Part Two:

They were thirteen when the lights went out.

The basement of Jason's house should have been scary, but the boys were to busy talking to be scared of anything.

Percy was wasting away time piling homework in a tumbling tower while chatting away, and Jason was sitting by his side cleaning his glasses.

"And she has the most mesmerizing grey eyes. It's terrifying! He looks at you and you kinda wanna disappear before she stabs you but you also kinda want to know why she looks at you like that? So then I ended up standing in the hall like a doof spluttering about her eyes. In front of like everyone." He growled annoyingly and pushed over his tower.

Jason hummed in response, and Percy kept rattling on about Annabeth Chase his newest fascination.

Jason knew about her, she was the smart blonde that failed class because she spent it creating random blueprints.

He had noticed her, tried to think about her, somehow get a crush on her. It had failed, just lie every other girl had.

The candles gave a shadowy view of Percy's handiwork now tossed around the floor in destructive manner.

"Jason? Hello Grace?" Percy nudged him slightly, Jason looked up half stunned half annoyed.

"What?"

"I asked you if you have a crush, Piper seems to be interested in you a lot lately?"

"No! No of course not." He sighed and searched his friends face for disappointment but only found cheerful beauty, "I have a secret."

"Secrets come with a price." Percy said automatically.

Jason just sighed and put his glasses back on, he stalled adjusting them to a comfortable spot and then stalled by staring past Percy.

"This ones free." Jason swallows his fear along with a dose of reality.

He's needed to tell Percy for a long time, since he realized actually. He's been keeping it off for months now, but if Percy asks him one more time if he has a crush on a girl he's going to get decapitated.

So he turns away from Percy and focuses all his attention at the far wall.

"Percy I-I like boys." His voice came out a stuttering mess and he had to force away the urge to runaway.

"You... You're... Gay?" Percy asked tentatively, Jason could almost hear the screeching halt in his voice.

"Yeah. Listen I'm sorry I didn't tell yo-" But before Jason could finish he was torn from his seat and landed roughly on the floor.

For a minor second he thought Percy had punched him, actually punched him.

But then he felt Percy arms wrap around him and a muffled voice broke the silence. Percy either said 'Thanks' or 'Sausage' it was a mix up between the two.

Relief concurred Jason's thought process and his heart won out, he held Percy as tight as he could and let the rest of the world fall the trash.

Acceptance was all that mattered in that moment. Because Percy didn't hate him, and they were going to stay best friends.

"Thank you Jase," Percy smiled as he finally pulled away, "For telling me."

Jason's heart raced his voice as he scrambled for words, his thought process trailed behind slowing down at the sudden contact of the two boys hands.

At length Jason tore his gaze away from the touching hands to the dark haired boys stormy eyes.

"Thanks for listening."

It wasn't the surprise that knocked Percy off his feet, no he had almost expected Jason being gay. It was the complete joy he felt when the words were said outloud.

If you were the ask him he wouldn't be able to describe the delicate happiness escaping his lungs.

It was also the need to be closer, Percy couldn't really explain this one either, but he jst wanted to be closer to Jason.

So that's what he did, he jumped on Jason as soon as the initial stun.

Once they were sitting again Percy smiled ear to ear and bounced a thousand questions.

"So.. Do you have a crush? Oh my gods is it Leo? I will-"

"Fuck no!" Jason screeched laughing along with his best friend, "That's twisted Perce. Plus he has a total straight streak."

"Straight streak? Do I have one?" Percy leaned forward and accidentally knocked over his half built kingdom of schoolwork.

"You? I don't kno-" He paused looked at Percy for a second and continued, "Yeah I think you do. I mean you really like this Annabeth Chase."

Percy's mind did a quick double take to make sure he had mentioned his latest crush. A slow unidentified spark died out in Percy's chest, "That makes sense."

The room echoed in it's despair, now truly dark. The boys fell into an uncommon silence.

Percy's mind was running a thousand miles an hour, time and space seemed to break for a moment and the world felt black with disappointment.

He didn't know exactly why he hated it, why he wanted to be back in Jason's arms. But he didn't have time to figure it out.

The lights broke the intolerable stretch that had pulled through.

"Damn." Jason ran a hand through his perfect hair.

"Food?" Percy asked standing up and kicking away his homework,

"Food." Jason answered, but in reality he didn't want to eat he didn't want anything else. He was completely content with sitting in silence and watching Percy's features change as he accepted Jason for who he was.

Regardless he stood up and joined Percy at the mini fridge.

Yes, Yes it's small I know. Forgive me for the mistakes my mind seems to be currently broken. *.^

As always please review, and the next chapter will be up shortly.

~ Arai Elijah