AN: So here is the next chapter. I hope everyone likes it and just fair warning, there are some sensitive topics in this chapter. Or at least some may see it as sensitive, others might not consider it to be. I also want to thank everyone for reviewing, I love hearing what you all think.
Anyways, enjoy the chapter!
Waking Up The Ghost.
Ghost Ship.
Percy jumped as she heard the door to her room opening and closing. For a moment she feared the worse. Then she felt the hands on her shoulders and with held a shiver as they snaked around her neck.
"Sephie," an all too familiar voice said next to her ear.
She sighed in relief.
"Luke," she said, turning around in his arms. "What are you doing here?"
Poseidon glared at the screen.
"That's what I want to know," he snapped and there were snickers and smirks at the protective aura the sea god was giving off.
"This is why the fates have never given him any demigod daughters," Zeus said, rolling his eyes. "He's unbearably overprotective."
Poseidon grumbled.
"I think it's cute," Aphrodite said, smiling.
Hera nodded. "The way a father should be, I think."
"Yeah, you're still bitter that father ate us," Hades snorted.
The three daughters of Rhea and Kronos all glared at the Lord of the Dead.
"Everyone shut up," Hephaestus said, his eye twitching. "We don't have forever to watch these memories you know. It's already been an hour."
Everyone nodded and turned back to the memories and they continued to play.
Luke looked just as she remembered, but the clothes he wore made him resemble an sinful super model. She wasn't to sure about the new clothes but she missed him to much to care if he'd showed up in a pair of rags.
"I can't visit?" he asked, smirking.
Percy laughed, shaking her head.
"That's not what I meant."
Luke sighed, running a hand through his sandy colored hair.
"You weren't very inconspicuous boarding the ship. I had to convince the monsters to wait until morning."
Annabeth's eyes widened.
"How could we have been so stupid?" she asked herself. "If Luke hadn't wanted to keep Percy safe... we may have been attacked upon boarding."
Thalia shook her head.
"Not necessarily. He may have wanted to build an air of safety before blind siding you. That is to say, if Luke and Percy hadn't been leading this double life."
Athena nodded.
"Both are good theories," the wisdom goddess said. "But we should continue to watch, and not worry about what could have been."
Percy swore under her breath in Latin, and Luke smiled.
"Was that Latin?" he asked and she flushed.
"Yeah, uh, I know a bit. Classes at school and everything," she answered, and then changed the subject. "What about you?"
Luke shook his head, and taking her hand he led her over to the sofa. The room itself was laid out sort of like a hotel suite, she realized. It was sort of sad; She'd been focusing on other things so hard she hadn't bothered to look around.
"Well, I don't know any Latin. Except for the odd phrase here and there."
Percy slapped him in the shoulder, and Luke chuckled.
"I'm their leader, I can anywhere I please. There is also the fact I'm a thief and can sneak around without being seen," he replied, answering her question.
"You're so full of yourself," Percy said, and Luke smirked.
He ran a hand through her long dark hair.
"I've missed you... so much," he said, leaning down and pressing a soft kiss to her lips.
Percy chuckled, smiled and grabbed his face in her hands before pulling the older boy into a deeper kiss.
Her arms ended up around his neck, his hands at her sides. Eventually air became a need an slowly the passionate kiss was broken.
"We're a screwed up pair," Percy muttered, leaning her head into the space between his neck and shoulder. "Aren't we?"
"Yeah, but we'll always be together," he said, his chin resting on her head. "Even if we're miles apart."
Moments later both fell asleep on the sofa, curled up together.
Many of the goddesses were sniffling, and dabbing back tears as the memory ended and the rainbow began to swirl as it processed the next memory.
"Percy must be so upset right now," Artemis said, her eyes actually misted over.
She wasn't one for love but Percy was her friend. It was one of the few things she and her twin brother could agree on. Percy didn't deserve to loose him like she had.
Poseidon was glaring at the ground, processing the things he hadn't even known about his daughter's life. Though there were some things he could live without seeing or knowing, his daughter making out with Hermes' son being one of those things.
"This is boring," Ares grumbled. "Let's get to a good memory."
As if on cue the rainbow memories started up again, this time Annabeth and Tyson were in the memory along with a meaner looking Luke and two bear like monsters. Agrius and Oreius.
Annabeth paled. "I remember this."
"So nice of you all to join me," Luke said, smirking at his three captives. "Nicer then Cabin Eleven isn't it?"
Percy tried her best to show more emotion then expectation. To make it seem like more then an act, her anger that is.
"Why Luke?" Annabeth demanded.
"Why?" he echoed, his eyes turning ice cold. Like ice glaciers. "The gods are why Annabeth. They're selfish, they're killing western civilization. I plan to bring it crumbling down, brick by brick. Join us, and we can rebuild civilization in our image."
The passion and rage in which he spoke scared her, and that emotion she didn't have to fake.
"Luke, you're father told me to tell you to come back. This doesn't have to be your destiny," Percy said and she wished she hadn't.
"My father? He's the problem, and my destiny is to bring about the end of the gods," Luke spat, a flash of regret as he realized he'd just raised his voice to her.
"They're our parents! Our family!" Annabeth cried. "Like me, like I thought... like Thalia."
Luke's eyes raged in fury.
"Don't bring her into this!" he yelled, a for a split second Percy felt jealous of Thalia. She'd known Luke, been a part of Luke's life that she could never be. "The gods let her die! Just like they'll let you die too.
No one noticed the glance in Percy's direction, or the pain in his eyes for that split second, but Percy did.
Zeus fumed.
"How dare that boy, I did not let her die!"
Thalia rolled her eyes.
"Well you didn't exactly help me either."
"I turned you into a tree," Zeus said, nodding and Thalia snorted.
"Yeah, that was fun. I think I might have rather taken my chances in the Underworld," Thalia said and then sighed at the hurt in she saw flash in her father's eyes.
"Look, dad, I know you were just trying to save me. But...being a tree wasn't exactly the highlight of my life. Don't you think maybe... it's time to reevaluate some of those stupid laws that stop the gods from seeing or helping their children. Especially in life or death situations."
Zeus blinked and sighed.
"I suppose you have a point," he said, to the shock of half the council.
"Now darling, think about this before you do anything ras -" Hera was cut off by her husband.
"No Hera, I've allowed you to get away with a lot concerning the demigods. But you need to grow up. They are family as well, and you can dislike them all you want but making them miserable by getting laws passed isn't helping any. If anything, it's what helped father rise to power so quickly."
"Who are you?" Hades asked, raising an eyebrow at his youngest brother. "And what have you done with Zeus?"
Zeus sneered.
"Don't push it Hades," he snapped back. "Now lets continue with the memories."
"Thalia was your friend," Percy muttered, no longer having to fake any emotions. "And you poisoned her."
Luke smiled, his scar giving his face an even more sinister look.
"It's just a tree," he replied. "Thalia's already dead."
Thalia winced, looking away and Nico placed a hand on her shoulder to attempt to comfort her. Conveniently forgetting she was a Hunter and that Artemis was watching him with narrowed eyes, eyes which begged him to give her a reason to turn him into a Jackalope.
Percy was sure Luke didn't really believe that, the truth was barely noticeable in the hesitance of the last sentence.
"You're a monster!" Annabeth yelled, tears in her gray eyes.
Luke laughed bitterly.
"A monster? That's rich, I see you don't have much problem hanging around monsters Annabeth." He shook his head and sneered at Tyson. "What would Thalia think? A cyclops, really now?"
Percy glared.
"Leave them alone."
"And Percy," Luke began, taking a step forward. "I'm so glad you survived our fun last summer. How's your side?"
Annabeth shuddered.
"He scared me with that sentence. I thought he was eluding to something other then trying to kill her."
It took a few minutes but everyone understood what she meant.
Many looked shocked, others repulsed (Artemis, Athena, and Hestia mostly), and most others were either angry (Poseidon being the most angry) or indifferent.
Hermes clinched his fist, but knew Luke would never have sunk that low. Luke may have stabbed you in the back once your guard was down, but rape was never something his son would have even contemplated.
It was more likely Luke was making a very poor joke at the time and the way it came out had double meaning depending on how you interpreted it.
"Luke wouldn't have," Thalia said, shaking her head. "I know it sounds like I'm defending him or in denial but even at his darkest moment, he wasn't a rapist."
No one but Hermes noticed Apollo take a sigh of relief, and Hermes had to question why that was. Had he found something strange while healing Percy?
Percy winced, and had to remind herself this was all an act. That Luke didn't mean the cruel things he said to her.
"Healed," she answered.
He smirked.
"You could be great you know? You could have anything you desired. Keep anyone you wished," Luke said this while his eyes turned to Tyson and Annabeth.
She knew just by his eyes he really did mean his words this time and she had to lower her own eyes. She feared that if she stared into them to long she'd say yes.
"You're mother could live like a queen, so could you for that matter," he finished.
"Kronos is using you," she said after a moment, her voice low at first. "I don't trust him."
'But I trust you,' she thought to herself. Wishing she could tell him that.
"I see," he said. "And you Annabeth? Think about it, the world from scratch. You could build the greatest structures known to Titan, man or god."
She could tell the idea appealed to Annabeth by the way her eyes glazed over.
"We could use your intelligence."
That was his mistake, and Annabeth glared, coming out of her daze.
"Because you have none of your own."
"Luke," Percy muttered but she didn't think anyone heard her. "Please."
Poseidon furrowed his brow.
"What is she doing?" he asked, mostly to himself.
Luke subtly looked her in the eye and jerked his had in the direction of the life boats while talking. It looked more as if he was getting the bangs out from in front of his eyes the way he'd pulled it off.
"That was cold Annabeth," he said, and sighed. "Unfortunately, you know I can't let you leave alive."
He said this as if it were as common as a weather report. Percy saw there chance then and willed the water to create a wave. The wave both rocked the ship and crashed down onto the deck around them.
Allowing her, Tyson and Annabeth the time to run. Percy pulling the surprised Annabeth in the direction of the life boat.
"I was right then," Annabeth said. "He did let us go to easily. It wasn't just because he wanted the fleece though."
Hermes smiled slightly, but mostly there was sadness in his face. With the blood that still stained an area of the floor close to the hearth it was hard to forget his son was dead.
"Cut the rope thing!" Percy cried as she fished out the thermos and ducked an incoming arrow. She pulled Riptide a second later as well, worried for more then herself.
"How?" Annabeth asked, clearly panicking.
Percy sighed and pushed the thermos into her blonde friends hand and stood, sword ready. Percy got one last look at her boyfriend before she slashed the rope and the boat fell to the ocean.
Everyone watched as the rainbow memories swirled once more.
"I didn't know Luke was so angry," Hermes muttered. "I knew he hated me, and In knew he disliked the gods. I just never knew his rage went that deep."
The three demigods and Grover all lowered their head, very much aware of how far Luke's bitterness and grudge against Olympus and his father went.
"It's starting again," Aphrodite pointed out.
Everyone gasped as the memory formed with them once again on the Princess Andromeda, but this time Percy was hurt, and Grover was present.
Pain shot through her leg and Percy cried out as she fell to the ground. She knew it wasn't exactly her smartest move when she'd bated Luke into fighting her. They always had to make it real.
She didn't feel so bad about that gash on his left forearm now though.
"You're out of practice Seph," Luke said, twirling Backbiter once, the sun glinting off of it.
The crimson blood creating a think coating on the tip of the blade and along the edge. It almost looked... hungry.
What she saw that no one did was that he kept stalking towards her, but as she crawled backwards to get away she was headed straight for water. He was backing her up against a safety net in reality.
Athena gasped, and she smiled.
"What are you smiling about?" Poseidon asked. "My daughter is hurt!"
"He's helping her. The way he's approaching her, he's doing it in such a way she has no choice but to crawl back towards the pool. He's trying to get her close to the water so she can heal," Athena said and Poseidon blinked, realizing his niece was right.
Annabeth, Thalia, Nico and Grover gaped as they saw the wisdom goddess was right.
Thalia then smiled.
"Good," she snapped. "He should be."
He hadn't wanted to hurt her, she hadn't wanted to hurt him but they had no choice. To everyone else they were enemies, nothing more, and nothing less.
"Party Ponies!" she heard Grover exclaimed a moment before a rain of arrows came down, striking monsters, and turning most to dust.
Luke's eyes flashed in relief for a split second before turning angry.
"You've got to be kidding me," he hissed.
Percy watched as all Hades broke loose. She had to bite her tongue to stop from laughing as a centaur used some sort of arrow/boxing glove to punch Luke into the pool.
A few minutes later Percy was lifted onto Chiron's back, along with Annabeth and Grover. Tyson got his own centaur to ride, much to that centaurs pain.
Soon, with one last shout from Luke the Party Ponies retreated.
"Well, that was informative," Ares said sarcastically, stifling a yawn.
"No one is forcing you to stay," Apollo snapped. "I should go check on Percy before the next memory starts.
"Will she be joining us if she is awake?" Persephone asked, and Apollo shrugged.
"I don't know. It depends on if she's able or rested enough, and if she can handle seeing these memories. He did just pass away," he said and Hermes winced at the blunt reminder.
"Hurry back," Zeus told his son, and Apollo left the room.
"Wait," Artemis said, standing up. "I wish to go as well."
She didn't even stay to ask permission from her father or let her brother argue with her decision. She simply ran after him, and dragged him out of the throne room to the infirmary.
"I never realized Artemis respected Percy so much," Poseidon said and Thalia smiled.
"Artemis sees her as a friend. I'm not surprised she wanted to accompany Apollo," Thalia said.
Zeus sighed, propping his elbow on his throne arm and resting his head on his open palm.
"Well, let us wait for their return then," he grumbled.
xXx
As the walked towards the infirmary Artemis stopped and grabbed onto Apollo's arm to stop him as well.
"Okay brother, there is something you're not telling us," Artemis said, placing her hands on her hips.
Apollo blinked, shook his head.
"Uh no, uh there isn't," he said.
Artemis snorted.
"We're twins Apollo, I know when you're lying to me. Which by the way, isn't that something you're not allowed to do?" Artemis asked and Apollo twitched.
"Rules schmules," Apollo muttered, shrugging. "What makes you think I'm keeping anything from the council?"
"Well for one thing you kept looking at Poseidon and Hermes like you were thinking about handing them a live grenade," Artemis began, raising an auburn eyebrow.
"Second, you seemed pretty freaked when the subject of rape came up. I hate the thought of it myself, and I think I'm going to have to go hunting later to let off some steam, but you looked like someone had shoved a hot poker of reality up your ass and made you sit on it."
Apollo sighed. His freak out hadn't been about Luke exactly, but the fact the baby conception date was after Luke became Kronos host. Luke may not have been the type to force a girl into anything, but for some reason he didn't think Kronos would have that sort of moral.
"What I tell you doesn't leave the two of us," Apollo said, his eyes holding the warning that told Artemis he was dead serious.
"Of course," she said.
"Percy is pregnant," he said.
Artemis' eyes widened.
"She's...pregnant?" she asked. "You thought Luke might have rap -"
Apollo shook his head, clearing it.
"No, of course not. I know it couldn't have been Luke. I've seen enough memories to know he loved her to much to do that," Apollo said. "But the baby was conceived around July 7th. Luke was already Kronos' host by then."
Artemis' eyes widened with realization.
"You think Kronos raped her," she breathed and Apollo sighed, running a hand through his hair.
"I hope not, but I need to talk to her. Make sure it wasn't or I'll be freaking out the whole time I'm sitting on this secret," Apollo said and Artemis nodded.
"Well then, let's go," she said and stormed off for the infirmary like a goddess on a mission.
Apollo smiled and followed behind.
It took them less then a minute to get to the infirmary and inside. Connor and Travis Stoll were both sitting at the bottom corners of Percy's bed. Percy was sitting up in bed, each had cards in their hands. Obviously they'd been playing a card game.
"Lord Apollo, Lady Artemis," Connor and Travis said in unison, which really didn't do much for the whole twin confusion.
Percy smiled, amused by her two friends.
"You can sit back down boys," Artemis said, rather civil seeing as she was talking to two boys.
At the moment though the goddess was more interested in Percy. She hoped Apollo wasn't right, because if it was true then she'd go to Tartarus herself just to castrate Kronos for hurting the young maiden and her friend.
Percy looked at Apollo and Artemis, who she would admit where two of her favorite Olympians. Along with Hestia and she did have a soft spot for her Uncle Hades despite him attempting to keep her in the Underworld cells before she'd bathed in the Styx.
Truthfully the only Olympian she really had a problem with was Ares and Mr. D – more so the former then the latter.
"Whats up?" she asked, laying the cards on her lap. She didn't have a very good hand anyways.
They'd been playing poker, though Connor and Travis had suggested Strip Poker but she was pretty sure the glare she'd given him had shot that idea down pretty quickly.
"Are you aware of what's going on currently?" Artemis asked, seeing as she didn't think Apollo could really do much in the way of sounding tactful.
Percy's face fell, and turned grim.
"Connor and Travis said something about Iris, and rainbow memories about me and Luke," she said, fiddling with her charm bracelet.
Artemis and Apollo noticed the bracelet had a dozen more charms then what they'd witnessed her receive in the memories they'd already watched.
Apollo sighed.
"We've gotten to the battle you had on the Princess Andromeda..." he trailed off.
He wasn't exactly sure how you worked up to asking a seventeen year old girl if she'd been raped. He couldn't exactly be blunt about it...could he? He shook his head and Artemis sighed, seeing the conflict her brother was under.
"Something Luke said during one of the memories brought up a subject which caused some...worries. No one think Luke would ever be capable of it, but Apollo told me your were pregnant."
Percy looked between them and after a few seconds she understood. She narrowed her eyes and shook her head.
"Luke didn't rape me, if that is what your eluding to," Percy snapped.
Connor and Travis' head snapped around to their friend, and they stared with wide eyes. They knew now about the relationship between their brother and Percy, but they hadn't realized until now that, Percy's pregnant so it must be Luke's.
It was now hitting them, that hey, the bundle of joy growing inside Percy was their niece or nephew.
Artemis and Apollo both sighed this time.
"Good, but we already knew that," Apollo said. "No one thinks Luke could have done anything like that Perce. But I was the only one to know you were pregnant until I had to tell Artemis."
"Then what is this about?" she asked. "Why didn't you tell them?"
"There are some... circumstances that may cause a few problems," Artemis said, knowing exactly what had caused Apollo to keep it to himself.
With the baby's conception date there was a large chance it was part Titan.
"Percy, from what I can tell the baby would have been conceived around July 7th," Apollo began. "That means Kronos was already in Luke's body. I need to know if Kronos raped you."
Percy's eyes widened as her head snapped up from her lap and out of her thoughts.
"Why would you think that?" she asked. "Why would it matter?"
Artemis sighed.
"The baby's parentage. If Kronos was in possession completely then it may have caused more of his traits to pass on to the fetus. Zeus is paranoid, he may think the baby to dangerous to live if it's proven Luke isn't the dominant father."
"I don't understand," Percy said. "And it was July 18th. That was the last time I had sex with Luke. It was Luke and not Kronos, just to be clear. I made a deal with Kronos to allow Luke to have control of his body one last time. What does this mean though, is Luke the father or is Kronos?"
Artemis and Apollo both sighed in relief.
"I'm sorry for worrying you Percy," Apollo said. "And since Luke was in control then he should be the dominant father. Which means the baby will most likely be half god, a quarter human and a quarter titan."
Artemis nodded.
"You also shouldn't be to surprised if the baby has some features not from you or Luke. The baby will essentially have two fathers."
Percy laid her head back against the wall behind her.
"You think this is why Kronos agreed to allow me a night with Luke?" she asked, her voice sort of horse.
"I don't know what his motives were Persephone," Apollo said, placing a hand on her shoulder. "He couldn't have known you'd get pregnant from one night. We can just assume he was a pervert. He would have heard, seen and felt everything Luke did."
Percy and Artemis gave the sun god looks of disgust that clearly read, why did you just say that?
"That doesn't help," Percy told him, shaking her head.
"Do you want to come see the rest of the memories with us?" Artemis asked, taking Percy's hand in what she hoped was a comforting hold.
"I don't know. What are the chances of Uncle Zeus turning me to ash when he finds out about the baby?" she asked.
"Oh, there not that bad. There is a 90 percent chance he'll be softened up enough by the end to accept he's going to get a great niece/nephew, great-grandchild and a younger sibling at the same time," Apollo said, thinking about it. "And then there is a ten percent chance he freaks and does something rash. But I doubt Poseidon will let him have that chance. And you have Artemis and I on your side as well."
"And the demigods," Connor said.
Travis nodded. "You saved Camp and Olympus Seph, you're our leader."
"And Aphrodite won't let her favorite love story end so bitterly," Artemis said, rolling her eyes lightly. "Actually I think she'd cooking something up as we watch these memories. I've never seen her think so hard before."
Percy wasn't sure what that meant, she was pretty sure that her love story was over unless they could bring back the dead.
"Dionysus owes you for Pollux," Apollo said. "Hephaestus will agree with Aphrodite most likely. Hades has a soft spot for you, and Poseidon would never endanger you or his grandchild-sibling thing."
Percy scowled at him.
"Okay, can you stop calling my baby a thing, or a great grandchild, grandchild-sibling, great niece/nephew... you get the point," Percy said trying to remember all the different things Apollo had used. "It just reminds me how messed up this family is."
Artemis nodded.
"Of course," she said, and shot her twin a look telling him to keep his trap shut. "The point is if it comes down to a vote half the council is with you. So you shouldn't have anything to worry about, but stick close to one of us just in case."
"Do I have to tell them now?" she muttered.
"I'd tell them before the memories end," Artemis said. "Don't worry so much. It's not good for the baby."
"I thought you were a virgin goddess Lady Artemis," Percy said, chuckling.
"I'm also a goddess of female children and childbirth. I know these sort of things," Artemis said.
"Then I think I'll join everyone for the memories," Percy said and the Stoll brothers and two Olympians smiled and Apollo helped to steady Percy as she stood.
"I should change," Percy muttered as she took in her clothing.
Artemis chuckled and snapped her fingers, there was a small flash of light and Percy was wearing a pair of jeans, a pair of boots, a green shirt and jean jacket.
"Thanks," she said, smiling over at the goddess.
"Well," Apollo said, clapping. "Let's go before Zeus sends out a search party."
With that said the two gods and three half-bloods left for the throne room.