Work Text:
Percy and Annabeth stood anxiously at the door.
"Don'y worry,'Beth. It's just my mom and Paul."
"Percy, this is my first time meeting your parents as Annabeth, your girlfriend.
He chuckled. "No matter what Annabeth you are, my mom loves you.
Percy rung the doorbell.
Sally Jackson opened the door.
She smiled brightly before scooping Annabeth in a huge hug.
"Annabeth, I missed you so much. How have you been, honey."
("Glad to see mom missed me too." "You were here just this morning, Perce")
"I missed you too Sally."
"How have you been? How's camp?"
"It's been so exciting. We haven't had this many campers in such a long time."
In the corner of her eye, Sally saw Percy smiling at the both of them.
"Hey Perce, go show Annabeth where she is going to be staying tonight."
"Come on!"
He grabbed Annabeth's hand which did not go unnoticed by Sally.
She wondered how long it would take Percy to tell her that he is finally dating Annabeth.
Sally, Paul, Annabeth and Percy all sat down at the dinner table. All around them the aroma of Sally's cooking filled the air.
"The food smells amazing, Ms. Jackson."
"Thank you dear. And I thought by now, you would know better than to call me Sally. I mean you saved my son enough times as far as I know."
"Okay, Mrs. Jacks- Sally"
Paul started to tell a story about how one of students papers that he had just finished grading. Though, unbeknownst to Sally and Paul, Percy and Annabeth stopped listening.
"Come on Perce, eat your veggies. Don't you want to make guinea pig self proud."
Paul and Sally exchanged looks of pure confusion.
"That was one time, Annabeth. And it was totally not my fault."
"You made a cute guinea pig."
"You made a- That's not fair! Why didn't you get turned into anything."
"Because I was too busy looking for you to be fooled."
Sally decided to interject.
"Percy, honey. Please eat your vegetables and Annabeth, do tell the story of where my son turns into a guinea pig."
As Annabeth finished the story (and as Percy got redder and redder), Sally noticed that the two were still holding hands.
"So you two are holding hands now? What's with this new update? Did you forget to tell your mama something, Perce. Something rather important, it seems."
"Mom!"
"I'm just saying. Paul, you should've seen them. They were so cute. They were always arguing and now look at them, holding hands."
Paul chuckled as Percy and Annabeth shared a blush.
"So, I think it's safe to say you both are dating, hm?"
Annabeth nodded.
"It's completely recent, Sally. I swear."
Sally smiled.
"I figured as much. Tell me what happened."
"Well, after everything that had happened, I found Percy was sitting on the Poseidon table alone. Me and Tyson had wanted to surprise him with a birthday cupcake," Annabeth smiled as she said "you don't even want to know how many I had to throw out due to Tyson being clumsy."
Sally chuckled.
"If you think Tyson is bad, you should Percy in the kitchen. I would like to think as my son, he would be a good cook. Unfortunately, he seemed to inherit a trait that I didn't even know was in my family."
"Mom! I just got her to be my girlfriend. Please don't embarrass me now."
Annabeth looked at him.
"Perce, nothing gets more embarrassing than seeing your face when I had to explain how I was born."
Percy groaned and pressed his head into hands.
"Anyway," Annabeth glanced at Percy who was still moping about the fact that both his girlfriend and mom already started to tag-team on him, "We started talking about the war. He told me how, when he was bathing in the River Styx, I was his anchor to the real world. (Sally cooed at that) He told me that when he was asked to be a god, the reason he said is because he didn't want everything to stay the same. And-
Percy cuts her off.
"My mom doesn't need to hear this part."
Sally raised an eyebrow.
Annabeth rolled her eyes.
"We just kissed and the rest of camp found us and threw us in the lake. Nothing else happened. He's just being dramatic."
"Aww, you kids are so cute. Trying to hide the fact that you guys are kissing from your mom. Paul, isn't that precious?"
"Mom"
"Honey, you don't have to hide it from me. After everything you kids have gone through, you deserve something normal in your lives. Though, I do have one thing to say."
Everyone looked at Sally.
"Annabeth and I have to bake blue cookies together."
"Here, honey. I took out all the indigents out of the fridge."
On the counter was a multitude of items. Butter that was sitting in a small bowl, with 2 eggs next to it. Sugar, both brown and white sat next to a large container that was filled with flour. Next to the flour held a large bag filled with chocolate chips which Annabeth had just stared that in shock.
"How many chocolate chips are we going to use?"
Sally smiled at Annabeth as she grabbed the measuring cups out of the kitchen drawer.
"In this family, we measure with our heart."
Annabeth smiled, realizing how special this moment truly is.
"First step, we put in all the wet ingredients in our mixer."
Annabeth helped Sally pour the eggs, butter and both the brown and white sugar in.
Sally handed Annabeth the blue food dye.
"Go for it. We don't measure this either. It'll be good, regardless."
Annabeth dabbed a little food coloring inside the mixer, turning the entire thing to a bright blue that almost matches the color of the mixer.
"Here was always Percy's favorite part," Sally said.
She grabbed the giant bag of chocolate chips.
"Like I said, we don't measure anything. The more, the merrier."
Handing Annabeth the oven mittens, Sally lets her take the lead on putting the cookies in the oven.
"Now's the worst part. The Dishes." Sally said as she took off her apron.
Annabeth chuckled.
Sally started to tell stories about Percy as they did the dishes.
"You know when Percy was little, I was terrified out of my mind that something would happen to him. Now, I'm still terrified but I know you have his back." She glanced at Annabeth. "And I don't mean that just literally."
Annabeth laughed.
"He has my back just as much as I have his. That's the way it's always been."
"It has always been like that, hasn't it. It's funny, you kids thought you were being so subtle with both of your crushes."
"I don't think Percy even realized he had a crush on me until I kissed him a second time."
Sally chuckled at that.
" He didn't. He kept telling me that you were just a friend. I even told him it was okay to like you but he didn't realize. I did tell him that it was not normal to print out your 'just a friend's' picture at the library and keep it with you all semester. He never, and I still don't think he realizes how much he actually likes you. But, as his mama, I can tell you. He likes you dear, and I know it's the same.
Percy poked his head in the kitchen before Annabeth had the chance to reply
"Are you guys talking about me?"
"Speaking of the devil," Annabeth says.
'Perce, you came at the right time. The cookies are finally finished.
Sally took the cookies out of the oven.
"Don't mind if I do."
"Seaweed Brain, there haven't even cooled down yet."
"If I didn't die fighting a war, Wise girl, I don't think I will die eating a hot cookie."
"Don't say I didn't warn-"
OW!
(She got cut off because Percy burnt his tongue).