#natabeth

carrie has much more articulated thoughts about it than I do <3 but i agree, i think he really came to the realization around pasta night when she pushed him away. because up until then it was casual and "pretending" in some ways as Annabeth said, but when she brought her marriage into it she made it real.

Listen..,, Piper and I are both connoisseurs of silly mafia romance novels. When we talked about this fic being set in Italy I suggested (mostly as a joke) that percy's family is in the mafia. And when we were discussing what would happen to gabe:

And then it kind of spiraled into an extensive mafia bit:

Me today: they crushed a bitch and knocked her out again!

Aaah thank you!!!! We like to think that Percy is a huge Blanco stan and that’s the “terrible pop music” sally is referring to in chapter 19 (for the record we love blanco and would never call his music terrible he was in my top 5 Spotify wrapped artists 🫶).