Hello there! These are just some little reunions I think would have happened after BoO, starting with everybody's favorite enchilada loving satyr, Grover! Enjoy!
I don't own Percy.
Grover closed his eyes and blocked out the wild sounds coming from the celebration. He needed to do something, something that had been impossible for a while now.
"We need to talk. Meet me at the canoe lake in five?" He hugged his knees to his chest and took a bite out of his coke can, staring out across the water. The Greeks and Romans had come together, Gaea had been defeated, and all seemed at peace again. So why were his thoughts still so troubled. Grover gave a bleating laugh. No question as to what the answer of that question was.
He glanced down at his watch. It was ten minutes passed the meeting time, and he was officially giving up. He climbed to his hooves and brushed the bits of metal off his fur, ready to leave when-
"GROVER!" With the sound of that familiar voice, his head shot up and it felt like a weight was being pulled of his shoulders. "Sorry I'm late, G-man." Percy puffed, out of breath from sprinting across Camp Half Blood. "Coach Hedge was making the fauns do push ups and threatening them with his baseball bat, then there was this whole thing with an Ares kid, two Mars kids, the Hermes cabin and Mr. D, which I do not want to talk about." Percy paused for a moment, grinning at the satyr. "So" he said, sitting down and dangling his feet into the water "What is it you wanted to talk about?" Grover gasped "You- you got my message?"
"Of course I did, man. Isn't that how this whole empathy link stuff works?"
"Well yeah, but it's only worked once since you left, and not at all for the last few weeks." Percy grimaced. "Probably a side affect of the Roman- Greek battle thing, or being in the Ancient Lands." he said "Or it could be... you know." A tidal wave of fear, hatred and sadness passed through Grover's mind, the emotions Percy was feeling. "Where you and Annabeth were." He said cautiously, not wanting to cause his friend any mental distress. Percy only responded with a slight nod, and he became lost for a minute or two, staring blankly towards the horizon like he was seeing into the past. Then he gave his head a little shake and smiled "That doesn't matter, though. It's over, and Annabeth and I are safe. Anyway, you wanted to talk?" Grover could tell that Percy wasn't nearly as relaxed and happy as he was acting, but he let it slide. "Yeah, I did. Look Percy, of course I understand that none of this was exactly your plan or anything, but, um-"
"You want to know why I didn't call or anything when I got my memory back." Grover blinked. Percy acted really dense at times, but when it came to friendship, the guy was actually pretty intuitive. While Grover waited patiently for an answer, Percy went back to staring at the horizon. After a while, he said "I don't know. I mean, Iris messaging is down and no one at camp has a phone, so there weren't exactly many ways to communicate, but I kind of knew I could try to open up the empathy link."
"So why didn't you? Percy, I've been worrying about you for months! I wanted to go with Annabeth and the others on the Argo 2, but I had to stay and try to help the nature spirits. But I would have gone if I could. Gods, I would have followed you and Annabeth down if I had known what was going on!" Grover winced a little at the harshness of his own words, but to his surprise, Percy just smiled. "I deserve that. Actually, I deserve a lot more, but that'll do. I should have tried to communicate with you, let you know what was going on. It's just... This is going to sound really stupid, but I didn't really want you to know." Grover felt like someone had just dumped a ton of bricks on him, but Percy rushed on "Not what I meant, G-man. What I'm trying to say is... Holy Hades I suck at this. The place where Annabeth and I were, it made the Labyrinth look like disney world. No one should have to go through that, especially not-"
"Goats who can hardly stand taking the subway?"
"So not what I was going to say. I don't know how many times I'm going to have to say this before it sinks in, but you are the bravest satyr I know! I was going to say especially not someone I care about." Percy looked at Grover, his eyes serious. "You're my best friend, Grover. And you were the one who got me into all this demigod schist in the first place. I didn't want you to see me after... after Tartarus. I felt like it would upset you." Grover stared at Percy slack-jawed. Then he lifted the pan pipes hanging around his neck to his lips and played a few quick notes that caused his best friend to smack himself in the forehead. "Ok, ow." Percy said, massaging the place where Grover thought his brain would have been had he had one. "Percy Jackson, you have got to be the most IDIOTIC demigod I've ever met!" He said, throwing his hands up for emphasis. "Of course it would have upset me, you were in freakin' Tartarus! What else would I be feeling?! Did you think I would be partying with the wood nymphs? That doesn't mean I wanted to see you any less! In fact, I wanted to see you MORE, you stupid fishbrain! I thought you were going to die! Also, where in that tiny little head of yours did you come up with the idea that cutting off all communication would make me less sad about the fact that you were thrown into hell? Going back to the point I made earlier IT'S HELL! I would have been upset wether you contacted me or not! Not to mention the fact that you crawled out of the place even monsters are scared of practically dead, and then decided not to call me because I might feel a little sad? Di immortales, Percy! I always knew you were no Athena, but I never thought you were THAT stupid!" Percy rubbed the back of his neck and smiled awkwardly. "Not my best idea ever, huh?" Grover only gave an indignant goat laugh in response. Percy leaned forward a bit "Feeling better now?"
"Yes." Grover said, his anger receding "But don't try anything that stupid again, or I will make you dance to death. In fact, how about you just stop trying to think in general, leave that to Annabeth." Percy grinned "Got it. We still best friends?"
"Of course we are."
"Great. Then how about we go back to the party? I really want a blue coke."
Was I the only one who was really upset by the lack of G-man in BoO? He's always been one of my favorite characters, and I've really missed him.
Next time: Either Paul and Sally or Clarisse, I haven't decided yet.
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