Percabeth at Stark Tower

9. Talking to Bucky

A/N this includes a lot of explanations of what happened in the PJ books. If you don't like that you could probably skip this part without too much trouble.

Bucky's POV

Nico is lying, and I'm pretty sure everyone knows he's hiding things but I'm not sure if they know how much he's lying. After all if I didn't know about the Greek Gods I would believe him, he's scarily good at lying. I look over at Steve but he seems more worried about his injuries than what actually happened. "Would you come with me?" I ask Nico and Will. I want to know what actually happened and Nico won't tell me but hopefully Will can get him to tell me or just tell me. I'd want Steve with me but I doubt he'd be able to handle hearing how a child got those sorts of injuries, I'll tell him later. He looks to see if I want him to come and I shake my head. He doesn't fight it, most likely because he knows he wouldn't react well.

"Ok." Will says cheerfully and ignores Nico's protests as he starts dragging him towards the door.

"No!" Nico shouts and manages to escape but runs into a corner. Will follows and when Nico turns around everyone can see that he realized trapping himself was not a good idea.

Will just sighs and picks up Nico. "where are we going?"

"Let me go!" Nico says. He's trying to wiggle free but Will's got a good grip on him and Nico's too small to escape.

"This way," Just like everyone else I ignore Nico's splutters as we walk out. I see Clint slipping back into the vents and Annabeth and Tony getting back to work. The others will probably leave soon as well. We can't talk in public and Steve knows what I'm doing so I lead the two of them over to our room. It's a bit strange to invite people into my bedroom but we've managed to get used to it. I shut the door behind them, "you can put him down there, JARVIS lock the door."

"Thanks, he's stubborn." Will says. Considering he just carried Nico over here he's in pretty good shape.

"Are you a demigod as well?" I ask, getting straight to the point.

"Yeah. My dad is Apollo."

"Interesting." I say because what else can you say in response to something like that.

"Anyways, you're from the past right?"

"Yeah, just like Nico." oh God, did he tell Will? That's not the sort of secrets I should be sharing with people who might not know.

"He told you?" WIll says in surprise.

"Yeah."

"That's strange, he rarely opens up."

"That's not really opening up."

"It is for Nico." he's got a point.

"Anyways, would you mind telling me what actually happened?"

"Yes."

"What do you want to know?" Will says at the same time.

"What actually happened."

"You should sit down." Will says.

"Don't you dare." Nico snarls and the hair on the back of my neck rises. How he can be that terrifying still doesn't make any sense.

"Don't worry, I won't talk about anything personal." Will says. "Of course I could always ask Percy to tell instead."

"No fair!"

"Well then where was I?" he says. "So back when you met Nico the Titan of Time was trying to rise from...basically hell but worse."

"What's it called?"