¹𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐀. percy jackson

VII.

ｔｈｅ　ｔｉｔａｎｓ　ｃｕｒｓｅ

LUCIA DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS. By this, she meant dragging a very very very dead lady up a flight of stairs. You'd think the least the Oracle could've done was walk back to the attic by herself.

Instead, Lucia and Percy were elected to carry her. She figured this was punishment for leaving their post but as long as she got to keep her eyebrows she tried to keep the complaining to a minimum.

"Watch her head!" Lucia warned as they went up the stairs. But it was too late. Bonk! Percy whacked her mummified face against the trapdoor frame and dust flew.

Lucia shrieked waving away the dust from her face, while Percy set the oracle down in front of them

"Ah, man." He said. "Did I break anything?"

"I can't tell," Lucia admitted. "I'm not really sure what wasn't broken before the bonk I've tried to avoid looking at her"

"It's your dad's oracle you know" They hauled her up and set her on a tripod stool, both of them huffing and sweating. Who knew a mummy could weigh so much?

"And as much as I respect her" Lucia looked at the oracle who slumped over the stool "This is the first dead body I've had to manhandle give me a break."

"Fair enough" He nodded, Lucia was waiting for him to leave the attic but she watched as he hesitated. She felt only relief when they finally got out of there and slammed the attic door shut.

"That was gross" Lucia scrunched her nose

Percy held his pointer finger out and softly pressed her nose, Lucia was taken aback considering he hadn't done that since they were eight years old

"I missed you so much" he blurted out, there was silence before he continued "you have no idea how hard things are right now for me but having you around...getting you back, really does make it easier luz"

Lucia looked at him without saying anything. His sea-green eyes stared into her sunset brown ones. His gaze felt so heavy on her that Lucia wanted to run away then and there. Percy looked hopeful like he expected her to wrap her arms around him and tell him how happy she was to see him again, how happy she was to have him back.

And yes even if she tried not to, she wanted to let that happen, but she couldn't... she knew he had a really really good excuse. she knew he did, but knowing that didn't stop it from hurting her. While he was fighting monsters she was going through her own. unlike him, she had no one. She suffered so much and still looked for him in any way she could. It may be unfair of her to feel this way but shouldn't he have done the same? shouldn't he have done something? Done anything?

She didn't expect him to show up at her school in Maine and whisk her away like she was a damsel in distress (ironic she knows). she was no damsel in distress. She only wanted a sign that he didn't forget about her. that he didn't abandon her, like her mortal dad, like everyone in her mortal family. But she never got that, no matter what Percy went through. What she went through couldn't be ignored. She wasn't the same girl Percy knew from before and if he had a problem with that there was nothing to be done.

"What will Chiron do?" was all she said

She tried to ignore the way his face fell

"I wish I knew." He looked wistfully out the second-floor window at the rolling hills covered in snow. "I want to be out there."

"Searching for Annabeth?"

He had a little trouble focusing back on Lucia. Then he blushed. "Yes."

Lucia felt a big crater open in her chest. "She'll be found, Percy."