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Truth or Dare

A/N- So I'm doing the "Cliche's Quest" where I make my version of the cliche fan fics out there. With this chapter, I added in a common cliche... Truth or Dare. Enjoy!

***Side note, ALL of my fan fiction was written before the books were finished, and Nico became canonically gay, so I promise it used to be canon back in my day. 

Annabeth POV

Construction of Olympus was going well. There were only a few mistakes that had happened and they could easily be fixed within the week. The only downside was that as my mother led me around the city, many of the gods decided to drop in and give me new "ideas". That meant that I had a lot of work to do for the next few weeks.

On our way back to the throne room, mom kept dropping hints about Percy.

"Does Perseus have a job?"

"How are his current grades?"

"Has Mr. Jackson looked into colleges yet?"

"Have you met that lovely young man in the Apollo cabin yet?"

"Mother," I finally interrupted her when she started to talk about his future career at the movie theater, "If you have something you wish to say about Percy, I'd appreciate it if you told me outright." It was tough to keep my tone level. Athena huffed.

"Annabeth, I do not approve of you and Mr. Jackson's relationship." She said. Well I knew that!

"His name is Percy." I said, "And whether you approve of it or not does not play a factor in my decision to date him." I said firmly.

"He is an uneducated imbecile!"

"He loves me, and the feeling is mutual. Are your feelings for Lord Poseidon clouding your ability to see people clearly for who they are?" Her nostrils flared in anger.

"You are in no position to judge me in such a way, Annabeth." Her voice was deadly calm and cold. Fear was making goose bumps come up on my arms, but I held my ground.

"Percy has yet to do something wrong. As a matter of fact he has been nothing but good to me as well as all of you here on Olympus."

"Did he ever tell you about Rachel?" Athena asked.

"If you're talking about the time she kissed him, then yes he did." I said confidently. When he'd first told me about that, I wasn't mad. It was right after we'd first started dating, so I was in such a state of bliss and disbelief that I had only said, "You picked me in the end," and that was that. Maybe he wasn't so stupid after all. If he'd told me about that at any other time, he would have been a dead man.

Athena looked mad.

"Mother," I said gently, "There's nothing you can say that will change my mind. Now, thank you for the progress report, I will be back in a week or so to check up again." I said, and brushed past her to walk into the throne room, "Percy?" I called. His sneakers slapped against the marble as he jogged into the room with that goofy grin on his face that made my heart thump a mile a minute.

"Aw, listen to that heartbeat!" Aphrodite hadn't moved from her throne apparently. The Bachelor was playing on a small television set connected to the armrest, but her eyes were trained on the two of us, "Oh, am I glad I paired the two of you up! Not only will your kids be absolutely beautiful, they'll be brilliant and powerful as well!" If she thought my heartbeat was fast then, she should hear it now. The blush rushed up to my cheeks, and I didn't dare look at Percy.

"We must be going, good afternoon Lady Aphrodite." I muttered, and grabbed Percy's hand, pulling him out of there.

"I'd better get an invite to the wedding!" She yelled after us.