#barista paercy

[forevfangirlwrites]

I'm sure you get a million prompts for how to handle fame so please feel free to completely ignore this but I think it'd be cute to at some point see a fic of Percy watching Estelle and Annabeth interact together for this first time like we saw them meet, but it'd be adorable to see the aftermath of that

-Estelle hasn’t stopped looking at Annabeth since she showed up an hour ago and Percy is starting to feel a little jealous because Annabeth has been giving Estelle almost the same amount of attention back

-“Were the goblins super scary?” Estelle interjects the larger conversation every now and then with another question about Princess Andromeda that Annabeth, very kindly, spends the next three minutes answering

-Honestly, the attention and care she gives in responding to the five-year old’s questions is so endearing to him that it almost overpowers the jealousy, almost

-But then Annabeth’s hand finds him and he suddenly everything is ten times better and he wonders how she knew

-He corners Estelle when Annabeth gets up to help his mom (He had tried to interject but with the way his mother shooed him away he’s convinced that they’re really just talking about him and he definitely needs to grill Annabeth on that later because if his mom pulls out the baby photos then—)

-“Did you forget about your brother?” he asks, trying hard not to sound miffed to a literal child and failing miserably

-But when Estelle grins at him, his heart soars at seeing her so happy (she also hugs him and thanks him for bringing Princess Andromeda)

-He hugs her back and tells her that while Annabeth played Princess Andromeda, that’s not who she really is

-"Duh, I know what a character is," Estelle replies with all the sass of a kindergartener

-He assures her that he never questioned that, but she should get to know Annabeth as a person (He doesn’t want to spoil her fun but with how caught up she in the Princess stuff he wants her to like Annabeth for Annabeth, especially since she’s not going anywhere as far as he’s concerned)

-"You don't want Annabeth to think you only like her because of Princess Andromeda, right?" Is what he says and Estelle looks at him with wide eyes and shakes her head

-He tells her not to worry and asks about school to change the topic

-Which then leads into a five-minute story with more drama than a plot of a tv-show featuring kindergartners passive aggressively not sharing the blue crayon and spilling juice onto someone’s paper

-When Annabeth finally returns (wearing a wide smile that makes him even more suspicious of whatever it is his mom talked to her about) Estelle immediately runs to her

-"Annabeth, what's your favorite color?" she asks, tugging on her hand. She also makes sure Annabeth sits next to her on the couch and it’s clear Percy is going back into the background again

-Annabeth looks a little surprised at a non-Princess Andromeda question but he can tell she's pleased as she answers

-Her answer, by the way, is sea-green and she looks directly into his eyes as she says so

-Rest assured the rest of the time they're in the living room Percy has to fight the urge to kiss her senseless

-Something he does as soon as they get a moment alone

A/N: Thank you so much for the prompt! I ended up adding it to how to handle fame and headcanons ch. 8

I hope you liked how it turned out! And thanks again for sending a prompt!