What up, Homies? I'm back for chapter three: Letting It Out MAWHAHAHAHAHA!
Sorry, overreacted a little, but it's freaking exciting! But anyway, this is chapter three and thanks to anybody who reviewed! Keep reviewing and feel free to PM me with questions or something. This is the big chapter everyone wants to it's like over three thousand words, definitely will be my biggest chapter.
Disclaimer: Well of you haven't read my profile, I'm a girl. So I can't possibly be Rick Riordan or can I? No just kidding, I'm not.
Alex's POV
I tried to ignore Jake for the whole class, but that's sort of hard when he's putting his arm around me or putting his hand on my thigh. Finally, I had it when he started playing with my hair. I interrupted Ms. Tomis and trust me, that is something you do not do in her class unless it's an emergency.
"Excuse me, Ms. Tomis!" I yelled. "Jake is sexually harassing me! He keeps putting his hand on my upper thigh and putting his arm around me!"
Ms. Tomis gave Jake a hard glare. "Is this true, Mr. Zocer?"
Jake gulped and replied, "N-Mayb- Yes! It's true!" He fell underneath her scary glare (Of course it's not worse than my worst glare).
She pointed her boney finger to the door. "Go. Office. Now. That would be 30 points plus to what? 250 points?" She grinned as he turned pink in embarrassment.
You know what? I like Ms. Tomis now.
Jake got up and left the room quietly, trying to show that he doesn't care, but we all know that his mom will go psycho when she finds out that he was harassing me.
How do we know? One day, last year, when Jake did the same thing to a new girl, Tori, his mom came in fuming. When she left, she was literally dragging him by the ear and screaming at him for doing such a thing. It was quite funny.
Ms. T. sighed. "Okay guys, back to class. Joey put your phone away. Jess get off of Jack's desk and Becky, stop reading."
Note to self: So much can happen in such little time in a high school classroom.
Class passed and two periods later I had lunch with, thank the Gods, Kate and Cole. Not like I would have trouble finding a seat, but they are the only people I am actually are friends with here.
"Gods, do I have a story for you guys," I said, as soon as I sat down at our usual table. We sat in the middle of the loudest and most crowded table in the lunch room because everyone just hasto sit with me.
Kate was playing with her green glob called "lunch". "Hit us," She said, looking up from the glob.
I smirked. "Jake did the same thing he did to Tori last year, to me. He put his arm around me, played with my hair, and put his hand on my thigh over and over. I then interrupted Ms. Tomis while she was teaching a lesson and I grabbed the attention of the whole class. She scolded him in front of the class and told him to leave. Best Algebra class ever." I was dying by the end and so was Kate and Cole. We got weird looks from everyone and some people who heard were laughing too.
"That-That must of been so freaking amazing!" Cole said through breaths. Kate had just gotten off of the floor, but was still laughing.
Just then, the front doors of the lunch room slammed open and in walked in a fuming Mrs. Zocer. She scanned the room and her eyes landed on me.
She walk over and said,"I'm so sorry for my son's actions. He should know better. He didn't touch you anywhere else, did he?"
I was about to shake my head, but I stopped. I nodded slowly, getting an idea. "Yes, he did. He did try to grab at my chest a couple of times." I said innocently, but loud enough for the whole cafeteria to hear.
Mrs. Zocer looked ready to explode. She stomped out of the lunch room, shoving a senior out of her way.
She looks ready to make Jake soup, I thought.
Everybody was looking at me. Kate leaned over and whispered, "I thought you said he only put his arm around you, played with your hair, and pit his hand on your upper thigh." Only people within a foot or two could hear her. They started whispering right away.
"He didn't grab at my chest. I just want him to get in even more trouble." I said, smirking because my plan worked.
Cole gave me a knuckle-punch. "Nice!"
We talked for the rest of the period about random stuff like Green Day, unicorns, Olympus, and some of Cole's pranks. He was explaining one to us when the bell rang.
"Then I would have Harley position-," He said before the bell rang.
Kate and I grabbed our stuff and got away as soon as possible: we do not like to be part of Cole pranks, at least not most of them.
Fourth and fifth period passed like a blur and sixth period was about to, too, but Mr. Reed got a phone call (A/N IDK about you guys but in my school, every classroom has a phone that the main office calls to)and he looked at me. I tried to stay on my work, but I saw him in the corner of my eye.
"Alex Jackson? Your being signed out by Thalia DeAngelo. Do you know this person?" He asked.
I nodded and said, "Family friend," while packing my books. Why would Thalia be signing me out?
I walked out of the classroom and to my locker to get my stuff. I jogged to the office to see Thalia in her normal punk clothes, sitting outside of the office, biting her black nails. When she saw me, she jumped up.
"Hurry up! We have to move fast!" She said, grabbing my arm and pulling me towards the doors.
I was confused, if there were monsters, she would've signed Cole and Kate out too. Why just me?
"Thalia, what's wrong?" I said, a little panicky. She doesn't act like this at all.
"We don't have much time!" She had turned around to look me in the eye and I noticed something I have never seen: tears. Thalia was crying.
"Why-Why are you crying. Did something happen?" I said quietly.
Thalia stopped in her tracks and let out a sob.
"Your-Your mom got into a bad car accident. She might not survive."
"Wh-What do you mean she won't survive?" I knew exactly what she meant, though. My mom might die.
It was a ten minute drive to the hospital, but Thalia made it in five.
We both ran out of the car once we parked and into the hospital. There was a line of about seven people in front of the desk, but that didn't stop Thalia. She pushed through everyone, while I was behind her saying sorry to everyone she shoved. When I got to the desk, Thalia was practically yelling at the poor woman at the desk.
"What do you MEANI can't see her? She could be dying rigt now! She needs me! I know something that can save her!" She yelled, slamming her hand down on the desk.
"Ma'am, are you demestically or romantically involved with this woman?" She asked, obviously bored, like she was saying a script.
Thalia gave her an evil look. "No, I'm not technically related to her nor am I lesbian!" She yelled. I decided to get into it.
"I am! I'm Annabeth's daughter, Alex. Let me see my mom!" I said. I even faked a couple of tears for show, which wasn't hard.
The lady looked at me. "You can go in, this woman can't-."
I interrupted her. "Oh, Thalia's going in no matter what. My mom would want to see her!" I pointed at Thalia, who had a smug smirk in the direction of the lady.
"Fine, room 36 on floor B. She might be asleep so be quiet," she said, crossing her arms.
Thalia and I ran towards the elevator and clicked floor B. As soon as the doors opened, we dashed down the hallway filled with doctors, nurses, and hospital beds.
The doors had numbers on them, I was checking the right side while Thalia was checking the left side. 32, 34,-aha! 36!
"Thalia! Here!" I opened the door and saw-saw a person.
Tears flooded my eyes. It couldn't be her. The person looked so-so-so broken and weak. My mom isn't weak. She has survived 10 years without her rock.
Barely, I thought.
Thalia rushed in past me, but I was too shocked to move. That's not my mom, it couldn't be. I slowly took baby steps towards the bed.
When I reached it, I gasped and covered my mouth. It really was my mom, but it was hard to tell.
Thalia was silently crying and holding my mom's hand. Her head was wrapped heavily in ace bandage but I could still see blood seeping through. Her right leg was in a cast and elevated. It was hard to tell, but by the way the sheets were, it looked like her stomach was also bandaged.
"Oh my Gods. Mom..." I said, softly, running hand along her head bandage.
Then the big one hit me.
"Oh my gods! Mom! No! Why you? You already had enough done to you! Please don't die! What would I do?" I rambled, sobbing and crying loudly.
Thalia stood up and wrapped her arms around me in a hug. When my mom was "absent" Thalia was like a second mom to me.
"Shhh, it's okay. She going to be fine," She said, but she didn't sound sure herself. I cried into her shoulder for what seemed like hours.
Then the tears left and that was left was anger. Boiling hot anger.
I pushed myself out of Thalia's arms. "Who the hell would do this to a person! It's screwed up! If he was drunk, why the hell would he be on the road! Of I ever find who did this, they will wished that Hades would tortured them instead!" I yelled, blasting my own eardrums. I picked up a chair and threw it at the wall so hard, the chair went right through the wall, leaving nothing, but a chair sized hole.
I took a breath and was suddenly really tired. I slid down the wall, crying again. I put my head in my arms.
"Why Thalia? Why? Why my mom, after all the shit she's has been through?" I sobbed.
I fell asleep right there, slumped agains the wall, head in my arms. This was too much to handle for me.
I awoke about an hour and a half later, in one of the chairs that I didn't throw. I looked up and saw Thalia awake in the same spot as before. She was on the phone with, whom I'm guessing, Chiron. She hung up and rubbed her face.
"How is she?" I asked, my voice barely audible from all the crying. Thalia looked up startled, but relaxed when she saw me.
"She hasn't woken up yet, but she has mumbled a few things like Percy, no, and take me instead. She probably dreaming about when your dad died," She said, glancing at my mom.
I nodded slowly and looked at my mom. She looked the same as before: the bandage, the cast, and the bulging sheets.
Thalia sighed. "I know in this situation, this is kind of inappropriate, but I'm, like, starving. Being depressed makes me hungry. Wanna go to the cafeteria?" She asked hopefully.
I laughed and whipped my eyes. "Yeah, let's go get us some food, shall we?"
We walked down to the cafeteria, which wasn't as packed as I thought it would be. Thalia went over to the meat station, licking her lips.
I looked at what there was: salads, meat, sandwiches, muffins/toast and drinks. I didn't have an appetite so I just got a chocolate muffin and red Gatorade. I sat down at an empty table in the corner for two.
I just picked at my muffin, not hungry, but gulping down my Gatorade. Crying makes you really thirsty.
Thalia joined me, already eating her chicken wings.
"How could you be eating? Your best friend is almost dead and you can eat?" I said, amazed.
She shrugged and swallowed her food. "Like I said, being depressed makes me hungry." She went back to eating her food.
I sighed, bored. My ADHD started acting up so I started playing with the fork and started tapping it on my leg. My eyes wandered around the first floor of the hospital.
Old people getting fed, people drinking coffee and quietly talking. My eyes wandered to the front desk and the first person in line looked familiar, like I have seen him before. He seemed to be arguing with the lady.
Jeez, she's having a hard day, I thought.
He was tall, 6'3'', 6'4''. He had broad shoulders and was obviously ripped. He had messy black hair, but I couldn't see his face. He was facing the other way.
"Ready to go?" Thalia asked, already done with her food.
I blinked and said, "Wha-oh yeah. Yeah, let's go." The man was gone. I got my half eaten muffin and empty bottle and threw them out.
We went back up in the elevator when Thalia said, "Oh shit, I forgot my jacket. I'll be back."
When I got off, Thalia stayed on and went back on. I walked to mom's room, which was now closed.
I was about to open it when I heard a man crying inside.
Who could that be? Grandpa didn't come right, I thought.
I put my ear up against the door.
"Why did you leave you? You wouldn't be hear if I didn't take that quest. I let you raise our daughter all alone," The man said quietly, but loud enough for me to hear.
Our daughter? My dad is dead, unless mom isn't telling me something. Slowly, I opened the door and walked in.
It was the man I saw at the front desk. He was definitely bigger closer up. The man turned around quickly and pulled something out of his pocket, a pen.
He relaxed when he saw me, a harmless girl.
"Who are you?" He asked. He had intense green eyes that held wisdom, but lots of sadness and guilt. His face had a lot of little scars.
"I'm Alex and that's my mom. Who are you?" I asked, taking a step forward.
He gasped. "Oh my gods, it's really you. Look at you, you have grown so much."
Then it hit me. The photos, the games, the beach. This is the man that didn't come home 10 years ago.
"Dad?"
I rushed into my dad's arms. I hugged him hard and he lifted me up like paper. I cried into his shoulder, saying, "Oh my gods, Dad. It's really you," over and over.
"I missed you and your mom so much," he was crying and saying this over and over too.
"Hey! Get your hands off of her!" I heard Thalia yell behind us. Dad (Jeez, it feels good to say that after 10 years) put me down and looked at Thalia and a smile came across his face.
"Thalia!" He exclaimed. He ran over to her and he gave her a bone-crushing hug. Thalia flipped.
"Get off of me your freak! I don't know you! What do you think you are doing!" She tried to throw a punch at the side of his head, but Percy caught it.
He looked at her.
"What? Don't remember me after 10 years, Pinecone Face?" He smirked.
Realization came across her face as she remembered her cousin and best friend.
"Oh my Gods, Percy. (A/N I seem to be writing that a lot!)It's really you!" She screamed and she jumped back on top of Percy, almost knocking him over. Soon, she got off and stared at him in amazement.
"We thought you were dead, Kelp Head! Where have you been? You are so dead when we go back to camp." She said, punching him in the shoulder with each sentence.
Dad grabbed Mom's hand and said, "I'll explain what happened to me, after Annabeth gets better," He said, glancing at Annabeth, worry etched on his face.
I looked at my mom and the only thing I remember was pain and aloneness. Percy caused all of this. If he never disappeared we wouldn't be here. We would be a happy family. No aloneness or pain. Nada. My life would be perfect. My life sucks because him.
"This is your fault," I said quietly.
Percy stopped talking to Thalia and turned to me.
"What did you say?"
I turned towards him slowly. The anger was boiling in me again. I wanted to hit something. My fists were clenched next to me. I looked him right in the eye.
"It's your fault my life has been a living Hades. Mom had been depressed and is here now because of you. This isn't the first time either. She has almost died five time now. All. Because. Of. You!" I was shouting by the end and I punched him in the chest harder with each word. By "you" he was wincing, but I don't think it was from the punching.
"My life would be perfect if you didn't take that quest! Now that your back, it's going to be worse! Everything is going to be confusing and mom will get worse! I attempted suicide because of you!" I shouted, tears pouring down my face.
Thalia gasped and Percy just stared at me in shock.
I never told anyone about me attempting suicide. I tried cutting my main vein (A/N I don't know how to spell the other word, the one that starts with an 'A'. Help me out!)and bleed to death, but I woke up a couple hours later in dry blood. I missed my vein my a millimeter. I cleaned everything up before anyone knew.
"Alex, I know I ruined your life. If I have remembered you, I would've been here faster. When I got attacked by that monster, I got hit it the head by his club. I got knocked out and it thought I was dead. It wanted to show that it defeated the great Percy Jackson so he took my shirt and left.
"When I woke up the next morning, I had no memory from my past. Just like from Camp Jupiter, I remembered my name, the fact that I was a demigod, but I didn't remember your mom. So I was walking around, and around midnight, I found a little town in West Virginia. A woman, Emma, found me. She took me to her home and cleaned me up. She took care of me. We started dating and I still had no memory.
"Two weeks later, on the news, I was reported missing. Emma suggested that I dye my hair and change my name. I agreed because I liked her, but it felt wrong, like I was betraying someone. So I lived for nine years as Peter Johnson. We got married, but I still had that feeling of betrayal. I didn't tell her I was demigod. A year ago, I started getting strange dreams of a woman with blond hair and a little girl with black hair and grey eyes. A camp and all these friends. Little snippets were coming back.
"One month ago, I had all my memories. I completely shut down Emma, and was on the computer looking for you guys. It wasn't hard. You're like the best athlete in the nation and your mom is the best architect in the world. I left a note explaining that I got my memory back from when I got jumped, couldn't tell her about the monsters, and that I had a family that was hopefully waiting for me. I'm guessing she understood because she never tried to contact me. I got dropped off outside of your town. I walked the backroad and saw the whole accident happen. I called the police and left because I was still never found.
And, now, here I am explaining this to you," He said, sitting down. He ran his hand rough his hair.
"I can understand if you hate me," He said, looking at his feet.
I walked over to him and sat down next to him. I took his big hand in mine.
"Dad, I can't hate you, it's not your fault. I just had to get it out on someone. It's just that you missed 10 years of my life and I don't want you missing another month," I laid my head on his shoulder and he hugged me.
"I love you." He kissed my forehead.
I smiled. "Love you too, Dad."
The moment was great: my dad was back and I didn't even realize that Thalia had left us to ourselves.
I heard something come from the bed. A voice: Mom.
I got out of my dad's arms, he looked slightly hurt, but as soon as he saw where I was going, he jumped up too.
Mom had said Alex.
I stood beside the bed and gripped her hand.
"Mom, it's me. It's Alex. Somebody wants to see you I think you want to see them too," I looked over at Dad. "Just wake up and you won't regret it, I promise. Just wake up."
I felt her squeeze my hand. She moved her head to the side, towards me. Her eyes opened and I saw her intelligent grey eyes.
"Hey Mom, how do you feel?" I asked, gently.
She smiled and said, "Like crap, I got hit by a car for Zeus's sake!" She laughed, back to her normal self.
Mom frowned. "Where's Thalia?"
I shrugged. "I don't know, she walked off when, uh, I wasn't paying attention." I lied smoothly.
She must of believed it because she didn't push it.
"So, you said someone wanted to me? Do I like this person?" She said, bored. Her own ADHD was acting up and she started tapping her fingers on her leg.
"Oh yeah, you love him as a matter as fact. Look to your left." I pointed to Dad.
She whipped her head in the other direction. She let out a little scream. Her eyes started to tear as she saw the love of her life. The one that she thought was dead. I slowly backed out of the room to give my parents some privacy as Mom jumped from the bed into Dad's arms.
"Oh my gods, Percy."
Alright that's enough for tonight folks! [ Insert people booing and awwing] I know by I don't have any ideas for the "big reunion" except for, well, Percabeth!
I don't know about you but I LOVED the daughter/father-bonding-for-missing-10-years-of-my-life scene. It was so cute! *Whipes tears from eyes* So cute.
Okay, leave ideas in your reviews or you can PM me. Whichever is easier for you. Wow this is good for me: two chapters in one day.
Thank you, good night, and Big Balls ;)
