"Ugh." I woke up in a comfy bed. I almost thought I was back at home until I remembered my mom had kicked me out. My body feels so sore and tired. I opened my eyes to see a white wall above me. I sat up and looked around. There was a bunch of other beds but with no one in them. Each bed had a little dresser by it covered with medical supplies. I guess this is some type of infirmary. I looked to the left of me and was shocked to see someone there. I guess the shock was way more visible than I thought because he immediately tried to calm me down.

"Everything is alright you're safe now." He walked to the chair right next to my bed and sat down. I tried to get off the bed but he pushed me back. "You don't want to get up your seriously drained." I looked at him and actually got a real good look at him. He has raven black hair and Mediterranean Sea green eyes. He has a very muscular built and is quite tall. "Here drink this you'll feel better." He handed me a clear cup filled with this clear liquid with ice cubes. I took it gingerly and smelled it. It smelled like the hot chocolate and I made during the winter. "I didn't poison it. Here look." He took the cup back and took a drink. He waited for thirty seconds and opened his mouth so I could see that he swallowed it. He handed it back to me. "See so drink it and then I'll let you know everything." He promised. I eyed him suspiciously but took a drink nonetheless. I was surprised to taste the hot chocolate that and I make. I drank the whole cup and realized how much better I felt. I was still sore but I didn't feel as drained as I did when I first woke up. The whole time he was watching me. I handed him back the cup and he put it on the small dresser besides the bed I was using. I looked at him expectantly. It took him a little while he realizes that I was waiting for him to explain. "Oh sorry. Okay well my name is Percy Jackson. My mother is Sally Jackson and my father is Poseidon." He paused and just looked at me for a couple of seconds. Waiting for my outburst but I left my poker face on even though I was semi-freaking out on the inside. Finally figuring out I wasn't going to say anything so he continued. "So that means that I am a demi-god which means I am half god and half human. This is camp half-blood where demi-gods come to be safe and have a place to stay. All of the Greek myths are real. All of the gods and monsters are real. But as long as you're in the camp boundaries no monster can hurt you." He stopped and just looked at me absorbing all of this information. It seemed too bizarre to possibly have any truth in it. If it wasn't for what I could do I wouldn't have believed a word he said.

"Alright so everything that happened last night wasn't a dream?" I asked hoping for a no but expecting a yes.

"It wasn't a dream. Do you remember everything?" He asked.

"Well I remember being chases by that monster and then you and the girl coming to help. You fought him and so did that girl Annabeth. But he knocked you both out and came after me. Then I remember being scared and then extremely pissed off. And then I was here." I finished lamely.

"You don't remember what you did?" He asked. I shook my head. "Well after I woke up I tossed you Riptide, my sword." He pulled a pen out of his pocket and uncapped it. As soon as the cap was off a sword was in his hand. I couldn't keep the look of shock off my face. "At first you froze but then you got this really determined mad look on your face."

As soon as he said froze it all came rushing back. When he finished his last sentence I continued. "I stabbed the monster in the foot and he turned to ice and then exploded." I said in an awed whisper.

"So you remember now." Percy said.

"Yeah I remember I was so mad because I couldn't understand why it always happens to me. Why the world likes to use me as its punching bag all of the time even though I have never done anything to deserve it." I growled. I was getting angry again and the water on the table to the left of me started slowly boiling.

"Whoa you need to calm down." Percy had seen the water boiling. "Your emotions are probably tied to your powers so you need to stay calm." He said in an attempt of calming me down. I slowed my breathing to try to calm myself down. The boiling slowed until only steam was coming out.

"Okay good. Have you always been able to do that?" He asked me still looking at the cup.

"It's happened a couple of times before. I just have to distract myself with something else." I looked down; the person who usually helped me keep it under control was Ms. Heinz. She actually knew what I could do. I thought back to when she first found out.

"You are such an ungrateful child. I give you a roof over your head, clothes on your back, and food on the table. And yet you still ask for more!" She said exasperated.

"All I asked was a book that I need for school that costs about five dollars at the most. And it's not like you actually do any of that for me. You do it because you think it will bring my father back. But guess what he left us fifteen years ago he's not coming back!" I yelled. I walked out and slammed the door and stood right there trying to calm myself down. It wouldn't do any good to create another accident.

"Samantha come inside." I looked towards the voice to see ms heinz peering out her door.

" I don't mean to be rude but right now really isn't good time." I stared to walk towards the entrance of the building when she spoke up again.

"That wasn't a request Samantha Brooks." She said sternly with a glare. I sighed.

"Stubborn woman." I mumbled walking past her into her apartment. Just the mention of that last name that I had to share with my mother made me angry. I would have to either fake that I was better or run out of here in the next five minutes. I was standing in the middle of the living room when she walked back in. She went to sit in her little arm chair and just stared at me.

"Are you waiting for a hand written invitation, sit down." She demanded.

" I'd mu..." She cut me off.

"You seem to think that I am asking you again." I sat down on the couch opposite of her with a huff. "Just because you are upset does not mean that you need to be rude." She said simply.

"With all due respect ..." But again she cut me off.

"It's funny, whenever someone begins a sentence with that there never is any respect in it." She said patronizingly. I clenched my jaw. Was she trying to get me even more mad.

"You're the one who wanted me here. I tried to walk away." I said angrily. There was a cup of water on the side table next to her chair that was starting to bubbling slightly. I tried taking deep breathes to calm myself.

"I did." She answered. I just stared at her breathing in deeply.

"Well." I demanded. I couldn't be here if she was going to continue like this.

"Well what?" She asked irritatingly calm. I jumped up and starting pacing in front of the couch.

"You obviously can see that I am not in a good mood yet you continue to push me. Why did you bother calling me in her? Why won't you leave me alone like everyone else?!" I didn't even realize what I was saying until it was already out of my mouth. By the end I was yelling.

"Because you never leave a person alone. I won't let you be alone." She said gently but with force. I had stopped pacing and was frozen on my spot. "I was you once, still am if you think about it. Never knew my father and my mother didn't give a damn about me. I was an only child like you to and just wanted to get away from my mother. Everyone left me they didn't fight for me, not until my late husband. But I will fight for you because no child deserves to be alone." Her voice was steady but later on I found out she had been crying. Everything that she said hit me hard. It overwhelmed me so much that I couldn't take it anymore and just broke down. I fell to the floor, brought my knees up to my chest and just held onto them, finally letting everything go. I heard glass shattering when I started crying. went to me and just hugged me while I let all of the emotions that I kept bottled up out. All of the pain from my mother for not caring about me, for my family not fighting for me, and just for all of the crappy cards I had been dealt in life. I lost track of how long I was crying for. When I finally seemed to calm down pulled back and looked at me. "All better now?" She asked gently. I nodded and we both got up and went to sit on the couch. She wrapped her arm around my shoulders. "It doesn't do any good to keep it all in." She said.

"Is that why you were pushing me? You wanted to get me to my breaking point?" I asked her. She smiled slightly.

"It might not have been the best way but it was the only one I could think of." She explained. I just laughed. "Samantha was that you?" She asked me. I stopped laughing immediately.

"Was what me?" I asked feigning cluelessness.

"You're a smart girl Samantha. You know what I'm talking about. It's alright." She reassured me. I took a deep breath and looked towards the pieces of ice that was once a glass of water.

"Yes." I answered.

"It's nothing to be ashamed of Samantha. You're just a little different." She finished with a smile.

"Thank-you." I said relieved.

"How long have you been able to do that? What is it that you do exactly?" She asked with awed curiosity.

"Well for as long as I could remember. It usually happens when my emotions become too overwhelming, which is why I wanted to leave." I looked pointedly at her before continuing. "And well what I can do is hard to explain. I don't even know the full extent of it myself. So far I've been able to turn water to ice, create ice from thin air, and heat water up as well." I explained.

"Does your mother know?" asked after absorbing all of that information.

"Yes, she makes me feel like a freak about it." I looked down not being able to look her in the eyes as I said it.

"Look at me." She demanded. "You are not a freak. You're just unique. It's not a bad thing but we shouldn't let anyone else know. People can be cruel and stupid." She explained. "Now all of this excitement has made me hungry. Why don't we go grab some lunch." And we left as if nothing had changed. But things did change, not in a bad way but a good refreshing way. I learned that day that I did have someone there for me that I would never have to be left alone but fought for.

After that day she made me practice how to use my powers and ways to keep them under control. She never made me feel like a freak but special for what I could do.

"How did you do that on your own?" He asked.

"I didn't." I replied not bothering to expand on it.

"Well who helped you? How did they help you?" I looked down as I answered knowing my eyes would get watery.

"My neighbor. She had me practice using it and keeping it under control." I was looking at my hands as if they were the most interesting things in the world.

"I'm guessing you were close to her." He said quietly.

"Yeah, I was." I couldn't stop the few tears to wipe them away. I hadn't cried in front of anyone in seven years with the exception of .

"What happened to her?" He asked.

"She died." I answered. "Why don't you tell me about her? It might make you feel better." He tried to say cheerfully.

Why not give it a try. "Her name was Amelia Heinz . She was the only person I had after we moved to New York. She passed away a couple of weeks ago. She was the strongest person I knew and she was very kind. Most people thought she was cold but it was just the walls you built when you're dealt crappy cards." Once I got started I couldn't stop. I told him about all of the times I spent with her. It was probably weird for me to tell this to a complete stranger but I couldn't help it. He seemed like someone you could talk to about this. I imagine this is what it was like to have a close family member or friend.

"She sounds like an awesome person." He said with a kind smile.

"She i- was." I still wasn't use to saying that. "I know what it's like to lose people. But the thing is that the person is never truly gone, not as long as you remember all of the times you spent with them. Your memory of them keeps that person alive." He said surprisingly wisely. Knock, knock, knock.

Authors note: Hey you guys so I wasn't able to do a long post since I wanted to upload today. I should be able to post another chapter by the end of the weekend at the least. Hope you guys like it. Thank you to the people who review and thank you to 101 and more ways to fangirl for letting me know how name wasnt in there. So what happened was when I typed it up her name was in there but for some reason her name got cut out each time when i uploaded it so that was weird :p well anyways thanks for the reading and I will for sure post another chapter this weekend. :D