Breaking the Curse

Chapter 3*Tony

Dedicated to @jasmeen299
Answer to the QOTC was guinea pig.

I had been up for two weeks trting to figure out a way to help get Percy back. The team was starting to worry about me and I knew it, but I just couldn't sleep.

I grabbed my third mug of coffee and went back up to the lab where Bruce was working.

"Anything Banner?" I asked him.

"Not yet, but somehow we need to break an unbreakable curse so Percy won't combust into ashes or something if we manage to rescue him," Bruce said.

"Sounds easy enough," I smirked.

Bruce looked at me like I had grown a second head and sighed, turning back to his work. There were papers scattered everywhere in the lab and all projects were put on hold until this was sorted out.

"What if we tried to talk to that Stick lady," I said," surely she could help us."

"First off it's Styx, and that might actually work, I'll IM Annabeth and ask if she could do that," he said.

I walked out of the room adusting off my hands, my work here was done.

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I sat on the couch with the rest of the team watching Scary Movie. We were at the part sere the girl pushes the piano down the stairs and scream runs away from it. We kept dying of laughter and replaying the part to watch the run scream did.

"Hey guys, I'm going to head off to bed since I haven't slept in two weeks," I said.

"Good dreams Tony," I heard Natasha say.

I walked into the elevator. "My room please Jarvis," I said as the elevator sped off.

I walked to my room when the elevator stopped and locked the door. I changed into my pajamas and crawled into the bed.

I could see Percy in a cage that had a red paint and red floors. I glanced at Percy and quickly realized it wasn't paint.

Percy looked like he aged a hundred years and was much skinnier than he should if been. I could see his ribs through the shirt that was barely there.

He was cut up all over and I couldn't find a spot on him that wasn't harmed.

The worst part was his eyes. They seemed dull and you could see all the struggling through his eyes.

He looked like he wanted to give up.

I saw the man I knew as Tartarus walk into the room and smirked when he saw Percy.

"Oh look it's little Perseus, all alone and weak," he said.

"Fuck off," Percy said.

"My my Perseus, you dare disrespect the person who saved your life, who took you away from that terrible fate," Tartarus said.

"I'd rather have a terrible fate with my friends that spend a night in the middle of Hell with you," Percy said," this big brick building is worse than you're stuiped little pit."

It was like Percy could sense I was there and was giving me hints.

For what felt like thirty minutes I watched as Percy was tortured. He never shed a tear or screamed, only glared at Tartarus with hatred.

I woke up scraming and glanced at the alarm clock beside my bed.

8:00

I scampered outbof bed and went down to the kitchen. The team looked suprised when they saw me and I shot them a questioning look.

"It's not that early," I told them.

"No," Natasha said," you've been asleep for two days."

"It felt like forty minutes," I said grabbing coffee.

"Anyways, Annabeth wants to meet with us to go over a plan for the Percy situation," Clint said flipping through the stations.

"About Percy, I had a dream you guys, but I really need Annabeth to hear it," I told them.

"Make sure you bring it up at the meeting then," Steve said.

I nodded and added cinnamon roll coffee creamer to my coffee. I placed it in a travel mug and headedout the door with my team.

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We met Annabeth by the pier.

She had been gazing into the water and seemed to be thinking hard about things.

"Hey guys, come sit," she called us over. We all sat around the pier with her and she turned to face us.

"I've been thinking about what you told me and decided it would be a good idea to try it out. It's worth a shot, anything to get my Seaweed Brain back," Annabeth said.

"I kind of had a dream last night," I said and continued on telling her about what happened.

I could see her face drop, but she managed a fake smile for us, not letting us past the facade. "Now we need this plan to work, I can't believe he's even survived that long with what they're doing to him," she said.

Steve lookedvat Annabeth with pity," every soldier needs to let it out once and a while. You've neen through more than anyoe can imagine and even the best of us cry. It's not something we should be ashamed about."

Everyone stared at Steve and Annabeth burst into tears. Steve smiled and Natasha hugged her close, whisering soothing words to her.

It took about thirty minutes for Annabeth to compose herself and her eyes were red and swollen.

"Thanks Steve, Thanks Natasha," she muttered with a horse voice.

"Anytime," Steve and Natasha said together.

"I just want Percy back," Annabeth said," is that too much to ask for?"

A/N
918 words
Sorry it's short. Anyways, that scary movie part had my friends and I dying with laughter and I got the Avenger's in the book.

QOTC: How old is Percy in The Lightning Thief?

Peace out ✌
~~Simply__Britt