A/N : Thanks for all the support to start with :) Sorry about the mix up but I added a bit more to Chapter 1 if you didn't know already.
Disclaimer : I don't own Percy Jackson. I wish I did...
Percy's POV :
I entered my house but didn't even bother to look to the living room, where Gabe was slouching off, drinking beer. I tried to be as quiet as I could, tiptoeing to my room, but one floorboard made a creaking noise that was loud enough for Gabe to hear even with his deaf ears. "So, the punks home huh?" Gabe said as he turned to look at me, cracking his knuckles. My anger was boiling as he said this, I was fed up with everyday, him trying to find an excuse to beat me up.
"Go away Gabe. I want to be left alone for once." I spoke, putting confidence in my voice as I continued to walk but quickened my pace.
"Oh, I don't think so." He objected as he stood in my path. "Someone has been through my laptop and I pretty sure I know who." I failed to take another step. Fear had taken over my body and paralyzed me. A punch connected to the left side of my face. I was sent sprawling on the floor. Gabe pulled me back up by the collar of my shirt and began to repeatedly punch me. That's when I blew my lid.
"Stop!" I bellowed, causing Gabe to stop momentarily but then resume. This time I wasn't going to take the pain without fighting back. I retaliated with a strike to his face with my fist and I quickly bound up the stairs before Gabe had time to react and locked my door. Did I just do that? Suddenly, there was violent banging on my door. "We aren't done yet kid! Sooner or later you're coming out of there and I'll get you!" Gabe growled from the hallway. I slumped against my door and tried to get a grip of what just happened.
My phone vibrated in my pocket and I pulled it out to find a text from Annabeth :
Hey Perce, can I call Perce? Anyway, Thalia gave me your phone number since you gave it to her if that's all right and I just wanted to ask if you wanted to go for lunch or something later on the week?
Hey Annabeth, we can go for lunch on Wednesday so until then see you at school ;)
I smiled as I hit send. I felt that I could actually feel accepted at this school and I had made friends already, but that all depends on Gabe. My anger returned once again as I thought of him being the reason that my life wasn't normal. It's true that I had been sneaking through stuff on his laptop but I wanted to find some evidence to incriminate him and get him out of our lives. Before he married my mom, he was nice to us, then once Gabe became my step-father that's when the abuse came.
Fortunately, my snooping attempts had been successful and I snagged a photo exposing him and an anonymous figure in drug dealing but I would need more. I decided to drop it and started doing my inevitable homework, starting with... Math. I whipped out my pencil and just sat there for a good 10 minutes trying to make sense of all the X's and Y's. "Useless." I grumbled in frustration. I needed help. Suddenly, I straightened up and put on my 'Percy has an idea' face.
I pulled out my phone and scrolled through my contacts till I found the person : Annabeth.
Annabeth, how good are you at math?
One of the best. Why? Need help?
It's like she could read my mind.
Well yeah... I have uh Dyslexia and ADHD so I'm not that good at this stuff.
That card doesn't work with me since I have both as well. Now, tell me what you need help with.
(A/N have no idea what to do for this so I'm going to jump the time frame)
After a few hours of talking over the phone, frustration, and Annabeth laughing at me, I finally managed to complete my homework. I had just gotten off the phone with her and mom had finished making dinner. Gabe had left to go to his friends and drink like he usually does. What a slob. "Percy, dinner's ready." Mom called from the kitchen. I quickly bolted out the door and helped with the food. Dinner went on normally with mom asking me about school and after that we ate in silence till we had finished and started to clean up. After that I was tempted to go through Gabe's stuff but I remembered our brawl this afternoon. I didn't want him more angry with me.
After that I completed all my other homework while receiving annoying messages from Thalia who took a 5 hour nap straight after school. How does she do homework if she sleeps the rest of the day? It ended up being 9:00 P.M. when I had finished, so I got ready for sleep. As I lay in bed and started to doze off, I heard shouting and screaming. I sat up straight at the speed of lightning and dashed to my door. I sprinted to the living room window, where I could see Gabe and his friends beating someone up, around the corner of the street. My heart hammered against my chest, I didn't know what to do and I felt fear and panic overwhelm me. My first instinct was to go out there and stop it but I couldn't do much with only me against four people.
So I slowly moved back to my bedroom, and slumped into bed. I tried to go to sleep now but the image still burned in my head. Gabe needed to be stopped, he abused people and dealt in illegal acts and I wouldn't sit by and let him do it anymore. Eventually I was able to get some sleep, but even that had something horrible in store for me.
I was curled up in my bed, in my original house which was a mansion, that my Mom and Dad shared. When I smelt fire, I immediately rose out of bed and the smoke alarms blared like crazy. I was terrified, but I managed to rush out of my room and I found my parents. They were looking at the hallway, now engulfed in flames. They saw me and grabbed hold of me. What happened after that was a blur, eventually I had made it out of the house, climbing out the window, and so did my mom but we were still waiting on my dad.
Smoke was filling the air and the fire was spreading but there was no sign of my dad. The fire department had got here quick but it didn't seem quick enough. I felt a tear slide down my face, I realised, this may be the last time I'd see my dad...