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greenconversesTitle: Outside View
Characters/Pairings: Percy/Annabeth, with appearances by Jason and Nico.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Warnings: slight spoilers for the The Lost Hero preview and speculation.
Summary: It doesn't take Jason long to learn that in the case of Percy and Annabeth, love is competitive and stupid. Post-TLO.
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green_climber asked for Percy/Annabeth, captains of opposite Capture the Flag teams. And you bet your ass I used this as an opportunity to write fic for the new kids I know next to nothing about
Outside View
“Whoever elected you captain is an idiot,” Annabeth declares, glancing over her shoulder as she pulls her hair up into a ponytail. “Everyone knows you have the strategy skills of a brain dead Laistrygonian giant.”
“We’ll see if you’re saying that after my team kicks your team’s collective butt,” Percy replies, clasping the last buckle on his chest plate closed and straightening it out so it covered him better. “I seem to recall everything working out in my team’s favor last time.”
Annabeth’s cheeks flush this probably painful reminder and she snaps back, “You got lucky. I still have the better record than you, and the skills to back it up. And I haven’t gotten myself kidnapped by a love sick nymph in the last month either, have I now?”
“I told you that was an accident!”
“And I’m sure that’s what you’ll be telling your teammates tonight when you lose too.”
“Oh, you wish, Owl Face…”
“I thought they liked each other?” Jason asks, his brow scrunching as he watches Percy and Annabeth’s argument continue to escalate from his spot on porch of the Hades cabin.
The two of them have been firing off insults and baiting each other ever since breakfast this morning, and they don't sound like they're going to stop any time soon. They also aren't acting like a couple so desperately in love, they'd die for each other, as Jason has been told countless of times that they almost already have.
After all the trouble Jason went through to get this kid back, Annabeth sure wasn’t treating him like anything special. The daughter of Athena had made Jason's life at camp hell before he’d been sent on the quest to find Percy, and she had promised to make it even worse if he and the others didn’t bring him back in one piece.
Jason couldn’t see why she had been so concerned with Percy’s physical well-being, considering she looked ready to tear him into itty bitty pieces at the moment.
“Oh, they do,” Nico says reassuringly, propping his sunglasses up on his head. “But they’ve been made opposing captains in Capture the Flag today, and there's nothing they like more than beating the shit out of each other in a competition. They’ll be back to sucking face by the end of the night, don't worry.”
Jason watches as Annabeth sticks her leg out to trip Percy at the same time he tries shoves her away from him, and replies, "That's so stupid."
"Yup. That's love for ya."
Well then, Jason thinks. If love is supposed to be this crazy and confusing and, well, stupid, he doesn’t want any part of it.
At least, he amends quickly when Piper smiles at him as she walks by with a bunch of her siblings, not for a little while anyway.
Characters/Pairings: Percy/Annabeth, with appearances by Jason and Nico.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Warnings: slight spoilers for the The Lost Hero preview and speculation.
Summary: It doesn't take Jason long to learn that in the case of Percy and Annabeth, love is competitive and stupid. Post-TLO.
Notes:
green_climber asked for Percy/Annabeth, captains of opposite Capture the Flag teams. “Whoever elected you captain is an idiot,” Annabeth declares, glancing over her shoulder as she pulls her hair up into a ponytail. “Everyone knows you have the strategy skills of a brain dead Laistrygonian giant.”
“We’ll see if you’re saying that after my team kicks your team’s collective butt,” Percy replies, clasping the last buckle on his chest plate closed and straightening it out so it covered him better. “I seem to recall everything working out in my team’s favor last time.”
Annabeth’s cheeks flush this probably painful reminder and she snaps back, “You got lucky. I still have the better record than you, and the skills to back it up. And I haven’t gotten myself kidnapped by a love sick nymph in the last month either, have I now?”
“I told you that was an accident!”
“And I’m sure that’s what you’ll be telling your teammates tonight when you lose too.”
“Oh, you wish, Owl Face…”
“I thought they liked each other?” Jason asks, his brow scrunching as he watches Percy and Annabeth’s argument continue to escalate from his spot on porch of the Hades cabin.
The two of them have been firing off insults and baiting each other ever since breakfast this morning, and they don't sound like they're going to stop any time soon. They also aren't acting like a couple so desperately in love, they'd die for each other, as Jason has been told countless of times that they almost already have.
After all the trouble Jason went through to get this kid back, Annabeth sure wasn’t treating him like anything special. The daughter of Athena had made Jason's life at camp hell before he’d been sent on the quest to find Percy, and she had promised to make it even worse if he and the others didn’t bring him back in one piece.
Jason couldn’t see why she had been so concerned with Percy’s physical well-being, considering she looked ready to tear him into itty bitty pieces at the moment.
“Oh, they do,” Nico says reassuringly, propping his sunglasses up on his head. “But they’ve been made opposing captains in Capture the Flag today, and there's nothing they like more than beating the shit out of each other in a competition. They’ll be back to sucking face by the end of the night, don't worry.”
Jason watches as Annabeth sticks her leg out to trip Percy at the same time he tries shoves her away from him, and replies, "That's so stupid."
"Yup. That's love for ya."
Well then, Jason thinks. If love is supposed to be this crazy and confusing and, well, stupid, he doesn’t want any part of it.
At least, he amends quickly when Piper smiles at him as she walks by with a bunch of her siblings, not for a little while anyway.
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Date: 2010-07-09 02:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-09 02:41 am (UTC)Thanks for commenting!
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Date: 2010-07-09 02:22 am (UTC)It would probably be rather anti-climactic, but you have to admit that it would be hilarious if Riordan actually did something like that to Percy.
I love Nico's explanation of the Percy/Annabeth relationship. Typical Nico, and yet totally true as well.
It's okay if we know nothing about them, it's fun to speculate, and it helps pass the time until the book actually comes out.no subject
Date: 2010-07-09 02:39 am (UTC)Really, I was just lazy and couldn't think of a ~sinister enemy~ for them and Annabeth needed something to needle him aboutno subject
Date: 2010-07-09 02:31 am (UTC)Hilarious. I'd love to see how actual Capture the Flag went. (I'm putting money on Annabeth, I think. Although Percy will play dirty. Although Annabeth might play dirty if she suspected Percy was going to play dirty. It's a vicious cycle.)
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Date: 2010-07-09 02:36 am (UTC)because saving her boyfriend totes isn't enoughWhich Jason does happily because Nico is his new BFF in my happy head land.no subject
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Date: 2010-07-09 09:16 am (UTC)Why can't it just be October already?! My life would be SO much more simpler if it was! (Well actually, it's gotta be August before that, so we can get the last THG book!)
I read this fic and proceeded to LOL, it was too cute. Poor Jason's all confuzzled and like "wait whut now?"
And I totally love Nico and how he manages to sum up Percy's and Annabeth's relationship in so few words.
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Date: 2010-07-09 12:47 pm (UTC)Nico understands Jason's frustration, really. He didn't get it for a long time either.
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Date: 2010-07-09 01:32 pm (UTC)*grins* Nope, he didn't. Of course, after watching Annabeth and Percy be all hot and cold with each other when it comes time to play Capture the Flag and they're on opposite teams, he started to get it and go "ohh, okay. They still love each other, they're just riling each other up now." Though he'd probably do it with a roll of his eyes, LOL.
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Date: 2010-07-09 11:48 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-07-09 06:59 pm (UTC)And I may already be shipping Jason and Piper, so I am happy to see the small hint at the end there.no subject
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Date: 2010-10-26 01:42 am (UTC)Percy, man up!
XDD I love you writing! <3