The boy was small for his age and was sitting on a bed in an apartment, in New York and he was very tired, and sore. Bruises littered under his shirt and pants, Gabriel or Smelly Gabe, never hurt him where he couldn't hide it from his mother. That boy was 5 years old; he had raven black hair, sea green eyes and skinny.

"Better watch it PERCY JACKSON!" yelled the man, it was the time he came home for lunch and would beat him up before going back to work. Exactly 1230 pm the man always came home.

His mother wasn't due to come home for exactly another 7 hours so he had 3 hours alone until Gabe came home from work, after he had left the second time.

Every time at 12:23 he would say it was time for "Man Lessons", which consisted of beatings. If he didn't cry out or cry he would get less, but since he was a child the screams always came and with that tears.

The tears were from shame and humiliation; his mother didn't know what was going on, when she left for work each morning, and his father, who had left before he was born….. Gabe said, "He didn't care about you."

Percy watched as his bedroom door opened and their stood, an overweight man, with a bald head and very dark eyes, glaring holes into him.

"YOU never cleaned the kitchen after your friends came over!"Smelly Gabe yelled and lifted the boy up by the collar of his shirt. His other hand had a bottle of beer in hand was empty.

"P Please D D Don't hurt me please" Gabe only smirked and slapped the child across the face leaving a hand print that was rapidly turning red and later it would be a bruise. He went unconscious but than woke up in a siv, (A large dumpster) than went back to sleep.

Percy awoke with pain and cried and bit his lip from sobbing. Sniffling he stood up and almost screamed in pain he looked down and lifted his shirt to see an exposed bone by his rib cage. Percy knew he had to hide it, or Gabe would find him, and beat him harder than before, so he reached and pulled an old towel from the dumpster and tied it around his waist in pain he stood up and began to walk slowly. Back the way he knew where his home was and make up an excuse for why he was late. Percy stumbled onto the sidewalk and limped biting his lip. He didn't expect anyone to come down the sidewalk but one man did...

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