Yes so that was a ridiculously ridiculous wait for this chapter but things keep coming up, one of them being my health as well as my total writers block. Do you know how long I had the first sentence saved to this chapter for almost 20 days, until finally I decided to haul ass and type this thing out.
Just want to absolutely thank each and every one of you guys for reading this, seriously means a hell of a lot, especially to all those who have reviewed/followed/favourited and all that jazz. So kudos to you guys.
Main Pairings: Percy/Olympians, Percy/Artemis
Side Pairings: Percy/Annabeth
Any way I in no way own PJatO or HoO
Leaving New York City had been a lot easier than Percy had anticipated.
Granted Percy did run into trouble when he walked around a corner and had caught the overwhelming stench of O-Zone lingering in the air. However despite his quickening heartbeat, sweaty palms and shaking body Percy had managed to completely avoid the King of the gods.
Well at least he thought he had avoided the god, because while Percy could smell the O-Zone he couldn't actually see the god anywhere, then again he wasn't exactly keen on the idea of trying to lay eyes on the quite obviously angry god just to prove that his nose and paranoid mind where right.
But after that little conundrum he had run the rest of the way. His eyes lowered and his ears perked up for any sort of information or warning he could get without giving himself away too much, never mind the fact that a random kid with a baseball cap covering his head running through the streets of New York without any care on who or what he ran into was a little bit suspicious to the mortals. Old women saw him and clutched their bags a little tighter giving him a wide berth of movement around them.
But apart from that leaving the city had been as easy as duelling with Clarisse, not that he would ever tell her that in person of course. If she ever asked he would tell her that she was the most difficult duelling partner ever, of course she was difficult just not with a weapon.
Rather it was once he had safely crossed the George Washington Bridge and was standing right outside the Fort Lee Historic Park and museum that he ran into trouble.
Actually it wasn't just 'trouble'. It was more like a group of trouble.
Yes. A group of silver parka wearing teenage girls that hated anything and everything to do with the Y chromosome.
The Hunters of Artemis.
"Shoot!" he hisses as softly as he can, something that is anything but quiet because as he says it a young girl around twelve stands immediately from her squatting position beside her bag. Her brown eyes scan the area looking for the cause of the disturbance.
Percy reacts quickly however, suddenly proud of all the painstaking hours of honing his already existing battle reflexes.
The girl doesn't notice him. She shrugs her small shoulders and continues her packing with a frown, he can tell she is a newbie. Most of them are since the Giant war.
He grimaces at the thought.
Sure he had never exactly gotten on with the hunters but they were still people, still allies to the causes he had fought in. If anything they were the best allies someone could get, including the Amazons.
"Jamie." An oh-so familiar voice calls out. Percy jumps in surprise before poking his head slightly out to the side. Thalia. "I thought I asked you to help Bree with the medical tent?"
Jamie for her part looks a little shocked and scared, Percy doesn't blame her fear is one of the first emotions that pop into Percy's head as soon as Thalia tells him what to do in a commanding voice like that.
Another emotion is annoyance and jealousy, all of which combine into a terribly bad emotion. One that can cause Percy's powers to almost react on their own and his head to spin from the sheer power it has over him.
That's right it was anger.
It was safe to say that sometimes Percy had terrible anger management issues that should probably be dealt with as fast as possible. But he wasn't exactly going to see a shrink about it, could you imagine; "So" she would say, because Percy can only ever imagine a middle aged woman as his shrink. "What starts these 'fits of rage'?"
"Oh" he would say as he reclined back on the expensive leather lounge while abstract paintings hung on the wall above. "Usually when a monsters tries to kill me and boil my bones for its supper."
"Hmm." Then she would write something down on her little notepad, something that Percy would guess means she thinks he is absolutely bat-shit insane. "How do you cope with these outbursts?"
"Slice the monster into tiny little pieces and hope they don't reincarnate till I die."
He shakes off his minds rambling as he watches the two slowly, halfway through the conversation it seems like the two have once again become best buds because Thalia is patting the younger girl on the back while they both laugh obnoxiously about something before the little girl wanders off towards what Percy guesses is Bree and the medical tent.
Slowly Percy can see Thalia backing up towards the tree that he is currently standing behind. A false cheery look on her face as she continues to watch the rest of the hunters pack up their little makeshift camp on the back lawns of the park.
Percy panics and looks around for a place to hide but finds nothing, well nothing without crossing the road and possibly getting hit by an oncoming vehicle or walking into plain view of the hunters and his slightly terrifying friend.
Both of which sound like absolutely terrible ideas, especially seeing as he doesn't even know if Artemis is within the camp, or worse scouting around for any stragglers, monsters or certain teenage demigods who are quite honestly in the wrong place at the wrong time.
"You know" Thalia starts as her back hits the tree trunk. Percy clamps his eyes shut, hoping to all the gods that Thalia has no idea he is even there and is either talking to herself or someone hiding in the tree keeping a lookout.
Percy gulps and scans the tree he hides behind; he almost collapses to the floor in relief when he sees no sign of any hunters perched up in the tree.
"You are really terrible at spying on us." Percy hits the back of his head against the tree trunk in resignation. He looks up slowly and frowns.
"How-"he starts but is cut off by Thalia who is still standing on the other side of the tree.
"Did I know it was you?" she asks, her voice goes up an octave and Percy can tell she is smiling.
"Yeah." Is all he says as he stares out at the traffic whizzing past him, he imagines what they see as they go past the makeshift camp.
Do they see a random teenage boy talking to a tree? Do they even see the hunters? Or do they just see the park as the drive along continuing on with their everyday lives? Maybe they see a group of girl scouts trying to earn their next merit badge.
There is a long pause, one that puts Percy on edge. He counts down the seconds before she starts again.
"Well for one," Percy turns his head slightly so that he can at least catch a slight glimpse of her relaxed position against the tree, before whirling back around in case someone else catches a glimpse of the elusive demigod. "You are about as sly and subtle as Apollo."
He can't help the wince. "Jeeze. Ouch." She laughs and for a moment he smiles before suddenly remembering the seriousness of the situation he is in.
"And two, we are on the lookout." She replies softly. Percy would even say it was sadly, but if he told Thalia that she would kick him in the shins for being an idiot.
"On the lookout?" he asks with a frown, fear settles in his gut but he pushes it away focusing on his curiosity instead.
"Mmhmm." She sighs; he can hear the rustling of fabric as she shifts uncomfortably.
He can tell she is avoiding the subject. "Thalia." He tries again turning around until his chest is pressed directly up against the tree. "What do you mean by 'on the lookout'?" he shakes his head again as dread and frustration starts to form like a noxious gas taking him over. He refuses to let the emotions control him and stares at the bark on the tree in concentration.
He takes a deep and steady breath.
"I think you already know what I mean Percy."
Percy is silent as he glares at the tree. He can hear the hustle and bustle of the cars on the street behind him as well as the chatter of excited hunters as they pack up all their belongings ready for a new day in the life of the hunt.
"Artemis?"
There is an audible sigh from the other side of the tree.
"Olympus." Thalia inches around the tree until Percy can see the back of her head a little bit more clearly. He wonders if she has moved that way because he was easily seen by one of the hunters with sharp eyes. "Apparently," she starts with a head shake that screams annoyance. "There was a disturbance this morning on some dock somewhere and she was the closest god."
"Closest god?" Percy questions, last time he checked he was 99.9% sure gods could magically teleport anywhere they wanted and at any time. "Can't they use their godly power to teleport?" he questions her.
Thalia scoffs in reply, he can tell that she has her arms folded as she watches her wards in the park. "Yeah but gods are awfully busy. They can't just drop their duties and teleport their godly arses to where ever the hell you are causing trouble at."
Smiling fondly he starts to pick at the tree in front of him, his finger burying itself into a tiny hole created by some form of insect, or perhaps it was where a branch had once sat, whatever caused this tiny little hole Percy is invested in playing with it while he sorts his mess of a life out.
"What about Annie?"
The question burns him more than it probably should, it was the question that had plagued his mind for the past few days since he left camp. Really it's a question he doesn't want to delve too far into, he already has enough to deal with he doesn't need the repercussions of running away from his beautiful girlfriend to add onto his already stacked plate.
His head hits the tree softly with a barely audible thud.
"Uh." He starts carefully, his eyes begin to water just a little as he remembers her calling out for him. They had promised to never leave each other's sides again. And what had he done? He had left her.
He was the worst boyfriend in the history of boyfriends.
"I don't know." He sighs out his neck cranes upwards until his chin is lying as flat as it can on the tree. The bark scratches against his slightly stubbled chin.
He can practically hear the gears turning in Thalia's head as she processes everything, he doesn't want to know about the angry remarks he can imagine her thinking about him.
Because while he and Thalia were close friends, best friends even, she was closer to Annabeth.
They were more like sisters if anything. Like twin sisters sometimes, it could get a little creepy.
It was a bond that Percy doesn't even think he has ever had, well except with Annabeth and Grover. There were times when Percy had even felt envious of the two's relationship. Whenever they met up for burgers or once a coffee, which was an experience they will never repeat again, Percy had often taken up the position of feeling like the third wheel as the two talked about their lives and how annoying boys could be.
Percy had often tried not to be offended with some of the stuff that they had said about his gender.
"What?" Annabeth had laughed as he had tried and failed multiple times to hale down a taxi. "You have to admit boys can be annoying."
Percy scrunched his eyebrows as he watched an older man hale a taxi down in one go, how people could be so good at such a simple and yet difficult task was beyond his comprehension. "I hope you have at least one exception to that rule." He remarks giving up on waving his hands.
He was starting to feel like a man stranded on a lonely island waiting for a ship or a plane to take him back to civilisation.
Annabeth looks thoughtful for a moment before throwing out a hand and whistling. Immediately a cab rushes to them, she opens the door with a wry smile that has Percy's gut start to flutter with millions of tiny little butterflies.
"Actually," she starts biting her lip and looking back at him, the cabbie honks his horn. "Will isn't such a bad guy." With a smile she hops into the cab, Percy almost chases her in.
That night he had made a promise to himself that he would never let her go without a fight.
Thalia turns around then, she doesn't look at him, instead her eyes are placed on the bridge, she watches cars drive past with an intent that could be really terrifying, if her eyes didn't look so frightened.
"Percy." She says her eyes quickly moving to his, slowly he steps back from the tree. "I don't know what you did to cause this man hunt." He opens his mouth to retort but is silenced by a singular raised finger just shy of his nose. "But whatever it was, don't bring Annabeth into this."
The son of Poseidon frowns and glares towards the ground below him. "As if I would put her in danger." He grunts out looking back up at her, she is no longer looking at him and is instead once again focused on the road behind them.
"No." she sighs again leaning closer towards the tree until her entire right side is flush against the tree, her legs cross. "You would never do it intentionally." Her hand flicks up to push a strand of hair behind her ear.
She almost looks too relaxed, as if she is lying to him about how serious the situation is, he words say one thing but her body language says something completely different. He wonders if it is because of the hunters behind her, possibly watching her, seeing what she is doing.
He realises then that this is not only affecting him but also his friends. The gods know how close he is to them, they know that he would do anything to protect them.
Are they using them as bait to lure Percy in? Are some of them spying on him reporting information back just to get in their good graces?
Percy doesn't know but suddenly he is looking at Thalia in a new light.
Is she really going to help him? Even if it is to simply get away from the huntresses without them knowing, he gives her a sideway glance, one that she doesn't seem to notice.
Her features change suddenly, Percy moves away from the tree preparing to attempt an out run if she warns him about impending danger i.e. a certain man hating goddess or even the slight chance that she is about to tackle and possibly detain him for further questioning.
He knows that he would have a pretty slim chance of escaping if he was going up against Thalia.
"What did you do anyway?" her eyes move towards him suddenly, her relaxed posture changing slowly until she suddenly looks like the intimidating daughter of Zeus she is.
Percy sighs a little his shoulders slumping, glad that she is not about to send his arse two days from Sunday.
"Honestly?" he asks leaning against the tree with a frown. Thalia relaxes slightly again, he realises that she doesn't know if he is a threat or not yet. "I have no idea."
Thalia frowns and shakes her head slightly. "Then why do we have orders to find you and bring you to Olympus, or at least summon the closest god to take you to Olympus."
"You mean Artemis?" Percy asks, Thalia shakes her head quickly.
"No, recently she has been up at Olympus." She shrugs her shoulders turning until her back is against the tree. She shuffles her shoulders and muscles as if in an attempt to get a back groove in the tree. "It's almost like when Hera was taken." Percy frowns at the memory, or rather lack thereof. "It's weird."
"Hmm." Percy hums to himself as he slowly takes in as much information as he can. "Do you know what the gods are planning then?"
Thalia scoffs, loudly. Percy wonders if any of the hunters hear her, he doubts it though. He can barely hear himself speak over the honking horns and rumbling engines just a few feet away from them. "Like I can tell you." She laughs, Percy notes there seems to be no humour in it. "You may as well be public enemy number 1."
"Great." Percy mutters to himself. "You know I'm not the bad guy in this." He states a familiar bubbling feeling in his gut warning him of his rising temper.
"Yeah." Thalia says "You're probably not, but until the gods say otherwise, guess who is going to be hunted down by any and all creatures who are trying to gain favour with the gods."
She laughs suddenly, it's loud and sounds almost like a squawk.
Percy jumps in fright before realising she had laughed and not used some elaborate bird call to signal the hunters that Percy was near them and that they should all bring out their sharpest weapons to chase him down. Percy covers a hand over his mouth to stop the laughter from escaping.
"Sorry." She says suddenly, there is a hint of mirth still in twined in her voice as she tries to compose herself only to break down in another fit of giggles.
Percy has never seen this side of Thalia, he wonders if she is drunk.
"What in Hades was that?" he asks with an opened mouth grin. He can't see Thalia to know that she is trying to compose herself.
"I'm sorry," she tries again. "It's just that-" she breaks out into another wave of laughter that has Percy both cautious and entertained. He hopes the hunters only think that Thalia has finally lost it from the pressure of leading the hunters around for the past few months. "Imagine if you were given to one of the goddesses as a marriage proposal."
"What?" He asks completely shocked and confused as to what is so funny about that.
Two scenarios run through his mind, both as unappealing as they sound.
She laughs again, Percy is pretty sure she has never really seen her this entertained by something, well except when Annabeth and Thalia were talking about some past memory at some family restaurant owned by an elderly couple who baked their own pie.
He never understood what was so funny about that story, no matter how many times the two repeated it to him. He would always go into default mode when they finished gushing about it, he would smile nod his head and throw out an odd laugh saying; 'That's really funny.'
They never seemed to get the hint that he didn't find the story funny because all of the best parts where drowned out by their own laughter as they repeated it over and over again.
"Imagine if a Cyclops wanted to marry- let's say Athena for example-" Percy scrunches up his nose in disgust, he can't imagine anyone finding Athena that attractive. "So they found you and took you to her in hopes that she would drop her maiden vow and marry him." she laughs again slapping her knee. "Gods." She sighs wiping her eye with the back of her hand. "That would be brilliant."
"Ye-"
"Thalia?" A voice asks interrupting a stunned Percy who practically tries to meld himself into the tree behind him so that the hunter won't see him.
'See the tree, feel the tree, be the tree.' He thinks to himself as he suddenly wishes he was a thin little pancake.
"Yes." Thalia asks, her voice is rough and authorative, like she is about to tell someone to leave her alone if they wanted to live. "What do you want Asia?"
There is no doubting that she is a daughter of Zeus when she talks like that.
"Uh? I just wanted to know if you were okay." Percy almost slaps his face, because yes of course someone would notice Thalia's sudden out bursts of hysteria.
"Yes." She answers quickly, too quickly Percy notices with a frown, someone is bound to notice how suspicious she sounds. He just hopes that someone is not the girl currently asking about her leader's mental stability. "Why wouldn't I be?"
The girl is silent for a moment, alarm bells ring in Percy's ears as he tries to think of the best way to run if he is seen. At the moment he has two options; 1. Run, run as fast and as far as he can right now. Or 2. Wait it out, sit tight wait for her to walk away and then leave in the slyest way he can.
He vouches for option 2 and stays as still and as silent as he possibly can.
"No reason." The girl mutters, they are silent again. Percy has a moment where he starts to rethink his options, just as he is about to run the way he came there is the sound of retreating footfalls and a sigh that sounds and awful lot like Thalia's.
"She's gone." Thalia mutters to him.
"Thank the gods." Percy lets out a breath he didn't realise he had been holding in. "I think I should go to." He grunts removing himself from the tree, a splinter digs into his skin through his shirt.
"Yeah." Thalia replies. "Boy, am I getting some weird looks though." She says through gritted teeth, quickly she turns back around until she is facing the road again, her eyes move over towards Percy's with a sly grin.
"You have to admit though." She says with an air of confidence. "That would be pretty funny."
Percy grimaces. "No." he replies back to her with a raised brow. "It really wouldn't."
Thalia smiles slightly. "Yeah, funny for me. Not you." She shakes her head and looks back at the road. "For you it would suck, pretty badly."
The two are silent for a moment, Percy doesn't want to leave Thalia right now. He has already left everyone else behind, leaving Thalia, even though their run in was one of complete chance, feels as if it could be the straw to break the camel's back.
"Is it true?" Thalia asks suddenly, her voice cuts through the air like a knife cutting through a cake.
"Is what true?"
"The reason you are running?"
Percy turns his body fully to look at her. "I thought you didn't know what I did?" he questions her with a frown.
Thalia raises and eye brow a flicks her hand out to shut him up. "I've heard rumours."
"Rumours?" he asks quickly, he is putting off leaving and she is putting him of leaving. Something he hopes she is doing because she will miss him and not because this is a distraction.
"Yeah." She says quickly looking back at him with a frown. "Like you leaving because you got some other girl pregnant, starting a war on Olympus between Athena and Poseidon, making the gods want a trial to condemn your immortal soul." Percy frowns and looks up at her with a look of pure disgust.
"I know." She says with a smile. "That was my exact reaction."
"And you're asking if that's true?" he hopes she doesn't think it's true, he can't imagine cheating on Annabeth and he can't imagine what Thalia would do if she thought he was cheating on Annabeth, he can't even imagine what Annabeth would do to him if he cheated on her.
He personally would much rather spend a month in Tartarus.
"Gods no." she says with an expression Annabeth had once used on him, usually when he asked for obvious answers. "I can't imagine you even thinking of cheating on Annabeth."
"Well," Percy replies with a roll of his eyes. "Then we are back with my earlier question. Aren't we pinecone face."
She gives him a short glare before looking down at her hands. She looks back up at him quickly, her face a blank canvas. "Are they trying to force you into godhood."
Percy chews his lip for a moment before reluctantly nodding his head.
The sun clips Percy's back for a brief moment before it is once again swallowed by thunderous clouds that swirl above them, the same clouds that have been appearing on and off again for the past week, the only change in the weather is that while the wind and rain has halted off a bit there is still an angry and foreboding element to the air that any and all demigods know is because Zeus is royally pissed off.
He misses the warmth of the sun and wishes that everything was like it was this morning, before his unfortunate run in with Poseidon, his godly father who was both with and against him at this present moment. It was something that confused, comforted and irked Percy to no extent.
But at least he had a firm grasp on where his father had seemed to stand on all this, well as firm a grasp as he could on understanding the lord of the seas.
"What?" Thalia hisses at him, her eyes are a blaze with murderous intentions.
Percy knows if there is one person who can rival him in the anger department it is probably Thalia with Nico and Annabeth a close second and third. And that wasn't including any godly beings.
He figures that Clarisse and most of her half siblings didn't count, their main emotion was anger and after a while you would get used to their anger.
Even kind and loving Hestia could probably beat them in the angry department if the gods were included.
Percy figures that anger issues and godhood kind of go hand in hand.
'Hey maybe that's why they are going to force you to become a god?'
"How could they even sugg-" Thalia throws a hand up and forces her eyes to close, she is trying to calm herself down. Percy had attempted that very technique when he was angry a few times. He always found the movement to be calming. But he also could grow quickly irritated from it and would end up madder than before.
Slowly her eyes open again and she stares at him, she looks a lot calmer, well except for the storm that is circling in her eyes. The blue clouds swirl around her pupils like a whirl pool.
"They have crossed a line."
"You're telling me." He replies with a slight frown. The sun is out again, shinning like a spot light onto him, he basks in the glow, then as quickly as the sun is there it is gone again, swallowed whole by clouds.
"I mean," Thalia starts off with an open and honest expression, one he rarely ever sees on her face. "Yeah godhood, that would be pretty cool."
"Aren't you already like a god?" Percy interrupts her musings, Thalia almost looks shocked and Percy wonders if she was really talking to him or herself.
"What?" she frowns shaking her head. "No. I'm a huntress, kind of have the immortality, just no awesome powers that go along with it."
"Aren't you guys like suddenly expert hunters when you sign up?"
"Yeah," she mutters a little looking down at her shoes, she kicks a rock and Percy watches it almost fly out onto the road, it just misses hitting an expensive looking car that Percy really wants because it's pretty and shiny. She looks back at him and Percy can see conflict on her face. "But they aren't my own powers."
"What do you mean?" he questions, peeling his eyes off the beautiful red car that drives off and out of eye sight.
"I mean what is so special about a girl who has the same abilities as all the other girls she lives with." She frowns again. "I almost feel normal."
"I wish I was normal." Percy mutters with a smile.
He wouldn't be in this mess if he was normal.
"I don't."
Percy is shocked, confused even. He has never heard a demigod say that. Everyone he had ever talked to about it had often wished and prayed that they were normal, that they weren't born with a target over their heads that screamed at monsters to eat them, that they weren't used as pawns in gods, titans and even primordial's plans and most of all they wished they were normal so that they could raise a family.
Once Percy had walked into the stables to find Silena and Beckendorf talking about baby names, there was sadness in the air. Like they both knew they were never going to make it, three weeks later Beckendorf and Percy had gone onto their fateful mission to destroy Kronos' enemy transport the Princess Andromeda.
Percy never knew what that sadness was until he and Annabeth had a very similar conversation, they had lasted a total of three minutes before Annabeth had to excuse herself, Percy didn't blame her he would have only lasted another ten seconds before he would do the same.
That's why New Rome was so exciting for not just him but for Annabeth and all the other campers as well. It offered a safe haven. One that could give them a future, a future filled with a career, friends and most importantly family.
Percy gives her a strange look, she smiles a little before staring up at the sky. The sun once again starts to poke out from the clouds. Thalia gives it a strange look before shrugging it off.
"I like being different." She says with a smile. "I mean think of all the things we would miss out on if we were normal?" Percy is tempted to ask why missing out on being a hell hound chew toy is a bad thing. But he bites his tongue. "I would never have met Annabeth, Grover, you, Hades even Luke. I would have probably become the next Lindsey Lohan and Jason would probably be the next Justin Bieber." Thalia shivers a little.
"Jason can sing?" Percy asks, Thalia shoots him a pointed glance.
"The point is I would not be the person I am today." She smiles a little and looks back up towards the cloudy sky. "I mean all the things I have seen, the places I've been, the people I have met, Hades even the wars that I have fought in." she raises her hands a little and looks back out along the horizon with a smile, her mouth open as if she is at a loss for words. "I wouldn't be me would I?" she looks back at Percy with a smile.
"Don't get me wrong." Percy starts with a frown. "I mean I love the person I am, it's just imagine all the people who wouldn't have been in danger because of me."
Thalia gives him a condescending look. "But then imagine all the people who would have died because you were normal and not you."
"Nico would have done a fine job with the prophecy."
Thalia shakes her head and kicks another rock. "Nico only learnt to be the better man because of you. Without you, who knows he could have fallen for Kronos' ploys."
"No he wouldn-"
"He would, Percy." Thalia interrupts with a raised brow and warning in her voice. "His flaw would have gotten to him. He would have watched the world burn for what happened to his sister."
Percy is silent for a moment as he watches Thalia.
"I mean don't get me wrong." She states almost absentmindedly. "I do like Nico, for a death brain, he is a nice guy."
"Yeah." Percy starts rolling his eyes. "I can feel the love flowing off you."
"Funny water boy."
"You know what else is funny?" A voice says from behind Percy.
The blood starts to drain from the Son of Poseidon's face.
'A funny prank that involves one of Thalia's friends impersonating a goddess and not said certain goddess'
"Fudge." Thalia mutters from beside him as she pokes her head out from the other side of the tree.
Percy swallows a lump of saliva that has been sitting in his throat before slowly turning towards the goddess with a frown.
Artemis gives him a glare that is enough to melt Percy's face off.
"You have to admit." Percy says suddenly finding his sass, it was hidden inside his courage. "Almost a week on the run. That's pretty good right?"
Percy doesn't see the elbow that flies towards his face.
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