The Choosing (Percabeth AU)

10. Don't Mess With the Lemon Lady

"Pipes can you pass me the lemonade," Annabeth asked, digging into her pancakes. She loved lemonade, lemons, in general. She had read somewhere that lemons ward of spiders and since then, she had become the crazy lemon lady.

She took a huge sip of of the lemonade Piper passed her, exactly when the doors of the dining room flew open, startling Annabeth and almost causing her to almost choke on her drink.

"It's official!! The Water Gun Fight is on!!" whooped Leo, dashing to the breakfast table.

"I claim Annabeth," yelled Thalia from the other side of the table. Annabeth smirked , suddenly aware of all the eyes on her.

"Oh, you know you're gonna win Thals, now that wisdom's daughter walks with you."

She heard a loud scoff from Octavian and a laugh from Drew, who were sitting across the table.

Annabeth glared at them. "Problem?!" she asked.

"Oh please, your blonde and a girl, what could be more of a pathetic reason for your stupidity in thinking your gonna win," sneered the idiot.

"Oh darling please! Don't give her much credit! I'm sure her hairs dyed and she can't nearly be smart enough to understand what your saying," sang out Drew in a singsong voice.

What was with those two?!

Annabeth felt her knuckles whitening as she clenched them, her anger mirroring that of Thalia and Luke and of almost everyone at the table.

She looked around trying to calm herself before ripping their eyes out and felt a hand lightly patting her arm.

"Let them be," Piper muttered, looking at her with a reassuring smile. But it was clear that she was also upset with her step sister.

She felt my hands unclench and her eyes locked with a set of sea green ones, giving her an idea almost instantly. Weird.

"Oh Drew darling, may you please pass me two knives " Annabeth replied with a fake smile , mimicking Drew's earlier sing song voice . Drew Tanka discretely exchanged a glance with Octavian, passing Annabeth two metal knives with a sickly sweet smile plastered on her face.

With a smile, Annabeth took a knife in each hand and slowly rotated them while watching Drew's smirk fade.

She took aim and threw both the knifes at a perfect angle, aiming for the wooden wall situated behind Drew and Octavian, both of them flying at rapid speed and attaching themselves firmly onto the wall, right above Octavian and Drew's heads.

"Athena always has a plan. And I never lose, " she stated, walking out of the dining room, not turning back once. Annabeth heard a familiar dragging of chairs and smiled.

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"That was awesome Annie ! " Thalia whooped, barging into Annabeth's room, Piper, Hazel, Clarisse and Reyna following suit.

"You've got spunk, I'll give you that," Clarisse said as they all ended up sitting and spreading in her room like a virus.

Annabeth smiled, "You guys could've knocked you know. What If I was changing ?"

"It's not like you've got anything we don't," Piper smirked.

"Piper!" Hazel yelled and turned red as everyone burst out laughing.

"Wouldn't it have been cooler If we had a paintball gun fight instead of water gun ?" Reyna asked, lying down on Annabeth's bed.

"Well, Chiron wouldn't want us ruining our expensive gowns with paint and the boys are messy enough without paint involved. Two, this is a secret, isn't it? And we should be grateful that he's even giving us an opportunity to play like teenagers, does anyone else have this option at home?'' Annabeth answered.