his eyes stayed focused on the redhead.
he watched her become visibly tense.
maybe her face didn't display her discomfort, but the way she shifted definitely did.
"me and annabeth are the old married couple." cherry corrected.
annabeth leaned over, connecting their hands.
"not to change the subject.. but i'm gonna." percy began to speak. "we could use your advice on something. we're headed to las vegas to find your-"
annabeth instantly stopped the connection.
cherry watched luke's visual fade away.
"what was that about?" percy questioned.
"you can't ask luke about his dad." annabeth warned, with a huff.
"well, now i certainly can't."
"if you tell him we're going to see hermes, he's gonna try to talk us out of it. we don't need that right now."
"they don't get along?"
"at all."
cherry was still silent.
thankfully, grover, her favorite person on earth, came to her rescue.
"okay, got some updates. the men driving this truck are not nice people. traffickers." grover explained, with a frown.
"we can do our best to help all these animals escape, but not if it means we're jeopardizing the quest." annabeth offered.
"oh, no, no, no. they've already got a plan to get themselves out. and us, too. i mean, some of these guys, so smart. they were really only missing, like, one piece of the puzzle to get the cages unlocked." grover informed them.
"what's that?" percy asked him.
"thumbs. but we're here now, so... all good. and once the cages are open.." grover continued.
"they're gonna do something with the animals?" cherry asked.
"yeah. really elegant. i mean, these guys, they're... they're like artists." grover replied, sarcastically.
after the group collected all of their things, cherry helped grover release all the animals from their cages.
annabeth picked open the lock from the inside.
together, they released all the animals out onto the street.
thankfully, the group were safely on a corner of the street. they viewed the chaos from a safe distance.
"this seems dangerous." percy looked around at the cars.
"oh, they'll be totally fine. i gave them a satyr's blessing, so they'll be able to reach the wilderness safely." grover reassured.
"i meant for the people." percy cut in, with an awkward expression.
"oh.. them." grover began to notice the car horns honking. "well, i mean, i'm sure they'll... yeah, i don't know."
"uhhh, the people will.. live!" cherry agreed. "the animals are fine, so let's go."
"before the cops show up." annabeth agreed.
a police siren blared in the distance.
percy scanned their surroundings.
"so, how do we know which hotel is the lotus?" the blonde questioned.
"i'm guessing the one with the giant lotus blossom on it."annabeth turned, with a giggle.
"you were like two seconds ahead of me. seriously. sometimes, it might be okay to just let the easy ones go. can we agree to just try it, maybe?" percy followed after the girl who led the way.
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pop music blared over the speakers.
cherry gasped.
she admired the bright decor.
"this place is beautiful.. i'm gonna develop a gambling addiction." cherry trailed off, with a big smile.
"i know we're supposed to be saving the world, but would it be unprofessional if we just hung out here for a bit?" percy agreed.
"we find hermes, we get him to hook us up with a ride to los angeles and a plan to get into the underworld, and we are out of here ten seconds later." annabeth instructed the pair who were still looking around in amazement.
"i was kidding." percy reassured. "i'd never go along with anything cherry has to say."
"i'm gonna offer you up at a poker game and purposely lose." cherry threatened.
"wait, hang on." grover interrupted the fight. "your mom told you all the stories. did she read you the odyssey?"
"uh, the graphic novel." percy shrugged.
annabeth gave him a look.
"it counts." percy defended.
"odysseus lands on a beach. there's these guys who've forgotten where they came from, forgot everything that was important to them, and they got that way because they ate.." grover retold the story.
".. the lotus flowers." annabeth realized.
"so.. we might forget everything?" cherry questioned, with a huff.
"but if hermes is in there, though, then what choice do we have?" grover frowned, trying to come up with something.
"what do you think, wise girl?" percy looked over at annabeth.
"just don't eat anything." annabeth shrugged.
she began to lead the way, through crowds of people.
"fuck. but what if it looks really good?" cherry countered. "okay, percy! you eat something and then the rest of us remember you fondly."
"us?" grover teased.
cherry's eyes widened.
percy laughed.
"us means grover and annie. i will not be remembering you fondly." cherry cleared up, definitively.
"you will explicitly be banned from my funeral." percy scoffed at her.
"i would go nowhere near your funeral."
"hopefully you'd be in prison."
"for killing you."
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𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐋 𝐃𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑, percy jackson
Fanfiction✧ ｡⁺ 🃏 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇, 💋 cherry garcia, a goddess, finds percy jackson, and uses him to complete a prophecy that will prove she's innocent. the only reason percy joins her quest, is to save his mother. cherry is the reason his mother was taken aw...
CHAPTER 16! display her discomfort, but the way she shifted definitely did
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