[ his laugh pulls a small smile from her too, and briefly she feels a lot more like annabeth and nico than she has up until this point. like it's still a secret shared between them. part of her wonders what it would have been like if she'd been there after they found him and his sister. what would have happened if she'd been around when he was introduced to the world. it's not worth too much thought - she wasn't, too busy trying to chase down luke, too busy holding up the sky - but she does entertain it briefly. wonder if things would have been different, then.
most of their early time together had been, what annabeth now knows was, jealousy. nico watching her and hating her. nico watching her and wishing she wasn't there. and maybe it was never that intense, maybe his jealousy was never that bad, but there was something that shaped those few years, that pushed nico away.
there is something inside of annabeth that almost feels guilty, but she's brought back to the conversation at hand. ]
Oh I definitely don't want the gods involved. Just- [ well, he has a point too. piper isn't here, and as much annabeth wished she was, it wouldn't be any help. logic was the best way through it, as nico suggests, but annabeth pauses even still. because if there's one thing she knows, it's that with love (and also percy jackson) logic wasn't always the best. but she waits for nico to offer his suggestion anyway, and when he does, she just...stops. ]
Share...him? [ it's a bit difficult to wrap her head around, so she gives herself a few moments to weight the option out.
at first, she doesn't like it - but that only takes a moment for her to recognize that as her own pride getting in the way, and she files it back. second, she's unsure of it. she may not be an expert on relationships, but she knows enough to know that for most people, sharing wasn't really an option. and she's still not sure how she feels about it, but she also knows that they are demigods, which means they're anything but most people. third, something about the simplicity of it doesn't quite...stick. yet.
as she processes, her face defaults into an intense expression - brow furrowed and lips in a tight line. it's not until he says i guess i like you that annabeth breaks out of it, blinking and looking back to the son of hades.
he's trying - that much she can see. it gives her an extra push to possibly consider it. an option. she doesn't have anything better to suggest, does she? ]
I guess I like you too. [ she says with a small, almost playful smile. because really, she does. nico is interesting, a quiet, withdrawn kid who had grown into...well. what she sees ahead of her. with an interesting kind of confidence and a mind and wit she could actually talk to.
for so long it'd only been percy that annabeth doesn't even know what it means to possibly be attracted to someone. so much that she's not even sure what she should be looking for. still, nico has a point, and annabeth finds herself nodding, letting out another longer, more relaxed breath of air. ]
It's worth a shot, if anything. [ even if she hates the idea of going into anything without a little more confidence that it'd work. ] But we'll also have to run it by Percy. If he's....comfortable with it.
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most of their early time together had been, what annabeth now knows was, jealousy. nico watching her and hating her. nico watching her and wishing she wasn't there. and maybe it was never that intense, maybe his jealousy was never that bad, but there was something that shaped those few years, that pushed nico away.
there is something inside of annabeth that almost feels guilty, but she's brought back to the conversation at hand. ]
Oh I definitely don't want the gods involved. Just- [ well, he has a point too. piper isn't here, and as much annabeth wished she was, it wouldn't be any help. logic was the best way through it, as nico suggests, but annabeth pauses even still. because if there's one thing she knows, it's that with love (and also percy jackson) logic wasn't always the best. but she waits for nico to offer his suggestion anyway, and when he does, she just...stops. ]
Share...him? [ it's a bit difficult to wrap her head around, so she gives herself a few moments to weight the option out.
at first, she doesn't like it - but that only takes a moment for her to recognize that as her own pride getting in the way, and she files it back. second, she's unsure of it. she may not be an expert on relationships, but she knows enough to know that for most people, sharing wasn't really an option. and she's still not sure how she feels about it, but she also knows that they are demigods, which means they're anything but most people. third, something about the simplicity of it doesn't quite...stick. yet.
as she processes, her face defaults into an intense expression - brow furrowed and lips in a tight line. it's not until he says i guess i like you that annabeth breaks out of it, blinking and looking back to the son of hades.
he's trying - that much she can see. it gives her an extra push to possibly consider it. an option. she doesn't have anything better to suggest, does she? ]
I guess I like you too. [ she says with a small, almost playful smile. because really, she does. nico is interesting, a quiet, withdrawn kid who had grown into...well. what she sees ahead of her. with an interesting kind of confidence and a mind and wit she could actually talk to.
for so long it'd only been percy that annabeth doesn't even know what it means to possibly be attracted to someone. so much that she's not even sure what she should be looking for. still, nico has a point, and annabeth finds herself nodding, letting out another longer, more relaxed breath of air. ]
It's worth a shot, if anything. [ even if she hates the idea of going into anything without a little more confidence that it'd work. ] But we'll also have to run it by Percy. If he's....comfortable with it.