Close Your Eyes (Percico)

In The Real Way

Frank

Hazel might as well have been fuming at the train station. Leo and his husband kind of kept it. She's homophobic so... That's her one flaw. I love her for everything else, though.

"Hazel, honey," I said, figuring it had something to do with Nico. She hasn't spoken with or seen him since our wedding. He sent us a package for the twins when he found out she was pregnant with twins from Jason and she threw out everything. "what's wrong?"

I read the texts and it wasn't hard to tell that Nico has dropped Hazel. In the last number of years, he has moved on completely.

He literally said he'd rather be married to Percy than be her brother.

That's pretty fucking blunt.

But she calmed down, never responded to him. We asked Percy for his address, and he gave it to us and then told us his schedule for work.

It took a while, but we were able to track down Percy's house from our hotel that Monday and we figured he was home.

His house was the nicest house house outside of like Annabeth's. But she's an architect.

So we knock on the door and a guy answers the door. Not Percy. A teenager.

It wasn't Carlos. So I'm assuming this is his son. Phillip? No, it was something else. It started with that F sound, though.

Nico couldn't tell us because he was at work.

"Can I help you?" This kid asked, not exactly being rude, but not expecting visitors.

"This is like the eighth house we've been to, so I hope so." Leo told the kid. "Is Percy Jackson here?"

"Why do you ask?"

"Please," Annabeth insisted that we weren't going to hurt them. "We're old friends of his."

"Oh!" His attitude changed after that and he let us in. "Sorry, he said you guys would show up tomorrow. He is on his way home from um..."

"Work?" Frank suggested. Hazel wasn't here. She refused to see either of them so.

"Yeah! Work!" He agreed. "Sorry, English is weird to speak."

"Is it not your first language?" I figured it was a legit question, being I didn't know that English was Percy's second language. If any of us did.

"No," he told us. "German is. Vati taught us both, but German more important. We lived in Germany."

Figuring that made sense if Percy learned German, we went with it and Percy got home.

Leo

IM SORRY HOW DOES PERCY STILL MAINTAIN HIS LOOKS?

My husband agreed that he was real good looking. Like, good for Nico for getting someone good looking that also has a good personality.

I mean, my husband, Marco, is pretty good looking, too. I can't complain.

"I thought you guys were coming tomorrow," Percy remarked as put his keys on a hook. "The second."

"Is it not the second?" Annabeth questioned as Percy shook his head. "Monday the second."

"It's the first," he corrected her. "Monday the first."

We all looked at each other because our hotel rooms are only good for the second to the ninth.

We're dumb.

"Do you guys have somewhere to stay tonight?" He knew what we were thinking.

"No..."