Be Aware (Demon! Percy Jackson)

Im Giving Up On You

Hazel:

Here came the shithead with our food.

I don't mind him being gay or being from the 30s.

He didn't fucking tell me, though. I had to find out through Jason. But now Percy was at least in a dream state.

Now yeah, I know Nicos trans. That's the one thing he told me. He was actually wearing a girls shirt. Well, a girls outfit mostly. Ripped black skinny jeans. A tang top with a crop top that said May the odds be ever in your favor. Converse with spikes or whatever on them, his skull ring, a skull bracelet, a bracelet that said King, and of course, his aviator coat. Which kind of hid the girl clothes from the world. He only owned a few outfits like that.

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Nico:

Percy had woken up, Bianca looking around the bunker, Hazel and them gone, my mom looking for a place in the city in my cabin. He felt better. Not good. But better. It'd be a work in progress. They were all flesh wounds.

But anyways, afterwards I was walking to our cabin with Bianca. Showing her around since she barely remebers the place and we've redone everything. And got a cabin for us.

"So." My sister commented. "You hooked up. With a demon."

"Are you going to kill me for being happy?" I asked her. "We didn't know he was a demon until yesterday. It's the same Percy you knew years ago.'

"If you say so." She said.

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Bianca:

The next day I was in the cabin. It was Mom, Hazel, Frank, and myself.

Time to ask about Percy, right? Bejng they were at a meeting.

The main question, of course. Is was he what Nico claimed. Was he actually a good guy? I knew Percy for a week.

"You don't even need to question it." Hazel told us. "I mean... They named him leader for a reason."

"They named a demon leader?" Mom asked, kind of shocked.

"Yeah." Frank told us. "It's not like they did it without reason from what I hear. I wasn't here when it happened. But he's loyal with out a doubt. Somebody once told him, and I don't know if its true or not. But bed sacrifice the world to save a friend. He led us through Rome to Greece and fought a war. Most people here look up to the guy. He's a good person. He really is."

"A war?" I asked. That's what caught my attention. "Like a full out combat war? That results in death."

"Little bit, yeah.' Hazel told me. "That was a scary summer. And we didn't get the worse part of it."

"What was the worse part?" Mother shouldve never asked.

"We had 3 demigods go through Tartarus." Frank informed the two of us. "Two fell together, the other went alone."

"I'm a little scared to ask." I said. "But who were the three?"

"We were in Rome." Hazel begun. "Leo, Jason, Piper, Percy, Annabeth, Nico, Frank, and myself. Annabeth had just finished a solo quest. We met up with her. At the time, last year, July, her and Percy had been dating. And a hole opened up. Archane had gotten a web around Annabeths foot or ankle or something and she didn't notice. Well she was dragged in and grabbed Percys foot panicking. A few of us were loading, a few freaking out. Nico was the more calm one. Percy could've made it out. Nico has offered to get him out. There were a few people willing to help get him out. Percy a lot bigger than Nico could handle at that time. Percy had refused the help, told him to lead the rest of us to Greece, let go of the ledge and we didn't see them for almost a month I think. 2-3 weeks. But afterwards we were trying to figure out who's doing what, trying to manage with out our two demigods that knew what the hell they were doing and it dawned on one of us. I don't remember who. That potentially Nico hated Percy. Wanted nothing to do with him. Apparently something happened a few years ago. They didn't talk about it what so ever. Didn't even speak to each other for that matter. They asked him why he offered the help if he hated the dude. And he explained that before these Giants had captured him, which is where we found him, he had been thrown into Tartarus, somehow managed to get out on his own. As far as I know, all three of them still have nightmares."

"Well its Tartarus." My mom said. "Purgatory. That's where the monsters go when they die bottom line. It's a miracle to get out. Same goes for hell."

"Anything else?" I asked. "About Percy or Nico?"

"Um..." Frank said. "Hera stole his memory like a year and a half back. That's how we met him. Nico was nice enough to pretend he didn't know the guy and oh did that piss him off when he got his memory back. Aside that... They don't talk about times before last year really. Nice did a tiny bit. Percy mentioned a family. Annabeth mentioned her dad. That was about it, though. So you'd have to ask somebody else. Clarisse or somebody like that. That's been here at least 3 years."

That night, after the meeting, after dinner, after everything was done, we were all in the cabin. Mom asleep, it was just Hazel, Nico, and myself.

I had figured out by now Nico wasn't nearly as talkative as he used to be. Kept to himself more. He wore a lot darker clothes, too. But the same coat. But this one... It was a girls fit.

Maybe that's all that they had left. You never know. Of his size.

Something was on his mind. You could tell. I didn't ask. But I really wanted to know what he was thinking about. And I went to my room to grab something and overheard the two talking.

"You know you need to tell her." Hazel told Nico. "She already found out about the war and Tartarus from us. Jason about Percy and your sexuality. Which was news to me."

"Well..." Nico said. "I planned on telling you sometime this week. Then this happened. Kind of messed up everything. As soon as I was ready to move on from it, too. Don't get me wrong. I'm glad my mom and Bianca are back, but..."

"Well I'm going to bed." Hazel told her older brother. "Night."

"Night." Nico said as she left and I walked back out.

Tell me what?