Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians, or the cover image.

"Is it true that you two fell in love when you first looked at each other?"

Percy nearly choked on his orange juice.

"What?!"

"Well, there are some, or rather, a lot, of rumours about how you guys started dating, and well, I thought about getting the story firsthand."

They were having their Argo II reunion party, when Leo had decided to spring this rather embarrassing question on Percy and Annabeth. Why was this becoming more often than healthy?

"Um... to be honest, we tried to kill each other first."

"Really? I think I heard Grover telling me that version, but I didn't take him very seriously."

Jason and Grover had been working together a lot lately, researching and making sure that no god or goddess got left behind in all that shrine building. Hey, it would be rather irritating if a god showed up all angry at not being included. Hey, they did not need the Sleeping Beauty actually taking place at camp. That would be a waste of everyone's time.

Plus they'd had enough curses for a lifetime.

"Well, I didn't know that you guys had been discussing our love life during your breaks."

Jason grinned cheekily at Annabeth. Oh, he was so not the Roman he used to be.

"So what did you think about Annabeth when you first saw her?," Piper asked, curious now that the topic had been touched. Hey, whatever they thought, at the end of the day, Piper was a daughter of Aphrodite.

"I'm sure there are better things we could talk about."

"Oh, c'mon, Annabeth," Hazel said, nudging her slightly. Sneaky little bastards.

"Well, I kinda thought she looked like Cinderella," said Percy.

"The one who has cinder on her face, or the one in the blue dress?"

Percy smacked Frank on the arm as everyone else laughed. Oohh... he was going to kill them all.

"Shut up. I thought she looked like a princess because of her blonde curls, y'know?"

"You thought I looked like a princess?"

"Hey, I was barely conscious. If I had been fully awake, I would've thought you looked more like a queen."

"Really?"

"Yeah, y'know like those scary, stern, tyrant type ones who roam around sentencing people to death? Like Reyna."

Annabeth lightly slapped him across his arm while everyone burst into fits of laughter. Again.

"So you hated each other? I mean, yeah, you guys do start fighting over the most ridiculous things occasionally, but it's hard to imagine you hating each other." Hazel replied.

"I didn't hate her, she hated me. All because I was a son of Poseidon."

"I did not hate you only because you were a son of Poseidon. I hated you because you were an oblivious, irritating son of Poseidon."

"You seemed to find me okay before I was claimed."

Everyone had enough experience with both of their bickering to know that if somebody didn't intervene now, this would grow into a full on argument. They had to change the subject, now.

"So... what was the first thing you heard Annabeth say, Percy?"

"What? Oh, uh... 'he's the one, he must be.'

It took Percy a while to understand why everyone, except Annabeth (who was as red as a tomato) was laughing so hard.

"So it was love at first sight!"

Annabeth threw her fork at Jason as she blushed again. Percy tried to correct himself-

"It was not! She only meant... about the prophecy... the quest and the child of the Big Three... oh, just shut up."

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