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LAURA

Before a family of four came flying through her kitchen window and a boy kicked her in the face, Laura was having a rotten day. It was raining in the beginning of a fresh July and all that she was allowed to do over summer vacation was stay at home, it had something to do with her parent's ridiculous sense of being over-protective of their kids. It was depressing enough that it was raining, but all of Laura's friends were probably out at the mall or doing something without her at the very least, and all she could think to do was to look down from the 16th story of an apartment building at cars and buses passing underneath.

Laura didn't know how long it was that she had blanked out, but she decided that she had enough of staring blankly down at the cars and listening to the sound of rain, so she lifted her tired hands up to the window and pushed it down. A satisfying lock noise made and Laura sat up from the small window seat and sighed whilst staring at her messy room. Ever since summer vacation started it was a useless bust to do anything productive at all. She had spent all her summers this way, locked up at home and if not, she was spending time with her family.

There were clothes, books and snacks lying scattered around her room, from on her bed to on the floor it was just an exact representation about how Laura had felt the past couple of days. Before school ended everyone was talking about where they would go for break and Laura could say nothing but the fact that she'd stay home. She didn't know about her brother, but since her 14 years since birth, Laura had eventually learned to dream about a vacation. One with a beach maybe, or somewhere with lots of delicious food, perhaps even just a nearby city where she could spend time with her family other than their cramped apartment.

Laura sighed at the image of a nice beach maybe somewhere and began to pick up clothes ranging from hoodies, shirts and underwear. Once she'd collected everything, she folded them by type of clothing and put them neatly into a drawer, just because she'd acted messy at one point didn't mean she didn't like being neat. Next she grabbed the snacks (which were several chocolate bars and a bag of sweet n' spicy Doritos) and shoved them into a basket, lastly she picked up the books which were a pair of 'Harry Potter' books. She pushed the basket underneath her bed with her foot and pushed the books into a shelf but just as the books slid into their place there was a knock on her door.

It couldn't be her parents, since they were out doing who knows what and had left Laura alone with her brother at home. So it could only be one other person, her brother. Lo' and behold, it was her brother, Jasper. He looked just as drained as Laura did, with dark circles under his eyes and with 0% effort in his clothing, he was wearing a shirt twice too big for him that read 'No pants are the best pants' and he apparently took its word since he wasn't wearing any pants.

"Is that dad's shirt? And uh- do you mind wearing a pair of pants?" Laura mumbled, patting herself down. She wondered how drained she actually looked.

"Yes and no, I'm not wearing pants. That's the point of this shirt, some kind of weird protest. I have no idea why dad has it."

"What do you want?"

"I was just wondering when mom and dad will be back from the swimming pool?"

Laura shrugged. She didn't even know her parents were at the swimming pool, her dad was probably swimming for another local competition and her mother would be cheering him on.

"What time is it?"

"8:43, it's still light out though."

"They'll probably be back by 9-"Laura was interrupted by a loud growl coming out of Jasper's stomach. It seemed logical he was hungry, after all they hadn't eaten dinner but Laura had feasted on Doritos and Doritos only. "If you're hungry I can make you dinner. Pasta or something."

"No, I can make it for myself. Thanks though." Jasper tightened his lips and nodded then slowly closed the door. His steps slowly faded to his room next door. Laura walked over to the chair in front of her desk and sat down, she began spinning aimlessly and getting dizzy when suddenly a loud shout and a thump came from down the hall. Laura shot up and waited for any sign of life, what if Jasper had hurt himself?

"Laura?" A shout came from down the hall, it was Jasper's voice with a hint of concern in it. "You might want to come see this." He shouted. Laura stood out of her chair and rolled her eyes, grabbing open her door and rushing down the hall.

"I told you not to try to reach the top shelf on a wobbly chair again. It's dangerous-"Laura stopped straight in her tracks when she looked up. There in front of her was Jasper lying on the ground grabbing at a package of instant pesto pasta, adjusting his glasses and what do you know, wearing pants. But it wasn't that which made her mouth drop, it was the floating people in front of him. There was a blonde haired man with glasses and a brown haired lady grasping at him and holding on for dear life, besides them, there was a boy with dark brown hair and a grin on his face and a girl with long brown hair and a dull face. They both looked about fifteen. They were all floating casually.

Laura screamed.

She hoped afterwards that was the rational thing to do, but obviously it wasn't. But isn't that the natural reaction? You normally don't see a floating family in your kitchen every day, let alone floating people.

The girl scowled and the dark brown haired boy's smile dropped to the floor.

"Dad, I think we might be in the wrong place." The dark brown hair boy mumbled, staring down at Laura and Jasper. At least Jasper was wearing pants.

The blonde man continued to float as did his family and replied. "Definitely not, Percy gave me the specific address, which was a really dangerous thing to do." He said with a fatherly tone in his voice at the ending. "This was it."

Laura shivered at the mention of her father's name. How did these people know him? Of course, they could have the wrong Percy.

The dark brown haired boy was floating over towards Laura and Jasper but he was biting his lip while doing so as if he was unsure of his every movement, suddenly he let out a yelp and flipped over in a 360 degree flip but before she knew it, his feet kicked her face and she flipped as well and fell onto the ground.

"Oh gods. I'm so sorry-"He said, looking alarmed, Laura's vision was spinning and she was seeing double of the boy who was floating above her.

"At any rate, can we please stop floating?" The woman begged, still grappling at the blonde man. "It's giving me major anxiety issues."

"Alright-"The blonde man laughed. "Alright Pipes."

The family all landed simultaneously as if they'd practiced landing in people's kitchens before. They'd patted themselves down and then the woman apologized.

"I'm really sorry about this and I'm about to take a shot in the dark here, but is your father by any chance Percy Jackson?"

Another shiver went down Laura's spine. It was her father's name. She had no words and was frozen so all she could do was nod.

"Then we're in the right home, Jason." She mumbled behind her. "Is your dad or your mom home?" She said with a smile. "We were meant to meet up today for important reasons." She added. When she smiled she lit up the room, she was strikingly beautiful.

Laura shook her head as a no, as if right on cue, there was a sound of the key clinking through the door and then it was open. Her mom and dad were standing there laughing about something, her mom carried a bag and her dad wore a wet towel around his shoulders.

"I mean I could have and should have beaten him, but we've been at each other's throats for so long so I decided to let him win-"Laura's dad stopped and stared up and down at the people in the kitchen and past the living room.

"Jason, Piper!" He exclaimed with a smile on his face and with only his bathing suit on, ran past the couch and dove into their arms. They all were smiling and looking teary-eyed. It made Laura uncomfortable that her father was welcoming these people into their home, but it must be people he knew, still, Laura was counting on her mother to be the sane one yet again. However, she dropped the bag and joined the group hug.

"Oh my gods, it's been such a long time. When we flew in at first, your kids looked so scared and for whatever reason, we'd gotten scared we'd flown into some mortal's apartment." The woman, Piper, said.

"Well – we weren't expecting you." Laura's mother said, shaking her head. The blonde man furrowed his brow.

"You weren't? I swear I told Percy that we were coming, we'd been in contact with Hazel and Frank as well as Leo and Nico so-"

Percy let out a small laugh. "Yeah, we were actually expecting them, I just totally forgot about that." He winced, Laura's mom scowled.

"You could have told me, then we wouldn't have gone to the pool."

"Nah, Annabeth, don't worry about it." The blonde man pulled a lopsided smile. "We just shouldn't spend too much time catching up now, Percy knows about this, and I'm assuming he didn't tell you anything but we're decided to spend the summer with our kids at camp."

"We are? We meaning who?"

"All of us, Annabeth. Chiron finally said it would be okay, so we took it to our advantage and decided to head over and reunite. We thought it was time. Hazel and Frank are going to be there, Leo lives in camp and Nico is coming." Piper exclaimed.

"How did I not know any of this?"

"I- I forgot to tell you." Percy muttered sheepishly. "But on the bright side, Laura and Jasper finally get to learn about who they really are. Isn't that what's most important?"

Laura rolled her eyes at the slow tactic her father used to protect himself against any harm. Still, questions rumbled in her head, what camp? Who they were? What was her dad talking about? Aside from the utter confusion, Laura looked to the side to see the dark brown haired boy wincing. When he noticed Laura staring back at him, he stopped and began to approach her. He was fair-looking, with the soft hair and sweet puppy-dog brown eyes and a cute little grin always pasted on his face. He opened his mouth and let out an apology.

"I'm sorry for kicking you in the face," He winced. "It's bruising already, and I feel really bad that was the first impression I gave off. I mean – god, your dad is the Percy Jackson and I kicked his daughter in the face." He laughed nervously. Laura self-consciously patted down her chin and did feel a bruise, whilst being confused she had completely forgotten that this boy had 360 degree kicked her face.

"It's okay." Laura said uncomfortably.

"I'm Tom." He said, pushing his right hand out and Laura hesitated and took it nevertheless.

"Laura." She said, feeling awkward at the weird sensation she was getting from shaking hands. She'd forgotten the last time she'd shaken hands with someone, it was probably someone old. After moments of awkwardness, they let go of each other's hands. Tom was looking at Percy, Laura's dad with some sort of admiration, it gave her the chills. Laura felt someone in this room was going crazy and hopefully it wasn't her.

Without notice, Jasper walked up to her and sniffled. "Do you have any idea what's going on?" He shivered. Laura shook her head.

"No idea-"Laura was stopped.

"Thomas, Lia. You haven't met the Jackson's before, what do you say?" Piper asked in a patronizing tone, the two droned a hello and Laura and Jasper droned a hello back.

"It really is nice to see you though, and your kids. Man, they look just like you. I mean, in a weird way. Laura and Jasper right?" The blonde man squinted while looking at them.

Percy nodded. "Yes sir. That'll be my kids."

"So, who got the water powers and who got the killer smarts?" Piper asked, an excited look on her face. Laura turned to her mother and father questioning what they meant and her parents looked equally nervous.

"Piper, we haven't- really told them about it yet. They weren't ready."

"Tell us what?" Laura decided to take a shot and finally asked a question.

"Well-" Percy started. "Should we tell them?" He asked Annabeth as she replied with a nod and a sigh.

"I mean there's so many things that are inexplicable, Jason's family flying into the kitchen and well, they're going to need to go to camp really soon, like two hours soon so there's no better time than now." She said.

Laura grabbed at her sides and frowned, what was wrong? Her parents had never looked so dead serious. Her father opened his mouth and began to speak.

"Me and your mother," He paused, hesitating.

Laura examined in that short second that her father was just in a swimming suit. Still. The suspense was going to give Laura an allergic reaction and she'd die from anaphylactic shock before her dad could finish. Her father finally decided to finish.

"Are demigods."

A/N: I'm here to say, sorry for the slow start, but I swear it'll be quick moving once I get the introductions down. Hope you enjoyed. (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧