Still don't know how the Doors closed, if anyone has any suggestions I am all ears. For right now, here is Percy after he wakes up.
Jason just stood there, staring at his green eyes. They looked different but at the same time the same as they were when they were fighting. Jason's hand went to his hip to find his sword just in case. Feeling the fabric of his genes he realized he for got to grab it, now he was probably going to pay for it.
Percy however, was doing the same thing, just staring at him, Jason didn't know when he was going to attack. He remembered when Percy was out Annabeth gave him back Riptide because she said it belonged to him and no one else. Right now Jason wished she would have waited just a little wile longer.
Percy must have noticed Jason's hand movement, because he looked at where his sword usually is on his waist. He reached into his pocket, and pulled out a pen, one that Jason knew all to well, but from this close of distance it didn't matter, Percy was able to get a kill shot. Instead of up capping it, he handed it to Jason.
"If it makes you feel safer you hold it." He said, with a straight face that made Jason wonder if it was bait or not. Reluctantly he took the pen from Percy and put it in his own pocket.
"How come your..." He tried to say but didn't know the right words, he didn't want to insult him and have him snap again, but at the same time he didn't understand how waking up made him no angry anymore.
"Not insane and attacking everyone?" Percy finished for him, he said it like it was one of the most average things in the world.
"Yah, that would pretty much sum it up." Jason said, his tone still on the defensive.
"Well if it counts I did just punch Frank in the eye." Percy said, turning sideways so Jason could see in side of his room. Inside he saw Frank standing up and holding a hand over his left eye, he seemed fine otherwise.
"Hey, Jason, so Percy is up and he still hits hard considering the only thing he has had to eat in two days is nectar." Frank said, waving at Jason.
"Okay, what in Hades name is happening, how are you all of a sudden back to normal?" Jason said, looking at Percy still well aware that he was in striking distance of him.
Percy and Frank both told Jason what had happened. Apparently, Percy woke up some 45 minuets ago when everyone was eating breakfast, Frank heard him start to make noise and got close to him. When Percy woke up, he thought Frank was attacking him so he punched him and slammed Frank against the wall holding him there. Percy still delusional demanded to know what happened. So Frank told him, everything, even that he thought he was still in Tartarus.
"So, do you still think you are in Tartarus?" Jason asked wondering if all of this was only temporary.
"Honestly, I don't know. But, considering that who ever fixed up my side doesn't want me dead just yet, so I will have to find out sooner or later." He said, looking off to the side, Jason could tell just by his voice that Percy felt ashamed of what happened but at the same time skeptical. His eyes showed the same amount of alertness as he had when he first stepped out of the Doors of Death. But, they also seemed more aware of the fact that right now nothing is trying to kill him.
"Frank are you okay? Sorry about hitting you." He said, trying to reach out to him, but Frank just held his hands up.
"Its okay man, I got hit a lot worse." He tried to say with a smile, but it was obvious that his eye was already starting to blacken.
"I am pretty sure we all have." A voice said, coming into the door way. Everyone looked at the woman standing in the sun light, she seemed almost familiar but Jason couldn't tell who she was.
"Who are you?" All three of them said at the same time, Jason looked over at Percy and he saw what he feared. Percy must have started to believe that he was in Tartarus again.
"I am someone who is just trying to see if a hero is okay." She said, lifting her hand to Percy's face. The moment she touched him, Percy's eyes grew distant but not like they were before, like everything he ever wanted was being show to him at this moment. When she pulled her hand away, he seemed to come back to reality.
"Lady Hestia" Percy, said, "I didn't think the gods left the western world." He said, still skeptical.
"We do when it concerns us deeply, and all of you on this ship concern us deeply." She said, Jason could tell by her voice that she wasn't lying.
"Did you restore me back to normal?" Percy asked, Jason knew that Percy didn't trust many of the gods. Jason had the same feeling himself, but he noticed that Percy took a special kind of respect for Hestia.
"No, even we gods can't do that. My little brother would be very angry if he knew I was here talking to you, but from what I can tell you have just endured what none of the gods ever have. Percy Jackson you truly are remarkable, even Athena has begun to praise you." She said. "I can still tell, that you still don't know what world you are in." Hestia said her words like a concurred mother would say to a son in need.
What ever history the goddess had with Percy, it was clear that she held him in the same regard as he did her.
"I need to leave before Zeus finds out, all of you need to understand, this is not the end of your problems. You have weekend the goddess of the earth, but she is still far from done, and you still have a civil war on your hands." She said, Hestia looked like she wanted to say something else but at that moment a rumbling thunder was heard up in the sky.
"Very well little brother. Be well heroes and understand that we will be watching you. And Frank, Hades says he has a special place for you if Hazel ever ends up hurt." She said with a smile and just like that she was gone.
Both Percy and Jason couldn't help but hold back a laughter as they looked at Frank's face.
"Due to the fact that you are up now, I am going to show Hazel something romantic." Frank said, fear still on his face.
"I suppose you are going to talk to Annabeth now." Jason said after Frank left, he was happy that Percy wasn't dead, but still concerned on his mental state.
"Do me a favor Jason." Percy said, looking him directly into the eyes this time, all smile and laughter gone.
"Sure, anything." He said, realizing that Percy's eyes were just as intense as they were a few days ago.
"If I ever act like that again, or if you even suspect me of becoming dangerous to Annabeth or anyone else on this ship. I don't want you to hesitate. You promised me you would protect her for me, now I need you to promise to protect her from me if it comes to that." He said, making Jason wonder if he was ever going to have to keep this promise.
I figured it was time to give Percy a break, after everything he just went through, and all he still needs to go through. But, if you are wondering, yes we will see more of the effects all of this has done to both him and Annabeth. In the mean time, I hope you guys enjoy this one.