The Sea's Protector (Fem. Percy x Young Justice)

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When I came to, my head hurt. A lot. I groaned and sat up, wiping my eyes.

"What happened?" I mumbled. I can't remember anything except...right.

The sedatives.

I looked over at Megan and Diana who were just staring at me. I sighed and stood up. "You know, you could have tried to talk Batman out of doing this."

"Would he have listened? He would have thought you brainwashed me too."

"That's why you have a magic lasso. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to go find Kaldur and slap him for no good reason other than I feel like I have to."

"Why does he put up with you again?" Diana asked.

"Cause he's overprotective." I replied walking out of the cell.

I made my way out to the living room where Batman and Manhunter were sitting, unmoving aside from their breathing. Manhunter's eyes were glowing and Kaldur tossed around on the couch.

I pressed my lips together. Walking around the couch, I lifted Kaldur up and carried him towards the Zeta Tubes. Based on the fact that nobody said anything I guessed that they were still in his mind, dead, or they just plain didn't care.

I don't know about you but I'm placing my bets on the first two.

A light scanned us and our designations were called out, then we were gone.

We reappeared in Poseidonis and I took a deep breath of water before swimming towards the palace's guest room. I'm glad that's over with.

The only thing is...

It's not over with. It's never going to be over with. The Team has had problems with me since the beginning and Batman will keep coming up with theories until he can somehow prove one.

"You okay princess?"

I didn't look at the source of the voice, knowing all too well who it was. But that doesn't mean I didn't reply.

"Will you be mad if I say I don't know?" I dropped Kaldur on the bed.

Arms wrapped around me and a kiss pressed to the side of my head. "I'm not going to be mad at you for telling the truth."

"What if you don't like the truth?" I mumbled.

Dad's grip on me tightened and he lifted me up. "If it's different than what you just told me, then I'll be mad because you lied to me."

"It's not that." I ducked my head. "I, uh, I may or may not have..." I trailed off.

"Did you try to kill yourself again?" His voice was deadly calm and stern. I shuddered and pulled away from him.

Oh gods...he's really not going to like this.

"Not...exactly."

"What do you mean by that?" He growled.

I chewed my lip and avoided his gaze. "Well, um, throwing myself off of the cliff wasn't my first attempt."

He stiffened.

"I just thought you should know." My voice was small as I turned away from him. "Before you freak, can you leave us alone? I need to talk to him."

He didn't respond, but since I wasn't pressed on the topic I'm assuming he left.

Also, I slapped Kaldur. He woke up, but if I'm being honest I just really wanted to slap him.

He stared up at me before sitting up. "What happened? How did I get here?"

"I brought you here. Oh and my dad's hanging around I guess cause he was just in here."

"Yay, more threats." He gave a half hearted cheer.

"I'm not letting him hurt you." I sat beside him. "And I don't think he's the one we should be worried about."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, I- I can't handle this anymore. The Team, why can't they just- why can't they just leave us alone?! They keep invading our privacy and- and..." I trailed off, tears mixing with the water around us. "There's no point in trying. Everything I lived for...everything I fought for...what was the purpose? I did whatever I could to keep them safe, but in the end they all died. And now everyone thinks I made that up?"

"Their opinions do not matter. We both know what happened."

"Easy for you to say. You don't have that weight."

Kaldur growled and pinned me down. "Get this through your head Percy. I blame myself. I don't know what else I can do to make you to understand that. I tried to kill myself from guilt twice, and yet you still act like that has no effect on me."

"You haven't watched them die! You haven't seen the light fade out of their eyes!"

"And do you think I wish to see that happen with you?! I told you I will take the blame for you."

"And make you feel even guiltier?"

"Guilt and blame are two very different things Percy." Kaldur softened his tone, moving to lay beside me.

"You just said that you-" he covered my mouth with his hand.

"Two different things. I can carry the blame for not being there thus keeping you from carrying the full weight of guilt. We can share the blame and the guilt."

"You know that's not going to happen right?"

"It was worth an attempt. Now as for the Team, what are we going to do?"

We laid in silence for a few minutes before I put my idea out into the open water.

"We could leave the Team, but still do hero stuff. I mean, I was a hero before the Team so it shouldn't be too hard right?"

"Except we can't kill these criminals. And what would we tell my king."

"Just tell Orin that you're keeping me safe. And you don't have to do this if you don't want to." I looked over at him.

Kaldur smiled at at me. "Wherever you go, I will follow. I am with you until the end."

Wow

I feel horrible

I haven't updated in forever but your getting this crap that I typed up in the last three or so hours

So...uh

Enjoy I guess

And...

Hm...

I'll try to update the Avengers book soon

(Counting my other account this is the fifth update in two days)

See yah