A Thief and a Prince (Inspired by Aladdin)

Parted

Hey if anyone is still reading this sorry I didn't mean to abandon any of my stories and sorry for this chapter cos I'm pretty rusty on the writing front and its also pretty short because of that, but I think I still find it pretty fun to write, now I'm more of an artist but its kind of a nice break from drawing. Sorry if the writing isn't great and sorry for the 6 year gap in chapters...my bad :c

Percy's POV

I huffed as I stomped down the street aiming to put as much distance between myself and 'his highness' as possible.

What the hell is wrong with that guy, what just because he's a prince he gets to act all snooty and snobby - well I guess that is kind of the MO of princes in general but UGH.

Okay technically... this may have actually been mostly my fault, maybe possibly it wasn't the best idea I'd ever had to pretend to be a sea creature to have contact with a pretty prince? But that didn't warrant him calling me a dirty peasant! I mean the peasant part is totally true but the dirty part was just uncalled for. Subconsciously I sniffed the air around myself- was I dirty..?

The further away I got the more the feeling of regret weighed down on me and wriggled its way into all parts of my brain. I had to go back and try to make things right, apologize properly this time, even if I couldn't convince him to still be my friend.

By the time I had made my way back to where we were Nico was long gone and I internally facepalmed. Of course he was gone he wouldn't just plop himself down in the one spot and wait, he was probably back in his room at the castle already.

Dejected, I dragged myself back to Leo's place, not looking forward to recounting any of the day's events if he asked - who am I kidding, when he asked, this kid talked a mile a minute probably covering all the known topics to man.

These worries soon left me as I arrived to find an empty house which I found odd, maybe Leo had popped out?

I decided to wait for his return, half out of fear of returning to the castle but also half because I didn't really know how to work the tunnel levers to get back in. I ended up waiting much longer than I anticipated, or I assumed so as when I came to it was nearing dark. I hadn't meant to fall asleep at first but after waiting a while with nothing else to occupy my mind other than a certain prince... I couldn't let my mind linger on such thoughts any longer so I lay down and let sleep take me in.

I awoke to a blur of hushed voices, all talking over each other in a distressed manner. When I rose to join the odd collection of people, silence slowly took over the room as their eyes simultaneously turned to me.

'Hey...guys?' I questioned, still barely awake at this point,

All I got in reply was dead air as I watched them all nudge each other,

'Um...what's up?' I tried for a second time to no avail, while they all exchanged glances. Oh sure just leave me out of the loop, I thought to myself, no need to fill me in.

'Will someone just spit it out please, this is getting old fast' I sighed, exasperated and slightly perturbed at the disturbance from my peaceful nap for this so far fruitless discussion.

Finally Frank chose to break the silence, ending my impatient sufferance only to bring a whole new form of torture.

'Nico is missing'

Nico's POV:

I stood still, frozen with anger or shock or some combination of both as the sight of Percy's nimble body got further and further away, disappearing into an intricate weave of streets he knew like the back of his hand. 

Slightly disoriented, I attempted to retrace our steps back to my original position- to no avail. Though technically this was my kingdom, I had unfortunately spent little to no time in its actual streets- something that now in hindsight I was considering rectifying.

Did this idiot really leave me stranded in the middle of a random alleyway ?! I thought to myself, knowing deep down I was the idiot, for trusting him, for allowing myself to be infatuated with some stranger I knew nothing about, for falling for him...

AH snap out of it Nico, you're better than this! Though I had just proclaimed to no longer care to know anything about him or his life anymore this proved near impossible as thoughts of him which had consumed me in recent days lingered in my head like a bad smell. (or a really nice smell of the ocean and sea breeze .. okay geez this was getting pathetic)

My pace slowed as I realized I had been furiously stomping around in... seemingly no direction which I recognized. You would think that with my home being a whole ass castle, the one very noticeable giant landmark in this whole kingdom, it would be easy to find, but somehow in these confined alleyways of towering apartments I had spun myself even further into the labyrinth of these streets WHICH ALL LOOKED THE DINGDANGNABBIT SAME TO ME.

Okay.. don't panic definitely don't panic I think that's what I heard not to do in situations such as these.. Yep not panicking at all, what was it you were actually meant to do when lost though? Maybe I should've listened more closely when my father lectured me but it was so boring, and just because I was a prince didn't mean I was totally helpless...only with directions.

The more the afternoon progressed and the light faded, the more antsy I became. At first the sun's disappearance behind the buildings was a welcome relief from the heat, coating me in familiar shadows, but with daytime quickly running out I was forced to confront reality of being stuck outside for the night. I could not fathom the endless nature of these repetitive streets- or was I just going in circles?

I soon stopped on an unassuming doorstep, only intending to give my aching feet a short rest, but as I sat down I realized the toll the day had taken on my body and soon against my will my eyelids were fluttering shut and my dreams had consumed me. My last thought before drifting off was that my father was definitely going to murder me when I returned...

See you guys next time! (without a giant gap maybe) if anyone wants more! Have a great rest of the week, sorry if the writing style has kinda changed I tried to sort of read up on how I wrote before but I'm not that familiar as its been so long