perseus jackson

You see, if this goes well, and it should because my parents are soft, they feel bad for Luke and let him move in as long as he gets a job and pays for his own phone.

They heard I had a boyfriend now, so they were excited. They've always known I was gay. They did understand why I dated Annabeth. Tried to help get me to the point where I could break up with her because I was fine.

We met my parents at Montauk and they were already at the cabin. Everything inside was ready when we got there.

Being they haven't seen me in forever, they were quick to run over and hug me before realizing Luke was here, too.

"Oh my gods, you brought him with," Mom was probably too excited to meet my 'first' official boyfriend. He's my first, yes. Technically. I've been with other guys for like a couple weeks. It wasn't official. They were just kind of curious about being gay and they knew I was gay. Luke is my first,though. All of that happened after we thought he died when Kronos took him over.

So he was my first. But this wasn't my first time with him. He's just no longer dead, and that made me really happy.

"Yeah," I confirmed that it was him for my parents. "What was I going to do? Tell you guys I was going to bring him with and then have him not come?"

"Oh, shush," Mom responded and I don't think Luke was expecting a hug, but he got one. "It's great to meet you, I've heard a lot about you, Luke. I'm Sally, Percy's mom."

"I didn't realize he talked about me," Luke responded, sounding a little curious. "It's nice to meet you, too, Sally. He's told me a lot about you guys. Most of which was on the car ride here."

They found that kind of funny, and they had open arms to Luke, which I don't think he expected but was happy about. Because you know, I'm what he has. Octavian, if he chooses to stay in contact. But I have a feeling he won't. He'll go back and that'll be it.

But I'm what he has. Even if he went back to Westport, his mom is dead. So the more accepting my parents are, the better this is.

It was a really good night. And I just... I mean, it was almost too good of a night. So when I stumbled along one of the family albums and found out it was one of them that had Gabe in them...

It gave me some mixed feelings. There were photos I remember much of. But the one I did remember was my happiest memory with him. Our first vacation with him. Our first time here with him.

When I saw that photo I— I almost started crying because it just hit me.

Gabe is dead.

The realness of that hit me, and it made me feel so bad because he can never redeem himself. I could've helped him in rehab and helped him get sober so we could have more of those memories. I could've helped him get better after I learned about camp and learned that it was possible to turn your life around.

And I'll never get that. I'll never get to have him at my graduation. At my wedding.

He was an asshole. He was abusive towards the end of it.

But he was the guy that raised me. And at the end of the day, I knew he was capable of doing so much good.

And he can never do that.

So much potential. Just gone.

"Percy, sweetie," my mom said as she was passing my room, noticing I was starting to get emotional. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah...." I responded a little slow as she sat down next to me. "Um... Why did Gabe never..."

"I don't know," she told me, rubbing my back as she took the album from me and placed it next to her, closed. "And sometimes it's better to not know. He made his choice. Come on. We were about to go out and roast s'mores. Paul and Luke are setting up the fire."

I smiled at the thought of Luke just listening to Paul who would be trying to walk him through the easiest way to light a fire until half way through his explanation Luke already had a fire going.

He was on the run for almost a year. He had to stay warm somehow. Quests, too. And anywhere he was stuck with Kronos. He could last in the wild for a while.

And in the middle of roasting marshmallows, a car drove up and we thought it seemed weird. But we've had visitors before that would know we're normally here right around my birthday. So it was completely weird.

When Matthew Chase stepped out, it was a little weird. When Annabeth came out, it wasn't as bad. But then again, it was also worse.

And then Gabe stepped out of the car.

Like, I knew her dad was bisexual. I was aware he got divorced not long after Annabeth went home when we were 12 and he had gotten remarried recently.

I never met her step dad.

But she told me he was amazing. He was really nice and whatever. We talked and she said she was going to stop by to just grab the stuff she kind of just left at my place the last time she was over. So I told her we'd be here and she said that's fine. She took all of this quite well.

Then again, she really can't blame me for being gay. She can just blame me for going out with her in the first place when I didn't like her.

She said that she kind of could tell, though. She just assumed I was bi.

Thank gods we didn't get married. I probably would've shot myself before he even opened his mouth.

So between the likelihood that Annabeth murders Luke, and then Mom and I having like panic attacks from Gabe, Paul was the only one who said anything about them being here.

"Matthew!" Paul and Matthew got along really well, it was kind of weird. At first I thought Matthew had a thing for Paul, that was a weird day. "Gabe! Annabeth! You made it!"

Paul invited them for the weekend.

When Mom noticed I looked sick and went to go inside, I think she sent Luke after me to make sure I was going to be fine, because I did throw up. Twice.

"Did you... What happened?" Luke asked me, worried that I have now thrown up everything I ate today.

"Um, not Annabeth," I explained. "But her step dad. I didn't realize he was who he was. Remember when I told you about Gabe? My mom's ex husband? The one that started drinking and never stopped?"

"Yeah," he responded, nodding his head as he rubbed my back. "What about him?"

"That's him." I told my boyfriend. "And I'm really glad I sent that text to Annabeth when I did, otherwise he'd be here asking the questions Paul doesn't bother to ask you because I'm a guy and I've also proven myself to be able to take care of myself. You know what I mean?"

Luke nodded his head and agreed that this would be ten times worse had I never sent Annabeth that text. Because she's here all weekend, if not longer.

This was going to suck.

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Percy apparently wasn't okay with this. I didn't see who the other guy was being I hadn't gone over there yet, but he went after Percy and after like ten minutes, I figured it was safe to ask if he was okay.

Sally was being unusually quiet. She's always been open arms and happy and excited about people visiting.

Not today.

"Is Percy okay?" Dad asked them and Paul glanced at the cabin and then at Sally.

"He might've had something bad earlier," Paul totally liked for unknown reasons. Sally excused herself to make sure they were okay.

After a minute, Gabe looked at Paul.

"Paul," Gabe and Paul we're good friends. I think they like went to high school together, lost contact, and then Paul was at the wedding, I know. "what's your wife's name?"

"Sally."

"Her maiden name."

That concerned dad for a lot of reasons that I could understand. Gabe hasn't met Percy or his family. Why would he know them? We didn't go to Paul's wedding because um... I don't remember why. I went because I was in the city. The summer of the Titan War. My parents couldn't make it. They sent a card.

"Jackson!" Paul answered pretty willingly," Sally Jackson. Her son is Percy, why?"

Gabe was looking like he was starting to regret ever decisions he's ever made.

"You don't know Sally and Percy, do you?" Dad asked and Gabe just looks at him.

"No, not at all," Gabe responded, using some pretty heavy sarcasm. And I had a bad feeling about this. "It's not Sally's my ex wife and I scarred Percy for life or anything. Not at all, Matthew. I'm lucky if he doesn't kill me this weekend. And I'm serious about it."

Sometimes I need to keep my mouth shut. But sometimes I don't. And this time, I didn't.

"Percy told me Gabe was a kid that lived in the same building as them," I responded, because the stories don't match up. "he said the kid beat the shit out of him all the time for whatever reason. It stopped like not long after he started going to camp."

Apparently Dad knew that Gabe used to drink and he got violent from it. Apparently that's why he's not allowed to drink. It's not like my dad does anyways.

I didn't know that.

And I just kind of...

Victims won't tell the truth when they're being threatened by their abusers.

So I wouldn't like, murder him in his sleep or something, Gabe took me on a walk while we waited for the others to get back to clear the air about that.

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Mom checked up on me after like ten minutes and she insisted that I didn't have to go out if I didn't want to. I told her about everything not long before I turned 16. I wrote her a letter and left it out every time I left. It said open when I was called in. And she read it. It had everything in there that she didn't already know because I thought I was dead.

So she knew. She also knew better than to push me about it because I've been pushed for a lot of things recently.

"You can go out," I told Luke as he changed into his pajamas, a shirt and boxers. "I'll be fine in here."

"I know," he insisted as he grabbed a bowl of popcorn he had just made and he sat down next to me in our bed. "But if I do that, I have to deal with Annabeth, and I really don't want to do that. I'll do in the morning. She'll be too tired to yell at me."

"She doesn't know the definition of tired, but if you say so." I responded, cuddling with him. "I won't complain. I get a movie night with you."

"Oh yeah," he responded, being a little shit. "There's that, too. I almost forgot."

I rolled my eyes and threw a piece of popcorn at him that totally missed his mouth. He just laughed and gave me a kiss.

"Still love me?"

I squinted my eyes.

"Yes."

We didn't make it fat before the popcorn was gone because I was hungry after you know, throwing up. But once that was gone, I returned to my normal position on him. Basically laying on top of him as I used his shoulder as a pillow. I fell asleep to him rubbing my back and me listening to his heart beat. It was nice.

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I always thought it was weird that Percy took Luke's death so personally. Like, worse than I did.

But I never thought much of it. Percy looked up to Luke when he here at first. Everyone did. And I also thought it was weird that he subjected Luke's death as to justifying the reason as to why he thought going out with me was going to end up okay.

Like, he singled out Luke's death. He didn't mention anyone else. When I thought about it, I figured it was because Luke's death could've been called suicide. It was kind of like assisted suicide, but it also wasn't.

Our entire conversation about it was just weird. Did I care? Not really. At least he was honest and didn't make up bullshit for a reason to break up. I just thought it was kind of weird.

Trying to find out which room I was supposed to stay in, I fucking found out why Luke was subjected so much. Why it was so much about Luke and his death.

The other guy that was here wasn't Jason. I figured earlier it was blond hair, around his height. They were having a guys weekend.

It was Luke.

Percy was practically on top of Luke, cuddling. Luke's one arm rested on Percy's back as the others was off to the side. They were both sleeping. An empty bowl on the floor along with VHS cases.

Sally did tell us Percy threw up so he was going to lay down.  She didn't mention another man.

And then I kind of thought about it.

Percy isn't very fast in a relationship. He likes to take it a little slower. We didn't sleep together often. I don't think we ever actually cuddled. And we we're together for a year.

Luke died just barely over a year ago.

When the fuck did they date? Because he was not at camp when I was there a week ago.

So the next morning I was talking with Percy who insisted he was fine, his stomach just didn't agree with what they had for dinner last night.

And I asked about Luke.

"And like, nothing against it obviously." I insisted. "I have two dads after all. But I was trying to find my room last night and like we slept together like two or three times over the course of a year. And Luke was dead a year ago. When did this start?"

"Um..." He was only half awake right now, too. Gabe, Paul, and Dad all went to get food for the weekend. So we didn't have to worry about Gabe. Which I think kind of relieved Percy. And Sally. "So like before the whole Kronos deal and what not. We weren't supposed to be talking to each other, but we did anyways."

"Percy!" I said, because that was considered treason back then.

"What? We never got caught," he insisted, not finding it to be a big deal. "But he would like let me know when he was city and we would hang out off the chart because I didn't want to be executed and he didn't either. So we wrote letters that weren't shipped through Hermes a lot and we talked and it was like not long before we recruited Nico I think? He was around for like Thanksgiving and stuff. We went Black Friday shopping together and it ended up being our first date because he took me out for a fancy lunch and feelings we're had. And we we're together until Kronos fucked him up. I still don't know how we hid it."

"I..."

Okay. That was a lot to take in at once.

So the entirety of recruiting Nico and the entire next summer.

Percy and Luke we're dating.

And nobody knew, obviously, because neither of them we're executed.

"It's a lot, I know." He insisted. "And then the night of my birthday I was you know, having a panic attack and a nervous breakdown for like the third time that day, and I don't actually know when he showed up. But he did. He freaked out and made sure I wasn't going to kill myself because that he'd to be a problem, too. There's so much you never knew about me when we were younger. Um... I'm fine now, though. Don't worry. And yeah. He didn't dare show his face to camp that night so he stayed in with me and it continued from there and I sent the text like the next morning. Or I had it send the next morning. That's why it was so focused on his death. We we're a thing. And then he died. And now we're still a thing."

I didn't want to know anything I wasn't told, so I just okay and moved on with my life. I went and scared the shit out of Luke. Just for a lot of reasons. For being dumb. And then for not telling me he was alive. And then I threatened that if he ever hurt Percy, he may be 6' tall, but he'll be 6' under.

He may not be my boyfriend anymore. But I can still be the protective sister if I can't be the protective girlfriend.

Either way, he doesn't get hurt. As long as he's happy, I can live with it.

And as long as Luke stops being a dumbass.