Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Or else there would be a whole lot more fluff.
This is only going to be fluff. There will be no plots at all. Not to be obvious or anything.
Someone knocked on the door. At this time of day, I had not realized that the twins would not have been polite enough to knock. So I ignored it and curled up tighter.
"Annabeth!" A seriously familiar voice called. I immediately recognized it. And then I knew for sure I was dreaming. I settled in, a smile on my face. I wanted him to come in and hug me, with a tray of pancakes. I wanted to enjoy him while he lasted, even if in a dream.
"Annabeth! Get up! Seriously, you never slept this late when we were together!"
I was confused. This was a weird dream. Rubbing my face, I opened the door.
"Serious-"Percy was cut off when he saw me.
"Percy!" I shrieked like a little girl, flinging my arms around him.
"I missed you," he replied, his eyes teary. He lifted me up and swung me around, my grin wide, and enjoying every second of him.
Once he set me down, my eyes traveled all across his face, burning the details for the umpteenth time into my head. I ran a hand through his soft, tangled hair and rested my cheek on his shoulder.
His arms traveled around my waist, and he turned to face me. Our lips were just about to meet when I remembered something.
"I still have bad breath." I exclaimed, jumping away.
"I don't care about that," he replied, smiling. He caught my lips in a kiss. "I love you, Wise Girl. I'm going to see you every morning for the rest of my life."
We talked about getting married casually, since we both knew it was fated.
"Good," I grinned, kissing him back.
We walked, entangled, to breakfast. Fredrick smiled ruefully at us as we dug into toast, with our arms still around each other.
And then Percy led me out to the warm San Francisco weather. "I have a surprise for you," he told me, slinging a canvas bag over his shoulder.
"Really," I replied, feeling the outside of the bag. He lightly smacked my hand away.
"Yes," he grinned. "I bet you can't out-plan that."
"I didn't even plan on you visiting. What's the occasion?"
"I can visit you when I want." His eyes darkened slightly, the sea-green disappearing behind emerald. His voice lowered. "And I couldn't sleep."
I nodded understandingly. "Me too." I suddenly realized I could sleep yesterday. "But-"
Percy grinned. "I got here at three in the morning. I let myself in with the spare key and slept by you on the carpet." Then, with a smirk, he said, "But I still woke up earlier than you!"
I rolled my eyes. "You need to get some more sleep."
"I slept on the train," he replied easily. "And being a gentleman, I decided to knock in the morning because it was a lady's bedroom."
I laughed. "Well, you did just let yourself in and sleep right there at night."
His forehead wrinkled. "Oh, yeah."
I gently smoothed them out. He smiled, his lips brimming with love.
Then he stopped me at a gate.
"A park?" I gawked. "Seriously?"
"Nope, it's a nature trail," he replied. He swept me in and we went to the log cabin to get the instructional packets and some supplies.
After paying for the last bottle of water, we started for the trail.
It threaded through a beautiful forest, shading us from the sun. When walked through it, chatting about everything. Even though it's only been two weeks after I went back to San Francisco, and we called daily, we still had endless things to say.
It was such a freeing feeling, not always on the rush for a quest or worrying about someone dying or being gone. The limelight was now on Leo and Calypso.
Percy told me a bit about the small quests he'd gotten, and I replied with some information about redesigning Olympus.
"There's this huge theater, with a tall glass dome above the stage, with about a million velvet seats, three levels, and a mile long stage. I'm thinking the nymphs could perform Greek plays and the Olympians could pick the actors. And there's this statue garden, too. So I asked each of them how many statues they wanted and positioned them alphabetically around it, with hedges of their sacred animals and their sacred plants. I've finished a lot of the buildings, I'm just afraid of designing the castles. Those will be hard."
I noticed Percy staring at me. He didn't reply. "Percy!" I snapped.
He seemed to wake up. "Yeah, Wise Girl?"
"Have you heard anything?"
"Um," he stuttered.
"Really?" I groaned.
"Well, you can't blame me," he replied deviously. "I was too distracted by your beauty."
I smacked his arm, but blush warmed my cheeks. "Uh, well.." I struggled for a comeback.
He grinned and swooped me up. "You love me, don't you, Wise Girl?"
"I-I," I was speechless.
"Come on, you want to kiss me, don't you?" he teased, swinging me around wildly. Then he hoisted me over his shoulder and climbed up an oak.
"Hey!" I protested. He dropped me on a branch.
"Annabeth, you missed me so badly, didn't you? You wanted me to come, and rescue you," he smirked, hopping onto a branch below.
I shrieked in playful anger. I summoned my strength, pulling him back up. Then I locked my legs around his waist, grabbing his face roughly and pulling it to mine. We kissed passionately.
"That's how I feel, Seaweed Brain." I released him and he crashed into a bed of pine needles. "Yes, I do, I want you."
He stood up, brushing needles off him. In a few leaps he climbed back up and whisked me down.
As I was turning back onto the path, his hand wrapped around my waist and the other one caught my chin.
"Hey," he whispered, gently tugging my head to face his. He leaned in. "You have to be prepared to say that on our wedding," he said onto my lips.
We kissed. He lowered me to the ground and after catching a breath of air, I propped myself up on his heaving chest with my elbows.
"Of course I'm ready," I told him. "I do. I do want to be physically united with you, forever by the bonds of our love. I do swear to be by your side eternally, to support you even as I am dying. And I do swear to love you, always, and to go a million times across the globe for you."
"I love you, Wise Girl," he murmured against my ear. Our hearts beat in unison. "I do."
Finally, after endless make out sessions, we reached the end. It was a beautiful clearing, with lavender and daffodils growing everywhere. There was a clear pond in the middle.
Percy unpacked the bag. It was a picnic. We ate hungrily, and then lay on the grass, watching the clouds and talking about our house, and what we'd name our kids.
And then Percy stood up. He turned around, stripped off, and stepped into swimming trunks. I felt the heat rise up in my cheeks at the sight.
He turned around, and I felt hypnotized by his chest for the millionth time.
He smiled at my face. "Like what you see?" he smirked.
I could only nod shyly.
He slowly walked over to me and sat down by my side, wrapping a tanned arm around my shoulder, enjoying every second of my frozen expression.
He guided my hand over his heart, and then gently moved me so I was leaning against his abs, all the while smirking.
Suddenly I discovered he fell asleep with his chin on my head. I moved him so that he was lying down and rested on his front, taking a nap myself.
Finally, when he woke up, he took a swimsuit out of his bag ("From Piper") which was thankfully a one-piece, and told me to change behind a tree.
"You look beautiful," he murmured as I came closer. "I figured you'd mind a bikini though."
"Exactly," I replied, kissing his cheek.
"Next time we go to the beach, will you wear one?"
I smacked his arm. "Please."
We jumped into the pond and spent the afternoon splashing each other. It was amazing, and he didn't even use his powers.