Respect (A Percabeth Story)
A/N: Hello fellow peeps. This will be Percabeth, Thalico, and Jasper fanfic. Please no flames. I will be updating every week or whenever I feel like it. Also, Thalia has the last name of Chase, sorry if you guys don't like it. Also, I'm not Rick. These characters aren't mine. (1721 words)
Annabeth POV:
I woke up to the oh-so pleasant sound of my mother yelling at me and my sister to wake up and get our butts off our cots. I rolled off my cot or should I say a stack of hay and stood up brushing myself off. Standing up and putting on my only dress that was probably older than me, I walked out of my "room" with my sister at my tail groggily complaining about getting up at this hour. I turned around to see my father still asleep on the only bed in this house.
Of course, I envied my father and my brother too, I guess. They got to sleep on the actual beds while my mother, sister, and I had to sleep on hay or the floor, that was the tradition. Since apparently the men were the "providers" with actual jobs and were the ones who made the money. Therefore, they "deserved" the most rest and food and pretty much anything in his house was his. They probably don't deserve this treatment since men without women would flounder around trying to know how to work a dang broom while we women know how to work hard and could easily get a job if the people provided us with it. But anyway, my brother, Malcolm, actually helped with the chores even if Mother told him he didn't need to.
He believed that people don't control the gender they are born as which means everyone should be treated the same and I respected him for that. But my mother and father both went against that and if I decided one day to skip chores, then I would get a nice, old beating but if Malcolm decided to skip his job, he would get no punishment. Heck, even if I was half-dying from a fever that was like 40 degrees Celsius, I would still be working my butt off trying to make the house "perfect".
Anyways, as I was eating my half a bowl of oatmeal (men get a full bowl), my mother shouted at me and my sister, Thalia, to go to the grocery store. Oh right, today was market day. My eyes immediately lit up since that was where my friend Grover worked and sometimes his wife Juniper was there too. They were both very sweet and were nature-loving. Grover also believed that men and women should be treated equal and he often let Juniper work too and always gave her some of the money that she could use on whatever she wanted. Most men would just make all the decisions which was frankly quite annoying but people, welcome to my world. I remember Grover saying that two friends of his would start working at the market since last week. I wanted to meet his friends because if Grover likes these two people, they most likely wouldn't complete idiots.
I grabbed the grocery list on the counter that my mother told me to pick up on the way out and followed Thalia out the door.
"Hey, you know Grover said two new friends of his were to be at the market since about last week", I said as we started on the mile to the market where Grover was, Satyr's Haven.
"I wonder who they are. They better not try to seduce me", Thalia grimaced thinking about the time when this douchebag named Darren, or something tried to sweet-talk Thals and obviously wanted to take her purity away.
"I mean would Grover befriend douchebags?", I hit back.
"You never know", she huffed.
"You know you might even like one of them", I said, winking.
She muttered something under her breath probably, "Ya, like that's gonna happen".
By the end of our little conversation we had reached the market and went inside. There were rows upon rows of stacked food and household items. I immediately went around searching for half of what was on the list while depositing the items into a basket while Thalia did the other half.
I was having a hard time finding the sewing needles (Grover rearranges things sometimes) when I saw a guy who had his back to me. He was wearing the store colors which meant he was a worker there. I tapped one of his broad shoulders and he turned around. When he did, I was shocked at his facial features. He had ebony black hair that was messy like he just got out of bed and a lopsided troublemaker smile. But the most shocking feature was his sea-green eyes that I didn't know were blue or green. He seemed fit like he exercised everyday, unlike most men that were lazy and only did their jobs. To sum it up, he was pretty handsome.
"May I help you?", he asked.
I snapped out of my daze after realizing that I was staring at him for quite a while. "May you please lead me to the sewing needles, sir", I said bowing my head slightly in a sign of respect to a man even though he was the same age as me.
"You shouldn't be bowing your head, we are the same age", he said, starting to lead to me the sewing needle aisle. "To be honest, I find the discriminating women rule kind of unfair since you can't exactly control which gender you are born as".
By then, we had reached the sewing needles and I started depositing some into my basket. I respected this worker even more for treating women as equals.
I started walking toward the area where you pay, and he followed behind.
"So…", he started. "what's your name?"
"Annabeth Chase", I replied. "Just Annabeth no Annie, no Beth, no Anniebeth"
"A pretty name for a pretty lady", he declared as I blushed red. Wait. Annabeth Chase does NOT blush. "The name's Perseus Jackson but only call me Percy, Perseus sounds too formal".
"So…", I started. "any hobbies?"
"Swimming in the river and eating food", he replied.
I snorted in a very unladylike way, "so food's a hobby now?".
"uh well uh I don't know, I guess that I just like eating food a lot".
"I mean the definition of hobby is 'an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure' so it fits"
"ok Wise Girl"
"oh, so now we are on a nickname basis Seaweed Brain?"
"SEAWEED BRAIN?!"
"Um, are you gonna pay or what Ann?", Grover said as we were bickering at the paying counter.
"Don't call me Ann, Grove", I shot back as I threw him my basket for him to weigh and calculate.
He grumbled about how women were so picky. I decided to ignore him and go search for Thalia and maybe I could find Piper too (she's my other best friend besides Thalia) since she also came to this market at market day. There was another market called "Augur's Readings" which was very unpopular and the most popular one was "Olympus U.S.A".
"Catch you guys later", I called as I started down the aisles in search of my best friends.
As I walked away, Percy bounded over to join me. I raised an eyebrow at him, and he looked at me with a "what?" expression. I shrugged and continued in search of Thalia weaving in and out of groups of people also here on market day. After a few minutes of searching, I finally found her talking to a guy wearing all black except the vest that was green and brown which were the store colors. He had ebony hair and almost black eyes. It was kind of creepy especially with this vibe I'm getting from him. It seemed like Thalia was asking him something, probably where something was. Then Thalia blushed. BLUSHED. Thalia Chase doesn't blush; I didn't even think her face had the ability to protrude that color.
"Yo Nico stop seducing the black-haired girl!", Percy shouted across the store which made people look at him like he was crazy and to have Thalia and black guy blush.
"Now Percy, black hair is not possible it is just a very very very dark brown because-"
"Ya-da ya-da ya-da", Percy interrupted. "I didn't sign up for a hair color lesson".
I scowled at him as Nico yelled, "Now look who's talking" to Percy.
I maturely stuck out my tongue at him as Thalia came up to me and started dragging me away.
"Now what is going on between you and sea-green eye boy?", Thalia asked, smirking.
I shoved her while muttering under my breath about how she shouldn't be talking. Apparently, she heard that since she scowled and told me to shut up.
"What was that? THALIA CHASE likes a BOY?", I teased poking my older sister in the arm.
"Shut up Annie", She mumbled.
I was having too much fun to correct her about Annie as I continued to prod her about it, "Thalia what has he done to you, you only know him for a few minutes and you already blush at what he says? You really are hopeless"; I continue to tease. She huffed and muttered something about finding Piper and dragged me away to go find that Beauty Queen, me still being the annoying little sister that I am.
A/N: Well that was a wrap. Yay, I'm finished with chappie one. Sorry if some of the phrasing or facts are incorrect, I'm mostly focusing on the story development rather then the appropriate acting of the time period. I hope I didn't make the characters too OOC and if I did, I apologize. I'm literally drowning myself in writing right now. Heh. Anyways, I would appreciate to not have many flames and if you didn't like it, then just don't review, please. This is my first fanfic and the reason why I didn't say it in the beginning is that many people would be discouraged to read someone's first try. Anyways…
Peace out,
-Artemis's hunt :)