Plotting Point

Chapter Two

Annabeth sat down in the proffered chair, in front of the desk, where the one and only Pepper Potts was sitting behind. She was feeling incredibly overwhelmed, but she stayed calm. That was her speciality in battle after all.

"You are... Annabeth Chase, yes?" the woman asks, reading from a stack of papers.

"Uhh, oh, yes. That's me." Annabeth grins nervously and fidgets in her seat. Dam ADHD.

"So, where did you hear about this internship?" She asks, looking over a pair of eyeglasses at Annabeth.

"Um, I was looking for a summer internship, and my friend Piper found a leaflet for it, so I applied," Annabeth says, looking out of the floor-length window at the NYC skyline.

"What school do you attend? Midtown?"

"Oh, No." Finally, an easy question to answer. "I actually live in San Francisco, but I'm staying here for the summer."

"Alright, why do you want this internship?"

"I want to further my experience in this field, and do something that I am interested in."

"When you say further your experience, have you done anything like this before?"

"Not really, but I often help out at an architecture firm back home." That was... closeish to the truth anyhow. Well, She wasn't exactly going to say she's redesigned Olympus, was she?

"Okay... If you'd just write the name of your school here..." Annabeth dutifully scribbled her school name down. At least she was pretty sure it was her school name. It definitely wasn't in Ancient Greek, at least. Di immortales, that would not be good.

"Right, I'll see about getting your records sent over then, Miss Chase."

Immediately Annabeth stopped in her tracks and started running through things in her head. Unlike Percy, she didn't have the unfortunate habit of blowing up her school, but as a demigod, you could never be too careful.

"Anything wrong, Miss Chase?"

"Uhm, no, all fine, thank you, Ms Potts." Annabeth smiled and raced out as politely as possible.

"So, how'd it go?" Piper bounced excitedly on the couch when Annabeth walked back into their shared flat.

"I think it went alright... it felt a little awkward, but I'm feeling pretty good." Annabeth shrugged off a cream blazer and slipped out of her pumps.

"The whole school thing was a little awkward... I was a year-round camper for a while, but my grades from the last few years are decent, considering the whole 'war' thing." She sighed, and Piper waved a phone.

"Let's just order Pizza in. You can invite Percy, Jason can come round, we can watch a movie or something. Or like, one of those true-crime documentaries you love?"

Annabeth brightened significantly. "Really?"

In the morning, a sleepy Annabeth trudged into the kitchen, downing a mug of coffee before switching her eyes to the sparse looking refrigerator. "Vlacas! No milk." Annabeth groaned, switching slippers for fluffy boots.

"Piper! I'm gonna get some milk, kay?"

A sleepy moan came from the direction of Piper's room, which Annabeth took to mean that that was fine by her.

Annabeth stood in the small mini-mart just around the corner from their small apartment in Queens, waiting for a kid, maybe a year or so younger than her, to finish looking for whatever it was he was looking for. "Uh, Kid? Can I just..." Annabeth trailed off, as the boy jumped around, and started apologising profusely.

"No, It's fine, Kid. I just wanted to grab some milk." She smiled awkwardly, and grabbed a carton, reaching for a box of eggs as she did so.

After a lazy day wandering around NYC, and going on an Aphrodite-mandated shopping trip (Piper's mom is pretty scary), Piper and Annabeth were slumped on their sofa, surrounded by bags (like really scary) with cartons of ice cream and berries. Piper had even managed to find the Delphi Strawberry Service ones, which Annabeth found hilarious. They were amazing strawberries though.

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(A/N The kid Annabeth met in the shop was Peter Parker. Don't worry, he will be making more appearances in the future. It was a pretty short chapter today, make sure to comment if you have any ideas of characters to make a cameo!)