i don't want to wait 'til the next life
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press restart (and my heartbeat stops) by torturedpercy
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
18 Apr 2020
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But the days pass, and some of them are better. On the days he can get out of bed. On the days he trails after Nico to the sword-fighting lessons he teaches, watches him correct twelve-year-olds’ stances and encourage eight-year-olds who either look far too excited to be holding a dangerous weapon, or about five seconds away from a meltdown. On the days when sometimes, Nico will say something funny over breakfast, and Percy will crack a small smile in answer.
He still thinks about her, far more often than not. He can’t walk past the canoe lake, can’t make eye contact with any of her siblings without feeling like this impossible weight is pressing down on him, like Atticus has suddenly sloughed off the sky back onto his shoulders. And he can’t close his eyes without seeing her own sad gray eyes looking back at him as she lets him go; and he can’t close his eyes without wondering what it might be like to never open them again.
But it’s a process, Nico says. And really, he supposes Nico really would know best.
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- Part 1 of i don't want to wait 'til the next life
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i'm surrounded by idiots (but my friends are alright) by torturedpercy
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
01 May 2020
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He and Elliot are a pretty good team, Mateo thinks. There are two of them. Two is enough to fight off the hoards of monsters that try to steal their backpacks. Two is enough to slip under the radar of people who would probably call social services if they figured out they were homeless. Two is enough so that neither of them ever gets lonely.
Really. Mateo cannot emphasize that enough. Two is enough.
“Man, I can’t believe we just almost died. Because of cyclopes. You know what cyclopes are, right? Cyclopes are—”
“Yes, I know,” he says tiredly. Seriously, the headache never ends. “The things we just fought. One eye. Smells like my oldest brother Luis’s laundry hamper.”
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- Part 2 of i don't want to wait 'til the next life