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oooOOOooo

10 years later...

"Remind me again why we decided it would be a good idea to have a slumber party with, like, five hyperactive girls?"

Annabeth laughed at her husband's words as she poured more chips into a bowl and handed it to him, even as she hoisted their 11 month old son Michael on her hip. "Because it's Zoe's birthday?"

She looked up and stifled another laugh at the pink feathered tiara that was crookedly perched on his head. "Aww, Seaweed Brain, you're as pretty as our daughter."

Percy rolled his eyes, taking the bowl of chips from her. "I can't wait until Michael gets older," he said. "Then it'll be things like paintball and laser tag. Manly stuff."

"But the pink glitter all over your shirt," Annabeth said seriously. "Is very manly."

Percy stuck his tongue out at her as he left the kitchen, moving towards the living room where a space on the floor had been cleared. The young girls all sat in various positions in a line, staring at the TV enraptured.

"How's everyone doing?" Percy asked them all.

"Be quiet, Daddy." Zoe said. "Belle is just about to kiss the Beast!"

Percy turned his head and raised his eyebrows at his wife in surprise. 'Sassy,' he mouthed to her.

'Gets it from you,' Annabeth mouthed back with a fond smile before taking a paper towel and wiping down the counter where there'd been a punch spill earlier, listening as Percy replied to his daughter.

"I'm sorry," he whispered to the girls. "Mind if I sit and watch?"

Zoe shook her head and Percy placed the chip bowl in front of the girls before moving back to take a place on the couch.

Well, Annabeth shook her head, there would be none of that. She cleared her throat. "Percy? Can you come here for a moment?"

He got up with a sigh. "But Annabeth," he said seriously, "Belle was just about to-" He stopped himself when he saw her face.

"Percy," she started. "I don't complain much because you don't give me much reason to. You have given me a beautiful life with beautiful children and I am hopelessly in love with you. But," she pointed a random wooden spoon at him threateningly as she balanced Michael on her hip. The baby gurgled happily. "Don't you dare think for one minute that I will let you go and sit and watch Disney movies while you leave me to take care of our boy and clean up."

Percy's mouth twitched.

"You better not be laughing at me," Annabeth threatened. "If you are, so help me-"

"I'm not." Percy moved the spoon down to the counter and took Michael from her. "Really. But you look," he glanced towards the girls in the living room before lowering his mouth to her ear to be quieter, "amazingly sexy in that apron."

Annabeth pushed back a curl that had escaped her ponytail, smudging cake mixture on her face as she did. She would never tell him how pleased every little compliment he gave her made her feel.

"Well," she said meeting his eye steadily. "Like I said before, those pink sparkles make you look amazingly handsome."

Percy leaned in and was just about to kiss her but they jumped apart at the sound of a car horn, honking long and loud outside on the street.

"You'd think we'd be used to it by now," Annabeth laughed, wiping the counter once more to get red of the sticky juice. "Living in New York for nine years."

Percy shook his head and looked down at Michael. "The kids are. Look at this guy, he didn't even blink."

Zoe's five year old voice reached them. "Daddy, come on! We want you to watch the movie!"

Percy met Annabeth's eyes. "I'll take Michael." He said. "Am I excused?"

She smiled. "Of course you are."

He kissed her, causing a chorus of 'eww' to come from the girls, and then turned to flop back down on the couch with his son.

Annabeth watched her family and she smiled, rubbing her stomach. She'd only found out about her most recent pregnancy yesterday, and hadn't told Percy yet. She was excited, the thought of having a new baby girl like Zoe with Percy's looks, or boy like Michael with her features but Percy's hair, made her smile.

If it was a girl... she wanted to ask Nico if he'd be okay with them naming her Bianca. If it was a boy, she wasn't sure what they could name it.

Annabeth started putting pitchers of drinks and bags of snacks back in their places. Percy would be thrilled, she knew he would. But she hadn't found the right time to tell him, as he was busy with Zoe's party- he had planned it all himself, a welcome surprise for Annabeth- and work as a marine biologist on top of that. Plus she'd been busy with her building designs and decorating plans for their apartment.

Average, every day, couple stuff.

Annabeth treasured every moment.

oooOOOooo

"Daddy?"

Zoe's voice was small and almost-tired-but-not-quite as she peeked out from under the purple blanket over her small frame. Percy looked back at her, surrounded by three other girls her age, from where he stood at her doorway, hand on the light switch.

"What is it?"

"Tell me a story?"

Percy hesitated when all of the girls looked at him beseechingly. "It's bedtime..."

"Please?" Katie and Travis's young daughter Sadie asked him.

Percy looked at Jason and Piper's blonde haired girl, Ashley, who nodded. And Grover and Juniper's child, Monica, with her red hair and blue eyes.

"Alright," he moved over to sit on Zoe's bed beside where they all lay on blow up air mattress's and sleeping bags. "What type of story?"

"The story of you and mommy," Zoe said.

Memories of glances in a hallway, looks, words and touches exchanged during tutoring sessions and kisses at Montauk flashed through his mind. Their wedding day on the beach, her first building design that was approved of, Zoe being born...

The story of Percy and Annabeth was much too deep and intense for his daughter to understand right now. But she'd been curious since last year and Percy had never been one to deny his children.

"We met at school."

"In New York?" Monica asked curiously.

"No, the school where we lived at the time, where your parents were raised. In Rivers."

"Half-Blood High!" Ashley piped up. "My parents fell in love there."

Jason and Piper, Percy shook his head ruefully. "Annabeth and I did too." He confessed quietly. "I didn't like the place much until I figured out it was the only reason I could see her so much."

Sadie sighed. "My parents started dating the year before they came here," she told him. "Is that what you and Annabeth did too?"

He nodded. "Exactly."

"So?" Zoe prompted him, a knowing look in the young girls eyes. "Tell us the rest!"

Percy smiled. "I wasn't very smart." He told them all. "But your mother," he spoke to Zoe, his eyes far away. "Your mother was the smartest in our class. And she was very, very beautiful."

"She agreed to help me with my classes, to try and make me smarter. I don't know why, but I'm glad she did." He leaned forward conspiratorially. "I don't think she liked me much in the beginning." He whispered loudly, causing all of the girls to giggle.

"Now that's not true."

Annabeth's voice made Percy jump and he looked to see her leaning against the door frame, having just put Michael down to sleep.

She walked in. "He was silly," she told the girls. "But funny. And handsome." She sat beside him. "I liked him from the start," she admitted. "But I couldn't tell him that."

"Why?" Monica asked.

"I was nervous," Annabeth looked at Percy. "And... things were complicated. Zoe's Uncle Luke didn't like him much."

No need to trouble Zoe with the knowledge that her mom and Luke had dated once, both Annabeth and Percy agreed on that.

Ashley gasped. "Uncle Luke? But you guys like each other now!"

Percy nodded when Monica asked, "Who's Uncle Luke?"

"He lives in Rivers," Zoe said proudly. "With Aunt Thalia and Grandma and Grandpa Chase."

"I thought your grandparents lived in New York?" Sadie asked her.

"That's Grandma and Grandpa Jackson, silly!" Zoe squealed. "My other grandparents live in Rivers."

Annabeth glanced over at Percy. "So... eventually we started dating."

Percy grimaced. "And then I had an accident."

Monica and Sadie gasped while Ashley leaned forward. "What kind of accident?"

"He got in a car crash!" Zoe piped up, watching her parents for any sign, in case she got a detail wrong. When they did nothing but watch her she continued, quoting them from the many nights they'd told her this story. "And Daddy went into a long sleep and wouldn't wake up."

"Like Snow White!" Monica said, causing Percy to look mildly affronted.

"Snow White?" He muttered to her.

Annabeth smiled at him teasingly. "That makes me your Prince Charming."

"Oh, oh!" Sadie jumped excitedly. "Did you wake up him with a kiss?" She asked Annabeth eagerly.

Annabeth smiled at Travis and Katie's daughter, but her eyes had a faraway look in them. "No," she said, causing the girls to look crestfallen. "But I was very, very worried about him."

"She was at the hospital every day." Percy said, linking his fingers together with his wife, gazing at her with a loving smile on his lips. "The only one who visited me more was my mother."

"How did you wake up?" Ashley asked him.

Percy hesitated. "Well... it's like waking up any normal morning." He explained. "I heard voices, and people around me. But Uncle Luke came in to talk to me one day and I guess I must have been feeling more awake that day than others, because I managed to open my eyes."

"So it wasn't Annabeth?" Ashley asked him in disappointment.

"Of course it was," Percy said. "But it wasn't just her. It was my mom, my family, your parents, and even Luke. I couldn't just leave them all alone in the world without me."

"He made it back to me," Annabeth said.

Percy looked at her. "I promised you," he said. "We're together in this."

"After that there was no way I was letting you get away from me. Never again." Annabeth said.

"The next year we graduated from Half-Blood High and came here for college. Annabeth studied architectural design and I jumped around classes until I settled on marine biology. We got married when we were... what, 23?"

"You don't even know how old we were?"

"23," Percy repeated to the younger girls. "We bought this apartment and Zoe was born. The end."

Zoe pouted. "When you told it to me last night it was more interesting."

Annabeth bit her lip. Last night when she'd told it she had mentioned Rachel for the first time and may have portrayed her as a red haired, green eyed ugly demon determined to keep Percy and her apart forever.

"You can tell your friends all of the details we missed tomorrow," she said, standing up and moving to the door. "Now it's time for you all to get to sleep."

"And no talking!" Percy chimed in.

"Okay." Zoe and her friends all made their way back to their blankets and wriggled underneath. "Goodnight Mommy, goodnight Daddy."

"Goodnight!" Zoe's friends all chorused.

"Goodnight." Annabeth smiled.

"Happy Birthday Baby Girl." Percy said, his hand moving to the light switch. "Everybody ready?"

The girls all nodded and Percy turned the light off, leaving only a Sleeping Beauty nightlight to make the room slightly visible as he closed the door quietly behind him.

They didn't get three steps away from the room when a burst of giggles sounded from under the door.

Annabeth laughed as Percy slung an arm over her shoulder. "That was faster than I thought. I thought they'd at least wait until our bedroom door shut."

Percy sighed. "Poor kid must have ended up with my brains."

Annabeth shook her head in mock disappointment. "I guess we'll have to sell her to an orphanage and wait until Michael grows up. See how he turns out."

"And if he has my smarts too?"

"Well that's just not good enough for this family." Annabeth turned her nose up as they marched into their room, turning to him with a smile as they moved to the bathroom to brush their teeth. "He'll have to go too. Then all we'll have is the one in here," she tapped her stomach lightly, making sure Percy saw her as she did. "Let's hope that they choose better."

All traces of joke and teasing drained from Percy's face at her words and gestures. He grabbed her wrists gently, holding them above her stomach as his eyes latched onto her abdomen. "What?" He asked her in a quiet voice.

Annabeth's smile softened. "I'm pregnant, Seaweed Brain."

Percy's eyes rose to meet hers slowly. "When did you find out?"

She shrugged. "Yesterday."

He let her go only to wrap his arms around her and pull her flush against him, a huge smile breaking out on his face. "And you never told me?" He asked her, pretending to be hurt and angry.

She smiled. "Sorry."

He shook his head, turning serious, and pulled her in for a long, slow kiss. When he pulled away he rest his forehead against hers, staring down at her flat stomach. "It'll be a girl." He proclaimed.

Annabeth smiled. This was a game they had played twice before, and somehow Percy had ended up being right both times. "If you say so."

"What, you're not challenging me this time?" He asked her. "Usually we go back and forth on this for months.

Annabeth just shrugged again. "You've been right both times and I've been wrong." She frowned. "And no, I'm never going to repeat those words." Percy laughed lowly. "Anyway, I've learned not to bet against you when it comes to our family."

He tightened his grip on her slightly. "What was your first name choice?"

There's a moment, the moment when a woman finds out she's pregnant, where she first wonders what to name her child. Even if she hates the name, there's always the first name that pops into her head when she imagines what she could name the baby. Whether you name the baby this name or not is optional, of course, but Annabeth always has random names that she ponders first, even before telling Percy.

"Well... I don't know what we could name him if it's a boy." She said slowly. "But if she's a girl... I was thinking, with Nico's permission, maybe she could be named Bianca."

She raised her eyes to meet his. "Would you- would you want that?"

Percy looked at her steadily, wonder in his eyes that dimmed only when he nodded. "I think that would be perfect."

oooOOOooo

Just over eight months later Annabeth and Percy Jackson came home with Bianca Jackson cradled firmly in Annabeth's arms.

Her eyes were piercing grey, like her mothers, but even now she looked remarkably like Percy.

Piper and Jason, who were taking care of the children, congratulated them. Zoe came running out and asked to hold her, having had practice with Michael. Michael toddled over, still not quite steady on his feet, and looked at the new addition to their family curiously.

"Her name is Bianca," Annabeth told him. "She's your new baby sister."

Michael smiled. "Banka," he said to the baby. "Hello, Banka."

Zoe laughed at him and said, "No, Michael, Bee-an-kah." She sounded out the name slowly. "Like our cousin who's up in Heaven."

Jason looked over at Percy. "Nico was alright with that?"

Percy nodded. "Nico thought it was a great idea."

Piper hugged Annabeth once more. "She's gorgeous," the girl said sincerely before turning to Jason. "We should have another baby."

Jason looked at Percy who only grinned. "Umm, Pipes-"

"Ashley and Samantha have been wanting a new sibling after all," Piper pressed on as her children came storming from somewhere else in the apartment to see the newcomer. "Maybe it would get them to stop fighting all the time."

Jason sighed at his wife. "Let's think about it."

Piper joined Annabeth where she was sitting on the floor and gladly opened her arms when Michael crawled over to sit on her lap, Samantha already tucked under her arm. "Look at these guys," she said. "How could you not want more of them?"

"They are beautiful if I do say so my self." Annabeth said with a smile, watching as Zoe carefully rocked Bianca back and forth, Ashley standing close by with her pinky caught in the baby girls loose grip.

She glanced over to see her husband watching her. "Beautiful," Percy agreed, his eyes never wavering from her face.

Yes, Annabeth thought looking back at him. This family was beautiful, and more than she'd ever deserved.

And she was happy.

The End