A/N: Hey guys! I'm back, just in time for this month's update! It's also a pretty decent length so hope you guys enjoy!

Percy Jackson came into her life like a whirlwind, a disaster of windswept hair and sparkling green eyes. He swept her up and spit her out with tangled hair and puffy eyes.

Surprisingly enough it wasn't a bright sunny day, or a stormy cold one or anything atmospheric really. It was some nondescript day with some nondescript weather as she walked into her English 161 class when she sat next to an open desk along the back wall.

That open desk would soon be filled by the one and only Percy Jackson. Not that she knew this, he must have enrolled late, because before it had been some girl with purple hair who didn't talk very much.

She doesn't even remember really noticing him come in or sitting next to her. She had been on her phone, probably texting a friend, or scrolling through Instagram or whatever else.

In fact, she didn't notice until the professor walked in and she put away her phone to pay attention and noticed a distinct lack of purple in her peripheral.

He might have been staring at her because when she turned to look their eyes met and that was the first punch to the gut.

The prettiest sea-green eyes stared back, and she was convinced it was contacts cause no way someone's eyes are actually that green.

They didn't talk, and the professor started class and the day proceeded as normal.

She had all but forgotten about him by the time the next class rolled around, and it wasn't till he sat next to her again did she remember. His green eyes.

They still didn't talk, but he participated in class and she heard him speak for the first time and it was…normal. He made a comment about the article they had been told read. She doesn't even remember what it was. It was nondescript.

He was kind of nondescript. Not remarkably anything really. Just a normal college kid with blue jeans and a plain black t-shirt with hair to match. He wasn't amazingly attractive, nor was he the opposite. He just was. Except for his eyes. His eyes stood out. His eyes were remarkable.

Amazing how this nondescript boy from this nondescript class would change her life.

He turns to talk to her that same day for a group discussion and she makes a snarky response and he just smiles wide and sends a small jab right back and from then on it's a blur.

She honestly doesn't quite remember how it really kicked off. It was probably from talking before class and banting afterward and at some point, they started walking in the same direction and splitting off at the quad and at some point, they got past the quad without splitting.

And somehow in the middle of all this, she started to feel something she never had before. A pang in her a chest, a physical response to him and his presence.

Somehow, she fell a little bit in love.

Sometimes you meet someone beautiful and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later they're as dull as a brick. And sometimes you meet people and you think, not bad, they're okay but then you get to know them, and their face just sort of become them. Like their personality's written all over it. And they just turn into something beautiful.

Percy Jackson, the nondescript boy with the remarkable eyes, turned into something beautiful.

And then he broke her heart.

-.-.-.-.-.-

She's laying on her bed, knee deep in vine comps, when there's a knock on her door.

"Piper!" she yells, "Door!"

She waits, video paused, for some sort of response. She gets nothing.

She doesn't know when Piper left, but somehow, it's already three (even though it was 1:30 five minutes ago) and she figures that her roommate went to class like a good student.

She hears another knock and forces herself off the bed with a groan. It's slightly cold because an apartment this cheap is not going to have good insulation and she shivers as she looks through the peephole.

Her heart almost stops at the sight of green.

She takes a full fifteen seconds to debate whether or not to open the door.

"Yes?" she's only peeking her head out of the small gap she's created, and he smiles. Bastard.

"Hey Annabeth!" He's so cheerful she wonders how she ever loved this boy. Her heart tugs a bit at his smile.

"Hi Percy." Her voice is dull in comparison.

"How have you been?" He stares at her intently, green eyes curious for an answer, and she's pissed off now because where was her answer when she needed one.

"Do you need something?" Maybe it's a bit crass but she doesn't want to deal with this now.

He recoils a bit at the words and she hates how guilt nags at her stomach.

"Um, yeah, so Jason and I are doing this surprise thing for Leo's birthday and I wanted to invite you and Piper."

"Piper isn't here." She isn't helping the situation but she's also feeling vindictive.

"Oh, well could you let her know. I mean, it's on the 23rd at 7, are you guys available?" He seems a little hesitant over his words and she's honestly kind of glad.

"Yeah, we'll be there." She's already moving to close the door.

"Oh, yeah, okay, bye!"

She closes the door on him and doesn't look up to see the look she knows he has on his face right now. She's torn from feeling glad that it's over and opening the door and running after him. Her heart hurts and she decides to drown it in vines.

(It's only later does she realize this could have been done through text and that Jason could have easily told Piper since they were dating.)

(She never realizes that Jason knows when Piper has class and Percy came in the middle of that time period.)

-.-.-.-.-.-

She supposes it's unfair since technically he might not know the situation at hand. But then again, how dumb can he actually be?

"Really fucking dumb," Piper says over a piece of toast. "Also, you aren't as expressive as you think you are, he probably doesn't know."

Annabeth frowns at the words.

"It's true! You guys never really talked…about anything," she waves the toast, "which is kind of the problem here."

"We did," she refutes.

She remembers that conversation like it was yesterday. They were by the Dunkin Donuts on campus, and she had finally, after two months of contemplation over whatever they were (whatever this thing between them was), asked him.

"Do you have any intention of dating me?"

"No…I'm sorry if you thought I did."

She feels like crying as she recalls the conversation. How could she not think that? All those nights he slept over and they ended up half cuddling and talking about stuff. All those moments he leaned over to put an arm around her. Every fucking time he looks at her like his eyes were searching her soul or smiled so warm her heart melted.

Of-fucking-course she thought that he had every intention of dating her!

She had fallen in love for fucks sake!

Piper reaches over to put a comforting hand on her arm.

"Hey," she whispers, "It's okay."

Annabeth is actively trying not to cry because it is so not worth it. Piper sees where her line of thinking is going and starts to refute it before she even begins talking.

"No, don't, don't start feeling bad for your feelings. It's not your fault."

"But he did, he told me, after his ex, he wasn't interested in dating."

"So? You can't control love, you can't control that you felt things for him. And he didn't make it easier by acting so couple-y with you either." Piper ends with a pointed look that is meant to stop Annabeth's guilt trip.

It doesn't.

"But I should have known."

Piper leans back and sighs, a small sad smile on her face. "You did, it just didn't matter."

-.-.-.-.-.-

The party was pretty lit. She can say that because she's had a few drinks and "lit" gets a pass at that point. Cardi B is blaring over the speakers and the birthday boy himself is half-drunk and nailing every word to the song.

She stops dancing with Piper after Jason shows up and decides to really focus on her alcohol consumption.

Drink in hand, she moves towards the back of the house, out into the patio. It's cold but she's warm so it actually feels nice.

"Nice moves." The voice breaks her out of her slow daze.

The green is more hazel in the sparse lighting, but she can recognize that voice anywhere.

"Thanks," she manages to say.

They're silent and she remembers back in English class when they didn't speak. It seems so long ago.

"How are you enjoying the party?" It's a filler question really. It fills the silence.

She nods. "Good, good booze." She's drinking some combination of vodka and sprite and maybe lemonade? She can't really taste it all that much at this point.

"Yeah, Jason's idea."

More silence.

The question must have been eating at him because thirty seconds later he asks, "What happened to us?"

She snorts cause it's funny, and she's tipsy and he's, as usual, not drunk.

"What didn't happen to us?"

"No, I mean it. You barely talk to me anymore."

"Yeah well, that's what you get." She wants to cross her arms but she's still holding a drink, so she settles for making a face.

"Get for what?" He seems genuinely confused.

"Oh, come on," she might be getting annoyed now, "you had to know that I liked you!"

She spills a little bit of the vodka during her exclamation.

He recoils at the words, surprise evident on his face.

"You did?"

"Oh shut up, you knew that, don't make me out to be the heartless one, that's you!"

So maybe she's a little more drunk than she's letting on because the words just spill out.

"I liked you too."

The words are so quiet she doesn't really hear them at first. It takes her mind a full ten seconds to process.

"You what?"

"Yeah," he rubs the back of his neck, "I thought you knew that."

Her whole world is collapsing. All this time she thought that she was the only one who felt anything. The only one who fell in love. She had thought he didn't care. Hell she beat herself up over the fact he didn't care.

Everything she had known to be true about them shattered.

"Well I didn't," she manages to say. She still can't believe it and she's drunk enough to think this might be a dream.

"Oh." He's quiet. They're both quiet for a moment before she bursts out laughing.

"Yet you still didn't want to date me," she's laughing so hard she has tears in her eyes, she's not sure if they're from the laughing.

She wills herself to stop, downs the rest of her drink and throws it on the floor.

"Timing's a bitch, huh." And with that she walks back into the party.

-.-.-.-.-.-

As far as hangovers ago, this one seems to be a two-day endeavor. She's mostly fine but the occasional headache still shows up and she has a strong aversion to alcohol.

Piper has gone out to get more Tylenol and Annabeth lounging on the couch watching a Twitch stream when she hears a knock.

She jumps up and immediate walks to the door, opening it.

"Jesus Piper, what took you so lon-"The words die as she sees who's really there.

The green is really green today and she wonders if maybe her thoughts are still a bit drunk.

"Hey," he says quietly.

She doesn't respond. She unfortunately retained her memory of the party, which includes the conversation she had with the one and only, Percy Jackson.

"Can I come in?" he asks when she continues to stand in silence.

She debates for a second before moving to the side and letting him in. Maybe now they'll actually have a conversation. It's three and a half months overdue.

He sits on the couch and she resumes her position as a huddle in the armchair, laptop set aside.

"So…uh…I don't really know what to say…"

"Then why did you come here?" It's mean, she knows it's mean.

"Sorry, I guess I mean I don't know how to do this." He seems nervous, she notes with some satisfaction.

Biting back another snarky response she says, "How about start with how you feel."

He looks at her for a long moment and she wonders if he's actually going to say anything at all.

"Um…."

"Oh my god!" She's easily exasperated. He winces.

"Okay, how about I start," she's annoyed now and the words just flow out of her, "how about how I liked you, because you kept doing all these really couple-y things, and how I hated myself for liking you because you said you weren't going to date! How about how you touched me and talked to me and looked at me like…like…like you might love me back…how about how I fell in love with your stupid, unresponsive ass!"

It feels good to get the words off of her chest. All those emotions, all the things she had wanted to say, and she was finally able to get it all out.

He's silent as he stares at her in shock.

"I'm sorry," are the first words out of his mouth.

She scoffs and looks away, suddenly unable to see his face. She had bared her heart. Her fears. She had been willing to try. And he…he didn't even think about trying.

"I…" he begins, "My ex really…. messed me up….and I…I just…"

He's still stumbling.

"Yeah, I know," she says quieter, "And I would have helped you work through it you know, I wasn't asking for a relationship, just a chance at a date. And you liked me? All that time you had feelings towards me back?"

Turns out it's not like what the stories will have you believe. It's not just boy and girl meet. It's not just girl likes boy and boy likes girl and they become something more.

Sometimes there is no something more. Sometimes everything happens, girl and boy meet, and the girl likes the boy and the boy likes the girl but nothing happens. Sometimes the pieces don't fit like they are supposed to and there is nothing more.

She had been in love. She was scared because she had never done this before. He was scared because he had.

-.-.-.-.-.-

"Hurry up Annabeth!" They weren't late. Piper was the kind of person who thought on time was late.

They were going to a bar with some friends and their friends hadn't arrived. Annabeth rushed out of her room, slipping on her jacket, just as they heard the honk.

It was a cold day and the car was warm and the car contained a certain green eyed someone Annabeth had not been prepared to see. It had been a while, a few months, and surprisingly though they ran in the same circles they hadn't run into each other for a bit now.

She offered a smile but decided to talk to Leo instead who immediately began telling her about his new girlfriend who would meet them there.

Leo's new girlfriend was nice. Percy Jackson was a little drunk. Somehow, she ended up at the bar with a single beer in hand as Leo's nice girlfriend walked away and drunk Percy Jackson stepped up to plate.

For once he didn't beat around the bush. "It's nice to see you Annabeth, I've really realllyyy missed you."

She took a sip of beer in response.

"I spent so much time….so muchhhh…thinking about what you said and I…. I…" He choked up at the words.

"I love you."

And there they were. The words she wanted to hear. After all this time. There they were.

She smiled, a slow sad smile, and raised her beer.

She took a large swig and stepped away from the bar stool. "Timing's a bitch."

-.-.-.-.-.-

It was a nondescript day with some nondescript weather as she stepped out of her last class for the day. It had been kind of boring, but she needed it to graduate this semester.

She wasn't really looking where she was going, instead on her phone, answering a text, or scrolling through Instagram, or whatever else.

Predictably she bumped into someone, or someone bumped into her. She wasn't sure.

"Shit sorry-"The words were cut short. She looked up to see the prettiest sea-green eyes she'd ever seen. She knew they weren't contacts.

They didn't say anything.

"Hi," he finally broke the silence.

"Hi," she replied with a smile.

It had been a year and a half.

"How have you been?" he asked with a small smile of his own that made her heart flutter, just a bit.

And she stared into those sea-green eyes, the remarkable features of a nondescript college kid with blue jeans, a plain black shirt, and messy hair, turned absolutely beautiful and decided.

"How about we catch up over coffee?" An invitation. A start of something new. A second chance at a first date.

His wide smile gave the answer and her heart squeezed in her chest. She felt the telltale signs of another whirlwind coming her way. A whirlwind of sweet kisses and ice cream dates that would leave her with shining eyes and smiling lips.

But it was about time.

A/N: So what did you guys think? Did you like it? There are a lot of themes in this one, the most apparent one being timing and how sometimes things just don't work out when they should. And that time really does heal most wounds. Meeting again after a year and a half really helped them both move on from the hurt of the past so they were able to start afresh.

And I also slipped in that little doctor who line, did any of you catch it? It's the line about someone who seems pretty normal turning into something beautiful. I just really love that line and decided to include it in.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this! There's a couple themes that can be discussed here so have at it! Let me know!

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See ya! :)