#spqueuer

Ask and ye shall receive

Now I’m taking it’s partner question, one of my own making: Since Kronos is a failure at manipulation, how did he manipulate Luke? And oh by do I want to talk about this. I’m sticking with there's ~2 years between Luke’s failed quest and Percy showing up, and oh boy, those were an interesting two years for Luke. These are two years of Kronos laying groundwork. Because Luke was a smart kid, he was angry, but he was smart. And he probably wasn’t angry right away. He was in pain, he was disappointed, he felt ashamed, but he wasn’t angry yet. Like I’ve said, Kronos isn’t good at manipulation, but he’s not powerful right now, the only thing he can really do is whisper to Luke in his dreams. This is far different from snapping his fingers and bending someone to his will. So yeah, there’s this sad kid, seeming pretty susceptible, and maybe Kronos can use this kid to get out, to get strong. 

From both perspectives, these years are pretty rough. Mostly because Kronos isn’t great at talking, and he makes a lot of slip ups, and he needs Luke to trust him. They talk pretty often, but when Kronos reveal himself as being, well, Kronos, there’s a big setback. And this big setback comes in the form of freshly seventeen year old Luke Castellan freaking the fuck out because a knowingly evil titan lord has been talking to him every night in his dreams. Understandable, but the thing is, Kronos has gained some strength, not a lot, but a little. Enough where coming back into power seems feasible if he continues, and Luke telling everybody about him is detrimental to these plans. So, while Luke tries his hardest to shut Kronos out, there is just this incessant pounding on his head. He can’t eat, he can’t sleep, he can’t rest for a second because then he’s done for, and most of all, he’s scared. What will his friends think if they know he’s been talking to such an evil thing, even if he didn’t know? He comes down with ‘the flu’ aka he can’t bear being around anyone, and after five days he literally passes out, and then Kronos gets to work. He apologizes for hiding his identity, but that doesn’t change anything in between us right? We’re just talking. And Luke barely has the mental capacity to think, so Kronos just keeps talking, and maybe he makes some good points about the gods, and maybe when Luke wakes up he doesn’t feel quite so much like a bag of shit that’s fallen out of an air plane at 30,000 feet only to be run over by a dozen eighteen wheelers on a highway in Arizona.

Sally first meets Carter when she gets back from one of her night classes and the two are asleep on the couch with the tv on

Percy wakes up first and gingerly pulls himself out from under Carter and goes into the kitchen to greet his mom

“Jeez mom we’re just friends” At this point they’re something a little more but they haven't talked about it yet.

Carter wakes up and joins them in the kitchen, Sally asks a lot of questions (not in an interrogator way tho)

Carter is uncertain how to answer some, but he looks at Percy who gives him a small nod so he tells Sally that he’s a magician and about the Egyptian gods

Percy thinks Carter is selling himself short and so he butts in every once in a while: “Stop saying that, you are literally the Pharaoh.” “You’ve had a god inside your head, I couldn’t deal with that.”

They have their first kiss when Percy gets first place at a swim meet

Sally and Paul leave before they do to give them some space

Percy is the last to leave the building because he showers there to save his mom the money

As he and Carter are about to leave a few monsters attack

The fight is pretty quick because Percy’s right next to a pool. And Carter’s there so there’s teamwork.

For their second kiss they are both covered in monster dust, and Carter is sopping wet, and they’re both a little sweaty but it’s nice.

They kinda hold hands on the way back to Percy’s apartment, but only when there aren’t a lot of people on the street.

When Carter gets back to the Nome he immediately goes and tells Sadie what happened and he can’t stop smiling the next day.

When Percy gets home he goes and Iris Messages Annabeth and dances around a bit.

They don’t announce their relationship or anything so it takes an absurdly long time for some people to find out *cough* Piper *cough*

She thinks that they’re just pining really hard but after a month she walks in on them kissing in a dark corner.

“What are you doing?” “Kissing my boyfriend?” “Oh, carry on”