Leah was doing such incredible things in the doorway scene like ugh, I can’t believe we got so lucky to have her playing Annabeth.
From the very moment Percy opens the door, you can just see how nervous she is. She came to talk to him because she knows she needs someone to help her through all this, but it also means being vulnerable in a way that she hasn’t really allowed herself to be (or been given the grace to be before). And she also wants to be there for him, something that she doesn’t have the best track record with (not being able to protect Luke, Thalia, or Grover).
But, then she gets immediately reminded that while she basically has no one in the world right now but Percy, it’s not the same for him. He has Tyson, his Cyclops brother. Two pronged sword for her because she just experienced another betrayal at the hands of her own brother and one of the most traumatic events in her life was a Cyclops trying to kill her and her found family.
She already had to let Tyson into camp because Percy wouldn’t leave his side. Now, it’s become starkly clear that Tyson is part of Percy’s life, his family, and she can’t really be close to Percy without accepting him, which is something she’s really not willing to work through right now.
But, she’s already feeling betrayed by Luke, and now those feelings are bleeding into this moment with Percy. So, in an attempt to maybe get him to see just a little glimpse of that, she confronts him about not Iris messaging her. Which then backfires when he flips it around and asks her the same question. This is the first hints of “I can’t lie to him” that we see. She wanted to keep him at arm’s length. But suddenly she’s being painfully vulnerable with him, even while she’s trying not to be.
And, this is the part that really gets me: she literally goes running for the hills as soon as she realizes it.
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