if percy and annabeth do ever get married they will not wear rings.
or, well, they won't wear them for long.
annabeth does not strike me as somebody who gives weight to the tradition as much to what it means to her and percy specifically. like she will not want a huge diamond ring maybe, but the idea of percy wearing a ring proclaiming his commitment to her sounds really good. yeah, sure a ring won't stop anyone from cheating, but its a symbol, and she knows that symbols have power too.
percy wants a ring so he has a good excuse to not be polite whenever somebody flirts with him. okay, that, and knowledge that annabeth wears something that claims her his makes him feel gooey. also when annabeth inevitably ends up in the hospital because even the lack of ambrosia available won't stop her from fucking around, waving a hand around and saying "i am her husband!" will cut the time.
it will take at least two rings lost by each of them - percy will drop it off the roof accidentally, annabeth will put it some pocket and forget which one, monster attack will happen, and they both have an atrocious habit of putting rings whenever when washing hands - until annabeth floats the idea of tattoos on the ring fingers.
the design will be simple, all with the same goal as with wearing a wedding ring - to signal "i am taken. do not bother me with your flirting bullshit".
tattoos cannot get lost. they won't dent under monster's claw and will come off only with the finger itself. what is your devotion's worth if you can't offer a strip of your skin to it?
tattoos do need to be renewed, especially on the hands but, gods, an hour with the needle will be so much easier to book than another set of rings to fit their fingers.
some people will try to argue that since it's not traditional it's pointless.
the dynamic between two people who love a third person so much and come to understand each other because of that is so important to me. you would put them first, and so would i. you understand why we have to save them from themself. i trust you with their life, and so, that means more than if i trusted you with mine. the love doesn't have to be the same, but it's powerful enough that you understand why you're not the only satellite drawn into their orbit.
(I haven’t read ToA. I know some of what happened but all I’m acknowledging is that they canonically broke up)
I just love drama tbh but ALSO I think it could make sense. Like, they both loved Leo so much. Like they dated each other but they both refer to Leo as their best friend, not each other. After his “death” they share their mourning at first but… the stages of grief get a little ugly. And they were Up There With Him. The survivors guilt…
They’re growing a part and stewing in their grief and guilt and then they have this huge ugly fight. They end of blaming each other for the exact thing they feel most guilty about. Jason brings up that she basically told them that one of them would die, which is what lead to Leo making his crazy plan in the first place. Piper shoots back that Leo did it to save Jason, and what did Jason do with that information?? What did HE do to protect Leo??
And the truth is Piper was doing her best to protect them both. This is WHY she carries the physician’s cure. Or thinks she does. And Jason, honestly, just assumed it would be him. His whole life he’s been told he’s meant for great things, placed above everyone else but also Burdened With It. Like Percy, he’s been asked to do the impossible again and again. Fight sea monsters, Titans, lead armies, becoming praetor at 15. And Jason loves Leo. He knows he would die for him. It never occurs to him that Leo is spending every day planning and planning so that Jason doesn’t have to be that hero. So that Jason doesn’t have to sacrifice himself. Leo DECIDED it would be him before Jason ever got the chance.
But they both feel so so guilty and can’t admit to themselves or each other that they thinks their best friends death is their fault. So they blame each other and go full angry exes that don’t talk to each other. Their friends are worried but can’t get them to budge.
Anyway flash forward to Leo’s return and he’s like BESTIES I MISSED YOU and is hit with the two biggest sobbing messes. Piper and Jason mutually silently agree to avoid talking about the break up as much as possible and also to avoid each other while also spending as much time with Leo as possible. Obviously Leo eventually realizes that his two best friends aren’t spending any time with each other if one of them is basically always with him but never at the same time.
He figured out they broke up and yells at them for blaming each other (It was MY heroic awesome genuis sacrifice why are dumb asses blaming each other?!) and then they team up and yell at him for not telling them his plan and blowing himself up (THEY WATCHED HIM GET BLOWN UP) and disappearing for months and breaking their hearts. And then they all cry and apologize and are besties for real again.
(Jasipereo bonus if you ship them: Piper and Jason in unison blurt out and admit that they’re in love with him, hence the heart breaking, and then stare at each other until they start laughing. Meanwhile Leo pinches himself repeatedly bc he’s obviously dreaming-)
what: vampire (and werewolf) jasipereo au. liper intimacy. unnecessary tropey world-building. you won't think about this again.
wc: 1200
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Piper drags a long nail over Jason’s bared throat, but it’s Leo who presses his mouth into a line and swallows. Jason is half-sprawled on the carpet of Piper’s opulent bedroom, his dirty workwear jeans a more theoretical worry than a real one. He has his head resting at the base of the four-poster, and Piper, laying on her mattress stomach-first, has to reach down to meet him.
The touch is gentle. It’s hard to imagine the two were on the verge of tearing each other apart when Leo had first met them.
Leo tries distracting himself with cleaning the crossbow on his lap. It isn’t his, but as the hunters’ designated armorer, he likes to get personal. The irony is that the owner will go out explicitly to kill or capture the kind of monsters Leo’s in the presence of right now. At that reminder, he loses most of his enthusiasm for polishing the gears. He wipes his hands from the grime and puts the equipment away.
Piper folds further down to whisper something. All Jason does is close his eyes, mouth forming a small smile. Piper gets back fully on the bed and drops her face straight into it, her long dark hair obscuring the entire top half of her body.
“Looks like we actually do have a lot in common,” Jason says, his eyes still shut, as though he was trying to sleep. The afternoon light filters through a sliver of opening left by the blackout curtains. “Same likes.”
It feels baiting. “Like what?”
Jason waits, as though he expects Piper to answer. When she doesn’t, he continues, “We like to bite.”
“Okay,” he says slowly. “So do fish.”
“We like to bite you,” Jason clarifies, making Leo flush all the way down to his collar.
On cue, Piper turns her head from the sheets just to speak. “Leo,” she calls quietly, almost sheepish, “I’m hungry.”
His blood is still rushing, which is maybe a good thing for the situation at hand. Distantly, in the back of his mind, Leo hears the warning of every hunter he ever knew growing up: Never let a vampire bite you. Just once is enough for them to stake a claim. Most operatives would kill themselves before allowing such a travesty to happen to them. What does it say about Leo that this will be the sixth time? That again, he’ll lie prone under her cool hands, allow her lips to kiss his skin, then break into his wanting flesh?
Leo can’t bring himself to care about repercussions anymore. Besides, Jason’s the werewolf. And he’s done worse to Leo than bite.
The bed creaks a little when he sits beside her. Piper rolls to her side, arms splayed out comfortably, peeking out from her fringe up at Leo. She looks as young as him, like she could be any other college-aged kid, even if that can’t be quite accurate.
“Sorry,” she says, almost at default.
Leo can’t actually say that it was okay, because it maybe isn’t. He doesn’t like to lie to her. Instead, he places his palms down on either side of her head and admits, “I like it. Getting bit.”
He can’t see Jason from here, but Leo hears him give out a short laugh.
“Even if it hurts?” Piper doesn’t seem to believe him.
He bends down, parts the hair over her forehead and presses an upside down kiss to it. She smells like lavender oil. He wonders what he smells like now. Certainly not lavender.
He says, “I think I kind of like that, too.”
Piper gets herself to sit up, then gently urges him to settle against the backboard, a pillow behind him. Leo looks into her eyes, flashing an unearthly yellow, then red, then brown again, and can’t help the goofy smile that comes on.
“I thought you didn’t like making a mess in here,” he teases. His fingers flex in and out, anticipating.
“We’ll just make the puppy clean it up,” she tells him.
“I’m so abused,” replies Jason. He’s still awake, but he also wouldn’t sleep through something like this. At least Piper stashed his glasses away at some point, just for fun. What kind of werewolf had shitty vision?
Instinctively, before she even starts, Leo feels the base of his neck, expecting mottled skin or scarred tissue from the times they’ve done this in the past. But what he touches is smooth, unmarred. The reason for this is what makes the moral quandary even more difficult: in order to heal beyond human capabilities of his own, Piper McLean feeds him her blood.
The hunters—the only family he’s known since birth—would never stand for a vampire fledgling in their ranks. Even if he never became one of the night walkers, they might still kill him. He’s marked now. Stained.
Piper, seeing what must be some range of his emotions, cups his face in her hands, leaning close enough that all the world fell away around them like broken glass. For one moment, all that exists is her.
“Tell me to stop and I will,” she says, voice low, purposefully vulnerable.
It’s power she’s offering him, stronger than her own will-breaking compulsion or Jason’s ability to leap impossible bounds. She’s giving him the power to decide what their future would look like, with or without him in their lives.
Luckily, Leo has already made his choice.
He mimics the line Piper had drawn on Jason down her own throat, a trail he follows with his lips once he leans into her. Piper McLean is heiress to the most dangerous, ancient vampire brood in the northern hemisphere. Out in the world, she is daring, cold, and undoubtedly feared. Here, she shivers at his every caress, gasps at the way the heat of his fingertips ignite as they travel beneath her nightshirt. Then he does something else—something new.
Piper jolts, riding a sudden wave of shock. “Leo!” she cries. He didn’t know vampires could flush, too; her complexion darkens with embarrassment as she opens and closes her mouth, unable to form a coherent sentence. She barely meets his eyes.
“What happened?” Jason asks, using a muscled arm to raise a part of himself over the foot of the bed. He doesn’t say it with much worry, only like he’d been meaning to look all this time and was finally glad for a reason.
Leo falls over her silk sheets in stitches. Piper picks up a pillow to try to smother him, still completely flustered. She quickly gives up and slaps one side of her neck—the same side where Leo had left a perfect indentation of his dull human teeth.
“He-he bit me!”
Despite her reaction, Piper still appears dizzy, and Leo only knows it’s because she’s considering what’s tied all three of them together. The link they have is made of chains and the only way they can lose Leo is if they saw him off. Jason comes to stand, large and looming and lovable, squinting at them on the bed. Almost recovered, Piper examines her already healing mark with fascination, and maybe a sort of growing excitement.
three person poly relationship made up of two people who are already dating trying to coax someone with horrific self worth issues into a loving relationship. stray cat style
they’re all laying together in bed and the couple are both thinking to themselves like good, he stayed the night to cuddle and talk when we offered, he should know that we genuinely care for him and want this to be more then a handful of one night stands. and the stray cat guy is like wow this sure is nice i think i’m falling in love with them. it’s really too bad that they don’t actually give a fuck and hate me and probably want to kill me with hammers for no reason
the implications i'm fucking losing it. piper knows that Leo knows morse code. either she figured it out on her own or she knows that leo taps out the ILY message in morse. i'm sick fucking sick
my life's mission is to give seven+nico and reyna boring scars. no drama or interesting interpersonal backstories, only stupid shit.
jason got his eyebrow scar by hitting himself with the cupboard when he wanted to get cookies.
percy hit his head on the pool wall corner when getting out and got a small spot where hair won't grow now.
annabeth had a bad habit of testing the sharpness of the box cutter on the side of her hand and accidentally cut herself too many times so now there's a scar.
piper just ran into a glass wall and cut her hand when falling on the shards.
frank accidentally dropped a hot flat iron on his leg and now got burn in a weird triangular form.
leo accidentally stabbed himself with a screwdriver in the palm. there is a pale dot on his hand.
hazel got her ear cut by catching a sharp shard of ice in the head. her left ear now is has a small notch.
nico barely has nails on two fingers on his feet due to dropped chair back in italy.
reyna tried to cut her hair and caught herself with scissors on the side.
we saw you from across the bar and you looked really anxious. can you tell us five things you can see, four things you can hear. okay good, we’re glad you’re okay. do you wanna come home with us and have a threesome?
my life's mission is to give seven+nico and reyna boring scars. no drama or interesting interpersonal backstories, only stupid shit.
jason got his eyebrow scar by hitting himself with the cupboard when he wanted to get cookies.
percy hit his head on the pool wall corner when getting out and got a small spot where hair won't grow now.
annabeth had a bad habit of testing the sharpness of the box cutter on the side of her hand and accidentally cut herself too many times so now there's a scar.
piper just ran into a glass wall and cut her hand when falling on the shards.
frank accidentally dropped a hot flat iron on his leg and now got burn in a weird triangular form.
leo accidentally stabbed himself with a screwdriver in the palm. there is a pale dot on his hand.
hazel got her ear cut by catching a sharp shard of ice in the head. her left ear now is has a small notch.
nico barely has nails on two fingers on his feet due to dropped chair back in italy.
reyna tried to cut her hair and caught herself with scissors on the side.
frank, leo and hazel all got different and very staunch ideas on what constitutes a spicy meal, and any attempts to stop the inevitable argument make you a target for force feeding and taste testings. ask how percy and reyna know that.
why are jason, annabeth and nico not forced to eat and rate the spiciness of the dishes, you ask. well, you see, jason is white and needed a gallon of milk after tiniest bit of pepper leo fed him.
annabeth wouldn't mind rating the spiciness. she would love to offer her opinions. she has so many opinions. but years of living on the run with two teenagers had done more damage to her tastebuds than she knows, and her stomach is made of steel, so her opinions are disqualified.
nico is disqualified on the same grounds + things he had to eat in the 40s and on the streets have made him crave shit impossible and honestly unconscionable to replicate.
jason - rarely gets his name shortened, does not care any way, but someone nosy and annoying can try to "jace" him. 0 reaction.
piper - got called pippa once and hated it with her whole heart. would not react to any nickname from somebody she's not close to.
leo - leonidas is a mouthful, and most people don't even know his full name. the foster brother that called him "leoni" and "dazzy" got his car keyed.
nico - only ever nico or niccolo and nothing in between.
percy - also known only by the shortened name. who the hell will call him perseus outside of passport control? gets "is that your real name?" often and hates it.
annabeth - anne, beth or as per my au, aj are all fine, she doesn't care as long as its her name. gets called by her full name only by percy.
frank - fai for his mother and grandmother, sure, but frank to his friends.
hazel - azzie gets suddenly popular as a way to call her and she got no idea why but doesn't mind. hazza to her friends back in the 30s, but it hurts.
reyna - only ever reyna. any iterations of avilla get no reaction.
frank, leo and hazel all got different and very staunch ideas on what constitutes a spicy meal, and any attempts to stop the inevitable argument make you a target for force feeding and taste testings. ask how percy and reyna know that.
jason - rarely gets his name shortened, does not care any way, but someone nosy and annoying can try to "jace" him. 0 reaction.
piper - got called pippa once and hated it with her whole heart. would not react to any nickname from somebody she's not close to.
leo - leonidas is a mouthful, and most people don't even know his full name. the foster brother that called him "leoni" and "dazzy" got his car keyed.
nico - only ever nico or niccolo and nothing in between.
percy - also known only by the shortened name. who the hell will call him perseus outside of passport control? gets "is that your real name?" often and hates it.
annabeth - anne, beth or as per my au, aj are all fine, she doesn't care as long as its her name. gets called by her full name only by percy.
frank - fai for his mother and grandmother, sure, but frank to his friends.
hazel - azzie gets suddenly popular as a way to call her and she got no idea why but doesn't mind. hazza to her friends back in the 30s, but it hurts.
reyna - only ever reyna. any iterations of avilla get no reaction.
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