#dark!percy

to have percy "go dark" and get so angry at the gods for not changing would result in a type of betrayal to camp and to his friends that ends in tragedy.

but ethan was mad corrupted and hadn't realized what he'd done until he was sobbing in an alleyway with riptide to his throat begging for his life

percy who is also corrupted (by a certain sky god who threatened to kill a certain mother) and has to do this and is literally about to stab him

literally lands a strike to ethans side and then is fucking blASTED AWAY WITH MAGIC BEcause there's Alabaster C Torrington and one does NOT stab his best friend (crush but that's later)AND BE FINE.

ethans fucking on the ground bleeding out and alabaster covers the wound and drags him back to their side to heal him

and then fast forward to post son of magic and nico finds them??? and both boys lose their shit because they remember him and oH FUCK HES GONNA KILL US but nawh he just confused as fuck because he saw claymore and followed him there (ethabaster is canon by this point)

nico brings them back to camp and bargains like hell with mr. D and chiron to let them stay (they agree)

cue will seeing them and ALSO remembering them (ethan specifically) because young will thought his eye was the coolest thing

yada yada (i haven't thought of fillers yet) ethanicosolbaster happens

and then percy finds out they're back. essentially it fucks him up. He's pissed that these TRAITORS are back in his camp. He's jealous that Ethan has replaced him (never really let him go even tho hes got w Annabeth at this point). He's pissed that he didn't kill alabaster when he should've and needs to do that now to prove himself

(dark/bitch!percy looks at me in fear why is this the only way I write him)

never really liked nico, so he's on percys (s)hit list too, because the fewer people in his way the more likely ethan is to love him again

(annabeth is away from camp for whatever reason, girl has no idea what's going on)

at some point he fweaking wounds alabaster and nico. ethan and will are literally plotting. scheming. you see, throughout the four of them spending time together, will has since learned a lot about his plague powers. ethan does NOT want will to go alone,but he's gonna.

come capture the flag.

will essentially rocks percys shit, but bros by the river, so he's jumping in there and revitalizing. cue bloodbender percy :]

ethan sees will on the freaking ground from behind percy and fucking jumps on him. I mean on percys back, legs squeezing his middle and an arm tight around his neck, the other hand tight in his hair and WRENCHES him onto the riverbank. that thing happens where they roll.

ethan. fucks. him. up.

he does this until he hears will coughing (bitch has good hearing) and is at his side in an instant

my boy is dying from percys fucking bloodbending 😘

they get back to apollo cabin panicking because the strongest healer in camp is dying and the collective of them don't know what to do. they call on apollo himself, who does in fact heal him.

percy has since fled camp, claiming to visit friends at camp jupiter.

sweet ending.

THE POST IS BEING WEIRD SO HERES A LINK TO THE POST WITH THE FIC ON IIITT

percy, who doesn't give a shit about camp and if he didn't have annabeth, would be on kronos' side.

percy, who's entire personality is a façade. he's not the kind, loyal, dashing hero he plays the part of. he's a ruthless killer who cares about nothing but annabeth and sally. his mom, who knows he's different than the sweet boy who helped an older woman bring her groceries in when he was eight.

annabeth gets stabbed all the same. percy goes and gets will.

will, who's sitting in front of where the bridge collapsed, sobbing. he doesn't want to go with percy, he's still holding onto hope that his brother is down there. he's injured and still debating how to climb down there. blood dribbling from his forehead, gashes and cuts litter his arms and legs.

percy, who grabs him by the arm, two fingers tight over a nasty cut, and pulls. percy, who drags him to the fucking bike, picks him up and drops him on it.

will, who's kicking and fighting and screaming that it's "all your fault, percy! i hate you!" because his brother is still down there, alive, and he knows it.

percy, who claps a hand on the back of his neck and lowers his head down to will's ear: "shut up and sit down. i don't care, can't you see? you're going to heal her, you hear? or i'll kill you right with your fucking brothers."

will who really, truly debates continuing to thrash and cry because he needs his brothers. who eventually stills in his seat, gaze trained at the scene beside him, tears dripping down his face.

percy smiles coldly and drives off, maybe even humming a tune. maybe that tune is the one lee would sing most often at the campfire, that would have will smiling and singing along. he may be uncharacteristically wicked, but he still notices everything.

will tells no one for years. not his siblings, not his friends, not his mom.

until those three days in the infirmary with nico.

SPOILERS

Annabeth has fought like hell to prove herself to her mother and when she gets a quest it’s out of rage and malice, a quest that’s killed countless siblings before her, a suicide quest. A suicide quest given with spittled rage and disowning bites that almost seems like it was given to her to kill her. A quest she goes on despite it all that challenges her intellect and skill in a city that’s greatly dishonored her mother in a cavern filled with spiders that’ve terrorized her since she was a child. Yet she persevered and comes face to face with a horrifying sight, a woman whose story has always led her to question whether or not her mother really was in the right, but something she and all of her siblings have known all their life is that you don’t question Athena. Arachne was exhibit A as to why.

And Annabeth, despite her terror, outsmarts Arachne. And retrieved the Athena Parthenos. The first…ever. And Arachne gets her revenge by dragging her down into Tartarus, the darkest pit of the Underworld that even the Big Three are too terrified of to go down to. And Percy jumps in after her. She’s injured and weaponless and starving and terrified and tired and she just wants to go home. But this is her quest from her mother. Her mother who disowned her as her last words. Sent to her foe of ages ago whose tapestries were perfect enough to be considered better than Athena, a woman who was not punished for insolence and losing, but a woman punished for daring to show up the gods and not have the power to stand her ground against their wrath and pride.

And here she is with Percy once more, cornered by a goddess who is torturing and attempting to kill him gruesomely and painfully. And then he stands. And the poison retreats. And he has the goddess on her knees, crying and begging then choking on her own tears. He has the power to stand his ground. And she finally feels safe for just a moment. For the first time in days, with him, she’s safe. Despite the horrors around them and within his own actions, admittedly, she feels safe. And her mind shifts gears until she’s at his side and whispering, “Her blood, her ichor. Control it.”