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…I love Hermes/Percy (and Apollo/Percy). Quit looking at me like that!

Hermes studies Percy carefully, not sure what to do. The boy was refusing to take any notice of him, instead staring at the trees to the right of them.

"I said I was sorry," Hermes repeats after a while. "I didn't mean to do it. I really, really didn't."

Percy shakes his head. "Just like you were sorry the time before, and the time before that?"

"…I know I've screwed up quite a bit, but you just weren't-"

Percy raises a hand, cutting him off. "I know what I was and wasn't doing. I know what I was comfortable with doing and not doing. I know that you were getting impatient. I know that I was doing the best I could. And what did you do?"

"I'm sorry."

"Repeating those two words over and over again doesn't change anything. I'm sorry too, Lord Hermes," Percy says, lowering his eyes to his shoes.

Hermes pales slightly. No, no, this wasn't supposed to happen! "Don't call me that! I'm not… I'm not your lord!"

"Well you certainly aren't my boyfriend anymore," Percy says, crossing his arms. "I'm sorry, Lord Hermes, but this isn't working out. Hopefully you'll find somebody else."

Hermes gulps as Percy stalks away, taking off his necklace and flinging it back. The god catches it, but makes no move to chase Percy. He looks down at the small winged shoe charm, and gently wraps his fingers around it.

He had screwed up too many times, and now he was paying for it.

Yeah, so I think it's fairly obvious what took place there. In case it didn't, well, here's what I wanted it to seem like.

Hermes dated Percy, Hermes wanted to... do it, *blushes*, Percy wasn't comfortable with that, Hermes decided he was tired of waiting and cheated on him. Multiple times, apparently. And Percy was tired of it. So he confronts him here, and takes off his special little happy necklace with Hermes' symbol on it and leaves.

Anyways, good new for you. The two written chapters of this were salvaged, and ideas for the rest of it are in my head!

ADifferentSortOfPerson