Here's the sequel to Aftermath of the Battle of Hogwarts. Enjoy.
Blessed are the cracked for they let in the light!
12. Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
If a woman is upset, hold her and tell her how beautiful she is. If she starts to growl, retreat to a safe distance and throw chocolate at her.
Electra traipsed up Half-Blood Hill deep in thought. Normally she would just shadow travel into her cabin, but today was different because she wanted some time to think. That morning before she'd left the Underworld after spending the previous day at a memorial service for those who died fighting Tom Riddle and spending time with friends and family in Elysium, Hades had approached her and told her that if she wanted to tell her friends about the Greek world she could. Electra wasn't sure though because she was worried about what their reactions would be to not only the fact that her father was Hades but also the fact that technically she had lied to them for years about the majority of her life outside of Hogwarts.
Electra scratched Peleus behind the ears as she passed him and headed into camp. She knew that Clarisse and Chris weren't at Camp because Clarisse had IM'd her the other day, thankfully when she was off on her own, to ask her to come visit her in Arizona as soon as she could because she had something she wanted to tell her in person. Electra agreed and said that she would be there on what was now the day after tomorrow. The rest of her demigod friends would most likely be at Camp except maybe Hazel and Frank who would more likely be over at Camp Jupiter unless she got lucky and they were visiting New York today.
As Electra got closer to the main hub of activity she heard laughter coming from the volleyball courts and then Travis's voice drifted over as he explained, "Dude! What the hell was that Conner?!"
Electra smiled and picked up the volleyball that was rolling towards her. "Lose something?" she asked walking over.
"Yeah the game," Travis complained before noticing who was asking the question. "You're alive!" he cheered running over to hug her.
"You have so little faith in me," Electra teased as Conner tackled her in a hug as well.
"I could have told you she was alive," Hazel said moving in for her turn to hug her sister.
"Over four months without any communication will make us worry," Annabeth scolded gently.
"Boyfriends especially," Piper said.
"Particularly ever since the incident with Hera," Jason said.
"I'm still not happy with her doing that," Percy grumbled. Annabeth kissed him on the cheek to cheer him up.
Electra grimaced. "I take it Leo has locked himself in Bunker 9 occasionally?"
"Yes he has," said Will looking over Electra with a critical eye. "He's been in there for the past few days as a matter of fact. Thankfully he's got food in there considering he can and has shut himself away for a whole week. You've lost a lot of weight. Almost too much."
Electra's guilty look shifted into a glare. "It's not my fault that running up and down all of Great Britain trying to destroy a megalomaniac bastard who won't die until you find and destroy each piece of his severed soul with three others doesn't leave much time for communications and when you're camping in the middle of nowhere and have to survive off of whatever you can scavenge you're bound to lose weight"
"He's dead then?" Frank asked. "Since you're not swearing as much when you're mentioning, Riddle wasn't it?"
"Of course Tom Riddle is dead otherwise Electra wouldn't be back," Nico said before grinning. "How much of a tongue-lashing did you give Sevvy when you saw him?"
"I may have slapped him, thrown a ball of hellfire at him, and then proceeded to yell at him for several minutes surprising several people," Electra told him.
"Yeah well he deserves it for dying," Nico said. He looked at his sister. "He wasn't the only one was he?"
She shook her head. "Unfortunately not. It was war after all."
"True," Hazel said. "Are you alright?"
"I will be," Electra said a sad smile on her face. "In time since I was close to a couple of those who were killed." She paled when a realization finally hit her. "Teddy's going to have a seriously dysfunctional family. You two aren't going anywhere near him until he's at least out of the toddler stage." The last part was directed to the Stolls.
"What? Why?" they protested.
"Who's Teddy?" Nico asked.
"My godson who is less than a month old that I will be helping raise along with his godfather and grandmother because his parents died in the war," Electra said. "And his father was a prankster in school so I'd rather not have him influenced by too many pranksters while he's going through the mischievous toddler stage."
"Damn," the two sons of Hermes said.
"Speaking of infants," Annabeth said.
"We have something to tell you," Percy continued. Their friends all smiled knowing what the news was.
"I'm pregnant," Annabeth announced smiling.
"That's great! Congratulations!" Electra said grinning as she hugged her cousin and his wife. "When is your baby due?"
"End of the year," Percy said.
"Brilliant," Electra said. "I'm so happy for you two."
"Brilliant, " Travis chucked. "That is so British." Electra stuck her tongue out at him like the mature seventeen almost eighteen year old demigod she was.
"Go on get over to Bunker 9," Piper said smiling.
"Keep it PG-13," Nico warned. His sister rolled her eyes and waved as she walked to the forest.