Percy Jackson Fanfics

Somewhere in the Middle

Title: Somewhere in the Middle
Author: icecreamchick45
Site: Archive of Our Own
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/18854353

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It happened at Jason’s funeral.

In hindsight, this seems both the wrong place and the wrong time to be having a conversation about their incredibly complex relationship. In Percy’s opinion, it also felt like a conversation that probably should have happened last summer.

In the end, it was Annabeth who pushed him to have the conversation after they saw Nico sitting off to the side during the reception.

“I think that you should go over and make sure Nico’s okay.”

“I think I might be the last person he would want to talk to right now… maybe Apollo, but it’s close.”

Annabeth sighed, “I think you underestimate both your ability to make people feel better and how significant you have been in Nico’s life.”

“That second part is why he would not want me to try and comfort him. I was the one who broke the news that his sister died. I doubt he wants more reminders of how much death has followed since he met me.”

Annabeth placed a hand on his shoulder, “Hey, there was nothing you could do to stop Bianca dying, and even less, you could do to stop Jason dying.”

Percy shrugged, and Annabeth’s hand fell, “I guess.”

“Just go talk to him. Please, for me. I’m going to comfort Thalia, and I feel like it should just be me.”

“Alright, but I don’t think it will do any good.”

“Haven’t you learned not to doubt me yet?” She gave him a soft smile and a kiss on the cheek before walking over to where Thalia and a couple of hunters were.

Thalia had lost her brother twice. She gained a sister in Annabeth, although the way Annabeth regarded Luke and Thalia, Percy wondered if Thalia was sometimes closer to a mother figure to Annabeth.

Percy wondered if Annabeth ever had conversations with Jason about the fact that they were both practically raised by Thalia for a couple of years each. Percy supposes that it was too late to ask now.
On that incredibly grim note, Percy goes over to sit with Nico.

Nico is sitting on the steps that lead into the dining hall at Camp Jupiter. Percy supposes, as short time Praetor, he should probably know what all the fancy names all the different areas of the Roman camp were called, but honestly, he didn’t have the energy. Especially today.

The decision to burn the body at Camp Jupiter made the most sense logically, he guessed. This is where Jason spent most of his life after Lupa and the wolf house. Although, with that logic, the wolf house made more sense. That’s where his journey started, shouldn’t that be where his journey ended. Also, in the end, Jason had also chosen Camp Half-Blood over Camp Jupiter, wanting to spend life with the Greeks in a Greek-style camp, with Piper, Leo, and the family he was making after the danger seemed over. Would that have been what Jason wanted?

Percy guesses it was too late to find out now.

He doesn’t say anything as he sits down next to Nico. For a while, neither of them say anything. Finally, it was Nico who broke the silence.