Chapter 5: The Dream Watcher

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Bianca looked exactly like Percy remembered. Except for the whole running into the giant mechanical robot before Percy could stop her, panic.

"Bianca?" Percy asked barely above a whisper, as if she would disappeared if he talked any louder.

"I'm sorry Percy." She said. "I'm so sorry." She shivered in an invisible wind. Percy concentrated on keeping them dry, but he could keep the tears from falling from her eyes.

He didn't understand why she was crying. Why was she sorry? If anything he should be the one apologizing profusely. He wrapped his arms around her in a hug, despite his awkwardness.

"I have no idea why you are crying." Percy said. "Bianca, I should be the one saying I'm sorry. I never, I never should have let you-"

"Gods, Jackson!" She cried, "You are as stupid as you look sometimes."

The rain came down harder, like a response to the mood. Percy looked into Bianca's ghost like eyes. She shivered in his arms. And Percy realized just how cold she actually was.

He chose to ignore the insult, shoving away the memories of all the times Annabeth called him stupid, and all the times she kissed him because of it. "We need to get inside, You need to get warm."

She sobbed into his chest. Again Percy was clueless as to why. He shuffled to the left suddenly confused as to which way to go for the exit.

"Other way." Bianca sniffled.

Somehow, Percy still wasn't quite sure how, Bianca lead him out of the maze flawlessly. She took him around in four right turns and into a tunnel Percy swore he didn't walk in when he entered.

But they made it back to the building. The rain beat off the slanted roof dribbling off like a mini waterfall. Percy pulled Bianca the last couple steps, letting out a sigh of relief as he let his powers recoil. Bianca sniffled.

"Now will you please tell me what's going on?" Percy asked.

"I...I..." Bianca sniffled, "I never should've left. I shouldn't have even thought about the hunters. Gods, Percy."

"Bianca, You can't seriously-"

"Yes, yes, I can." She glared up at him, "I left you to watch over my brother! If I had just..."

"Just what? Hadn't died? Where do you think I would be then? Well probably still dead, but I wouldn't be here. Kronos would be ruling the world, with Atlas by his side. Bianca...you saved us all."

She was silent. Sniffling every once in a while but when she looked back up at him, her dark eyes sparkled. Tears still fell out of the corner of her eyes, but Percy felt that these were happy tears. Bianca wrapped her arms around him crying into his shoulder.

Percy's face blushed red, he swallowed hard. "Um, Bianca," He said gently, "I have- had- a girlfriend."

She grew equally red, laughing to play it off. "Oh, uh, um, my bad. I forgot."

"Forgot?" Percy cocked his head. "We got together after the Titan War. How could you have...?"

"Oh well, You see..." Bianca pulled at a chocolate lock that had fallen out of her hood. "I'm a Dream Watcher."

"A What?"

"Oh right, your not caught up on Elite lingo." Bianca wiped the last of her tars away. "A Dream Watcher is someone who can watch dreams, duh. But I can do more than that. I can enter dreams, manipulate them, create them. When I sent you those Iris messages three years ago when Nico ran from camp, I had to wake you somehow. Since then I've been able to comfort Nico in his nightmares, I send happy thoughts to his worries. I watch over him."

Percy smiled faintly, and he thought Bianca did too. But then he remembered his vision and it faded.

"But what does that have to do with Annabeth? Wait did you send me that vision?"

She grimaced, "No, I did not. You described your dream like a waking moment. I...I...can't do that."

"Who can?"

Bianca paused, a cool feeling blew over Percy. Her eyes looked sadder and concealed, like hiding a terrible secret. The I-know-who-murdered-your-entire-family-and-your-dog-and-your-neighbors-But-I-can't-tell-you type of secret.

"As far as I am aware, Savoir," she said picking her words carefully, "No one else can. I'm the only Dream Watcher on Chaos planet."

Percy tried not to look too miserable.

"Oh Hey, You haven't been around Chaos planet yet." Bianca said changing the subject inconspicuously. "Come on, I'll show you!"

She took his hand, her hand falling easily into his. "Oh yeah there was this one time when Hero and I were buying ice cream and the vendor tried to over sell our cones, so Hero..." She trailed off when she realized Percy wasn't listening.

"Hey," She said, "Don't worry about it. It was just a vision, it probably isn't even happening."

Little did they know, on a planet not that far away, a certain daughter of Athena woke with a start with the faint feeling of a kiss on her lips.

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