Percy Jackson

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"Hey!" Some kid yelled from behind me as the ship came into view and they were there!

Everyone that Grover said would be there was there!

"Hey, you can't combust before they get down here," Reyna pointed out to me, as if she also wasn't super excited about Jason being on that ship.

"Reyna your leg is shaking,' I pointed out because she's definitely doing that to try and hide her excitement, and she elbowed me for it.

"Shut up."

My eyes basically did not leave that ship, though, until it was stationed and I told Hazel and Frank that it was time for then to meet like, basically my family, and Annabeth came down first, which is the one reason I didn't give to give my boyfriend a hug and a kiss first.

Because she runs up to me and fucking judo flips me, which allowed time for the others to come down and for Reyna to bitch Nico our for not telling her something about Jason.

I don't know, I was trying to not become concussed immediately after recovering from amnesia.

"Hey!" I exclaimed as she at least like, helped me up. "what was that for, Wise Girl?"

"For going missing out of nowhere for six months, Seaweed Brain," she retorted. "What the hell?"

"It was Hera that did it!" I insisted as Rachel came over and helped herself to a hug, which I didn't mind because I missed my friends. "She literally... Well, I brought her here, but I had amnesia for like four months! I didn't know my name for like a week until Lupa told me what it was. I got my memories bsck like... Two days ago? Most of them were yesterday."

"Four months?" Grover asked and I nodded my head. "Jason only lost his for like, a couple weeks."

"Yeah, it was dumb," I insisited. "Lupa insisited on traiking me for four months and refused to answer any of my questions. Probably because she couldn't because she didn't actually know me before then, but still. Also! I made two friends! This is Hazel and Frank! They're cool and don't hate Greek people!"

As the others were meeting and talking with Hazel and Frank, I looked over to Nico because I really want to run over and give him and hug and kiss and literally never leave his side ever again, but Reyna was still giving him hell.

"He went crazy without you around," Rachel told me, giving me a hip hump and I smiled a little. "I've never seen him more anxious than he was on the way here."

"Yeah?"

"Yeah," she confirmed. "I—"

But then she got pulled away by Thalia and she got brought over to Reyna for whatever reason, and luckily that finally got Reyna to leave my boyfriend alone and I...

He's right there.

Nico's right there. Like 20 feet away, now looking at me, and smiling, looking like he might also be in shock.

Rachel, being the good wing woman she is, nudged him to probably wear the shock off and then I started to run and he also ran and then we crashed into each other and ended up on the ground laughing and also crying I think, but I was holding him and he was holding me and I missed him so much.

There was a lot of things happening both in my brain and around me and it was going a million miles an hour, but that's okay because he's here and I've been looking for him for like four months ever since I woke up and saw the ring and had the feint memory of how it felt to hold him and lay with him and be with him and just...

I missed Nico so much.

But he's here now.

Sitting up, we touched our foreheads together and I think we were on the same page about not giving a shit if the others see or don't see because it's been six months since I saw him last and it's been four months without my memory and it was the worst four months of my life.

"Hey," but despite having four months to think of something I could say, that's what I managed, because I had tears popping out and he did, too, but it made him smile.

"Hi," the son of Hades returned. "You're here!"

"I'm here!" I confirmed for him, trying to not just be the most disgusting person in the world with everyone around, but I wanted to be really gross really badly because I don't care what the others see. "Can I?"

I missed my boyfriend.

He smiled again at the question before connecting our lips for the first time in six months.

It was better than I remembered.

"I missed you," Nico told me as we stood up and I smiled this time, even though I was already smiling. I smiled even bigger. "Like, it was unhealthy how much I missed you."

"I missed you, too," I insisted, making sure we were holding hands still because if we stop having physical contact I might lose my mind today. It's going to be bad. "I couldn't remember like, anything, but I knew you gave me the ring and I lost my mind trying to see if people had a matching one. Hazel and Frank made me miss you even worse. They're so gross and I yelled at them to just get over themselves a lot because I was lonely."

Nico chuckled and I almost forgot how much I missed that sound.

"They're so oblivious," my boyfriend said, rolling his eyes before stealing another kiss from me, which caught me by surprise this time. "I missed you."

"I missed you, too," I reminded him, giving him a kiss back. "I love you."

"I love you, too," Nico returned and smiled again. "I uh— I mean they probably know now, but I didn't tell anyone after you went missing. Well, Leo found out, but you haven't even met him yet."

"You didn't?" I asked in return because I assumed that like, people would slowly find out through him like, losing his mind like Rachel said he did. Over six months, it'd be bound to spread.

But I guess if he was here a lot with Hazel as Hazel, Frank, and Reyna explained to me after the Senate meeting...

I guess Hazel and Reyna knew.

They didn't know that I was the missing boyfriend, but they said that Nico had a missing boyfriend that he'd look for while he was here, but he never said a name because I like, wasn't out.

Amnesiac me didn't know I wasn't out, however amnesiac me was also able to read the room and have anxiety about coming out.

So they're probably currently finding out that I was the missing boyfriend.

"No, of course not," Nico insisted, rubbing the back of my hand with his thumb. "it felt too much like outing you to tell people. Also, I wasn't around anyone for like two months, so.... That made it easy to not do."

"You... Two months?" I questioned as we started to walk back to the crowd because other people want to see me after being gone for six months, not just my boyfriend. "Wh... What happened? Are you okay?"

"I've literally never been better," my boyfriend promised me. "I've waited for this moment for six months, and you're actually here, I'm good. My eating just got like, bad and I was not sleeping well and I was kind of losing my mind, but Chiron or maybe your mom had me admit to like, a psych facility for my eating issues, so... Yeah. I finally got diagnosed, though!"

"You did!?"

He nodded his head and as shitty as it is that he had to like, get admitted to find out, it's good that he finally found out.

Mom was worried about Nico's eating habits, or lack thereof, and it always worried me after Bianca died, and Mom and I talked about getting him to an actual doctor and not a child if Apollo to talk about it, but he got his answer!

"Yeah!" My boyfriend confirmed. "Remind me to tell you more like, not when everyone is around."

Making a mental note of that, we joined everyone, and Nico stood next to me, and apparently fucking nobody that wasn't Thalia, Rachel, Reyna, or Jason were paying attention, because it fucking seemed to surprise everyone that Nico was like, glued to my side and that we were holding hands.

I know, it's kind of crazy to hold my boyfriend's hand in public, but I think that if I even tried to let go, his arn would come with.

Not that I'm complaining. I love Nico so much and I'm happy to have him back.

I missed him a lot, if I haven't said that already.

"W... Wait," Hazel said as Reyna and the others walk over to join us, and I don't think everyone even noticed we were holding hands. Just that were standing very close together.

Hazel noticed it, though.

"Percy... Percy was the missing boyfriend?" Nico's younger sister questioned and I see Grover finally connect the dots because he basically knew back in like, October, but he also didn't know. "What the fuck dude?"

"Wh... Huh? I think I missed something."

It was a fair question, coming from Annabeth.

"Did you really miss our entire reunion?" I asked, because that was like, the easiest way to come out by everyone just... Witnessing. "I thought somebody would've noticed when I fell, at least."

"N... No, sorry, we missed that."

"Don't worry, I got a video of it," Rachel reassured me as she walked over with the others. "I sent it to Nico."

I'm going to watch the shit out of that later.

"Wait, sorry, hold on," Frank interjected, piecing it together. "So... I guess Hazel did just say, but Percy's the missing boyfriend? You guys are dating?"

And for some reason, Frank saying that we were dating rather than just saying that I'm Nico's boyfriend made a lot of people actually make sense or the situation.

"WAIT A SECOND," Thalia, I was worried, sounded like she might kick our ass. "Since when!?"

I've never seen Hazel and Frank looked so panicked and apologetic upon realizing that, hey, we weren't out to our friends yet.

Nico answered the question, though.

"Do you remember that one time when we ran into each other at the mall?" Nico asked Thalia. "and you helped me find like a couple random shirts in my size?"

"Yeah?" Thalia said back.

"Yeah, that was the night we went on our first date." Nico broke the news to everyone.

Thalia leaned forward and maybe she would kick our ass, blinking very slowly.

"That was in August, Nico.'

"Yeah," my boyfriend confirmed, nodding his head. "It was. We were planning on coming out at New Year's and then well... That didn't happen. So... Surprise."

And in hearing this news, Annabeth connected a few dots.

"So when you said that you always just figured it had been a joke..." Annabeth voiced out loud.

"Yeah," I responded, nodding my head. "It was definitely because I'm gay."