Archive of Our Own

Summary:

Percy Jackson has two lives.

In one, he is the son of a sea god — claimed, questing, carrying the weight of Olympus on shoulders that are still too young for it. In the other, he is Percy Wayne, nephew of Bruce, ward of a man who dresses as a bat and thinks he can protect everyone if he just works hard enough.

He is twelve years old. He is very tired. He has learned to keep secrets the way other kids learn to ride bikes: out of necessity, by falling, and because the alternative is worse.

Bruce Wayne has spent a lifetime protecting the people he loves by knowing everything. Percy Jackson is the first person he has ever loved that he cannot find.

Alfred Pennyworth says nothing. He makes eggs. He keeps watch. He has known what Percy is since the first night the boy sat at his kitchen table and ate like someone who had forgotten that food was allowed to be warm.

This is the story of a boy who belongs to a storm and a shadow, and the family that holds the space between.