Predestined permanency

Soulmate Au written for Percabeth week 2019

A summary of the chronological Percabeth events in a soulmate Au setting.

Summary: on a person's 18th birthday their soulmate's initials appear on their wrist waiting to expand into full names at the moment they meet their destined life partners … When they are just about to turn 18 everyone is rushing around wondering who their soulmates are, all but Percy. He knows already, he's known ever since he first saw those princess curls and stormy gray eyes. As she turns to look at him, he smiles and pulls her closer, feeling excitement build up in his very being. He absolutely cannot wait until him and Annabeth are declared true love.

Chapter 1: beginnings

Humans originally had four arms, four legs, and a single head made of two faces. It is said that humans had great strength at the time and threatened to conquer the gods. Zeus was jealous of their power and feared the rebellion he knew was to come. Therefore he devised a plan to split humans into two separate parts so they would put all their efforts into finding their other half.

Aphrodite took pity on these humans searching for their soulmate, and decided to aid them in their quest. The goddess created a form of magic, to help the humans verify their soulmates. On each person's 18th birthday there would be a set of initials on their wrist, one that would expand into full names upon meeting said soulmate.

On the rare case of destined lovers meeting before 18, their names would appear in vibrant colors. For those whose other half passed away, the names would appear immediately at the moment of their demise regardless of age. It would be in hues of faded ash gray with a harsh black line crossing it out, serving as a symbol of brokenness and incompleteness.

Sally Jackson was a fighter. She fought to move on all her life. She fought to move on from her parents' tragedy plane crash. She moved on from her dream of being an author to take care of her ailing uncle. Finally she moved on from one true love Poseidon to protect her other true love Percy, when she married Gabe.

There was only one purpose in her current life, and that was to prepare Percy for a life of hardships he will face as a hero. Sally knew just how fleeting a hero's life could be, which was why she named him Perseus, to signify a happy ending hopefully with his future soulmate by his side.

Percy had always thought of himself as slightly unlucky. No matter how hard he tried he just couldn't stop being kicked out of school and irritating Gabe. Smelly Gabe's creative beatings took on a more psychological tone. The odorous man wasn't smart by any means, but he understood love, or rather the loyalty and love Percy felt.

That was what the human equivalent of a monster used to threaten Percy. The safety of his mom and the safety of himself were put into question many times. There were also plenty of insulting comments about Percy's future mate. But through heroic effort he managed to not clock Gabe's unfortunate face. Mostly due to the fact that although he had no confidence about his grades or continuous attendance in schools, he was as calm as a serene ocean when it came to those crudely delivered warnings.

For one he could depend on Gabe not doing anything drastic to his mom. One thing all Jacksons had was gumption and courage, Gabe would be powerless under his mom's pure inner strength, she was badass and would not let anyone walk over her.

The same went for his well-being; his mom would never let her son get hurt if she could help it, which was why he had foregone telling her the truth. He could just see how guilty she would feel if she knew. Best he kept it under wraps.

As for his soulmate well when he meets her, whoever she is, it is far more likely that Gabe will have passed away due to excessive alcoholic tendencies or seven –layer-dip- inducing heart attack. He could just picture the foul man choking on his mom's creation with his very last breath. Little did he know poetic justice would be served soon.

Alas Percy didn't allow himself to dwell much about his destined life companion. He's 12 and in another 6 years before the marks even appear on his wrist. Though it isn't illegal to marry someone who wasn't your mate, it'd still feel like a betrayal somehow. When he told his mom that, all she did was gaze at him sadly in the depths of her eyes, and said "Percy honey, life always takes you by surprise.''(He supposes that is true, he was sure his lost- in-sea father never intended to leave his mom all alone.)

In Yancy academy he was too excited and distracted by the prospect of having a fun teacher, Mr. Brunner and a genuine best friend Grover to think about other stuff much less romance. He just figured that things would happen on their own time. (He absolutely refused to act the same way as Nancy and her horror league what with all their obscene giggling.)Though he never would have predicted just how soon he would meet her.

From the trip to Montauk, it seemed as if life was eager to prove his mother's words right. In the course of two days his entire world was altered dramatically. The whole experience resembled something like a hurricane. Where the storm swallows everything (his past life) and spits it out (what's left of it, mainly an altered Mr. Brunner and Grover) in a completely new realm- Camp half-blood.

The first few days were spent in a blur with only flashes of princess curls, gray eyes and talks of the summer solstice and him being "the one" remaining in his trauma laded mind.

In camp he had to rebuild his life from scratch. Getting used to new environments thankfully wasn't a new notion, at least this time it was in a place far less stuffy than the military boarding academies of the past. Slowly he started to feel at home.

Then there was this Annabeth, she seemed to have categorized him as a bumbling idiotic mess 90 percent of the time. He personally thought that she couldn't judge. Sure she was wicked smart, but if he had been learning about mythology and Ancient Greek from the age of seven he'd be pretty damn fluent at it too. Besides anyone who casually assigned a beginner as bait (punching bag) in capture the flag (war game style) with said beginner not knowing about it needed lessons in another variety.

But he guessed she was cool sometimes if he put aside the early days in which she treated him like an offering from hell after his parentage was revealed. She knew all sorts of information, often useless to him but of obvious great value to her. Moreover that wise girl actually managed to drill some knowledge inside his seaweed clogged mind (her words not his). Other than Mr. Brunner, sorry Chiron, no one had succeeded in that particular heroic quest. Not to mention she was brave or stupid enough to go on this quest to the underworld and that earned her major blue brownie points in the awesome department.

This jarring quest ended up with them brokering a truce and developing a friendship. Surprisingly enough amidst the monster attacks and aerial acrobatics they did on this mission, the zoo truck conversation struck him the most.

Annabeth, resident wise girl with all her Athenian pride, had stated in no uncertain terms that she would be on his side if a war between the gods ever broke out. Then before he had the chance to enjoy the sudden warmth in his heart she had immediately gave him the look he had dubbed the "how did you not know about this, you seaweed brain" look as if Percy should have expected it.

It meant something to him. He might have a lousy birth father that used him as a chess piece, and a mother who was currently held captive in the mercy of Hades, but he had two friends who would lay their lives down the line if needed. The knowledge made the vise in his heart loosen just a bit.

As foretold by Chiron, nothing stopped the prophecy from commencing. Luke with his fake sincere ideals of extended family had an awfully easy time committing the ultimate betrayal by siccing him with the poisonous scorpion. Throughout that whole ordeal he was just relieved that the camaraderie Annabeth and he built up wasn't dampened even with Luke's double cross looming over their heads.

(Well, after the poison left his system of course)

Instead she helped him up, walked him to the door and in the same breath told him that she had took his advice and was going home to her mortal family for the duration of the school year. He was pleasantly surprised and as they shook hands in farewell, he couldn't help but feel it was the start of an epic tale. A tale that would continue on for years to come.

Author's note: This is my very first Percabeth fanfic. Percabeth is the first couple that made me believe there were soulmates in this world. I hope Iv'e done them justice. Comments and Constructive criticisms are extremely welcome, emphasis on Constructive. Thank you! Hope you guys like it !