Perianca Stories

Headwaters (Chapter 3)

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/12425945/3/Headwaters

From an objective point of view, their first date was a total disaster.

First, Percy and Bianca had taken a bus to the nearest movie theater, planning to watch Moana. The small bit of shelter provided at the stop was full, so they'd been stuck standing in the sleet without an umbrella for almost twenty minutes when they expected to wait five.

Once on the bus, they'd been forced to stand, as all the seating was taken. Percy'd ended up supporting Bianca, who's leg was acting up from the cold and who's cane broke the other day fighting off a hellhound.

At the theater, they'd just barely managed to get the last two tickets for Moana and missed the first five minutes. A kid kept kicking the back of their seats.

While heading back, Bianca managed to get a seat, but was yelled at by some rando for taking seating away from 'people who needed it'. Percy very narrowly avoided getting into a fight, and they'd braved the sharp wind to stumble into his mom's apartment. Since Sally and Paul were on a date themselves, they'd ordered pizza, which ended up 45 minutes late.

From an objective point of view, their first date was a total disaster.

Key word: objective.

Rewind.

"Oh man," Bianca moaned as she spotted the crammed-to-the-brim bus stop. "We're going be stuck out in the sleet, aren't we?"

Percy laughed, then choked as frozen rain flew into his mouth. Bianca giggled at the slightly stunned look on his face. Coughing, Percy grinned and gently spun Bianca. "We won't get wet," he promised, taking her hand. Immediately, the water sloughed off of both of them and Bianca manipulated the Mist to make it look like they were as soaked as the rest of the disgruntled populace.

"What a good umbrella," Bianca teased, leaning against him slightly.

"Is that why you keep me around?" Percy asked, raising one dark eyebrow.

"Among other things," Bianca said, bumping into him. Percy rolled his eyes.

Exchanging jokes, teasing each other, and talking about the movie- Percy didn't think twenty minutes had ever passed so quickly.

The bus was crammed and there was no seating. At first, Percy'd been annoyed, but then Bianca started talking about her life before the Lotus Casino and leaned against them. Percy grabbed onto one of the loops hanging from the ceiling and wrapped another arm around Bianca's waist as she grabbed his arm and they'd swayed with the bus. She'd laughed at him when he nearly fell over when the bus took a turn a little too sharp and it took every inch of his will power not to kiss her right then.

They'd stumbled off the bus, cheeks red and eyes bright with laughter. Though they'd been friends for years and though they'd been together for- jeez, almost a month already- it felt simultaneously like they were meeting each other for the first time and like they'd been together for years.

When they were told they got the last tickets for Moana and they realized the movie had already started, Percy scooped Bianca up and they ran for the theater, Bianca laughing into his chest as Percy's face burnt with mixed embarrassment and joy.

Collapsing in the back row, Bianca's hand sought out Percy's and their shoulders bumped against each other. When Bianca glanced at Percy through the baby Moana scene, his eyes were glistening and glued to the screen and she tightened her grip. They cried at Tala's death and Percy's hand tightened almost painfully around Bianca's when Tamatoa began throwing Maui around. Bianca's hand gripped Percy's right back when Maui failed to defeat Te Ka and as Moana walked to what seemed like her death.