She came back in a few minutes, wearing a black, long sleeved shirt, and a pair of grey sweatpants. He got up; just wearing an old muscle shirt and a pair of old basketball shorts.

He noticed her staring at his arms and he blushed a little bit, and when she noticed he saw her staring, she blushed too.

"So," he said.

"So," she returned.

"Shall we Ms. Chase?"

She giggled and said, "Annabeth. But yes, I am ready to depart to the grocery store."

She passed him the keys to her car and he grabbed them out of her hand and asked, "Oh, now I'm your chauffeur?"

She giggled and said, "Yes, yes you are. Now go drive."

They took the elevator down and listened to Back in Black playing softly through the speakers. You could say it was awkward.

They walked out the doors to the parking lot, where her car sat in the spot closest to the doors. It was a 2014 Dodge Challenger, and would've looked totally awesome. Except for the fact it was hot pink with crimson racing stripes. Ouch.

He pressed the button to unlock it and opened the driver's door. He slid in the seat and saw Annabeth slid in next to him, buckling herself in and looking at him expectantly. He buckled up, turned the engine over, and surprisingly heard Suga, We're Goin Down by Fall out Boy.

"Ok, I'm gonna admit, I did not except this to be playing," he said.

"Lemme guess," she said. "You guessed pop since that's mostly what I do."

"Um…yeeees…?"

She scoffed, saying, "Just cause I play it doesn't mean I listen to it. Geez."

"well, it's also the fact Fall Out Boy is the exact opposite of pop."

"Yeah…well, I actually started out an emo/punk rock solo artist, but those albums weren't selling, and my manager said pop was the only way to go. So yeah."

He nodded, knowing full well how some dream didn't exactly workout.

"So, are we ever gonna go actually go to the store, or just sit in my car?"

"Oh, yeah."

He pulled out of the space and turned onto the road.

He pulled into the space closest to the doors. Well, relatively speaking. They were still at least 100 something yards away from the store.

She suddenly held out her arm towards Percy, smirking and blushing.

He stood there confused for a few seconds, but then realized what she meant and sighed.

He hadn't exactly signed up for this.

He put on hand in between her shoulder blades, one behind her knees, and scooped her up off her feet.

He was rewarded with the cutest shriek/giggle that he ever heard in his entire life, a shy but sexy grin, and her arms wrapped around his neck.

Suddenly there wasn't enough oxygen in the atmosphere around him.

He stared at her grinning and blushing.

No. She's your freaking employer. Stop Perseus.

He looked straight ahead of him, and, with all the dignity he had left (Hint: Very little), he started walking forward carrying her.

He couldn't even count the weird looks he was receiving, but he didn't care. There was a gorgeous girl-NO-there was his employer whom he was supposed to in his arms.

Stupid freaking hormones anyway.

As he walked through the doors, she landed on the ground on her feet and walked to get a cart while her hips went side to side.

Sweet baby Jesus she is sexy.

Wait, he thought. Where the heck did that come from? And, she's your employer. Stop.

He grabbed the cart from her, smiling as he did so there would be no hard feelings, and steered it towards the fruit and veggie section of Wal-Mart.

So it begins.

She sashayed off to grab the fruits with a basket as he hunted down the veggies.

They met again in the freezer aisle, and (ironically, might he add) they had a very heated debate about which ice cream flavor to get.

"Listen Perseus Jackson," she said with the sexiest I'm –gonna-kill-you face ever (which, of course, was totally unfair), "we are going to get mint chocolate ship, and that is final."

"Well, Annabeth Chase, I am in dire need of getting chocolate chip cookie dough."

"Ew," she said, with a cute and unfair (for God's sake man, she is your EMPLOYER) wrinkle in her nose. "You mean the one with the little pieces of cookie dough in it? Ugh, no. Chocolate chips in minty goodness are much better Perseus."

"I highly disagree Annabeth, and although that is good, cookie dough in it is much better."

And so it went. Well, until, remembering Annabeth was a multi-millionaire singer; they grabbed a tub each of their favorite flavor and continued in their trek.

Finally, there was only one item left. Well, that Percy was aware of anyway.

"I refuse to go down the little girls' toy aisle."

"Please Percy? I have to…um…grab something personal," she said, her face going bright red.

"Nope."

"Ok, fine. I guess I'll get the doll for my niece and you can grab my tampo—"

"NOPE NOPE NOPE!" he yelled, putting his palms over his ear. "I'll grab the doll!"

"Good," she said with a victorious (but cute) smirk that did not in any way match her deep scarlet (yet so freaking endearing) face (MY GOD, WHAT IS HIS PROBLEM?! SHE. IS. YOUR. EMPLOYER).

She walked into a loosely named 'Women's' aisle, as he took a deep breath and, summoning thoughts of pizza and burgers and weights and other manly things, he stepped into the young female toy aisle.

Then he ran, grabbed the doll, and ran back out.

Only to find, of course, he had grabbed the wrong doll.

Ugh.

Then he ran back, stopped for a few second to make sure this time, and ran back out the aisle.

And right into Annabeth, who dropped her…personal items...all over the floor. Making sure she was okay, he scrambled to pick them all up. He put them all in the bag, helped her up, and dropped them into the grocery cart.

She seemed a bit flustered, but otherwise fine.

They headed towards the checkouts section f the store, and Percy asked if he could please get a Hershey dark chocolate bar.

Annabeth, to his surprise, smiled and nodded. He unloaded everything on to the counter, and went to the receiving end and started to bag everything until about five 16 year old guys sprinted over and started bagging everything.

There was a minor scuffle until one of them won out Percy guessed, and stared at Annabeth as he bagged.

Percy coughed, and a feeling other than just protection was sending his blood to the boiling point at this teenager staring at Annabeth like that.

When done bagging, the teen ran away from the counter due to the look Percy had given. Good.

Annabeth shot him a confused glance, but he just smiled faintly and shook his head. She smiled back as he grabbed the cart and steered it to the car. Annabeth hopped on the bottom of the cart and held on to the sides of the basket, causing Percy to laugh.

He had done that when he was little.

They both unloaded the groceries in the car, and got back in the car at around sunset.

That was...fun.

He went to the put car in gear and felt a soft hand there already. His face burned instantly. He looked her in the eyes then, and GOD, how he wanted to kiss her.

NO PERSUES.

He turned his head to look ahead of him, and instantly regretted not taking that moment while it lasted.

He put the car in shift and they listened to The Reason by Hoobastank on the way home. It reminded of him Annabeth, as they sang about finding a reason to show a side no one knew.

They brought all the groceries up, with the help of the doorman, a kind old soul named Thomas, with 6 grandkids and 3 kids and a nice old house in a sleepy, yet content neighborhood.

It was there that Percy decided.

He helped Annabeth put the groceries away, and they settled on the couch to watch a movie.

Annabeth cuddled up with her little dog named Mrs. O'Leary for some reason.

As the fourth movie, The Hangover ended, they realized it was one in the morning.

Half asleep and standing right outside Annabeth's room, he told her goodnight. Remembering his decision, he hugged her.

But, of course, he was asleep, so he just had to kiss her forehead. Then her cheek. Then her lips. And then had a pretty nice make out session. Then, mostly asleep, they kissed good night one last time and she went to bed, grinning and blushing and giggly.

He was pretty giddy too. And red faced.

But she didn't have to ever know that.

A/N: So, yeah. I hope you enjoyed that little half asleep fluff c: And yeah, I know, LOOOOOOOONG update XD But that was just to get you guys through until Sunday since that's when I'm deciding to update. (I'm just so evil like that. Hehehehe.) Have a nice weekend! :D