First thank for reviewing! Seriously, I started squealing when I realised I had reviews. Yeah I'm weird...
Yes I know the chapter names are bad puns but I like them so :P you!
Disclaimer: I do not own PJo
Chapter four: I Mist you too.
"Percy! Wake –" Sally said coming into Percy's room. "Up." She said her eyes wide staring at me. Aw Hades.
"Morning Sally." I said awkwardly.
"I'll leave you and Percy to..." She trailed off and left.
"Percy!" I smacked his arm. He just groaned in his sleep and mumbled my name. I blushed. Even in his sleep he could still diffuse my anger so easily. "Percy." I said again, softer this time. His eyes fluttered then focused on me.
"Morning beautiful." He yawned. "Wait what?" He seemed to realise where we were. "Um Annabeth? Are we in my bedroom?"
"Yes."
"Are we in my bed?"
"Yes."
"Did we just wake up together in my bed?"
"Yes."
"Did my mom just come in and see us?"
"Yes."
"Ah!" He groaned and slumped into the pillows. "I'm dead." I couldn't help but smile.
"You're not dead... not yet." I laughed.
"This is not funny!" He moaned into his pillow.
"You're right." He turned his head and eyed me. "It's hilarious." He just groaned again.
"Shut up or she'll think something is happening in here!" I swatted the back of his head. "Actually. Keep your head down while I get up." I went over to where I left my suitcase the previous day. Once I was dressed I told Percy to get up then slipped into the bathroom.
Percy and I sat on the couch mortified out of our minds. Paul had left after Sally had obviously briefed him on what had happened. Sally had ordered us into the living room and was now looking at us. Both Percy and I refused to meet her eye or each others. It was the ultimate awkward.
"Now Percy. Annabeth." She started. This felt worse than the Titan War and the Giant War combined. Kind of.
"I know you are both grown up and your bodies are having... urges." We both squirmed. "I understand that you may want to make your relationship more... physical or already have." I felt so uncomfortable. This conversation made me want to gag. Not Sally, the gods know I love Sally nor was it the idea of me and Percy being... intimate. It was just the thought of saying these things out loud. I wasn't normally one to share these things.
"I just need to know you are taking precautions. Considering everything you two have been through his may not seem important but be safe. Not in the way you think." Oh Sally we understand exactly what you mean, please stop! "Sexual diseases can be just as dangerous and life altering as fighting monsters." Well this was definitely the weirdest sex talk ever. Probably even by demigod standards considering lots demigods couldn't rely on their mortal parent and their godly parent was MIA.
"Mom..." Percy groaned. "We know! Ugh!" Sally laughed.
"This may seem awkward Percy, but as your mother I need to know you're –"
"Safe! Yeah we know!"
"Well." She smiled brightly, biting back another laugh. "How long are you going to be here Annabeth?"
"Um..." I croaked. "All weekend." My face was so hideously red.
"Wonderful! You can stay here of course." She smiled as if wasn't the most awkward moment ever. "Unfortunately Paul and I are off to Montauk for the weekend. I trust you two will be safe?"
"Yes mom." Percy groaned his head once again buried in the cushions on the couch.
"Lovely to see you Annabeth but I really must be going." She gave me a hug and left.
Percy and I sat on the couch in silence for what seemed like forever.
"That was horrible." I finally said.
"I'm scarred." He replied. I rolled my eyes.
"Well I'm only here for the weekend so what do you want to do?" I said shaking the event from the morning from my mind.
"Can we have blue waffles?"
After a whole day of doing random things such as eating blue waffle, having piggy back rides whilst screaming "FISH PONIES!" at the top of our lungs we finally ended up simply lying in each other's arms and making small talk.
"So yesterday." Percy started. "You had something you wanted to talk about?" I didn't even bother asking how he knew that.
"Yeah."
"So what is it?" He prompted.
"Oh, well I figured out a way to maybe solve the Mortal–Mist–thing–problem." I said casually. He sat up so fast he knocked me off the couch.
"You did WHAT?" He yelled.
"Um, ow! And yeah." I grinned. He looked down at me from the couch his eyes sparkling. Suddenly he launched himself at me.
"You are the smartest," kiss, "wisest," kiss, "bestest," kiss, "most amazing person ever!"
"Bestest isn't a word." I bushed trying to change the subject.
"Well I would make up a million words for you Annabeth Chase!" He smiled. I laughed. "How?" He asked lying next to me on the floor, neither of us not bothering to get up.
"Well." I said turning to face him. "I just thought that maybe we could show the stupid damn people what we demigods actually do." As I spoke I became more confident and more excited. "I figured, we have footage of both wars, we have the orientation film, we could do an awesome mish mash and present it to those idiots that call themselves the DEC and prove to them we're actually protecting them not harming them! First –"I was cut off by him pulling me close to him.
"You are definitely the best hero the world has ever seen." Percy growled into my hair, his voice completely serious now.
"Percy –" I mumbled, embarrassed.
"No, hear me out." He held me tighter. "We may have faced Titans and Giants plus a whole lot of monster but the thing that has us the most scared, the things that has us hiding, the thing that has us defenceless are the Mortals. But you, Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, have managed to find a solution that doesn't result as us being violent. You. Are. The. Best. Hero. Ever." I blushed. He can't really think of it like that? Can he? Yes he can. He's Percy.
"I love you." I sighed.
"I love you too." He replied immediately. "Now no more talk of Wars and plans and being smart because before you know it it'll have rubbed off on me and then where would we be?" I laughed into his chest.
"Sure thing Seaweed Brain. How about we find some more pointless seemingly meaningless procrastination type things to do." I said pulling him up.
"Uh, sure?" He asked.
"Percy who do you think is the demigod?" I asked quietly after hours of procrastination.
"Huh? Oh do you mean what the emposa said?" He sighed heavily. "I don't want it to be any of them."
"I understand but Percy we need to get whoever it is to Camp." I told him.
"I know. I seriously have no clue as to who it is." He shook his head as if trying to sort through all of his thoughts to find the answer.
"Maybe try and define their characteristics. Carrie is very hyper active." I said trying to be helpful.
"Maybe... Aspen is very into nature. Almost as much as Katie." He said thoughtfully.
I thought about his friends. Carrie was petite but wild. She looked like the kind of girl to put up a good fight. She had such a presence of character it made you forget how small she was. She also had a mischievous look about her. She kind of reminded me of Leo too, sprouting out random things.
Aspen was tamer. She did look as though she'd just finished planting a flower or something. Her eyes were also very calming but when the emposa had come her eyes had become fiercer.
Aiden was more like Aspen as in he wasn't bouncy crazy. He was athletic and tall like an Apollo boy. He also a similar smile, blinding. When the emposa came he had a look of calm determination.
Tucker had a quiet beauty about him. He looked like a sexy cowboy but it all looked effortless. He also seemed the type to see the beauty in others.
So if I had to say, Tucker would be a child of Aphrodite, Aiden the child of Apollo, Aspen the child of Demeter and Carrie the child of Hermes.
Unfortunately I didn't know anything about their mortal parentage. But who was the actual demigod I did not know. And that annoyed me immensely.
"Ugh I don't know!" I growled. My mind felt like it was on fire, always going, looking at everything in detail, never slowing.
"Stop thinking." Percy said to me.
"I can't stop thinking Seaweed Brain." I rolled my eyes.
"Sure you can. Try." He whispered right in my ear. And I did. I thought about not thinking. But the demigod-
"You're still thinking I can hear it." He growled.
"No you can't!" I scoffed but I couldn't but think about how he knew that.
"I can." He replied. "They're like cogs turning. A perfect machine that's over worked." A perfect analogy too.
"Distract me." I pleaded.
"OK." And he did. The best way to get me to forget and to just stop thinking is for Percy to kiss me and that's exactly what he did. Gods I loved him.
The phone rang early the next day and woke us up. We were lying in the fort we'd made – from chairs, blankets and a lot of pillows and cushions – some time yesterday.
"You get it." I groaned and rolled over.
"Well duh, it's my house." He laughed. He wasn't usually so chipper in the morning but he seemed in a good mood today which was good. He got up and picked up the phone and I listened into one half of a conversation.
"Oh, hey dude." He said. "How's it going?... Oh cool! No! Call the others and... Yeah pretty much. Awesome! See you whenever! Wait do you know where the... Yeah it – Haha! If I let Annabeth we'd never see it again! Haha, 'kay see ya!"
I lay in the fort not bothered to get up. I know, not like me but I considered this a holiday of sorts so I was gonna have a lie in. As soon as I went back to camp I would be constructing the video along with Leo – son of Hephaestus – and maybe some Hermes and Apollo kids.
"I'm back!" He cried as he leapt on me.
"Percy!" I shrieked as he lifted the covers and let the cold air in.
"What!" He laughed then snuggled his cold nose against my neck.
"Ahh!" I shrieked again and squirmed. This just made him laugh harder.
"Fine!" I grinned at him. "You wanna play this game? So be it!" He frowned at me.
"Waddaya mean- Ah!" Suddenly he was the one squirming as I tickled him. His legs kicked out as his torso thrashed about but I didn't let up. "Mercy! Mercy!" He cried.
"Admit that I always win!" I commanded straddling him. "And that I am the smartest –"
"Most bestest girlfriend a guy could ask for?" He asked smiling. I smiled back; I'd beaten him so much he knew exactly what I wanted from him. "Ok. Annabeth Chase always wins, she is the smartest most bestest, plus the sexiest," I blushed at this. "Girlfriend a guy could ask for." Butterflies tickled my stomach. Suddenly he turned so he was holding himself above me. "I would've told that anyway." Then he kissed me.
"Eat time!" He said then dashed to the kitchen. Wow that boy! I thought to myself. I got up and followed him to the kitchen where he was pulling out ingredients for blue waffles plus some blueberries and some chocolate chips.
"Let's get this show on the road!" He said when he saw that I had come into the room. I smiled at him and got stuck in, literally. Minutes later we were both covered in flour and we had mixture sticking up our arms laughing hysterically.
"C'mon Seaweed Brain! We're meant to be eating this." I faux scolded him. He grabbed my hand and bit my finger. "Ah! Percy!" I laughed.
"What?" He asked innocently.
"Shh! No more speaking from now on!" I commanded.
"I can do that." He smiled. I raised an eyebrow but didn't question this. A few minutes later he started humming. Damn loopholes! Then I recognised the tune as he started putting words to it.
Do you hear me?
I'm talking to you.
Across the water
Across the deep blue
Ocean
Under the open sky, Oh my,
Baby I'm tryin'
I smiled at him, my heart fluttering. Funny thing was it seemed subconscious because he didn't look up, he didn't stop working, he just continued to make the food while singing.
Boy I hear you,
In my dreams.
I feel you whisper,
Across the sea.
I keep you with me,
In my heart.
You make it easier,
When life gets hard.
I continued to work beside him as he looked up at me, realising he'd been singing. He blushed furiously but instead of laughing it off, he continued with me.
Lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
Ooohh ooooh oooh oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
They don't know how long it takes
Waiting for a love like this
Every time we say goodbye
I wish we had one more kiss
I'll wait for you, I promise you, I will
Lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
Lucky we're in love in every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday
And so I'm sailing through the sea
To an island where we'll meet
You'll hear the music fill the air
I'll put a flower in your hair
Though the breezes through the trees
Move so pretty you're all I see
As the world keeps spinning round
You hold me right here right now
Lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
I'm lucky we're in love in every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday
Ooohh ooooh oooh oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooooh ooooh oooh oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
"Aw! You guys are so cute!" A voice said from behind us. We whirled around to see Aiden, Carrie, Tucker and Aspen standing behind us. Aspen had the spare key dangling from her finger.
"Nice singing." Tucker said smiling genuinely.
"Yeah, you guys could make a cute duet!" Carrie mocked.
"Shut up Carrie." Percy mumbled. I knew him; I knew he didn't usually sing in front of people. He had for me, which had been incredibly sweet. And know his friend was mocking him about it.
"Sorry, we're too busy saving the world." I told her. That shut her up. "Well right now we're making blue chocolate chip waffles with blueberries."
"Maybe you'll want to clean up first..." Aspen laughed. I looked down and remembered my PJ's were covered in flour. Oops...
"Right." I said. "I'll take first shower." I told Percy then went to go have the shower.
I was showered and dressed in record time. I glanced into the kitchen: empty. I walked into the living room: bingo! There they all were with plates of blue chocolate chip waffles and blueberries.
"Where's my plate?" I asked coming in and sitting next to Percy.
"Calm down, it's right here." He replied handing me his plate. I raised an eyebrow at him. "I've finished mine already." He explained.
"And now you can go have a shower, you stink." I told him.
"Are you sure you want me to have a shower because I smell or is it that you find my bare chest too distracting?" He gestured to the fact he was wearing only sweat pants. No, I thought, I'm not sure. Instead of saying that I just rolled my eyes.
"Go get dressed smelly." I laughed. He joined in then got up to have a shower. "So..." I said awkwardly.
"So, you're staying here for the weekend?" Aspen asked.
"Yeah, pretty much."
"And Sally's OK with that?" Aiden frowned. I groaned.
"Actually, yesterday morning before she and Paul left she gave me and Percy... the Talk." I put extra emphasis on what I was saying for maximum impact. It had the effect I wanted, the horrified looks on their faces was priceless!
"Oh gods you poor thing! As if the Talk was awkward enough! But to have Percy there with you!" Carrie sympathised. I smiled at her.
"Tell me about it! I couldn't meet either of their eyes!" I laughed with them. Aiden and Tucker were laughing hysterically and thus rendering them unable to finish their waffles.
"What are you guys talking about?" Percy asked as he shook his wet hair all over me.
"Percy!" I shrieked for the millionth time this weekend.
"We were talking about your talk with Sally yesterday." Carrie told him with a pitying smile.
"Oh gods!" He groaned. "Don't remind me!" He fell over the back of the back of the sofa and next to me. I scooted away in an effort to save my waffle, which was in vain because he rolled over and took it off my plate.
"Hey!" I exclaimed. He made some unintelligible noises which I took to be an apology, which it probably wasn't.
"Anymore attacks?" Aspen asked with a vaguely worried face.
"Nah, we've been okay." Percy replied chewing my waffle.
"You won't be, you stole my waffle!" I warned him.
"Want it back?" He asked poking his tongue out with a glob of chewed waffle.
"Eew! No!" I pushed him away while he just laughed.
"Wait I just got it!" Tucker suddenly exclaimed. Everyone looked at him.
"Err... Got what?" Aspen asked.
"When they said their parents didn't like each other! Poseidon and Athena don't like each other right?" He buzzed while the others looked at me and Percy and they realised Tucker was right.
"Haha, yeah pretty much. We were sort of friends... Then Annabeth found out about my dad then she hated me." Percy began.
"Then we went on a quest were we almost died several times and were betrayed, we had to trust each other even though there was a war brewing and our parents were on opposite sides." I continued.
"Then we survived, stopped a war and became best friends." He finished.
"That seems like an overly complicated way of becoming friends." Aiden laughed.
"Nothing is ever simple for us." I replied, laughing too.
The rest of the day we spent with random chatter and I go to know Percy's friends better. It didn't help with the demigod mystery but I wasn't worrying about that, for once I was just focusing on getting to know these guys.
A loud chirp of the landline phone made us jump. Percy ran to get to get it and this is what we got.
"Hello? Hey mom... Yeah she's still here, so are Tuck, Aid, Aspen and Carrie... Your car broke down? Do you need me to tell school and your work why you won't be in tomorrow?... Ok... Yeah! Don't worry! The apartment isn't messy at all!" What a liar, I thought. The thought made me smile as I looked around. The kitchen was a bombsite of ingredients. The living room had pillows and covers thrown around, the fort was still standing, and bowls of popcorn and plates of leftover food were everywhere.
Percy came back over to us, "You guys are helping me clean." Was all he said to us. We divided up all the roles, Aiden and Aspen got the kitchen, Tucker and Carrie got the pillows, cushion, blankets and the fort and me and Percy got the plates to clean up. To be fair, we had it easiest.
Within no time the apartment was clean and the others were on their way home. Percy and I sat on the sofa completely exhausted.
"I don't want you to go." He whispered to me.
"I don't want to go either." I replied in a whisper.
"Then don't." He pleaded.
"Can't, we've got the world to save... Again." I sighed.
"Will we ever catch a break?" He asked.
"Ha! Unlikely." I laugh mirthlessly.
"Can't you leave tomorrow evening? One more night." He begged... and I couldn't refuse him. That night we stayed up all night, not sleeping, just talking and then after a while just simply lying in each other's arms comforted by each other's presence. We didn't care that he had school and I had a lot of travelling and planning to do, we didn't want to waste a moment.
Guys, you decide if they actually slept together or not OK? Seem fair?
I made this a fluff chapter, fluffy enough for you bros?
The song... I don't know why but I think it describes them pretty good and felt like putting it in. P.S. It was Lucky by Jason Mraz and Colbie something-or-rather.
I know I haven't updated in ages but my summer holiday is in three weeks so when that time comes I'll be able to update more frequently.
Also I kidnapped my friends Pen and posted pictures on Facebook with the Pen in different settings as a proof of life, I told you this just in case you didn't realise I am a bit mad! :P
I also told you that to see if anyone actually reads the authors note... I'm not so sure they do...