Hi Mom, Remember Me?
I woke up on one of the bunks in my cabin. I spoke to myself, quietly, "You're just crazy Alex, it was all just a dream. You don't really have a twin brother." I looked at Percy, who was watching me talk to myself. "Oh my God. I have a twin brother." I addressed Percy, "This is all just a practical joke right?"
"No. I didn't see it coming either." He seemed a little shaken also. At least he actually knew our mother.
"So, our mom abandoned me in the streets and tried to let me fend for myself?"
"There was no way mom would ever do that. She's the nicest person in the whole entire world. She wouldn't do that to anyone. Maybe the gods forced her to."
A flash of memory came to me. Two small children in a crib. One boy, one girl. They looked almost exactly the same. And I knew it was us, Percy and I. A man was standing over us, big plaid flannel shirt, one eye in the middle of his forehead. A Cyclopes. He reached into the crib and grabbed me with his huge hands.
"Whoa. It was not the gods. It was Cyclopes. They took me out of our crib." I started to laugh, but tears were streaming down my face. Hysteria burst out of me, and my mind whirled. "They had meant to get you. they thought that I was you. they knew you were going to have a big fate in the future. and you still did. They almost killed me." I hiccupped.
"Do you have PTSD? We need to talk to Chiron. Let's go."