Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (Percico)

Chapter Ten

Leo

Percy obviously took off after Nico because Nico left the cabin after that.

"Are you going to...?" Hazel questioned her staying here.

"If he's pissed off, let him be pissed off," she seemed like she didn't want to come here in the first place. "He can run off with Jackass and do whatever the hell he wants with him. He's not a faggot, I won't give a shit. If he was a faggot, I would've let him die a long ass time ago."

Nobody said anything. Grover just took her to another part of the cabin, and I texted the lovebirds to warn them. Mainly Nico, though.

Percy

That was lovely, right? Nico isn't too happy with her. And I don't blame him. I'm not either. Between making sure he thought she was dead and calling me out for no given reason, she wasn't my favorite person.

We went to my cabin instead of his and I let him vent for a while. This night was supposed to go like perfectly or something.

And it just turned into a shit show.

Of course, that works until Bianca shows up and they just argue and try to get me involved. Like, I'm his boyfriend. And I was there for him as much as he would me be after Bianca died. But this isn't my fight.

"Look, I..." I really can't handle this right now. "I'm not going to fight with you guys. It's not my business. I'm going to campfire. Figure this out between yourselves. I have plenty of my own problems to deal with, sorry if that sounds selfish."

I figured everyone would be at campfire tonight. Grover said he wasn't going, but that really it. I haven't gone all summer because of my depression. It's just hard to do anything. Being around people is exhausting.

Campfire was a lot of people. So I tried to avoid it.

But when I got there, next to nobody was there. And I was only a few minutes late.

It was Will, Connor, Apollo, and Pollux. That was literally it.

"Hey, look who came crawling back." Connor remarked as a joke. And I just kind of looked around. "We thought you ditched us, man. We haven't seen you all summer. Here, at least."

"Yeah, it's been busy." I told him, refocusing my attention to them. "Wh... Where is everyone?"

"Well Annabeth is in jail," Will answered my question. "Grover is helping Chiron tonight. Aside that, it's been us all summer."

"You're joking."

"I wish," Pollux confirmed for me that this was it. "This is it, Percy. Everyone else just does their own thing, I guess. I don't know what. I'm the only guy in my cabin, so I can't ask my brother. What did you do?"

"Most of the time I was just in my cabin," I told them as I sat down by the fire. It was low, more of a blue color. "By the end of the night I don't have the energy to be around people anymore. It sucks, I love campfire. I just don't have energy."

"So you're here because...?" Apollo knows about my depression. He diagnosed me. "Do your meds not help you? Because if so, you're supposed to talk to me about it."

"No, they work." I assured him. "I just don't have energy because people never leave me alone during the day. I'm here because Bianca's back and that was fucking great until she was dumb and told Nico that she never actually died and now they're arguing in my cabin and they tried to get my involved but I'm not doing it. I'll explain myself to Nico later."

And just... I was there the entire time. But it opened my eyes to what was happening.

I went back to my cabin, and Nico was there. Just relaxing. He said they gave up on arguing not long after I left. He didn't tell her that we we're together. After the text Leo sent us, I wouldn't, either.