My One &Only (Percabeth AU) √

/~36~/- New Year

Annabeth POV

It's New Years Eve and me and Percy decided to spend it alone. We wait for midnight in his little apartment, reclined on his leather recliner and we where just cuddling. 

"I could stay like this forever." I whispered in his ear, one hand fingering with my necklace and the other on his chest. 

He kissed the top of my forehead and whispered. "Me too." He said I looked up into his big green eyes, and his messy black hair. 

We watched the crowd rush to Times Square the snowy night clogging the air and making it cold. But we where warm here, brushed up against each other. We've only been dating four weeks and haven't yet gotten to THAT part. 

We've decided to take it...slow. We haven't had a good relationship in a long time and....well we don't want to break it with that. 

Only four weeks I've been dating him. Well almost five. But I think I'm in love. My heart goes crazy when I'm around him. I just want to kiss him and hug him at the same time. But also I don't want to break things between us. 

I move the side of my head up so our heads are pressed together, his fresh minty breath up against my skin, it feels like goosebumps. 

"What is the gang doing?" I decide to ask. I hear him smile. Well it feel like it. 

"Leo and Jason and Piper are out at Times. Frank and Hazel are at a fancy dinner. Will and Nico are staying home like us. And Thalia is camping up north." 

I nodded my head. Good for everyone. 

I snuggled up more with him, one of his hands is on my head, brushing my curls and the other is on my back. I kiss his cheek, not wanting to leave this spot anytime. He blushes and leans down for my mouth, his lips pressed up against mine. 

His arms come to my hips, and they fit perfectly like they where me at to be there. Arms and hands encircling his neck he leans back and looks at me with more love than a I've ever seen. 

"I love you." He says whispering into my ear. Everything inside of me freezes up. I look at him for a fraction of a second. My heart has skipped a beat, several beats to be truthful. 

"I-I love you too," My voice is cracked and a smile comes to his face. Our mouths press back together and for a moment nothing else in this world matters. Nothing. Just me and him against the world. Me and Percy. 

His hands slip underneath my shirt, trailing up my spine. I shudder and shiver but I don't mind and keep kissing him, not caring for anything else. His mouth comes to my neck and I have to stop him just for a moment. 

Our foreheads press together and I get so close to his lips that if I puff them out  they will touch. "You sure, your...ready?" I ask. He looks at me, his sea eyes full of...desire. 

"Only if you are." He replies and that means everything right there and then. 

Our mouths come together and I think they might be glued there. Buttons and belts, everything unneeded land without a sound on the floor. But all I can register his him kissing me and me kissing back. 

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I wake up, traces of sunlight coming through his bedroom window. Percy is asleep, his chest coming up and down, softly. As the hardworking teenage superstar, all signs of weariness gone and he seems at peace. 

I roll out of bed and throw on a long sleeping shirt. Every cell on my body feels different, like I felt them through his hands. Even thinking about last night makes me blush. I fill a dusty glass with water and drink slowly. I hear footsteps come across the carpet and Percy is there, wearing a pair of sweatpants and his hair dishielved. 

He comes behind me and wraps his arms around my waist and kisses my neck, making me shiver and goosebumps come along my skin. 

"You are the most beautiful person on Earth." His voice is warm. I turn and look  up at him, my loving boyfriend, in which we love each other. Love. This isn't just a relationship that's dead end. 

This is real. 

I press my hands against his chest and lean up on my toes. He looks down. 

"Happy New Year." 

My surprise is masked. "Any resolutions?" I giggle and try to contain my excitement. 

"How about I love you and you love me?" He suggests and I take a liking to that. I could get use to loving him. Being there for him. Cheering on for him. Defending him, and being his girlfriend. 

"I could do with that." Leaning up to kiss him I faintly hear him say. 

"I'll do that forever." 

And somehow in a way it made all the difference in the world.