cassie's grin is an embarrassed sort of thing. it creases into wrinkles, follows itself with a hand that rubs against the back of her neck. " i think my hands are more clumsy than clever. " her hands tuck beneath her armpits. the night is cold and she didn't mean to pull @titanswar into this (they're looking for cassie's cat in the darkness-- or, well, the stray cat that cassie had claimed as her own less than a few hours ago... and promptly lost). " but she was a really sweet cat. i don't think she meant to run away. "
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Annabeth would never betray Camp but people see the longing look in her eye when luke is brought up and as the war grows closer and pressure rises some campers snap from it all and start shooting accusations of being the spy at annabeth and her ties to luke are just enough for the accusations to be actually put on the table. it comes up at the meeting after beck’s death, when he just watched his friend die and he hasn’t talked to his best friend in months
And all of a sudden someone is suggesting that annabeth was the one to tell luke about their mission and she’s the reason beck is dead, and all he can do is sit there because it feels like his world is crashing down and he doesn’t need to address this right now because it’s not true but a truth to it and he doesn’t have the capacity to discuss that right now
But annabeth is sitting there, clarisse screaming accusations at her, and what she needs is for her best friend to stand up and defend her but he won’t, and she knows he’s tired and been through too much and she wants to blame it on that but part of her worries he believes what they’re saying about her being the spy and that is what makes her run out of the room sobbing, not the nasty words leaving clarisse’s mouth
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quick thing: this is perachabeth. and also percabeth-critical.
In my head, Percy and Annabeth truly do love each other. But they break up.
Okay, they're seventeen and stupid and right now, they're too codependent and Annabeth's realizing that physical violence, despite growing up with it, is really messed up for a relationship, any relationship. Percy's also realizing this, so they both decide, after a conversation one day, to break up and work on themselves a little bit. They're still best friends. They don't talk to each other as much and have less alone time, and they also decide to stop living with each other. Just... separation.
Two years later, they're both nineteen and thinking that they should let them be a thing again. They're still in love as ever, just significantly less codependent and less violent.
Then Rachel comes into the picture.
On account of wanting to live a little, Apollo and her decide to try to find a replacement. And Rachel visits Annabeth and Percy at that point, and they're talking again, and it's all good. Annabeth and Percy are back together.
A year later, three years after the mutual breakup, Rachel finds the next oracle.
It's amazing for her. She's free. She, Percy, Annabeth, and Grover - the four of them, just being happy, go out for drinks. And Grover, being Grover, notices that he's a fourth wheel. Like a fourth wheel on a tricycle.
Grover knows that the other three don't realize it, but the change becomes more obvious the longer Grover looks.
Rachel, Annabeth, and Percy have movie nights and Rachel's cuddled between Annabeth and Percy? Well, it's just comfortable.
Rachel, Annabeth, and Percy go to the New Years party at camp together? Oh, it's because Annabeth and Percy didn't want Rachel to feel alone.
Soon enough, their other friends start to notice it too. Annabeth and Percy call Rachel things like "love", "dear", and "darling", nicknames that used to be exclusive to them.
So, that's how, two years later, the first development happens.
One day, Grover comes to Rachel, Annabeth, and Percy's shared apartment, and Rachel isn't there.
Annabeth and Percy are still completely oblivious, but Grover talks about it with them.
Then they decide to attempt seduction.
Spoiler alert, it doesn't work.
Rachel's been torturing herself by pining for two halves of a happy couple, and it's slowly eating her up inside.
Then one day, they go to a bar or something. And when they head home, they just stumble into bed together, and immediately fall asleep.
Rachel wakes up with Percy hugging her side and Annabeth curled next to her, and panics. Percy doesn't let go, and Annabeth just snuggles closer, so Rachel leaves it and falls asleep again.
Next time she wakes up, she's alone in bed. She fell asleep between a heads-over-heels couple, and she's screwed.
But then Percy and Annabeth talk to her.
And there's crying.
But five years later, Annabeth and Percy are standing at the altar, watching Rachel walk up to them, and it's perfect.
Grover is Percy's best man. Thalia's Annabeth's maid of honour, and surprisingly, Drew is Rachel's maid of honour (because Rachel and Drew are besties in my mind).
And it's beautiful.
And all three of them look back and think yeah, this is what I want.
I might actually turn this into a multi-chaptered fic, starting from Annabeth and Percy talking and deciding to get together again.
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So I am thinking so much about the last Olympian. Specifically Annabeth taking a knife for Percy. That scene is arguably why I go soft for “Touch her and you die” men in fiction but like from Annabeths point of view it’s so much better (?)
Like Percy is invulnerable except for one weak point he can never tell anyone about. And Annabeth is fighting next to him and she’s not supposed to worry about him because he’s untouchable. But she is worried about him. And they’re working together like they’re made for this because they have 5 years of practice. And SOMEHOW she just knows. Something is wrong. He won’t survive this one. And despite all reason, wisdom and planning she jumps in front of a knife for him. No thinking, no planning, just instinct and knowing her seaweed brain.
Percy saving her will always live in my brain rent free but I sure am thinking a lot about why Annabeth needed saving in the first place and what it means for her.
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