Room 314 | Afternoon | Sunday | September 26

[seaweed_demigod]

Percy had wasted a weekend doing pretty much nothing. It hadn't necessarily been a bad weekend, just lazy. He'd spent some time in the salle yesterday, working off some frustration and today he was in his room, back to doing nothing

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[deaths_demigod]

Yeah, Nico had something he felt the need to share and lo, Percy's door was open across the hall from Nico's and now filled with a dark and brooding demigod.

"Oh! You look busy. I should come back." Okay, maybe he didn't actually know if his news was welcome and this was a good excuse to flee.

[seaweed_demigod]

"Wait, what?" Percy asked, glancing up at Nico's voice and frowning. He'd felt Nico there before he'd seen him which meant Nico wasn't getting away that easily.

"How can I possibly look less busy than this?" He'd probably have to be twiddling his thumbs or something.

[deaths_demigod]

Nico didn't know. Actually looking at Percy proved that busy wasn't happening and he wasn't getting away without sharing. "You could be trying to will yourself to sleep through boredom," Nico suggested.

[seaweed_demigod]

"I'd probably just end up having some dream about Grover," he said, shaking his head. And if he was dreaming about Grover, there was probably trouble and he was too far away to help with that right now.

"I'm not busy. I don't think I've read one single word of his magazine. What's up, Nico?"

[deaths_demigod]

"You've had a dream, too?" Nico asked, suddenly interested and coming to sit on the edge of his cousin's bed. "There is so much potential for bad from this."

[seaweed_demigod]

"Not recently but yeah, I've had 'em before," Percy said, tossing his magazine aside. "You dreamed about something recently?"

[deaths_demigod]

"Uh, yeah," he said, unsure how Percy was going to feel about this news, no matter how great it could be for Nico. "I dreamed about my father."

[seaweed_demigod]

Uh oh. Percy frowned more because of how Nico was reacting than the fact that Nico had dreamed about Hades at all.

"Is something wrong in the Underworld?"

[deaths_demigod]

"Not exactly," Nico said, his fingers messing with the hem of his dancing skeletons t-shirt. "You hear about the whole parent's visiting thing?"

[seaweed_demigod]

"I'd...heard about it," he said while his stomach churned a little when he guessed at what Nico was about to say. "Your dream was about that somehow?"

[deaths_demigod]

"My father's coming to town," Nico blurted, his eyes full of equal parts excitement and fear at what would happen.

[seaweed_demigod]

"Hades...is coming here?" Percy asked, eyes widening some at the thought of that. "Whoa. That...could be interesting."

[deaths_demigod]

"Yeah," Nico agreed. "I didn't want you blindsided by his chariot blowing into town with Persephone and Demeter whining about how cold it is here."

[seaweed_demigod]

"Wow, family reunion for you, isn't it?" Percy asked, sliding his fingers through his hair. Thankfully, Hades didn't hate him but Percy didn't think they'd ever be best friends.

"He know anything at all about this place?" Percy asked a moment later. "Like how weird it is and stuff?"

[deaths_demigod]

Percy really had no clue, considering he was at the point where Hades was ready to lock him up and throw away the key. "You know, I would've been stoked for just Hades to show? I mean, of course he's only coming because he's betting your dad'll show up and make him look bad if he doesn't." Typical gods for you.

[seaweed_demigod]

Hey, Percy had gotten his Helm of Darkness back so he couldn't be completely hated. Just mostly.

"I haven't heard anything from my dad about it," he said and tried not to feel too upset about that. "He might busy or something. He might not even know."