A/N: Hey guys! I'm back! And just in time for this month's update! Sorry it's been so last minute, this month has been a busy :P

Also would like to say thank you to ama-Zhang for the prompt on this one! I changed it a bit but I hope you like how it turned out! And thanks again for the prompt!

And as a reminder if you have sent me a prompt I do have them noted down it just sometimes takes a while for me to be able to write it! So hang in there!

Also also I apologize for the gratuitous amounts of FNAF references in this fic lol :P

Here ya go:

So maybe he had a death wish. Or maybe just a money wish. Well, the money wish outweighed the death wish and here he was walking into work at a FNAF come to life, everyone's favorite children's pizza and entertainment center, Chuck E. Cheese's.

It was his first day and he was just happy to be working a normal day shift, which would hopefully mean not being haunted by dead children's souls stuffed in animatronic suits.

Jason, the guy who had been roped into showing him the ropes the day before, greeted him as he entered.

"Hey man! You ready?"

Percy smiled and waved back. Jason might be a pleb who didn't know about horror videogames involving a creepy stuffed bear and his equally creepy friends, but he was a cool dude and nice enough to give Percy some pro-tips for the job.

"Ready as I'll ever be," he responded, moving to the break room to put his stuff in a locker.

"It's not so bad, you're not on party duty today so we'll start you off with working the counter. You probably won't have to do much except occasionally wander the floor to make sure things are okay or direct someone if they need help," Jason explained.

They made their way to the long counter that supplied everything from coins to prizes. Jason took his place at the prizes with Percy just a little ways off in the middle.

Jason was right, there wasn't too much to do. Occasionally someone asked him for directions or for some coins, which he easily provided, having worked a register before.

He watched as the other employees herded children or moved around carrying the pizzas for the parties. Working a party seemed like a lot of work and stress. He was lucky to be one of the people on the floor, away from the parties and the creepy animatronics who sang Happy Birthday.

Every fifteen minutes or so Jason instructed him to walk the floor and make sure that things were running smoothly, and no kid was going crazy. It was on one of these walks when he was stopped for the first time.

"Excuse me! We need your help!" the kid, wearing a SpongeBob shirt, tugging on his arm couldn't have been more than ten.

"What's up?" he asked, though doubting he would be able to solve the problem.

"Well, the tickets aren't coming out, and we just won a jackpot!" the kid explained excitedly as he led him towards one of the spin machines that just gave you tickets without any real effort other than spinning the wheel.

It was indeed stuck on 500 and he understood the kid's excitement, five hundred was nothing to scoff at.

As they got closer he saw another kid, wait were they twins? And a girl who could have been their sister standing by the machine.

"Matt! You found someone!" the other one called. God this was gonna get confusing. SpongeBob shirt-Matt- nodded enthusiastically and Percy waved weakly, still not sure he could even solve this problem.

The girl, upon closer inspection, was around his age with blonde curly hair framing her face. She offered a half apologetic smile.

Percy smiled back and turned his attention to the machine where the twins were still babbling.

"It gave us like ten tickets before it stopped," the other one, blue shirt, explained holding up the ten tickets.

Matt nodded along with his brother and asked, "But you'll get us the 500 right?"

"Uhhh…" Percy inspected the machine and the ticket slot, both offering no help. He should get Jason.

"Can you fix it?" the girl finally asked curiously, her head tilted to the side in question.

"Um, well…" he responded, shrugging, "Maybe?"

"What do you mean maybe?" She raised an eyebrow, looking amused.

"Well, it's my first day and I don't have the key to get into the machine, so I'm not sure," he replied, wincing a bit.

"Didn't they train you?" she asked curiously.

Well they had, the only thing he could remember Jason saying was… He moved to the machine and gave it a kick. For a moment nothing happened except Percy's foot hurting a bit, but then the machine started up and more tickets started to come through.

"I can't believe that worked," the girl said, barely holding back laughter as the twins hurriedly collected more tickets, shouting excitedly.

"Honestly neither can I, my foot hurts." Percy frowned as he put some weight on the foot.

"I can imagine, it looked like it hurt. Isn't there a better way to fix stuff around here?"

He shrugged. "Probably, I just don't know it. Like I said, first day."

She smiled. "How are you liking it so far?"

"Well, I mean I'm not dead and there's nothing haunting me so I'll take that as a win."

"Did you do something that would merit haunting?" the girl asked, looking surprised at the answer.

But before he could respond, she continued, "Are you the purple guy?"

"How did you know?" he gasped dramatically, grinning because this girl just made a Five Nights at Freddy's refence and that made her cool in his book.

She was about to respond when one of the twins, blue shirt, came up to them and told them the machine had stopped working again.

Percy put on a brave face and went in for another kick.

Nothing.

They all waited in anticipation and…

Still nothing.

Well.

"How many tickets do you guys have?" he asked the boys, who immediately started counting tickets.

"Thirty," Matt finally replied. Percy thought for a second before offering a solution,

"Aright you know what, you guys go get the rest of your tickets counted and when you get to the prize booth I'll add on the 470 you guys have left, that cool?"

The twins nodded, and he put up an out of order sign on the machine before walking back to the counter.

Jason threw him a confused look and he explained the situation causing Jason to roll his eyes and mutter "of course."

"Does this happen often?" he asked, noting Jason's reaction.

Jason sighed. "Yeah, that machine always gets clogged up on higher number ticket wins. I'll go check it out, you good here for a bit?"

He assured him that he was, he did have the training for the prize counter and he could hold it down. Jason nodded and walked off, no doubt to fix or report the machine.

In the meantime, the twins and the girl had walked up.

"Hello again," he called, smiling at the trio.

"Hey…Percy?" The girl, who Percy was getting tired of calling the girl, read his name tag.

"Yep that's me, and you are?" Maybe that was weird, but he wanted to know her name now that they had had an entire conversation, about a videogame no less.

"Annabeth," she introduced. "And this is Matt and Bobby." The twins waved at the sound of their names and handed him the ticket count.

With due diligence, he added 470 to the number and told them to pick out the stuff they wanted. As the two launched into a lengthy debate on what they would choose, Percy turned his attention to Annabeth.

"I'm sure you're having loads of fun," he teased as he watched her sigh at their banter. She turned to them with a smile.

"It's alright, better now that I've met you." She winked and he almost choked because the last thing he had expected was a cute girl flirting with him. And he had definitely noticed how cute she was.

"Good to know I can make the experience better," he managed to get out, still taken back. She laughed at his reaction and it was a really great sound.

"Considering I'm stuck babysitting my brothers at a Chuck E. Cheese's, it can't be too hard."

He fake-gasped and clutched his heart. "I'm hurt."

She smiled. "Nah, I'm kidding. You're pretty cool for working here even though you know about FNAF and the potential dangers of being around stuffed animal suits."

"Pretty cool or maybe pretty stupid, I'm not sure which," he admitted, shrugging.

"Maybe you're just pretty," she replied with another wink and he almost had a heart attack.

"Um... I… uh… you too?" he stuttered out because he was not prepared to be assaulted with such nice words.

Luckily, he was saved from further conversation where he would no doubt incriminate himself more by the twins, who had finally come to a decision on what they wanted from the prize counter.

He was just finishing up getting their things when Jason came back with a look of grim satisfaction on his face.

"It's fixed," he said as if he had just won a war— though, from what it sounded like earlier, it had been an ongoing war for a while now.

"Nice work, man!" Percy complimented, wanting to give Jason some credit.

"Thanks, all good here?"

"Yep, just finishing these guys up, they're the ones who had the issue with the machine," Percy explained.

Jason turned towards the trio. "Sorry about that guys, that one's a bit temperamental."

"It's alright, it worked out in the end." Annabeth waved away the apology.

"Yeah, we still got some cool stuff, thanks Percy!" Bobby shouted as he handed them the foam swords.

"No problem," he replied, grinning at their excitement.

"Well that's it boys, let's go home." Annabeth started to herd them away as they waved goodbye. Percy waved back.

And just as they left the counter Annabeth called back, "Thanks again Percy." It was followed by another wink and Percy blushed remembering the previous conversations.

Needless to say, Percy ended his first day with an ache in his foot, teasing from Jason, and a small crush.

-.-.-.-.-

Said small crush would have been fine and easy to get over if he hadn't spent a considerable amount of time in the following days thinking of all the things he could have said. All the things he should have said.

Because when it came down to it, he had met a cute girl who knew about video games and flirted with him and he hadn't been able to adequately respond to the situation. He hadn't flirted back or even talked to her more.

And he regretted it now, wishing he had a second chance at seeing this girl again just so he could ask about other things, get to know her more, let her know that she was cute too.

He pushed her from his mind, knowing it was no use going over missed opportunities, and focused on getting a little girl a nerf gun from the prize counter.

He had turned away to arrange some stuff on the shelf when a voice made him stop in his tracks.

"Hey."

He turned around slowly and was once again face to face with blonde hair and striking grey eyes he hadn't noticed the last time she was here. Wow they were pretty.

"Hey, Annabeth," he replied, offering a smile.

She smiled back. "Oh good, you remember me," she said, sounding relieved.

"Of course, I remember you, who wouldn't?" he was surprised at the assumption. How could he forget the girl who took the effort to flirt with him? A brave move, honestly, because while he had thought that she was cute he really hadn't planned on doing anything about it.

She blushed a little and he realized that she was a bit nervous. "I don't know, I'm glad you do though."

He had no idea why she was so nervous, if anything it was him who was nervous. Then he realized that this was his second chance.

"Honestly, I haven't really stopped thinking about you." His cheeks lit up at the words, but he said them anyway.

"Really?" she asked, looking surprised and soft and hopeful.

"I mean yeah, I kept thinking of all the things I didn't say last time," he explained.

"And what would that be?" she asked.

He felt his throat dry up for a second. But honestly fuck it, he was just gonna go say it. Not many people get a second chance, he wasn't going to waste it again.

"Well," he began, "I would have said that you're a cool person and your flirting was well-received, that I'm just bad at reacting, by the way you're really pretty too, and I want to get to know you a little better so how about coffee sometime?"

He held his breath as he watched her eyes widen at the words. Then she broke out into wide smile.

"I'd love to, I came in here hoping to ask you the same." And he fell for her a little more right then and there because the courage this girl had to come back just to see him and go for a second chance was unbelievable.

He grinned. "In that case, it's a date."

-.-.-.-.-

The last place Percy wanted to end up in was Chuck E. Cheese's, though he had to give the franchise credit for staying open this long. It had been Annabeth's idea and well, he wasn't gonna question it. To be fair, he did have a lot to thank for it.

So when his daughter's fifth birthday takes place in a Chuck E. Cheese's party room, complete with halfway decent pizza and still creepy animatronics, he doesn't complain.

Besides, when his wife is at his side and his daughter wins 500 tickets and positively screams in happiness, he doesn't have much to complain about.

A/N: So what did you think? Did you like it? It's a more contained fic, all happening in the same atmosphere but that was something I used to do in the original series and thought I'd try again for this one.

And of course I had to add in a little something about missed connections and second chances as a hope to motivate you guys to occasionally go out on a limb and take a chance to talk to or get to know somebody. I know it's hard, I have a hard time doing it too sometimes, but it's something all of us can in some way work towards.

That said, I hope you guys liked this one! Anyone get the FNAF (Five Nights at Freddy's) references? I couldn't write about Chuck E. Cheese's and not include them :P

Please Review! I'd love to hear your thoughts!

And as always, thanks for reading!

See ya! :)