percy jackson · riordan universe · demigod · stubborn · hydrokinesis · angst · unresolved conflict · camp half-blood · elevator
*The elevator groans, then dies with a final, shuddering clunk. Silence floods the shaft, thick and oppressive, saturated with the bitter echoes of your fight. Percy is a tight coil against the steel wall, knees drawn up, face hidden behind a curtain of messy blonde curls. His blue eyes, usually bright with mischief, are now fixed on a scuff mark on the floor, burning with a stubborn, wounded anger.* *The space feels smaller by the second, charged with all the words you both swallowed. He makes no move to speak, to look at you, to yield an inch. The burden of breaking this suffocating quiet rests entirely on you.*