Hello everyone! I'm updating twice today, partly because this chapter is really short and partly because I'm going to Mexico this week so I won't be able to update next week.

As always, thank you to Stolen Silent Stars and Clara Fonteyn, the wonderful betas of mine!

Disclaimer: If I was Rick Riordan, would I be writing this story?

Bathroom Incidents and Janitor Closets

After the meeting—a meeting that Percy couldn't concentrate on due to somebody—Percy pulled Annabeth into the bathroom.

"Uh," Annabeth muttered. "Why'd you pull me into the men's bathroom?"

"We need to talk," Percy stated, still grasping onto her elbow.

"But in here?" she asked, shaking his hand off.

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Why does it matter?"

"I don't want to talk in a place where guys pee! Besides, what if someone walked in? What would they think?"

"The sooner we talk, the sooner you can leave."

Annabeth crossed her arms tersely. "Fine. What do you want?"

"You're up to something. I know you are. I'm on to you."

Annabeth stared at him. "…Is that all?"

Percy tilted his chin up defensively. "No. I also wanted to say that I can play dirty too. If it's embarrassment you want, it's embarrassment you'll get, dear. I can't deny you anything, right?"

Annabeth glowered at him. "Bring it on, Seaweed Brain."

"Oh, I will, Wise Girl. I will."

Annabeth huffed and turned around to strut dramatically out the door, but when she turned, there was a resounding crack, and Annabeth stumbled.

She looked down, shocked, to find her heel had broken off—snapped right off.

Percy pressed his lips together to stop from laughing. He knew women and shoes had a strange relationship and men would never understand it, but he did understand that he would be in some deep shit if he dared to say anything.

Instead, he just smiled and went to walk past her, but she pulled on his arm and hobbled to him to stand in front of him. "Not so fast. You had something to do with this, didn't you?"

Percy put his arms up. "I honest to God had nothing to do with this. There's no way I could have."

She narrowed her eyes. "Hmph. Be that as it may, you're buying me a new pair of shoes."

"What? Why?"

"Because you can't deny my anything. You said so yourself," she smirked and turned around, but Percy grabbed her shoulders and spun her around, completely forgetting she was unbalanced. She tripped on air as she spun around and crashed into Percy's chest. She yelped as Percy fell back, too, and the two went crashing onto the floor.

Percy groaned. "Ouch…"

Annabeth's faced was buried in his stomach, awfully close to his belt, but she didn't know that. She groaned too and used his thighs to lift her head up.

Just then, Mike and Poseidon came through the door, talking about something or other, but then they froze when they saw the predicament Percy and Annabeth were in.

Annabeth's and Percy's head snapped towards the two walking in, and they too froze in shock. The only sound or movement was from the bathroom door that was swinging shut.

"Um…" Annabeth started. "I can explain…?" It ended as a question though, because it was then that she realized this must have looked really bad, and now rumors of them "doing it" in the bathroom were going to spread like wildfire.

"Uh, t-that's okay," Poseidon said hurriedly, ushering Mike out the door. "We'll just use the, uh, other one…"

When the door shut, Percy sighed and let his head fall back onto the floor. Annabeth scowled and got up, making sure to smack him on the stomach. "This is all your fault," she said and limped out the door.

Percy just glared at the ceiling before picking himself up. He exited the bathroom, and instead of going to his office, he took the elevator to the bottom floor. Once there, he ignored the greeting from the secretary and instead walked outside to the alley way, where he then proceeded to let his anger out.

"AGH!" he yelled, kicking a garbage can just for good measure. Once he was under control (or at least not screaming), he calmly walked back inside like nothing happened.

Annabeth was taking a paper to the copy machine when suddenly she was yanked to the side. She yelped and was about to scream, but a hand covered her mouth. She grabbed at the arm and tried to get away, but then a light turned on, practically blinding her.

"Shh!" she heard a familiar voice say that caused her to freeze. "It's me! Percy!"

She bit his hand and Percy yelped. "Ouch! You bit me!"

Annabeth's face contorted into one of disgust. "Yeah. Grossest thing I've ever done. Now what the hell are you doing?"

Percy sighed. "I need to talk to you again."

"In the janitor's closet?" Annabeth asked with a raised brow.

Percy's eyebrow twitched. "I don't want anyone hearing our conversation."

Annabeth sighed and rearranged herself so she was comfortable. "Okay. What is it this time?"

"I think the whole building thinks we're actually in love. No doubt my dad has already spread the word about our little incident in the bathroom."

"Remind me to hit him the next time we see him…"

"Will do. Anyways, if we start acting normal—a.k.a. hating each other—they'll know something is up."

"So?"

"Soooo, if they find out my dad went and set this whole thing up because he could have lost his company, they could send him to jail, and then he would lose his company and I wouldn't make money so I wouldn't have a place to live! I'd be a hobo!" Percy was hyperventilating now.

Annabeth hushed him. "Calm down! Your dad's not going to be sent to jail!"

"You don't know that!"

"Neither do you! You're worrying about nothing!"

Percy suddenly got serious. "Annabeth…please. Besides, if we don't make this look real, we can't help your dad's company."

Annabeth was slightly shocked by the sudden mood change. She was slightly touched, too, that he worried about her dad's company.

She sighed angrily. "Fine. But I'm not going to be happy about it."

Like I said, short chapter and rather uneventful. It was a filler chapter pretty much.

On the bright side, I started writing a couple new PJO fics. One is a Percabeth story (of course) but the other is an Annabeth x Nico fic. It's actually turning out pretty well. I'm excited to see what people think about it when it's all said and done.

Anyways, thanks for reading! Review please (no flames!)!

-Akatsuki Child