An extra chapter as others have asked about Percy's RA9 Origin Story and tbh, this was what I had come up with that I never knew when to include in the story. So this is a Bonus Chapter sort of thing.

"So, I'm confused. Why exactly do you have RA9 as a tattoo?" North asked as they group of friends annually got together.

Carl had Noah in his lap, already dozing away as he listened to the adult conversation while Hank was holding a sleeping Sally as Estelle was leaning against her brother dozing off like her nephew.

"Yes, do tell," Markus said with a teasing grin, he had heard it after their first few dates when it was brought up in conversation.

As he was teased, Percy tried to hide his head in his hands as he shook his head. "No, god no, I'd rather not talk about it," he said as his face was slowly getting red with embarrassment.

"Oo, now you have to tell," Simone said in a sing-song voice as he leaned forward with interest.

Percy sighed and raised his head from his hands, face still red and slowly getting redder, he told his friends why he has RA9 as a tattoo.

"So, this might seem really, really stupid. But you guys know my friend Leo Valdez, I've mentioned him before. He's a friend of my cousins and we hung out a bit, well he helped designed the tech that I use to communicate with the aquatic androids. That being said, in the early stages of development, he and some of his friends who were also big nerds," Percy gave a teasing glance to Elijah who stuck his middle-finger up in response, "were working on the computer coding. And they had it all done and theoretically it was perfect. The problem was that somewhere in the coding there was some sort of mistype. It took them, what, almost two months of just looking at the code to finally spot the error where the A in RA9 was suppose to be a 4. As soon as they had realized the mistake and tested it, the code worked perfectly. So, that one bit of accidental mistype cost all of us two months of just working on code that was perfect except the one typo."

"I don't see how this made you get a tattoo of said mistake," Josh pointed out.

"I was getting to that," Percy tsked as he leaned into Markus who just wore an amused smile throughout the whole explanation.

"Anyway, as any normal human being we went out to celebrate. But being the young impressionable, totally legal-" Percy quickly put in as he reminded himself of the two cops (though, only Connor would really care) "young adults we were, we went out and got absolutely smashed. Like, we really shouldn't be driving or even moving type of smashed. Somewhere in that fog, Leo bet me that I totally wouldn't get a tattoo. My response: "bet" and well, we went to the tattoo place. When asked what I wanted, Leo instantly said RA9 and then we both burst out laughing. Don't ask me why they actually have me the tattoo, but by the time the hung over passed I didn't really care enough to want to get it removed. Plus, it gave everyone who knew about the inside joke a good laugh or sigh of frustration," Percy finished as he drowned the last few drops of beer left.

"That's...that's stupidly amazing. Do you think Androids can get tattoos?" North asked curiously while looking at Elijah who had decided to drop by unannounced but not unwelcome (it was usually unannounced as he had a habit of just being in his lab at odd hours).

"Wouldn't be difficult, give me like a week and I'm sure I can make something," Elijah said with a shrug as he curled his arm around Chloe.

"Two weeks, you still haven't really slept from your last week spent in the lab," Percy injected with a small glare toward his friend who was determined to not have concern over his own health.

"Pssh, that was a while ago," Elijah dismissed.

"I only got you out of the lab yesterday," Chloe said amused.

"Really?" Elijah asked surprised, "Huh, I suppose some sleep would be beneficial."

Percy rolled his eyes and basked in the moment between him and all his friends. Happy that he had met Elijah at the society meeting his mother dragged him too.

"What are you thinking about?" Markus whispered in Percy's ear as Percy moved his head from Markus' shoulder to look up at his husband.

"Just, thankful. Love you," Percy said and leaned upward for a small kiss which Markus happily gave.

'Love you too," Markus said and gave Percy a small peck on his forehead before they rested against one another once more. Markus' arm curled around Percy's waist and Percy's head resting on Markus' shoulder.