously at Luke, then at me and back again. "He looks really like you, you know? Even acts a bit like it as well. Except definitely more Athena in those eyes. Look! He is even drooling a little bit!" It was true, Luke had a smudge of drool on his bottom lip. I chuckled and used the godly fabric he was wrapped in to wipe it off. "Oi, you can't start teasing him until he is at least 24 hours old!" We all started laughing at this, and Luke opened one eye crossly. We all held our breaths. We most certainly did not want him to start crying. No sir-e. To our utter surprise and relief, he just grunted and shut his eyes again and went back to sleep. Thalia sighed in adoration "One of you finer attributes Kelp Face... Impossible to wake up" After a while of more talking, Thalia and Nico headed to bed, as it was now quite late, Poseidon and Apollo kissed Luke goodbye and headed back to Olympus, but I promised to keep in touch and we would discuss how to break this to the council with minimal casualties. Before Dad left, he whispered in my ear, "Stay safe, and you may want to check on Blackjack in the morning" I nodded and hugged him before laying Luke in the middle of the large bed between Annie and I, and got in. The last thing I felt before I fell into my first dreamless sleep in years, was tiny soft fingers enclosing my calloused and scarred middle finger. A smile lingered on my face as I drifted into unconsciousness.
PLEASE READ ! IMPORTANT ---> I could have left it there... but I feel awesome right now! No idea what date it should be in the book, so this is odd but the day Luke was born is March 14th, and I know most of the Percababies are named Luke by everyone, but I just wanted the name to be special and mean something, like it would suck if I called him Pete or something, not that I have anything agains the name! Anyways, the rest of this is still gonna be Percy as I feel this needs to be told in his point of view. PS ! LISTEN TO VID OR SONG, WHILE YOU READ!
The next morning I floated around breakfast with a permanent grin etched onto my face. I had IM'ed Chiron that morning and he readily congratulated us after the initial shock, even though he said that weirder things had happened, and I even saw him get slightly teary eyed as I asked him to be a godfather, to which he agreed. He had also given permission for the others to come and visit the new member of our rather large dysfunctional family, but in groups of no more than six at a time. I had a feeling this would be an interesting day. I stacked all sorts of food onto my plate then headed up to the teachers table, so I could excuse Annabeth from lessons for the remainder of the term, and me until... sometime far off. I awkwardly approached Dumbledore just about managing to balance my towering stack of toast and bacon. I raised his eyebrow at me then asked, "Mr Jackson, is there any reason why you are trying to replicate the Leaning Tower of Pisa out of food... to scale?" I laughed at myself, and the sheer hilarity of the situation. "Well you see sir, I seem to have a rather unexpected, new member to my family... and Annabeth will not be able to attend class for the foreseeable future, and I would like to spend some time with my son, if that is okay with you and all the professors. But I can assure you that I will be still aptly be able to protect Mr Potter" Dumbledore had his jaw hanging open at my small speech, but managed to nod his head ever so slightly. "Oh, and by the way we shall be staying in the room of requirement for the time being, as I would like to keep this on the down low! But, you are most welcome to visit any time you should wish. See ya!" I laughed and bounded down off the stage. Nothing could dampen my mood today. Nico and Thalia were smiling at how happy and overexcited I was, and Harry was staring at me guiltily. He slowly walked towards me with Hermione hot on his heels, Ron's gaze following him angrily. Harry walked into my path with eyes downcast, and began to speak. "Look, Percy, I have something to say. I feel that we started off on the wrong foot, and I was wondering if we could start afresh? move past this?" He cringed away from me ever so slightly, as if he feared I would shoot him down. Instead, I smiled. "I forgive you, Harry. And you Hermione. I haven't really been one for holding petty grudges, and you have happened to catch me on a day where nothing could bring me down" I grinned at them both and held out my right hand, while I her the food in the other. "Perseus Jackson, nice to meet you. Please call me Percy" Harry gave me a small smile. "Harry Potter. Nice to meet you too."
I walked back to the Room of Requirement with a spring in my step, not being able to wait to see Luke and Annabeth again. When they were both up and fed, I was planning on taking Luke down to see Blackjack and Seraphine, to see what Dad had been meaning when he told me to go visit them. I was going to go when everyone else was in lessons, so no one notice us. I opened the door, just to find my worst nightmare. 10 Olympian Gods, plus Hades crowded around my fiancé and son, looking at me accusingly. Athena stepped forward, gesturing her hand at the bed that had the most important people in the world to me on, and growled "Explain..."
A/N Hope you liked! Gonna try to update soon because I have got back into this story, but I don't think there is going to be much more until the end! NOOO !! Thank you all so much for your support, Your comments make my day and I love you all xxxx