It all started with a joke. A bad one.

"We going?"

Annabeth was hunched over her desk, examining some sort of blueprint, her blonde hair had slipped out of her ponytail. Long blond strands hung in her face, and once in a while she would remember to tuck them behind her ears only to have them fall back into her eyes a few seconds later.

Unlike the daughter of Athena, Percy could think of nothing less interesting than the blueprint. At first he had tried. He had asked his girlfriend to explain to him what it was about. But after a few minutes, Annabeth had decided he didn't understand, and that why he was finding it uninteresting. But he felt like it wasn't like that. He understood perfectly, it just wasn't interesting. So instead. He just sat and watched.

"Just a minute" replies Annabeth, still focused on the blueprint.

For two weeks it had gone on like that, Annabeth studying the papers whenever they had free time, Percy keeping company.

Eventually, Percy had gone to talk to talk to his friends, Annabeth needed to take a break – they agreed. It was surprisingly Leo, who had come up with the idea. A date. Percy would take his girlfriend on a date. It was so simple and obvious. Percy felt a bit stupid he hadn't thought of that himself. Even Chiron agreed that Annabeth needed the distraction.

And after a bit of pestering from Percy, Annabeth had reluctantly agreed.

"Are you sure you know how long a minute is?" asked Percy three minutes later. "Because I feel like that was a lot longer than a minute"

Annabeth exhaled, she knew that he was getting impatient, and she understood why. Five more minutes she promised herself. Five more minutes, and then she was going to be done.

"What's the time right now?" she asked, without even glancing up.

She hears footsteps behind her, and before she realizes it Percy had grabbed her around the waist and picked her up

"It's time you got a watch" he said giving her a quick kiss, and carrying her outside.

It was still early, the sun wasn't that high yet, and the trees where casting slight shadows on the ground below. Most of the campers where already outside starting to make their way towards the pavilion, and Annabeth suddenly realized how ridiculous she must look.

"Put me down, right now" she practically demanded

"no can do wise girl" replied Percy, still smiling as he carried her towards the entrance to camp.

so yeah another story