[ she can't help the small smile that slips onto her face at his first remark of his mother, finding it simultaneously the most percy thing to say and the most sally thing to do. he isn't wrong. ]
Why not both? He'd be begging her for lessons.
[ something in her own heart clenches at the way he shakes his head, the expression he wears, knowing that as much as she misses home, it's got to be ten times worse for him. she's so tired of gods and singularities pulling him in too many directions. ]
[ annabeth tightens her grip on his hand after he squeezes it, leaving it that way with reassurance. ]
We will. [ she says it with all the determination he needs to hear, shoving aside any of her own doubts. she will believe they'll get home because percy needs it, because she does too - because the singularity might have shown them a future of this world, but it isn't one either of them want. ] We're going to get home.
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Why not both? He'd be begging her for lessons.
[ something in her own heart clenches at the way he shakes his head, the expression he wears, knowing that as much as she misses home, it's got to be ten times worse for him. she's so tired of gods and singularities pulling him in too many directions. ]
[ annabeth tightens her grip on his hand after he squeezes it, leaving it that way with reassurance. ]
We will. [ she says it with all the determination he needs to hear, shoving aside any of her own doubts. she will believe they'll get home because percy needs it, because she does too - because the singularity might have shown them a future of this world, but it isn't one either of them want. ] We're going to get home.