I was scanning the closet in my dorm trying to find my costume for Halloween since Jess, Luis, Sam, and I were going out to celebrate Sam getting an amazing LSAT score.
"Yes!" I yelled as I found l my costume. I took out the Greek chiton with a owl clasp on the base of the shoulder. I put on some golden looking flats and went to the mirror and in my dorm. My ashy blonde hair was pulled into a french braid that fell over my left shoulder. I put on some chapstick over my pale lips. The rest of my face bare of any makeup, except for shimmering eyeshadow to bring out my eyes, which was a ring of orange surrounded by gray. I tug at the chiton, the white contrasting with my tan skin. I grabbed my purse and headed out to the bar.
When I arrived everyone was already there. Jess dressed as a sexy nurse, Luis as a ghoul, and Sam had no costume on.
"Hey guys sorry I'm late, I was trying to find my costume," I said sitting down and asking the bartender for a drink.
"It's fine Sera, anyway here is to Sam and his awesome LSAT victory." Jess said raising her glass up.
"All right, all right, it's not that big a deal," Sam responded, as he clinked his glass with ours.
"Dude stop being so humble, you scored an one seventy-four," I said as Luis asked if that was good.
"Scary good," Jess replied as she took her shot.
"So there you go. You are a first-round draft pick. You can go to any law school you want!" Luis said sitting next to Sam.
"Actually, I got an interview here, Monday. If it goes okay I think I got a shot at a full ride next year," Sam said.
"Hey. It's gonna go great," Jess stated.
"It better," Sam said.
"It will Sam, jeez have some faith in yourself," I said punching his shoulder.
"How does it feel to be the golden boy of your family?" Luis asked.
"Ah, they don't know," Sam said, Jess looked at him with a hint of sadness in her eyes.
"Oh, no, I would be gloating! Why not?" Luis asked.
"Because we're not exactly the Brady's," Sam said, I winced knowing the feeling.
"And I'm not exactly the Huxtables. More shots?" Luis asked.
"No," we all said in chorus. Luis got up and went to the bar to get the drinks. We all sighed as he kept going anyway.
"Seriously. I'm proud of you. And you're gonna knock'em dead on Monday and you're gonna get that full ride. I know it," Jess said.
"Same Sam, I know you are going to be great," I said smiling at him and took a sip of my drink.
He smiled at me and then turn to Jess and said," What would I do without you?" with a slight smile on his face.
"Crash and burn," she said as she smiles at him in return and pulled him in for a kiss.
"Aww, true love," I said laughing. They both broke away from the kiss and rolled their eyes at me.
I smiled thinking how nice it was to have normal life and normal friends for once. By no means do I hate the life that I have, I'm just a demigod and our lives don't usually end up happy. But for the time being I felt happy and at peace. But I did not know how short this happiness and peace would last and be thrown back into the life of monsters and terrors.
I was walking around campus it was the middle of the night. I left the club so after Sam and Jess did and was still walking around in my costume. I did not want to go back to my dorm where my roommate was probably sucking red boyfriend off. I was near the apartment building where Sam and Jess were living in. I could see their building when a car passed me and stopped in front of the building, I got a little suspicious since it was the middle of the night. The car itself was what looked to be a '97 chevy impala. Don't ask me how I know, I just do, it is really a child of Athena thing. We just really like to know things no matter how little, also when one spends enough time with a certain child of Hephaestus they learn many fun facts about machinery.
A man walked out of the car, I couldn't get a good look of his face or his build really, maybe 6, 6'1 in height but that's about how much I can gain from the distance and the darkness of midnight. Stealthily I made my way closer to the man without him spotting me. I ducked behind the building when the man started looking around to make sure no one was watching. When he spotted no one 'thank the gods' he resumed walking towards their apartment building.
He started going up the fire escape to get to an entrance of their apartment. I slowly climbed up after him hoping that we wasn't going to Sam's and Jess's apartment. I was going to stop him regardless, but my friends safety always came first in my mind. He stopped at the entrance to their apartment and I almost let out a quiet sigh 'I can never have it easy, huh.'
The man opened the window that lead into their kitchen. 'At least he didn't break the window,' I thought as he went into the apartment. I then heard a crash. 'I hope that wasn't something expensive,' I sighed also climbing into the apartment when I knew he was far enough away not to spot me.
When I spotted him, with his back facing me, I got ready to tackle him. When Sam showed up and grabbed the man by his shoulder. The man knocks it away and goes to throw a punch at Sam. At that moment I tackle him from behind, stopping him from punching Sam. As we landed on the ground he rolled over and was on top of me. 'Well isn't this a lovely position,' I thought as I tried to use my legs to push him off of me. Sam came up behind the man and grabbed him from the armpits and hauled the man off of me. When Sam got a good look at the man his eyes expanded in shock. "Dean?"
I stood up in shock, 'his brother Dean, I thought they weren't in touch.'
"Easy there Tiger," the man, now Dean, said standing up straight after Sam let him go. He then turned to look at me,"So who is this little firecracker?"
"Dean, what the hell are you doing here?" Sam asked before I could answer.
"I was looking for a beer," Dean said with a chuckle and slapped both of Sam's shoulders.
"Sam?" Jess questioned as she turned on the lights in the room. She was wearing a smurfs crop top t-shirt and some short shorts, which Dean seemed to like.
"Dean, this is my girlfriend, Jessica," Sam said as Dean kept looking and nodding at Jess.
"Wait, your brother Dean?" Jess asked with a slight smile on her face.
Sam started nodding as Dean said "I love the smurfs. You know, I gotta tell you. You are completely out of my brothers league," while walking closer to her, with a flirtatious smile.
"Let me go put something on," she said as she turned to leave.
"No, no. No I wouldn't dream of it, seriously," Dean said smirking.
'Jeez,' I thought, 'I have been totally forgotten about in this situation right now.' I coughed to gain their attention and the three turned their heads towards me.
"Hello Sam's brother, I am Seraphina, nice to meet you," I said to Dean and gave a little bow. I can be a bit sarcastic and over the top sometimes due to the time spent with my sister's boyfriend, Percy. I am still a child of Athena though, I am usually very levelheaded, couscous of my surroundings, and ,of course, very intellectual. But hanging out with Percy can lead to people gaining some of his sass, as he is king of sass, Persassy, or being entirely irritated with him. I am not to entirely sure if I should be grateful for being the first of the two or worried.
"Sera, are you alright, I forgot you were here," Sam said in concern as he came over to me to see if I had any injuries.
"I kinda figured that out when Jess came in the room and your brother started talking, and yes I am fine," 'I am used to getting bruises and getting hurt' I thought thinking of the camp activities I partook in.
"Yes you are," Dean said as he walked over to me and shook my hand, "Dean and sorry about that. If I knew you were a goddess I would have been more gentle," he said with a smirk.
"Figured and one, I am not a goddess, two, I could take you," I said smirking, giving his hand one good shake and then letting go.
"Oh we'll see about that firecracker," he said. While walking towards Sam, he was still looking at Jess. "I got to borrow your boyfriend, and friend, here, talk about some private family business. But, uh, nice meeting you."
"No," Sam said walking towards Jess and put his arm around her, his face still set in a stony expression,"No, whatever you want to say, you can say it in front of her."
'Again, I just became invisible, like does Sam have a selective memory or am I just really forgettable.'
"Okay," Dean said turning back around to look straight at them. I also saw a glimpse of what looked like him glancing at me from the corner of his eye. I shrugged and let him continue to talk. I knew he wasn't going to say anything in front of Jess anyways, it was in his body language.
"Um. Dad hasn't been home in a few days," he said. I was slightly confused but let it go, I knew it wasn't either the full or actual story at all.
"Do he's working overtime on a Miller Time shift. He'll stumble back in sooner or later," Sam responded. I was not that shocked with the lack of concern in Sam's voice as I knew his relationship with his father is rocky at best.
Dean ducked his head down then looked back up, "Dad's on a hunting trip and he hasn't been home in a few days."
When Dean said that I could hear the emphasis on hunting trip. What was so important about the words that it needed to be emphasized? What is the meaning behind those words?
I tried to think of every possibility of what that could mean, when I remembered something that Chiron said. Chiron tells all the new campers this when they first arrive, after telling them that they are demigod, half human half god. Is to be careful of hunters. Hunters were beings that are completely human and that could see through the mist. There are of course some monsters that the mist can't hide due to the origin of that monster.
These hunters are known to kill monsters that are harming the mortals, which isn't all that bad. The reason Chiron tells us to be careful is that hunters aren't known to be compassionate to any form of the supernatural. Even though we demigods were here protecting mortals far longer than the hunters, but that's not the point. The hunters have a shot first ask questions later type of attitude which is very dangerous to a demigod. Especially to a new one, who just found out their heritage and do not know completely how to be well hidden in the mortal world. Camp can only do so much. Not many demigods were killed by hunters now a days, but was a very big deal years ago when the hunters first started showing up.
'Of course the one time I make normal friends, and one of them being my best friend, had to be a hunter,' I thought, trying to hold on a sigh of defeat of having anything normal in my life. 'Just make sure he doesn't find out you're a demigod and all will be fine.' It's not like I don't trust Sam I just don't want to make it hard on him to have to chose between his life of being normal, since it looked liked he was trying to leave being a hunter, and the one of the supernatural.
I came back to the present when I heard Sam tell Jess that he and Dean needed to go outside and talk.
Sam turned to me," you should head back to your dorm Sera, it's late and you need the rest after what just happened tonight.
I shook my head and looked back at Sam," I need to talk to you and your brother." Sam looked at me confused, but I didn't wait for an answer from any of the three and headed out of the apartment.
'I need to think of a way for the two of them to let me in on the hunt, if Sam takes it.' 'Of course he would he might not like his father, but he is still family.' My final thought before the two brothers came out to meet me in the stairwell of the apartment building was that, I am not losing another friend if I can help in any way.
