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really hope people realise that me liking a character doesn't mean I think they were justified

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Art version of this post

Plus an unfinished Wip

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By some stroke of Tyche, Jason Grace stirs to wakefulness when Alabaster comes to check up on him. As he takes a seat across his captive, Grace slurs out, “Where am I?”

“Hardly your first concern,” Alabaster curtly replies. “How did you pass through my wards while unconscious?”

“Wards?” Hazy blue eyes blink rapidly. “I don’t understand.”

Lips curling into a sneer, Alabaster wordlessly casts light from his palm. The green glow washes over their faces.

“Little praetor. You got quite a number of my subordinates killed. Don’t play dumb, Jason Grace.”

“I don’t know who that is,” the son of Zeus—Jupiter, really—pleads. “Is that… Is that my name?”

Alabaster rears back in surprise.

“What have we here?” he murmurs, casting a basic diagnosis incantation.

While Jason Grace looks too confused and helpless under the magical bindings Alabaster spelled on him to be telling anything but the truth, it doesn’t make the readings any less shocking.

He’s a total amnesiac.

And he reeks of Juno’s magic. His patron’s magic.

***

“So what do we do with him?” Claymore asks later on. “Will you use him?”

To get back at Olympus, Claymore means. Jason Grace is currently primed for it—malleable to Alabaster’s care but still powerful. However, there are more pressing matters to attend to. Lamia and her unknown mistress, for one.

Alabaster caresses his left forearm, where his deceased siblings’ names are inked into his skin.

“Not just yet.” His vengeance will have to wait.

“Then what are we keeping him for?”

Alabaster smiles. “The little praetor and I can start with hunting down my dear sister—and killing her for once and for all.”

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Ethan sleeps with a dagger under his pillow. He’s never really used it, though, until one night, he’s shocked awake by a strange stripe of icy heat on his shoulder.

“Whoa!” Travis throws up his hands in defense. “It’s just me.”

Ethan yanks the knife away from Travis’ throat.

“The hell are you doing?” he grumbles. “I could’ve killed you!”

Travis shrugs, rubbing the patch of camphor and menthol into Ethan’s skin. “Mr. D’s letting it snow again this Christmas, starting from today,” he softly says. “I know the pain gets worse when it’s cold.”

At Travis’ side, there’s a small stockpile of Salonpas and warm compresses. No doubt his boyfriend went on a shoplifting spree from the camp store. All to soothe Ethan’s injuries from when Kronos pitched him off Olympus.

“You’re such a mother hen,” Ethan sighs, already pulling him down into bed with him. What better way to warm up, right?

“So scandalous, E. What if the harpies catch us?” Travis teases.

They fit like jigsaw pieces, Travis’ lanky limbs stretching over Ethan’s form.

Ethan can’t believe he gets a second chance.

“Fuck the harpies.”

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"Hecuba, catch!"

Light filters in and out of Alabaster's eyelids.

"Hecuba!"

Why is he shaking?

****

I have no idea where I was going with this, so everyone say hi to River's 3am draft

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An excerpt of Ethan Nakamura’s audio log - July 5th, 10:02pm, Princess Andromeda

I messed up. This was a mistake. This shouldn’t have happened.

[A shaky breath is just barely caught in the recording]

She shouldn’t be here. I don’t know why I brought her here,it was a mistake, a lapse in judgement, a— No, I know what it was.

An indulgence.

[Quiet laughter lasts for a beat before fading into a sigh]

Oh, isn’t that just fucking pathetic, poor Ethan makes a friend and suddenly he gets distracted from the goal. Gods, what is wrong with me? I’m not supposed to be like this, I’m better than this, I was made to be.

I don’t know much about Morpheus, I don’t know that much about any of the so-called minor gods here, I suppose I could see if mo— no, I need to solve my own problems. I could see if Alabaster could give me some help.

It's nice that I get to see Alabaster again, that was a welcome surprise. I don’t think he should’ve helped me and Rachel, he’s got enough to deal with already. I do hope he and Rachel could become friends, it would make this easier.

[Another shaky breath is heard]

Deep breaths, Ethan. Trust your instincts, just like you always have.

She’s got a plan for you.

End of log for this date.

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I can make this au So Much More Fucked Up actually

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Ignore that I forgot Percabeth's crowns, this was an excuse to draw Regency-inspired clothes

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Nico and Alabaster: Me and the bestie !!!

Nico and Alabaster one plague and war later: Can't stand his fake ass >:(

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Having so many ideas on how to answer asks but no motivation for it is hell actually/hj

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I'm curious

Not including Alison because I don't think she'd fit nor any of the ta gods/titans because there's enough of them for their own poll

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I HAD to make Percy call Al your Highness plsssss

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selfies

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Some no context war prize al au scene musings :3

Percy wandered aimlessly beneath the cliffsides, his eyes searching through the rocks for some wild flowers.

He wanted to pick some surprise flowers for his wife, sue him.

Not that he could find any growing between the rocks.

He sighed, throwing his head back in frustration. Percy cracked one eye open, his gaze caught on the palace.

He beamed as he saw the distant figure of Alabaster lounging at one of the terraces.

Percy waved his arms, grinning like a kid.

Alabaster leaned down, staring at him, before he disappeared back inside the building. He came back a few minutes later with a packet—

Which he promptly threw down right at Percy’s face.

Percy loudly groaned, hoping Alabaster heard him as he crouched to get the packet. He unwrapped the paper.

And blinked.

A shoe.

Did Alabaster throw his shoe at him? Perplexed, Percy smoothed the paper wrapper, only to burst into a cackle once he saw what was written on the note.

'Flowers are on the other side. Don't lose my shoe.'

******

"It's too bad my father doesn't let you be anything more than arm candy during meetings," Prince Triton mused, "I'd like to go toe to toe with you."

"Embarrass me, you mean." Alabaster flattened.

"Your embarrassment means my brother's embarrassment," Triton shrugged, moving his rook, "Check."

"What I don't get," Alabaster ate his rook with a pawn, "Is who you got to do the poison for you. Check."

"What makes you think I didn't prepare it myself?" Triton thinly smiled, leaning his chin on one hand, and crossed his bishop across the board, "Check."

"The poison requires heat and causes temporary asphyxiation for the maker. You neither were wearing gloves, nor did you had breathing problems." Alabaster moved his queen away, "Check."

"Take another look, it's not." Triton raised an eyebrow, "And what makes you think I wouldn't take caution?"

Alabaster frowned, narrowing his eyes at the chessboard until black and white tiles spinned in front of his vision. A hand slammed down on the board, causing the pieces to spill down the table's sides.

He jerked his head up to meet the eyes of Princess Kymopoleia.

The princess looked him up and down with almost hidden disgust, soured her face and snapped at her brother. "Tell your Sthenian lover to send back my herbology book."

"Good afternoon, Triton. How are you doing, Triton." The said prince exhaled.

"Certainly not good if I don't get my book back for yet another two months!" Kymopoleia smiled saccharine sweet. "I don't care how long it takes to ship something from Sthenias to Atlantis. I want it in my study at the end of the week."

"Sure thing, Kym." Triton bent down to pick up his fallen pieces, "See you at the kitchen at midnight with Rhodos?"

She hmphed, though Alabaster wasn't sure if that was an agreement. "See to that, or I'll gut every single fish in your quarters, Tri."

"Siblings," Triton threw an exasperated look after his sister left, before his face froze when he saw Alabaster's smirk, "Oh no."

"Sthenian lover, prince? Check," He threw the single knight in his hand towards Triton's chest, "And Mate."

*********

"Sister, you're getting highly inappropriate!" Alabaster growled, raising his voice.

"Inappropriate!?" Lou shook, vision blurring, "What's inappropriate is the way they— you— they keep—"

"I didn't pry into your letters with Princess Hazel when Underworld was supposed to be closed off," Alabaster hissed, "I'd appreciate if you gave the same courtesy to my relationship."

"Relationship." Lou repeated, feeling lopsided and out of her body. Her tongue weighted like lead inside her mouth, "You cannot possibly be thinking that they love you, actually love you as your own person."

Alabaster's voice echoed from the distance, despite the fact he was within arm's reach. "...I don't care."

"You don't—" Lou's hands flew to her mouth; from shock, horror, or betrayal she didn't know, "ALABASTER—"

"Enough, Your Majesty." Her brother murmured, fisting the sheets of the bed he was perched on. He heaved, staring far away as if each word hurt to speak, "You must have palace matters to attend to."

********

"Annabeth! Annabeth, slow down!" Alabaster shouted, trying to find his footing as Annabeth dragged him along by the wrist, cackling.

"Come on, slowpoke!" Annabeth turned her head around to flash him a grin that made his heart skip a beat.

"You're," he panted, leaning on the history section, "going to get us both kicked out of the library."

Annabeth just grinned further and pushed him by the shoulders until his back hit the shelves.

It took Alabaster an embarrassing minute to comprehend her lips were on his. He yelped as heat crept up his neck and shoved her away, hiding his aflame face on her shoulder.

"Jackson, I believe you're a married woman!" He sputtered out half-heartedly.

"Stheno is on lunch break. Relax, jewel." She laughed, tracing a thumb down his jawline, "Besides. You don't count."

A sick feeling pooled down his stomach as thorns and resentment bit into his heart. Alabaster smiled grimly, nodding as he twisted his face round.

He didn't count. After all, he was Annabeth and her husband's wedding gift, was he not?

******

Ethan offered a hand up to his prince.

Alabaster grabbed it, helping himself up the wall, and climbed next to him. "I'm so glad you're alright."

Ethan melted into the hand placed on his cheek, "Yes, your Highness. Delphin wasn't that ma— Well, he seemed more worried about keeping appearances than actually getting angry."

Alabaster huffed, tucking a stray hair that escaped Ethan's ponytail behind his ear. "That's good."

"That's—" Ethan paused, his eye caught on the object around Alabaster's wrist. "That's new."

Alabaster drew his hand away, enclosing one hand around the engraved silver bracelet shining under the moonlight. He pursed his lips, "It's... a gift. From the princess."

"I see," Ethan's voice faltered.

*******

Alabaster was not in bed when Percy and Annabeth came to their room.

But a sniffling sound could be heard near the fireplace.

Percy winced as he took in Alabaster's trembling figure; crouched next to the fire like a ball, his sweat soaked nightgown clinging to his body and his hair in disarray.

Him and Annabeth shared a concerned glance before rushing to Alabaster's side.

Just as they kneeled next to him, he jerked up, and threw himself at them.

"It's so cold," He sobbed in Annabeth’s arms, "and today—"

"—is your 20th birthday," Annabeth finished, rubbing his back and pulling him in her embrace, sympathy in her eyes, "Oh, jewel..."

Percy bit his lip. He got up, pulled the outer blanket off the bed and gently draped it across Alabaster's body like a cloak. He sat again, taking his crown off.

Only to adorn Alabaster's head with it.

Annabeth raised her eyebrows, Alabaster making a sound of surprise, "Perseus..?"

"Come on, your Highness," Percy mumbled, wrapping his arms around Alabaster's waist, "let's warm you up."

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