A/N: I apologize now if there is any OOC'ness, hopefully there's not. If there is, please forgive me.
Note: I have never been to any aquarium in New York, so this is probably not accurate with the real aquarium.
Disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson and The Olympians – my brain is too messed up to own that.
Aquarium
At The Aquarium
Why was I, Annabeth Chase daughter of Athena, standing inside an aquarium in New York on a Saturday night, completely alone? You might be asking yourself.
One reason and one reason only:
Percy Jackson.
I know what you're thinking, you are thinking something along the lines of Whaaat?
The time is probably right for an explanation, don't you think?
You see, when The Battle of Manhattan was over and Percy was offered immortality, he accepted!
I was crushed, for I had fallen for him and discovered it to late to tell him – maybe if I had found out earlier I could have avoided all of this.
Anyway to make it even better, Percy fell in love with Athena – the feeling was mutual.
Perseus Jackson fell in love with Athena, goddess of wisdom and battle strategy and my mother!
To complete my happiness Percy and Athena became engaged, precisely three years, two weeks and four days after they announced to Olympus and all demigods that they were dating.
Today, it's thirteen years ago, Percy became a god. God of tidal waves to be exact. I'm 29 years old and haven't really dated anyone since Percy (and we never really dated.) It's not even that my work is occupying me. After I started on rebuilding Olympus, I got my own architecture-company. To spare you the boring details let's just say that I'm very wealthy and the owner of a highly respected company.
I moved to another window where there were Common Lionfishs.
Back to the dating, it's not that I haven't dated anyone. I just haven't felt it.
Even though it's a long time ago, I can't believe that Percy choose immortality. When I had the choice of becoming a huntress I said: thanks, but no thanks. I said no because of him.
He didn't even seem to think about the harm and hurt he would cause others. (Cue me!)
I could feel the tears start to form in my eyes, I started to blink furiously.
I. Would. Not. Cry!
Okay, I can handle the godly part, but dating my mother is just too much, it's so... I don't even have a word to describe what I'm feeling.
So that is why I'm at the aquarium, a Saturday night – alone.
I guess it's a bad idea, I mean anytime I'm near water or anything relating to the ocean I think of Percy.
I moved to the next window in the aquarium. I had to smile, it contained Hippocampi or more commonly known as seahorses. No matter when I saw them, heard of them or talked about them I would think of Tyson – and his fish ponies.
This time I saw them, they did remind me of Tyson, but they reminded me of something else: That I wasn't the only person being hurt by all of this, in lack of a better word, drama. Percy's father, Poseidon, was hurt as well. All because of two things, if you asked me:
1] His son falling in with his enemy.
2] I think that Athena and Poseidon has always had a thing for each other, or at least Poseidon has a thing for Athena.
It's weird to think that maybe the sea god has been in love with the goddess of wisdom for forever, but never did anything about it. But then again, Percy was never really good with admitting feelings for another living being.
It must run in the family, in the genes or something.
Please, don't quote me for that!
My guess is that for thirteen years, a daughter of Athena and a sea god has been going around, both feeling completely miserable.
I noted that my cheeks were wet and when I licked my lips they tasted like salt.
Tears I thought.
I had started to cry, without my noticing. I quickly dried my eyes, it didn't help – the tears still came down my cheeks. I started to walk towards the door to the room where the sharks where. I had my face towards the ground so no one would notice my red eyes.
Since I was so busy with hiding the tears that kept coming, I didn't notice a figure coming towards me before it was too late.
That came out way to dramatically. The truth is that we just bumped into each other. Because I had walked in my own thought, I wasn't quite steady as I normally would be, resulting in me falling to the ground. The unknown person I collided with held out a hand. I took it and he pulled me up.
"I'm sorry, I was walking in my own thoughts. I should have paid more attention. I'm sorry," I said to the man, not looking at him. I refused to let the world know that I was crying.
"I'm sorry, I collided with you. I was in my own world," he apologized at the same time as I did.
There was something about his voice, as if I'd heard it before.
I forced the tears to stop before I looked up into a pair of very known pair of eyes, or so I thought.
"Annabeth, right?" he asked
"Yeah, that's me," I said nervously.
"Can I ask you why you have been crying?" he asked me.
I'd like to say that I handled the conversation in a very decent and mature way. That I came with a quick, white lie and he believed it, and I left after that.
The truth is that the tears I had managed to stop, before I looked at him, came again and this time I couldn't hold them back. He pulled me into a hug and let me cry until I didn't have any tears left.
I looked up at him, into those eyes I thought I knew.
So alike and yet so different.
"Thanks," I said, my throat dry from crying.
"You're welcome. So, Annabeth. What do you say about getting a cup of coffee? You talk, maybe I talk, we both listen? It's not healthy keeping such a thing to yourself for so long," he said, then looked me in the eyes and continued, "I should know."
"Yeah, okay. Coffee and talk, sure," I said, as I looked into Poseidon's eyes.
A/N: This came to me when I had read one of those fanfictions were Percy accept immortality and then fall in love with Athena. This is a work of my weird brain, when I let it go and wonder around freely.
I have no idea to where this shall go, if it will go anywhere. Any ideas?
Please let me know what you think.