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thebolt-unbound‌:

Watching Annabeth deep in work doing what she did best put a little bit of calm over the constant roiling sea of nerves that was is heart these days. “Well what can I say. Where there’s thunder there’s lightning, and where there’s lightning there’s a tall idiot bringing you cider to help you through the day.”

Settling in he pulled notebooks out of his bag, set them out carefully, and booted up his computer, “Homework. It’s always homework, Annabeth. I eat, sleep, work out, do homework.” He started typing, looking across the table at her, “Nothing terribly exciting though, just my fiction writing class. What about you. What thorny problems occupy the mind of New Rome’s brightest demigod?” 

Sips of the cider allow the warmth to wash over her, immediately putting her in a better mood. “ I guess I should pray for more stormy days, then. ”  She twirled a pen between her fingers as she watched him, the need to be doing something causing her to be unable to keep still. 

“ Sounds like more of a life than I have right now. ” Annabeth was basically eating, sleeping and breathing the reconstruction efforts right now, any other architectural work put on the back burner. “ I never really got the hang of fiction. ” She hated not being good at something, and she’d definitely tried to improve, but honestly, dealing with facts and logic was so much easier. Besides, life as a demigod often made fiction feel like reality.

“ Tell that to the bunch of children of Vulcan who are attempting to convince me that there is absolutely no way to rebuild more efficiently. ” Her voice went up slightly, annoyance shining through. “ There’s definitely a better way, I just ... haven’t completely figured it out yet. ”

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aidan-mckay‌:

“That’s what I said!” Aidan chuckled, collecting a few papers up off the ground. He stood for a minute looking through the sketches and then shrugged. “I’m not that great with… general information and stuff, so I don’t get this but why can’t the Hecate kids do something? Magic us a couple buildings back together you know? Probably why I’m not allowed to mess with magical stuff. I’d probably turn my foot into a crab. That’d be fun though, just have two crabs as feet.”

“Well, y’all probably thought about this already, but I know renovating is cheaper. I thought about doing interior design when I get out of the legion… I think your best bet is magic. If it can work that way. But for now, maybe like coffee? Or something to eat? I brought some snacks. Cheese-itz mostly.”

Annabeth laughed, shrugging her shoulders. “ Guess the gods like to make our lives harder, what’s new? ” She still hadn’t quite forgiven them for the amount of trouble they’d brought into her lives, especially a certain queen of the heavens. “ They probably could, but it would likely be a huge drain to them, plus with such heavy stuff, we would have to be very precise. One wrong move could add another few weeks’ worth of work. ”

Her eyes strayed back to the plans, wondering if there would be opportunities for small spells that could help, making a mental note to talk to Wally about it. “ Thanks for the idea, though. Renovating would be, but why not take the opportunity to improve, right? ” Annabeth nodded at an open chair, tugging a few books out of the way. “ Your cheese-itz and you are welcome to join me. Were you looking for something in the library, though? ”

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fireandseaweed‌:

Percy and Annabeth had been friends since Percy discovered that he was a demigod, as such he knew that she would be frustrated at their apparent lack of progress, even though he knew that they were doing better than could be expected. Watching as she closed her laptop, he moved forwards and placed a wrapped sandwich and a thermos of coffee on the table in front of her. 

“You need to eat,” he said with a shrug as he cleared some of her books away and stacked them in neat rows. The table didn’t suddenly become any clearer, but it was at least a little more managable, “take a break, tackle the problem once you’ve had some food?”

“ Hey, ” she mumbled half-heartedly. “ I did eat, I had a pack of gummy bears a while ago. ” Even as she said this, she knew it wouldn’t fly with him. They’d had each others’ backs for such a long time, and not just on the battlefield, but that still didn’t mean she entirely liked someone else touching her stuff.

Still, she watched as he attempted to bring some sort of organization to the table, opening the thermos for a whiff. “ Bless you, ” she sighed happily, taking a sip of the much needed sustenance. “ Sorry, I know I’ve been kind of a mess recently, but I can’t help feeling that we could be making so much more progress, you know? ”

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aidan-mckay‌:

It had been a while since Aidan had been in the library. The stacks of books looked a lot more friendly in the day. He’d found it was a pretty nice quiet place to escape to. To think and enjoy a little time to himself, which he mostly spent using the free wi-fi for Netflix.

He noticed Annabeth’s exasperation while passing through, the overflowing table of information that made his head spin just thinking about it all. Looking over a small pile of papers to check on her, he voiced his presence. “Hey, are you okay? Do you need any… Any help here?” He asked.

Annabeth propped herself up at the sound of someone else, blinking as she processed his words. “ Yeah ... ” Was she okay? Not really, considering she felt about as dumb as a doorknob currently, but the social awareness side of her brain was telling her this was not the way to respond to someone expressing concern, and yet she was too tired to bother coming up with anything else.

“ What would be a huge help would be for the gods to just ... zap the buildings back into place, or something. Don’t get me wrong, I definitely appreciate the opportunity to design more buildings, but there has to be a more efficient way to rebuild. ” Throws her hands up, indicating the mess around her, before leaning back in her chair. “ Feel free to take a look, I’m taking suggestions. ”

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connorstolltheshow‌:

Connor sighed internally but didn’t allow it to show. What was he expecting to happen though? As if he’d be able to trick someone like Annabeth into allowing him to do less work. He casually strolled over to the plans and began to roll them up gently, careful enough not to ruin the paper. “Did you draw up all these yourself?” 

“What are your plans for lunch? I can get you a coffee or something from the nearest cafe?” He offered. Conner never used to like Annabeth, she always seemed like a stick in the mud, but as he matured and got older, he realized that she wasn’t that bad at all. He actually enjoyed her company and her ability to stay rational perfectly balanced with his childish side. 

An amused grin worked its way onto her lips, not completely expecting such easy acquiescence from Connor. Past experiences had taught her to expect at least another attempt, but then again the events of recent years had forced some level of maturity on most of them. She nodded as she signaled to the others that they could take a break before turning back to him. “ Yeah, I had to make sure they were exact. There might be others who are competent enough to do so, but I always feel better knowing that they’re perfect personally. ”

It was one of the traits she still couldn’t get rid of fully, and perhaps she never would. She’d never be able to fully trust the work of others, always having to make sure everything was done right personally. Some called it perfectionism, but was it really that wrong to want to make sure things were done right? 

“ Oh, that would be a big help, thanks. I was just planning for a coffee run, then back again to take a look at the west side of the courtyard. If I make a few adjustments to the pillar placements, we might be able to finish this section by sundown. ” Her mind was already mapping out different points, putting the rolled prints into a case. “ But don’t worry, you can still take about an hour for your break, I’m in no rush for the coffee. ”

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spellbindingbeefcake‌:

“Hey, coffee might help. Or tea.” Wally gave an earnest smile as he walked over, a mug in each hand. “Which do you want?” he asked very quietly. There were not a ton of people in the library, not since already a few apartment buildings had been repaired. The library had acted as a home for some people since it had been on of the few structures left untouched. Wally made good use of that, getting his hands onto every spell book he could find. 

“Have you been here all day?” Knowing how Chase did her thing, he would not be surprised if that was the case. But everyone needed to rest.  “This all looks very … complicated.”

“ Oh, thank Athena. ” The smell of caffeine was a welcome one, it giving her enough motivation to lift her head from the table. Given how many cups she had consumed over the last twenty four hours, a doctor might advise against it, but she’d already gotten to this point, so what was one more? “ Coffee, please, thanks. ”

She shifted over a little, pulling out a chair for him. “ Sorry, it’s a little cluttered, but somehow things always end up this way when I’m working. ” You would, perhaps, expect her workspaces to be organized and tidy, which they were, most of the time ... when she wasn’t using them. Annabeth was a little chaotic once she got started, and back in Camp Half Blood her siblings had learned never to clean near her when she was in the middle of something.

His question prompted her to glance at her watch, only then registering how late it had gotten. “ Mostly, yeah. I was wondering if there was any way to help speed up the rebuilding process without sacrificing quality, and I guess I ended up here longer than I thought I would be. ” A shrug of her shoulders, though she was actually pretty frustrated at time she was taking to solve this. “ It should be a lot less, but somehow my mind isn’t working very well today. What have you been up to? ”

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thebolt-unbound‌:

There were few constants in Jason’s life. One: the sun rose in the east and set in the west. Two: the gods would continuously try to fuck up his life as frequently as possible. Three: whenever there was a problem that needed solving, it would see Annabeth Chase in the library. He was glad to see the third was still constant when he came up to her table, setting down two cups of hot mulled cider between them. 

“Hey Genius. You look like you could use a quick cider break before you go back to fixing all the world’s problems in one sitting.” He lowered his considerable bulk into a chair opposite her and pulled out his own stack of notebooks and binders, efficiently tying his hair back as he did. Annabeth had known him too long to be disgusted by his face, “Mind some company?”

The smell of the cider instantly had her perking up somewhat, the sound of Jason’s voice even more so. There was just something in it that seemed to bring a sense of comfort with him. Blueprints were quickly shoved aside in favour of one of the cups, and though she usually was more prone to working like a maniac until a problem was solved, staring at a book that provided no extra help for a few hours made her more amendable to the idea of a break.

“ You always manage to show up at the right time, ” Her words were half lost as she eagerly took sips of the drink. “ Maybe not all of them, just some. ” Hands already reaching to help move some of her stuff, she pulled out a chair beside her to dump half her reading material on it. She’d looked at them enough times to be able to recite them at this point, and perhaps Jason would be able to help with a fresh perspective. “ Not if it’s you. I would say make yourself comfortable, but it seems like you’ve already done that. What are you looking at today? ”

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Annabeth was tired and a little annoyed that the rebuilding efforts were not going as fast or efficiently as she had hoped, and was currently occupying a whole table at the library, various books and a stack of plans scattered around. She’d been looking over them hoping to find a way to make things easier for everyone, but perhaps it was the exhaustion from the past weeks catching up to her, and it felt as though she had a mental block.

A dozen curses coming out of her mouth under her breath, she shut her laptop and let her head fall onto the table, half contemplating throwing an immature tantrum, half wondering if she should try getting some sleep first ( though that was a whole different set of problems ).

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connorstolltheshow·:

Connor dusted his hands off from carrying a few bricks from one spot to the other. Sure, there were tons of more bricks he could move, but he was alright tired of this job and just wanted to get to do some of the fun stuff. Moving over to the person he had known for years, he put on his grin and leaned against a nearby pole. “Are you sure there’s nothing else you need help with Annabeth? I could even hold open those papers for you if you like.” He shrugged. Holding papers seemed much easier than moving bricks. 

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Annabeth looked up from the plans she had been looking at, Conner Stoll’s mischievous grin taking up most of her attention. “ Mhmm, and I’m sure the sudden helpfulness has nothing to do with you wanting to slack off, right? ” She rolled her eyes, used to these sort of things, though a matching grin let show that she wasn’t actually holding it against him.

Starting to roll up the current blueprint in her hand, she nodded at the others in a pile nearby. “ You could start with helping me roll up the rest over there, it’s about time for a lunch break anyway. ” 

“ But, ” she cautioned, wagging the rolled up print in front of her. “ Don’t think you’re getting away with it. Everyone’s getting a break,and then after that everyone’s getting back to work ... including you. ”