During their yearly Argo Crew reunion, Leo, Piper, Percy, and Annabeth all sat on the floor of Cabin 1 as they ate snacks and told stories about what they've been up to. The room was dimly lit, Thalia's string lights being the only source of light, and smelled distinctly of petrichor. Everyone's blankets are thrown onto the floor, creating a huge jumble of colours and patterns. Frank and Hazel were still on their way from Camp Jupiter, while Jason had run off to get them more stuff from the pavilion. So like anyone would, they started rating campers at both camps while they waited.
“Uhh, Mitchell from Aphrodite?” Said Annabeth, before biting into another cookie.
“Oh, 10/10.” Percy almost immediately got groans of disapproval coming his way. “What? I'm a simple guy, I see a blonde, I like.”
“Firstly, ew, that's my brother,” Piper gags. “Secondly, he's not even the natural blonde he claims he is! He bleaches it, and I would know because everytime it does it stinks up the whole cabin.”
“And? Blonde regardless.” Percy shrugged. Leo stayed silent for a second, before chiming in to the conversation.
“Hang on, you might have a point. Remember beach volleyball? Dudes kinda ripped.” Leo hummed, smirking as Piper's jaw dropped to the floor.
“See! He gets me! Blondes are hot!” Annabeth punched him in the shoulder, and Percy dramatically fell back, hitting his head on the baseboard of Jason's bed in the process. He winces, Pulling back up with an “Ow.”
“On the topic of blondes…” Piper grinned, flashing her teeth at Annabeth, whose face dropped faster than an arrow from Orion. “Malcolm Pace?”
“Dude! That's my brother!” Annabeth groaned, as everyone burst into laughter.
“Your brother’s pretty smokin’ hot, then.” Leo fist bumps Piper as the blonde just gawks at him.
“You and Percy both have a thing for blondes, gods.”
“Untrue!” Leo protests, crossing his arms. Piper raises an eyebrow.
“Hm. Okay then. Jason Grace?”
“Ten.”
“Ten.”
Percy and Leo both speak at the same time, causing Piper and Annabeth to snort.
“What? Have you seen the guy?”
“I've seen him plenty a time, Leo. we used to be dating, in case you've forgotten.”
“Okay, like, you broke up n all, but good gods, Jasons hot as sh*t, dude.”
“Gotta vouch with you on that one.” Percy snorts, whining when Annabeth slaps him upside his head this time.
“I oughta kiss him one day, for real.” A piece of Pipers chocolate lodged in her throat suddenly, her eyes going bloodshot as she looked up at Leo.
“What?” She choked out.
“Yeah, what?” Everyone turned their heads to see Jason, Hazel, and Frank at the door, bags in hand as they threw their heads back in laughter before joining them on the floor.
“So what are we talking about?” Hazel asks, shifting side to side as she throws her own blanket into the pile, a purple and pink fleece blanket with horses on them.
“Rating campers,” Piper hums. “Leo thinks you're a 10/10 by the way, Jason.”
“Cant preface this enough bro, youre hot as f*ck. No hom*o.” Leo grins lopsidedly. Jason sits next to him, ruffling the dark, curly hair.
“Awh, thanks bro, you're a 10/10 too by the way.” Everyone watches awkwardly as Leo shifts over to throw an arm around Jason's shoulder, him holding onto Leo's waist in return. “No hom*o.”
The game continues as normal, just with Leo highkey sitting on Jasons lap. The two seem to act like this is a normal occurrence, for some reason, completely ignorant of anything it could or would imply. Not even the actual couples would sit that close to each other.
“Oh! Guess what the pavilion had today,” Jason turned to his small tote bag and pulled out a small plastic container of green grapes. “Cotton candy grapes!”
Everyone cheered, because cotton candy grapes were the best, obviously. But no demigod cheered louder as Leo, who full on screamed at the sight of them. Jason had to hold them up high to avoid Leo from just snatching the whole thing and dumping them all in his mouth.
“Leo, no.” he reprimanded, slowly bringing a second hand up to grab a grape from the container. “One at a time.” Leo pouted in response, but immediately lit up as Jason pressed a grape to his lips, taking it in his mouth and reaching for more.
The other demigods had eye conversations with each other while the two fought over grapes.
‘Do you see this right now?’ Percy asked them.
‘Totally. There's no way they arent dating.’ Hazel responded.
‘Yeah, but if they were they would have told us by now.’ Piper smirked, grabbing her phone to take pictures.
‘Wait, they aren't already?’ asked Frank.
They played truth or dare, 20 questions, and it ended in just talking about whatever they've been up to during the 4 years following the battle with Gaea.
“-At school there's been this huge science competition, right, and it's like, a knockoff-style? So each round a few people are disqualified. It's been a few weeks and i'm still goin strong.” Leo brags, though it sounds a bit muffled as he had stuffed his mouth with cotton candy grapes just a bit prior.
“What’s yours about?” asked Jason, who was really the only one interested at this point, the rest of the seven went off to scroll through their phones or make small talk with one another.
“Producing fire with sticks underwater.” Leo answered simply, giving a crooked grin. “The judges only really care for the explanation, not how it's done.” He held a finger to his lips as it ignited a flame, just for a second.
“Leo! That's cheating!” Scolded Jason, shoving at his shoulder playfully.
“The rules for cheating were no sabotaging, no secret partners, and no cuts in footage.” Leo leaned back on Jason's chest, looking up as he booped his nose. “Nothin’ about godly powers.”
Jason groans. “Well, if you're gonna cheat, at least make sure to do it well. Maybe you’ll let me come to your school and see it in person?” He says with a curl in his voice, giving a small smirk.
“You underestimate the things I'd do for you, babygirl.” Leo sighs with a smile.
Everyone shot up from what they were doing.
“What the f*ck did you just say?” Percy choked out.
“What? That I'm cheating my project?”
“No, what you just called Jason.” Annabeth furrows her eyebrows, her lips curling up into an amused smile.
“Babygirl?” Jason tilts his head like this was obvious. Like, of course, Leo and Jason, two best friends, homies, bestest of bros, call each other babygirl on the daily.
“That!” Percy points at them like they’re a creature exhibit at the aquarium. “Jase, Leo, be honest- you guys have to be dating, right?”
He stared at him blankly for a moment. “... How far up your ass did you have to reach to pull that out?”
“Not far up I guess, you guys are literally cuddling right now.” he pointed at their positions. Leo's arms were still clinging around Jason's neck, sitting by his side as Jason held him close.
“...Oh I get it.” Leo crossed his arms and fake pouted. “You're just jealous of our bromance. Isn't that right, babygirl?” Jason nodded in agreement as Annabeth and Piper lost their composition- doubling over in laughter.
“Jason isn't even a baby. Or a girl.” Hazel says, her voice bubbly with giggles.
“Haze, i've gotta get you on the internet more, seriously.” Frank sighs with a smile.
“No way. That place scares me.”
The room fills with laughter, a high sound the Zeus Cabin would have never had years back. They passed around the container of grapes, it almost being empty by now.
At around two am, the 7 decided to finally get some sleep before the morning, laying in a circle on the floor.
“Oh sh*t- I forgot my blanket, just gonna run back to my cabin real quick.” Leo got up, pointing to the door.
“Nah dude, you can just sleep on my bed.” Said Jason, absentmindedly. Everyone turned their heads at him, almost comically.
“Oh, right. Didn't think of that.” Leo face palmed, skipping back over to Jason's little alcove bed, crawling right in as the rest of the seven stared with their jaws to the floor.
And Percy tried to sleep, alright? It was just very hard when Jason and Leo were whispering and giggling like little kids. Annabeth was apparently in the same state, as she squeezed his hand uncomfortably tight when Leo whispered to Jason, “your ass is huge, you know that? I'm about to fall off the bed right now because of your massive f*ckin’ trunk.” Percy shuddered and squeezed her hand back. He really didn't need to hear that.
“Shut up, Leo, go to bed.” Jason whispered back.
“Mmm, no.”
“Gods, i'm about to kick you off this be- dude how'd you get a grape stuck to your hair?!”
“Oh, yum.” He heard a crunching noise, presumably Leo eating the grape Jason had just picked out of his messy curls.
“Ew, Leo.”
“Haha.”
“Just- go to bed.”
“Oh my gods fine,,, goodnight pookie…” Then a pause. “... Say it back. Or I'm not going to bed.”
“... Ugh, fine. Goodnight babygirl.”
“Hm.”
Everything went quiet, and Percy finally thought he could go to sleep. He still held onto Annabeth's hand as he turned over to her side.
She was as beautiful as ever, even in the dark. Her stormy grey eyes shone in the string lights hung behind them. Her messy blonde curls tousled to one side, and Percy reached over to tuck a strand behind her ear. She hummed in content, before closing her eyes.
Within a few minutes, soft snoring came from the girl. Percy always thought it was adorable how she slept. Even while she was dreaming, she looked elegant and stunning. Smart and analytical.
He rubbed a thumb over the crease in her eyebrows, gently relaxing them. He paused; only for a moment.
He leaned forward to press a kiss to her forehead. She sighed, curling up into her blanket, and Percy smiled. He was dating the smartest, prettiest, and strongest person in the world. He couldn't even begin to believe how lucky he was.
His smile quickly dropped, however, when he heard a kiss echo from the other side of the room, followed by the familiar giggle of a certain curly haired boy.
