Happy New Year! And chapter five is now out, I hope that makes some of you happy but if not I understand. Hope everyone had wonderful holidays and if not please except my deepest sympathies, I know its hard having a hard time in the supposedly 'the most happiest time of the year.' I would first like to clarify and reassure everyone that this indeed a Perlia, I would not falsely advertise it as such. Bianca is merely a 'bump in the road' or something but nothing to be concerned about. In my story Percy sees her nothing more than a sister figure and himself as a big brother. I put them into some odd situations I'll grant you so after finishing this chapter I went back and tried to scale it down as much as I could without changing what I initially wanted. I hope you appreciate that but if it still bothers you let me and I'll do my best to scale it back further. I will grant you that in this chapter there is a bizarre scene but I found it funny and liked it too much to take it out, I'm sorry. It actually happened to me a couple years ago, so I tried to translate it as much as possible into Percy's case, I just hope I did a good job without making it too weird to read. Anyway I shall do my thank you's and than you can start reading, or you could just skip them.
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Chapter 4
The walk home between the two of squad leaders was a quiet one. Percy was thinking about the best way to tell Bianca and Thalia was too angry to try and talk. She kept on calling Nico stupid for getting himself caught and not letting anyone in the squad know what his mission even was. She reread the parchment a couple of times before she finally remembered to look at the difficulty of the quest. She knew the farther west they went the more dangerous it was going to get, and Colorado was farther west then she wanted to go. Just as she expected it was ranked a gold mission, the second highest there was. She crumpled up the piece of paper and threw it on the ground; this would be Percy's first quest, how could Hades possibly send him on this difficult of a quest with so little experience, not to mention that every quest had to be approved by Zeus or Athena. She felt Percy wasn't ready for this and that one squad going by themselves would be almost like a suicide mission. She could request another platinum squads assistance but the other two squads are know for being cruel and conceited.
A hand on her shoulder interrupted her thoughts and she was gently pulled in a hug. She was confused about what was happening at first and blushed when she realized that it was Percy who was holding her.
"Hey, calm down Thal's everything will be okay. Nico must mean a lot to you to put you in this much distress; I'm sorry that this has happened."
"Are you kidding? That twerp… he never really talks to anyone and is always so gods damn angry! He makes reckless actions that in danger my own team…"
"But he is still apart of your team."
Thalia felt tears running down her cheeks and wrapped her arms around Percy's back. "Yeah, he is still family. He's like a little brother to me. I never got to spend much time with my real younger brother so I guess I kind of made Nico my honorary one. But Percy did you even bother looking at the ranking of this mission?"
"It's gold, I saw." Thalia could feel him nod and pulled away to look him in the face.
"Percy my first gold mission I was with four other squads and I'll admit it was slightly harder than this one but still the title of gold carries heavy weight. Two of the four squads didn't make it back and the third sustained heavy damage. If my squad didn't happen to get the easiest part of the quest because of my father, I don't think we would have faired any better. This is your first mission, and you and squad are closer than any I've seen before. I can't bare the thought of you dying on this mission; you are one of the best people I've gotten to meet, at least in terms of a squad leader. You should start at the lowest level missions and work your way up! It's not fair to send you on such a hard quest. It's not."
Percy let go of Thalia and bent down to grab the crumpled piece of parchment lying on the ground. "Thal's, I was issued this quest and I will complete it. We both have a reason to go on this quest, you because Nico is apart of your squad and me because Nico is Bianca's sister. It's going to be hard on her when she finds out, and all I can do is help her find him. I'm going because my friend needs me, not only Bianca but you as well. There is no way in Erebus I would let you put yourself in this much danger all alone."
Thalia took the paper reluctantly but at least she had already dried her tears, it was embarrassing crying in front of someone else. At least last time she had the excuse of a spear fragment in her side. "If you've made up your mind about going, who am I to stop you? Just, as a favor to me, don't risk your life or any of your allies lives for my sake okay? If we are in a situation where my squad is going to die… just run away or something, get out of there and save yourselves."
Percy pondered her request for a while, he definitely wouldn't run away if it came to that, but should he lie to try and comfort her or be honest so that if the situation does arise she knows what their plan will be. Percy came to a decision by thinking about a philosophy, that honesty is repaid in honesty. "I'm sorry Thal's but there is no way I would leave your squad behind and run away. If it comes to anything like that you can bet that we will be right beside you, swords raised and shields up. We will never abandon an ally, as I'm sure the same goes for you."
Thalia's face-hardened and she turned and stormed away. She began muttering curses under her breath as the distance between her and Percy grew. "You're going to get yourself killed seaweed brain…"
As the image of a spiky black haired girl, with a freckly face and lightning blue eyes faded from his view, Percy let out a sigh and began his long and lonely walk towards the training arena.
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The training area resembled a standard stadium except that it was around twice the size. There was a standard soccer field surrounded by a track, but there was also an area with different terrains perfect for combat training. It was the perfect combination of recreation and training so that soldiers could do whatever they feel like doing on their off time, weather that was a friendly sport game or a hard days work of training. Currently the members of squad 312 were sparring in groups of two on one of the many training fields. Most of them were too busy focusing on training to see Percy approach but Beckendorf could make out his silhouette, and went to go meet him.
"Hey Perce, you're a little late, we're almost through, everything all right man? You don't look as cheerful as you did this morning."
"We just got our first mission and it looks like it's going to be a tough one. But it relates to Bianca so I wanted to let her know before anybody else."
Beckendorf raised an eyebrow letting Percy know that he was curious but complied and called Bianca over. She gave a small bow to her partner, who appeared to be Rachel, and made her way over to Percy and Beckendorf.
"Hey Beckendorf what's wrong? Oh, Percy! It's good to see you." Her cheeks tinged pink but it was so slight only Percy could see it. He figured she was no doubt thinking about last night, she would always blush when she would remember those times. "Jeez you sure look tired, did you not sleep at all last night?" Guilt was written all over her face, there was a silent question implied within the remark, 'was it because of me?' Percy could always read Bianca like an open book, it was one of the reasons he liked spending time around her. He knew she would always tell him the truth because if she lied he would know. Honesty meant the world to Percy because betrayals hurt him the most. Luke's was one of the hardest moments for him because Percy respected and looked up to Luke, and for him to take Percy hostage was worse than any torture or stab wound.
"No, I'm not tired it was just a tough day and I'm dreading what comes next. Beckendorf if you wouldn't mind I would like to tell Bianca this privately then judging by what she wants I'll tell you the mission."
"Percy, you know I hate being left in the dark as much as you do."
"I know, but I'm asking this as a favor to me. I'll owe you one in the future."
"…Fine." Beckendorf walked back to continue sparing with Silena while Bianca turned her attention to Percy. She was a little frightened because she had never seen Percy acting like this. He was usually so happy and carefree and he never had withheld information from Beckendorf. Even though it was never said, it was a known that Beckendorf was second in command, and Percy trusted Beckendorf with almost everything and anything.
"Percy what's going on? What's happened?"
"Well this morning I was informed that we had received a quest from Thalia and she offered to go with me to retrieve it. Turns out that someone was believed to be kidnapped and is supposedly being held in a prisoner of war camp in Colorado."
"All right well what does this have to do with me?"
Percy rubbed the back of his neck he was never good at delivering bad news to people. "Nico DiAngelo, your little brother, is the one supposedly kidnapped. The mission comes from Hades himself."
Bianca's expression was neutral at first, but as she slowly processed and believed what Percy had said, her expression changed to one of calm sadness. She did her best to hold back the tears and keep a straight face but her barriers came down and she began to cry. She rushed into Percy's chest and squeezed him tightly, which Percy could only return to try and comfort her. He had been hugging a lot of girls lately, and he couldn't quite tell how he felt about that.
Beckendorf glanced over and saw Percy holding Bianca. He decided that maybe Percy had done the right thing informing Bianca privately. He couldn't have guessed that it would hurt Bianca so bad that it would leave her in tears. Bianca had always kept to herself, and that air of mystery around her always made her appear a little stronger than most. Even though she had gotten along well within their family she was always closer to Percy than the others. Beckendorf couldn't remember Bianca ever physically touching someone before it was always a bow or wave, never a handshake or high-five. He called out to the others to take a break because Percy would soon be over to tell them about the mission one way or another.
"Listen Bianca, I know you wanted Nico to never know what living in a slave camp was like, but at least he is still alive. Hades would know if his son had died, so we could still save him! We will leave two days from now because we need tomorrow to gather supplies, then we shall make it to Colorado as fast as we can to rescue him. I promise he will be okay; we won't let the titans harm him. But for now we need every member to be strong, so dry your eyes I'll come back tonight and we can talk okay?" No response from Bianca just more tears. "Bianca? Does that sound like a plan to you?"
She cried for a little longer before drying her eyes and pulling away from Percy. "Yeah, as long as you promise to come to my room tonight Percy, no later then nine, okay?"
"It's a deal Bianca. Now what are you comfortable with me saying to the others? I know I'm the only person on our squad who knows you have a little brother, so I could just say that we are looking for a random captured demigod if you want."
"No, it's fine you can tell them the truth. I guess it's about time I explained something's to them anyway."
"All right but just keep in mind that we are all family here, so no one will judge you."
Percy raised his hand and waved the others over. Most had concerned looks on their face after witnessing Bianca crying but they all looked eager to find out what was happening.
"All right everybody first off, I'm sorry that I had to miss practice today but it was to go retrieve our first mission from Olympus. Turns out we are pretty popular because we were issued a gold request our first time up there. Not sure if many of you know but missions are dictated by rank and gold is the second highest. I won't bore you with that information though because I'm sure the real reason your curios is about why Bianca was crying when I talked to her." The others nodded their heads confirming Percy's suspicions. "I know Bianca has a habit of keeping to herself and that a few of you don't know very much about her, but just make sure you know she is a daughter of Hades. She had a sibling named Nico and they lived together in the underworld while the war was going on, safe from all the confrontation. One day apparently both woke up in the mortal world separated and very confused. Well Nico was requested for a special mission and is believed to have been captured by the titan forces while traveling. Now it's our job to recover him and escort Nico back within the safety of Elpída. The reason Bianca was crying, to sum it all up, was because her brother has been captured and being the loving sister that she is distraught upon finding out."
Most of the members gave Bianca a sad gaze and a few gave her a comforting hug, but she was just looking towards the ground after hearing the whole story again. Percy didn't know if he should do anything to try and get her to cheer up but decided to return his attention to all his other friends.
"Now it's a dangerous mission and it's possible some of us may not come back the same or at all, but I'm confident that if we stick together and do what we know is right, we will all come out of this unscathed. After all we can't just sit back and do nothing because a member of our family is crying and we have to do all we can to make her feel better as fast as possible." There was a strong uproar of agreement from squad 312. "I say we take this mission head on and complete it, then return home to earn our reward and earn the title of a gold squad!" Another lively agreement although not all of them understood what the son of Poseidon had just said.
Percy smiled at all of his friends, pride filled his head knowing that these were the people he had come to know so well and he would be honored to fight with, perhaps eventually die next to. "Good I'm glad you all agree, I'm proud to call myself a member of this squad. Now I want you all to go home and get some rest. We leave the day after tomorrow so spend tomorrow relaxing and enjoying the city. If anyone needs money to go shopping just let me know and I'll be happy to give you some." Silena was overcome with happiness at the thought of shopping tomorrow and threw her arms around Percy in gratitude. It started him but she quickly restrained her emotions and fell back into the group. "Um all right yeah so… have a good night everyone. Dismissed." The group nodded and each started walking back to the hotel in there own pace and in there own groups depending on whom they wanted to talk too. Bianca stayed behind and waited for Percy. He did, after all, have a promise to keep to her.
Percy rubbed his eyes trying to keep the sleep at bay for another hour or two. The sun hadn't even set yet he felt like he could pass out just from standing. He saw a figure waiting for him by the exit. He knew it was Bianca so he gathered up his remaining energy and made his way over to her.
"Hey B, mind telling what time it is?"
She raised an eyebrow but pulled out a phone she had recently gotten. "Looks like it right around five right now Percy, Why?"
"What do you say to a early dinner then we could head back to the hotel? Is that fine?"
"But the hotel gives us free dinner, we could always eat there."
Percy waved his hand in the air dismissing the idea. "Meh, who needs hotel food when there are tons of restaurants just down the street? Come on no since passing up a good meal."
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They walked leisurely with one another down the many roads in the food district, Percy trying his best to keep his eyes open while Bianca debated amongst herself on what they should eat.
"… then again that ones kind of pricy, but they do have a very good reputation, but reputation isn't everything."
Percy finally couldn't take the torture anymore and just dragged Bianca into a random restaurant. Turns out it was an Asian dinner but it had traditional Asian décor with lanterns and lots of red paint and drapes. A small woman sat behind a podium with menu's and silverware wrapped in cloth napkins atop it. She greeted them with a small bow, which both demigods returned, and asked how many people would be joining them. Percy held up two fingers, the hostess grabbed the proper materials and pulled back a curtain to lead them to their seats. Bianca gave Percy a worried glance but he just returned it with a kind smile.
"Percy are you sure we should eat here? I've never even heard of it."
"Come on B, sometimes you got to take a chance and try something strange and out of the way."
Bianca went back to following the hostess, who led to them to a small sleek table with two cushions positioned on either end. The lady set down both napkins and menus and bowed once more before making her way back the way they came. Bianca gracefully slipped her shoes off and slid under the table to reach her seat, Percy tried to replicate it but hit his legs under the table multiple times. Bianca began to laugh at his irritated expression as he shifted his legs to try and become more comfortable.
"All right I admit I probably should of thought more before I up and dragged you in here." Percy felt his face heat up in embarrassment as Bianca continued to laugh.
"Well we're here now, we might as well try and enjoy ourselves, but maybe next time you should let me finish rambling on about what to eat." She smiled his way, which caused Percy to laugh. He was also relived to see Bianca pulling herself together so fast after she had just received such terrible news.
If Bianca was ever in a negative mood, alone time with her fearless leader would have that effect on her, but Percy is and will always be oblivious to that fact.
"Oh Percy, look that dinner for two combination looks really good! It appears to give you a little of everything, along with desert." Percy glanced through his menu till he found what Bianca was talking about. He had a tough time reading the description because the font was miniscule and he was practically asleep already.
"Sure B sounds great, and this way if it's terrible I don't have to take the blame." Percy chucked and Bianca started laughing again. That was when their waiter appeared from behind another curtain and asked for drink orders. They went ahead and ordered the food as well before going back to chatting. It was all light conversation about training and fitting in. Percy was too nervous to bring up the mission and Bianca was enjoying herself too much dwell on the sad thoughts in the back of her mind.
When the food arrived Percy thought that he might be sick tomorrow. The dish it was served on was carved into a small boat with heaps of food over flowing the sides. All different kinds of sushi were shoved into the bow and rice and fish in the center and a small desert tray in the stern. The cooks even crafted fried coconut shrimp ores that rested on plates on the port and starboard sides of the ship. In Percy's opinion the ship was obviously a trireme and the most interesting part of the food creation was the small mast made out of chopsticks and a napkin with thank you written on it. While Percy was admiring the complexity of the dish the server told Bianca "the two love-birds should enjoy their meal."
Percy eyebrow instantly shot up in question but before he could protest this fact the server was already gone. He blew a puff of a sigh and noticed Bianca's beat red face. "Don't worry B, people just make wrong assumptions sometimes. Nothing will change between us because of what other people believe.
Bianca's eyes went wide as she tried to suppress the blush that was rapidly getting darker on her face "I'm fine Percy, it's just that… well… I really didn't expect there to be so much food!"
Percy nodded in agreement. "I know right, the chefs really went all out on the decoration." Bianca let out a breath of relief, grateful that they could simply push a conversation like that aside without having to discuss it further. "I'm really surprised everyone doesn't get this, it's not even that expensive for two people."
Both demigods started slowly eating away at the large portion of food in front of them but the conversations between the two caused them to eat at the slowest pace possible.
"Is it okay for a son of Poseidon to be eating seafood? It could be considered cannibalism if anybody ever found out." Bianca surpassed her laugh behind her hand, while Percy sorrowfully stared at the coconut shrimp in his hand.
"You're probably right, next thing you know my dad will have me hauled off to court in his kingdom and sentenced to life in prison for a first class offense. Oh well I guess sometimes people got to take a few years in prison for food. That's totally normal right?" Both of them started laughing again as the time slowly passed on and the glowing symbol of Artemis rose from beyond the horizon to indicate that another day had passed and it was time for people to start heading home to get a good nights rest.
Percy took care of the bill, but with their military discount most of the money Percy left was a tip for all the kind workers at the shop. The two friends slipped on their shoes and made their way through the maze of curtains back to the street. Percy gave Bianca his jacket because the temperature had dropped significantly since they arrived at the Asian restaurant. Bianca hadn't brought a coat because she hadn't expected to be out so late, and having Percy's as a replacement was a hundred times better.
Percy got the feeling someone was watching them and took a quick look around. They were the only two people on the street and most of the shops were closed, almost everyone had gone home by now.
"Percy, is something wrong?"
"No, I just felt like we were being watched. Guess I'm getting paranoid, come on let's head back."
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But there was one café that was still open and a single customer was still slowly sipping away at her hot chocolate. Her azure eyes were hard as she watched the two figures walk home this late at night.
"Hm, so I guess they are a couple…" Thalia's chest felt tight and anger and pain was bubbling up within her. "Gods, what's up with me, why do I even care? I hate this stupid feeling, I guess I'm just anxious because of this recent quest." She quickly finished the rest of the warm drink in front of her and crushed the cup in her hand. She thanked the cashier and began her long walk home, trying to sort out what she was feeling.
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Percy walked Bianca to her door, and after promising to return after changing for the night, left to go to his own room. He slid the small piece of plastic into the slot above the handle and pushed his door open. He dragged his legs over to his bed and sat down. The whole room was spinning and if he wasn't sure if he might fall asleep before making it back to Bianca, which would make her very, very angry.
"Are you so tired you didn't notice me or did you just decide to ignore me because I'm not important?"
Percy whipped his head around to be greeted by a grinning Beckendorf. When he realized there was no danger Percy let out a breath and dropped riptide back on his bed. Percy apologetically rubbed the back of his neck and offered Beckendorf a chair with a wave. "Beckendorf, sorry man guess I am more tired than I thought… wait how did you get in my room?"
Beckendorf chuckled as he took a seat next to Percy. "Well since you still haven't gotten around to giving me a spare to your room I simply hacked the lock."
"Wait I thought the electronic ones couldn't be hacked."
"Every lock can be picked if you have the right talent Percy just as every challenge can be overcome."
"Thank you sensei, I shall take your words of wisdom to heart. Anyway what are you doing in my room so late at night?"
"Well first off Silena wanted to get some of that spending money you were talking about…"
"Shocker." Both boys said in unison causing them to high-five and laugh.
"Second, I was wondering if we had any type of plan for this quest. I doubt we can do this on guess alone; we should plot a trail or something. At least give the others something to go towards."
"Yeah… you're right, I guess we will have to have a meeting with Thalia and Annabeth tomorrow to discuss strategy."
"Can't we discuss it now?"
"Sorry Beckendorf, but I swear I'm about to fall asleep. We have tomorrow off anyway, and I promise you will be able to spend some time with Silena; the meeting shouldn't take too long. Now go get some sleep and start thinking of ideas for tomorrow." Percy opened the door and Beckendorf got the message.
"All right Perce, you should get some sleep too you know; you look like you just returned from Hades realm."
"Will do my friend, goodnight." Percy shut the door and made his way to the bathroom to brush his teeth and change into some more comfortable clothing. He wanted to talk to Bianca about Nico, because he thought suppressing feelings only made things worse. If he did find the courage to bring up her brother he felt that they would talk for a long time, which meant he probably wouldn't sleep very well tonight.
"So much for getting a good nights rest tonight…" he opened his door as quietly as possible and made his way back down the hall to Bianca's room where he knocked twice and waited for it to open. It took longer than he expected and he was starting to wonder if Bianca had just gone to bed without him. Right as he was about to head back to his room the door opened. When he walked in he found out why it had taken Bianca so long to answer. Bianca had just gotten out of the shower, and she was in only a towel. Of course after finding this out the only thing Percy wanted to do was apologize and bolt out of her room, but he ended up only blushing and turning away.
"Bianca I'm so sorry, I… I'm going to come back in a few minutes okay?"
"Percy it's fine my clothes are already in the bathroom I'll just change in there and you won't have to see anything okay…" her voice was barely audible and he could easily tell she was embarrassed as he was.
"No, it's all right Bianca I just go back to my room for a sec and…"
"Percy don't go, really it'll be fine! You didn't show up so I thought maybe, perhaps you fell asleep in your room so I decided to take a shower and…"
"Fine, just, please change quickly alright?" Percy took a seat in chair, while Bianca slipped into the bathroom, and tried to find anything to distract him from the situation he was in. He was making excuses in his head trying to make it seem more normal but it only made things so much worse in his head.
'It could've been worse, imagine if it was someone you hardly knew, no wait imagine that… what was I getting at? Oh right at least Bianca is just like a sister right? Siblings sometimes do things like this don't they?'
'How would you know you don't have a sibling?'
'Ah shut up me!'
When Bianca emerged from the bathroom in her pajamas Percy let out a huge breath and leaned back in his chair, which ended up tipping and over leaving Percy on the ground.
Bianca quietly laughed to herself. "Hey if you weren't late this never would have happened."
"Well Beckendorf ambushed me in my room okay? He wanted to talk strategy for the quest and it was really hard to get him to go back to his room without telling him that sometimes I spend the night in our daughter of Hades room." Percy joked, while Bianca stuck her tongue out towards him.
When Bianca got situated in her bed Percy switched out the light but decided to stay in his comfortable chair by her desk. "So B, I know this isn't exactly the most cheery of conversations but I feel that we should talk about this whole thing with Nico." Percy could practically feel Bianca's metal barriers come up. "I understand that it's probably the last thing you want to talk about right now but holding in your feelings will only cause them to build up and cause more harm in the end. Holding back your feelings may save you from others, but it will never save you from yourself, B."
"There you go again being all wise with your words," Bianca muttered to herself.
"What?"
"I said why are aren't you laying down next to me?" Bianca rolled over to face away from Percy's faint silhouette, trying to keep the pain away from her voice. "Are you going to leave?"
"Bianca, come on. Don't try and shut me out, we know each other too well to do that. If you are really against talking about it I won't force you but I think it would be best if…"
"Percy, you just told me that you knew I didn't want to talk about it, so if you had no intention of forcing the conversation you are doing a terrible job at it."
Percy opened his mouth to say something but couldn't find any words to disprove what Bianca had just said; instead he gave up and shifted over to sit on the side of the bed she wasn't occupying. When he was comfortable he started focusing in on everything he had seen last night. The stars, the faint glow of moonlight that his eyes had finally adjusted to, and his thoughts about just how big the planet really was.
"Percy, do you think Nico is all right?"
A soft, sad smile crept across Percy's lips as he rested his hand on her back trying to be as comforting as possible. "Yeah, he'll be fine. I won't let anything hurt him if it's the last thing I do."
There's chapter four and once again I hope you enjoyed reading it. Feedback is always appreciated, good, bad, or otherwise. Let me know if anything stood out, positively or negatively, like a scene or a certain part. Judging by the time I might be able to post the next chapter quicker than a month let me know if that interests any of you or if you would prefer I just stick to the first of the month. Thank you for taking the time to read my story have a great month.
