My favorite slash is Sam/Gabriel from Supernatural and Zach/Booth from Bones. Sam is so cute and nerdy while Gabriel always puts up a front and tries to be the Trickster, and I think Sam brings out the kinder side of him. Zach is just the most awesome character on Bones and I think his awkwardness pairs perfectly with Booth's social adeptness and need to protect scrawny squints:)
"Where is he?" I asked Clarisse quietly the moment she walked through the doors.
"Calm down lover boy, your precious boyfriend is safe. I couldn't bring him here though."
"Why not?" I demanded not caring if I sounded like a petulant child.
"Because these people aren't very trustworthy. I had a hard enough time getting Percy to let me take you here, but this was the only place that can heal you without somebody calling the cops or social services."
"Why are you allowed to be here but Percy isn't?"
"My mom has connections. These people won't do anything to me unless they want to answer to my mom. Trust me when I say you don't want to mess with her. Percy on the other hand doesn't have any connections to her."
"So…you took me here?"
"Yeah, I'm willing to take that risk."
I glared at her and said, "Thanks Clarisse, glad to know you care so deeply about me."
She rolled her eyes. "I'm sure you'll get over it Death Breath. You're a big boy now. Besides, Percy doesn't need to be here, you do. You're really badly injured thanks to that stunt you pulled."
"About that, what happened? Why am I injured?"
She gazed at me warily. "You don't remember?" I shook my head.
"Well, I wasn't there so I don't know all the details but I'll tell you what Percy told me. You guys had just gotten to your room and were sitting on the beds talking when the fury flew into the window and attacked you guys. Shortly after another fury came as well and both of you fought separately. You killed your fury first. Apparently you made the dumbass move of jumping in front of Percy without a weapon. The fury tore into your stomach and it fractured a couple of your ribs. Usually that kind of injury would take weeks to heal but being demigods we heal faster, especially with some ambrosia, which this place just happens to have. Anyways, after the fury got to you, Percy cut off its head and carried you to me. You were in pretty bad shape and Guppy Face forgot to bring the ambrosia."
"Guppy Face?" I raised an eyebrow and tried to hide my amused smile. "That's a new one."
"Really? That's what you got from that whole story?!" She shook her head and muttered something under her breath about constipated zombies. "Anyways, as soon as you heal, you and me are gonna bust outa here."
I stared at her with wide eyes. Bust out? Where even were we?
"Clarisse?" I asked slowly, "Where are we exactly ad why do we need to escape?"
"Well, they are my connections of my mom, but there's something else too. You see, my mom kind of…requested I be brought back to her if I was found. Basically whoever gives me to her gets a fat reward, but hey, at least they'll heal you."
"You didn't think of telling us this before we left on this trip!" I shouted angrily, "No, you had to wait until after we were freakin' captured."
"Wait," I said. "Why am I in danger then?"
"Well, these people know what demigods are and you happen to be a very…powerful one." She mumbled the last part as if it hurt her to say it.
"What was that Clarisse? I couldn't hear you." I teased trying to annoy her. "Could that have possibly been a compliment?" She glared at me and punched me in the arm.
"Hey! Watch it, I'm still injured." She smirked at me and sauntered to the other side of the room.
"Get over it." She deadpanned.
"Where are you going? Are you leaving me alone with these weird people?" I asked anxiously as she scooted nearer to the door.
"I'm letting you catch up on your beauty sleep. You need it." She smiled innocently as she added the last part.
"Thanks." I said drily.
She spun around and was about to leave when I called out to her, "Wait!"
"Ugh, what?"
"Is there any way that you could contact Percy without tipping these people off his whereabouts?"
She seemed to ponder this for a moment. "Yes…I think so. If I can use the bathroom without anybody else in there, then yeah."
"Could you give him a message please?" I asked.
She just shrugged apparently indifferent. "You're only going to be in here for a couple of days you clingy freak."
I glared at her but continued anyways. "Tell him to be safe and to not do anything stupid." My message seemed forced and impersonal. I wanted to say more but it would have been awkward seeing as Clarisse was the one relaying the message.
She nodded then walked out of the room.
I just lay there staring at the wall for what seemed like hours until I heard a rustling noise coming from the hallway. The next minute the strange tall man from earlier came back into the room. He walked gracefully over to the computer near the end of my bed. I quickly closed my eyes and pretended to be asleep. After a few minutes I heard whispers. I took a peek at the man and was startled to see a different, much scarier man talking to the other in hushed tones. It was frightening that I hadn't even heard him enter the room.
The formidable man was tall and had a very sturdy build. He looked as if he had been a body builder at one point in his life. He was bald and had tiny spectacles on his nose that somewhat countered his scary bodyguard look.
I closed my eyes after a minute or so in fear of them realizing I was awake and listening in. I listened closely and caught some of their conversation.
"He can be utilized."
"But he's only a child."
"He won't be a child forever. And if we have him, by the time he comes of age he will be doing great things."
"It's illegal for us to just keep the child."
"These are special circumstances. This child is a demigod, a very powerful one at that. If we let him leave, he could use his powers for evil and we would be responsible for not stopping it."
"Your logic is faulty. You have no proof that Nico is dangerous."
"This is not up for discussion. I am the boss, and Nico is staying."
I heard a sigh and then the doctor spoke, "And what about Clarisse? Is she also staying?"
"No, we are returning her to her mother. Her safe return is worth about two million dollars, way more use to us than her menial powers." I started to panic. Clarisse had already warned me all about this but hearing it straight from the head guy really solidified it.
There was no way we could possibly escape. I was far too injured to move much less take on grown men and security guards. My ribs still hadn't healed properly even with the ambrosia due to a small infection. The only hope of escape was the small window located near the side of my bed that was opposite of the door. The window looked small but not impossible to fit through. For Clarisse though it might be a tight fit.
…OoO…
Clarisse came by my room later that day and I ran my flimsy plan by her. We would wait until the doctors came in again then as soon as they leave we would take the doctor's chair and use it to prop us out the window. It took me awhile to convince Clarisse of the plan but she finally did.
Instead of just leaving me there alone to wait, Clarisse actually waited with me next to my bed. It was very awkward and since there were no TVs or whatever normal hospital rooms have, I was left to sit there twiddling my thumbs while Clarisse eventually fell asleep and started to obnoxiously snore. Thank gods I share a room with Percy! Finally, after about an hour and a half of waiting, the doctor came. The tall man was alone this time. He walked over to me and checked my vitals first. He told me everything was normal and that my ribs should be fully healed in about two days. This made me a bit nervous considering I was planning on doing some serious moving in just a little bit.
As soon as he left, Clarisse started helping me rip out the IV and unhooking me from various machines. Once the task was completed, I made my way slowly off the bed. It was painful, but not as much as I thought it would be. I politely gestured for her to go first. She then proceeded to glare at me and told me to, "got to Hell, because there's no chance I'm going first so that you can ogle my butt the whole way up." I shivered at the disgusting thought. I would have snorted at the ridiculousness of her statement but the look on her face told me to hold my tongue. Not wanting to argue I just started to climb up the chair and reached up to the window ledge. If I in any way thought this was going to be easy, I was wrong! I had to choke back a scream at the feeling of the ledge scraping against my ribs. It felt as if somebody was stabbing my chest and twisting the blade repeatedly. I couldn't help it, I let out a soft whimper that I was sure Clarisse would never let me live down. Surprisingly her only words were to ask if I was alright. I couldn't answer her due to the pain but she seemed to have understood because she placed her hands under my feet and boosted me further up. With a minute more of struggling, I finally made it out the window.
Clarisse lifted herself to the window's ledge and was now trying to wriggle her way through the miniscule space. That's when we heard the beeps. They were coming from the monitors and with every beep the noise became louder. We knew we only had seconds, if that, to get Clarisse out of her current predicament. She started to panic and wriggle with all her strength. I didn't know what to do. I felt so helpless. If I tried to help her out of the window I was sure my healing ribs would snap, but if I didn't help at all the doctors would definitely make it in the room before she could escape. I did the only thing I could think to do. I turned around and yelled for somebody to help. I yelled at the top of my lungs that someone was trying to take my sister.
Immediately a small crowd made its way around the window. A middle age mortal man made his way to the front of the group and took the hands of Clarisse and started to pull her out. The man was rather strong so Clarisse was out of the window within seconds. As soon as she was out the crowd of people started to ask her questions.
"Are you okay?"
"How long have you been in there?"
"Who took you?"
Clarisse looked as if she was being suffocated, and as I glanced back into the room I saw that the guards had made their way into the hospital room, so I figured now was a good time to leave. I turned and thanked the man and took Clarisse's hand and sprinted towards the street.
I searched frantically for somewhere to hide. Then, Clarisse started to pull me in the direction od a diner. She sat down at a table be the window without waiting for the waiter like the sign said.
"What are we doing Clarisse?"
"Hiding," she said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"We're right in the window Clarisse, anybody could see us." I said with a raised eyebrow.
She took the menus and propped them up in between our faces and the window.
"Oh," was all I said in response.
"Duh." She rolled her eyes.
I peeked out from behind the menu only to quickly hide again. The female doctor from earlier was looking all around the street trying to find us.
"Uh Clarisse?" I said uncertainly. "I'm still in my hospital gown. Won't that be a little suspicious?"
"Don't worry about it. The people from outside can only see the top half of us and if people notice that in here, well they can just get over it."
"Okay, so here's the plan," Clarisse said. "I told Percy that when we escaped we were going to meet him at the bowling alley about a mile and a half from here. Thankfully they didn't take anything from me so I still have some money left for a cab. Let's go, it's time and there is nobody I can see searching for us anymore."
"It doesn't work you know" I said suddenly.
She looked at me like I was crazy. "What doesn't work?"
"Guppy face."
She groaned and said, "Not this again."
"Well it doesn't…Fish Face is perfect because it is an alliteration whereas Guppy Face has no such appealing symmetry."
"Ugh, don't analyze it. It's supposed to be insulting. How is it gonna be insulting if you look into it so much? Besides, you freak, who cares about the friggin symmetry?! Gods you're such a nerd!"
I tried to hide my amused smile as we walked towards the taxi on the side of the road.
Hey everybody! Next chapter will have lots of Percy! As an apology for the long wait in between chapters lately, I tried to make this one a bit longer than usual. I hope the wait was worth it! Anyways, you are all lovely people and I ALWAYS enjoy hearing what you have to say about this fic. I'm going to be traveling for a month starting tomorrow so I probably won't be able to update until after my trip, but if I can, I certainly will:) See ya next chapter!
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