Perfect Little Blue Boy (Percy Jackson)

Chapter Seventy Five

Poseidon

I was on my way to the hospital when I got from Nico and Percy. Sally was in the car. Her phone was dead. Clarisse was in labor, that's why we were going to the hospital. The call connected up to the car speakers.

"Hey, boys." Sally said as the call connected up. "What's up? Me and your dad are on the way to the hospital right now to go help our Patrick and Clarisse if that's what you called about."

"Oh, no." Percys voice said over the car speakers and Susan got really confused, hearing her brother. She's a sweetheart, I love her to death. "I trust Patrick can make those calls and texts on his own. We kind of have other news for you."

We heart stops for three seconds because if something bad happened I swear to gods I can't teleport anymore. I can't just poof and be back in five minutes.

"Other news?" I questioned, about as worried as Sally looked. "Is everything alright with you guys?"

"Uh, yeah." Our son told the two of us, sounding genuine. "Everything's great. We just thought that because everyone still plans on being here for the holidays that you should know that..."

And we couldn't hear the last part. And he had to say it three times and we had to turn up the volume before we could hear what he was saying.

"Percy," Sally said in a calm manner. "What should we know?"

"You guys are gonna be grandparents in like nine months again," Percy broke the news to us as nicely as he could. "Nico's pregnant."

"Grandpa and grandma?" Susan asked, and Percy cracked a laugh out of that.

"Yes, Susan." He told his youngest sister. "Mommy and Daddy are going to be a grandma and grandpa again. You're gonna be an auntie again. More little babies."

She laughed and it was pure.

I was currently calmer than Sally, though, thank gods. I was driving.

"You sound really calm." I remarked to him as I turned a corner to the hospital. "That's not normal."

"Oh, no, we found out a little over a week ago." Percy explained that to me. "That's why I'm calm. I cried when I came home and Nico told me he wasn't sick he was pregnant. Happy tears, of course. But I cried. The last week and a half we've just been trying to figure out how to actually budget this out now and how we had to get ahold of everyone to tell them before the holidays. Nico started off making calls with me. He fell asleep about three calls ago. We tried calling you guys earlier, but you must've been on the phone with Patrick."

"Oh, probably." I agreed to that idea. "have you called Hades?"

"No," Percy answered my question. "I was going to wait for Nico for that. Why?"

"I'll make sure that he's around somewhere that he can sit down when he gets a call." I explained. "this'll be his first. Frank and Hazel haven't had a kid and Bianca and Thalia can only adopt and haven't yet. This will be fairly new to him. Patrick got me used to it."

Hades

Poseidon called, waking me up. It was a little late, we slept in. About 11:30. But we didn't work today. Well, Persephone did. But until 4.

I answered the phone, half asleep.

"Hey, bro," I said. "What's up?"

"Hades!" Poseidon sounded like he's been up for a while. Him and and Sally are always up early, though. They have a kid to take care of, after all. "so I can't talk long. Clarisse is in labor and all. But if you get a call from Percy or Nico, you guys need to sit down. Trust me. It's nothing bad. Just a lot to take in. I guess Nico fell asleep so Percy said they call when he woke up. That was an hour ago. So uh .. good luck. I gotta go. Bye "

And like that, he hung up and I had a shit load of messages from people. One of them being Nico about ten minutes ago. Him telling me to to call him.

So I do. Staying in bed as I do so. I was lying down. Persephone woke up when I had moved to grab my phone.

"Hey, kiddo." I remarked as I answered the phone. "What's up?"

"Hey, Dad." My only son responded, sounding like he was in a good mood. "Random question. Are you sitting down?"

Now, Bianca and Thalia do live with us. They're going to school about ten miles away, and just help with the house. Pay however much a month. So when Bianca poked her head in asking what we wanted for lunch, that was normal.

"Uh, yeah." I answered his question, as I took Poseidon's advice for unknown reasons. "Persephone is next to me and Bianca is standing at the door if that changes anything."

"Well it..." Nico thought about it. "I mean, if you want to put me on speaker you can. That's your choice, though. Might want to make sure Bianca is sitting down though. And can't get your phone. She just might kill me for this. We might've hit that point."

"Okay," I said, unsure as to what he could do to piss her off anymore and I told Bianca to take a seat at the edge of the couch as I put  Nico on speaker. "What's going on kid? You can't surprise us that bad. You're always engaged, for God's sake."

"Yeah," Bianca agreed with what I said. "I mean, unless you're pregnant, in which I will kill Percy. You know this, but either way."

"Yeah..." Nico said real slow. "Yeah, you'd have his ass. He'd be in the ER for a week. But you do live in California with Dad."

"Nico Di Angelo," she suddenly got really hard on him and I think I caught the drift he was trying to get at. "I swear to gods if you get pregnant before your wedding—"

"What are you going to do?" He questioned Bianca. "You live half way across the country, Bianca. There's nothing—

"I will go there," Bianca informed her brother. "Track you two down, do whatever the fuck I need to do to Percy, and leave. You know this. We're not supposed to get pregnant before marriage. That's not how it works."

"Sometimes it is." Nico started to become defensive. "I know people that have gotten married while expecting."

"And that's great for them." She started to get close minded. The stuff Maria beat into her head taking over the actual situation. "I can promise you that it was probably a mistake. And if it wasn't, then they must love being slutty all the time. It doesn't matter, as long as you're not—"

It didn't come slowly. He just kind of spat it at his sister. Snapped at her.

"Well too bad," Nico insisted. Not wanting to fight over this. "I'm pregnant. We found out a week and a half ago. And before you bullshit me about getting an abortion, I with. We wanted a kid, we're having a kid, and whatever you want to say won't change that. I'm pregnant, I'm having this baby."