Thirty-Five

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Percy POV

So I've been extremely bored just sitting here for 2 hours, dad and Apollo left a while ago. I want to go to see my friends and Luke.

Luke...what is it with this guy? First he kidnaps me, but then he is really nice to me, and then he got taken over by Kronos and I was so sad, and then all the things, the horrible things that will leave me scarred forever that Kronos did to me...it hurt me, yet there is this strong feeling I have for Luke.

Is it love or is it hate? Do I love Luke or do I hate him?

If I hate him...then why did I want him safe? Why should I care about him if I hate him? Why would I ask the gods to spare him? Heal him? Do I actually hate him? I can't hate him if I don't want him hurt...right? Was that just my fatal flaw? But...if it was just my fatal flaw...than why did my fatal flaw even affect me if I hate him? He shouldn't mean anything to me if I hate him so why would it be my fatal flaw?

Maybe I do love him. Luke is sweet when he isn't taken over by Kronos. He was my first actual friend at Camp Half-Blood, besides Grover. He was the first one to actually accept me. He made me feel safe. When I first got to camp he was the one to make me feel okay and forget about Gabe, make me feel like I could get my mom back... Mom. I need to see her again. Anyway, Luke. I guess I do love him. But...does he love me back?

What if he doesn't love me back?

What if I'm only a friend to him?

What if I tell him I like him more than a friend and he rejects me?

But what if he loves me back?

Should I give him a chance?

What if he hurts me again?

Can I even trust the guy?

I mean, he did kidnap me. So... Can I trust him? Does Annabeth, Thalia, Grover, and Nico trust him? Oh!What if my friends hate me for loving Luke...?I can't lose them! Maybe I should hide my feelings...? No. I can't do that.

A creak interrupts my inner battle. I look over to the source of the noise to see that it was Apollo.  Apollo walks over to me and I wait for him.

"Hey cuz. How are you feeling?" He asks me with a sad smile.

I hate pity."Don't do that Apollo. I don't like pity. Don't pity me."

He sighs."I'm sorry Percy...its just... No one should ever have to go through the things you have. If you ever need to talk about it, just call my name and I'll be there for you. Okay cuz?"

"Alright Apollo. Apollo I'm really really really bored!"

He laughs."Hahaha, yeah, well I think you are okay now, I'm going to keep the casts on for now, because Zeus wants you in the throne room immediately. Your friends are really annoying him. After the little meeting there will be a few hours before the celebration so we will get you cleaned up and take the cast of then, okay?"

"Yeah, yeah whatever. Let's just go!"

"Okay. You can't walk like that though, so let me get you a wheelchair."

I groan."Whyyyyyyyyy?"

He chuckles."Because if you haven't noticed, your right leg is in a cast and your left arm is as well. You certainly cannot use crutches with that."

I sigh."Fine. Help me."

He wheels the wheelchair over to the bed and lifts me up and onto it. He gets behind the chair and grabs the handles. He wheels me out of Olympus's infirmary. As soon as we are in the city of Olympus, all the nymphs, satyrs, minor gods, and everyone else that lives here are bowing and gaping. I thought they were bowing to Apollo but,

"Percy, they are bowing to you."

Oh. They are bowing to me. No! No bowing! I blush.

"No, please don't bow. I've done nothing that makes me worthy of your respect."

They all rise but they keep staring at me in awe. A young nymph runs up to me. She has dark brown curly pigtails and green tinted skin. She is wearing a mid-thigh length earth colored dress. She stops in front of us, so Apollo stops. She hands me a paper.

"Will you autograph it please?"

She shyly asks me.

I grab the paper. I think for a minute, then think 'maybe RipTide can be a pen...?' I uncap RipTide and put the cap on the end of the sword. It turns into a pen. I sign the paper and bronze ink comes out. I give it back to the nymph. She squeals, thanks me and rubs off. I stare at her confused, then recap RipTide. Apollo continues on our way to the throne room. Wait...

"Apollo?"

"Yes?""Can't you teleport?"

"Oh yeah! Oops! Close your eyes!"

I close my eyes.

"You can open them now."

When I open my eyes, I see we are right outside the throne room doors. Then I hear yelling coming from inside.

-In The Throne Room-Third Person POV

The demigods are getting impatient waiting for Percy.

They start pacing back and forth.

"Is he okay?"

"Why has he been gone so long?"

"Where is that Kelp-Head?"

Luke stands in the corner, biting his lips. The gods stare suspiciously at Luke.

The doors to the throne room open and Apollo and Poseidon walk in.

"Where is he?!"

"Is he okay?!"

The demigods bombard them with questions.

Apollo silenced them.

"He will be fine. He has a few broken bones, sprains, cuts, and a fever, but I treated it and he should be healed in a few hours."

Zeus decided to start talking then.

"Seeing as we have a few hours, I would like to discuss some things. When Perseus is healed enough to move, he will be brought here and we will reward the demigods. Afterwards we will have a 2 hour break so that the demigods can have a rest and get cleaned up and Dionysus can plan the celebration. We will then have the celebration. The demigods will stay here for the night, they can sleep in their parent's palace on Olympus. Tomorrow they will go back to the camp. We must also think of a punishment for the sort-of-traitor."

Luke stiffened.

"Obviously it cannot be death because we already promised Perseus we would not kill him."

Luke relaxed a bit.

"We will discuss this with Perseus and come up with a fit punishment. For now we will relax and wait."

The gods turned to the people next to them and started conversations or arguments, because the gods wouldn't be the gods if they didn't argue. The demigods continued their pacing and worrying.

No matter how much Apollo tells them Percy is okay, they will still worry until they can see him themselves.

After two hours the demigods got more worried.

"Is he okay?"

"It's been two hours!"

"I need to see him!"

They were getting on Zeus's nerves.

"Agh! Stop!"Zeus thundered."Apollo! Go get Perseus immediately! I cannot stand these demigods' constant worrying any longer!"

Apollo flashed out of the room to the door outside the infirmary.

The demigods continued pacing.

After a while they started getting even more worried.

"Where are they?!"

"It's been too long! Something must've happened!"

"Please let us go ourselves!"

"No! Stop your pacing!"

"But Lord Zeus! It's been too long!"

A knock interrupted the demigods from anymore arguing and worrying.Zeus sighed relieved.

"Enter."

The doors creaked open and a shy, healing person was wheeled in.

All, yes all, Luke included(but he stayed behind the group a bit), the demigods ran to the person.

"PERCY!!!"

Okay that ended up being much longer than I intended to make it, but oh well. What did you think? Please let me know!Vote!Comment!Enjoy!~DemigodInTraining