Did I say 24 hours?

I meant that I'm an evil liar and you should never trust me.

Thanks for the reviews! Enjoy!

Routines

Pairing: All

Time Frame Undetermined

Routines. Procedures. Patterns. Or Reyna's favorite synonym, according to Google, 'grooves'. Over the next few months, they settled into a collection of routines that made them feel like proper adults.

At five o'clock every morning, an alarm in one of the bedrooms would go off, and Reyna's hand would shoot out to turn it off after one beep. She barely slept in, but when she did, it was for no longer than five minutes. She'd walk to the kitchen in her pajamas and start bringing out the grills and toasters to make an assortment of breakfast options. Since she was the only person in the apartment that knew how to work the stove, she had no problem with the responsibility falling to her.

In a sleepy daze, she'd often find herself repeating lines of old Spanish songs. As a rule, she'd never speak English before six am, considering it completely barbaric. Hardly anyone was awake before then, anyway. But as she moved her hips lightly, singing along to the sound of melting cheese, she'd routinely feel Jason's arms slip around her waist and his lips brush against her cheek.

"Buenos dias, mi amor," she'd greet him, turning around to kiss him. Good morning, my love, she had said. Now, Jason didn't speak fluent Spanish, but one couldn't date Reyna and be friends with Leo Valdez for years without picking up some of the language. And she be damned if he wasn't trying to learn it.

She'd make more breakfast than she'd want before getting changed into a smart pencil skirt and blouse. After a goodbye kiss to Jason, she'd take a car towards the studio of the news channel she worked at. Every Tuesdays and Thursdays she'd work a part of the Breakfast show, but three days of the week were spent working with written pieces.

Meanwhile, Jason would go back to bed and try to get some more sleep.

At 6am, Jason would be re-awoken by the alarm. He quickly changed into a pair of pale blue scrubs and ran a brush through his hair. He'd slip on a hoodie as a horn honked from the car outside. His friend, Kira, would pick him up every day for work. He was doing his residency in the local hospital. He'd met Kira on his first day there. She was a resident too, and they'd sort of bonded to survive their awful boss.

She was a pretty woman, with straight black hair and warm eyes that hinted at her Asian Heritage. When Reyna first met her, Jason could tell his girlfriend was hostile and a little possessive. He then had to tell Reyna that Kira was very, very gay.

Anyway, he started the day at his residency getting yelled at by one of the senior doctors and practicing simple procedures on patients. They were quite fun to talk to actually. Although Jason tried not to get attached. Since, well… a lot of them were there to die, so…

Obviously, as a medical newbie, he made mistakes. One time, him and Kira found a patient who wasn't responding, and the machine didn't indicate they were alive. So obviously, they bought out the electrical thingies that started hearts. Turned out the guy was just sleeping, and attached to a faulty monitor.

Back at the apartment, Percy and Annabeth didn't wake up until seven.

"Bless Reyna," one of them would pray every morning as they sat down to eat the rest of the breakfast she had made. They'd talk about their plans for the day and be all lovey-dovey. Then they'd be sickeningly codependent as they prepared for their separate days.

And the early days in Chicago consisted of job interviews. Percy was looking for places to work with children, hoping to seek them out as demigods early, and make sure they got to camp safe. It was a good profession for what he knew, and he could help young demigods and other children. Meanwhile volunteering at the nearby aquarium, to ensure that every animal there was being treated right. Plus, he loved touring with the kids, and surprising them by being able to talk to the fish.

Meanwhile, Annabeth was doing her own interviews, although they mainly meant pitching her architectural ideas to different companies to see who wanted to buy. And then she had too many companies to sell her ideas to. After all of the board meetings that she became a part of, she'd spend about an hour out of her morning running errands. Usually grocery shopping, for the whole group.

Reyna's show would continue until eleven am, when she'd go off air. She'd spend the rest of her morning writing a report or article, but at half eleven every day, she made time to call Jason. He would clear some time from his schedule as well, which often lead to his supervisor yelling at him, teacher-style.

"Are you having fun?" They demanded once. "That is the last time you will ever have fun!" Now, that guy must have been having a particularly stressful day for such an over exaggeration, but it confused Jason.

"Ever?" He repeated, sadly.

Then at lunch time, Jason would sit in the hospital cafeteria with his work friends, and complain about their supervisors. And one time, a friend of his complained about how 'Jason's hot girlfriend couldn't be his hot girlfriend' and they argued until the topic of Reyna's hotness was off limits to the group.

Percy usually ate lunch at a low table out of a Disney lunch box, surrounded by five year olds who competed to be his favorite. Usually at the aquarium with school trip kids, but he still told them how pretty his girlfriend was, and tried to pair the kids up with each other.

Lunch time was Reyna and Annabeth's time of day. Every day, Annabeth would pick Reyna up from work and the girls would find a café to eat at, betting on the weirdest places they could find and trying new things every day. They'd either complain about the food or guess the lives of other people in the café.

Then Annabeth would talk all about her new designs and propositions she had. Then she'd ask Reyna if anything good was on the news, to which, Reyna always answered 'Maybe' in an attempt to get Annabeth to watch the show.

The afternoon was pretty fun. Annabeth would retreat to a nearby park to sit on a bench in her favorite gazebo, often drawing buildings or just the view, always with headphones in to escape the world for a while.

Reyna, after a day of getting bossed about, would volunteer at a party planning committee to feel more in control, yelling at people about music tempos and balloon color. Since Percy was currently and primarily living off her wages, he would go and act as he assistant some afternoons.

Jason would be working on independent study all afternoon with his work friends, with textbooks and headphones and texting Reyna under the table.

Later, Percy would go and find Annabeth in the park and they'd walk home, talking about their day and leaning on each other. Sometimes Percy bought a picnic or surprise her with some stupid toy from the Aquarium gift shop. But never a Frisbee. There were dogs in that park, and they'd learn the hard way they wouldn't get it back.

A couple hours later, Percy would pick Jason up from work, speeding as he drove pulling up on the sidewalk and honking loudly until her split up from his work friends to get in the car. "BYE BITCHES!" Percy once yelled out of the window. He didn't like Jason's work friends, because he didn't like feeling replaced, and it just made Jason laugh.

"Percy, nobody's as big of a dick as you are," he once told him. "So I can't replace you."

AN: WELL THAT ENDED WITH A LITTLE MORE JERCY LOVING THAN WAS EXPECTED.

Fanfiction'BoutPJIsLife : I really like that prompt and I'm going to try and write it up next chapter.

For future reference: As this series of one-shots is a sequel to a previous story, most of them will NOT be AU's. I will make the occasional exception but make it canon-wise in some way (eg a dream or something) but do not expect this.

Asteria Daughter of Koios : I will reply to you on PM... When I stop being so lazy. Hopefully later today. ILY!

DON'T FORGET TO REVIEW LOVE YOU ALL PEACE OUT

Ps: Review! I'm taking prompts! You can also make request on my tumblr: empressofwanderlust, if you want to do it anonymously.