I was talking on the phone maybe... 10, 15, 20 minutes ago. The phone kept rinigng with nobody on the other side, like a salesperson was just being annoying. All I got was static instead of a human voice, like a phone should give you. And then my Mom hung up when she called asking me what I wanted for supper, and I got static too. I was thinking about how eerie it could be if she wouldn't have said 'okay, goodbye' before hanging up. And of course my brain directs everything from 'potato' to 'night stand' to a book, so ta-dah! This pointless oneshot!
Disclaimer: I don't own phones. That was Alexander Graham Bell. And he didn't own PJO. So if I'm not Bell, I don't own PJO, so I own nothing but sarcasm.
Static
"If you're at the grocery store, can you pick up some peanut butter for me, Seaweed brain? Tyson finished our stock last time he came over and Rachel is not happy without her PB."
"Funny how he finishes the stocks we have meant for him and then the actual jars meant for toast and whatever." Percy said on the other end. Annabeth laughed.
"True," she said. "So can you?"
"Sure. You guys have the smooth kind, right?" He said reffering to the multi-people appartment. It was hard to keep track of exactly who lived there because everyone sort of fell in and out depending on how life was treating them. When Hazel and Nico were getting sick of the Underworld where they helped Pluto out, they came here; when Katie wasn't collecting samples for biology companies so was she; when Lou Ellen wasn't up to gods know what Lou Ellen was up to, so was she; when Jason was in New York he came around too.
"Yes. It'll say 'smooth' on the jar."
"Gee thanks. I'm not that much of a Seawee-"
She heard the sound of something falling on the ground, like a phone, a surprised swear word and static.
"Percy?" She said trying to stay calm.
The buzzing, even, and ongoing sound of static.
"Percy?" Her heart was beating fast and she actually walked towards her door, holding the phone to her ear. She grabbed her jacket, and cap, not even bothering to turn around and yell to Piper and Rachel she was going out. "Percy, are you there? Are you okay?"
No sign of Seaweed brain.
Just static.