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1. This post will be open for fic and fan art submissions from Tuesday, May 24 to Tuesday, June 7. Anonymous commenting has been enabled ( Read more... )
Most people at Camp Half-Blood are naturally laid back and friendly toward newcomers (the obvious exception being during sparring and games of Capture the Flag where even the nicest of kids turn into bloodthirsty barbarians waving sharp, scary pointy things). Even after that whole awkward discovery when Jason's shady status as a former Roman camper, nobody's really given him much flack for it. It sort of feels as if being a Roman is oddly like coming from enemy lines, but they're all supposed to be on the same side, right? But either way, people have been accommodating about it, mostly seeing it as one of those things you can't control about yourself. Nobody's will begrudge him for what he can't remember anyway.
The blonde girl, though, the first Greek he met back on that day when he woke up on a school bus holding hands with Piper, she is a tough nut to crack. Ever since the beginning, he's gotten pretty definite negative vibes from her, and during duels, she gets a lot of satisfaction from beating him to a pulp. And it's not hard for her either. He's gotten steadily better, to the point where he can best almost all of the campers, but he's never beaten her. She's good. Really good.
After the quest and things started settling down again at camp, he decides that he wants to work with her more - you know, not in a skeezy way, like he wanted to hit on her or anything, but because he could use some pointers from her. She would be able to help him eliminate his weaknesses faster. She does train some of the more promising campers individually. So he thought he'd ask, but every time he brings it up, she changes the subject or finds some excuse to peace out. Actually, come to think of it, she does that a lot. Yep, Jason is almost positive she dislikes him. Why, though? He hasn't crossed her, as far as he knows. She's kept out of the way, mostly, out of everyone's way. She eats dinner with everyone and trains and gives tours and helps get newly claimed demigods to camp, all without complaint, but without a lot of heart, either.
By now he's heard all the nitty, gritty details about why she's so depressed. It's because that boyfriend of hers is missing. What's-his-name Percy Jackson, right, that everyone talks about in hush-hush tones, partly because hearing his name upsets Annabeth, but also because everyone here has this sense of awed admiration and almost religious devotion toward him. Percy is The Hero of camp. It only happened a few months ago, but the events of the Titan War have blown up to legendary proportions to where some parts of the story are stretched, some are completely made up, and some facts are totally thrown out the window in favor of a grander telling. It seems like every time the war is recounted, it gets greater in scope, more epic, more impossibly thrilling. The demigods who actually lived through it don't talk about it much, and Annabeth doesn't talk about it at all, not even when the new kids ask.
She doesn't talk about much these days. He should cut her some slack. Her boyfriend is gone. She's worried, and it's obvious to anyone who's looking that she's going to pieces, but she has to keep it together for the sake of her friends, Camp, Chiron. But he's selfish, and he's itchy and annoyed with his still-failing memory, and all he can do is be irritated at her space-case attitude and casual brush offs. So she can't take him seriously because he's Roman? He's been on a quest too. And from what he's heard and parts of what he remembers, the Romans took care of the Western front during the war, fighting on enemy soil. The Greeks were just defending home base, and everyone knows that going on the offensive in war is harder than holding ground. Maybe what frustrates him the most is if she were actually trying her best, she'd probably take him down without even breaking a sweat. As it is, she's holding back, not because she means to, but she's just never all there for any activity. And that drives him insane. He hates people who don't give one hundred percent. Even if eighty percent is enough for her to beat everybody, that doesn't give her an excuse to try less hard.
continued here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7041563/1/Penelope_Waiting
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