Nico's P.O.V.
After gathering up everyone I was going to take with me to visit Percy in the Underworld, I told everyone to link hands and stand in a circle.

"Nico, you really shouldn't be doing this," My boyfriend said. I rolled my eyes.

"I'm not, idiot. Hazel and I will give Mrs. O'Leary some of our strength so that she can take us." Will blushed and looked embarrassed. I rolled my eyes again and leaned over to plant a kiss on his cheek. He blushed deeper when he turned his head at the wrong time and my kiss landed on his lips instead. I was probably as red as, if not redder than, Will myself. But I didn't pull away, instead I closed my eyes and leaned farther into him, pulling my hand from Hazel's on my other side and wrapping my arms around his neck.

I heard Piper "aw" and shriek. I heard Frank snort and Hazel giggle. Reyna laughed and I think I heard her hands clap excitedly. Rachel cooed and Clarrise grunted. Thalia and Leo yelled at the same time "Get a room!" I opened my eyes and pulled back from Will, blushing a deep scarlet. I retracted my arm from around his neck and self-consciously rubbed the back of my neck, slipping my other arm down to grab Will's hand again. I grabbed Hazel's hand and looked at the ground, trying not to show how embaresed I am.

"Mrs. O'Leary!" I called, still not looking up from the ground. I finally looked up when she came bounding over, as if sensing that we were going to see Percy. "Hey, girl. You look happy. Do you know what we're gonna go do? We are going to go visit Percy." Her tail started to thump the ground so hard, it felt like an earthquake. I glanced over at Annabeth, who was linked in the circle between Piper and Thalia. She was staring at Mrs. O'Leary with watery eyes and a small, sad smile on her face, as if she was remember mg better times with the gentle and sweet Hellhound that had adopted Percy after her previous owner, Daedalus, died in the battle of the Labyrinth.

(A/N Thanks to OZK100 for fixing my spelling of Daedalus! Also, there may not he Percabeth front and center right now, but I gave you Solangelo. Be happy for that! ^-^)

I turned to look at my sister, checking to see if she was ready. She nodded and I took a deep breath, closing my eyes. "Alright everyone. Here we go." I said and as silence rang through the clearing we were using to shadow travel from, I snapped my eyes open and looked at Mrs. O'Leary with a fierce gaze. "Take us to Elysium, girl. The Underworld." She barked and we fell into a nearby shadow. As we traveled, I felt my strength fading and gripped Will's hand tighter in an effort to ignore the voices in the shadows that were calling me to join them.

Will's P.O.V.
I felt Nico squeeze my hand tigjr as we slipped through the shadows. They must be whispering to him. I squeezed back and hoped that he wouldn't dissolve into shadow.

All of a sudden, we were spit out into a silvery field. Everyone fell on their butts. I immediatly turned to check on Nico and saw his eyes roll back in his head as he passed out. I lunged and caught him before his head hit the ground. My head swiveled to Hazel when I heard her moan. I watch as Frank caught her when she passed out as well. I quickly pulled some unicorn drout from my pocket and dribbled some into Nico's mouth. Then I tossed the bottle to Frank who dribbled a little into Hazel's mouth.

She groaned and opened her golden eyes to look at Frank. Then she stood up and glanced at the rest of the group who had managed to pull themselves to their feet. She blushed and looked down, her chocolate curls falling in her face. "Sorry, guys." She said quietly. My gaze was torn from her when I heard Nico grunt in my lap and shift. I waited for him to wake up and was rewarded when his dark eyes fluttered open and he sat up. He glanced around and rolled his eyes.

"Come on, people! Are we going to stand here all day or are we going to find Percy?" He said, hauling himself up. I heard a familiar laugh behind me and everyone swiveled around to face the person who had made that sound.

"What are you idiots doing down here? You're supposed to move on, not come visit me. Seriously you guys," he laughed again. "Though, it is nice to see you guys, I had hoped it wouldn't be this soon!" We all gaped. Because there, standing right there, was Percy Jackson.

Annabeth's P.O.V.
I stared. Everyone stared. He was just, standing there, smiling at us like nothing had ever happened. I realized with a shock that all his wounds were gone. He was walking perfectly fine and he could see us, that much I could tell from the glitter in his eyes as his mesmerising sea-green eyes passed over all of us, finally stopping at me.

"Annabeth! I am ashamed of you! Look at you! Just because I'm not there to take care of you, does not mean that you don't have to take care of yourself! You look like you haven't eaten or slept in days! And you! What have all of you been doing while my beautiful Wise Girl tortures herself like this, hm?" He crossed his arms and fake glared at all of us, but his crooked grin gave him away.

"Percy..." I whimpered. I wanted to run to him, to fall into his arms and never let him go. I wanted to run to him and kiss his lips, his soft, warm, sweet lips that had shared so many kisses with me before. I wanted to stroke his cheek and gaze into his gorgeous eyes. I wanted him to take me into his strong his arms and tell me that everything was going to be okay, that we were all going to be alright.

But I can't. Because he's a ghost. And I'm not. But I can join him when I'm dead. I know he'll wait for me.

He walked closer and I felt a cold shiver as his hand passed through mine as he tried to grab it. His smile faltered a little, but he quickly pasted it back on and leaned forward. I shivered as a cold breeze met me when he placed his lips on mine in a ghost of a kiss. He pulled back and his smile was sad. But he fixed it before anyone else could see, and laughed again.

"Come on! Let's go see the rest of the gang!" He turned and start a d to walk away. I followed and everyone else followed me. I watched as his black hair, tinted with an ethereal blue and the transparency that came with being a spirit, bounced around and flew in his eyes as he led us somewhere.

When we finally reached the house he was leading us to, we heard voices from inside, loud, happy voices. For some reason, I thought I recognized them. Though, I can't place them. "Guys!" Percy called. "Come see who came to visit us!" The voices went silent in the house as if someone had just flicked the off switch. Slowly, one by one, people stepped out of the house. And I nearly started sobbing.

The first person out was Michel Yew, a son of Apollo that we had lost in the Battle of Manhattan. Followed by his brother Lee Fletcher. Next, out came Silena Beauregard. I gasped and my hand flew to my mouth. Following Silena came Charles Beckendorf. Tears fell from my eyes. After Beckendorf, Ethan Nakamura stepped out. A hand shot out and grabbed his sleeve, yanking him back into the house. I heard whispering voices.

"It's alright. You don't have to come out if you don't want to. But you know that we've all forgiven you. Especially them. They're not going to kill you. Besides, there's nothing they can do to you! You're already dead." Percy laughed and beckoned to the person hidden by the front door of the house. The whispers stopped and Ehtan stepped back out. He moved out of the way and slowly, another person peaked out from behind the door. My mouth dropped open and I gasped, starting to sob. Thalia gaped and I threw myself at her, wrapping my arms around her waist as she wrapped her arms around my shoulders. He smiled sheepishly at us, giving a small half wave. "Hey, Thals. Hey, Annie." Luke Castellen said, stepping fearfully completely out of the house.

---Time Skip!!!---

I laughed and smiled as Ethan finished his story. We had been down here for hours now, and we had been catching up with everyone. Percy, Thalia, and I had introduced all our old friends to Hazel, Frank, Leo, and Piper. Rachel, Will and Nico had hung back. Clarrise had tested up and started sobbing at the sight of her best friend Silena. The two had headed into the house to have a private reunion then popped back out some dive minutes later. After they came back, we had all started catching up and telling stories. Nico cleared his throat from where he sat in Will's lap.

"Hey uh, as much as I'd like to stay here, we need to get back to camp guys." He said, looking sadly at our dead friends, and everyone else from the group of the living that he had brought. I looked over at Percy. His eyes were sad and his smile was a sad one. He walked forward and tried to give me a hug and a kiss, but they both just felt cold and as if a light breeze had brushed past me.

"I'll see you again, Wise Girl. Just don't let it be for a few more decades yet, okay? No getting killed by a monster before you can die of old age with grandkids, a son and daughter, and a husband who loves you and treats you even better than I did." I stood there is shock for a second before shaking my head.

"Percy, I am not moving on. I will always love you, and never anybody else. I will join you when the Fates are kind enough to cut my cord." I said firmly, leaving no room for him to argue. He sighed in defeat and shook his head.

"There's no changing your mind, is there, Wise Girl?" Is was my turn to shake my head. "Well, I guess there's no point in trying then, is there? Goodbye, Annabeth." He said. Everyone living linked hands and Nico, Hazel, and Mrs. O'Leary got ready to take us back to camp.

"I love you, Percy." I said.

"I love you too, Annabeth." And we fell into the shadows again. My last glimps of my dead boyfriend was his thin, flimsy façade crumbling as he broke down once more.

A/N Word Count: 1891
Well, that was short. Because today is my birthday, I decided to celebrate by posting a new chapter on each of my books. Well, that didn't quite work out. I updated 'Save Me If You Can' and this. But it's getting late, I have a lot of tests to take at school tomorrow, and I'm getting really tired. So, I will leave this off here, I will try to update my last book, 'One-Shots and Shorter Stories' tomorrow. But I'm not making any promises. I'm sorry that thisbchslter was so short. As I've said before, in hitting some writer's block and am running low on inspiration for this story. I will not stop writting it, the chapters will probably just be shorter and crappier. Anyway, it is still August 10th, so I updated it on my birthday. Not the next. Cause it's like, 11:10pm. But whatever. It isbupdsted and I will try to update more.

Yours in demigodishness and all that,
Annabeth_Jackson_12 <3