Percy's P.O.V
After I walked Annabeth to her shift, I went back to my apartment rather than mom and Paul's. All my presents for Christmas were there and I hadn't had time to wrap them before now. With two days to Christmas, I really needed to get that done.
My phone started ringing as I walked, it was Thalia.
"Hey, are you okay?" I asked, unsure why she was calling as we'd not long seen each other.
"Yes," she replied, but didn't offer her usual greeting.
"What's up?" I asked, knowing that something was.
"Annabeth" she replied, and I frowned, it wasn't often Thalia was so short with me. I wondered what I'd done.
"Have I done something wrong?" I asked.
"No, Kelp Head" Thalia said and sighed, and I understood what was going on.
"You want to talk about Annabeth, but you don't want to break her confidence." I said.
"Something like that."
"How can I help?" I asked.
"She needs an outlet" she told me.
"Okay, I might have an idea" I said, and she groaned.
"Your ideas are normally terrible." She told me.
"Gee, thanks for the vote of confidence." I replied.
"What's your idea?" She asked.
"Smash World" I replied.
"Okay, so not all your ideas are terrible." She said, and I smiled, not that she could see that.
"I have my moments" I teased, "I can book it for later when she's finished work if you think that's a good idea?" I asked.
"Yeah, I do." She replied.
After arranging, with a friend of mine, to have an hour at Smash World when Annabeth had finished her shift, I finally got around to wrapping up the gifts for Christmas.
I was a little annoyed with myself that I hadn't done it sooner because it would mean I'd have to drop my father's gift off in person, and I'd rather have posted it.
Things between my father and I had been really strained for a long time. Mom always wanted me to have a good relationship with him, but it was tough to do that when I found out that he left before I was born, then married someone else and had a son with her. While mom had married the Walrus, then after the Walrus was gone, and she'd met Paul and she was finally happy, my father walks back into our lives and demands to get to know me like it's his right.
Resentful, that's was what I was. I hated that I'd have to make the effort to drive over to his family's place to drop off their Christmas presents, but it was a task I needed to do. Mom wanted me to play nice, and I had actively tried to make Annabeth do the same with her family, I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't at least try, especially now. I had a feeling that the hour at Smash World was going to be needed for me too.
"Are you okay? You seem distracted." Annabeth asked as we got in the car after her shift had finished.
As I drove to Smash World, which she still had no idea about, I decided to tell her about my dad. It had been one of the only topics I hadn't shared on the plane because I felt hypocritical about it at the time, and I still did now.
"I dropped off my dad's family's Christmas presents earlier, and I did something stupid." I told her honestly because I'd never lied to Annabeth and I didn't want to start now. She waited as if knowing I had more to say. "I feel like a hypocrite because I pushed so hard for you to make up with your dad. So I strove to try and do the same, so I didn't feel this way."
"You're not a hypocrite Percy. I know why you want me to have a good relationship with my dad, Helen and the boys. I see it every time you interact with Estelle, your mom and Paul. You want me to have something like you do and I appreciate that more than I'll ever be able to tell you. Just because things aren't that way with your dad as well doesn't make you a hypocrite." She told me and I appreciated her validation, even if I didn't feel I could accept it.
"I appreciate you saying that, but still, to try and be less of a hypocrite and maybe a little out of resentment I gave my dad an early Christmas present, that I perhaps shouldn't have." I told her, placing the car into park.
"Mind if I ask what the gift was?" She asked me. I appreciated her allowing me to unload when she was already going through so much of her stuff.
"I printed the story I wrote about the Walrus. I wanted him to understand why I couldn't just accept what he wanted me too, and why I feel the way I do. Because…"
"Because until he understands you can't move past it." She said to me.
"Yeah, how'd you know?" I asked.
"The night before we flew home from dad and Helen's, Dad and I had a conversation in the kitchen over hot chocolate in the early hours. He asked me why that weekend was so different to my previous visits. So, I told him how I'd always felt excluded and that weekend, for the first time, I hadn't. It was actually a really informative chat." She said.
"It's been good for you," I said "I see that when you've spent time with them this Christmas. I'm sorry if that's overwhelming for you as well. I know I can be too stubborn, and I'm sorry if you feel I forced your family on you for Christmas, it wasn't my intention. I just really wanted you to feel included." It felt good to talk about with her and I know I should have before imposing Christmas with our families on her, and them. And if I'm being honest, it had been bothering me a little that I hadn't.
"Percy," she said, and I turned to face her fiddling with the car keys, but before I could say anything else, she lean over and kissed me. The action took me so by surprise, I couldn't respond before she pulled away. It must have shown on my face too, because she laughed.
I felt a smile break across my face, this girl was perfect.
"What are we doing at Smash World? Do I even want to know what that is?" She asked me, returning me to the present from my thoughts of how utterly perfect she was.
"Smash World is something everyone should experience, come on." I said getting out of the car and rushing to open her door before she could. Mom raised me to be a gentleman, I like to try and live up to it.
Will met us at the front desk, it was after hours but he didn't mind thankfully.
"You owe me for this" he joked but I knew I did.
"I know, thank you" I said seriously. "Annabeth, this is Will, he's studying pre-med at Columbia. Will, this is, Annabeth, she's –" He cut me off.
"Oh, I know, I talk to Thalia too y'know" He teased me, and then said to Annabeth, "It's nice to finally meet you." I felt heat rising in my cheeks.
"It's nice to meet you too, Will. How do you know Thalia? She's my oldest friend." Annabeth told him.
Will was one of my oldest friends, we'd met in high school when I'd attempted basketball, to see what all the fuss Jason made about it was, but it wasn't for me. He had sunny blonde hair not too dissimilar in colour to Annabeth's, but his eyes were blue, and his tanned complexion made him look like a classic 'surfer dude' type even if that couldn't be further from who he was.
"I've known Thalia as long as I've known Percy, I met her one winter she was visiting for Christmas." He told Annabeth and I started laughing.
"Why's that funny?" Annabeth asked me.
"The fact they met isn't, what happened when they did was, maybe you could ask Thalia about it sometime." I told her with a smirk donning my face.
"You just like embarrassing your cousin." She said rolling her eyes at me.
"As nice as this is, I really have to go." Will said passing me the keys. "Plates are geared up for you, but if you need more, they're in the supply closet. Lock up when you're done, it's only the front door that you've just come through, I've locked the back door. We'll sort out me picking up the keys later. Enjoy" He said and waved as he walked out the door, and then it was just the two of us again.
"He trusts you a lot" Annabeth noted. I nodded because I trusted him just as much.
Piper's P.O.V
The evening before Christmas eve in the McLean household was normally spent making Christmas cookies. And that was what my sister, Silena, and I were doing but my heart wasn't really in it.
"What's wrong Pipes?" Silena asked me as we cut shapes from the cookie dough to bake.
"I miss Jason" I said, "I know that sounds whiney and pathetic, but I do miss him."
Silena smiled at me, "Is my little sister in love?" she teased.
"I think I am" I said and that thought terrified me. "I've not even known him that long, we're only dating we're not officially anything yet. What if he doesn't feel the same way?" I asked her.
"Pipes, you worry too much." She told me. "The boy calls you every day without fail, from a different state, no less, just to talk to you. I'd be surprised if you weren't official by New Years and I'd be even more surprised if he didn't love you back."
"How do you know?" I asked.
"For someone who likes to meddle in other people's love lives and wants to set up a dating service when they graduate, you aren't very confident in your own." She told me, and I never had been this was true.
"I know" I said sadly.
"And what I mean by that," she continued, "is that you should be, you've got great instincts Piper, listen to them. I'm positive you'll come to the same conclusion as me."
"Thanks Lena" I said and smiled.
"Tell you what, why don't I finish up the cookies this year and you call him?" She said.
"Oh, no, this is one of my favourite parts of Christmas, because we do it together, I'll video call him and we can finish together while I chat to him." I said and then added "if that's ok?"
Silena laughed and nodded. "Of course, it is."
Smiling brightly for the first time all day I immediately hit dial on Jason's contact.
Jason answered on the first ring and when his face appeared on the screen my stomach erupted in an array of little butterflies.
"Hey Pipes, how are you?" he asked smiling at me and I instantly smiled back. I noticed Silena raise an eyebrow at me, 'Pipes' is what dad and Silena always call me, I don't usually like others using it, but it was different with Jason. I liked it when he used the nickname.
"Hey Sparky" I said earning me another eyebrow raise from my sister as we continued to cut cookies out of the dough. "I'm okay, how are you?"
"I'm goo-" he trailed off and looked behind him, I saw Thalia in the corner of his screen briefly. "Sorry, yes I'm good, Thalia asked if you've had any more updates, honestly, I really don't know why she doesn't just ask you herself." He said his eyes stared pointedly above his screen.
"Fine I will." Thalia's voice came and the screen when blurry as the two scuffled over his phone again. I rolled my eyes fondly. I loved the relationship they had. A few more minutes of scuffling and eventually the screen came back into focus with Thalia and Jason sitting next to each other. Thalia clearly holding the phone at arm's length while keeping Jason in frame.
"You're the worst" Jason told her.
"This was your suggestion so sit down and kept quiet and then I'll leave you be." She said in a mothering tone. I had to bite back a smile.
"So, update?" I asked and Thalia told me all about the visit to the aquarium this morning and Annabeth's jealousy over Jennifer. I smiled knowing full well that Annabeth was in love. Even if she wouldn't admit it to herself and I was pretty sure Thalia knew too.
"I just wish he wasn't so damn chivalrous sometimes." Thalia complained once she'd caught me up.
"He can't win with you." Jason complained, "You'd yell at him if he weren't being this respectful if he were anybody else. What do you want him to do throw her up against the wall of the coffee shop and have his way with her? You'd yell at him then too for being disrespectful!" He defended their cousin, and I couldn't help but laugh at the pair of them.
"Just because I want him to ask her out doesn't mean I want him to be disrespectful. And you never know Annabeth might enjoy being thrown up against a wall." She teased.
"Thalia!" He groaned, like he wasn't the one that brought it up. "We've got to sit across the table from them for Christmas dinner stop putting mental images in my head!" Thalia chuckled and I did too.
"Get your mind out of the gutter Jason, later Piper!" She said, and she disappeared from view once more.
"Sorry about that" Jason apologised.
"That's okay" I told him smiling, "I miss you."
"I miss you too." He replied instantly and my heart fluttered.
We continued to talk, until Jason had to go, but we had cemented labels on our relationship. It felt nice to be exclusive. Silena smiled at me across the kitchen as we iced cookies for tomorrow together. Charles came in and kissed her, completely capturing her attention. Their story is one of my absolute favourites, they are so well matched I sometimes felt like watching them, was like watching a romantic movie play out.
Annabeth's P.O.V
Smash World was not what I had been expecting when Percy took a detour to our normal method and route of returning to his mom's apartment. I was however immensely thankful for it.
There's something about assigning an issue to a plate and then smashing that plate to pieces with as much force as you wanted that is oddly satisfying.
After Will left, Percy explained that he'd asked him to, so in the wake of no one else being there my secrets would still be my own. I found the gesture sweet and endearing as I put on the safety Google's and the noise cancelling headphones.
It didn't go unnoticed that Percy also had a stack of plates to smash too. We each had a stack of 24 plates, and I wondered if I could find 24 things to assign to a plate to the smash.
I started with my mom. Her death wasn't her fault, but in a small part, I sometimes felt abandoned by her. I knew that wasn't fair to her, but I couldn't make it go away. Her death created an opening for Helen in our family and although I am now working through things with her and dad it was the start to my abandonment issue. I picked up the first plate and hurled it at the wall in front of me as hard as I could manage. It felt good.
The next plate I assigned to Helen, and all the resentment I used to harbour over the fact she wasn't my mom and that she had tried to be. And then the resentment that she had given up so easily, and finally the isolation I felt once she and dad had had the boys. It was a lot to assign to one plate but when it smashed, the knot in my stomach that had formed since the attack started to unwind a little.
Dad had the next plate, the abandonment I felt, how inadequate I always felt I was. Smashing that plate felt really good, almost as good as actually talking to dad about how I felt on that last night in San Francisco.
The twins, I assigned one plate between the two, because the issue was the same. My jealously that they had what I wanted, and what I felt I could never have. My guilt, for not getting to know them both as well as I should have. Smashing that one, sent a few tears down my cheeks, but I ignored them.
Percy had said the point of this was to unwind so I would unwind in the best way I knew how.
Thalia had the next plate, although it wasn't really anything she'd done. It was my guilt, over the fact that she had also been abandoned by Luke.
Luke took the next plate for purposely seeking out Sarah sophomore year, which broke my heart, and for abandoning me and Thalia after promising never to do so.
Josh my ex-boyfriend, who cheated. I've never really understood why he cheated. Was I not good enough? Not pretty enough? Not smart enough? Was my first time that terrible? When I smashed the plate, tears cascaded down my face faster than I knew what to do with them but the knot in my stomach was lessening, so I continued.
Piper, sweet, sweet, Piper. Hers again was nothing she had done but my guilt, that I'd made her worry, that she'd delayed her Christmas plans, that I'd hurt her by getting hurt myself.
Percy, for being everything I wanted as a boyfriend. For missing out on our date, whatever that might have been. For being so perfect, I wasn't sure I deserved him, in any form, whether that was a friend or more. For the love I already had for him which, terrified me. For not kissing me back in the car just now. Fear. That's what Percy's plate represented, my fear to follow my own heart. I smashed the plate with as much gusto as I could muster.
Luke again, for being a total asshat. For attacking me, for stalking me, for trying to 'steal' me from Percy, like I was an object, he now had to own. For me not understanding why he did what he did.
The Jackson-Blofis family for allowing me and my family to impose on their Christmas plans like it was no big deal. I hated being an imposition. I thinks that's why I felt like I was being caged up there, even though I wasn't.
Jennifer, for flirting when she was married and that it had been Percy she has flirted with.
Me. For all my self-doubt, and self-isolation, for all the little insecurities I had and my need for something permanent.
My remaining plates were used up on people who had hurt the people I cared about. Like Percy's ex-girlfriends. Or Piper's ex-boyfriend. Luke. Thalia and Jason's dad and their mom. Hazel's step mom. Percy's dad. The Walrus.
The list went on until I was out of plates and tears. I noticed Percy had also finished smashing his stack. I took off my headphones.
"How do you feel?" Percy asked me, and immediately stepped into my personal space and thumbed my tears away. I usually hated it when people invaded my space but from the beginning of our time together, he'd been an exception to that rule.
"Better" I said, and I meant it, I did feel better.
"Do you want more plates?" Percy asked and I shook my head. No. I didn't need more plates. I'd just smashed my way through my own life, and I felt lighter than I could remember and the knot that was in my stomach was gone.
"Do you want to go back to mom and Paul's?" He asked, rather than just assuming that's what would happen. I really didn't want to, not because I didn't love all the people in that apartment, I did. But I didn't want to be suffocated again, after clearing through all my thoughts and feelings.
"Not really" I confessed.
"I'll text mom so she's not worried" he said, before going to the storeroom closet and picking up a broom and sweeping brush. I gave him a questioning look which he understood instantly. I kind of loved that about him, that he understood, just by looking at me, what I wanted to say.
"I don't want Will to get into trouble for not cleaning up the two booths we used. He didn't ask me to, but I want too. Is it okay if I take ten minutes to clean up before we leave?" He asked.
"Pass me another broom" I said holding out my hand and resisting the urge to roll my eyes fondly at this boy. He did pass me another broom, we swept up the mess of 48 plates and put them in the respective bin.
Percy locked up and we got back into the car. I had no idea what his plan was, but I was surprised when we pulled up outside of the apartment building that he lived in. I'd only been here once before and it was a flying visit, I didn't even go in. But I'd recognise the building anywhere. Call it an architectural student thing. But I never forgot a building I'd been to.
I looked a question at Percy as he turned off the engine. His eyes met mine asking me to trust him. I nodded.
Once inside the building, we went up four flights of stairs. The lift was out of order. Apartment 4J. J for Jackson, I thought to myself smiling. It was a silly thought but one I had none the less.
I didn't know what we were doing here, but the chance to have more time with just Percy was what I wanted. So, I didn't complain.
Once inside Percy finally spoke again. The silence had been comfortable on the ride over and my head was clearer than perhaps it had ever been.
"I'll put some popcorn on, you can pick the film. They're all in the cases near the tv." He said. A film and popcorn. I tried not to smile too much. He'd brought me to his apartment and chosen something so normal to do. Something we'd kind of already done. It was familiar and comfortable, and I loved it.
Percy and Frank had a ridiculously large collection of DVDs. There were a few Chinese folk law films, which I assumed were Frank's. There was a huge Disney and Pixar collection which I assumed were Percy's. There was a hefty amount of action films and to my surprise Romcoms.
I found a film and placed it in the player that was connected to a ridiculously large TV. I knew most guys liked to watch sports on a big screen, but this was almost cinematic in size.
Even Piper, whose dad worked in the cinematic arts, did not insist on a TV of this size. It must have cost a small fortune and it was easily the most expensive thing in the living area.
Percy's P.O.V
Once we were in the apartment, I asked Annabeth to pick the film. I went immediately to my room and changed the sheets on my bed. If Annabeth was going to sleep in it, while I slept on the couch, I wanted it to be clean. She deserved that much, and my mom would kill me for not being a proper host.
I went back to the kitchen and popped the popcorn in the microwave. It took about five minutes. I grabbed a six pack of coke bottles from the fridge as well and headed back into the living area. Annabeth had picked Anastasia. I had to admit it wasn't what I thought she'd have picked, but it made me smile that she had.
"This is one of Estelle's favourites" I said taking a seat next to Annabeth and offering her some popcorn.
"But it's Fox not Disney" she said.
"Technically now, they're one and the same" I said "but it's definitely in her top five. Why did you pick it?"
"Just always related, a little, to her wanting to find a family. Which sounds stupid because I have a family" she told me.
"Nothing you say is stupid Annabeth." I said to her as the first musical number ended.
"I have my moments" she assured me.
"I highly doubt that." I responded. "Do you still relate to her in that way?" I asked.
"No" she said smiling and I smiled too. I was happy she felt more comfortable with her family.
I wanted to put my arm around her, but I was struck once again, by my thoughts of not pushing things so close to her attack. I knew, she knew, I liked her. I'm pretty sure she liked me too, as she did agree to go on a date with me. I decided to bite the bullet as it were, and I placed my arm around her.
She didn't say anything, but she did smile, so I left my arm in place. She also did kiss me earlier, so I had a little bit of hope, that it might happen again.
We watched the film mostly in silence and ate the popcorn. When the credits rolled Annabeth said, "I really love this song."
"What's it called?" I asked, it was a slow-ish song about love.
"At the beginning" she replied without even having to check or look it up.
"What do you want to watch next?" I asked.
"You pick" she told me. Franks collection of films was huge. The only part of our collection that was mine, were the Disney and Pixar films. What? They're childhood favourites, everyone should have them.
I browsed the selection of romantic films that Frank had, the guy is a total softy. I decided upon How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days. I'd seen it before, it was a good film and I thought Annabeth might like it, as it wasn't too cheesy.
"How to lose a guy in ten days... are you trying to tell me something Seaweed Brain?" She teased and I pressed pause because the start of the film set the precedence for the whole thing.
"Not at all Wise Girl. If I'm lucky you'll still be in my life when I'm ancient." I replied and then proceeded to blush.
"When you're ancient huh?" She asked turning to face me and raising an eyebrow. Showing me, that she was amused with my terminology. "Tell me how old will you be when you're ancient?" She asked and I could hear the teasing notes in her voice.
"I was thinking like 100" I replied, trying to sound like it's no big deal.
"I'm flattered you think I'll make it to 100." She teased.
"If you were British, you'd get a letter from the Queen." I replied.
"If I was British? Where did that come from?" She asked laughing.
"Never mind" I replied embarrassed by my utter lack of 'game'. "Like I said, I'm not as Wise as you." I teased to try and make up for it.
"Okay Seaweed Brain" she teased me back, and turned back to face the film. I pressed play.
I carried Annabeth into my room, pulled back the covers on my bed and set her down. I removed her shoes as gently as I could and then tucked her in. She'd fallen asleep during Strictly Ballroom, which she'd teased me mercilessly for picking, how was I supposed to know Frank liked ballroom dancing?
It was almost 2am, so I turned the TV off and took a spare pillow and duvet from the airing cupboard and settled on the sofa for the rest of the night. I'd told mom that we'd come home after breakfast, though at this rate it would be a late breakfast.
I woke earlier than I would have liked. My phone was ringing, it was my mom. Worried, I answered it without hesitation.
"Mom, what's wrong?" I said cutting any false pretence, because she knew where I was and that I was safe, so something was wrong.
"Percy, could you come to the coffee shop when you've had breakfast? Your father would like to speak with you." She said just as too the point as I had been. My dad? What could he want?
"I – um- sure, mom I'll be there as soon as I can." I replied.
"Okay," she agreed, and she sounded tense, it worried me. "I love you Percy, see you soon."
"See you soon mom, I love you too." I said before she hung up the phone.
I pulled my phone from my ear and stared blankly at it. It was only 8:30am which meant mom would have only just arrived at the coffee shop to open up for the half day she did on Christmas eve. Which meant my father must have ambushed her, because we never heard from him before Christmas and especially never in person. This was my fault. I instantly knew that it was because I'd stupidly given him that story.
"Everything okay?" Her voice cut through my worry like a knife to butter.
"Not really, my dad wants to see me at the coffee shop once we've had breakfast." I replied honestly. "How did you sleep?" I asked looking at her for the first time. She'd pulled her hair into a fresh ponytail. She looked nothing short of perfect.
"I slept well thank you, although I could have taken the sofa you didn't have to give up your bed once again for me." She said.
"My mom would never have let me hear the end of it if I didn't. I'm glad you slept well." I managed a smile and got up. "Let me make breakfast, are pancakes, okay?" I asked.
"Of course," she replied following my into the kitchen. "How did you sleep?" She asked me, as I gathered the necessary ingredients.
"Okay, until mom woke me up" I replied.
"Would you like me to come with you to see your dad?" She asked, and I appreciated that offer, more than anything else in the world, in that moment. My heart started doing what felt like little flips in my chest.
"I don't want to take away from your Christmas Eve with your family." I replied because it was true, I didn't.
"Percy," She sighed exasperatedly at me. "When I spent Christmas at home, before college I'd spend the whole day in my room reading up for the up and coming semester. If I were home alone like I usually am, I'd be reading up for next semester today too. I'm actually a little panicked that I might not have time post-Christmas to get all my reading done." She paused and shook her head.
"Besides the point, if you want me there, I'll be there, it's the least I can do after all you've done for me and my family." She told me and smiled at me.
I flipped the first pancake and returned her smile. "Okay, and I'll spend next week making sure you have time to read up for your classes, I promise you won't feel unprepared when term starts again." I tried to reassure her.
"Percy, I'm a big girl, I can manage my own time. But I do really appreciate you saying that, maybe you could spend the time reading ahead for your own classes?" She prompted as I put a plate of pancakes in front of her.
"I think if my mom saw me reading ahead for classes she might faint. I wouldn't want to cause any harm" I teased.
"I think she'd be proud of you for trying."
"You're probably right." I replied loading my plate with pancakes, before sitting across from her at the table. "Okay, if you don't mind, yes I would like you there." I relented.
I was too nervous to drive to the coffee shop, so Annabeth and I took a snowy walk to the coffee shop. We arrived by twenty past nine and the shop was fairly empty as I expected it to be. Most people were home with their families for the holidays, I looked around quickly and saw mom behind the counter serving a customer. She met my eyes and smiled at me before directing me with her eyes to booth three.
An older version of me sat there, my dad, it almost irritated me how much I looked like this man. I tried to take some calming breaths before plucking up the courage to go over.
"I'll be at the counter with your mom, do you want a drink or anything?" Annabeth asked and I was grateful she was going to be here for support but also that she accepted, without me having to say, that I didn't want to have to make introductions to my dad at this point. That sounds harsh and it's not meant to at all, I don't really have a relationship with my dad, and I don't owe him anything. He doesn't even deserve to meet someone as amazing as Annabeth, he didn't deserve someone as wonderful as my mom either, but I guess I wouldn't be here if they hadn't got together.
"Erm hot chocolate please" I asked, and she nodded and took my hand squeezing it reassuringly before heading over to my mom.
I took a deep breath and headed over to booth three and sat opposite him, "Hi dad."
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