Percy and Annabeth are sitting in a pretty overcrowded coffee shop just off the campus of MIT. They are talking about classes, their jobs, both the camps and just random things. They had thought about going to school in New Rome but had decided to give MIT a try, so far it was going well.
"Are we going back to camp this weekend?" Percy asks.
"Yeah," Annabeth says. "I thought we could visit your mom too."
Percy smiles, "that would be great."
"Excuse me," someone says. "Can I sit here?" Percy looks over to see a boy about his age with brown hair pointing to the chair across from him. "Everywhere else is full and my next class starts in ten minutes, but my professor doesn't let us have food or drinks."
"Of course," Percy says. "I'm Percy and this is my girlfriend, Annabeth."
The boy smiles, "hi, I'm Peter." He sits down.
"Something's off about him," Annabeth says under her breath, in Greek.
"Like he's a monster?" Percy asks, also in Greek.
Annabeth shakes her head in response before turning to Peter, "so, Peter, tell us about yourself."
"Well," Peter says. "I'm twenty and I'm studying to be a mechanical engineer. I'm from Queens."
"No way," Percy says. "I'm from Manhattan."
"Awesome!" Peter says. "I was over there a lot, I had an internship with SI."
"Wow," Percy says. "that's cool. Did you ever get to meet Tony Stark?"
"Yeah," Peter tells him. "a few times, he likes to help with projects and stuff. He's pretty cool."
"Annabeth was pretty interested in some of his work a few years ago."
"Yeah," Peter says. "He does some pretty cool stuff. Hey, I'm going there this weekend to finish some work, maybe you guys could come with me and see SI."
"That would be awesome!" Percy says. "We were just talking about heading back to New York to see my mom and hang out with some friends. You should come to hang with us. We have this one friend, Leo, he's super into building stuff too. You two will get along great." He looks at Annabeth who hasn't said anything in a while, "Right Annabeth?"
She just looks at Peter, "you should know I hate spiders."
"What?" Percy and Peter ask at the same time.
Annabeth rolls her eyes, "I've had this feeling about you since you sat down. There you started talking about how you live in Queens and how you have an internship at SI when everyone knows that they only take college interns and you were talking about being there in high school. I know some people with real internships there Tony Stark never goes to talk to interns. Plus, everyone knows that he made Spider-Man's suit. Also you're a really bad liar, the second I said spider you looked at your backpack, where your suit is I'm guessing, and you checked your wrists, probably to make sure you have your web-shooters or whatever they're called."
Peter nods, "you are only the second person to figure it out in years."
Percy smiles, "she's really smart."
Peter nods, "are you going to tell everyone?"
Annabeth and Percy shake their heads. "Of course not," Percy says. "You still want to hang out this weekend?" They give each other their phone numbers and make plans for the weekend before they go their own way.
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I hope you liked it! Thanks for reading! I realized I didn't post today, so I wrote this in like ten minutes. Let me know if you see any mistakes.
