Children of Divinity (A Percy Jackson Fanfic/BoyXBoy)

Chapter 2 The Museum

I rolled over on my side and saw the alarm clock, and sighing sadly as I slowly got up.

"God I hate waking up in the morning..." I mumble as I stretched. Andrew as per usual was already up and at them.

"Most do. Here, got you coffee," Andrew said handing me a warm cup that I took and sipped on.

"Thank you," I said as I smiled up at him, he blinked then laughed and ruffled my hair making me wince. "Ow ow ow, bed head bed head," I say playfully swatting his hand away.

"Man you're cute."

"All I did was say thank you."

"I know. Still cute though. Hang on I gotta call apparently...be back in a sec 'kay?"

I rolled my eyes and sipped the hot caffeinated drink more and blinked hard as he walked out of the bedroom on the phone.

"When does the bus leave for the museum thing?" I asked and Andrew blinked at me then nodded.

"Oh. Right...that is today, isn't it? Uhh, I have no clue but we should definitely find out," I blinked at him then sighed and shook my head, putting the coffee down.

"Probably would be a good idea yeah. You ok Andy?" I asked with a half-grin and he looked over at me after sitting down.

"Oh yeah. Always," He answered with his usual upbeat tone. All of a sudden he pulled me into a slow hug and held me tight. The kind of tightness I hug him with when I don't want him to go anywhere. I wrapped my arms around him and snuggled into his chest.

"Andrew, what's wrong?" I asked quietly and I felt his body quivered in response and I heard him sniffle. Ok...something is really really wrong. I said nothing more and simply held him tightly in return. We sat like that for a long time, or at least it felt like a long time. Which I was ok with, sometimes time needs to move a bit slower. And I think this was one of those times. After a bit longer he very slowly pulled away, and smiled at me through the tears I had known were there.

"Jesse Moore, the love of my life..." He said looking at me as he held me by my shoulders, and I smiled back at him.

"Andrew Silas, the love of my life."

"We should get going, at least to find the bus."

"Alright, but we are gonna talk about that later."

"Fiiinnneee but..." a knock on our door interrupted him.

"Door."

"Door. I got it," I said as I got up and smiled at Andrew patting his shoulder as I walked to the door, opening it. "Percy? Grover? What are you doing here?"

"Mr. Brunner asked us to get you two, he said you probably wouldn't know when or where to go."

"He'd be right, as per usual," Andrew said with a grin as he handed me my messenger bag and adjusted his on his shoulder. "So, let us get going," He added as he slung his free arm around me pulling me down the one stair after the door shut. He seems fine now, but he has an uncanny ability to fake it so I don't know.

"So Percy and Grover what're your stories? How'd you wind up in this shithole of a school?"

Grover went wide-eyed and looked back at Andrew, and Percy only shrugged.

"Dunno, ADHD, Dyslexia, Fights with bullies, Teacher complaints, take your pick." I looked at Percy in surprise and he looked back at us indifferently before looking forward again.

"I and Percy here are partners in crime, right Pers?" Grover grinned at Percy who scoffed and shook his head with a grin.

"Sure Grover, whatever you say."

"Are you two..." I began but Percy shook his head.

"Best friends."

"Oh myb," I said retracting my finger.

"It's fine you didn't know," Grover said with a smile as he looked back at me. "So what about you two?"

"Fights mostly," Andy answered with his hands behind his head. Then the eyes shifted to me.

"Fights with Bullies, ADHD, and Dyslexia didn't help either though."

"Oh had those too," Andrew nodded to me as I said the last two reasons. Grover looked both of us over with what I think was surprise and curiosity. Like he was deciding on something.

"Thank you," Mr. Brunner said as he looked at Percy and Grover. Then he shifted his view to us. me and Andy. "Glad you two could make it. Now, let us be off." He added as we all embarked on the bus. The ride was about as bad as I thought, I and Andrew couldn't even talk we just put in our earbuds and waited it out. About I dunno 40 minutes later we arrived at the art museum and miraculously were able to get out of the bus and into the museum within an hour. I'll be honest I was really not feeling most of it until we got to the greek section. I looked around at all the statues, vases, paintings, and engravings. Most of it was boring and did not even warrant a second glance. On the way, a vase with I think Kronos on it caught my eye, and when I saw the scythe my suspicion was confirmed. The depiction was of the Titan lord and he was bringing the scythe down from the sky, ripping it apart. The longer I looked at it I felt my body jolt a little, my legs began shaking and out of nowhere, I felt really hot.

"Jess! Jess! Jesse!" Andrew said shaking me and I looked at him.

"Huh? Yes?"

"You ok? I have never seen someone's face lose color so fast. Need to sit down?" He asked, sounding really concerned.

"Um no, no. I'm fine. Let's just catch up to the rest of the students."

"You sure?" He asked and I nodded.

"Yeah. Promise."

"OK, then yeah let's go," He nodded and we power walked towards the rest of the group. What the hell was that?! I have never felt anything like that before. It felt, well it felt like fear but like at the most extreme possible degree. It's like I wanted to run but my legs wouldn't let me. It's fine, we're past it now, it's fine.

About 5 minutes later we got to a big room where 12 statues of the 12 Olympian gods were stationed at various locations in and around a massive globe. Poseidon in one of the oceans, I am guessing Hades stood beneath the globe with what looked like fire around him. Then...I felt another massive shiver as I followed the trail up past the sun where Apollo on his chariot was located to further up in the clouds where I saw Zeus himself. As soon as I looked at his statue I felt myself go wide-eyed and jump back into someone.

"Jesse? Ok... seriously, what is up with you today?" Andrew asked as I found myself spinning to face him. That fear again, not even remotely as bad as it was with the prior art, but still...but still.

"I'm fine."

"No, no you're not. You're really really not. I'm taking you to Mr. Brunner."

"But..."

"No. Not up for debate. Mr. Brunner! Mr. Brunner," Andrew called loudly, his arm under mine and around my waist.

"Yes, Andrew..." He said but then his eyes fell on me. "What's going on?" He asked as he wheeled forward rapidly.

"I'm fine...I....I..." It felt like the statues were all watching me now. Glancing back at the statue of Zeus and then looking past that to the direction I knew the art of Kronos was located. It looked a lot lot darker now though. I felt my breathing pick up and get rapid, my legs could not stop shaking, and I felt like the world was spinning. "I...I can't...I can't breathe..." I felt arms catch me as I went forward, but never felt or saw anything past that.