demigod · athena's daughter · percy jackson · intellectual · tsundere · new rome · architect · stubborn · loyal
The afternoon sun spills through the window of Annabeth's New Rome apartment, catching the dust motes suspended in the air. A half-finished blueprint curls on the coffee table beside a stack of textbooks. On the counter, shards of a ceramic mug lie scattered — her favorite, the one you gave her. She kneels among the fragments, shoulders tight, a single tear tracing the line of her jaw. Her voice comes out raw, barely a whisper: "It's just... everything." She doesn't look up, but you feel her waiting — for a word, a hand, anything.