Okay so this is my first fanfic! I decided to make this a long oneshot, it'll have an exciting more adventurous alternate ending posted soon, with a sequel to the alternate ending posted called "The Arguments" later on. I have tons of ideas written down in a notebook but I decided to keep my first fanfic short so I can figure out how to do this, and make sure that I can handle it. I know the story is absolutely terrible. I am a 7th grader so please only constructive criticism! If you like it (or hate it I guess) reveiw so I can know what I did wrong! A special thank you to NerdyBear for checking out my story before I posted it.
Takes place after TLO and before HoO.
I do not own PJO,if I did Percabeth would not have fallen into Tartarus. I expect adorable Percabeth moments in House of Hades Rick!
He sat there at the desk brows furrowed in concentration as his sea green eyes reread the problem again and again, he finally gave up and turned lazily around in his swivel chair until he focused on her. She was beautiful, her golden hair fell loosely out of her ponytail framing her face.
There was an unexpected cuteness about how she looked to him then, with legs crossed under her desk and her gray eyes calculating something on the laptop screen quickly. So it was that cuteness that pushed him over the edge, and made him do something that anyone who had met her would flip out and call him insane.
He swiftly got up and walked over to her, standing behind her chair. She may or may not have noticed him there, she was one of the most observant people on the battlefield but if you entered architecture or books into the equation she became the most unobservant person ever.
But once he had asked her, after stealthily sneaking into her cabin to ask for math help if she had noticed him and she stated, without looking up from her work "Ignoring and uncomprehending are about as opposite as two words can be in my opinion." she then grabbed his worksheet, gave it a once over, told him the answer, and went back to working.
So there he stood, behind her, wondering if she knew that he stood so close to her fazed by the sudden dose of prettiness his girlfriend had unknowingly thrust upon him, and put his plan into action. He smoothly put his hands on her small shoulders in which he got a moan of "Percy, I need to work this plan is due by-" she was cut off by a swift peck on the lips. She sat in shock for one second, but that's all he needed to grab her laptop and race off toward who knows knew she would follow, before she would realize that his plan was to distract her, which is what had done with little effort.
When she found him, lounging nonchalantly near a tree, not seeming to notice her, she considered her options. He obviously did not want to give her the computer back, and just as obvious was the fact that he hid it, so the effort that would need to be put in to find it would be made futile, because it was most likely in the lake, completely dry thanks to his son-of-the-freakin'-sea-god powers. So she pulled off a good old fashioned "eh-hem" to get his attention focused on her.
He smirked at her presence and patted the ground beside him, gesturing for her to sit. She had a now extremely stubborn look etched upon her face. He pouted, and she responded by looking away from him, because even though she would never let him know it, when he gave her puppy-dog eyes her heart immediately melted and her stubbornness faded to near nothing. "Percy, my laptop." she said after gathering up enough courage to not fall prey to those absolutely gorgeous sea green eyes. "What about it Wise-Girl?" she bit her bottom lip as he tugged lazily at separate blades of grass, his voice dripping in false innocence. "Give it back." she sounded like a whiny 6 year old because she had begun to learn that when she acted angry with him he looked at her and tried pointlessly to bite back laughter. He gave her an impossibly cute devilish smile and shook his head "Nope! You, my dear Annabeth need to take a break from that evil thing, or it will eat your brain like a zombie."
It was at that moment that Annabeth realized that he wasn't joking and wasn't going to give it back in the foreseeable future. "Well, if it was a zombie and it tried to attack you it better like sushi cause all that your brain is, is a lump of flipping seaweed!" she started getting angry.
"Yes, and everyone knows laptops hate sushi so really Beth I'm just protecting you and your perfect brain." he looked at her innocently.
"My hero." she stated dryly. "But I believe I can protect myself if my sushi-hating-zombie-laptop attacked me." her arms were folded across her chest and her hair swayed gently in the breeze, storm clouds perched precariously near the edge of camp. "Come on Wise Girl, give me a break, or even better just take one yourself." She sighed, she truly did want a break and probably would have taken one after she had finished Hephaestus' temple on Olympus, but now she had to pester him about her laptop, and say that she had lots to work on just out of pure intellectual stubbornness. "Perrrcccyyy," She moaned hanging her head "seriously stop this, I want it back now!" He chuckled. "With your new whiny attitude Beth I'm not sure if you could handle a crazed undead laptop." He raised one eyebrow at her, daring her to retort.
She glared at him, planning her next move. "Do you think you could handle me Kelp Head?" He shrugged but had a confident grin on his face. "Ok then, bring it Jackson!" She grabbed her knife and spread her arms in a challenge.
He smirked playfully, got up, and yanked Riptide out of his pocket. She tried to plan what to do, like any sensible child of Athena would do in this situation but something in his eyes made her decide to wing it. The rest was a blur, she spent most of the time on defense because Percy was invincible so protecting himself wasn't really a huge priority. She knew that if he wanted to he could kill her within the next minute, but he just was trying to disarm her which was difficult because her weapon was a third of the size of his. So it was an extremely close fight that may have lasted for any amount of time, from 5 minutes to over an hour, but the entire time she spent focused on beating him.
He tried not to hurt her so the fight was extremely close. His thoughts were just set on pinning her, or more preferably disarming her. Just to prove his point. He wondered if she was getting tired yet, he took a quick glance up at her face, which was a mistake. Her nose was scrunched up, her eyes were determined and extremely beautiful, her curls had long ago fallen out of their ponytail and her lips were in a tight line. He froze, seriously he just stopped dead standing like a statue with his face focused on her's.
Accidentaly she stabbed him while he was fazed, and screamed, a high pitched, girly, terrified scream, as it hit in a kill spot before she realized, with a great overwhelming dose of embarrassment that it had only tore a hole in his shirt.
He shook his head and stared at her ashamed expression, her tan cheeks a now flaming red. He smiled, a bright, very Percy-like smile, and dropped his sword with a clang next to her forgotten knife. "You could've killed me Beth," He said incredulously. She did not respond, it was obvious to him after knowing her for so long that she was deciding on how to act.
"What the heck Kelp Head! You trying to hurt yourself? I thought that a few years ago we got into that thick skull of yours that you have to freakin' move the Hades out of the way when someone tries to stab you!" She obviously settled on anger as a suitable reaction to his act of stupidity. He just grinned and pointed to the ground. Puzzled and curious, she risked a glance down which was not what she would normally do. There was her knife, all by itself, laying triumphantly on the ground.
"Ah hah! I win! No computer today!" He pointed at her like a happy 5 year old. "You are going to take a break and I am going to decide how it's spent"
"Well then what are we doing?" She snapped her tone dripping in bitterness and the rest of her wounded pride. But he had seen it, the familiar twinkle that only inhabited her eyes when she was happy or amused, and it showed up when he had yelled. "Seaweed Brain? Snap out of it dummy! Why do you keep freezing?" He shook his head now fully aware of the hint of concern in her eyes. "I'm fine," which was so not true, she kept on being so god dang pretty, forcing him into a shocked state. "Just excited that's all!"
Why they were there, I don't think anyone knew. But they were smiling all the same. It had been 5 hours since the dispute that now lay long forgotten in a corner of their brains. Annabeth's laptop was back in her cabin, tossed lazily on her bed, and nowhere near her location, but she didn't care. She and Percy were not extremely near each other either. After he showed her how, Annabeth really got the hang of surfing. She wasn't near as good as Percy, but then again, who was? She was soaked to the bone and her ponytail had fallen out hours ago. She was wearing a blue bikini top and short blue athletic shorts, dripping with water. Taking a break because no good waves were coming near the horizon, she sat, straddling her board (gray, with a big white Hawaiian flower painted on it) watching the sun drift lazily down.
"Just chillaxing now Wise Girl?" His voice mocked her. "Nobody says chillaxing, anymore Kelp Head" she retorted turning towards him. He started laughing at the irony of her statement. "What?" She snapped defensively. "Well, we're Nobody right?" He grinned cheekily at her, remembering Polyphemus. Her eyes rolled when she realized what he meant. "No, Seaweed Brain, I am the second Nobody, and you are an imposter, a fake, a poser, a..." She was cut off by his kiss. Her heart raced as she silently cursed him as he finished her statement. "...An extremely oblivious guy with the smartest, prettiest girl on earth?" He smirked. "Yeah...That too." Her voice was cracking throughout the statement. He smiled,"Good, I don't want to be anything else." She smiled at him, he was oblivious but he still managed to say the right things.
"Gods Jackson when did you become such a sap?" She flashed that gorgeous smirk at him. "Don't expect more Wise Girl, that's all I've got." She laughed and he grinned. "What's so funny?" He said innocently. She had tried to stifle her laughter. It didn't work. Her body quaked with giggles as she looked at his pouting face.
"Fine then! Be that way!" He growled playfully, then in one swift movement he swiped his hand underneath her board and flipped it. She screamed, not truly scared because Percy was with her, but knowing it would make him smile, and because it kind of surprised her.
After a very uneven splash fight, they went back to the pavilion to eat. She kissed his cheek and then walked over to the Athena cabin's table. She couldn't help but glance at him often, it wasn't fair. He had to sit alone, in between the Zeus table and the Demeter table. Not even between close friends since Thalia was hardly ever there. Every few minutes he'd glance up and smile at her, showing her a row of pearly white teeth. But she still felt bad for making him lonely, even if he didn't show it.
The second it was socially acceptable (not freaky fast) she would finish her food and leave her table, as would Percy, so they had time before campfire.
"So O' Wise One," he said while they walked from the pavillion, ignoring the squeals of the Aphrodite cabin, "was the break okay?" That surprised her, she had completely forgotten about their earlier dispute. She could say the truth, which was that she had really enjoyed it, bug where was the fun in that? "It was alright I guess, I mean I would have rather worked on my designs and read a book, but oh well." She sighed exasperatedly. He gave her a disgusted look. "Liar." He said plainly. She grinned. "Yes Seaweed Brain, I had fun, and you did good." He smiled, "That's what I thought." He said smugly, then he looked like he had an idea "Do I get a kiss then Beth?" She looked thoughtful "I think that can be arranged." Smirking she stood on her tiptoes and pecked him on the lips. "Better?" He grinned. "Yup." Popping the P. "Good, now race ya!" She yelled and sprinted towards the campfire, with him trailing close behind.
Well, there ya go. Percabeth just hanging out. I've written most of the alternate ending, which is more exciting and dangerous. And I'll post the sequel to the alternate ending in another chapter so hopefully about 3 or 4 chapters. Please review, I don't care if it's one word, I just want to make sure people like it!