Close Your Eyes (Percico)

Beggars At The Feast

Finn

Nico's Dad's place was really cool. And we got to meet who I guess would be our aunts and uncles and grandma. They had like died but stuff happened while we were down there.

I don't understand what happened. But stuff happened. And so they're not dead.

Nico has a lot of siblings.

But I mean, Grandma Maria seemed cool.

"I'm not..." One of our uncle's, Benito, the oldest, was confused as they all were about their age. "Dad, hold old am I?"

"Well I modeled it around Nico's age, being he's the only one of you guys that lived," he explained to them. "So you're 37. It's only April."

"Wait," Nikolas got excited, and I mean they haven't noticed us yet. "Nico lived? Is he okay? Where is he?"

"Relax," Hades assured them, because of course they all got excited about Nico. "He's fine. He's actually doing really well. He's in New York, he'll be here later. After work."

Bianca was the one that noticed us.

"Hey, Dad," she said and pointed us out to the others. "May I ask who they are?"

He had Grandma sit down. Probably because the last time Grandma saw Nico, he was like 10.

"This is Carlos, Finn, and Luana," grandpa introduced us to them. "Carlos is Nico's son, he's 16. Luana and Finn are his partners' kids, they're 16 and almost 13."

Grandma cried. It was a happy cry, and I don't blame her. At all.

Percy

As we we're getting ready to head to the Underworld to pick up our kids, I got a text from Hades that seemed kind of sketchy.

Hades 💀: Hey, Percy, you guys still plan on having dinner here, right?

Percy: Yeah, of course! Plans haven't changed for us, why?

Hades 💀: DON'T TELL NICO but because I wasn't able to get him anything for his birthday this year, there's a surprise here kind of waiting for him and you're going to need to be able to like calm him down, more than likely.

Percy: ...

Percy: what's the surprise?

Hades: family. His mom, siblings. They're talking to the kids right now, I'm easing Maria into you coming because as much as I don't think she's homophobic, I don't know for sure so I'll get back to you on that.

Percy: oh yeah that's kind of important

Percy: I'll keep him calm, though

Hades: thank you ✌️

Percy: no problem

The real question is how bad can a mother in law be? I mean, I hope Maria's great because my ex-fiancee's mom was... I mean, she still sends me threats. Over like email.

So that's lovely. She's blocked.

But I mean, fingers crossed, right?

Bianca

We we're all nervous and excited and anxious. This is our brother and the last time I saw him, and I was the last one to see him alive, he was like 13 and he doing real shitty and not taking my death well.

So I'm really nervous to see what Camp did for him and what he did after. I mean, he's 35, according to Dad and I guess our ages. Which makes me 37. I'm Percy and Annabeth's age. But it's...