Piper

Annabeth and Percy stayed in the hospital ward for the next few days, recovering from the shooting.

Apparently the shooting was planned, 20 shots in total, ten guns would go off at a time for two shots. Seven dead, four minorly wounded, two majorly wounded. The four recovered within two days Percy and Annabeth were asleep, the bullets grazed their skin.

Charles Beckendorf and Silena Beauregard were the only two that we knew were dead, the bodies weren't recognizable.

"We have to find them!" Thalia growled, we were sitting outside in the waiting room, waiting to see Annabeth and Percy.

"I don't know if we can, they could be miles away by now," Nico said gently, taking Thalia's hand to comfort her. Although I knew that there was no way to actually make Thalia feel safe, Nico was as close to safety as she could get. Jason, her brother, was kinda sporadic in their childhood, in and out all the time with their father, never really home.

Nico hated it when people died, he always blamed himself for their deaths, he always felt helpless. His sister died when he was 12 and she was 14. Their mother died when they were littler and their father wasn't ever around. They were put in foster care and would always run away. When they finally found a family that kept them together, they realized Bianca was very ill. She had gotten cancer. Bianca fought it for two years before her battle was over, Nico was there through the whole thing. He dedicated his life after that to finding a cure after his sister passed.

"Nico, are you okay?" I asked, seeing his eyes watering. Bianca.

"Yeah, I'm fine," he replied, taking in a deep breath.

Thalia

"They're awake, if you'd like to see them," a nurse said, poking her head out of the slightly open door.

We rushed in and took out "spots" by their beds.

The customary "Annabeth!"'s and "Percy!"'s and "are you okay?", "how are you feeling?", ect. went on for awhile.

I stood back, never really thinking I was part of their tightly knit group. I looked at them and saw them at their most vulnerable point.

"Thalia," Annabeth called.

"Yes?" I took a few steps toward her.

"You seem uncomfortable."

"You're very observant."

"Thank you," she laughed.

"Question."

"Answer."

"This might seem like an odd question, do you ever feel the actual place where you were shot? Like- how should I explain this? Can you feel how it went in and out of your body?"

"It's healed, so not really, but yeah, sometimes."

Percy was shot through his right shoulder, Annabeth was shot through her left shoulder.

"We've come up with a theory!" Jason announced.

"No- Jason, not now," Hazel tried to stop him.

"We-"

"You mean, you," I pointed out.

"Yes, fine, alright. I have come up with a theory. The shooter was trying to get a headshot but didn't have much practice and missed."

"That would actually make sense," Will said, walking over to us. "It would make sense, only if they weren't the exact same spot on them."

Reyna

After the shooting the head RA's realized that security needed to be stronger. For the next few months we were way over protective of our "kids" as we joked. We never really let them off of campus and always made sure that if they did go off campus they were back by 10.

Campus security scavenged the security footage for the shooters but their trail was invisible, although there was one slip up.