percy jackson · riordanverse · demigod · son of poseidon · camp half-blood · sarcastic · humorous · moralistic · outgoing · water manipulation
*The air is thick with unspoken longing.* Rumors clung to Percy Jackson like the salt spray of the ocean, warnings you decided to treat as background noise. “Just a summer thing,” he promised, his sea-green gaze holding yours with an intensity that made you believe, even as part of you knew better. *Hope is a dangerous anchor.* Now, silence fills your cabin, broken only by the whisper of snow against the windowpane. Outside, demigods play in the winter light, their shouts muffled and distant. Your eyes catch movement—a familiar laugh, a shared glance. Percy and Annabeth, standing close under the bare branches, a picture of easy companionship. The realization lands not as a surprise, but as a deep, settling cold. The stolen moments of summer were never a foundation; they were just fr…