GO FORWARD AND BE EATEN.
GO BACK AND REGRET IT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.
NOT MUCH OF A CHOICE, IS IT?
Hello everyone! Did you miss me? No? Oh well. So this is a little filler chapter, and I actually don't think Paul would be at all opposed to the marriage, but Annabeth's stepmother would be. But I didn't want it to turn out as Percy's parents saying yes and Annabeth's parents saying no, so I switched it up a little.
"Umm, you guys? We have something to tell you," Percy said sheepishly, rubbing the back of his neck. He and Annabeth just came up to the picnic table on the hill above their makeshift sparring ring to where Sally, Paul, Fredrick and Helen were having lunch.
The foursome looked at the two twenty-two year olds and Percy's courage failed.
"Why don't you tell them, Annabeth?"
Annabeth muttered something under her breath in Greek that sounded suspiciously like Seaweed brain and Coward.
"We're getting married," she told them bluntly.
Fredrick gasped and fell off his seat.
"I knew it," he cried, "you're pregnant!"
"I told you they would think," Annabeth smirked at Percy.
"Why do I even try," he muttered, rummaging in his pocket, "what was it, five drachma's?"
"Nice try, it was ten."
"Oh, that's wonderful!" Sally gushed," I'm so happy! Of course, you will have to tell me everything, and I'll do the wedding arrangements and-"
"Wait," Paul protested, "I have nothing against you guys getting married, but don't you think this is a little soon? I mean, what will people think?"
"Exactly," Fredrick said, "At the very least you should wait a few more years."
"Fredrick, don't," Helen chastised, "If they risk their lives every day, the sooner the better."
Just then a brilliant flash of light blinded everyone. When it faded, Poseidon and Athena stood their, in human clothes, but still radiating power. Everyone bowed to them.
"Hello everyone," Poseidon said cheerfully, "Dite told us the news, and we thought we should congratulate you. Oh, blue corn chips. Don't mind if I do."
"What he means," Athena said, glaring at her nemesis as he dipped the chip in blue tahinni and popped it in his mouth, "Is that Aphrodite told us what happened, so we came to give our personal opinions. Mine is that this is a very bad idea and you should not do it."
"Don't be such a stick in the mud Theeni," Poseidon said jovially, putting an arm around each demigod, "What better wedding gift to give the happy couple than your permission? As for me, I was thinking a three month honeymoon inHawaii, fully paid, no monsters or any other interference. Or maybe theCaribbean. I think you may have had enough of Greece and Rome, but it's you choice. What do you say you guys? "
"Sounds good," Percy said happily.
"I have a say too you know," Athena cried, "And I won't allow it."
"Lady Athena," Sally said, standing up and glaring at her fiercely, "If you think for one second that you have any right to stop them, you have another thing coming!"
"Insolent mortal!" Athena roared, "You can't tell a goddess what to do!"
"Watch me!" Sally cried.
Athena lunged at her, but Paul and Poseidon blocked her way.
"I agree with Athena!" Fredrick shouted, "She is always right! I didn't have sex with her for nothing!"
"Fredrick Chase!" Helen cried, as everyone else stared, "how dare you speak of that with your wife here!"
Athena argued with Sally, Helen was yelling at Fredrick and Paul and Poseidon tried to keep Sally from being blasted. Annabeth and Percy watched the whole thing like a tennis match.
"Do you think we should tell them we were more stating a fact, rather than asking their permission?" Percy whispered.
"No," Annabeth whispered back, "Let them have their fun. But maybe we should forget the big to do wedding and just elope."
"Sounds good to me," Percy responded cheerfully, and the two walked back down the hill, still holding hands, and ignoring the yells and crashes behind them.
Half an hour later the papers were signed, and although quite frankly their lives were as closely entwined as they could be, as soon as Annabeth volunteered to accompany Percy on that first quest, they were officially married.
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