*First FanFiction ever, no lie. A bit nervous. Feedback would be amazing! This is set after the second Titan War, right after the underwater kiss and before Percy and Annabeth are official-official dating, WARNING: a little fluffy!*

Chapter 1: Back to Normal

Annabeth POV:

The sun shone through the windows in the Athena cabin, shining right in my eyes. Great, woke up early, or so I thought. None of my siblings were in bed; all of them were rushing around and getting ready for cabin inspections.

"Oh, Annabeth, we figured we'd let you rest because, well…you know the war must have taken a toll and the lake with Percy…" said Malcolm, my half-brother. He trailed off on the comment on my night with Percy and us being thrown into the lake after our kiss. Our kiss. As I helped my siblings clean up the messed up papers and put away books, I thought about last night, and how I took a dare in wrapping my arms around Percy's neck and kissing him with all I had. He just looked so cute all flustered and stumbling over his words, it was pretty hard to help myself. Suddenly there was knock on the door.

"I got it," yelled one of my half-sisters. There was a muttering at the door and I heard it close, but I was too busy thinking about last night to bother to listen in.

"Annabeth, Chiron's having a meeting at the Big House, so you better get down there," said my half-sister. I quickly brushed my hair, changed my clothes, and fixed up my bunk the wind god himself would be jealous. With that done, I rushed out of the door and ran to the Big House.

I walked in the tiny rec room with the ping-pong table covered with breakfast foods and surrounded by the camp council, including Percy. I was the last to walk in, so naturally all eyes were on me. There were only one pair of eyes I really saw though, and those were a pair of sea green eyes that stared right into mine. They glinted with amusement then joy, and their owner pulled a smirk and winked at me. Percy was wearing his normal Camp Half Blood orange t-shirt and shorts, with wind rumpled hair and an unnerving gaze. I faltered for a moment and the Stoll brothers snickered and Clarisse rolled her eyes.

"Oh sit down and stop flirting with Jackson already!" pestered Clarisse. I quickly sat down after that and averted my eyes to the ground. Dear gods Annabeth, way to look like an idiot! I can't help it I guess I got a bit lost, I mean who stares at someone like that in the morning! And how'd that seaweed brain get here before me anyway? He can barely be awake for breakfast…. I was jerked out of my thoughts by Chiron clearing his throat.

"Ehem, well congratulations on the victory against the Titans, none the less everyone, including the Olympians themselves, are proud of everyone at this camp. The lost will never be forgotten either. The camp still has to carry on after these losses, especially the Aphrodite cabin and the loss of Silena. We must try to return to the normal camp we always have known. Now, as Rachel's newest prophesy has stirred some new concerns, we still need to push it out of mind for the moment and focus on the issues at hand, like a new Aphrodite leader and the renovations to camp and the new cabins. Grover is assembling satyrs to find all the new demigods that will soon be arriving. Annabeth, when will you be going to Olympus to start the reconstruction?"

I barely heard him ask me the question, because Percy and I were making faces across the table.

"Erm, I don't know, probably during the school year or right after camp I haven't exactly pinned a date yet." I stuttered.

"All right, if you would like to go sooner, be sure to warn me. Otherwise, I have nothing else to say, get going all of you!" and with that Chiron let us go and trotted elsewhere.

As I walked out of the Big House, Percy bumped me in the hip, "Look who was late to a meeting. I would have never thought Wise Girl would EVER be late!" He mimed being shocked and pretended to fan himself.

"Oh shut up! I was tired, Seaweed Brain! I'm actually amazed you woke up today without someone shouting at you that food was already out!" I punched him in the arm and he laughed. He looked really happy, and he just looked at me with this look, sort of admiration, but I couldn't quite place it.

"What?" I asked.

He shook his head and looked towards the lake, "Come down to the lake with me, I want to ask you something." And with that, he grabbed my wrist and ran me down to the sand.