Apparently I was still working on the next chapter, which I thought was chapter two... So this is the real one. But I will count the people who commented on the other Chapter Two, though.

Sorry about this! Here's the chapter. :)

Percy's POV

I looked at Annabeth. It had taken her about twenty minutes to get back to sleep. I had an arm around her, and had been trying to get to sleep, but my mind seemed to think that sleep was the worst thing ever.

I had agreed to wake her up if I couldn't sleep, but now I was hesitant to do so. Why should I stop her from going to sleep just because I'm afraid of going to sleep?

No, I could manage to stay still for a couple of hours and then pretend to be asleep when she wakes up. I buried my face in her hair and closed my eyes.

About two and a half hours later, Annabeth started thrashing around and screaming.

"Annabeth," I said. "Annabeth, wake up. Annabeth!" She didn't wake up or stop thrashing. I shook her awake, getting smacked a couple of times in the process.

Annabeth woke up, and shot up, looking around frantically. It pained me to see so much fear and pain in her eyes.

She spotted me, and then visibly relaxed a bit.  "Percy...Oh thank gods... You're alive, it was just a dream..." she grabbed me and hugged me, gripping me tightly.  She cried, and it broke my heart.

I wrapped my arms around her comfortingly, letting her squeeze the life out of me.

"How do you do it?" I asked quietly.

Annabeth looked at me, waiting for me to clarify what I meant.

"How do you go to sleep every night, when you know you're going to get these nightmares?"  Annabeth thought for a couple of moments silently.

"Because it makes me look forward to waking up more," Annabeth replied.

I sighed.  "You have a rather optimistic view on this."

"If I didn't, I would never have gotten this far.  When I wake up, you're around to comfort me, just as I am for you.  I know that you will be with my through anything, just as I will for you.  Why don't you ever ask me for help when you need it?"

"It's complicated..." I said.

"I'm willing to try and understand," Annabeth said.  "You know you can tell me anything, right? That you can ask me anything?"

I hesitated for a second.  "Then I have a question."

She waited expectantly.

"What's your sexuality?" I asked.

She looked mildly surprised by the question, but answered it anyway. 

"I'm bi," she replied.  "Why?"

"I was just curious..."

Her grey eyes studied me curiously, but she didn't push me.  If wish that I could see inside her head.  How does she decide when to push me for an answer and when not to?  It probably came naturally as a daughter of Athena or something, but I couldn't help but wish that my power had been brains instead of water powers.  How useful are super powerful water powers of I'm too stupid to even think straight?

Then again, I'm not straight, so why should my thoughts be?

I should leave that stuff to Annabeth, even if she is bi.  Wait. Does that mean her thoughts are only partially straight? Like, straight half the time?  Maybe her thoughts are bent.  She does have ADHD, but not as bad as mine or Leo's.  Is that because she's only half gay?  Wait, if Leo's ADHD is bad, does that mean that he is gay?  No, he's with Calypso.  And Nico's ADHD isn't all that bad, and he's definitely gay. Well, there goes that theory.  ADHD level is not equal to the gayness level.

Good to know...
But I was able to come to some kind of conlusion, so even without thinking straight I could figure something out! Take that, brain! I'm not as dumb as you thought I was!

How did my brain even come up with all this?? XD

I zoned back in.  Annabeth was looking at me, amused.

"Why are you staring at me?" I asked, frowning.

"When you think, emotions cross your face freely. I was just watching. You've been really closed off since..." She sighed. "I don't like it.  You do so much training and helping other campers that we can barely talk about anything anymore. It sounds selfish, but I just really want to be able to talk to you again. I think that you should take a break for a while."

I suddenly felt guilty. Have I been that distant lately? Have I really been so caught up in my own problems that I haven't noticed that she had been feeling like this?

"I'm sorry," I said. "I'll try to make some time so we can spend some time together. We can go on a date, or even just talk."

"It's okay, Percy," she said quietly.  "I'm not just doing this for myself, though. It's honestly very unhealthy for you, keeping all this bottled up. You can tell me anything, though I understand you need time."

"Thank you." I smiled slightly, hugging her close.

"I love you, Percy."

"I love you, too, Wise Girl."

~•~Timeskip 'cause I'm lazy~•~

The next day, after I spent some time in the arena and trained some campers, I left a bit earlier than usual.

I went to the Athena cabin, where I knew Annabeth was because I had stolen a copy of her schedule. I burst into there, and was suddenly surrounded by at least a dozen blades being held to my throat.

Maybe I shouldn't have scared the Athena kids. I probably should have knocked or something....

Annabeth shook her head at me, but was smiling. "Percy," she sighed.

I walked over to her once the other Athena kids calmed down and put away their weapons. They went back to what they were doing, glaring at me every couple of seconds.

"Well, let's go," I said, holding out a hand. She looked at me, surprised.

"What? Where are we going? Aren't you busy?" she asked.

"You told me that you want me to spend more time with you. So I made time and plans, and now we're going on a date! Unless you don't want to anymore...."

"Oh Percy..." She frowned at me. "Why wouldn't I want to? You're my boyfriend, and after all we've been through, I'll never leave you. You need to realize that.  After... After that place... I can tell that you need help, Percy."

Stop saying that.  My hands clenched into a fist.  "Shut up," I said loudly, before I could stop myself. The whole room just froze, everyone's attention on me. I was in the middle of a room full of Annabeth's protective siblings. I closed my eyes and took a shaky breath. "I-I'm sorry... Annie, if you want to come, meet me at Thalia's tree in five minutes, 'kay?"

I got out of there before anyone could react, going to the beach, predictably, to calm myself down. The smell of salty water and the sound of the waves made me feel a bit better. That is, until my father appeared.

"Hello Percy."

"Oh, uh, I kind of have to go..." I tried to walk off in the direction of Thalia's tree.

"Son, wait." I flinched slightly and turned to face him. He frowned. "It's important... Just, Are you okay?"

"I'm fine."

"I don't think so, Percy." He looked at my for a couple of seconds. "You're not okay, I can tell."

"I don't really care," I replied. "Okay or not, what I want you to do is the same. Leave me the heck alone. If I have a problem and I decide to talk about it, it won't be you that I go to anyway. Annabeth might be waiting for me for the date we were going to go on. Let me go."

"I'm not stopping you," Poseidon said. "I just told you to wait and you did."

"You have to tell me that I can leave."

"Why?"

"Just do it."

"Um... Percy, you can go."

I nodded stiffly. "Thank you," I said and then walked to the pine tree.

When I got there, Annabeth was waiting.

"That was more than five minutes," she said.

"I went to the beach to calm down, and my father was there."

She made a sound of understanding and pecked my lips. I grinned.

"So where are we going to go?" Annabeth asked.

"Well..." I paused.  "I'm not really sure. I'm not the most original when it comes to this stuff. I made reservations at a restaurant and then thought we could get some cookies from my mom and go to the beach or something."

"Sounds good," Annabeth said. "Let's go."

Sorry about this! I split this redo thing into two parts and stuff and just... Okay, Chapter Three is also here, so enjoy that! I'll also try to update next weekend as well.