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Chapter 3

Percy's POV

"So, take care of yourself, Rick." I shook Castle's hand.

"You too," he smiled, "And your friend here."

"Good luck on the case." Annabeth said. "And with Detective Beckett." And with that we left him alone in the elevator.

"Annabeth that was a low blow," I scolded her.

"Yeah but it's as clear as day, don't tell me you didn't see it." She rolled her eyes.

"So," I asked as we walked down the street. "Back to the crime scene?"

"You know me too well."

It didn't take us long to run the two blocks and as we jogged up, the last police cars were pulling away. There was already a crowd around the yellow caution tape.

"You make small talk with the crowd, I'll check the scene," Annabeth proposed, taking out her invisibility hat.

"Yep, meet you at the car in 20 minutes," I agreed. "And whistle if there's trouble."

"Like there'll be any." She slipped away, disappearing before she reached the big crowd. I walked towards the crowd slowly, looking for someone to talk to. Then I saw someone I actually knew, Nico Di' Angelo.

"Watching corpses again Nico," I leaned on his shoulder.

"Only the demigod kind."

"What?!" I asked incredulously, "Whose?!"

"Apollo."

Beckett POV

"Hey, we got a hit on Michael's parents, or parent," Ryan said walking into the room.

I looked up expectantly.

"A George-Ann Thomas in Connecticut," Espo sighed, "reported her missing son, Michael last month."

"K…?" I muttered, reaching for the phone. "What's the number?"

"No need for that pretty lady." A tall handsome man with blonde appeared at my door suddenly. "I will inform George-Ann of her loss…"

"And who are you exactly?" Castle asked testily.

"I am…-" the man was cut off by the sight of Percy, Annabeth and another boy, an emo-looking kid a little younger than them appearing from the shadow of the murder board. The other boy was dressed black jeans, a white shirt and a black aviator's jacket. He had brown hair and greenish eyes. He hung back with Annabeth while Percy stalked straight up to the man and started yelling in a foreign language.

"Είσαι τρελός, ο Απόλλωνας; Φέρνοντας τακτική θνητοί σε αυτό?!" (Are you crazy, Apollo? Bringing regular mortals into this?!) Percy was in a rage, his face beet red.

"Λοιπόν, από όπου και αν ανάμιξη στο θάνατο του γιου μου! Τι να έκανα, Percy, αφήστε τους να σας κατηγορήσει?"(Well, they're meddling in the death of my son! What was I to do, Percy, let them blame you?) At this point Percy paused and thought, pacing the room.

"What language is that?" Ryan asked softly. No answered him.

I finally recognized the language- it was…Greek? But not Modern Greek, some of the sounds were funny…older.

Percy got into a rage again, screaming at the man.

"Αυτοί οι άνθρωποι είναι ένα μέρος της οικογένειάς μου! Πόσες φορές σου έχω πει θεούς να μην χάος με το μου -?!" (These people are a part of my family! How many times have I told you gods not to mess with my -)

"Νομίζεις ότι θέλω να συσχετίσω με αυτές θνητούς!" (You think I want to associate with these mortals!?) The man screamed, pushing his face into Percy's.

Then all hell broke loose.

"Don't touch him!" Castle yelled suddenly, dragging the man off of Percy. The man looked over his shoulder at us, leering at us as if he hated us for existing. Then he turned to Castle, who was still holding him tightly. With barely a flick of his shoulder, he tossed Castle across the room, sending him smack against the wall.

Percy screamed something else at the man and charged towards him.

Before we could even grab our guns, Annabeth tackled Percy and they both fell to the floor.

"Nico, go tell Απόλλων (Apollo) to cool it." Annabeth called glancing at the emo-looking kid.

The rest of us ran over to where Castle was still slumped against the far wall.

"Castle? Are you okay?" I asked crouching beside him.

"I will be as soon as the world stops spinning…" he muttered.

"Come on," Ryan grunted; lifting Castle's left arm. "Let's get you to a chair." As we headed back into the main room, we saw Annabeth standing over Percy, talking sternly to him. After a while she walked towards the man, ready to give him the same scolding. Before she could even open her mouth, he reached up and boxed her across the face.

Percy snapped again, getting up. "First you try to kill my friend then you attack my girlfriend!? What else do you plan to destroy in my life!?"

Annabeth glared at Percy over her shoulder and he immediately shut up and sat. Turning back to the man, she did something I would have never expected Annabeth to do. She reached down and hit him back across the cheek, hard. I guess this was really uncharacteristic for her because Nico jumped and Percy sat up straight in his chair.

"You're here in mortal form, pull yourself together and deal with it," she said softly but firmly.

"Ryan, Espo, let's get this whole mad house together in one room and see if we can sort this out," I said to them. "And get an ice pack for Castle." They nodded.

"No, I'm fine…"

"You're getting an ice pack unless you want me to call Alexis and Martha, capisce?"

"Yes ma'am," he replied.

I stood and quickly dialed, asking Lanie to come to interrogation room 5, ASAP.

Ryan and Espo headed over to the blondie and asked Annabeth to ask him if he would come to the interrogation room with us so we could sort everything out.

Before Annabeth could speak the man replied haughtily, "I do speak English you know."

Castle and I exchanged glances. I shrugged. It takes all sorts to make a world.

In a few minutes we were all seated around a table in the room. Castle was gingerly holding an ice pack Ryan had gotten for him. Lanie was the last to come in and of course the first thing she saw was Apollo brooding in a corner. I saw her look him up and down, then glance almost hopefully at me.

I glared, meaning 'Don't you dare.' She mimed zipping her lips shut and came to sit beside me, making a total of 9 people and ten chairs. I almost raised an eyebrow. Why did Nico have an empty chair beside him? But I shrugged it off.

"Explain," I said to the kids. "Now."

They exchanged glances as if having a conversation, as if to say 'How much should we tell?' I glanced at the man who looked away, nose in the air as if he wanted nothing to do with me.

Nico's phone beeped, he took out a phone and glance at it. Percy and Annabeth looked shocked.

"Thalia's on her way," he said without looking up or meeting their eyes.

"Well crap," Percy said shortly.

"Why? And why do you have that?" Annabeth gestured to the phone as if it were unimaginably dangerous.

"Emergencies?" Nico offered lamely.

Annabeth sighed. "Whatever Nico, just don't get yourself killed."

The man suddenly spoke, but not to us. "Tell them whatever you like. I don't carry messages. I'm not Hermes."

"Yeah, since you're not even supposed to be here!" Percy snapped back.

"Okay, cool it," Annabeth said

"Alright," I said, "Let's start here. Who is this?" I gestured to the man. "And what's his relation to George-Ann Thomas?"

They exchanged glances again, as if not sure how much if anything they could tell us. Nico suddenly stood as if to escape

"I'm going to meet Thalia. She must be almost here."

"No need," a girl's voice came from the door. "I'm here." She opened the door and slid into the seat Nico had held beside her. So that's why there had been an extra chair.

Nico sat back down almost reluctantly. I glanced at Thalia. She was like a Goth girl, dressed in all black and purple with studs, and ripped jeans. She wore a silver circlet around her head and a bracelet on her arm that seemed way out of place. Her hair was short, black and jagged, and she had freckles across her nose.

Nico spoke. "So are we telling them?"

"Might as well," Annabeth replied.

"What other choice do we have?"Percy added.

Thalia leaned back in her seat. "You guys are on your own, Artemis just sent me as back up."

The man suddenly woke up. "My sister sent you?! For me?! Oh she really is too kind…I should compose a haiku in her honor…"

"Save it," Percy growled at him.

"I'm not your back up," Thalia snapped back, glancing at Percy. Those two must be related somehow.

"I guess we'll start with introductions," he said. Annabeth nodded.

"Don't freak," she added.

"We're police detectives," I said clearly. "We don't freak."

"But more seriously, we're dealt with vampires, were wolves…" Ryan started

"Zombies, freaky dominatrix…" Espo added, ticking them off on his fingers. Ryan nodded.

"And regular murderers," Lanie added. "They pretty scary too."

"Yeah but take no responsibility for Castle," Espo added. We grinned.

"Hey, not cool," Castle replied.

"Ever dealt with gods?" Annabeth asked quietly.

"Greek gods?" Castle asked.

"Yeah…how'd you…?" Nico asked.

I interrupted him. "Percy was speaking some form of Greek…"

"Not modern day though…" Castle added wincing as he moved his jaw.

"It was Ancient Greek," Annabeth explained, "And the Ancient Greek gods are real."

"We're demigods, children of a Greek god and a mortal." Percy took a deep breath. "I'm Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon."

"I'm Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena."

"Nico Di'Angelo, Son of Hades."

"Thalia Grace, Daughter of Zeus and Lieutenant of the Hunters of Artemis."

There was silence in the room as we tried to take all that in. The man still had his nose stuck in the air. If he kept that up, soon he's have a serious neck-ache.

The kids studied us as if waiting to see our reaction.

Castle spoke first. "That is… so COOL!"

I face-palmed; Ryan and Espo looked almost as excited as Castle was. I guess I'd have to take point.

"So what does that have to do with our Vic? And who's the blondie?"

He at us smiling radiantly; Lanie caught her breath.

"This is Apollo," Annabeth said. "One of the Greek gods, also he's Michael's father."

"So Michael is-was a demi-god?" I asked.

Thalia nodded. Hey, this might not be so hard after all.

We alawys new Castle was crazy
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