To Love a Sociopath

Annabeth Chase and Percy Jackson had been friends since … well … forever, really. There's nothing they don't know about each other.

For example, Annabeth knows that:
Percy is amazing at fencing.
He could be a professional comedian.
He hates the slight dimple that appears on his right cheek when he smiles.
He's part fish (figuratively speaking).
His favourite animal is a horse.
His favourite breed of horse is an Anglo-Arab.
He can ride like a pro.

Percy knows that:
Annabeth could maths like nobody's business (as he put it).
She could easily win 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?' if she really wanted to.
She loves the slight dimple that appears on Percy's right cheek when he smiles.
She's the female reincarnation of Albert Einstein (were that possible).
Her favourite animal is a fish.
Her favourite type of fish is a Percy ("Oh, ha-ha," he would say).
She could easily get a scholarship to Harvard when she graduated High School.

He knows she hates her body.

She knows he self-harms.

He knows she studies so much because she's constantly told she's going nowhere.

She knows he takes drugs to numb the pain.

He knows she stays up late at night crying.

She knows he feels nothing any more.

He knows she feels like he doesn't care about her.

She knows he doesn't care about anyone any more – not even himself.

He knows she wants to leave.

She knows he wants to die.


So … that's my prologue. Likey? No likey?

Basically, the story (which I want to set in England, because I'm needlessly patriotic and because I get tired of changing British swearwords to their American counterparts more than you could possibly realise) is a mortal AU. It centres on Percy and Annabeth, and I'll probably have it stretch from when they're kids to when they're adults. I'm not sure if I'll do lots of short chapter lumped together in parts (A-Bed-of-Roses-esque) or maybe try and do long chapter of each. Maybe I'll lump some of them together and others not.

I don't know; that's what y'all are here for.

Anyway, please review, follow, etc. and fave the story when I (eventually) publish is (or not).

Yours,

Evil Nightingale (like the new pen name or no?)