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Warnings: Blood, Mentions of Abuse.

Sorry about any spelling mistakes and such I wrote this on my phone.


Sanctuary of the Abused

The door banged open slamming against the wall before slamming shut. The Huntress crouched in bushes watched at the drunken male staggered to the car and drove away. Artemis gave the signal for them to move and the small group quickly made their way to the door and after picking the lock slipped inside the silent house. The condition of the inside was worse then the outside, the floors were rotted away in some places, beer bottles littered the area, it reeked of alcohol and something burnt among other things. The group carefully spread out looking for the little girl they were aiming to retrieve out of the horrible excuse for a house.

Artemis prodded open a door carefully eyes widening at the sight before her after a few seconds motioning for her Huntress that she had found the child. The small girl was looking at her fearfully green eyes wide with terror as she curled up deeper into the rags that she was wrapped in. No, they were not rags, a boy around seventeen was protectively curled around her as if to protect her from the world they lived it. Raven hair mess and tangled hung limp around his face, it was horribly cut as if he had used a dulled scissor to trim it messily without a mirror. He was pale, sickly so, like he had not been outside in a long time. He was unconscious burns and cuts marking his body yet the girl had very few, he had taken the beating in her place.

"P-please...Help him..." The small girl whimpered hope shining in her tear filled eyes, hoping these complete strangers would save them. "His heart...I can't hear it anymore."

Silver eyes widened as she carefully turned the bloody burnt male over wincing at the sight of his chest, it was much worse like someone had tried to burn the male alive, probably the man that had left the house earlier. Feeling for a pulse Artemis sighed in relief noting his heart was still beating, feebly but he was alive. She froze feeling that familiar thump of her heart as it jumped in her chest, Percy, it was Percy, it made sense a pull had lead her to the house earlier that week, she had seen the girl and the house so she thought it was just another rescue mission but her Guardian had been calling to her. Grabbing some Nectar from a pouch at her side carefully pour a bit into his mouth watching as the smaller wounds began to heal but frowned when his chest did not heal as much. Taking the bandages from one of the other Hunter who knew him, she carefully and as gently as she could wrapped it around his chest to hopefully halt the bleeding.

"I-is he going to be alright, miss Artemis?" The small child whispered from where she was kneeling by her older brother. The auburn haired female blinked looking down at her in surprise.

"How do you know who I am little one?" She asked slowly. The girl smiled jumping up and padded over to the corner of the room tugging open a loose floor board. Pulling out a pile of small papers she walked over and handed them to her.

"Percy tells me stories and draws pictures..." She whispered looked down as if she was afraid she was going to be hurt. Artemis smiled softly taking the stack and looked down at the first picture, it was one of her sitting in a tree, bow drawn and ready to fire, eyes concentrated and firm. "He always said that you would come..."

"I'm sorry I took so long...Come on lets get you both out of here." Artemis smiled softly sliding the pages into her knapsack and swinging it over her shoulder, with the help of her Huntress they carried Percy outside before teleporting to their camp on the other side of the country.

"Brother!" Artemis smiled softly as the girls that knew Percy ran over immediately spotting the injured male. The others' hung back shifting uncomfortably at the sight of the man.

"Girls calm down we need to heal him first." She ordered making sure the healers took him to the medical tent. Kneeling down carefully she smiled at the little girl. "Now, what is your name?"

"M-Marianna..." She whispered shyly causing the girls around the two to squeal and giggle with excited chattering at how cute she was.

"Well then Marianna, would you like to stay here with us? Don't worry Percy will stay too. He's my Guardian after all." The little girl smiled throwing too thin arms around her neck and hugging her, the goddess hugged her back tensing at how incredibly tiny and thin she was, Percy was probably much thinner, she had no doubt that he had given a good portion of his food to her when they got it.

"Lets get you cleaned, dressed and fed okay?" Picking up the small girl whom immediately clung to her she went to the medical tent to check on Percy and heal the girl's wounds. Percy was now resting, the wound had been closed and healed as much as possible but it was still bad.

Taking the little girl to the nearby lake she carefully help her wash grimacing at the layers of grime and dirt that floated away from them. Once finished she wrapped the girl in a towel helping her dress in a silver dress that was a bit too big and shoes which shrunk to fit her.

"Lady Artemis!" Thalia jogged up with a smile, " I heard Percy is home." Artemis smiled softly and nodded.

"Yes, he is in the medical tent, he was abused in this life...as was his little sister." Thalia blinked looking down at the small child who hide behind Artemis' leg clinging to her dress. Electric blue eyes softened as the spiky black haired female crouched down to the seven year old's height.

"Hi there, I'm Thalia, daughter of Zeus, I am Percy's cousin." The little girl smiled suddenly and nodded tugging on the fabric of Artemis' dress softly.

"Can I have the papers please?" She whispered softly, the female nodded and slid the knapsack off her shoulder and pulled out the stack handing it over to the girl. She looked through the pages before pulled one out and held it out. "You look a little different." Thalia

inspected the picture and nodded softly. In the picture she was sitting on a rock drinking from a canteen of water her eyes focused on Percy in a glare as if she was angry at him for drawing her, her hair fell around her face at shoulder length with a hawk's feather woven into the black locks. The feather was now around her neck on a necklace.

"That's how I looked a hundred years ago...Did you draw this?" She asked taking the picture for closer inspection. Marianna shook her head softly.

"No, Percy did, he's really good at drawing! He is always drawing pictures of people from his past lives...He tells me stories."

"It's amazing..." She smiled softly before standing.

"Lets head back to camp, I want to introduce her to the other Huntress'" Artemis said motioning them to follow. At camp they were met by the other Huntress' gathered around the fire pit. "Girls gather around."

"Lady Artemis who is the man that was brought back?" One of the female's spat the word man like it was some disease grumbles soon followed.

"I'll get to that in a bit, this.." The goddess rested a gentle hand on the child's head. "is Marianna, she is our newest Huntress. As for the male, his name is Perseus, or Percy for short, most of you already now him. He is the only male that the Huntress' have accepted as a brother. He is my Guardian. Please be sure that you do not shoot him or do anything stupid, he is here to keep everyone safe."

The females grumbled in disagreement but nodded before going about their chores and took a few days for Percy to awaken, Artemis and Marianna had been in the medical tent visiting when he stirred. Green eyes fluttering open wondering for a moment before spotting them.

"Artemis...Mari..." He mumbled dazed and not awake entirely. The two grinned happily seeing him awake and went to tell the others before heading back to his side to get him caught up on everything he had missed. He was out and about a few days later despite his injuries that were not completely healed. He had always been reckless after all caring more for the others then himself.

Percy was killed a few years later doing the very thing he had been doing when they had found him, protecting Marianna. He had run in front of an arrow that had been misfired by a newer Huntress. He died later that night when Artemis had come back from a hunting mission. He had waited for her to say goodbye.


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