Can Annabeth kindly fuck Spencer up? Get him in the sparring arena and knock him out? Three lines and then she does the whole "cool guys don't look at explosions" thing and scene is over.
I kept trying to shoe-horn some version of this take down into the chapter – it went back and forth between given to Spencer and the legionnaires on the train, but it never quit fit. Always just came off a bit too dramatic.
Spencer’s hand closed around her upper arm and Annabeth moved without thinking. She dropped her mug and whirled, easily breaking his hold and grabbing his arm, twisting it sharply behind his back until he cried out. She laid her other arm across his shoulders and, using her momentum, she slammed him into the wall, knocking a framed certificate to the floor and shattering it. Someone in the middle of the floor screamed.
“Next time you touch me without my permission, I break your arm,” she said evenly, twisting the appendage in question another painful degree upward. “Call me a bitch again, and I will ruin you. You got that, Spence?”
I think I decided that, with everything else going on, Annabeth just wasn’t at the point of physically wrecking someone who disrespected her. She’s still trying to cling to her “I’m average, I’m normal, leave me alone” shield.
