Basically this is an outline for a fic I may or may not write in the future.
Summary: “Kiss The Girl” ... basically the how many wingmen do you really need song? When talking about a play starring Class Clown Percy Jackson and Acting Prodigy Annabeth Chase as Prince Eric and Ariel, you only need one (#Leo Valdez).
Maybe. If said leads don’t kill each other first.
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Story starts off in the Goode High Auditorium. People are auditioning for roles in The Little Mermaid play.
Leo auditions for Sebastian, Percy for Eric, and Rachel for Ariel.
Everyone thinks Rachel has it in the bag but then Annabeth shows up, art people know her because she’s well known in plays, not super popular yet but popular enough in art circle
Her mom is Athena Olympia—famous actress on Broadway who is now a famous producer. Annabeth has been doing plays and musicals since she was a kid but her dad wants her to have more of a normal school experience. Mom hasn’t come to one of her shows in forever but says she’ll come to the production of The Little Mermaid
Annabeth auditions for Ariel and gets the part, Rachel is the understudy. Percy—who does end up getting the part of Eric—is wary of her at first because he’d auditioned as Eric just to be with Rachel. Therefore he acts just enough to slide by and this. ticks. Annabeth. Off.
Because her mom is coming to the play and everything needs to be perfect! She doesn’t need this knucklehead to mess that up.
They basically have a rocky start. Insults are thrown around and it is the general consensus that Theatre Prodigy Annabeth Chase can’t stand Class Clown (but somehow actually good at acting) Percy Jackson.
Poor Leo is the wingman/red crab stuck in the middle.
Eventually they make a deal; show is on for three nights, Annabeth will pretend she is sick for one of those night so Rachel can act with Percy and Percy in turn will act to the best of his ability.
Leo gets them to start hanging around more with each other, embracing his role as a wingman completely because this pair is obviously meant for each other.
Percy starts falling for this bold girl who hides her insecurities behind a tough façade. Because… because Annabeth is girl who isn’t afraid to voice her opinions, isn’t afraid to stand up for herself, and who honestly just genuinely cares.
Obviously he’s oblivious to his feelings because you know, Percy.
Annabeth falls hard as she realizes that Percy is the jokester he is because he hates seeing people sad. He thinks with his heart and not his head and is completely different from everything Annabeth has ever believed and yet she is drawn to him.
She’s not oblivious to her feelings but she knows Percy likes Rachel so she tries to push her feelings away (it doesn’t work).
Through their rehearsals and normal school and just life they grow closer.
Finally the dates of the play roll around. Athena says she’ll be there first day… she’s not. She says she’ll be there the second day… she’s not.
Percy doesn’t know about Athena and he just assumes he’ll be with Rachel the next day. At this point, he knows something is going on inside him and his feelings are a mess but he prefers to just ignore, because yeah, he doesn’t want to deal with stuff.
Annabeth finds out that Athena had meetings but she says she’ll be there third day… the only day left for Rachel to perform.
Tries to go to Percy and talk to him about it but Percy feels betrayed because he thinks she’s just backing out the deal—she just used him? Somehow that hurts more than the fact he won’t get to perform with Rachel.
Then Annabeth confesses about her mom and Percy softens. He’s still hurt but he knows this hurts Annabeth too and he doesn’t want her to hurt. There will be other plays, anyway. Things aren’t entirely settled between them and Annabeth thinks he’s just agreeing out of pity—thinks he’s still mad about Rachel.
Third day rolls around and stakes are high. 30 minutes before show is set to commence Annabeth gets a text from Athena: She wasn’t going to make it.
Annabeth tells Percy she wasn’t acting and tries to walk away but Percy prods and Annabeth just explodes. Isn’t he happy her mom isn’t coming? That means he can act with Rachel! “Isn’t that what you wanted?!”
Percy just stares at her wide eyed for a few seconds before he softly says, “I wanted you to be happy.”
And Annabeth’s not used to this. Not used to people caring. Her dad immerses himself in work. Her mom does too. Nobody cares about her happiness… why should he?
She doesn’t know how to respond to that so she just runs out.
Show goes on. She watches from the side as Percy and Rachel act out the musical. Halfway through, she can’t take it and just leaves.
Celebration Party is supposed to happen at the end but Percy’s heart isn’t in it. Leo notices. So does Rachel.
She and Percy dated freshman year but ended up calling things off. Even though it hurt her, she knew things just weren’t going to work out.
Percy was hurt for while afterwards but they slowly mended things and their friendship. He still had feelings for her though which was why he’d auditioned: he’d thought he could get closer to her and prove that three years later—their senior year—they could go at it again and maybe this time be successful.
But Rachel could see that he’d fallen for another, fallen in love so deep with a girl she knew made him happy and a girl he made happy.
Basically, she gives him her blessing and Leo’s twirls his keys like c’mon bro, you got a girl to get
And ya, cheesy ending but they show up at Annabeth’s doorstep and Leo sings a few lines of “Kiss the girl” and this time, the kiss isn’t interrupted.
The last thing he needs is Hummel muddying the waters with his slanderous accusations before Jesse even has a chance at convincing the boyfriend that they’re going to be fake best friends.
