Summary: Mrs. Jackson and Mr. Chase get married, and Percy and Annabeth are now related as step-brother and sister. They have to battle their chemistry and attraction to each other and try to remain a well, brother/sister relationship.

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"Percy! The new neighbors are moving in!" Sally Jackson yelled at her son, asleep and still entangled in his blankets. He had drool on his pillow and was sleepily hugging his stuffed toy fish. Mrs. Jackson sighed and drew open his curtains, letting the winter sunlight stream into the room, piercing Percy's eyelids.

Percy groaned and covered his face with his pillow. "Mooommm! It's only eight in the morning! It's way to early to be awake!" He rolled over and was asleep and snoring again in ten seconds.

"Hey Percy?" called Sally Jackson, leaning out of the window, "I think our new neighbors have a daughter around your age!"

That got Percy out of bed. "Is she a brunette? Blonde? Red headed?"

Mrs. Jackson threw a pillow at him, laughing. "Get out of bed, you lazy pig, and go find out yourself. I'm bringing our new neighbors some freshly baked chocolate chip cookies."

Percy's eyes widened. "Mum! Not the blue ones! The blue ones are mine!"

Mrs. Jackson rolled her eyes. "Of course not, Percy. These are from a different batch. You can have your blue chocolate chip cookies all to yourself."

"Oh, forget it," sighed Percy. "Whoever she is, she can wait. Nothing's getting me out of bed this early on a Saturday morning - besides, it's way too cold."

"She may be hot, you know," called Mrs. Jackson, making her way down the stairs.

"Down in five!" yelled Percy in reply.

Mrs. Jackson grinned. Nothing ever got Percy's attention like a pretty new girl.

"Hello, it's so nice to meet you!" smiled Mrs. Jackson, shaking the hand offered to her by her new neighbor. Judging by his looks, he was probably in his late forties, with a few streaks of graying hair evident amongst the black, and crinkles of laugh lines around his eyes. "I'm Sally Jackson, your new neighbor, and that," she pointed, laughing at Percy's awkwardness, "Is my son, Percy."

"Frederick Chase," grinned the man, "And this is my daughter, Annabeth-" he gestured to his right, but noticed she had disappeared, "-who was just here a minute ago."

Both parents laughed in unison. Percy studied his mom, smiling. It had been a while since she had laughed so care freely.

"Annabeth!" called Mr. Chase into the house. "Come out, honey. We have guests!"

"Coming, dad," laughed a girl as she emerged from the house, clutching a well-worn book in her hands. She obviously hadn't prepared well for the cold, only wearing a thin jacket with a scarf wrapped around her throat. She was pretty, with natural-looking tanned skin that can only be from the real thing, not the fake tan that can be purchased and sprayed on. Her startling gray eyes sparkled with intelligence as she smiled at her new neighbors, shaking her long, blonde hair loose from her jacket.

"California?" Mrs. Jackson asked, curiously.

"Not bad!" laughed Mr. Chase. "How could you tell?"

"Well," smiled Mrs. Jackson, "Annabeth is rather tanned, and you two don't seem to have packed a lot of winter clothing."

"Well, come in then," Mr. Chase smiled. "You two must be freezing out there. We can have hot chocolate with marshmallows, and maybe you two locals can give us a few hints on where we can purchase some warmer winter jackets."

"Oh, boy," murmured the blonde girl, Annabeth to Percy. "Dad's going to go on and on about his old job as a professor now."

"That doesn't sound so bad."

"He taught History."

"I take that back. Does your house have a back door?"

Annabeth grinned. "I think we're going to be good friends, Percy Jackson."


Awww. The starting to a beautiful relationship. (:

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