Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians or Heroes of Olympus
Hello again everybody! I know, I know, I'm getting a lot of stories going at the same time, but I really want to do all of them. This is going to be a short story compilation of one-shots for various couples in the PJO and HoO series. I want you guys to review and give suggestions for scenarios and couples, and I'll try to do them to the best of my abilities.
Please enjoy the stories! I might as well start off with a most popular couple there is, Percabeth.
Percy's POV
I'd been together with Annabeth for nearly a year now, and I wanted to do something special for our anniversary.
I'd looked around, watched other people around the city, watched odd romantic movies with my mom, trying to figure out what I could do for Annabeth to show her how much I care for her.
I hadn't been able to find anything that I would do, so I had to think up my own idea, which doesn't always turn out the way it should, but I didn't have much choice at this point, so I had to hope for the best.
I wandered through the streets, looking in the windows of various stores and buildings, watching people and looking at various things that were being sold. I didn't have too long, because our anniversary was in three days.
After several hours of wandering through the streets, I finally saw what I was going to do.
Annabeth's POV
Today was Percy and I's anniversary, and I wasn't sure what to expect. Percy had been acting a bit secretive lately, and I assumed he had something or other planned. I wasn't sure whether I should be excited or worried, because it could go either way with him.
I had gotten Percy a silver trident charm that would be able to go on his camp necklace, and I thought he would like it.
It was still pretty early, so I didn't know when Percy would do whatever he was planning. We were both at Camp, and I wasn't sure what he would do while we were here. I knew he had gone to the city for a couple things a while back, but I never found out more.
The day went fairly normally, going through training like I did every day, except I never saw Percy. I wondered where he was, or what he was doing, but there was no point in worrying about it.
Eventually, after training was over and I went back to my cabin. My siblings were all still out doing various activities or waiting for dinner, so I was alone in the cabin.
I heard a knock at the door to the cabin. It wouldn't be one of my siblings, because they wouldn't knock before entering.
"Come in!" I called to the door.
The door opened and I saw Percy standing in the door. He wasn't dressed differently from a normal day, but he had cleaned up. His hair was combed, his clothes fresh and clean, I could see he had just shaved in the last few hours. His eyes almost seemed to shine as he smiled at me. "Are you busy?" He asked.
"No, just waiting for dinner. How come?"
"Because I made plans, today IS our anniversary."
I smiled back at him, "What have you planned?"
"Well, we need to stay in camp, but I think that you'll enjoy what I planned. Come along, dear lady." He said as he straightened up, as if trying to act like a gentleman for me, but he was smiling while he said it.
I stood up and walked over to him, standing on my tip-toes and giving him a quick kiss. "Are you sure you can't tell me what we're doing?" I said, while doing my best to make puppy eyes at him.
"Nope, and that's not going to work." He replied, with a small smirk.
I just gave a small shrug. I hadn't expected it to actually work, but it was worth the attempt.
He held out his hand, which I took, and he led me out into the camp. I didn't know exactly where we were going, but I couldn't help feeling a little excited. Percy was usually good at finding things I liked.
After a couple minutes of walking hand-in-hand, we found ourselves at the beach of the canoe lake.
"We're going swimming?" I asked, a little confused.
"Not quite."
I led me up to the very edge of the water. Then, as if it was repelled from us, the water flowed away from us as we walked forward. We kept walking into where the lake was, and the water just kept a circle of about ten feet in diameter around us. Eventually we were near the floor of the lake, about fifteen feet under the surface of the lake, but we had sphere of air around us that was big enough to give us some space, and air of course.
After a few more steps, another air bubbled merged with ours, and I found what Percy had set up. He'd put a picnic of sorts on the floor of the lake. There was a traditionally styled basket with some food in it I assumed, sitting on a blanket on the floor of the lake.
I couldn't help but smile at what Percy had set up. He must've seen that I liked what he'd done, because he put his arm around me and pulled me closer.
"You haven't even seen the best part yet." He said to me, pretty quietly.
I looked at him confused, but he just led me to the blanket and helped me sit down. He sat down across from me on the blanket, then gestured above us. I looked up and let out a small audible gasp.
It was probably about sunset, and something about how Percy had shaped the water around us bent the light of the sunset in a way that there was a rainbow of sorts in the water around us, consisting of the colors of sunset. Orange, yellow, some purple⦠It was beautiful.
"It took me hours of manipulating the water to get it right to look like that." Percy said to me, alternating his gaze between me and the top of our little dome.
"I love it!" I told him.
He smiled and pulled the food out of the basket and set it on the blanket. We ate, talking about random things like we usually did; how his family was, what we were planning on doing after we eventually finished high school.
We finished our food and Percy cleaned it up and put everything back in the basket, then came over by me and we laid down on the blanket, looking up at the water, taking in the colors.
After a couple minutes of sitting, Percy sat up and said, "Annabeth, I have something I want to tell you."
I sat up. I wasn't sure what he wanted to say, but he seemed a bit serious now.
He looked me right in the eyes, then I felt his hand on mine. "I love you. Happy anniversary." Then I felt him put something in my hand. I looked down and saw a long, flat black box in my hand.
I lifted the box, then looked at Percy. "Open it." He said, smiling slightly.
I lifted the lid off the box and stared at it. Inside the box was a sliver necklace, and hanging from it was a sea-green topaz gem, and when I looked closely at it, I saw there were owl designs in the silver holding the topaz.
I looked at Percy, "How?"
He smiled back, "If you can get him to be serious, Leo can be really good at molding silver."
I looked at the necklace again. "Let me help you." He said. He took the necklace from my hand and put it around my neck. He did the clasp and let go of the necklace. It was the perfect length for me.
I looked back up at him to see him smiling at me.
I pulled him into a hug and whispered into his ear, "I love you."
He kissed me on the cheek, "I love you too."
How was that? I figured I'd written enough dark stuff, so this should be a happier story series to read. Please review to give me suggestions of what you guys want next and to let me know what you thought of the story! If this story is popular and gets enough feedback, I'll continue writing them. Please tell me what you guys want! I hope to see all of you in the next one!
