Chapter 7

Author's Note:

So I'm doing this on Wednesday. It'll be a miracle if I get this done. Their were some obonxious techinal issues, so I didn't get to type. But I didn't really think much for this chapter so it's mostly improptu, sorry :) also I'm trying to speed this up so.. yeah. I realized how slow this is compaed to other stories. Lol but their was this one HP fanfic that went on for 70 chapters, and I was totally diying for Snape and Harry to do it, and when I finaly thought they'd get somewhere, the story was over cause the author didn't update for lke 3 years. Saddest momment of realization, ever! It sucked, but the story was seriously intriguing and I read it over and over again, because it was spectacular, even if the author left her thousands of fans hanging. *u* I was so dead. lol

Warnings:

Yaoi boyboy

Yuri girlxgirl

We went though a small forest path and found ourselves in a huge looking beach house. We were all settled awkwardly in the living room. It was so stiffing, Everyone was on guard and looking warily at each other. Know that we'd established many times over that we couldn't stab each other without something weird happening or everybody creating mayhem, we decided to just tolerate each other. I sat on Nico's lap settling awkwardly in between his legs. As he wrapped his arms around me I grasped at his arm. I snuggled up and let his warmth envelope me and I found myself becoming ignorant of the frustration starting to flow freely around the room.

People were growling at each other and shooting uneasy glares in every direction. Some of them even went to go so far as reach for a weapon that wasn't there. The tension was broken by Leo a cute little Mexican.

"So my name is Leo, son of Hephaestus I guess. And I think this is a super awesome idea."he said a huge grin on his face. But before the could all interject he said "Don't look at me like that. We need to get to know each other, it's ridiculous that we've been fighting each other for this long. In and out of the clans." he said making a serious face that some how didn't seem to fit him.

"Oh come on Leo. The clans have been fighting for years. What makes you think forcing us to live together is going to fix anything." a brunette asked none to thrilled with the situation.

"It will!" he said enthusiastically "and who knows, we may even be able to be friends... maybe we could even be friends with the Romans." he said hopefully to which everyone grumbled and snorted.

"Your so adorable Leo." said the twins, ruffling his hair

"Am not!" said Leo huffing and pouting, only further proving their point. They continued their playful argument for a minute until Leo said, "Well fine, but I still think we should get to know each other, especially if were living together. Why don't we just introduce ourselves? I'm Leo!" he said

The twins next to him just shook their heads but they said that their names were Conner and Travis Stolls, sons of Hermes. Then Charles Beckendrof son of Hephaestus, Clarisse la Rue daughter of Ares, Annabeth Chase daughter of Athena, Grover Underwood ward of Hestia, Juniper Woods daughter of Hestia, Piper McLean daughter of Aphrodite,

Silena Bearuregaurd daughter of Aphrodite, Micheal Yew ward of Apollo. Then their was Nico and me, I stuttered when it came to me I wasn't really sure of my position. Nico filled in for me simply saying- "Percy Jackson, my husband." he said rubbing his thumb over my ring. They just blinked but they continued around the circle. With Jason Grace son of Jupiter, Hazel Levesque daughter of Pluto, Octavian Augustus son of Apollo, Rachel Dare daughter of Apollo, Reyna Bellona daughter of Mars, Frank Zhang son of Mars, Zoe Nightshade of the Moon clan, and Thalia of the Moon clan.

People seemed to settle down a little when they knew who was who. Nico said that they knew where they stood in the family tree and that they knew who was safe to kill and who wasn't. When I stiffened at that Nico just shook his head and said we weren't in any danger, and that he'd protect me if it came to that.

"Do you know what's wrong with this Island?" asked Hazel to Nico

"I'm not quite sure, it's..strange." Nico said, fumbling for a word.

Those words seemed to spark something in me. Nico was right, this island did feel different. Suddenly I felt kind of intrigued. "So let's go!" I said excitedly.

"Go where?" Nico asked confused

"Lets go explore!"at the strange looks I was getting I said "Come on don't tell me your not curious, were on a deserted island for goodness sake. Or who knows maybe were not." I said realizing that, that may in fact be true.

"Percy's right we should definitely check out the island. There might be something dangerous here. And if there is we need to find out how to get away from it, or kill it.

"Yeah good luck with that, because you can totally kill an earthquake, thunderstorm, and random ass huge waves." said Clarisse looking angry like she wished she could.

"Yeah that was weird." said Frank

Octavian and Rachel seemed to think that was funny. But only snickered to themselves, not letting the rest of us in on the joke. So we just took off into the forest. I found myself trying not to smile. As we went through the forest , it was so strange. There was a path already carved three in fact, and we all took different paths.

We went though a small forest path and found ourselves in a huge looking beach house. We were all settled awkwardly in the living room. It was so stiffing, Everyone was on guard and looking warily at each other. Know that we'd established many times over that we couldn't stab each other without something weird happening or everybody creating mayhem, we decided to just tolerate each other. I sat on Nico's lap settling awkwardly in between his legs. As he wrapped his arms around me I grasped at his arm. I snuggled up and let his warmth envelope me and I found myself becoming ignorant of the frustration starting to flow freely around the room.

People were growling at each other and shooting uneasy glares in every direction. Some of them even went to go so far as reach for a weapon that wasn't there. The tension was broken by Leo a cute little Mexican.

"So my name is Leo, son of Hephaestus I guess. And I think this is a super awesome idea."he said a huge grin on his face. But before the could all interject he said "Don't look at me like that. We need to get to know each other, it's ridiculous that we've been fighting each other for this long. In and out of the clans." he said making a serious face that some how didn't seem to fit him.

"Oh come on Leo. The clans have been fighting for years. What makes you think forcing us to live together is going to fix anything." a brunette asked none to thrilled with the situation.

"It will!" he said enthusiastically "and who knows, we may even be able to be friends... maybe we could even be friends with the Romans." he said hopefully to which everyone

grumbled and snorted.

"Your so adorable Leo." said the twins, ruffling his hair

"Am not!" said Leo huffing and pouting, only further proving their point. They continued their playful argument for a minute until Leo said, "Well fine, but I still think we should get to know each other, especially if were living together. Why don't we just introduce ourselves? I'm Leo!" he said

The twins next to him just shook their heads but they said that their names were Conner and Travis Stolls, sons of Hermes. Then Charles Beckendrof son of Hephaestus, Clarisse la Rue daughter of Ares, Annabeth Chase daughter of Athena, Grover Underwood ward of Hestia, Juniper Woods daughter of Hestia, Piper McLean daughter of Aphrodite, Silena Bearuregaurd daughter of Aphrodite, Micheal Yew ward of Apollo. Then their was Nico and me, I stuttered when it came to me I wasn't really sure of my position. Nico filled in for me simply saying- "Percy Jackson, my husband." he said rubbing his thumb over my ring. They just blinked but they continued around the circle. With Jason Grace son of Jupiter, Hazel Levesque daughter of Pluto, Octavian Augustus son of Apollo, Rachel Dare daughter of Apollo, Micheal Yew ward of Apollo, Reyna Bellona daughter of Mars, Frank Zhang son of Mars, Zoe Nightshade of the Moon clan, and Thalia of the Moon clan.

People seemed to settle down a little when they knew who was who. Nico said that they knew where they stood in the family tree and that they knew who was safe to kill and who wasn't. When I stiffened at that Nico just shook his head and said we weren't in any danger, and that he'd protect me if it came to that.

"Do you know what's wrong with this Island?" asked Hazel to Nico

"I'm not quite sure, it's..strange." Nico said, fumbling for a word.

Those words seemed to spark something in me. Nico was right, this island did feel different. Suddenly I felt kind of intrigued. "So let's go!" I said excitedly.

"Go where?" Nico asked confused

"Lets go explore!"at the strange looks I was getting I said "Come on don't tell me you're not curious, were on a deserted island for goodness sake. Or who knows maybe we're not." I said realizing that, that may in fact be true.

"Percy's right we should definitely check out the island. There might be something dangerous here. And if there is we need to find out how to get away from it, or kill it.

"Yeah good luck with that, because you can totally kill an earthquake, thunderstorm, and random ass huge waves." said Clarisse looking angry like she wished she could.

"Yeah that was weird." said Frank

Octavian and Rachel seemed to think that was funny. But only snickered to themselves, not letting the rest of us in on the joke. So we just took off into the forest. I found myself trying not to smiles, as we went through the forest , it was so strange. There was a path already carved three in fact. We split off into three groups, and sadly that meant me and Nico were separated because he had his own group. It felt weird not having his arms around me, and we'd only been together a night. I frowned I'd been hanging on him this entire time, hadn't I! I groaned at myself, I was a slut even when i wasn't trying to be.

"Dude, what's wrong. Your depressing me by just look'in at you" Clarisse said bumping my shoulder playfully if not a little too roughly

"Nothing." I said dejectedly, "I'm just a terrible person." I mumbled to myself, thinking aloud.

"What, no. You seem alright to me. Maybe a little weak, but alright" she said jokingly

"Thanks Clarisse." I said with a small smile, shaking my head.

"No Problem Jackson. Now what exactly are we looking for?" She asked

"We're looking for anything that might be dangerous, or the source of all that stuff earlier." Said Annabeth

"We're not going to find anything." said Reyna with a disdainful look at us and a wary look to the forest we were surrounded by.

"Oh. And why is that?" asked Annabeth, not scornfully. She actually just wanted the answer.

"Magic." she said simply

"Magic?" Annabeth said obviously not believing it.

"Don't you see the signs. The flood, the storms, the earth shaking!" she said incredulously

"I don't think it's magic either, actually." said Rachel

"No?" questioned Reyna, who actually had respect for the girl, she was well known among the Romans in Europe. All the children of Apollo were.

"No, I think there are influences here," she said waving at the forest "But I don't think there is magic, per sé." she said thoughtfully

"Well whatever it is, It's wonderful that they brought us to this island. Just look at all the trees and plants and flowers. It's wonderful." said juniper who was clearly ecstatic and looked perfectly at home.

"Still it's strange I can't remember anything about how I got here. The last thing I remember is playing fetch with my dogs, and it just halts. I was throwing a bone, and then...nothing. No sleepiness, no sting from an epi-pen, no pain if I had fallen to the floor." Reyna said troubled.

The girls nodded and agreed that they'd had similar experience. I didn't I went to sleep, and I woke up here. I thought remembering this morning and my little naked escapadé, I was so glad that we'd found a pair of clothes in one of the closets in the cabin.

"There's something up ahead." said Clarisse positioning herself in front of Annabeth. Annabeth pointedly moved herself to the side, giving Clarisse a faintly annoyed look. But looked away to see what she was being protect from.

There was a very dense fog over the path we were walking. It was white and thick looking, as it advanced on us it saturated the air making it feel weird to breath the thick air. I couldn't see anything in front of me, it was like I was in an endless sea of white. I felt fear grip my heart as my heartbeat sped up. I called out for Clarisse, Annabeth, Rachel, Reyna, and Juniper. But nobody answered. I searched for them, running blindly and tripping on nothing. It was as if the fog would never end. And my friends were nowhere to be seen. I laughed there was nothing to be seen, or heard for that matter. But I could smell something, I could smell a sort of heavy, earthy, sweet smelling flower. I blinked suddenly feeling dizzy, but I let my nose carry to the sent. And apparently my nose worked better than my brain ever could because It had led me to a pond and a waterfall. The mist seemed to lift over the area, and I could see more cliff where the waterfall was falling seemed to be covered in grape by the mist: There seemed to be a shadow of a person in the pond. I called out and splashed into the pond loudly.

"Hello, is anyone there?" I called out desperately. And I cried out in relief upon seeing Nico here in the pond with me. "Oh thank God. Somebody's alive." I said falling limply into his arms as my panic subsided.

"My,my, their sure are a lot of you today." said he, to himself

"I'm so glad you're okay Nico, I was beginning to wonder if anyone was. Have you seen the others?" I asked concerned

"I have seen some of the others. But I am not the Nico you refer to. I am Pothos, but it is Nico who you see, hmm." he said questioningly.

Not Nico. I thought alarmed and jumped out of his arms to which he only laughed. I suddenly became very aware of the naked body in front of me, that wasn't Nico's. Not that I had seen Nico naked, but it was strange to see him naked, but not really Nico,naked. If that makes any sense, which it doesn't I thought running circles around myself in my head.

But the more I looked at him, the more it made sense. He wasn't Nico. If he was he had

a dull impression of him. Nico was so much more. I thought as I began to see Pothos' true form. It was practically blinding, and for some reason I found it frightening.

"I am not here to harm you,small one." he said with a chuckle

"Then why are you here?" I said trying to keep my eyes from wandering.

"I am here because you wished me to be here." he said wisely

"No I didn't." I said defiantly "I don't even know you!" I said

"Ahh but you do, you see Percy, I am your hidden desire, your yearning longing,

and lust." he said placidly

"You mean, I want you, or rather Nico. In a , in a sexual way." I said flustered and

stuttering.

"Well of course you do, he's not bad looking." he said jovially.

"But, but , he's….he's. And I'm just so...' I finished of pathetically remembering just how tainted I really was. I wrapped my arms around myself trying to get rid of the feeling of him on my skin. It was like I was still covered in his filth. He'd buried me in it, so much that it had become my own.

"You poor thing." Pothos said softly. "Your not him you know, he said wrapping himself around me and tilting my chin up to meet his eyes.

"But I am." I said sadly, disgusted by what I was.

"You're not." he said compassion heavy in his voice as he kissed me. I struggled a little in his arms but I suddenly felt very light and red as the heavy smell of the grapes around us clouded my mind giving everything a very pretty flowery psychedelic feel. I gasped as I found my clothes suddenly dissolving in water.

"Your full of surprises, aren't you." chuckled Pothos

I just blushed and gasped as I felt his hands dance over my body, lighting me on fire. He bit my lip and sucked gently on the flesh while my breathing started to grow heavier. He massaged my chest with the meaty pad of his hands, warming me up. He started to gently touch my nipples with both his hands, while scraping his teeth along the side of my neck making me squirm and shake . His mouth was doing wondrous things to my neck. His cool and wet tongue gliding against my hot damp skin was perfect. But as he began to bught and tug at my skin leaving small welts all down my neck. I felt a deep moan peel from my throat. That only grew as his hands started to lace their way down as did his mouth. he worked my nipples, sucking and blowing on them till they felt ice cold yet on fire at the same time. I shivered under his breath. and lips . He continued his butterfly kisses downward until he'd reached my pelvic area. At this point we were against the cliff of the waterfall. I could feel the sticky liquid starting to solidify on my skin as it ran down my back to my legs. Because he was working me over so hard I was throwing myself back onto the cliff and making me squash all those mouth watering smelling grapes. But Pothos licked it up, he licked it all up, wherever it landed. From head to toe I was know feeling even more sticky, and I had a feeling would feel even stickier soon as I started to feel pressure build in my abdomen. Pothos kissed around me, and teased me with the flick of his tongue. I whined at his constant up's and down's, but I moaned when he went down on me. I didn't even know it felt like this, usually I was the one doing it after all. But his mouth felt like hot slick velvet around me. And he just kept on sucking, making it feel more fitting and desirable. I felt him go deeper and deeper down on me until he had be in the back of his throat. I could feel the ridges of his vocal cords, and their vibrations went through me as he hummed. I could feel him building even more pressure inside me as he massaged my ass. Grabbing the globes and pushing them, even massaging them while he deep-throated me. I could feel the missing link, but I ignored it, and came down his throat.

Pothos released his grip on me and I slid down the slippery grape covered slope. And I

slipped easily into the water, floating contentedly trying to make my pulse go down from its loud beating pace. And it started to, except for in one area, an area a little farther down south than I was comfortable with. In fact it seemed to be speeding up, and maybe that was due to the fact that It felt hot down there, and wet and I really wanted to do something about it, and just, well touch myself. Because it was getting unbearable to even move. And then suddenly it didn't ache as bad.

Pothos put his hand on my shoulder and said " Peace young one, the fire burning within you is strong. I can not quench it, nor could I ever. Because there is but one being that you lust for. Why do you resist? It will only hurt you." he said gazing down at me with soft sad brown eyes.

I blinked not quite sure I was processing what he was saying correctly.

"You never yearned for him once, not even to call out his you not see him in me? Not even a trace of your lover?" he asked seemingly confused.

I bobbed my head shakily in the water, still somewhat unsure of what he was getting at.

"Then you can see me clearly. What a precious child you are. It's been a blessing meeting someone as pure hearted as you Perseus. So I will leave you with a gift." he said placing a soft kiss on my forehead.

"Goodbye Perseus." he said his voice already fading, just as his face did.

And then so did everything, coming as it came with the mists all the perfume of flowers until I felt the sun hit my skin again. I stared up from my position on the ground, looking into the roof of the forest and the light strings of sunlight it cast around me. It was so beautiful, and warm I thought wistfully. I realized that I loved the sun, because it was warm, and it was helping me doze off. And I might have too, I might have stayed out their for day longer than I probably had, but something was making it cold on my face, like something was blocking the sun, I realized. No not something I blinked up, someone i focused in on the the fuzzy blurs of grey and found there was a kind looking girl with mousy brown hair and eyes looking down at me with concern. I blinked lazily into focus and realized it was Juniper.

"Are You alright Percy?" she asked

"Yeah I'm fine." I said slowly I tried to get up but I slipped and I landed on my back, on the floor again. "Well I still trip on flat surfaces, so i must be fine." I snorted to myself. "It's alright." I said warding off her outstretched hand.

"Well...Okay." she said uneasily.

Once I was up she asked me, "Where did you go? All of a sudden I was looking at these really gorgeous and rare Sombreuil Colonial White Rose bush, and everything looked really glittery and pretty and it smelled really sweet like a red lotus, and then I remembered the search. And you were all gone." she said dismayed. She also really seemed to know her flowers, that's a long name for a rose.

"Well what happened was that I was running through the forest, and…" I said slowin down, trying to remember the memory. But I couldn't, it was like eating cotton candy. As soon as I thought I had the memory I was looking for it vanished, and I couldn't form any other image of what had happened, other than two sparkling brown eyes. I thought hard trying to remember whose eyes those were, I went through all the people I knew so far: Annabeth's were grey Clarisse's were a muddy brown Nico's were a very dark brown like a chocolate cake, I thought.

"Wouldn't want to get stuck with that look on my face." said Clarisse laughing at me, and whirling me out of my thoughts.

"Hey, where were you guys, and what happened?" I asked looking at Clarisse who had shown up behind me with a very disgruntled looking Annabeth.

"It doesn't matter." said Annabeth insistently, "let's just get back to the cabin. If we don't we'll

be stuck out in this weird forest with nothing but the moon to guide us." she said pointing out that the sun was being sucked down rather quickly.

"Okay." I said slowly trying to read Annabeth, but she'd already turned away and was walking fast back down the dirt path.

"Did it finally happen?" asked Rachel to Clarisse.

"Yeah, I guess it did, but it didn't exactly go as planned." Clarisse said gruffly, with a sigh.

"Yeah, I don't think it ever would have, but come one lets catch up to her before she runs into the Romans." Rachel said thoughtfully.

I walked along them rather confused when I gave Rachel a questioning look she just laughed at me.

"You always were the cute and clueless one. But maybe not as clueless as we all thought." she said nodding to something on my neck? What was she talking about I wondered. But I just shrugged it off and kept walking. I hope the cabin has air conditioning because for some reason, even though the sun is setting it's starting to feel rather warm.

When we got to the cabin everyone was already there, just piled on top of each other or laying on the floor. had they actually found the source of what made all those things happen, because they looked like they'd just been in a fight, and were exhausted. Nico was sitting on a couch rubbing the bridge of his nose like he had a huge headache.

"What happened to guys, you look like hell!" Clarisse said

"I don't wanna talk about it." said Jason with his head in his hands. Clarisse hummed at that but didn't comment further.

"There was all this mist, and then there was a tool shed, it just up and appeared out of nowhere. And then there was this girl, and yeah, it was weird." said Leo animatidly

"I saw my Brothers." said Piper warily

"And I saw Mother." said Silena with unease.

"Wait you saw our Mother-Brother." they said in unison exchanging looks of discomforts and slow shakes of the head of understanding and acknowledgement. Apparently their Mother and there Brother being here really meant something.

"This will be like before, won't it." said Piper with a certain edge to her voice, to her older sister.

Silena looked around the room once or twice before responding "Yeah, definitely. Especially if they showed up." she said displeasure clear in her voice.

"Piper, Piper. I didn't just see Mother, I saw Harmonia." she said hesitantly

Piper sighed. "Well, at least that's something." she said dubiously

"What, in the heck are you guys talking about." said Conner and Travis

"It's Nothing." said Silena

"Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait. If Your Mom was here, why didn't she pick us up, or just you guys." asked Leo

"She wasn't her on a social visit, or at least not a positive one anyway." said Piper

"I'm sure it was positive for them.' said Silena to Piper with a smirk

Piper just rolled her eyes at her sister and continued to answer to Leo's question. "Were daughter's of Aphrodite, she was just kindly reminding us of our role. And how much her reputation depended on us."

"She didn't really say any of that of course. Funny how love doesn't always involve words." said Silena drearily.

"Yeah, It's freakin hilarious." said Thalia under her breath.

"Oh come off if Thals." said Annabeth annoyed

"What! This is ridiculous! were stuck on this dumb island, with these idiots!"Thalia

pissed and clearly at wits end.

"Yes we are stuck here with a lot of other people, whom we are not familiar with, but

that doesn't give you the excuse to be rude." Annabeth said pointedly

Thalia glared at her clearly in a mood but wasn't going to say anything else to avoid a scolding in front of all these people.

"Besides you cant even talk. How is an assassin better than a slu- I mean um

temptress." He stuttered off "No offense Pipes" he whispered off

"None taken." Piper said with a sigh. "It's okay I know what I am. But your right

Jason. I may take lives if I please, but at least I tell them I'm going to, and I give them happy memories before they die." said Piper with a little bite.

"I'd rather be an assassin than a whore." spat Zoe Nightshade.

I flinched at every barbed insult that flew, I cuddled up to Nico instinctively. This was a war zone. Everyone was out for blood. So you can Imagine my horror when the conversation was focused on me.

I'm sorry I haven't updated in literally a freakin year. I've been damn busy. How did I even manage to update during school in the beginning I don't know, but I'm trying know. So stay posted.