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PERCY'S POV
" Aurora?" I whisper as I run to her and grab her in the biggest bear hug in history. She laughs and hugs me back.
" I missed you seaweed brain!" she yells.
" not as much as I missed you!" I pick her up and swing her around. I put her down and give her a mock stern look. She looks at me and starts laughing again.
" what?" I ask her, totally confused.
" your head is full of kelp Percy! Have you not notice that you are crying?" what? I run my hand under my eyes and sure enough, I have tears running down me cheeks. I quickly try to wipe them off. how embarrassing.
" don't worry Percy, Ben cried too" Aurora sigh dramatically " I'm just that big of a deal" she was trying to get me to forget it, and it worked. I punched her arm and laughed.
" Shut up" I mutter. She smiles innocently.
" AURORA" a group of demigods yell. They come over and give Aurora a big group hug.
" hey Guys!" she yells and hugs them all. When she gets to Nico, she has a expression of apology. " Nico, I am so sorry. Kind of. Maybe just a little- but lets not think of that, shall we? How's it goin' death breath? Haven't seen you in a while!" she ruffles his hair like an older sister would. Aurora always treated the campers like her own siblings, and some most that others. Nico hugs Aurora.
" nothing' much without you around" he grins like it and inside joke. Aurora laughs loudly. Then Jason comes over and gives her a hug too.
" what is this?! A hug festival?" Aurora and Jason laugh " one of my most favorite Romans. Have you married Piper yet?" Jason turns beat red and looks at his shoes.
" of course not! Were only 17!" he exclaims. Everyone laughs. Aurora could always put a smile on everyone's faces.
" one more year buddy! I'm expecting invitations" Aurora teases.
" you forgot me, Roar" Leo pouts like a kid.
"savin' the best for last!" she says and gives Leo a big bear hug. She starts talking to the others and having a good time, and I just watch her, enjoying the moment of when she's finally home. Annabeth comes up from behind me and snakes an arm around my waist.
" it feels good to have her back" she mummers into my shoulder. I nod in agreement. " it's as if the last piece to the half-blood puzzle was finally found" I twist around to look at her.
" you make it sound like she's been dead and brought back, or as if she has betrayed us and we have "finally" forgive her" I roll my eyes and Annabeth gives my an incredulous look.
" she might as well have with the quest the gods set on her shoulders. She shouldn't have to go through all that! I mean, the gods said that there was a very likely chance that she would fail and die, Percy, do you not remember that?"
" of course I do Annabeth! How could I not?" I snap at her, then I sigh in regret. " sorry, its just…-"
" no Percy it's my fault. I was trying to prove a point and pushed. Sorry Perce. Damn my Smartness" she shakes her head and I laugh.
" no its fine" I lean down and press my lips against hers as she puts her other arm around my waist.
" come on guys! Can you save it for the janitors closet or something? " Aurora yells at us. The demigods snicker.
" Yep. Good to have you back sis"
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ANNABETHS POV
"… Yeah! And then Octavian comes over and Fricken' blows up my clothes! I was like ' what the Hades was that for?' and he said 'you wretch of Greek'. Really Octavian? Am I suppose to say you 'stink of weird Roman'?" Aurora throws her hands up. " thanks dude, but I already know im Greek, no need to blow up my favorite shirt. Thank gods he isn't praetor, or I would have stomped right out of the Roman Camp" we were listening to Aurora tell her story about her quest, and I have to say, its pretty weird and scary. Percy laughed with our other friends that sat at our lunch table. There were 4 mortals, but I'm pretty sure they think we are discussing a dream.
" how was Reyna?" I ask her.
" Good! She's dating a son of Mars. He's actually really sweet, and you can tell Reyna loves him" Aurora takes Ben's uneaten apple and bites into it.
She kept talking to Percy and I zoned out until I feel a hand grip my shoulder and turn me around. I look into his face and scream. Immediately Percy and Aurora jump up and shield me from the person.
It was Max. The one who tried to rape me in San Francisco.
" what do you want?" Aurora growls. He looks up and down at her, as if picturing her naked and then smiles like he wants her.
" oh nothing sweetheart" Max says " I just have some unfinished business with Annie here"
" and what's that?" Percy's fists clench at the ready.
" oh" max comes closer to me " we were about to have a… great time, but she ran away." he looks at me. " don't you still want to do it with me Annabeth?" I tremble in fear, remembering the time when he pushed me against the wall of an alley way and tried to take my shirt off. Aurora shoves him hard and he tumbles to the floor.
" Percy, I want you to take Annabeth home" she says in Greek " or at least somewhere till bell. she has the rest of the classes with me, and I'm sure that the others will help her" the demigods nod. Max gets up and grins cruelly at me and Percy.
" what's that moron language you guys made up, huh?" he reaches to grab Aurora. She takes his wrist and twists it angrily, then spins him around, puts him on the floor, then lands on his back. He yells in pain and thankfully no one has noticed yet because we are in the very back of the commons. Max tries to spin around and fight, but she held him steady.
" Travis, give me my sunglasses" she hollers.
" w-what are you t-talking about?" he asks nervously as if trying to hide something.
" GIVE ME MY GODSDAMN SUNGLASSES RIGHT NOW TRAVIS STOLL!" He hands them over and she puts them on while holding Max down. Her eyes glow when she is angry, so she put them on so that no one would see.
" come on Annabeth" Percy says as he grabs my hand and leads out the cafeteria and down the hall. We find an empty closet ( and guess what? It was the janitors. Your welcome Aurora!). Percy sits on a bucket upside down and pulls me into his lap. I didn't realize I was crying until Percy started to say comforting words into my ear.
" can you tell me about him?" he asks me with he thinks I'm ready.
I sniffle and wipe my nose on my sleeve. I know. Very sanitary.
" in California, I didn't have friends, and every guy there threw themselves at me. That guy in there, max, didn't take no for an answer, so one day I was walking home from school and.." Percy tenses up, as if he knew the answer. " he shoved me in to the wall of the dark alley and tried to rape me Percy! All my stupid hard work training didn't help me one bit! Finally a hell hound tried to attack, and so I was able to attack. Oh Percy! It was horrifying!" vicious trembles went through my body as I sobbed into his shoulder. I hated be this weak! I hated it! But I couldn't control it. I could sense Percy's eyes glowing bright. He just held me until I calmed down.
" are you okay?" Percy asks me. I nod as we get up and walk out of the cramped room filled with cleaning supplies. As we step down the hall, I see Aurora, running a hand over her braid and muttering to herself. Her eyes were wide as she was pacing back and forth and staring at the ground.
Let me explain something to you. Aurora Jackson is the most powerful demigod Alive. But with great power came curses. When she was 5 years old, a roman follower cursed her so that she could…. See into peoples memorys in the past. She never told anyone the full story, but she can images when she sometimes touches peoples arms, shoulders, anything, but that's every once in a while. So that's probably why she was staring into space, because she saw the memory of when Max tried to … rape me.
She looks are way and runs to me and gives me a big hug.
" he's in the nurses office right now" she looks down " after I saw the memory I kinda blanked out in anger and…. A-ha…. Lets just say he wont be here for the rest of the day" Percy gives her a high five.
"way to go Roar!" he exclaims. I roll my red rimed eyes. The bell rings, and we head to our lockers, then to class.
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SKIP TO 6TH PERIOD Ben's Pov
I already knew that Greek 101 ( I know, stupid name right? Blame it on the teachers) was going to be easy. I mean, we have godly parents for crying out loud!
Anyways, I was sitting next to Aurora, who was consistenly checing on Annabeth. She already told me the story, and I wanted to hurt Max even more. And it must be hard for Aurora to, since she saw the memory. During lunch, Aurora snapped and started to punch max repeatedly. Jason and I had to pull her off of him in order to make her stop. Then Aurora went to the hall way to cool off, and that's were we found Percy and Annabeth. Unfortunately, Max was "feeling" better, and was in our 4,5, and 6th period. So Max was sitting directly behind Annabeth, and Percy's arm was around her protectively. The final bell rang and interrupted my thoughts as the teacher walked in.
" good after noon class" mrs. Quimberly says. " since we have finished Spartan and Athenian Quarter, we will now be doing Mythology. Ben, may you tell us what you about Greek mythology?"
" well, I probably know too much, Mrs. Quimberly" I tell her in Greek. All the demigods that happen to be in this class nod their heads. The teacher looks at me in confusion, and I realize she cant speak Greek language!
" what did you just say Ben?" she asks me.
" I said that I know a lot" I reply. She looks disappointed in me.
" I was expecting an answer Ben" she shakes her head slightly, and all I can think is, what the hades is her problem? Its not like I let the world down.
" yeah loser, you probably know nothing. In fact, I know you don't have any knowledge in your puny little brain" Max snaps at me. he did not just say that! I pull out my grey beanie and put in on, covering my hair that is probably glowing slightly. Aurora grips the sides of her chair in anger. The teacher just turns back to the class and starts asking questions. she's not gonna get this punk in trouble? unfortunately, I was sitting by Annabeth, so Max was also behind me.
We started to do a lame, boring worksheet, then out of the corner of my eyes I see Aurora tense up and see her hand search for mine in frantic. She finds it and loops her fingers with mine, and exhales her held breath. She does this a lot, like she's holding on to sanity with the look in her eye. She will do it to anyone(well, us demigods). Max saw this and leaned forward to whisper at us.
" awwww, well if it isn't the love birds" he says. I really don't know why he is doing this after what Aurora did at lunch, but he's really asking for it. I had to hold both of Aurora's hands to keep her from getting the daggers out of he boots that I knew she had. Then the intercom crackles to life.
" Aurora Jackson, please report to the Principles office. NOW" Aurora slowly gets up, fully aware of all the students staring at her. She turns out to walk out of the aisle, but then stops in front of Max. she pivots and slams he palms on the desk. Max leans back in fear.
" You little shit" Aurora hisses " couldn't handle your own problems? that's fine." she leans closer " I'll handle them for you" she straightens and stomps out of class, grumbling in Greek the whole way.
END OF CHAPTER
Man! That was a loonnggg chapter! (well, for me. Typing stories is not as easy as it seems) Hoped you guys liked it!