Forget Me, Not (Chapter 7)
Summary: Set in Manhattan, troubled Percy Jackson goes from job to job without any direction in life, living for the sole purpose of survival. He plays an everlasting game of blame with his absent and distant father. Annabeth Chase struggles with accepting and loving who she is. The two have a lot they can learn from each other. For mature audiences.
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Another one of their, at this point trademark, silences flowed and they just stared at each other. Annabeth's face had an expression that Percy could classify as sympathy. He found himself being comforted by her slight smile instead of angered. Under normal circumstances should anyone look at him like that, he would've been enraged that they would feel sorry for him. But something about how her eyes dripped of sincerity and warmth towards him knew that she wasn't blaming him or putting him at fault for whatever his life had managed to throw at him. Even though he'd hinted that his anger was something she probably didn't want to see, and had shown her proof through cuts and bruises on his face on how far it could go, she still was sitting here, looking at him, and smiling ever so slightly.
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