Percabeth Dirty One Shots and Drabbles

Ice Ring 15

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: Win some, Lose someNotes:

Short chapter incoming...
This one is all about perceptions vs reception. It's also about pride, because well, we all know Annabeth's fatal flaw is all about that. I know it's going to make a lot of you unhappy. You are probably going to want to rip your hair out, but I personally feel like Annabeth wouldn't let something as big as a rejection pass so easily. She is a tough cookie, to get to her, you need a whole lot of strength and patience is key!

Like I said before, this story is more "dialogue" oriented than descriptive. I don't enjoy writing descriptions of places or people and prefer giving you lots of room for imagination. If you have any suggestions, I am open to change parts of the narration. I am adamant on not writing Percy's POV, I think it's going to be too distracting.

(See the end of the chapter for .)

Chapter Text

On Monday morning, Annabeth was welcomed by her car by Thalia's red cheeks and exhausted smile. "I need to talk to you." Her friend shushed out of breath. "It's my fault." With a hand on her hips and clearly no cardio training, Thalia was a strange sight this morning. Her eyes were guilty of something.

"What are you talking about?" Annabeth asked clenching her teeth. Hopefully the girl was talking about a grade or a scratch on her car and not the one thing Annabeth couldn't hear.

"I fucked up Beth." Thalia continued "I told him what you said at the game." The blonde's mind tried to recover the conversation they had had. "I realize now that it completely backfired." What was the raven head talking about exactly? The number of times they had sex? The acceptation they had something going on? No. Annabeth's eyes grew wide. The improbability of lasting longer than few months.

"You told him I thought it wasn't going to last?" Annabeth looked at her two headed friend. Thalia and Percy had grown close in three years, they hung out a lot together, to a fault. Had her friend picked a side already? Had Thalia really spilled a conversation between girls that wasn't supposed to be taken seriously?

"He asked me to check!" She pleaded "You know−Percy wanted to make sure you guys were on the same page" Her hands were moving in all direction "And gods know you never talk about your feelings." Thalia's overplaying was making the blonde all sorts of nervous.

"What else did you tell him?" Annabeth asked disappointed at her friend's lack of understanding. Another reason not to share anything ever again.

"I was trying to help you guys understand each other." Thalia diverted the question. Clearly the raven head had divulged much more. She didn't need to hear the full extent of it. There wasn't time to waste. School was going to start soon.

"By mingling in my relationship with him?" Annabeth continued walking inside the school with Thalia on her tracks. They had to keep their volume down, so students wouldn't pry.

"By giving him the answers, you weren't providing." Thalia wasn't helping her case. If anything, she was worsening it. Annabeth felt anger rising in her belly for her friend's lack of judgement. "I was trying to help you; I swear." It still wasn't a good enough reason to share her words to him, especially when Annabeth hadn't told the full truth that day. "Do you have feelings for him?"

Feeling her heart emptied out from his departure, and her crushed body all from his rejection, Annabeth replied: "I do". Relief washed on Thalia's features.

"Why didn't you say so?" Her friend spawned.

"I don't have to justify anything to anyone" Annabeth's brows furrowed "I don't. My life isn't just a display for everyone to look at." She was getting furious from the lack of trust and utter disrespect at her boundaries. "It's private. I am not a buffet." Annabeth finished arriving at her lockers.