A/N: If anyone here is good at writing lemons, please PM me because I'm going to be doing multiple pairings as the story goes on, for what will be obvious reasons by the end of the chapter. Again, I have a shit memory and if you don't review, there's a high probability that I'll forget. Anyways, hope you enjoy!
Chapter Two
Time and space stopped in an instant, my body freezing in midair in the exact position that it was in as I was falling. You know that you live a messed up life when your first thought to this happening isn't, how is this happening? Or how is this possible? But is instead who wants something from me now?
That's when I heard it. Perhaps heard isn't the right word for this experience, because it wasn't some body-less voice talking to me, or some person talking inside my head, or even a vision that I was forced to witness or experience. It was an idea, a thought, pushed inside of my brain to not only explain what it was that stopped me, but to make me an offer. For the purposes of telling this story however, I'm going to attempt to explain the message that was sent to me, and put it into words.
What I "heard" was that a being called Chaos, otherwise known as the universe we live in, had stopped me; and this being was offering me an alternative to oblivion. The offer was as follows, either I continue my descent, smash into the ground below and die a somewhat painful death (at the painful bit I shuddered as others' experiences with suicide by this method flooded my mind), I allow myself to be saved by a god and owe them a debt, or I take the third option, which is to have this timeline severed, whatever that means, have my mind put into the body of myself in an alternate timeline, where I can save Annabeth in time. Of course, as the ancient Greeks said all too well and coincidentally the phrase translates almost perfectly, "there's no such thing as a free lunch". The cost for the third option was that my mind would forever be transplanted into alternate timelines, some of my choice, others of Chaos', never truly dying as whenever I died, my mind would live on in some other Percy's body, splintering off from that timeline to create a new one, benefitting Chaos by encouraging it's (to this day I don't know if Chaos is a him or a her) growth exponentially from the surge of new timelines.
All of this was compacted into my head in less than a second, with sudden understanding of the situation and the offer being the only change in the universe. In the next second I had made my decision and to this day, I wonder if I made the right one; or if I should have taken death as I had originally planned but I guess I'll never know because the next moment, I was suddenly waking up inside my younger self, more knowledgeable, wiser and with a massive thirst for revenge against the ones who had ruined my life, with the realization that I could exact it on the creatures that wronged me.
Most beings in the universe would be terrified at the smile that graced my face after that realization. In fact, many of them have seen it in one timeline or another. All of them have suffered, and all of them have had their last moments play out as I smiled at them, their final thought being the knowledge that this was all caused by me, that they suffered and died because they had wronged me, that no matter if they were godly or not, they would never come back because of me, and their one true regret being that they had done me wrong and never being able to undo it. Most beings in the universe that I've met have seen me smile that way in one timeline or another, but they've all come to regret it, yet even the immortals have never seen me in any timeline as angry as I was in that first mind-jump.
It was the start of a beautiful day for me. The bastards never knew what hit them.
A/N: As you all can see, Percy is going to be a bit dark and more of a moral grey for this story, so I'm warning you now that those of delicate sensibilities to violence should leave now. While I don't need any lemons for the next few chapters, I'd like to add some in here and there, just to spice it up and be true to the idea that I have in my head for this story, so definitely PM me if you're interested. Thanks for reading and please let me know what you think so far!
P.S. Don't expect updates this fast in the future as I'm going to be exponentially busier for the next little while.
