(AN) I saw a post on tumblr and then this happened. I own nothing. (AN)

Annabeth loved a lot of things about New York. The weather was not one of them. You see, Annabeth grew up in San Francisco. It didn't snow in San Francisco (It rained so heavily that she would sometimes worry she'd have to swim to school, but it didn't snow.) It snowed in New York. A lot.

So it made sense that it was snowing the morning she met Percy Jackson.

She had hoped to spend the few hours before her first class of the day at Starbucks, but she'd left her gloves on the subway the week before and knew that if she stayed outside for another minute her hands would almost definitely fall off. So she ducked into the first coffee shop she saw, and prayed they had free wifi.

Annabeth was grumpy and cold but she was willing to admit the guy at the counter was pretty good looking. When she told Piper, Rachel, and Hazel this story she would probably go with 'damn fine' but at the moment pretty good looking was as generous as she wanted to be. Until he looked at her.

She had been worried about getting frostbite two seconds ago but now she was more concerned about melting into a puddle of goo. It was illegal to look that good, right? Then he smiled at her and Annabeth felt like they were the only two people in the room. She just stood there until he asked her what her order was.

Oh yeah. She was in a coffee shop. To buy coffee. Not to oogle strangers.

She must have looked really confused because he asked her again.

'Great,' she thought' Now he thinks I'm stupid.' She wanted to scream I'M A 4.0 STUDENT AND I COULD PROVE IT IF YOU COULD JUST COVER YOUR STUPID BEAUTIFUL FACE (or something along those lines) but all she could do was point to a drink helplessly.

He made her the coffee, and then he wrote something on the cup, which was weird because he didn't ask her name (it turned out they actually were the only two people in the room and Annabeth's treacherous heart wasn't just playing tricks on her).

She tipped him and left the coffee shop too embarrassed to even read what he'd written until she was out of the store. She still had to study, but there was a Starbucks a few blocks down, and she'd rather walk there and loose all her limbs to frostbite than walk back into that cafe again. The drink was halfway into the trash before Annabeth remembered he had written something down on her cup. It took her a few minutes to work up the courage but she finally looked at the cup and saw he hadn't actually written anything, just crossed out part of the warning label. All that was left was:

"Caution, you're very hot!"

Despite the weather, Annabeth grinned. Then she walked back into the coffee shop.