You’d Do The Same For Me
A peek at Annabeth's life during the months where Percy is missing plus an alternate Mark of Athena Percabeth reunion.
This is for the @percyjackson-secretsanta! Sorry it's a bit late, but I hope you enjoy, @sleepywitchnarcolepsy!
Pairing: Percabeth
Word Count: 5k+
There are few things that make Annabeth happy these days, but standing in the center of the sword fighting arena, panting with exhaustion and dripping with sweat, she feels alive.
Clarisse stands opposite her, recollecting herself and taking advantage of the breather. She adjusts her bandana and checks over the handle of her spear, which was just in gridlock with Annabeth’s sword.
While Annabeth isn’t fond of fighting without her dagger, she’s found that her sparring sessions don’t further her skill as much when she uses it. These days demand much more of her with all their distractions and responsibilities, so she has to challenge herself. Few people at camp can help her with that anymore, and though Jason is coming along well as his memory returns, sparring with Jason only reminds her how not-Percy he is. He’s simply too Roman to be of much use to her distraction or her progression.
But Clarisse? The daughter of Ares is anything but Roman. And she’s familiar. Annabeth and Clarisse have been fighting in this arena since they were children, before quests and prophecies and Percy, and if Annabeth focuses only on the matter at hand, she can almost fool herself into believing they’re back in that time.
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