AN: So, I really should get started on my homework now, considering I have a huge load of it, and I have to memorize the entire world. Yay. Anyways, I just wanted to write this before the weekend was over. *sniffles* Basically, this is just a one-shot on how Nico felt seeing Percy with no memory. Not a PercyxNico. Just a loving brotherly one-shot.
Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians. If I did, the Son of Neptune wouldn't have ended like that!
He sees him. He actually sees him! It's been what? Seven months? Eight? He's lost count. He wants to yell, to scream at him until he remembers, but he knows that he can't.
It feels weird to see Percy at a weakness like this. Usually, Percy would be the hero. He would look out for people, but now Nico has to look out for him.
Nico remembers what he was like before the alien known as Hera did this to him. He remembers Percy sticking by his side, even when Nico treated him horribly. He saved Nico greatly, teaching him to forgive.
Percy was there for everyone, and now he can't even remember anything. Nico wishes that they could go back to kicking monster butt, and just plain hanging out. He knows that he will have to wait a while for that to happen. Even if Percy remembered, they still had yet another war to fight.
Nico goes on talking to him, scared to death. Not trying to jog his memory, for who knows what Hera would do to him! Percy asks about Kronos. He seems completely clueless.
As Nico explains, he wants to scream out: "YOU COMPLETE IDIOT! YOU HAVE TO KNOW HIM! YOU FOUGHT HIM FOR GODS' SAKES! WHY CAN'T YOU REMEMBER?" But instead he settles for a quick explanation, hoping not to give away too much information.
Percy leaves with Frank, but Hazel stays behind, asking Nico if he knows Percy. He wants to scream, yet again, with all these snippy comments on how he doesn't just know him, he was his brother that he always wanted. Instead he finds himself just telling Hazel to trust Percy, and to drop the subject.
They start the war games, Nico watches as the Fifth-Cohort wins, and Nico can't help but note how good Percy is with Riptide, even with no memory. Then Mars shows up, and Percy insists that he has fought him before. Nico wants to yell out that technically he hasn't, he fought Ares instead, in his first quest with Annabeth and Grover. Nico can't help but wonder if he remembers them.
Then Percy decides to ask him if they've met before.
Have I met you? Did you not save me from the manticore? Did you not go on a quest with my sister, and return with the news that changed my life forever? Did you not save me from the worst decision I could have ever made? Did you not go to the Underworld with me and Thalia, returning a fake sword of Hades? Did you not travel to Cleveland with me to find our enemy's crazy mother? Did you not go take a detour before taking a dip in the Styx, just for me to learn that I should never make bets with my father? Did you not formerly recognize me into Camp Half-Blood, making Hades a cabin there? Are you not Percy Jackson, the one I look up to, the one I secretly wish I could be?
No, you're not Percy Jackson. You're not my hero. We just met today. The Percy Jackson I know would remember. He would look at me and he would think of all the times we have shared. Maybe even ask if I still play Mythomagic. He would be anything but you, Nico thinks.
And he can't help but hope, that maybe the Percy he knows will be back to save the day. But for now, he just has to wait until that day, and watch his hero suffer. He will have to be patient for Percy to remember. And when that day comes around, Nico just can't help but wince at the butt-kicking that will be scheduled for him.