Banished

16

Third Person PoV

Percy and Artemis were joking around as they explored the unremarkable city.

The city was so unremarkable, in fact, that the drunk driver who slammed into them was on the front page of the local paper the next morning.

Percy knew he was supposed to go to Apollo's clinic but made sure that an ambulance was on the scene and treating Artemis before he left.

When Percy got into the godly clinic, he was in worse shape than the other patients.

Apollo himself took on the role of Percy's surgeon.

Once the anaesthetic started wearing through his mental filter, the younger god grabbed the Olympian's wrist.

"Artemis," the son of Poseidon rasped. "Car crash...drunk driver...."

Upon hearing this, Apollo left his second in command to care for Percy and went to check on his twin sister.

Artemis was in critical condition at the hospital and was still in surgery.

Apollo blessed the doctors working on Artemis and waited for them to finish.

He sat in the lobby, dressed in jeans and a sweatshirt, for seventeen hours while his sister was being stabilized.

Percy would likely have done the same if he wasn't under observation at the clinic on Olympus.

When the mortal doctors had finally stabilized Artemis, Apollo left back to Olympus and called for an emergency meeting.

Once everyone arrived in the council room and had taken their seats, Zeus cleared his throat. "Apollo, what is the emergency?"

"Artemis was hit by a drunk driver," he explained.

"Why is this important?" The king of the gods asked.

Apollo became so angered that the veins on his forehead became clearly visible. "Why is this important? My sister, your daughter, was hit by a moving vehicle, almost died, and could still be at risk, and you have the nerve to ask why this is important? If she dies while mortal, she's dead forever. You can't undo that. You need to restore her immortality now."

Witnessing Apollo stand up to his father was a rare occasion, and the other Olympians watched intently.

Zeus grumbled and waved his hand dismissively. "It is done."

Not waiting to be dismissed, Apollo appeared in his sister's hospital room and brought her back to his clinic.

The mortals working at the hospital would be confused, but even if the Mist didn't cover everything, it was the least of his worries for the time being.

Apollo set his sister up in a private room and fed tubes into her arms. The tubes were slowly adding a mixture of nectar and painkillers to her ichor.

Athena stood by the door and waited until Apollo had everything set for his sister to heal quickly.

"Is there anything I can do to help?" The wisdom goddess asked.

"Go help with Percy's case," he replied. "I can handle Artemis, but Percy seems to have received serious brain trauma and the other doctors aren't well versed in treating such issues."

Apollo returned to fussing over his wounded sister and Athena went off to find her daughter's ex-boyfriend.

The goddess temporarily disregarded her ill feelings toward the young god and explained the intricacies the procedures to the doctors who would be executing.

Once Percy had been allowed to rest after the treatment, he was examined more thoroughly. His broken body had been healed with ease, but his mind was a different story.

Shockingly, Percy didn't experience any memory loss. Instead, he experienced almost constant disorientation, for which there was medication, and fatigue.

With a lack of patients at the clinic, the doctors elected to keep Percy overnight for observation.