Percy POV

Pain.

It was nothing knew.

I felt pain everyday.

But this pain was worse.

I felt limp, and I felt paler.

I felt sick, and that I was dying.

I was on a cold hard floor.

How am I still alive? I shouldn't be alive. I didn't deserve to live.

I groaned as I tried to move my arm. Pain exploded into my fingertips as I bent my fingers.

Everything hurt. I couldn't move. I felt paralyzed.

I looked around the room, and found myself in a dark room, with a door across from me. One light bulb was on the ceiling, turning on and off every few seconds.

Another basement?

Gabe walked in from the door, smirking.

"Just kill me already." I cried.

"Why should I kill you quickly when you can die a slow painful death?" Gabe said.

I groaned as Gabe inched closer.

"Nobody will find you here. Nobody. We're far away from home." Gabe smirked.

Great. I'll be dead when they finally find me.

Gabe took out a lighter, and flipped it open, the flame shining in the room.

"You can burn just like your girlfriend did!" Gabe snickered.

No.

Annabeth didn't...

She can't be gone. She had to have escaped. She couldn't just have burned.

Tears swelled in my eyes as Gabe took my arm, pain coursing in my veins.

"Let go!" My voice was hoarse, the pain is too much.

"Let it burn." Gabe smirked as he placed the lighter underneath my arm.

He lit up the lighter, and it started cooking my arm.

I screamed from the heat, burning into my skin.

I kicked, but it only made the pain worse.

Now the flame was directly meeting contact with my skin, and my arm burned.

"Stop!" I cried as the burning sensation was killing me.

Gabe pulled the lighter back. I sighed in relief. The under part of my arm was flaming red, burnt marks across it.

Gabe then looked at my face.

"No!" I yelled, trying to move away from him.

He pushed my legs down, then turned on the lighter.

He held the lighter next to my cheek.

I screamed, the flaming fire burning through my skin.

I was sure I was going to have a burned mark on my cheek, which will cause many questions if I get out.

If.

Gabe was satisfied with my screams, and pulled the lighter away.

"I'll be back." He got up, and walked out of the room. He slammed the door closed.

I screamed in agony.

There were seven bullet holes through my skin and two burnt marks.

How am I still breathing?

I stayed still on the floor, feeling deathly pale.

I was going to die on this cold floor.

This is where my last stand is.

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Black spots danced around in my eyes as Gabe continued to whip me with an actual whip.

The black spots grew bigger, and I knew that if I pass out, I would never wake up again.

I would never see daylight again.

I would never see my mom again.

I would never see Annabeth again.

I sighed as darkness took over, the pain feeling numb.

*+*+*+*+

Unfortunately, to my distress, I woke up again.

In a new room.

One less bloody from all the things Gabe has done to me.

I am ready to die.

I don't know why I am still alive.

I just want it all to end.

I could barely move.

But then I heard screaming and yelling, then crashing.

I perked up my head from the floor, still weak.

Running in was the same officer from the first time.

It was Bob the officer.

I was surprised at how well he was at tracing me. He saved me and Annabeth from the first time we were taken away.

"Percy! Thank god you're alright. I've been tracking you everywhere. I knew I would find you hurt, so I have this injection that can lighten your strength to get out of here. God, we need to get you to the hospital!" Bob ran to me, and held up my arm.

He shot the syringe into my arm, and I felt relaxed.

But I wanted to sleep.

"C'mon Percy! I tranquilized Gabe for now, but he'll wake up soon!" Bob slung my arm over his shoulder, and I carefully got up.

I felt better, but the pain still throbbed.

We started limping towards the door, and I saw things broken across the hall. abe was snoring on the floor, but he was beginning to wake up.

"Quickly." Bob whispered as we went over Gabe, closer to the stairs.

"My greatest enemy." I sighed as we began to slowly walk up the stairs.

"C'mon Percy. Annabeth needs you. That's your motivation." Bob urged as we climbed up the stairs.

Annabeth needs me. I have to be there for her.

I started walking fast, but when we finally reached the top of the stairs, Bob jogged and i limped towards the front door.

We heard grumbling and shouts from down stairs.

When Bob touched the knob of the door, something yanked him back. We stumbled back, and fell onto the floor.

Gabe had a smug look on his face.

"You really think you can escape?" Gabe laughed.

Bob quickly got up, and punched Gabe in the jaw.

Gabe snarled and punched Bob back.

They kept fighting, and I trembled against the front door.

"Percy, go!" Bob yelled over the fight.

"No! I'm not leaving you!" I cried.

He saved me twice. I wasn't going to leave him. He is a hero.

"No! Don't go!" Gabe walked towards me, but Bob slammed into him, pushing him to the floor.

"Percy, go!" Bob yelled at me as he was pinning Gabe to the floor.

"No-" I cried, tears falling down from my eyes.

"Go. Tell the stars I said hello." Bob said, as he continued fighting Gabe.

I hurriedly got up, and opened the door.

I limped out, and kept running.

I had to find help.

Tears brimmed my eyes and continued streaming down my face.

Gabe was unpredictable. He would kill anyone to get to me.

I had to call help.

Bob will have to say hello to the stars himself.

He has to.

-oOo

NO! BOB! YOU CAN'T GO! CRYYYYY.

I really hated this part in the book.

It made me cry.

Like, for real out crying.

My siblings were looking at me like I was crazy from crying from the book.

But that's just how I am. Obsessed with Rick Riordan's books. I am very obsessive with Percy by the way...

Like if someone mentions 'Percy Jackson', I'll be running towards them asking a bunch of questions.

But they would say they only watched the movie...which left me truly, truly, truly, truly, truly, truly, disappointed.

I only read the first book from The Trials Of Apollo because Percy was there and wasn't in the other two books.

SPOILER IN THE NEXT SENTENCE. DON'T TELL ME I DIDN'T WARN YOU!

I skipped the other two books...but...

My friend told me Jason died in the third book, which made me really upset. I cried for like, a week because I was upset.

But that didn't make me read the third book either way....

When I get a boyfriend, (if I get one because I'm too weird) I want him to say "I'll be your Percy if you'll be my Annabeth."

Because that will make me sooooo happy.

Don't judge me.

Anyway, thanks for reading.

PEACE OUT

-DaQUEEN234'