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In Between Our Lies
11. Brains over beauty
Her own daughter, in love with a sea spawn! You would think her own daughter would know better than that. Athena would much rather have her Annabeth love that Hermes boy, Luke, even if he was a traitor. It didn't matter; anything would be better than that wretched son of Poseidon. He was such an imbecile! She should've know that their friendship was a wrong choice from the start.
Aphrodite was always gushing about how cute they were together, but Athena didn't want cute. She wanted rational and practical, brains over beauty. And that son of Poseidon certainly didn't use his brains all that much; she would know. She told her daughter in her dreams once, "You could find someone else, you know. A future doctor or lawyer; they would be real good to you, Annabeth."
Her daughter answered with, "But I don't want a doctor, Mom. I want Percy, okay? Can you not get that through your thick head?" Athena really wanted to blow her up right then and there, but she didn't. She just left and used her godly powers to make Annabeth forget the dream.
And of course Poseidon would be okay with this, making Athena look like the bad guy - which she most certainly was not. In fact, she liked to think herself neutral. But who was she kidding? She was better off as the bad guy.
She hated to admit this, but Annabeth actually looked happy with the sea spawn. It was as if she actually loved him - which was Aphrodite's fault, no doubt. She could speak no ill of Percy, and he trusted her with his soul - or at least his Achilles' spot, but what was the difference? He might as well be giving up his life for her.
It was like love at first sight with these two - like something out of a fairy tale book, and Athena hated it. Because it questioned everything she believed in, and because she wondered what it felt like . . . to be in love; to be willing to give your life for someone.
Athena wanted to know love, with all her being.
Yes, that was short. But hey, I'm kind of lacking inspiration . . . Any ideas are welcome. Besides, I post almost every day, and I'm already working on one for Hera. So, if I don't post tomorrow, go ahead and sue iTunes for deleting those stupid notes. I hate them; I'm never posting another note in there again. Never. But I'll try to have a longer one later . . . Spoiler: one of my one-shots is going to be an AU with Thalia/Percy.