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[Percy is firmly established in Annabeth's suite again. He's frowning absently at the screen, almost like he's totally forgotten what he was going to say. Instead of words, you get the steady pop pop pop of him messing around with a sheet of bubblewrap in front of him. From the right angle, he appears to be popping it in the shape of a sword. Or a stick. Or maybe just a line.
All of a sudden, his hands stop. He glances at the camera like he's just remembered that it's on, and opens his mouth. Shuts it. Open it again] Hey, I think...I'm seventeen now.
[There's a brief moment of silence before a wide grin breaks out across his face. He laughs, and there's a certain relief in the sound.] Not bad for someone who wasn't supposed to make it past sixteen, huh? Oh man, how did I miss this?
[He leans in towards the screen intently, a certain determination stealing his features. Percy's ADHD brain has caught onto an idea, and it is Extremely Important that it be addressed Right Now] Okay, I know that things are really tight and tense right now for everyone, but this is...well, it's important. Or at least, it'd mean a lot to me. Does anyone know where I could get my hands on some blue food dye? Or like, something that dyes...food...blue.
[That's the same thing, Percy.] I can pay. Or, I don't know, blast you with salt water. I guess no one really wants to swim in the canals right now. [Briefly his expression falls, reminded of what he sees as his failure in trying to save the Water Sector] But yeah, if anyone knows where I could get some, that'd be great.
All of a sudden, his hands stop. He glances at the camera like he's just remembered that it's on, and opens his mouth. Shuts it. Open it again] Hey, I think...I'm seventeen now.
[There's a brief moment of silence before a wide grin breaks out across his face. He laughs, and there's a certain relief in the sound.] Not bad for someone who wasn't supposed to make it past sixteen, huh? Oh man, how did I miss this?
[He leans in towards the screen intently, a certain determination stealing his features. Percy's ADHD brain has caught onto an idea, and it is Extremely Important that it be addressed Right Now] Okay, I know that things are really tight and tense right now for everyone, but this is...well, it's important. Or at least, it'd mean a lot to me. Does anyone know where I could get my hands on some blue food dye? Or like, something that dyes...food...blue.
[That's the same thing, Percy.] I can pay. Or, I don't know, blast you with salt water. I guess no one really wants to swim in the canals right now. [Briefly his expression falls, reminded of what he sees as his failure in trying to save the Water Sector] But yeah, if anyone knows where I could get some, that'd be great.
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We made it to seventeen. So now we make it to eighteen. [A pause, before she sort of keeps going unintentionally, giving his hands a squeeze.] Then nineteen, then twenty, twenty-five. Thirty.
[Suddenly she is just having feelings over wanting to reach these ages with Percy, okay!! But in a completely good way, because she even sounds a little hopeful. The birthday talk got her thinking, but it's only now that it kind of bubbles out after the teasing. She hates that adulthood is such a challenge, but even with Tartarus looming, she has to believe they can reach eighteen. For a start.]
[But it's also the implication of accomplishing this together. In a future they can share. And she wants that.]
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Ninety. [His tone is decisive, and he nods with it] At least. You and me.
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Oh man, I totally forgot, I got something for you.
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What? When?
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[How he managed to hide it in their own room, nobody knows. Clearly he managed to do it well enough that he actually forgot to give the thing to her. He leaves the room they're in and comes back at pace with a book and a rolled up scroll of - something. It's actually a book about the Chihuelan military, and a map of the continent. Percy may be out of easy spending money for the foreseeable future, oops. He holds them out to her] Sorry it, uh, isn't wrapped.
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[Her mouth sort of opens in a little 'o' when she sees it's a book, and she takes it from him with a gently sort of reverence, reading over the title. Next the scroll, which she partially unravels to reveal the map, and immediately all her brain is telling her to do is dive for her room and bury herself in studying them both.]
[Except she looks up at Percy, pulling both things against her chest.] You didn't - you didn't have to do this.
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It's the first thought that comes to mind when she looks up at him, hugging the book and the map to her chest. It's just so quintessentially Annabeth, he can't help himself.] I wanted to.
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You're not supposed to give other people presents on your not!birthday. [She says it, shoving book and scroll into one arm so she can reach for his hand.] Thank you, Percy.
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[The mention of reading turns her attention to the book, which she looks down at almost hungrily. Her brain is already spinning along that vein, so much so that it only barely registers that he said "we" in conjecture with "baking a cake."] Okay. Do you want to take the hat?
[Just in case??]
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It takes him a while to find the shop Jack has spoken about. By the time he gets there, he finds that there is food colouring, and it's already been paid for. Annabeth has probably not had as much alone time with her new present as she might have wanted when he comes crashing back into the suite, the small bottle clutched in his hand like it's something precious. Which, to Percy, it is.]
I got it! [8D!]
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It's in the living room.
[She is not, however, entirely aware of what he's saying. The book's propped open on a table, and she's hunched over with her legs curled into what probably does not look like a very comfortable position; some paper and notes are already jotted down around her, the map opened and off to the side.]
[She is also, despite what her response implies, sitting in said living room.]
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Oh! So they did have it. [Way to completely miss that announcement before, Annabeth. But she's tilting her head to smile up at him, because she knows what having it means to him. She can't even be annoyed for the interruption right now.] I'm glad.
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[But baking.] Why can't you just bake a cake?
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Other people are apparently going to eat it, you know.
[It's not that she's opposed to the idea. She's just. You know. Not exactly a baker. The cupcake she made with Tyson for his last birthday hadn't been the best.]
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