The Sea Prince (Percy Jackson and Avengers crossover)

8

Tw: There is a very very small and brief mention of self harm.

~Steve~

Percy has been with us for two weeks now. He just ended up... never leaving, I guess. I think something happened at the pool that night with Tony and him; because Tony seems to like him a bit more, which makes me happy. Percy seems like a good kid, even if he was quite strange.

For one thing, he seemed terrified of the elevator. I'd only ever seen him using it at all that once the first night. Now he always took the stairs. For another, he seemed to always be talking to himself. And he had the oddest exclamations, too. The two I've heard most often were 'oh, gods' and a variation of 'what the Hades was that?' leading me to believe he had a strange fascination with the Greek Gods.

Another impressive thing, Percy woke up before me every morning, usually sitting in the kitchen waiting for me to go running with me. He surprised everyone yet again when he kept up with me. He must have very high endurance. Sure, he was always sweating and breatjing heavilly by the end, but he kept up. Barely anyone could do that.

Admittedly, he wasn't the best with hand to hand combat, but give that boy his sword and if he wanted to, we'd all probably be stabbed clean through.

I found myself wondering who trained him constantly. And where his powers came from. The one time I was going to ask, Tony gave me a look and I stopped. Percy would tell us when he was ready, that look had said. So I stayed quiet. I trusted Tony, even if we didn't get along the best.

I also worried though. It had been two and a half weeks since we first attacked then befriended Percy. Was there someone out there, wondering where he was? He'd said he had somewhere else he could have gone that first night. I wasn't sure if he'd just said that to assure us, or what.

I hoped that if there was someone out there for him, that they would know he was safe.

~Nico~

Percy was supposed to come back to camp three days ago. He'd promised Annabeth he'd only be gone two weeks at the most, wanting to come back quickly and help camp. Everyone was understandably worried. Annabeth was down right going crazy. Cause the last time he'd vanished, he'd been missing for eight months, and then we all know the rest.

And of course Iris Messages weren't working.

Well okay; they were working. Just not with Percy. Whenever someone tried to IM him or his parents, nothing happened and the drachma fell to the floor though the rainbow, like the stupid rainbow goddess had blocked Percy's number.

I only knew they worked for others because I was on a IM call with Hazel right now. 

"He's not here, we haven't seen him since we left." She shrugged. "Sorry. How's Annabeth holding up?"

"About as well as she can be with her boyfriend ditching her again. Piper's with her now."

"That bad?" Hazel sucked in a sympathetic breath. "We'll keep an eye out for him. It'll be okay, Nico. It was nice seeing you, by the way, but I gotta go, sorry. Something about the fourth cohort."

"It's alright, Hazel. See you." I swiped my hand through the image. Will ran up to me, worry on his usually bright features. Most of camp didn't even know something was wrong, though some of the smarter kids had deduced there was something afoot because of Annabeth's antics. Will knew though, and I liked his company; even if I refused to admit it. He sort of calmed me a bit. I was pretty worried about that idiot as well, though I knew Percy could handle himself.

"What did she say?" Will asked me. As usual he wore a hospital shirt and jeans and flip flops, his golden hair falling in his stunning blue eyes in that adorable way... Stop it Di Angelo! You don't even know if he's gay!

"He's not there either," I responded, scowling at him, the ground; anything really.

"Hey, it'll be okay. Percy can handle himself, and it's only been three days. He might have gotten caught up at home. You know how he is."

I nodded. How on earth was this amazing boy so optimistic and hot and- stop it! My head did this every time Will was around. You can imagine what a mess I'd been during those three days of infirmary- grounding, where Will was hovering over me for three whole days.

"Capture the Flag is tonight," Will reminded me randomly. I nodded.

"You have a team yet?" He asked me. I shook my head this time, unable to speak for some odd reason. His eyes flashed in thought and he grinned at me cheekily, his whole face a-glow.

"You can join the Apollo cabin, if you wanted. We're with Athena, Hermes, Hecate, Hephaestus, um, Hypnos, and some others. Ones that don't start with H. Wanna play?"

I shrugged. My social batter was already to dead to interact with anyone other than Will. But, it was him asking, so... I sighed and shook my head. This boy was going to be the death of me. "Why not?"

Will beamed so brightly I was surprised I didn't go blind. "Come on, I think I saw Jason with Chiron, organizing the first of his shrines. I wanna look, what about you?"

I shrugged again and followed him, still thinking about our Percy problem. I stopped suddenly as a thought came to me. Will realized I wasn't following and jogged back to me.

"What's wrong?"

"Will, can I shadow travel yet?" I asked. I surprised both of us by asking permission, I think.

"Give me your hand," Will ordered, slipping into his doctor's voice. I obeyed self-consciously. The first time he'd asked me to, he'd freaked out over the scars on my wrists. After promising a lot that it was a long time ago and I would never do it again now, he left me alone about that certain topic.

Will wasn't looking at that though. He tapped my arm, held it up to the light for some reason, before nodding, dropping my hand.

"I think you should be okay for SMALL jumps, few and far between, okay? Why?"

I simply grabbed his hand and ran for where I'd seen Annabeth last.

Annabeth and Will seemed to understand my plan well enough. I'd never really tried to jump to a person, not a place, but I figured it was relatively the same thing. Percy was probably the best person to test that ability on, too, since he was kind of a strong anchor in my mind. Even though I'd definitely gotten over him and moved on, he was still one of my closest friends, after Jason and Will.

With the doctor's go-ahead, I grabbed both of their arms and focused, and shadows wrapped around us, pulling us into the familiar darkness.

When we exited the shadows, I was very confused. We were in a huge room that looked like a mix living room, kitchen and bar. It was occupied by five very shocked looking adults, but there was no Percy. Had I miss jumped?

Annabeth didn't share my concerns. She stepped forward, one hand at her side, the other resting on her dagger. This reminded me I'd stupidly forgotten my sword in my cabin back in camp.

Damn. I'd be pretty useless if a fight broke out. I couldn't exactly summon an undead army right now, and even if I could, I wouldn't be able to thirty floors up in the air.

Annabeth was radiating that dangerous, don't-fuck-with-me aura. She looked very intimidating, and she wasn't even glaring at me. I re-confirmed my initial thoughts of never getting on Annabeth's bad side and stepped a little closer to Will. 

Annabeth spoke four words. That's all.

"Where. Is. My. Boyfriend?"