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This is how i want to remember him

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Day 5 (22nd August) - Romance

Percy Jackson/Annbeth Chase aka Percabeth

‘I could see Annabeth now- standing barefoot above me on the canoe lake pier. I'd fallen out of my canoe. That was it. She was reaching out her hand to haul me up, and she was trying not to laugh. She wore her orange camp T-shirt and jeans. Her hair was tucked up in her Yankees cap, which was strange because that should have made her invisible. "You are such an idiot sometimes." She smiled. "Come on. Take my hand." Memories came flooding back to me- sharper and more colorful. I stopped dissolving. My name was Percy Jackson. I reached up and took Annabeth's hand.’ - Percy Jackson, The Last Olympian

My contribution to Percy Jackson Week 2017 hosted by @percyjacksonweek2k17

[dotshiiki]

The Origin of Blue Foods

Yeah so I’m doing like a million and one things today and didn’t need one more, but I absolutely could not resist the @percyjacksonweek2k17 prompt for today and anyway I wrote half of it in the middle of the night when I couldn’t sleep last night. This is my offering for day 1 of @percyjacksonweek2k17, for the prompt ‘blue’. Enjoy!

Sally smelt Gabe before he shuffled in, that overpowering sour stench of body odour, like a week's worth of unwashed laundry, which always preceded his entrance into any room.

My husband, she reminded herself wearily. But she'd made her choice consciously, knowing before she sealed the deal what she was in for. To the uninformed onlooker, she might seem like a silly, duped victim, lured into nuptial drudgery, but her marriage to Gabe Ugliano was actually a premeditated decision.

Percy looked up and, a defiant look in his eyes, finished recounting the colours he'd learnt in school that day in an almost deafening volume, 'And the Cookie Monster is BLUE!'

She could have sworn he'd raised his voice just to torment Gabe. Percy might be only five, but her boy was smart as a whip.

Gabe's fists came up. 'You gonna shut him up, Sally, or do I gotta?'

Sally hurriedly turned Percy's face away so that he was no longer glaring at Gabe.

'Good job, sweetie!' she praised. 'But let's not forget to use our indoor voices, okay?'

Gabe grunted and dragged himself over to his La-Z-Boy, where he plopped down and picked up the TV remote. 'How about getting me some grub, then, eh? I been working hard all day to keep you in style, least you could do is have dinner waiting when I get home.'

Sally bit back the retort she would have dearly loved to throw at Gabe. She couldn't turn him off. They needed him.

Percy needed him.

'Right away, dear,' she murmured. To Percy, she said, 'Come on, sweetie, you want to help Mommy cook, don't you?'

Gabe didn't even bother responding. He'd already cracked open a beer and settled in to watch The View.

'He's mean!' Percy complained as she steered him into the kitchen. 'He's mean and he's a stupidhead and he's smelly—'

'Percy,' Sally admonished. 'What have I said about calling people names?' Even if they deserve it, she thought to herself. It wouldn't do for Percy to go saying it to Gabe's face.

'He's smelly,' Percy repeated stubbornly. 'Smelly Gabe.'

Sally fought the urge to laugh at the apt nickname. Instead, she pulled a few tomatoes from the vegetable crisper. 'How about you tell me more about the colours Miss Popples taught you? What colour are these?'

'RED!'

'Very good!' She waggled a carrot at him next. Percy struggled a bit with this one.

'Ummm, ORANGE!'

Having successfully diverted Percy's attention from the subject of Gabe (Percy, thank heavens, was nothing if not easily distractible), Sally returned to her task of making dinner. Percy sat happily at her side, naming the colour of every ingredient that she chopped up and threw into her stew.

'Very good, Percy!' she said.

'Sally!' Gabe bellowed, interrupting them. 'Where's dinner?'

'I'm coming, Gabe!' She ladled out a single bowl—she and Percy could come back and eat in the kitchen.

Percy trotted beside her as she carried the bowl of stew back out to the living room and laid it on the tray table in front of Gabe. He had the television talk show blasting so loud, she barely heard Percy asking her a question.

'What is it, honey?'

Percy raised his voice over Barbara Walter's. 'Why aren't they blue, Mommy?'

'Why aren't what blue?'

'The food! Tommy-toes are red and carrots are orange and corns are yellow and coo-coo-bers are green but there's no blue!'

Gabe tore his eyes away from Barbara and her co-host. 'Don't be ridiculous,' he sneered. 'Food can't be blue.'

'Why not?' Percy demanded. 'There's blue crayons and blue fishies and blue birdies so why not blue food?'

Sally racked her brains for an answer for Percy.

'Blueberries,' she said. 'Blueberries are blue.'

Percy grinned. 'Can we have blueberries for dinner?'

'You'll damn well eat what you're told to, runt.' Gabe snorted. 'And blueberries are a stupid name. The little shits are purple, not blue. I oughta know. Some idiot got the stains all over one of my appliances last week.'

Sally mmhmm-ed in what she hoped Gabe would consider an appropriately sympathetic manner, although she really couldn't bring herself to care that much. What sort of appliance got permanently stained by berries, anyway?

'They are so blue!' Percy retorted. 'Mommy said so!'

'Blue foods don't exist!' Gabe thundered. 'And you can shut up about it, piss-face, before I punch you black and blue. Can't a man watch his show in peace around here?'

Sally ushered Percy back to the kitchen before Gabe could antagonise him any further. Percy stabbed his spoon into the bowl of stew she lay before him, disappointment written all over his face.

'It's not fair.' He poked at his vegetables like they were silly putty. 'All the other colours get to have foods. Why not blue?'

The spark of rebellion grew somewhere between Gabe's close-minded insistence that blue food didn't exist, and Percy's crestfallen wish that they did.

So what if nature hadn't made food blue? It didn't mean it was impossible.

'Tell you what,' she said, pulling open the kitchen cupboards. She had to rummage for a bit among the baking ingredients before she found it: a small bottle of food colouring. She set it on the table, along with some flour, vanilla essence, and a little bag of chocolate chips. 'How about we make our very own blue food?'

Percy's eyes grew wide and eager. 'We can make it?'

'Percy,' she said solemnly, 'as long as we believe it, we can make anything happen.'

Can you all tell I have a thing for Sally’s blue food tradition? It’s one of those things from the series that warm my heart so, so much.

This kinda crossed over into tomorrow’s prompt actually, and there was a bit before this scene that I couldn’t quite get to work just yet, so I may expand it for tomorrow’s prompt.

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Percy Jackson Week 2k17

Mark your calendars, it’s time to celebrate our favourite son of Poseidon!  August 18-25 is Percy Jackson’s week!

The rules are simple! 

All types of posts are accepted (fanart, fanfiction, headcanons, gifsets, moodboards, edits, videos, playlists, etc.)

You don’t NEED to use the prompts but we hope you do!

Tag everything with #percyjacksonweek or #pjoweek within the first 5 tags so I’ll see it!

Please no NSFW as this is an all ages welcome event. (partial nudity/slight blood and gore allowed). If you’re unsure what falls under the NSFW umbrella don’t hesitate to shoot me an ask! Thank you for your cooperation!

HAVE FUN!!

And now for the most important part, the prompts!

Day 1 (Aug. 18): Blue

Day 2 (Aug. 19): Family / Sally Jackson/Blofis

Day 3 (Aug. 20): The Ocean / Water

Day 4 (Aug. 21): Loyalty / Friendship

Day 5 (Aug. 22): Romance / Shipping (any ships allowed!!!)

Day 6 (Aug. 23): Angst&Troubles / Tartarus / Dyslexia/ADHD / PTSD

Day 7 (Aug. 24): Free Day!

I’m super excited for this so please, reblog this post to get the word out!  I’m excited to see what you all come up with!  Don’t forget to tag your works #percyjacksonweek or #pjoweek (in the first five tags!!!) or @ this blog so I can reblog it!!!

[themarauderswand]

Sally Jackson ”Your mother is a queen among women,” Poseidon said wistfully. “I had not met such a mortal woman in a thousand years." - The lightning thief Headcanons about Sally * When she first met Poseidon on the beach in Montauk she was very confused why other people didn't seem to notice him. Since he was rather good looking (who was she kidding really - he looked like a god) she would have expected him to get more attention. * He, on the other hand, seemed to be surprised she noticed him. * After they started talking the attraction was there early on. Poseidon told her all about him being a god and all so Sally knew what was waiting when she got pregnant. * Sally was a little suspicious to the whole pregnant thing, she wanted a baby, but she wanted to give her child the childhood she never got - and she didn't have any money. And she was so young. However, all those doubts disappeared the moment she first laid eyes on Percy. * When Poseidon said he had to leave Sally never asked him to stay. She was sad and it hurt that another person she loved left her, but she never asked him to stay. * She's a cat person. She have always wanted a cat but her uncle was allergic and the time never felt right to get one. * When she met Gabe she knew what she was getting herself into. Percy had already started to attract monsters and she needed to keep him safe, no matter how awful Gabe was. * About Gabe: she still has very bad conscience about dragging him into Percy's life. Even though it probably saved their lives she hasn't forgiven herself yet. * She still thinks about him rather often and the scars from his abuse still haunts her. * She was very weary of Paul first, since her first marriage she has had very hard time letting other people in. * But they grew very close friends and she knew of Paul's attraction towards her and didn't really mind. * When she admitted to herself that she liked him she asked him for a date. He saw Paul's eyes light up and realises that she really wanted this. * It was not like being with Poseidon, where everything was all or nothing, storm or calm without notice. Being with Paul gave her stability, a place in her own world, the mortal world and not her sons world. * She decided she had to tell him about Percy's world. He has been so honest with her and she wanted to be that with him - but she was scared yet another person she loved was going to leave her. * Paul took it in rather calmly and Sally realised even more how much she loved him. * Introducing Paul to Percy was... Interesting. Paul had explained how he really wanted Percy to like him and Sally asked Percy to give him a chance. Percy was very weary and didn't want a new Gabe in their lives. * As soon Percy saw that Paul made his mother happy he started to loosen up and they come to good terms with each other. * Paul expected Percy to be some kind of angry teen who hated everything and got really surprised how polite he was. * Now they're both Sally's family and Annabeth too since she visited a lot during the eight months Percy was missing and now Sally has her family and is writing her book and she is happy. That was my first headcanon I'm sorry if it wasn't very good. @percyjacksonweek2k17 //day 2: Family/Sally/blofis

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Percy Jackson Week Day 1: Blue Eyes we all remember (does is count?)

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So, I should probably contribute to this since I’m hosting it, lmao.  Here’s my day one post, fashionably late.  Hehe.

[marysuperwholock]

Cake

So... it’s really bad, but I really wanted to be part of this sooo, @percyjacksonweek2k17 , here’s my contribution! 

  Percy wasn't sure why he was the one walking around New York with that sealed envelope. It was torture. Maybe it was Annabeth's revenge. She had been complaining about the morning sickness, and how it was all his fault, really. 

  She was an evil genius, so she could totally have planned all this. The thing was, she wanted to do a big reveal thingy and as soon as the doctor told her what it would be, she wrote it down and sealed it. Now, she could at least have told him. But of course, she didn't. After all, he was just the father. 

  Anyway, Nico was supposed to take that damn envelope to this fancy bakery who did cakes or something. But Nico was currently working for his father, and it would take two or three days to finish whatever he was doing. So Annabeth gave it to him instead. And promised pain if he looked inside. 

  He was walking around looking for a place he didn't know the name of (he kind of forgot, and he didn't want to call Annabeth, she was already stressed as it was). All he knew was that it had sounded fancy. Pretentious, but fancy. That was when he found The Golden Lion Pastries. One fancy place or another, wouldn't really make a difference right? 

Wrong.

  The smiling woman who asked if she could help turned out to be a Dracaena. And the "Golden Lion" was the Nemean Lion. That was now chasing Percy around New York. And he didn't see any astronaut food around. 

  He eventually managed to kill it near Central park using a lot of leaves and a suitcase. Don't even ask. 

   When he was about to take a deep breath and relax, he made a mental check list. 

Two arms. Here. 

Two legs. Here.

 A very cool sword. Here.

 The envelope. He... 

Apparently, he had lost the envelope. And the last time he saw it was in the Bakery. So now he had two choices. A nest full of Dracaenas OR a furious Annabeth? 

  It wasn't really that hard, he thought and made his way to The Golden Lion Pastries. 

   Everything turned out surprisingly okay. He killed some dracaenas, got his envelope back and found the perfect bakery, owned by a daughter of Demeter. All is well when it ends well and yadda yadda yadda.

  Piper and Jason did the decoration. Their little apartment was now full of bright interrogation marks in pink and blue. Leo made the food. tortillas, the best dip ever and tacos. 

  Nico was finally back in town and picked the cake on his way to their home. 

  All in all, surrounded by his friends, by his family, he felt happy. But he would do anything for this night to be finally over to know! 

  "Hey, guys! Time to slice the cake!” Annabeth finally called. “Percy, would you do the honors?" The cake was covered in plain white frosting. So he cut and got the first slice.

 But of course, it was a blue cake...