Hey guys, I've uploaded again. Hopefully you enjoy this. The idea has inspired me to make a 30k word long one-two shot about Annabeth being in love with Percy. No promises though, since I'm VERY lazy and it's hard to find motivation though. Also I'm really bad at conflict/stuff like that and I prefer to write short one-shots instead of a long, thought-out conflict/resolution thing. Idk I'm bad at it. I'd definitely be down to give it a try though, practice makes perfect. Anywayyyy, how have you all been? I'd love to talk with some of you, get a more indepth review of what you guys think of my fics. Sometimes I'll read over something I've written and be like "I did that? I really like that" and other times I'll be like "This is terrible, why did I do that" there really is no inbetween. Anywayyyy (part 2) hopefully you enjoy, this AN is getting WAY too long. And as always, thank you for reading.
Words w/out AN: 1354
Pairing(s): Percabeth
I am not Rick, so I own nothing.
Part I
Annabeth stared at her best friend of seven years. Slightly amazed at how oblivious he could be sometimes.
Correction, most times.
Percy and her were in the library at school, going over some notes for their shared biology class. It was just them in the library, everybody else had decided they would enjoy their Friday night, doing anything other than studying. Well, everybody except her and Percy. Percy decided he actually wanted to get a good grade on their upcoming bio test, which, unfortunately for Annabeth, meant he needed the assistance of the best and most smart person in the entire world. Sure the compliment was great, although she knew he was only saying that so she would agree to study with him. And it's not like she didn't like hanging out with Percy, she loved it in fact. Except, Annabeth already knew everything in bio so she just sat around bored, while Percy aggressively flipped through pages of their textbook, rotating through muttering incoherent nonsense and asking Annabeth random questions about the cell.
"What's the difference between endo and exo?" Percy muttered, eyes still glued to the textbook.
Annabeth barely had to think, "Endo means inside, while exo means outside."
So yeah, Annabeth was bored, sure she didn't mind helping Percy study, but she'd rather help him at his house, while they were curled up under a blanket together, watching a movie.
Or maybe that was her (possible) unrequited love/teenage hormones making her think that. It was kind of hard to tell if he returned her feelings of affections back towards her, or not.
His feelings were a bit of a mystery to her.
Sure she knew when he was happy, which was basically all the time, she also knew when he was sad, when he was mad, lonely, or any other possible emotion he could ever have, she knew about it. They've been best friends for years, of course she knew. And he knew when she was mad, happy, sad. He even knew when she was just hungry. He told her she was grumpier than usual when she's hungry.
But she could not, for the life of her, figure out if Percy ever returned her feelings about him.
From his lingering touches, to the way he could always make her happy, or even how he could show up at her house with some food, it was mainly about the food, with Annabeth, although the cute guy that happened to bring it was a plus.
"Annabeth!" Percy's voice shook her from her thoughts.
"Hmm? What's up?" She asked, slightly embarrassed to have been caught staring at him. But she knew it wasn't that big of a deal. After all, he was extremely oblivious.
"What's the difference between hypotonic and hypertonic?"
"A hypotonic environment has less solute outside the cell, while a hypertonic environment has more solute outside the cell."
Percy sighed and slowly lowered his head closer to the textbook, until he was using it as a pillow to rest his head on. "I'm never gonna remember all of these."
Annabeth just hummed in response, trying to go back to a mind filled with movie nights instead of studying.
Percy's head shot up. He stared at her, squinting his eyes and turning his head a bit. "Are you okay? You seem a bit uninterested."
Annabeth sighed again, "It's not that, I'm just bored."
Percy looked at her again, he smiled, "Well I've done as much studying as I think I can stand. Do you wanna come to my place and watch movies all night?"
Annabeth smiled, somehow, this boy always knew what she wanted. "Sounds great."
Percy started closing his books and putting them in his bag, "We should leave soon, the librarian keeps glaring at us. I think she wants us to leave already so she can pack up early."
Annabeth stifled a laugh, "If anything it's because you kept making so many noises. Like how loud can you possibly flip a page in a textbook?"
Percy huffed, "Well I'm sorry that my pursuit of knowledge, can be slightly noisy."
Annabeth laughed and lightly punched his shoulder, "Alright then, come on dweeb let's go."
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"Percy." Annabeth spoke, her voice barely above a whisper and steely calm, almost dangerous-like. Percy froze in his position on the couch, he gulped. "We are watching Harry Potter and that's the end of discussion."
Percy crossed his arms and sighed like an annoyed toddler, "But Annnnaaabbetthh, we have the entire night. Let's watch Finding Nemo a couple times and then move on to Harry Potter."
Annabeth's steel-grey eyes hardened even more, she tried giving him her best intimidation/scary/I want my way or else look. She's not actually mad at him or anything, she just really wants to watch Harry Potter. "Percy, we've done this a million times. We'll end up watching Finding Nemo, then we'll get tired while we watch Finding Nemo for the second time. And we won't get to watch Harry Potter at all."
Percy glared at her one last time, but gave in, "Fine, we can watch Harry Potter, only because I love you so much."
Annabeth's hard expression instantly melted and she grinned at him. It was mostly to hide the fluttering in her chest though, sure he may have said it as a joke, but the words still had an effect on her.
She got up and put the DVD in the player. She pressed play and went back to the couch, prepared for a long night of Harry Potter. Percy got up and walked the short, few steps to the kitchen to get snacks, and Annabeth started getting comfy on the couch.
Percy came back with a bowl of popcorn and a bag of chips, just as the movie was starting. He took his usual seat beside Annabeth and pulled the blanket over the both of them.
Annabeth smiled with content.
Her and Percy's friendship had always been very physical. No not in that way, but there was a lot of touching going on. They always have to be touching, whether they're holding hands, or hugging, there's been the occasional kiss, too, but that is very occasional and it's nothing more than a short peck. If they're at a cafe, they'll have their feet hooked together under the table. If they're hanging out at Percy's house and they're both on his bed, Annabeth will fist Percy's shirt or tangle her legs with his. It's all very casual, and it's just something they've done.
So it wasn't really a surprise, when twenty minutes into the movie, Percy casually slung an arm around her and pulled her closer to him. Even though she should probably be used to it by now, it never failed to get her heart racing. So instead of dwelling onto it too much, she leaned further into him, until she was resting her head on his chest. At the same time she adjusted her hips to press right up against him and tangled her legs with his under the blanket. She even rested her hand on his stomach and fisted his shirt.
After Annabeth did this she stiffened. They usually aren't this touchy with each other. Sure they put their arms around each other and stuff, but they were practically cuddling at this point. She didn't want Percy to think she had a crush on him or anything and push him away because of it. Even though, technically, she did have a crush on him.
But if it bothered Percy, he said nothing. Just hummed once she got settled in.
Annabeth smiled against his chest. She was happy. She was in the arms of the man she loved, although he didn't know it yet, she was watching one of her favourite movies and she was in one of the most familiar places in her life.
She closed her eyes, not minding she was missing the movie at all. And drifted off to the slowly fading sound of the movie, and Percy's beating heart.
