HHHIIII! It's Ajluv with my very first PJO FF! Yay! Okay, so this will be a small series of oneshots on the Athena cabins fear of spiders. I say small because I only have two ideas. So, if you have any ideas (I should say prompts) let me know!
Malcolm hunched over the table, the dust of old books whirling in his ears, the hum of his cabin mates working along beside him resounding through him, creating a peaceful and beautiful harmony.
He sighed happily, glancing up quickly to look around the room, drinking in all of the familiar sights like good, strong coffee bought from his favorite place in SoHo, when he wasn't at camp.
He took in the pewter walls, with the cherry door opened wide, like a mouth accepting food. He glanced at what bits of blonde hair of his siblings, that he could see through the amphitheater made of books, papers, and various other random materials curving on his table. It created a ragged semicircle for him to work in, creating a small, but visible sense of privacy.
He hummed a light, classical tune in that makeshift workplace and simply enjoyed the fresh sunshine coming through the door, the smell of ink and paper, and the sound of-"SPIDER!"
The panicked shriek of a tiny girl named Natalie cut through his daydream. He whipped his head around frantically, adrenaline pumping on his ears, before finally launching himself forward in a desperate attempt to get away from the exposed threat.
He tumbled straight through his wall of materials, crashing into books, plates, celestial bronze, plaster and gods know what else. The momentum of his body swept everything down with a crash to raise the monsters in Tartarus. With Malcolm on top of it.
Sprawled in a tangled mess, Malcolm blearily looked up to see his siblings taking a moment from their crippling fear to stare at him. He groaned and put his head down on half of a plastic plate, closing his eyes against the panic.
" Never mind, it was just some thread!"
Sometimes Malcolm wished that his mother didn't have an ego the size of Olympus. It would make life much easier.
I sincerely hope you enjoyed that! The next chapter will be up soon!