Bucky and Percy

a good mother

Thor and Steve were currently beating the living shit out of Ares and Hermes.

Bucky had rangled Apollo into a Hog tie, Annabeth and Percy led a stumbling crying Aphrodite back to the big house, and natasha and tony had run to stop SHIELD from storming the camp.

Percy and annabeth all but dragged Aphrodite up the steps and into the house, she fell into the couch with a broken sob and annabeth went to get nectar and ambrosia while screaming for chiron, who was no where to be found.

Percy stood next to Aphrodite, who went silent, she held her hand up and percy took it tentivly, she gane a weak broken smile.

"I'll heal", she assured him, Percy nodded, "have you ever been hit by a bus before?", she laughed weakly, then closed her eyes briefly.

"Do me a favor, dear boy?", and percy said yes, and she asked him.

She told him to go upstairs, and ask delphi what could fix the tree, he hesitated, "Bucky said Delphi if for... Emergencies...", "is this not an emergency?"

And percy went up stairs, heard annabeth go into the room with Aphrodite, he closed the attic door behind him and stumbled fearfully into the attic.

The dead woman sat there, waiting for his words.

"Uh- Delphi? Thalias tree, its almost- its about to die, and- we need help, we need to heal her, how can we heal it?", silence, percy balled his hands into fist

"Thats what i th-", a his made him go silent, green pooled from her eyes, it made the room glow and suddenly the candles lit, delphi sat up straight.

Percy reared back and fell on his ass.

"You shall sail the iron ship with warriors made of bone,
You shall find what yo seek and make it your own,
But despair for your life entombed within stone,
And fail without friends, to fly home alone."

Percy bolted out of the attic and down the steps, ignoring annabeth yelling for him as he ran out of the big house and into the chaotic camp.

He spotted silena immediately, sitting outside of the ares cabin, "silena!", he yelled, she tensed but relaxed and waved at him, "wheres clarisse? You think shell come with me on a quest? I need her", silena frowned.

"Why'd she want to go on a quest? You know she hates going outside the... Shield", she winced and glanced up at the sky, "i also know she'll kill anyone or thing for the camp, i cant do that, think you can get her to come with me? I dont think she'll listen to me"

"Clarisse isn't that bad," Silena said with a frown. "She's a bit gruff, but you can depend on her in most situations."

"Oh, yeah. You guys are actually best friends," Percy commented. He frowned in thought. "Still don't see it."

"We just clicked," Silena said with a shrug, confusing percy. How the hell did those two click? Silena was nice, friendly and pleasant to be around. Clarisse was... Clarisse. "I can convince her to tag along for the quest. I know it might cause difficulties, but if it comes down to it, please get along with her."

"More like hates my guts..." Percy muttered after she had spoken, causing Silena to reach forward and swat his arm angrily. "But thank you. You'll need a miracle to pull it off, but thank you."

"No problem," she smiled, ignoring the teasing looks her siblings were giving her. Percy was doing the same thing as well.

He began to run back to where bucky was rangling the gods when he heard a loud honk, he turned towards the woods in confusion, another honk, he hesitantly went forward to investigate, hand in his pocket ready to draw riptide, three figures steoped out of the woods.

"Ew!", Percy put a hand over his mouth, it was the grey sisters.
"Why"
"Hello"
"Percy"

They spoke the sentence like a popcorn, one word each, Percy waved hesitantly at the sisters, Bucky had once called them to meet them, the book athena gave them stated they were a taxi service.

"What... Brings you here?",  he asked, "three"

"Words"

"Needed"
They spoke, one held up the eye and popped it in

"30 31 75 12"

They said at once, "whats that mean?"

"Its"

"What"

"You"

"Seek"

Then, withiut anither word, they steooed back and vanished into grey dust.

Percy stared blankly, "Percy!", he turned and saw Bucky, he raced to him excitedly, "bucky! I've got an idea! We-", bucky held up a hand.

"Just second, we need to rally the camp"

He gripped the not he held in his left hand, apollo sat in buckys grip, gagged and hog tied, ares and hermes were slung over thors shoulders, tony and nat were gone.

"Rally everyone up", Bucky demanded, "but-","-please, percy- i can only handle so much, chiron has vanished. And I've got SHIELD, four gods, and thalias half dead tree on my conscious right now- please get everone together so they know whats happening"

He pled, Steve gave bucky a soft sad look,  "yes sir", Percy said and turned to walk off, "Perce", Bucky reached out and knelt

Percy gave him a much needed hug, "thank you", bucky grinned as percy pulled back, "we can fix this", Percy offered, bucky nodded.

Percy turned to gather the camp, eyes glancing up at the sun, that was still up, Apollo abandoned his dutys to fight his brothers, percy prayed artmis would pull the sun back in place

People gathered quickly, starting a fire even though it was 'day'

The fire was low, it was enchanted so singing made it griw, but everyone was silent, so it stayed small .

Bucky showed up with steve, Thor held Aphrodite under her arms, he yelped when she scooped up one of her youngest and twirled in delight, nearly falling over if thor had not kept her up and set her down next to her kids, who she squealed and hugged one by one, wincing at her wounds each time, but not carring in favor of finally being able to be with her children

Percy looked at Aphrodite, realizing that she'd have made a great mother to them, had she been given the chance, watching her babble and listen to her own kids made him realize that gods could be good parents, she took her youngest, a toddler, becca, just turned 1, and cradling her , cooing and kissing.

He looked at Aphrodite and wondered why such a good mother will never be able to be one.