Hi everyone! I hope you all enjoy this chapter =) Thank you to the guest for your review ^_^ I'm sorry for how long it took to update the story. Warning: Story contains, boyxboy, scenes of violence, character death, mentions of past abuse and the ratings may be turned up at a later time. I'm going to make this an unofficial cross over with some of my other fanfic stories, so expect; Percy Jackson and The Mortal Instruments to be references (if not some OC characters from those fandoms, from my other stories.) To turn up in this one.

Carter was laid back on his bed glaring up at the ceiling of his room as he threw up a tennis ball and reached up to catch in his hand again and again. Occasionally he would call out; "Ha-wi." to make the ball act as though it had been hit by a baseball bat and go across the room then, "Sa-per" to make it miss him completely, if it was coming back at him a little too strong from the turmoil in his focus which he just couldn't seem to get under control. The hieroglyphs burned away above the ball, and Carter felt the usual twisting knot in his stomach and flush of power that he always did whenever he used and practised his magic.

It was not a big as practice session as he would have liked, but considering their gym was taken up with the other students currently having a class with Sadie, to distract themselves and trying on a majority not to be massively freaked out by the full grown hell hound which had taken up residence outside the infirmary, Carter considered that a fair trade off, especially since he was the one who had essentially brought the two newcomers here. Though to explain to the others that the... dog was there to stay was a whole other thing.

Some initiates had tried to go up to the monster to try and feed him, but they had turned and ran away screaming when those molten eyes had been turned on them by the hound and barred it's teeth. The thing would allow simply no one near towards or past it, unless it was Jas that was. The damn hound which insisted on playing that tall dark and evil had turned whimpering sad eyes on her the moment it had seen that she was looking after Sirena.

A dark colour was beginning to get painted underneath his eyes from having not slept much through the last couple of days. Mainly because he couldn't get one of those newcomers out of his head, no matter just how frustratingly hard he tried! And as annoyingly frustrating as that stupid hell hound was, it wasn't the reason why he was losing sleep. After all.

Why worry when if anything happened, there was enough trained magicians in this house to easily corner the over grown mutt and send it into the Duat never to come back. An exorcism spell was certainly anything but easy to do, but Sadie and Carter had taken on far worse challenged than trying to eradicate one monster. Percy and Annabeth had opened his eyes to how hard it was to discard monsters.

But so far he had worried about if that option would come around... after all, what would Sirena say?

Well I don't know, because I haven't been able to get into that infirmary since I had brought him in!

"Watcha doing Jar head?"

Then again, if it wasn't for that dog, then I'd still have to try and get past Sadie! Since she thinks I'm just going there to be a perv and stare at him-

"Carter?"

Just because she's dating two boys at once and can stare at them for as long as she likes! Besides... he's a boy! I wouldn't look at him like that-

"Ha-wi!" He called out again as the ball rebounded off the floor.
"A'max"
"Whoa!"

On instinct he rose his hands above his face as the flaming baseball embedded itself into the wall next to his head. The flames licked over the material, barely anything more than a weak spell, already dissipating on itself and collapsing till it was a few sparking embers on the rough material. Something that Carter himself could understand, the weak spell that being, having a better manipulation over combat magic than elemental and spells. But there was only one other person here who was as bad at elemental spells as he was.

"Kyle. I'm not in the mood right now." He growled quietly, not even raising his gaze as he reached over onto his bedside table and plucked another baseball, throwing it across the room where it rebounded back to him. "Go find someone else to pester and scratch with those overgrown claws."
"Meow, meow." Kyle laughed.

The blonde boy lent against the open doorway, wearing his favorite skinny leather jeans and tight black shirt. He wore a pair of ink black gloves which were torn at the tips to let his fingers through. His ice cold blue eyes stared out and startled Carter slightly as the young Pharaoh turned his attention to gaze at the initiate. Something about Kyle seemed... different. Not just the new look which suited him quite well, but his hair... Kyle's hair glistened like cast moonlight, frozen and silver. Platinum cold. Had it always been that? And his eyes? Had they always been so cold? So crystal like in their shine?

Hang on... Kyle's eyes had always been- "What the hell happened to you!"
"Good of you to notice." He chuckled, slowly reaching up to take the contacts out which revealed his savage golden eyes which bore a cold malice towards Carter. Though the older boy could just never figure out why exactly Kyle hated him so much! "I was going to suave up here, all slow and delicate, dress like a fallen angel and princess." He batted his eyes as he ran a hand down his torso slowly. "And pretend I was that damsel that you had snogged in the corridor."
"Ha-wi!"

Carter dreaded the words the moment that they left his mouth. His stomach twisted violently on itself and his eyes blazed like all the hatred and frustration which was inside of him at that point had come into his gaze which traced the outline of the hieroglyph now blazing above Kyle's head. "Oh you didn't you-"

The blonde barely finished the words as he was launched backwards through the air and smashed against the wall of the outside corridor, sinking slowly to his knees as he crumpled forward slightly.

For a moment Carter froze still, like ice had been poured into his bones. His body was rigid, not one nerve giving away. He felt drained, tired and sore. Like he had sprinted a marathon. This just made him realize the force he had shoved into the spell without even knowing it. He was getting stronger. That was for certain. But with that power he had to have control otherwise it meant absolutely nothing! Magic always came at a price and needed complete forceful control. If not, it was easy to wind up a pile of ashes on the floor from being burnt out and having your magic reservoir depleted.

Kyle's eyes glinted darkly with their burning force as the boy slowly look up with a horrendous gaze filled with blood lust and loathing. "You son of a bitch." The boy growled quietly, spitting out some from the side of his mouth where the hieroglyph had blazed like an inferno. There was a promise set deeply within them. A promise that he was going to make Carter hurt just as much as he had been. 'You scratch me, I claw your fucking face off', was the term which Kyle often had said and applied to those who insulted or hurt him.

But what was worrying Carter was that he could normally deal with Kyle... under normal circumstances and situations. This wasn't one of them.

He could see the craze and the loss of sense written across Kyle's glare.

Carter rose to his feet, slowly standing up. His body ready to defend itself the moment it felt the threat was too complete by Kyle. "I-It was an accident! Kyle! Calm down!" Carter tried to pour authority into his voice but he knew that Kyle only listened to two people, one technically since the other one was a goddess, and that person was no where around, neither was Sadie's old pet cat Muffin or as she was known by her godly name; Bast. Right now he wished the goddess were here.

He didn't want to hurt Kyle! But if he was forced to defend himself... Kyle was only an initiate. His magic still volatile and still growing!

Kyle rose to his feet slowly and let out a snarl as a green aura flickered dangerously around him. "Don't! Ever! Touch me!" He screamed and went to lunge.
"Tas!"

Carter had never been so happy to hear that voice in all of his life. Relief flooded him as he watched some rope which had been blended in to look like the stripped walls of the hall way, latched out, expanding and growing till they were tightly bound around Kyle's biceps, pulling him back against the wall out of his mid air lunge and holding him stead fast.

Well... again. He had never been so happy to hear Sadie's voice, up until the point a ball of twine was thrown into his room and the words were repeated, the boy's own wrists becoming bound in what felt like heavy chains of the enchanted rope. ("No Sadie. You're right! I'm not all smiles and laughter when I'm tied up, you're right- Hey! Not in front of the kids!")

Sadie strode in slowly with a glare, standing at the midpoint between the two boys. Her hair fell in it's blonde streaks down her back, highlighted with a night sky purple streaking which stood out defiantly among the burning crimson flicks and ties around the colour. She wore a simple pair of jeans, her boots, ("Such a change from the usual. OW! No need to hit like that Sadie!"), and a black jacket which Carter had a suspicious feeling belonged to her boyfriend...boyfriends... Oh gods be damned, that situation is still as confusing now as it was back then.

Her glare burned against both her brother and her surrogate little brother who she had... albeit rather surprisingly connected with. After all, she had always wanted a little brother, but alas, the fates had been cruel to her in making her the younger physically and yet mentally older. But something in her had reached out rather unwillingly and connected back with Kyle. Now she and the boy were inseparable half the time. (Why yes Carter, that is simply who I am. A caring and deeply kind person- Laugh one more time and I will Ha-di you. Right here. Right now.)

But not looking at the bruises which were shining over his left cheek and eye she glowered, noticing the aura and how it glistened around him, while Carter looked still ready to lunge though he hadn't noticed it himself. She decided that she would have to deal with the worst right now. Kyle would be the hardest to talk to once his anger had made his claws come out. He could be a real bitch when pissed off... but she knew, what was wrong with him right now meant that no simple talk would help. "Go." She growled quietly, letting her tone of complete authority leave no room for questioning but only obedience. She could feel the spell binding Kyle dissipate as the tightness inside her muscles eased up a bit. The dull burning inside her slightly quenched.

For a moment she said nothing then slowly turned to glare at him out the corner of his eye where green sparks were leaping from his body. "NOW!" She snapped and watched some recognition return to his eyes.

His arms crossed over and his palms faced flatly, fingers pointed out as he aimed his hand to the floor. "L'mun" He snarled, pulling up his hands. The shadows around him seeming to almost rise as the cloaking spell took it's effect. Sparking at first as Kyle obviously still was finding his emotions difficult to control and reign in, but soon enough, the shadows had swallowed him in a cloak.

Sadie lent her head out the doorway, shouting after him. "And may the gods help you if I come down to that training hall in five minutes and not find you ready to train!" Her voice carried on and she knew that he had heard it as one last defiant emerald spark lit the corridor as the boy sprinted away.

And then there were two...

She slowly glared back over to her brother who was stood with his hands bound and encased in lengths of wound twine. His gaze anywhere but where she could meet it.

Her muscles tightened as her will forced the twine to bind tighter around his hands. Digging into his wrists till he finally got the message and rose his gaze to meet hers. "What?" He stated. "What do you want me to say-"
"You hit him Carter!"
"It was an accident!"
"AN ACCIDENT?!" She shook her head, striding into the room and slamming the door behind her. Watching carefully as the twine uncoiled from around his wrists and fell into a neat, tidy pile on the floor. "Carter! You just struck an initiate!"
"I didn't mean to! He was goading me on! Pushing my limits and I just- I didn't-"
"He does that with everyone Carter!"
"You're making an excuse for him?!"
"NO BUT YOU'RE OLDER!"

Both siblings stopped for a moment as a nearby lamp on Carter's desk exploded.

Just like when they had been kids and Sadie's cake had exploded on her birthday when their parents had still been around and with them.

Carter pushed his hand against his brow and turned his gaze away from his sister who just let out a long sigh, gravitating closer to him but knowing that right now, while he was like this, she was probably not one of the best people who could comfort him. "Look...Kyle... isn't like everyone else. He doesn't deal with people like others would. He has a problem-"
"You still make excuses for him." Carter mumbled.
"Well I'm sorry? Should I stop making them for you too?" Sadie stated, now taking a seat by the door and looking into her brother's eyes, unwavering and dominantly as he stared back, taken aback by the comment.
"Excuse me?"
"Your ears work fine."
"Excuses?! Me?! Like!? WHEN?!" Carter frowned, his eyes painted with confusion. Sadie couldn't help but feel sorry for him. She couldn't help but think that he wasn't putting it on. She could tell when her brother was trying to keep things from her, but this... He really just didn't know.
"Ever since you and Zia split, you've been... distant! Not just from me but from everyone. You hardly talk to people anymore. I know when people are upset about break ups, but you broke up with her Carter! I know that she isn't the reason why you're like this! People keep asking me why and I just say, 'he's just a bit stressed.' Or, 'he's just having a bad day.' But I know the truth! Because I saw the way that you looked when Sirena told us the message and you saw the knife."
"No Sadie."
"Carter, you heard him as well as I did. Apo-
"No!" He barked, surprising even her. "Don't Sadie! It can't be."
"So that's it." She stated, staring at him in shock as the realization hit her square in the face.
"He can't be coming back. It's just a scare tactic from the rogues. And impossible! Now. Don't you have a student to go and deal with?"

That was it. That was as much as a conversation as she would get out of him while he was like this. There was no point trying to get anything else out of him because he just wouldn't respond. He'd shut down the conversation as he had done just then. "Carter... I'll deal with Kyle. But you have to open up. Let someone in to help you with all..." She paused before speaking softly. "Carter, let me in. I'm your sister. I'm here for you. No matter what it is, I'll always be here for you."

The older boy just said nothing but pulled his knees to his chest and wrapped his arm around them. His eyes painted with memories and secrets which he wouldn't give away to her... willingly at least. She wouldn't force him to tell her, but it still hurt that he wouldn't open up to her. "I'll be in the training hall if you want to talk. I'll send Kyle to apologize later when he's calmed down. I advise that you do the same." She said softly.
"Anything else?" Carter stated. His eyes locked and fixated on the wall in front of him.
"Sirena... woke up not too long ago." She said gently, instantly her brother's head perking up slightly as he snapped his gaze onto her. "I think that he's going to be terrified, disorientated, confused... he's going to need someone to be there for him." Her eyes and gaze became slightly harder. "Someone who's going to be actually able to help him make sense of all of this and if you can't do that for yourself... how are you going to be able to do it for him." She began walking back to the door. "The boy has been through enough. Decide now if you're actually willing to make the commitment, because otherwise..." She paused for a moment, knowing the words had a harsh punch to them but they needed to be said. She had to get through to him somehow. "I'm beginning to doubt that you're still the brother that I know anymore." Her voice was soft but the words did what they needed.

Carter flinched back like he had been punched but Sadie kept her gaze on him sadly. "I want my brother back." Was the last thing she said before leaving the room.