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This Started Because Of Books
Magnus was expecting nothing for today.
Though he should know that being an Einherjar, his days were always going to be at least interesting in some convoluted way. What he wasn’t expecting was a knock upon the Chase Space’s old oak doors at the ungodly hour of… Oh. It was noon. So a knock on the door wasn’t out of the ordinary at all. Maybe he should finally start paying attention to the time instead of being locked in his books all morning?
Nah.
After slipping in a bookmark, Magnus closed the copy of The Silmarillion he was reading for the umpteenth time and tossed it on the desk. Heading downstairs he expected to see Samirah at the door for some urgent Norse issue that only Magnus could solve because Gods (he doesn’t worship and never will) forbid they solve their own gods (ha) forsaken issues. Magnus swung the door open and immediately slammed it shut.
Of course.
It wasn’t Samirah, or Blitzen, or even Alex back from her visit to Blitzen’s Best. Nope. Standing outside on the marble steps was a guy with a troublemaker smile, hair as dark as the feathers of Odin’s ravens with a light tan and green eyes dressed in a red and black checkboard flannel with blue jeans.
Of course.
Magnus could hear him laughing his ass off outside, saying something about ‘not throwing him off the USS Constitution this time’.
He opened the door again to Percy’s, admittedly, infectious laughter.
“Magnus! There’s my favorite cousin-in-law!” Percy contained his laughs for a moment.
Magnus glanced towards Percy’s left hand and shook his head.
“You’re not married yet, I’ll go get a ring so your statement is accurate this time.”
“I’ll let Annabeth know you’ll be our flower girl, they do tend to grow around you when you get happy,” Percy snickered under his breath.
Magnus rolled his eyes. “Where is she actually?” He looked past Percy just in case his cousin was behind him.
Percy's eyes widened for a second before he spun around. “She was just here with me… Bet ya five bucks she’s admiring one of the gargoyles above the place where we parked. Come on,” Percy waved for Magnus to follow.
Shutting the door behind him, Magnus chuckled under his breath. “I’m not taking that bet,” he said.
“Smart,” Percy noted. “So your looks aren’t deceiving after all!”
Magnus nearly stopped dead in his tracks. “The fuck does that mean?”
If Jack wasn’t on a date with a halberd from Floor 66 he would’ve made a snarky comment about Percy before Magnus could even think of one.
“Magnus,” Percy started as the pair rounded the corner behind the mansion. “You are an Athena child doppelganger. If I threw you in an orange hoodie you’d blend right in with cabin six alright.”
“What?”
“It’s the hair and the eyes, Magnus, all the Athena kids have it to some extent,” Percy explained.
Magnus gave the son of Poseidon a titled stare. “Again, what?”
“You know the story of Athena and Pallas right?” He asked.
It sounded familiar. Magnus was pretty sure Annabeth had told him the myth when he was visiting New Rome but it was probably an offhanded comment or something along those lines. Come to think of it, he wasn’t even sure if he was told a myth or something Athena recently did. He, at the very least, knows the name Pallas Athena.
“Hit me with the Sparknotes,” he said after a second.
“Right,” Percy stopped dead in his tracks, green eyes darting around randomly.
“So Pallas was Athena’s friend right?” He began, “one day she accidentally killed her during a sparring match. In her honor Athena took her name, becoming Pallas Athena, and her children all bear Pallas’ blonde hair in some way, like at the roots or the whole head. It’s literally keeping a representation of her best friend alive in the Mortal world.”
“That’s oddly sweet of her,” Magnus said honestly, knowing how Annabeth had described her mom in the past. “But what about the eyes?”
“Those are Athena’s eyes,” Percy stated. “It’s always a shade lighter or darker, but they all have their mom’s eyes. A reminder of how smart, crafty and cunning they could be,” he explained while fiddling with his car keys. “And beautiful, can’t forget that.”
Now he was confused again.
“What does being beautiful have to do with the Goddess of wisdom? That sounds like something Aphrodite would do.”
“Paris and the golden apple at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. Contest for the most beautiful of the Goddesses. It was between Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite. You don’t know that?”
Magnus shrugged. “Just hearing of it for the first time.”
“We really got to teach you the Greek myths…” Percy decided before continuing on to the small parking spot behind the mansion.
Magnus just rolled his eyes again.
Turns out, to no one’s surprise, that Percy was right about where Annabeth was. She was currently leaning up against a black car, presumably the one she took to get here from New Rome, gazing up towards the roof with awe in her eyes. Magnus pretended not to notice that she was wearing almost the exact same outfit as Percy, just in grey and white.
“They dress like a married couple already,” Alex’s voice rang inside his head.
“I never noticed that the gargoyles were specifically Victorian,” she said to herself, not even noticing the pair standing off to her side. “I wonder why our family chose that design over older ones-” She stopped herself, turning to face the pair.
“Sorry, got distracted,” she sheepishly smiled, offering Mangus a hug. “Hi Magnus, decided to randomly drop in on ya.”
“I noticed, how come you didn’t call?” He said, returning the hug. “You usually call.”
“It was a last minute thing honestly,” Annabeth explained. “Also didn’t want to take chances on calling you on the road. We don’t want this getting destroyed by monsters,” she patted the trunk of the car, careful to avoid the glass and spoiler.
Realization hit Magnus in the face. The last time Annabeth and Percy had come to visit Boston (so Percy could give him pointers on not dying at sea) they had a blue Prius. Not a black car, a coupe, with a white stripe on the side with white lettering that spelled out “Mach 1” with “Mustang” underneath it…
“Since when did you get a classic Mustang?” Magnus asked deadpan.
“Frank broke the Prius,” Percy explained. “Jousting.”
“It was a beautiful explosion,” Annabeth added on.
“What-what do you mean by ‘jousting’?” Magnus asked, turning to face Percy. “Are you telling me that Frank, leader of the Romans who I met once, jousted with the Prius? HOW DO YOU MANAGE THAT?”
“It wasn’t Frank jousting it,” Annabeth clarified. “And to be fair, it was an accident.”
Magnus put his face in his hands. “HOW DO YOU JOUST WITH A CAR ON ACCIDENT?!” He exclaimed with a groan. For how crazy the Norse world could get, it was nothing compared to the Greco-Roman world, and this was just another reminder of that.
“It’s a long story,” Annabeth laughed. “We’ll tell it to you at dinner,” she said. “Anyways, we’re here because I want to look at Randolph’s library. He might have something we can use for our classes this fall. Even if it’s a pain in the ass to read.”
Magnus dragged his hands off of his face. “Of course, take whatever you want. I’m more worried about sudden death via car jousting.”
Annabeth waved off his concerns. “No one was hurt, just the Prius and an old truck.”
“It was fun!” Percy popped open the truck of the Mustang. “Anyways, you got a place for us to stay for a few days? If not that’s alright, there’s this hotel down the street that we could stay at.”
“The first floor is the shelter,” Magnus said. “The other five floors are for, well Alex, Blitz, Hearth and I. And whoever else decides to show up. So, yeah, we’ve got plenty of space,” he grabbed one of the duffel bags from the trunk before Percy could respond. “We can go in through the basement, it’s quicker.”
Percy climbed the stairs leading out from the basement for the last time. The only thing left in the car was his phone, which he left in the glovebox.
Upon reaching the top of the steps, Percy noticed some random guy standing by the Mustang. His hand instinctively dug itself in his pocket, clasping itself around Riptide. Either this guy was trying to break into the car, which was impossible thanks to modifications made by the Vulcan kids at Camp Jupiter and later by world’s greatest mechanic Leo Valdez… Or he was trying to take candid photos of it because it was a classic.
Either way, Percy was going to have to tell this guy off.
“Back off from the car buddy,” Percy barked out. He expected one of two reactions. Either the guy was going to take off running, leaving behind a crowbar or whatever as he was trying to break in, or he was going to turn to face Percy with a guilty look before apologizing.
What he wasn’t expecting was a phone camera shoved in his face.
“WHY ARE YOU SUPPORTING THIS DEMONIC PLACE?!” The man shouted right in Percy’s face, his breath hot leaving the stench of tobacco behind.
“The fuck?!” Somehow through the grace of the Theoi, Percy didn’t immediately deck the offending mortal right in his stupid pig face. He didn’t want to cause Magnus issues the very first day he got here after all.
“This place tells children that it’s okay to change genders! It’s anti-Christian and anti-American! The Bible says-”
Nevermind that thing about the grace of the Gods and not punching a stupid bigot in his face to avoid causing Magnus issues. This is a perfectly good excuse to break some moron’s nose. The idiot fell flat on his ass, somehow still holding on to that phone of his as his other hand covered his nose tightly.
“Sounds cool to me. Get the fuck out of my sight,” Percy spat, his face red hot. “I don’t give a single fuck about America or your Christian bullshit.”
“You-” the man tried to speak but Percy cut him off again.
“Go!” He growled, his eyes burning into the man’s soul, the wolf stare coming in handy yet again.
The man took off after scrambling to his feet. Percy growled under his breath as he swiped his phone from the glovebox. He marched back into the Chase Space and right into Magnus in the kitchen who immediately noticed his rage. Though, to be fair, it was incredibly obvious.
“You good man?” The son of Frey asked, his grey eyes staring at him in a similar way to Annabeth.
“Yeah, turns out you’ve got assholes stalking the backlot,” Percy sighed, dragging his hand down his face with a groan.
“Oh was it one of those “Dads For Freedom” types?” Magnus asked. “They’ve been bothering this place for weeks now.”
“Do I even want to know?”
“Just the usual conservative group of morons,” Magnus sighed, leaning up against the counter. “We’ve tried to get rid of them for a while now. What’d ya do?”
“Socked him in the face,” Percy admitted without guilt. “Might cause ya trouble.”
Magnus broke down laughing. “Oh that’s great, please tell me it hurt. And don’t worry, I’ve done the same, it won’t.”
“Broke his nose probably,” Percy felt himself cool down hearing Magnus break out into another laughing fit.
“Good, good. I take back the internal thoughts of wanting to drive you away like a vulture!” Magnus exclaimed. “Maybe this time they’ll take the hint!”
“Here’s hoping,” Percy muttered. “Now about those Greek myths…”
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Sporky: OH GODS
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SHINEY: They’re going to be feral aren’t they? (that’s the term right?)
LifeIsPaint: yes, and yes
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Ocean: who is gonna have stans?
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