A/N: This is a story I've had in my head for awhile now, actually since the end of July, I've just been too lazy to write it down. When I finally decided to do, I had pretty much the entire plot, but that doesn't mean I'm not open for inputs and ideas 'cause I am.
I am sorry if there are any grammatical mistakes, I don't live in a country where you speak English. If the case is there are mistakes I blame my nationality.
Disclaimer: Sadly I don't own Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Rick Riordan does.
BTW, there will be switching point of view.
Besides that, enjoy.
I'm stuck in an elevator
Percy Jacksons POV
I was standing in The Empire State Buildings elevator, I had the key-card in my hand and was waiting until the elevator doors would close so I could insert the card in the security slot and when push the 600th floor button. The doors where almost closed, there were only two inches left. I was about to insert my key-card when a petite hand came between and made the doors open again.
The person who had prevented the doors from closing was a girl, about 15-16 years old; she walked into the elevator while she searched through her bag and mumbled something about that she should just have waited with the others. She was not the tallest person on earth, maximum 5'3", but she still seemed pretty strong. She had a bit curly raven black hair which went down to her waist. Overall, an athletic type. The girl was wearing some flip flops, a simple red tank top and some short denim shorts. Which to my surprise revealed a shark bite on her thigh. No way, it couldn't be a shark bite, it was just my imagination. Whenever her left hand came into my sight I could see something that looked like a tattoo, but I couldn't make out what it imagined.
I cleared my throat
"Have you lost something?" I asked.
The girl stopped looking down in her bag and instead looked up on me and for the first time I really got to look at her face, she had headphones in on of her ears and the hanging down on her chest, but what caught me the most was her eyes, they were sea-green just like my own. She had a dreamy look on her face, especially the eyes which I was staring hypnotized in.
"I just can't find my key-ca…" she started to say, but then her eyes find the key-card I was holding and before I could count to three, she stood with my card and had inserted it and was about to push the 600th button when she looked, over her shoulder, at me.
"You're going up, right?" She asked.
All I could do was nod; I was still hypnotized by her eyes. She pushed the button and turned around and placed herself on the opposite wall than the one I leaned up. She hummed along to the song she was hearing with closed eyes and I just stood and thought about what Chiron had told me over the phone.
"Percy, you are in New York at the moment, right?" He had asked me
"Yeah, I am. Why?" I had answered
"Because you must go to Olympus as fast as possible, this is an emergency. If it wasn't I would not have called you over the phone"
"Whoa, wait a sec. What is the emergency?"
"I can't tell you over the phone, when you come to Olympus we will tell you"
"But…" I didn't manage to say more before I was cut off
"No but… I have already called Annabeth, Grover, Tyson and Nico and they are all on their way." Chiron said "As I said we will tell you it all when you arrive."
"Can I ask a question? Who is 'we'?" I asked
"Technically that was two questio…"
I was interrupted in my thought when the elevator suddenly stopped and made me jump a little. The girl was still standing in the same position except that she opened her eyes and looked slightly annoyed. Then she did something that made me jump a little - again, she took her fist, still in the same position, and hit the elevator wall very hard. But the elevator didn't move an inch. She slowly glided down, so she sat on the floor.
"We might be stuck here for a while, so if I were you I would make myself comfortably" she said to me with a smile. I did as her and sat on the floor. I don't know how long we sat there, it could just have been a couple minutes, but we sat in silence and finally I couldn't stand it anymore.
"So… Why are you going up to Olympus?" I asked the girl.
"They asked me to come" she answered.
"Who? The gods? "I asked
She looked at me and smiled before answering
"No, the statues. Of course the gods" she started to laugh and her laugh was very contagious so I started to laugh too. We laughed until her phone rang. She looked at the display and when at me.
"Sorry, but I have too take this one" she said with an apologetic smile.
"Hello?" She answered the phone.
I didn't hear more of her conversation because there appeared an Iris-message in front of me and to my surprise it was Hephaestus who at first looked at me with a hopeful expression, but it faded when he looked more closely at me.
"Uhm… Hi Lord Hephaestus" was all I managed to say, I was still pretty much still choked over that a god had contacted me… in an elevator.
"You're not Ares" Hephaestus said "Nor are you Aphrodite"
"Uhm..." I didn't know what to say but it wasn't necessary for me to come up with something to say.
"Are you talking to Hephaestus?" The girl asked me, holding her phone down to her shoulder. I nodded
"Then would you ask him to make the elevator move again?" She asked me. "Please?" She added after looking thoughtful for a second.
I asked Hephaestus about what the girl had requested.
"Well, I had planned to catch Aphrodite and Ares for a while, so it might take some time, it was based for gods – not mortals. No offense" Hephaestus said while scratching his head. "But I'll see what I can do." And then he disconnected our conversation.
So it could look like I would be stuck in this elevator for a while and since I had nothing to do, I started to listen to the girl's conversation. Yeah I know, I'm rude for listening to another's private conversation, but I seriously had nothing to do.
"…So you're on your way?" She said to the phone "...Well, it's not all cars which can accommodate a centaur, so it is easier to travel as a disabled person"
"No, not yet. I'm stuck in an elevator" she replied to the phone and then laughed a bit.
I looked at her hand and thigh. Trying to figure out two things:
What there was on her hand.
If it really was a shark bite.
But I couldn't figure out the answer to any of my questions.
She looked at me and then said 'she had to go and see you soon' to the person in the phone.
"What?" I asked. She still looked at me.
"Oh it's just, you look like you want to ask me about something" she smiled.
I, for some odd reason, blushed lightly and looked down. She just smiled and waited.
"I was just wondering…" I started, still looking at the floor.
"About…?"She helped me.
"Two things: First, what's that on your hand?" I looked up at her to see if she had been insulted.
"It's a tattoo" she said and held her hand towards me. It was a trident and a sun, where the sun was a bit on top of the trident and the tridents end was wrapped around her wrist. For some reason she held a drachma and I would have sworn by the River Styx that she didn't have it when she entered.
"I've had it almost my entire life" she explained." Your second question?"
"Didasharkbiteyou?" I blurted out.
"I beg your pardon" she said politely.
I could feel my face turning red.
"Did. A. Shark. Bite. You?" I asked slowly.
The girl laughed a bit, which made me blush even more.
"Oh no, I didn't laugh at you" she assured me, with a smile "I just never been asked that before. But you're right a shark bite me"
She became serious again.
"It caught me without guard" She shook her head at her own stupidity.
I didn't get to answer because the elevator started to move again and we both stood up again, it felt like I've had been sitting down for hours. This probably could have been true.
Ding the elevator said and we stepped out of the elevator.
Hephaestus was nowhere to be seen, but there was a toolbox, and the elevator panel was open, so I guess he was of to wash his hands or something like that. Although I couldn't imagine why a god would have to wash hands.
The girl who was standing at my side and was chuckled for herself. I looked at her but she didn't seem to want to explain what was so funny.
The girl turned to me and stretched out her hand. And I took it, we stood there for a second before she let go of my hand and walked over to the staircase and took a few step before she turned to me.
"Pleasure to meet you Perseus Jackson!" She cried at me and then ran up the staircase.
I just stood and looked at the place the girl had disappeared from and all I could think of was that I didn't get her name.
I was still frozen in the same place when Hephaestus came back. Together we walked, in silence up, to the throne room.
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