Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! I was at my great uncles' house all weekend and my stupid laptop wouldn't connect to the wifi and it was being dumb and ughhhhhh so i wrote. but i couldn't update. I'm so sorry. I love you guys so much that I made a small story at the end of this, so it's like a double chapter. YAY! Either way, enjoy! Love you ALL, especially those who followed/faved/reviewed. A small review, even just a simple "great" lights up my day, so please take the time. *kisses and cookies for all!*
DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER-I OWN NOTHING BUT THE PLOT LINES IN ALL OF MY CHAPTERS. ALL RIGHTS GO TO RICK RIORDAN. Unless...what if I am Rick Riordan in disguise, hiding from all the fangirls who want to break into my house and steal Blood of Olympus...
Annabeth was supposed to be meeting Percy outside his school right after the bell rang, but she knew it would take him an extra fifteen minutes to get out of there, so she brought a book. It was 'Grimm's Original Fairytales' and she loved it. It was big, and heavy, and ideal for smacking late people in the head with. She sat on the steps out front and opened to the one she was currently reading, about Snow White. She had barely gotten one sentence in when she felt a tap on her shoulder. She looked up, expecting to see Percy, but instead she saw a boy her own age with light brown hair. She scowled at him.
"I don't know you," she snapped.
"I don't know you, either," he pointed out, sitting next to her, "but I was interested in the book that you're reading. Is that about Grimm fairy tales?"
He was smart, it seemed, but definitely not smarter than her. He should have known that interrupting a girl while she was reading was not a wise decision.
"Yes. Now if you don't mind, I'd like to go back to reading while I wait."
She looked back down at the page, her long ponytail swinging over her shoulder and getting in her way. She didn't move it , though, because she knew the guy was still there.
"What are you waiting for?" he asked good naturedly. Annabeth couldn't tell if he was just a lonely kid, or if he was trying to flirt.
"My boyfriend. You really are belligerent, you know that?" she told him, rather rudely. The kid just wouldn't leave her alone. She glared at him with her stormy gray eyes, and he scooted back a little. He braced his feet like he was ready to run at any moment.
"Wow, smart and pretty. Impressive," he winked at her, as if he was sure he had won her heart.
"I have a very strong boyfriend, and he's extremely overprotective, so if you're trying to flirt you can knock it off. I'm not some prize you can ogle at. I am a person. And I don't even know your name."
"My name's Evan, Evan Reynald."
"I honestly don't care," she drawled in a bored voice.
"What's yours?" he pestered her once again.
"Why would I tell you? I don't even know you."
"But you could," he offered in a 'macho' voice, "Do you want to go see a movie on Friday?"
"How many times do I have to tell you I have a boyfriend?" she demanded, exasperated.
"He doesn't have to know, though. Or you could just break up with him. I don't know...Annabeth," he pondered the question with a voice that clearly said it had never crossed his mind, while reading the name on the tag of her backpack. You know, the one that if you lose it someone can see who it belongs to and return it to you.
"I really don't know you, and you better move on before I beat the living Hades out of you!" Annabeth threatened harshly.
Evan looked at her kind of funny, probably because she said 'Hades' instead of crap.
"All right, all right," Evan surrendered, getting up and dusting off his khakis and straightening his Polo. He strolled away and Annabeth again started reading.
Evan didn't go far, just around the corner. He could peek out and see Annabeth from his hiding place, and he was determined to find out who her boyfriend was.
After a few more minutes of agonizing waiting, a boy emerged from the building and made his way towards Annabeth. They hugged and stood talking on the steps to have a quick conversation. Evan was trying desperately to figure out what they were saying by reading their lips when Annabeth grabbed her book and whacked Percy in the head with it. Hard. But Percy just laughed and grabbed Annabeth's hand. They were about to walk away, when another figure emerged. It was Paul Blofis, and after hugging both Annabeth and Percy, they started to walk away.
As they passed Evan's hiding spot, he hissed, "Annabeth!"
She and her boyfriend, who Evan could now see was Percy Jackson, whirled toward the noise.
"Call me!" Evan whispered and made the phone sign with his hand.
Evan expected Percy to be jealous, or at least a little bit worried that Evan would steal his girl, but both Annabeth and Percy burst out laughing.
"Ah, thanks, but no thanks," she said through her giggles, and then skipped away with Percy.
Yes, that's right, they skipped.
Did you like it? It's 2:30 am and I've been running around like crazy and I'm actually FALLING ASLEEP while I'm writing this. I was originally going to write about Percy and Annabeth returning to Sally after the Giant War and a mortal seeing them and them being engaged but it felt fake and idiotic and way too cliche. So i deleted it and wrote that stuff up there. I think this one was better. It still sucks, I know, but I'm working SUPER hard on the next chapter. Either way, I felt inspired to write a short story about a headcanon that I found online. This is the headcanon:
what if the seven are all sitting at a table talking. And Percy's just like 'this would be so much easier if i had taken up the whole immortality thing' and everyone's silent for a second in awe. And jason's all like 'immortality? why on earth would you give that up?' And everyone gradually looks at annabeth and she's staring into space, a wistful smile on her face like she's reliving memories.
I thought it was awesome so I made up a story to expand upon it. Hope you guys like it:
The seven were sitting at the dinner table, eating dessert. Hedge had long ago pushed back from the table and clopped to his room. He had decided that the wrestling match that he had recorded was more important than the strategy meeting they were holding.
"Guys, we can't just go straight through. There is absolutely no way, we'll be swarmed by monsters. Romans aren't allowed here for a reason, okay?" Jason argued.
The teenagers had been bickering for the last two days about how to cross the Mediterranean Sea. Hazel demanded that they go straight through, no matter the consequences. Her half-brother, Nico, was being held hostage by two sort-of-giants and she knew he didn't have much time. To her, getting there faster was worth the risk.
Annabeth, Percy, Jason, Piper and Leo knew it was wiser to take the longer route, which had predominately fewer monsters. Hazel, Frank, and Leo were stuck in the 'if we just drive really fast through the middle, maybe the monsters won't catch us' mindframe. Frank and Leo knew it was ridiculous, but they both liked Hazel, (yes, I do mean 'like-like' for those of you with elementary-school-age minds) and wanted to prove that they liked her even more than the other boy.
Annabeth had tried outsmarting them, Piper had tried charmspeaking them, and Percy was tempted to soak them repeatedly with cold water until they agreed. Jason had tried using leadership skills, but it just wasn't working.
"You guys, there is no way we could take all those monsters. It's like moths to a flame. We would die! Don't you see that?" Annabeth cried helplessly.
"This would be so much easier if I had taken up that whole immortality thing," Percy grumbled to himself. Well, he meant to say it to himself, but it came out a little loud.
Everyone in the room stopped talking. There was a clang as Leo dropped the tiny metal dragon he had been building.
"You what?" Jason breathed, sounding strangled.
Percy blushed bright red. He had told the campers to keep it on the down low after the war, after all, not a lot of demigods turn down immortality. Make that-no demigods turn down immortality. He already felt like enough of a freak, being the Savior of Olympus and all, and he didn't need to be stared at anymore. But it was a little too late for that.
"Uh, I turned down immortality..." he admitted sheepishly.
"Why would you do that?" Jason asked loudly, as if angered by Percy turning down such a valuable opportunity.
Percy didn't answer, just waited to see if anyone would guess. Piper realized first. She swiveled her head to look at Annabeth, her original shock never leaving her face.
The rest of the table soon discovered what she was looking at, and stared at Annabeth as well. Annabeth, though, was looking at none of them. She was leaning towards Percy, her eyes glassy, like she was reliving old memories.
"You turned down immortality for Annabeth?! That is so sweet! You were such a good boyfriend, even back then!" Piper squealed, sounding uncharacteristically Aphrodite-ish.
Percy looked confused for a second, and then shook his head.
"Oh, we weren't dating yet, we had just won the war," he explained.
Piper's jaw dropped, and she stammered, "You-what-I-OH MY GODS-No wonder-I mean-Just-AH!"
Percy looked concernedly at her, like she had gone mad. Then he examined the rest of the demigods. They all looked like they were going to faint.
Suddenly, Annabeth spoke up, "Hey, Perce, remeber when I took that poison dagger for you?"
He nodded, and she continued, "And out on the balcony, I told you that you were cute when you were worried? I totally didn't mean to say that to you. I was so mortified! And then Silena hugged you and apologized to me! She couldn't have made it any more obvious that she knew I liked you."
Percy laughed and said, "What about during our first quest, and we were playing hacky-sack with that apple, and then Grover ate it? You started laughing really hard, and I remember thinking you looked really cute when you laughed."
She blushed and told him, "What about when Grover-," she had to stop for a second because she had started to giggle just thinking about it, "-When Grover wore a-he wore the wedding dress-and Clarisse was so dumb-and Polyphemus!-"
By this point, both Percy and Annabeth had fallen out of their chairs laughing, the other demigods looking on in confusion.
"Baby blue tux!" they yelled out at the same time.
"What about when Rachel announced to a cafe full of people we were demigods?" Percy suggested, still rolling on the floor. The other five demigods had given up trying to understand, and decided to let the two have their moment.
"Oh my gods, I wanted to kill her! She was SO trying to steal you from me, and she could lead us through the stupid freaking Labyrinth when I couldn't, and I seriously just wanted to run her through with my dagger! And now, we're like best friends!" Annabeth still found this hilarious.
It had been so long since the two demigods had been together, had been able to be laughing about anything, really, that it felt nice to just be joking around with each other. They couldn't stop cracking up. They were practically crying, and the funniest part was, they were laughing about near death experiences. Every once in a while they would just spit out a couple random words, but event that was enough to trigger the other's memory.
"Grover's fancy flying!"
"Uncle Ferdinand!"
"Chariot Races!"
"Flesh-eating birds!" that one was Percy.
"The Arch!"
"Toilets!"
"'Uh, we were just looking at maps!'"
"Guinea pigs!"
"'He was the bravest person I've ever known. He's...RIGHT THERE!'"
"'Uh, who should I ask?'"
"How about when I kissed you and then ran, and you still didn't ask me out, you idiot!" Annabeth accused teasingly.
By now their laughing had died down, and they were leaning with their backs against the live video feed of Camp Half-Blood.
"Hey, you almost got me killed! I sat there for like five minutes trying to remember my own name! How'd you expect me to get out alive?" he grumbled lightly, nudging her shoulder with his own.
She laid her head on his shoulder. He grabbed her hand and intertwined their fingers.
"Anyone in particular?" Annabeth asked, knowing he would understand. She grinned at him.
He pouted and complained, "You are so not making this easy on me!"
"I'm never gonna make things easy on you, Seaweed Brain. Get used to it."
He kissed her on the cheek and pulled her up by her arm. The other five kids just stared at them.
Annabeth blushed and stuttered, "Sorry, guys. I've just missed this so much. Being without your best friend for six and a half months is really hard."
Percy nodded emphatically to show his agreement.
"It felt like we were back at Camp, I could almost smell the strawberries..." Percy trailed off, staring wistfully at the grass swaying in the wind at Camp.
Suddenly, Annabeth almost fell over. Percy caught her but she had a look of panic on her face.
"What? What's wrong?!" he demanded.
"Sally. We never called Sally! Oh, I feel awful. Your iris-messaging wasn't working while you were gone, but would it work now? I didn't even realize that Iris might let you send messages."
"Oh my gods, you're right. I have my memory back, it might work! Annabeth, we have to try it. Let's go to my room, and we'll call her," he said excitedly, already attempting to drag his girlfriend out of the room.
She stayed firmly in her spot, and gestured for him to wait one minute.
"Back to strategy. We have to go around. Going straight through is a suicide mission. Sorry, Hazel, I want to save Nico too. But our best shot of rescuing him is going around. I'll talk to you guys in the morning," she said sternly, before turning on her heel and sprinting out with Percy.
Piper turned to Jason with her hands massaging the sides of her head, and told him, "My mom is screaming so loud right now. She waited five years for this to happen, she says. In her opinion, they're the best love story since Helen. You know, of Troy? Yeah, and she won't shut up about it. It's gonna be a long night."
"I can't believe he turned down immortality for a girl he wasn't dating!" Leo exclaimed.
"That's the best part. He was so in love with Annabeth, it wasn't worth losing her. And he didn't even have her yet! My mom is right about one thing-they are definitely made to be," Piper said softly.
Frank looked kind of happy, and explained, "I think it's really cute. When Percy first got to the camp, he asked me if I knew any girl named Annabeth. She was the only thing he remembered. And then in Alaska, we were in this giant library, and I noticed him smiling to himself, but then he froze and kind of flipped out. He explained later that he had been thinking that Annabeth would love that sort of place, when he realized he had remembered something. But as soon as he started to think about it, it was gone. He was really upset that he couldn't remember more of her. He was dead-set on finding her. He really loves her."
Of course, Leo had to ruin the moment by making fun of Frank for being mushy, and then Hazel and Leo started bickering, and Piper had a migraine from her mom, and Jason was incredibly jealous, and so everyone just went to bed. But all night, from one room, you could hear laughing and joking and talk of blue chocolate chip cookies.
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