Thalia's PoV
These past few months have been…strange. The moment I met Percy I knew there was something wrong with him. But after two months he's become one of my best friends. It's been a while sense I've let someone other then Jason this close. I've even met the dudes parents! We spent most of summer together we were part of the large group but still, there was times where it was just the two of us.
Truthfully I know I like Percy, my first thought when I met him was that he was hot, then he was a nice person! Then he became a member of the group, then he helped Jason and defended himself from his attack without hurting him which not a lot of people would do. Then I let him get close now I'm fucked. I really like Percy but after what happened last time, I shouldn't.
I was in my room laying in my bed watching some Twitch when I heard a loud bang coming from the room across from me, Percy's room.
I sigh and turn off my phone and go to check on him, after I leave my room I knock on his door.
"One minute!" I hear him say from his room. After we came back from his home he's been dealing with things better, Percy might just be going home for his birthday next week. Which he's really looking forward to.
When he opened the door I instantly notice his topless torso.
I remember that morning when I woke up before Percy the day after the funeral. I instantly felt his arms around me. While I was originally shocked I quickly got comfortable but I realised that his mom would probably be coming into the room in a few minutes like the day before, I quickly moved his arms from around me and got out of bed, I saw his body which I didn't see last night, I was tempted to get back in bed but decided it would just be awkward if his mom came in.
But sense then I can't stop thinking about every time I look at him. I realise I'm blushing and try to take attention off of me. I look into his room and see nothing out of the ordinary.
"What was the loud banging noise?" I ask still trying to see what fell in the room. He blushed slightly.
"I uhhh fell out of bed." He admits, I look at him sceptically and checked my watch.
"It's like 2pm, why are you still in bed?" I ask. Today is a day off so he can do what ever he wants but it wasn't normal for even Percy to sleep in like this.
"I couldn't sleep last night, so I've really only got a few hours of sleep." He says conveniently yawning.
"Oh, ok then. Try and get some sleep." I say and head back into my room. When I shut the door I sigh. That guy fucking annoys me. He just stands there topless and barely awake, like he doesn't care how that effects me! Ok he doesn't know that it effects me, but still!
Part of me wanted to knock on Percy's door and take him to my tree, going there helps me sleep sometimes. I stood to go to him but I paused, no,I can't, don't let him get closer then he already is! I can't, not after what happened to Luke- No no don't don't think about it!
Too late.
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Percy's PoV
After Thalia left I hesitated and debated following her, I decided against it and went back to bed. Unfortunately sleep avoided me like the plague. I stood again and decided to get some exercise. I quickly threw on a top and and put on a proper pair of track suit pants.
I left my room and decided a run around the lake a run like that should cover me. Just before I put in my AirPods I heard heavy breathing coming from Thalia room. I was a little concerned, so I knocked on her door.
"Thalia? Are you ok?" I ask through the door.
"Y-Y Y yeah I'm fine! C-C-Can you get Jason, Please!" She says through heavy breaths, she sounded scared, I wanted to ask her more but decided to do what she asked.
"Ok, ok I'll go get him!" I say and go get him, I wasn't sure how urgent this was but I also felt this wasn't a social call, I decided to put some speed to my movement not running but not walking either.
Jasons and Pipers room was a few doors down so I got there quickly. I knocked, no answer, I knocked again hoping he was in there.
"What!?" I hear through the door in an almost growl like voice.
"Jason, it's Thalia, she asked me to get you, she doesn't sound right, she sounds scared, her breathing is heavy-" I was interrupted with Jason opening the door and putting on his top and running down to Thalia's room. I look into his room and see Piper adjusting her top and hair while sitting up from their bed she shrugs and I take my leave after Jason. Piper stopped me. She quickly ran out and grabbed my arm.
"Perce don't, Thalia doesn't like an audience. Only Jason can be near her right now, you'll just have to wait." She says, with sorrow in her voice.
"Whats happening?" I ask. She shrugs again.
"Truthfully I don't know Thalia's condition only Jason does. But from that quick description you gave I'd assume a panic attack." She says looking down at Thalia's room.
I think more on her words, a panic attack? What is wrong with Thalia? I decide to stop thinking about if Thalia wanted me to know she'll tell me. I say my goodbyes to Piper and put my AirPods in putting on some Score as I run out of the building.
I quickly cycle through songs on their album, I landed on 'Where do you run' I smiled and decided to keep that on. I ran with the song in the background, I quickly pass a few teenagers, I see Chiron pass me with three new kids surrounding him. I smile and wave and he does to.
I quickly finish the first quarter of my run, and power through when I bump into Clarrisse infront of five of her brutish friends. I fall back and so does she, when I stood up and saw it's Clarrisse I bumped into I expected a good bit of abuse. She glared at me but smiled, unfortunately that scared me more then her glare.
"Normally I would kick your ass for that, but I see you have other issues!" She says as she picks up a pair of….binoculars? She puts them up to her eyes, and points them at the window.
"What are you doing? Trying to get some free porn?" I say partly joking but mainly curious.
"At first maybe, got close with your pal Jason and Piper! But we found something even better!" She says. Gods I hope she was joking about the watching sex thing.
"What do you mean?" I ask.
She smirks. She hands me the binoculars and points to a window. I grab them and curiously look through them at that window, stupid I know. When I looked through them I saw a scared girl with wide eyes and an even paler then normal face, and her brother trying to reassure her as she panics.
"Guess we finally found what's wrong little miss princess!' Clarrisse says laughing. I put the binoculars down, they were spying on Thalia watching her have a panic attack like it was a joke.
I told myself that it was just three more days until my mom comes to pick me up for my eighteenth. All I have to do is keep my cool. I looked at them and saw their laughing faces as they laughed at Thalia for having her own issues.
At least three of her friends deal with Panic attacks them selfs and they were still laughing. Clarrisse has her own anger issues, and her closest friend tried to kill herself when she was outed as gay infront of her whole school! And they still laugh at someones issue. They were the truely sick people here. Birthday be dammed, they're laughing at Thalia. The kid that bumped into Grover came back into my mind, the way he acted like he deserved the right to hit Grover because of his condition.
Gabe came back in my head and how he hurt my mom, how he put his cigarettes out on me. Nancy Bubbafet, and her tormenting Grover in one of our schools, before we both got kicked out. All the other kids who laughed at my friends, the people that dropped two litres of ice cold water on Annabeth in the library. The people who laughed at me. Then I remembered the people who were scared of me, why were they scared of me? Oh yeah! Because they hurt my friends, and I made them suffer, birthday be dammed.
I turned fully facing the laughing Clarrisse. I looked at my hand with the military grade binoculars in my hand, and I shoved the binoculars right into her stomach at only a portion of my strength. She held her stomach while winded, her friends recover from laughing quickly and tried defending their friend. I threw the binoculars at one of them hitting them square on the head putting them on the floor.
One of the big brutes ran at me and I ran at her, she tried punching me but I ducked mid run and pelted her in the stomach. Bring her down. By now Clarrisse had recovered from my first attack,
The two friends I already took down decided to stay down. Her other three decided to be dumb and charge me together. The only guy of the group ran at me and tried sucker punching me but I caught his hand and bent it backwards definitely spraining maybe breaking it. He knelt down holding his wrist. The other two hadn't copped on neither had Clarrisse.
Clarrisse charged at me and I dodged her first punch but got caught of guard by the next one. I was slightly winded but I've felt worse. I kicked her shin forcing her leg to topple making her kneel I then elbow her in the face hearing a crack when my elbow made contact with her nose.
Her other two friends analysed me. They were debating who would hurt them more me or Clarrisse if they ran.
They didn't get that option because Chiron came walking over with the three kids and instantly saw the carnage I had caused.
Shit.
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Thalia's PoV
When my panic attack subsided I calmed instantly Jason looked so worried. I remember telling Percy to get Jason.
"Lu-him again?" Jason asked.
"Don't, don't make me think. Please." I mutter shedding a tear. Jason nods.
"You know he'd be happy for you?" I hear him say through my now closed eyes.
"What happy I'm having panic attacks!?" I ask a little annoyed. Jason shook his head.
"That you're moving on." He says. I look at him incredulously
"I'm not, Percy is just a friend!" I say.
"Who mentioned Percy?" He says smiling a little. "You forget I'm the only one here that can read you like an open book. I know why you avoided him at the start, I know why you hate just how close you two have gotten, and I know why you took him to your tree." He says some more. I was going to reply when I heard a loud yelling noise outside.
I quickly look outside, And see Clarrisse's friends. Jason looked out the window as well. And sighed. I noticed Percy was there as well, he was looking at the ground his face getting redder and redder as they laughed he looked so conflicted, I noticed he was holding something in his hands.
"What do you think the chances are they saw my, attack?" I say panicking slightly. Jason didn't respond. "So they saw the attack, and so did Percy." I say now knowing I can never look at Percy again, he probably thinks I'm weak. Then I saw his red face goes slack, His face colour returns to normal, he raises his head looking at Clarrisse.
"Oh this will be good." Jason said clearly seeing something I didn't. But before I got a chance to ask what he meant Percy lost his shit! Clarrisse was down in seconds her friend was down just as quick as the other three decided to be dumb and continue attacking him.
I saw Percy kick their asses! I mean I knew he had anger issues and I knew he could stick fight but this was full on fighting.
"Jeesh if this is what he can do with his fists how much was he holding back when I attacked him?" Jason asked. I look at him, his face is completely neutral. I saw him dodge a punch and deck someone in the stomach instantly taking them down.
I saw Chiron walk around a corner with a few kids by his side. I knew this would end terribly. After Percy took down Clarrisse Chiron came face to face with the carnage.
I ran down to them with Jason next to me. Chiron was giving out to Percy but Percy just stood there not even twitching his face a little bit.
Percy was sent to the behaviour management officer, so was Clarrisse as soon as she wakes up. Myself and Jason follow Percy who was being dragged off by security to our behaviour management, or as we call him 'Dickhead'
"Percy, are you ok?" Jason asked. Percy took a really really long deep breath.
"Yeah, I am fine, just blacked out there for a few seconds." He mutters through the security guards.
Me and Jason followed no matter how many times the guards told us to scram, they couldn't make us do shit. When we got to his office the security personal told Percy to wait here in the waiting room, they tried to stop us from getting close but they didn't stand a chance we sat right next to him and refused to leave.
When he got called into the office we followed him, much to the distaste of everyone, You see Percy has anger issues, and this guy, this guy had away of even making Calypso get in your face mad.
The man took one look at us and rolled his eyes.
"Ok then Perry Johnson is it?" He says half heartedly.
"No it's Percy Jackson." Percy responds.
"Ok then, it says here Perry that you are meant to be heading home in a few days for your birthday, correct?" Dickhead says, Dickhead was a straight up Asshole that had
absolutely no care about our issues, in fact his favourite people were people like Percy with anger issues, he loved making them tick. But the fact Percy was leaving took me by surprise I knew he was talking to Chiron about leaving but I had no clue it was cleared and in the works.
"Well Perry that won't be happing this year! Maybe on your next birthday if your still a menace on society still." Dickhead muttered. Percy affected eye contact. He told me abut that, when people tick him off he diverts his eyes, he gets angrier if there's direct eye contact, guess he takes it as a challenge.
His eyes land on the name on the table. 'Dionysius' was written in big bold letters.
"Sorry, Mr D, you must of misheard me. My names isn't Perry, it's Percy." Percy says calling the man Mr D, his eyes begged for a challenge. Bad idea Perce, this guy loves challenges and rarely looses them.
"Mr D? Oh! Because my name is Dionysius, I suppose it is a hard name to pronounce, Perly" Mr D replies.
"No, Dickhead is just annoying to say so I shortened to Mr D." Percy responds. Dickeheads normally calm demeanour faded and a small scowl was evident on his face.
"Well Mr Jhonson, besides that mean comment, you have had a good record these past few months and it really is a shame you let yourself and your family down this close to your birthday." Mr D said. Yeah I like that nickname.
"My name isn't Jhonson!" Percy says, getting ticked off.
"You know what your right, my apologies." Mr D says, I didn't like where this was going. "It says here on file, Percy Ugliano." Mr D says. I swear I didn't even see Percy move the next thing I know Mr D's head was pinned under Percy's elbow as he applied pressure. Mr D squirmed in his seat, I quickly pulled Percy back as I swear I saw red in his eyes.
Ugliano? who the hell was that. I know he had a step father years ago but I never really got a name. Percy calmed down as I held him back and Jason made sure Mr D was ok.
Mr D had a big bruise on his face but he was still smiling. No one had attacked him before, and now he found Percy's button.
"Get out! Perry Jhonson you are prohibited to interact with any outside activities, for the next two weeks! you go to class and back to your dorm you are not aloud outside past six o'clock and by the gods you will not be leaving this camp until you are clear of anger!" He yells though he still smiles.
When I dragged Percy out of Mr D's office Percy screams at the top of his lungs. I flinch slightly and so does Jason. When he's done screaming he looks at me, the red in his eyes seems to disappear, he looks at me and Jason and calms down.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." He says with a raspy voice.
"Percy, this is my fault, I should off closed my curtains, I didn't know Clarrisse was out there, then I saw you kick her ass, and…. Thanks." I mumble. Percy looks at me.
"They shouldn't have been watching and they shouldn't have laughed. I was just doing what you would off ended up doing anyway." He says his voice still raspy. I smile and decide to start walking back to the dorms.
"How about we go to the Cafe on the grounds." Jason suggests. We both nod and head to the Cafe. When we got there Jason chose our seats. It was a two person table but I suppose Jason can pull a seat over to us.
A waitress comes over to a now seated me and Percy while Jason looks for a free chair.
"What can I get you three today?" She asked I had a quick scan of the drink menu and saw a nice looking Latte.
"I'll take a Latte." I say pulling out my drink card, Percy doing the same. She checks our cards and writes my order down.
Our drink cards are basically our I.D cards it just says that caffeine or Alcohol won't effect or conditions, I'm not aloud Alcohol knowing Percy I'd say he's the same, but Caffeine is good. Leo isn't aloud Caffeine but he is aloud to drink as soon as he turns eighteen.
Jason can drink Coffee but chooses not to he doesn't like be hyped up on energy if he loses his memory.
"I'll take a Hot Chocolate." Percy says. The waitress writes his order down,
"And what can I get for you?" She says looking at Jason.
"Uhhh can you give me a minute to decide?" He asks. The waitress nods and walks off to get our drinks.
Jason looked around for a few more second before pulling out his phone.
"Shit sorry guys, Pipes needs me back at the room. I'll have to ditch but here!" He says pulling out a twenty bucks. "Drinks are on me." He says and leaves.
'Dickhead' I think to myself. Such a fucking Cliche. The waitress came back with our drinks and left. I couldn't help but chuckle a little bit at Jasons attempt.
"I'm sorry you couldn't go home for your birthday." I say. He nods.
"It's not your fault. And it was really fun to kick Clarrisse's ass!" he says laughing. I smile.
"I didn't know you could even fight like that!" I say. impressed.
"My dad was very infested in my fighting abilities, he figured if I couldn't control my anger I should be able to defend myself if I need to. Thats where the sword fighting came from, and the fighting." he explained. I smile, his dad pays for everything.
"How well off is your dad any way? You say he's the CEO of a sports company and he pays for everything but when I saw him he looked…Normal?" I say struggling with the last word. Truthfully I have no idea what to make of Percy's family. His father and step father act like best friends, and his mother seem to be very close with his father still.
"My father started a company by being bored. His friend Iris made this weird trident logo for his clothes because she was bored. She though he would like it. He did like it, he liked it so much he had it attached to his hat! One day he was walking across the street when this random guy came up to him and asked where he got the hat, my father explained how he got the hat. This guy asked how much for the hat, it was a gift for his son. He went up to 100 bucks before giving up. " He says this smiling to himself like retelling a story he loved hearing.
"After that my dad asked Iris if she could make more of the logos, she said yes, they spent three months buying cheap ass hats and fabric then sold them all in a week. He used the money to buy machines to make the hats quicker, then he used the next batch of money to hire two people, one to help him and the other help Iris. Then it just grew and grew. Now my dad runs Trident one of the most successful sport companies in the world. He designs jerseys, hats, jackets even the team he sponsors wore his shit before he sponsored them." After he was done explaining I smiled.
"What was your father like?" He asked. I hesitated for a bit, but decided talking about dad might not hurt.
"My dad wasn't like your dad, he came birthdays and Christmas that's it maybe sometimes he'll stay till new year. He was a pilot. He flew around the world so many times he lost count. I'd like to say he loves me and Jason but I don't think that's true. That last time I heard from him was when he dropped me and Jason off here. He told me to stay by Jasons side and never leave him. No matter what." I explain. He looked at me and gives me a stupid sympathy smile. I glare and he realises and stops giving me the sympathy smile.
"Ok then, lets stop talking about parents! And just enjoy our drinks." He says smiling a proper smile. I smile lightly as well and continue drinking, we joke around and laugh until we were told to either leave or quiet down.
We decided to leave, and walk around the camp a bit more until it got dark. I notice some of the security guards were looking at Percy, he noticed to.
"Well, I have to get back to my room, cause you know." He says pointing back to the dorms. I sigh actually enjoying his company, so I make a reckless decision.
"Ok then, lets go!" I say and start making my way back to his room. I swear I hear him laugh then follow me.
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Percy's PoV
Thalia's amazing! Today has been a long day and frankly im still really tired. But she's made this long unbearable day turn into a fun filled…..date? Is this a date? No, when I ask Thalia on a date it'll be hella romantic. But she's made this day fun. I'm not going home, technically when I turn eighteen I can leave when ever I want, its my own decision.
When we get back to my dorm room Thalia sits on my bed still talking about the time she punched Clarrisse and broke her nose, its the reason Clarrisse is scared of her, I laughed at her story. We talked a lot more and Thalia even managed to convince the Stoll brothers just under us to steal some of the stronger drinks from the Cafe we were just at. Connor and Travis Stoll were here for kleptomania just like Piper.
They smiled at the challenge and the promise they can keep half off what they steal. Thalia gave them the location off where she saw them store the beer and off they went. A few minutes later they came back with a lot of shit.
We took or share and they took theirs.
We drank until the room was spinning and then some more.
I've been told that Alcohol doesn't help my Anger Issues so I'm not licensed to get some when I turn 21 if im still here. Thalia said it was the same for her.
We had a good time until about eleven PM when we were just tired, we were drunk, tired and happy. Just the way it should be every dam day.
We both lay on my bed, our heads touching the wall on the side of my bed and our legs on the floor sense our legs were on the other side of the bed.
I don't know what made me ask, maybe it was curiosity, or drunkness, or maybe a false sense of security but I asked Thalia a question.
"Why are you here?" I ask, kind off slurring my words but I knew she understood. Her drunken smile disappeared, she opened her mouth but closed it again, then spoke.
"There was this boy-" she began but was interrupted by a knock on my door. My eyes went wide.
"Shit!" I say Thalia quickly picked up the discarded drinks and ran into my bathroom with them, granted she did nearly fall and I nearly laughed. I knew I had to get my shit together.
"Who is it?" I ask through the door.
"Percy! It me! Chiron!" He replies through the door.
"Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit!" I say mutter quickly. I take a deep breath pop a chewing gum in my mouth that was conveniently next to my bed, I took another deep breath and opened the door.
"Sorry I was asleep." I mutter quietly, my drunken nature and messy hair I got when Thalia gave me a nuggy, long story might explain later.
"Percy, sorry for waking you, but I want to ask a favour." He says, I kind of look at him with confusion. He takes his hand and pulls over a little kid, and another older kid, I recognised them from when I ran passed Chiron earlier this morning, they've been with him all day, so they definitely saw me kick ass today.
"I need you to watch these kids for a few days, just like how you were taking into a group I would like you to extend the courtesy, they're new and they could use some help.
I look at him, I had to play this cool.
"I don't know Chiron, I'm kind off banned from leaving my dorm until either I die or Mr D dies. Which ever comes first." I say. He sighs and rubs his chin.
"I can't let you go home for your birthday, you know I can't, but I will remove your punishments and if I see an improvement and these kids say you were nice, helpful and civil, I'll allow you and your group of friends into town for an entire day. Deal?" He offers, before I could respond, Thalia runs out of my room.
"Fucking deal!" She says shaking the guys hand. I couldn't help but laugh at the look on Chiron's face.
He shakes his head and recovers.
"Great! Then Percy you can look after Nico and Thalia can look after Bianca! That sounds fair!" He says.
"Woah woah I was agreeing for Percy's sake I don't want to deal with kids!" She says.
"Is that alcohol I smell on your breath!?" He says crossing his arms.
"We will see them tomorrow morning!" She says smiling and dragging me back into my room. I see Chiron rolling his eyes before the door closed and she turned the lock.
"Well that made it look like we were doing something we shouldn't be!" I mutter. Thalia look at me and the pieces fit together. So in her drunken state she unlocked the door, and waved off to Chiron and the kids.
"Its ok were not having sex! Just drinking!" She screams down the hall. I have no idea how Chiron reacted and just laughed my ass off.
"Better?" She asks.
"Fuck no but that was hilarious." I say laughing some more. She laughed a little to. She's never gonna leave her room if she remembers this in the morning.
"Ok I think I'm done for the night, im heading to bed! I say and lay down on my bed not bothering to take my clothes off. I was fucking tired, I fell asleep almost instantly.
I didn't hear Thalia leave but she was long gone when I woke up in the morning majorly hung over and majorly tired.
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Ok, so I fucked up a little, remember the last chapter, when I had Thalia talk about leaving at eighteen, well my stupid mind forgot that Percy was turning eighteen soon in this story so I'm super dumb, so lets just forget I ever said that, I've edited the last chapter and I should be posting the new edited version soon after this chapter. So lets just come together and lecture my dumb brain for being stupid and just forget I ever typed it. Thanks.
Also I'm currently writing this on Christmas Eve but I might proof read in a day or two, but incase my writing catches second wind today, Merry Christmas Eve and Merry Christmas
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Ok then it took me waaaay longer then I thought it would, by the time I had time to prove read this I was on the other side of the country helping my sister move so I was in a camper van with no internet for a few days then I forgot I didn't post this, my bad.