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We were back, safe and sound, sane and still who we used to be, when it was all over, me and Anna's walls came down, we had used up every ounce of bravery and strength to survive Tartarus, and then the war, for threes days we didn't leave my room , we laid there tangled together sobbing. When I was finally able to function again and was sure she was we went back to camp. Everyone celebrated our return, I held annabeth to me the entire time, laying soft kisses against her healing skin, "Percy." "Yeah?" "I need you to ease my guilty conscience." "How." "Go talk to nico." I nodded, it took a while, longer than I would want to admit to tear myself away from her "give me a bit of a distraction?" She nodded and I headed for the dining pavilion, nico was leaned against a pillar, almost fifteen and he had a phd in depressed moping. I knew he wanted to shadow travel away, but I got close and took a light hold of his wrist, I lead him to zues' fist without a word, we reached it and I turned it around, I cupped Nicos thin face in my hands, "nico, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I love you and I will always love you, just not in the way that you love me, there's nothing wrong with that and I now I could love you that way too, if I tried at least. But I love annabeth, I'm sorry but I do. I never meant to hurt you by not knowing your feelings, or to make you feel worse by being so happy with her." "Percy." He was sobbing, his breath shaking trying to calm himself "it's okay to cry, nico you mean so much to me, okay? And in another life I know that you and I could be together, it's just this one I'm already taken. I'm already too deep in love to ever be able to question backing our, let alone do it." "I know... I was always so jealous... Such an asshole..." "Shush, you weren't, I hugged him to my chest tightly and didn't bother to stop his tears from soaking into my shirt. " nico we've known each other so long half the Aphrodite girls have been placing bets on this." "What!" "Calm down, I told them you weren't gay. And I know what your going through, when I got to camp... I had a crush on someone too, he saved my life, taught me, tried to kill me, all of it. And I had a rival in crushing too, and then he died and we fell together perfectly." "You had a crush on Luke?" I nodded and kissed his forehead "I got over it eventually, and you can too, you'll find somebody who loves you in whatever ways you want, and you'll be better off than I was, because I'll still be here for you, to be your big brother and best friend. Gay straight son of hades or Pluto, even you as a pink haired emo twink and I'll still be here for you." His crying changed a bit, he clutched onto me tighter "thank you Percy." "And do you promise to stop hiding? Stop scaring people and going off on your own, these people, here, they all love you just as much as I do, well okay, maybe a little tiny bit less but that's just because it makes me kinda hot knowing you jerk off to me." He giggled and we both stood up straight. "Come on bud." "Right behind you."