The sun shone brightly over the camp that day and a lazy breeze drifted through the air. It was still early in the day but all of the campers were up; most just having finished breakfast with a few wandering off to begin their days activities.
For Percy Jackson the day was perfect just for the fact that no one was trying to destroy western society or kill all of his friends. Days like this were far and few between and he was determined to enjoy this opportunity.
He stood on the porch of the Athena cabin waiting for Annabeth to grab the blue prints that were apparently crucial and couldn't wait until after cabin inspection to be looked at.
As he waited he saw Grover approaching him with a worried look on his face.
"Hey man, what's up?" He asked walking forward to meet him, perturbed to see his friend looking so anxious.
Grover looked at him forlornly, "It's the nature spirits in the forest they've decided to-"
Percy never did find out what the nature spirits had decided to do as at the moment Grover was interrupted by a scream.
A scream that came straight from the Athena cabin. Every camper suddenly froze in their tracks and before Percy could even fully comprehend what was happening he was wrenching open the door to the cabin and looking wildly around the inside of the room. He saw Annabeth huddled against the backboard of her bed staring at something in wide eyed terror. He walked forward with his only though being to protect Annabeth but even as he stood in front of her eyes never left their fixed point of the wall behind him. Worried, he took her hand in one of his,
"Annabeth, look at me," he said as she slowly turned her face to look at him, "What happened? What's wrong?"
Annabeth only muttered something too quiet for him to hear as her eyes returned to the wall, "Pardon, didn't quite hear that."
"Sp-spider." She whispered as she raised her hand to point at the wall opposite.
Percy, still slightly confused walked over to the wall in question and almost laughed at what he found.
Sat on the wall in question was a spider that couldn't have been bigger than his thumb nail. With one hand he scooped it from the wall and released it outside of the door. When he looked back Annabeth was stood behind him with an expression that looked as though she couldn't decide between intense relief or crippling embarrassment.
In the end she settled for just giving him a hug but as she did she stood on her toes and whispered in his ear,
"If anyone asks we say that there were at least five monsters in there."
Percy's response was a chuckle as he pulled her closer to him.
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A/N- Thank you for the amazing show of support so far and the prompt that inspired this story! More prompts and reviews would be incredibly welcome J-VE