Paul
Oh.
"Your mom used to..." I could never imagine Sally like that towards Percy.
"What? No!" Percy insisted, that having caught him off guard. "My mom has never... No. Her ex husband, Gabe. Yeah."
I didn't ask about it, knowing it probably the best idea out there. So instead, I asked Sally that night after we laid down.
"Hey, Sally." I said, because she told me about what Gabe did to her. Told me about that a long time ago. Before we got married. "Gabe was abusive, right?"
"Yeah," Sally confirmed, nodding her head in response. "He was an alcoholic and he was abusive when he was drunk. He was drunk all the time. Why do you ask, honey?"
"After..." I wasn't sure how to ask her because it seemed almost too personal. And I'm her husband. "Did he abuse Percy, too?"
She jumped in it right away.
"No!" She insisted, almost as if I were insane to ask. "He never touched Percy. That was our one agreement. I married him to protect Percy. He didn't touch Percy. Why?"
"You're sure he didn't?"
That made her start to doubt her answer.
"He never..." Sally struggled to say no but also to say yes. "Percy has never told me anything like that. Ever. I never saw it. Never heard it. Did he say something to you?"
I nodded my head. Telling her about the conversation we had after everyone had left and she was feeding Estelle.
She said she'd talk to him tomorrow. See if it really was how it sounded.
Grover
It was one hell of a night, that's for sure.
When I got back, Nico was waiting. He knew I was going to Percy's.
"How'd it go?" Nico asked me once I got back and threw my bag where it always goes.
"Good," I answered his question and sighed. "He uh, he opened up. A lot. Annabeth is spreading rumors. I'm sure you've heard them. And part of it says he's gay and he was getting text after text about it. People giving him a hard time. And he tried to hold it back and make it so I didn't notice. We we're watching SU. But it didn't work. He had a breakdown. Told me just about everything. Fell asleep once he was calmer and then Paul's parents were over for dinner and his dad was uh... Kind of an ass. Percy chewed him out. After that I had to leave. But yeah. I talked some sense into Percy. A pep talk. He needed it."
Agreeing with that, Nico headed back to his cabin and I fell asleep.
A few days later, Percy was here. Something we do every month. Every other month he's here for a weekend, and every other month I'm there for a weekend. We do a bunch of fun shit.
Of course, because it's a Friday night and he has to get homework done before he can come over, we always start the weekend with a movie marathon or a tv marathon. Either works. This time we were Over The Garden Wall (I've watched it like 8 times) and we had a blanket and popcorn as is per usual. This time, though, it was a little different. Because one, now I know he's gay and (even though he hasn't actually told me) likes me. Plus, what happened the other day kept me on my toes with him.
He didn't have a breakdown, though. Instead, he watched the show and ate popcorn until we we're out of popcorn and he fell asleep on me.
I didn't mind. The couch was already pulled out anyways. It's what he normally sleeps on. The pull out couch. So we weren't about to fall off or anything.
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He Just Seemed So Far Away (Percy Jackson) (Percy x Grover)
FanfictionSeptember 1, 2005. I'm not gay. -Percy