Story: Ocean's daughter
Chapter: 1
Title: Aftermath
Rating story: M for violence and language at later points. And mentions of rape and abuse at later point
Warning: Percy throws up a few times and feels bad.
Notes: This is the first chapter rewritten. I wanted a more serious and a little more broken Percy. Gabe hit both Percy and Sally, but when Sally was gone he also raped Percy a few times, so she will be weary of man, boys not so much, but man she in a little afraid of.
This chapter is also a much shorter than I want my other chapters to be. The next chapter will have around 4,000 words.

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When Percy woke up the first thing she did was roll onto her side and throw up. She was vaguely aware of a startled yelp and a cry for help from two different people, but that all faded when she threw up again. When she was done two pair of hands helped her to sit up and slowly Percy opened her eyes. In front of her everything was blurry, but there was a lot of golden yellow directly in front of her. Percy tried to lift her hand, but her body didn't react as she wanted. The hand she had tried to just lift shot up, hit something and one of the two golden yellow blurs moved away with a loud "Hey!"

Slowly Percy's vision began to clear. The golden blur that had yelled turned out to be Micheal Yew, one of the best healers at Camp, the other blur was Annabeth who was clearly worried out of her mind. "Percy what happened? The nymphs brought you here and that is the only reason you are alive! What did this?" Percy squeezed her eyes shut when Annabeth's questions were accompanied by wild hand gestures that made her vision spin.

The next voice startled Percy a bit. She hadn't seen Chiron when she first opened her eyes. "Annabeth, dear, please calm down. I imagine Percy does not feel very well at the moment." When Percy opened her eyes again her friend still looked worried, but she looked guilty too. She shouldn't feel guilty, she had nothing to do with how Percy wound up in the infirmary anyway. Percy frowned a little. What had caused her to wound up in the infirmary.

Suddenly it all came back. How Luke had asked her to come with him into the woods. The pit scorpion. A shot of adrenalin shot through Percy and she swung her feet over the side of the bed. Annabeth reached her first and tried to push her back immediately. "We need to get Luke! We need to stop him!" All three of them froze and stared at Percy and she began to explain. Percy grabbed Annabeth's shoulders painfully tight. "He is the thief. He told me to follow him into the woods and I did. I was so stupid! He began to talk. How bad the gods were. He told me he knew about my dreams. He said Kronos was going to come back! He wanted me to join him or I would die and then there was the pit scorpion and-" Percy stared at the wall.

She had been so stupid! When she had arrived at Camp she had told herself she wouldn't trust anyone without a reason. She was not going to let anyone hurt her. Not after Gabe. This had only been strengthened by the prophecy and now she had let him get close anyway.

"The prophecy said, at the last sentence that a friend would turn against us. I didn't want to believe it. I ignored it." Percy didn't see how Annabeth and Micheal had wide eyes in shock and how Chiron looked worried. She didn't see Annabeth becoming calculating again and thinking everything through. She didn't even notice it when she was slowly pushed back into the bed while the other three were talking with each other. Percy only snapped back in reality when a firm hand grasped Percy's shoulder and she looked up into the bright blue eyes of Micheal.

"Here, drink. You should rest some more while we go and search the grounds for Luke and inform the rest of the Camp." He handed the girl a cup with water and Percy downed it in seconds. Her through had already been dry, talking hadn't helped on that front. Once the cup was empty Micheal took it from her, gave her shoulder a reassuring squeeze and walked out of the room.

Annabeth sat down on the edge of the bed and stared off in the distance. Chiron smiled his kind and wise smile at Percy and it gave the raven haired girl enough peace of mind to slowly drift off into sleep again. "Is it wrong that I hope she was hallucinating? Or making everything up?" Chiron rolled his chair towards the blonde girl, a gentle look in his eyes.

"No. You trust Luke and that is good. Our protection, our lives, depend on the trust we have in each other. I would be more concerned if you wouldn't think twice about the likeliness of this and believed your friend would be capable of doing such a thing without a second thought."

The next three days were a bit of a blur to Percy. Her strength was slowly returning, but the venom was strong and there was only so much ambrosia and nectar she could eat without burning up. Annabeth visited everyday at least three times and Grover Iris-Messaged as much as he could from where he was searching for Pan. Micheal was apparently Percy's designed healer and came around more than Annabeth did. He was nice and he and Percy played quite a lot of games so he didn't have to do any chores. They didn't talk about Luke after it became clear that everything Percy had said was true and confirmed by the wood nymphs. They had even explained in great detail what had happened in the woods, even if their story was a bit exaggerated at times.

Micheal was really good company and he, Annabeth and Percy developed a strong friendship. Percy and Micheal had teamed up and banned any strategic games like chess, monopoly and even any card games - although Percy wasn't very fond of them anyway. They had discovered that even if Percy sucked at Archery, she had a very good aim with anything else. She could throw her bandages into the trashcan at the other side of the room and after that Micheal had gotten her a tennis ball from somewhere - Percy suspected the Hermes Cabin was involved - and they would throw the ball at specific points on the wall in front of Percy. She wasn't as good as the son of Apollo - who could turn the lights on and off by throwing a pen- but she was still better than Annabeth and that was a victory in Percy's book.

Annabeth insisted on teaching Percy everything she knew about the gods and all their stories. She began with the story of Chaos and how he created all life. Not long after Annabeth was mapping out exactly how the battle against Kronos had been planned by the gods and which strategies they had used to defeat their father. It was both highly amusing and confusing for Percy.

On the fourth day Percy was finally released from the infirmary, although she was still a bit unsteady on her feet. Now she had to decide about the next school year. Would she stay at Camp? Or would she return home? Percy desperately wanted to go home, see her mom and make sure she was actually alive and Gabe was actually gone. But she also understood that if Kronos was really trying to rise from hell, she would have to be ready and train. Annabeth was no help at all. Even if Percy stayed she wouldn't be with either of her two best friends, as Grover was searching all across America for Pan and Annabeth would be returning home to her father. It wasn't that Percy didn't want Annabeth and her father to be a real family again. She just really wanted a friend at her side. It was quite a surprise when she mentioned her dilemma to Chiron, he said he might have another option. He told her to come to his office in two days, she didn't have anything else to do and she agreed.

So after hugging Annabeth goodbye and wishing her a good year,, Percy made her way to Chiron's office in the back of the Big House. She could walk on her own again, but Argus still accompanied her until she had reached the door. He smiled and nodded at her before turning around and walking back to the front porch. There had been some kind of message in that smile, Percy was certain of it. Maybe some kind of encouragement and maybe… he had seemed happy for her.

Percy was getting used to weird and surprising things. Her best friend suddenly having goat legs. Going to the underworld to find out her mother wasn't dead. She could handle that. She really could. What she could not handle without having her mind implode on itself, were the people who were waiting for her in Chiron's office.

Chiron was smiling at her with that strange sparkle in his eyes, sitting in his wheelchair behind his desk hands folded on his desk. At his right sat a woman with black hair and blue eyes. She had her hands folded in her lap and looked Percy over critically, but not unkindly. She was wearing red upper body armour that covered her stomach and chest, but was strapless and had a blue armoured skirt on. A tiara kept her hair out of her face and she had knee high boots with attached kneecaps. At Chiron's other side sat a man in green scaly pants and an orange shirt made out of the same material. He had blond hair and blue eyes. He looked kind, but also stern and was clearly very formal. He wasn't wearing anything on his feet, just like the woman next to him. She was wearing a green bikini like outfit with a skirt and she was also wearing a tiara. Her tiara had three triangles, two pointing outwards and one up. Her face was kind and happy and her red hair wild just like Percy's own. Next to the first woman sat someone Percy did know personally. Her mother.

Percy hadn't noticed her mouth was hanging open until the moment she turned to Chiron and snapped her teeth together. The adults all smiled at Percy's reaction and she fought her blush down. "Percy, my dear. Let me introduce you to king Orin of Poseidonis, his wife Queen Mera of Poseidonis and Princess Diana of Themyscira." Chiron paused for just a moment and Percy met her mother's eyes. They were a little wet, like she was holding back tears, but they also shone with pride and love, so it couldn't be too bad whatever was going to happen. When Percy found Chiron's gaze again his eyes were sparkling a little more than usual. "They have an offer for you."

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