The Kingdoms

Chapter 5 - Stop Being Weak

It had been around dinner when Nico was let back into his room, that meant that he had been tortured for hours longer than he had thought. Percy opened the door for him, and stayed with him, a frown on his face. "Hey, I am really sorry about interrogating you, I had to. I didn't do anything too severe, as I have done worse than that a few times and they... ended up dead." He turned quiet at the last part.

"How about you go and see how dinner is going?" Nico asked, not really wanting to be around Percy at the moment. Percy luckily got the cue, as he nodded and left, Nico hadn't really thought he would actually leave him. He took a seat on the bed, feeling his hair, some of it in the front had dried blood and a tiny bit of fresh blood on it. He looked at his bandaged hands, Percy sure did a toll on them, at least he didn't end up dying. He wondered what had kept Percy from killing him like the few other times before that he had done it, it must have been his anger the few other times, but shouldn't that have happened to him too as well if that was the case.

Nico laid down on the bed, day three, and it was probably the longest one so far. He didn't care that he hadn't eaten anything, but he was exhausted and ended up falling asleep.

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Percy grabbed two plates of food for him and Nico, he knew that maybe Nico didn't want to be around him. He understood that, but he wanted to make it up to him. He opened the door and came in, he noticed Nico sleeping rather soundly. He wondered if that had actually been the reason, either way, he put the food on the end table. Percy sat down on the bed and started eating, thinking back at the session, it had been so long. No wonder Nico was tired, he wondered how much sleep the other prince had gotten that night.

He hoped that it had been way better than the first night he spent here. Percy looked over to Nico, his bandages looked already coated with blood, he sighed. He hated doing that, he did it for his kingdom and he was pretty sure Nico did it for his. He was slightly doubting that Nico had been telling the truth, he still seemed to be hiding something and that was what bugged him. He didn't want to hurt him anymore, so he would just tell the kingdom that that was the truth, that Nico didn't know anything about his kingdom's plans.Spare him any more pain.

After he finished his food, he moved over so he was closer to Nico. Percy put his hands through Nico's hair lightly, making sure he would be able to get his hand away if Nico woke up. That would just be way too awkward. He didn't know why, he just looked so cute sleeping, and because he was hurt he wanted to comfort him by just laying down and cuddling him. His father would be outraged with him if he did, so he just decided this was as best as he was going to get.

Percy got rid of the dried blood that Nico hadn't gotten rid of, still making sure Nico was sleeping. He actually was sleeping rather deeply, which gave Percy the freedom to put his hands through Nico's hair as much he wanted. Then the door opened and Percy moved back to his spot as fast as he could, it was one of the guards, at first he looked confused, but then obviously discarded the thought. "Prince Perseus, it is time for lights out." Percy nodded and got off the bed, looking at Nico one last time before grabbing the plate. He gave it to the guard.

"Give it to the homeless, say that the Prince wanted it to be done." The guard seemed to want to object, or at least ask if he was sure. Percy just gave him a stern look and the guard nodded. "I will get one of the servants to do that immediately, sir."

Percy then headed to his own room, which was nicely tucked by a corner. As much as Poseidon didn't really like it, it was very well decorated and such. Which he enjoyed, there was a nice little fountain that spilled out sea water (from the beach) onto its stones and ran down a little course. He took his spot on his bed, he wasn't going to be a king, he had a good feeling about that. He knew it was good, but it was also bad, which bugged him.

His torturing was horrible, and not very productive, as it would by accidentally kill the prisoner. Then they would have no information that they could obtain, and most of the time, he was blamed for it. Which it was his fault, he let them suffer for too long. Percy let go it though, he had to sleep, he couldn't keep thinking of how much he hurt Nico all day and night. He closed his eyes, hoping that he would fall asleep, it took a lot out of him to interrogate prisoners. Yes, prisoners. Stop thinking him as a prince, and more of a prisoner.