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"hey, you wanna drink or anything? water? coke? we have ginger ale too if you like that." percy asks, looking over to jason as he opens the mini fridge in the game room, he was forever grateful leo had built in this place. the beanbags were pretty sweet
him and jason had been hanging out in here recently more and more just the two of them, actually becoming really close contrary to their first meeting.
percy quite admired jason, and being honest, found him really attractive (thats not really relevant, though)
"hm? ill take a ginger ale, then" jason replied with a small smirk, laughing at percys miffed face to his response
"i dont understand how you drink this stuff, tastes like cough syrup" percy says with a groan, taking out a coke for himself and a ginger ale for jason, then grabbing two cups out of the cabinet, pouring the soda in, and adding a few cubes of ice as well
" have no idea how you don't like ginger ale, water boy" jason laughed, referencing leo
"oh whatever" percy then grabbed the two drinks off the counter and brought them over to jason, though just as he was about to set them down, he tripped over his too-long jeans, spilling soda all over the ground
Jason expected percy to just laugh, make some snide remark at his own expense then clean up the mess. he was very wrong, though, because what he got instead was a curled up percy in the corner of the room, begging and crying for jason not to…hit him?
"I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry imsorryimso-" he repeated over and over, beginning to hyperventilate at this point
jason finally walked over to him, making sure not to go to fast as to not scare him with sudden movement. percy was now starting to hit himself upside the head over and over again, so jason grabbed his arms gently and pried them down to his sides
"hey, perc, its me buddy, jason, your okay. its just some spilled soda" he said, repeating the same reassurances for what felt like hours, desperately hoping he was doing the right thing, never wanting percy to ever be afraid of him
finally, percy looked up, and seemed to realize where he was
"jason? oh god, I'm so sorry, that mustve been really annoying for y" he began to say, wiping his eyes shakily
"no, don't apologize, I'm just lad you feel better" jason yet again took percys hands in his then began to properly wipe the tears from his eyes with his own hands
percy stayed silent for a bit longer before looking at jason in the eyes, there was a silent conversation that happened between there eyes in which either really knew what was said, but also knew every word at the same time, the entire time, all percy could think out was kissing jason, how it would feel, would his lips be soft? bitten? (percy then looked back at this and thought to himself ("HOLY SHIT BALLS IM GAY")
“so...i think you deserve an explanation for... that” percy whispered, looking at the ground, and down his dumbs jeans that made him trp in the first place
“i mean- it may be beneficial to know, yeah" jason squeaked out,trying to appear nonchalant
"basically, i used to have a step-dad, called him smelly gabe" percy chuckled to himself. jason didn't like where this was going
“well, he was an alcoholic and would sometimes be very...abusive to me and my mom, though, it was especially me" there was a beat of silence, jason felt an awful churning in his chest
“I remember she i was younger, spilling drinks or dropping plates... anything like that would always lead to him- hitting me. sometimes much worse than others" percy stated, barely chocking the words out
“I guess me spilling those drinks gave me some sort of PTSD attack, I'm really
sorry i reacted that in front of you though..”
percy finally said, his eyes beginning to tear up again
"oh percy, please don't apologize.. your stepdad sasems like a massive fucking dick, id kill him if i could..." jason says with force, bringing his hands up the brush the hair out of percys face intimately
“T-thanks jace...you really helped...i dont know what i would ve done if anyone else was here” Percy blush’s slightly as Jason does this
“Anytime, Percy” Jason replied with a small smile “this time though, I’ll pour the sodas