Lost Hero

Vacation

And so they waited. Leo and Will recovered quickly, springing back. Artemis and Wally didn't leave the mountain and surprisingly, Leo stuck to them like glue. It wasn't often you saw Wally without Leo or vice versa. And Percy? Well, she had locked herself in the infirmary, at this point, only Will, Nico, Kaldur, and Dick were allowed in. Sure, she was tolerant if anyone else needed to get something, but if they were in there for more then five minutes, she started fidgeting, looking to the door and then at whoever had intruded on her space.

The team understood, they couldn't imagine the hell she had been through, and it was twice now. But they could all tell by how Will became more and more agitated that he wasn't happy with her progress.

"Will, tell me how you think she's doing," Kaldur asks, making pancakes.

"She's better than the first time around, which isn't all that surprising. She didn't have to come back home to find out that the war was over and a lot of her friends were dead. But she's not rejoining society. Sure, she did a toned-down version of this before, but she at least went to eat. She won't leave the infirmary, she won't tolerate many people in there at once, let alone allow them in for long periods of time. I don't know what I can do to help her," Will says, dropping his plate into the soapy water.

"Maybe she needs a bit of a vacation," Dick says and Kaldur lights up.

"Yes! Of course! It's been a while since she was last in Atlantis. Even though she complains about how she is treated as royalty, she loves Atlantis. We should all go," Kaldur says, looking at them excitedly.

"And you think that would work?" Dick asks, looking skeptical.

"I don't know, but we have to try, right?" Kaldur asks and they all nod, wondering how exactly they would manage to get Percy to agree.

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As it turns out, they couldn't get Percy to agree.

"No," Was her simple answer.

The team knew better than to push her into it at the moment, but they knew they had to get her to Atlantis, they knew that that is where she needed to be at the moment.

"Leo, what on earth are you doing?" Wally asks, looking at the boy who appeared to be praying.

"I'm calling in the big guns," He says, smiling.

In the next moment, Poseidon is in the room, looking around unamused.

"Leo, what a surprise that you were the one who called me. Percy doesn't seem to be in any trouble or danger, why did you call me here?" Posideon asks, seeming slightly annoyed. The team was slightly fearful, even they knew you didn't annoy a god.

"We want to take Percy to Atlantis, to help her to recover. But she won't go. I thought that maybe you could convince her," Leo says, smiling. He seemed cheerful but seemed worried.

Wally and he were having their own problems, everyone could see that their time trapped in the pit had affected them, but they had each other and others to lean on. Percy seemed determined to keep all of them at a distance.

"Leo, I think that's a great idea. How about everyone packs a bag? We can make it into a vacation," Poseidon says, smiling.

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Twenty minutes and the team minus Percy was assembled in the mission room. They all seemed excited at the prospect of both a vacation and helping Percy. Although they were wondering how exactly they would, well breathe underwater.

"I know most of you are unable to survive underwater for long periods of time, so I will be giving you a temporary alteration so you can survive. Now, who would like to stick to legs and who wants a tail?" Immediately, everyone is clamoring, speaking over themselves. Unsurprisingly, they all wanted tails.

"Why don't you all wait her? I'll go get Percy, i know you didn't have much luck with getting to to agree, but I think I can convince her," possideon says, a kind smile on his face.

It seemed as if he was warming up to them. Maybe it was because they were winning him over, but it had more to do with the fact that they wanted to help Percy and they didn't really care what hey wanted