Can I Save You?

By: Freedom98

Chapter 9: Brother and Sister Meet

Marina's.P.O.V.

Hercules slumped to the ground, in a dead faint. Perseus and Annabeth stared in shock. Aunt Alcemene quickly sprung into action.

"It's alright, my son has been…ill as of late." Alcemene said quickly. She quickly glanced at me telling me how she had known…so she had known! Hercules had not told her but the dark bruising under his eyes and paleness had not escaped her sharp gaze. I quickly bent down and picked up Hercules. He was extremely light, lighter than he had looked when I first met him.

"Let me take him." Perseus quickly offered, my heart skipped a beat when he spoke. It wasn't the breathless, dizzying feeling I got with Hercules but…a familiarity, like the feeling I had gotten when I heard the voice that belonged to my Father. The boy felt as though he were a part of me. A piece that had been missing until this point. Like the feeling I got when I reached out for the water. He was the same as I, beating in the exact rhythm, like the way the ocean beats against the shore.

I shook off the feeling and handed Hercules over to him. Beads of sweat were forming on Hercules' brow. He was murmuring agitatedly.

"Follow me." I instructed, guiding Perseus through Hercules' small home to his bedroom. Perseus gently placed Hercules on the bed.

I looked at the boy. He was tall, perhaps 6'1 or 6'2. Well built, all muscle. He looked like he had trained as a warrior at one point. Straight dark brown hair fell over glowing green eyes. They were the exact same colour as mine, the colour of the sea.

"He seemed rather…light." Perseus said, breaking the awkward silence that had befallen us.

"He hasn't been well." I replied, vaguely.

"I should get back." Perseus said, rubbing the back of his neck nervously. Somehow that gesture seemed familiar…then I realized that I did the exact same thing when I was nervous.

"You're not from around here, are you?" I asked, pulling a blanket over Hercules. I pulled a blanket over Hercules. I gently crushed the straw blond hair from his brown. He twitched and jerked in sleep, moaning softly and his brow furrowed. I wondered what horrors he was seeing in the cage of sleep.

"No…not really…" Perseus replied, I would've pressed on if I weren't so distracted by Hercules.

I began to sing softly, barely whispering the words. Instantly Hercules calmed, after a few moment he was sleeping normally.

"How do you know that song?" Perseus asked his eyes wide with shock.

"My mother would sing it to me as a child. It's the only thing that will calm him." I exclaimed, surprised.

"That song has been blessed by the gods, it runs with the strength of titans and deepness of life. It holds the very essence of what it means to be alive. It's as old as time itself." Perseus whispered with reverence.

"How do you know this?" I asked suspiciously.

"I am…a student of the gods." He said quickly, a bit too quickly. I could always tell when someone was lying but I didn't press.

"Have you ever seen a god?" I asked, curious about this strange young man.

"Yes…" he said, his voice reverent and affectionate at the same time. It was a strange combination. When most would speak of gods their voices were filled with terror and fear, but this young man sounded like he walked with them every day.

"What was it like?" I asked, unable to contain my excitement.

"It changes you…you are never the same after you have seen a god." Perseus whispered, but it sounded more like he was speaking to himself rather than to me.

"We should take Hercules to the barn." I murmured, unable to steal my eyes from Hercules lithe form.

"No, Annabeth and I will sleep in the barn tonight. You friends needs to get well. Besides the barn isn't the worst place I've ever slept." Perseus chuckled. I tried to protest but he wouldn't budge, he wouldn't let me take Hercules to the barn. His stubbornness rivaled my own.

Just as he was about to go out the door, he turned around.

"What over him, Marina. Protect him with your life. He's more important to you, than you can ever realize." He whispered before quickly leaving. His words played over and over in my mind as I fell asleep beside Hercules.


a/n: Here's chapter 10! Thank you all my lovely followers and reviewers! Sorry for it taking so long to edit! I got behind in school *bleh*. Hopefully Ill have more soon! Tata for now! Don't forget to review! :)