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Fate Is Quite The Creature

Percy's POV

I can't believe it, I'm actually going to be a father. This is just unbelievable. I don't know how to process this. I mean, I'm only a teenager and I got a girl knock up with my child. And to top it all off to make this all the more unbelievable, that woman I got knock up is Clarisse La Rue. What do we do? What does Clarisse do? What do I do? I have no idea what to do here. Not only am I not old enough to be having a child, but I also don't really know anything about raising a baby. For those who say that raising a baby is actually easy, no one believe them. It really isn't that easy. It's a life's commitment. It's the real fucking deal. It's a gigantic responsibility. There are so many things to be aware of when it comes to raising a baby. I have to admit, I'm also scared of this. The thought of me being a father. It's not that I don't want to be a father, that's not it . . . well, not entirely it, but with that shitty titty jelly belly I had for a stepfather all my life, the only experience I've witnessed is a selfish shit being a terrible father figure. And then there's the fact that my real father was never around for me. I wanted to be the father of my child I always wanted but never had. I wanted to be the loving and caring father my baby will need in his or her life.

"You have my child growing inside of you." I stated.

"Yes." Clarisse simply responded and took a seat on my bunk.

"What do we do?" I asked.

"I'm not getting an abortion." Clarisse sternly said looking seriously at me dead in the eyes.

"You better not get an abortion, otherwise I'll rip your limbs off." I said just as sternly and serious than how Clarisse said to me when she said she wasn't going to get an abortion.

Her cold and deadly stare, which I actually wasn't intimidated by, softened. She seemed a bit surprised by my reaction to that. I guess she was thinking that I would want that child dead. I'm assuming that would be because either she's worried that I would want what was both hers and my flesh and blood destroyed, or that someone was trying to talk her into getting an abortion before she came here to my cabin and it really pissed her off, not that I would blame her. If I was a girl and I was pregnant and people wanted me to get an abortion, I'd literally be going ape shit on their asses.

"You mean that, you really don't want this baby dead?" Clarisse asked with a look and tone of hope in them.

"Why would I want an innocent child dead, and my own child for that matter? Truth be told, I'm godsmacked on the fact that you're carrying my baby and that this is happening while we're still in our teen years, but that doesn't mean that I'm gonna go ahead and desire the worst." I said.

"Percy . . . you don't have to be a part of this baby life if you don't want to. I won't force you to do anything you don't want to." Clarisse said looking away again.

"Clarisse, I am not abandoning my child. I swear on the River Styx when I say that I want to be the father of my child that I always wanted but never had." I said.

She looked at me with another shocked and yet hopeful look.

"Percy . . . I . . . I don't know what to say." Clarisse said.

"Don't say anything then. Just be grateful." I said walking towards her and taking a seat on my bed next to her and took her hand in mine in a friendly expression.

"Besides, no child should ever grow up without a mother and/or a father." I said placing me other hand on Clarisse's now pregnant belly.

Clarisse's POV

I was a bit iffy about Percy grabbing my hand, even though he was only doing so to try to calm me down. But when he placed his other hand on my now pregnant belly to softly rub it, I couldn't help but slightly gasp at this sign of love, care, and affection. It revealed to me how much Percy truly cared about the situation and how dead serious he is about it. I don't know if I'm ready to have a baby. Quite frankly, I don't even know if I'll be the mother that my child will need in his or her life. But I do know that I need Percy's help to raise this child. I need the father of my child by my side. Now that I think a little better about it, I'm not as nervous anymore. I was completely scared at first as soon as I found out everything. But now, now I'm happy that this is Percy's baby that I'm carrying. If this was anyone else's baby, I seriously doubt they'd be here like how Percy is right now.

As he kept his hand on my belly, I lifted my free hand and held his hand and rubbed it with my thumb. I also couldn't help but feel a tear or two form in my eyes at his kindness and loving heart. Though I can't help but wonder how Percy can be like this towards me. I've been a total bitch to him ever since I first met him. I was a gigantic bully towards him and made it my goal to ensure his life was a living hell. He should be all hateful towards me and want negative things wished upon me. But here he is, comforting me and even being a generous person for me. I still can't really figure out how Percy can be the person he is. He always has been a mystery to me, and he still is a mystery to me.

"Percy?" I started.

"Yeah?" He responded.

"How can you be so nice to me? I've been nothing but a total bitch towards you since I first met you, and yet you're being nothing but nice and considerate of me. How can you not hate me?" I asked turning to look at him dead in the eyes again, but in a soft and gentle way.

"Well, not everyone in this world is selfish and mean. There are people that just want to live their lives as a good person and want to be the best of themselves. I won't lie, you have giving me many reasons to hate you and there have been a few times that I have thought badly of you, but that doesn't mean that I want you dead or anything. I guess I always knew that deep down, you had a good side of you and a more pleasant version of yourself in you. I knew you had that side, I just never saw it with how well you were able to hide it away from me and a lot of other people. I just had to wait until I was able to find it. And this isn't just your baby, it's also my baby. I want to be a part of this child's life just as much as you do." Percy explained.

I was touched by his words. It really made it all the more important to me that he's here for me. There can't possibly be a man like Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, on this earth. I still couldn't find out how he can be so caring and generous towards me, but he's says that he just wanted to live his life to the best of himself. I wish I was as strong as him. I may be physically stronger than him, but I could never be a stronger willed person than he is. Percy possesses a heart other's can only lack in, especially people like myself.

"Plus, I think we were destined to have this baby." Percy suddenly said.

"What do you mean?" I asked confused.

"Well, we didn't exactly see eye to eye with each other ever since we met, we practically were the exact opposite. And maybe that's why this is happening to us right now. Maybe this baby is the key for us to try to purge our negative feeling for each other from ourselves and actually be good people to each other." Percy said.

I didn't really know what to say to that. I mean, he could be right. Maybe with how terrible I've been to him, maybe our baby is the key to end that once and for all. I wanted that ever since we returned back to camp after our quest to the sea of monsters. But I was so wrapped up in myself that I just decided to go back to how we were before the quest.

"I really wish the thought of hurting you so much never came to me. I really wish all the terrible things that happened between us never did happen." I said with tears beginning to form and fall from my eyes.

Percy moved the hand he used to hold my hand from my hand and onto my back and rubbed my back. I don't really know why, but the feeling of Percy trying to comfort me by rubbing my hand, my pregnant belly, and my back almost felt like Elysium to me. His action were very caring and I was all the more grateful for him being here. I didn't think I could any more grateful that it was his baby I was carrying and that he was going to be by my side no matter what. But what he said next proved me wrong.

"So does everyone who lives to see or experience such a darkness in his or her life, but that's not really up for any of us to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the life and the time that is gifted to us. I don't know how you or anyone else in camp for that matter looks at things, but the way I see it, there are many other forces at work throughout this universe beside the Olympians and the titans. Take fate for example. Fate is an unusual and unpredictable creature, and she can have quite a cruel sense of humor for some of us. But because of her, there are no such things as accidents or coincidences in real life. Everything that happens in this universe happens for a purpose. Even the slightest of activities is meant to happen for a purpose. And I believe that everything that happened to us happened because it was meant to. Maybe to show the world that even those who are deemed heartless savages can have a good side to them and can have reasons to be a kind hearted person. And maybe even to show that those who are deemed weak also have moments where they can be strong people as well. Whatever the reason is Clarisse, Fate is on our side. And that fact alone is more than enough for us to have the courage and hope we need to get through this together." Percy explained to me.

I smiled a tear filled smile at him and wrapped my arms around him tightly and laid my head on his shoulder. Percy was surprised at this, but he only took a few seconds to wrap his arms around me. Once again, Percy has given me the strength for this new challenge for me. And as I held him so tight as if my life depended on it, I let Percy's words sink in. And as they sunk in, I slowly saw what Percy was trying to tell me. And I realized that he was absolutely right. This truly did happen for a reason. We truly were meant to bring this baby into this world. We may not know why exactly, but it doesn't matter. We both intend to see this through to the very end, and we had fate on our side. If this is what I was destined for, I'm happy about it and I don't want it taken away from me.

While I still do hate myself for doing all those terrible things to him, I'm also now thankful for all of it. Because all those terrible things I did to him lead us to where we are right now, and I was more than happy for it. Now we finally have a reason to be nice to each other. We have a reason to be around for one another when no one else is. We have a baby to share the world with in approximately seven to eight months from now. And I have Percy with me all the way. While I felt more prepared for this, I was also still scared. Because of course, there's still our fathers to deal with, because I know they're bound to find out about this sooner or later. I'm not too worried about Poseidon, but I am about Ares. My dad's not likely gonna be overjoyed about this. As for Poseidon, well, I don't know. Percy's opinion on that part will be just as right as mine.

"Thank you Percy." I said lifting my head up and unwrapping my arms from him.

"Anytime." Percy responded and move one of his arms but kept the one that was on my back where it was.

"So, what should we do?" I asked Percy.

"I'm not entirely sure honestly. I'm still trying to work my thoughts through this. Do you want to tell the camp about this?" Percy asked.

"I don't really know if I'm really ready for the camp to know just yet." I responded.

"Does anyone beside you and me know about this?" Percy asked.

"Just Angelica and Paulina." I answered.

"And how are your friends taking this so far?" Percy asked.

"Well, Angelica's pretty much worried that this may put a damper on our reputation here and Paulina was trying to talk me into getting an abortion. So in other words, not too well." I explained and started to feel agitated just remembering what went done between the two of them and me earlier.

"I'm sorry to hear that." Percy responded.

"Well, at least I have you here for me." I said moving closer to him, which caused him to gently tighten his grip around me.

"When do you think we should tell everyone that we're having a baby?" Percy asked me.

"I think until either someone somehow finds out or until my pregnant belly gets to where I'm not able to hide it anymore." I said.

"What should we do until then? Should we just try to act normal until we let the camp know about this?" Percy asked.

"I don't want to bully you anymore, not even pretend to. I'm tired of that. Plus I don't want to give you any reasons to not raise our baby with me." I said leaning my head against him again.

"That's nice to know." Percy sincerely said.

"What do you think we should do?" I asked him, wondering what he had in mind.

With the hand that wasn't holding me, he rubbed his chin and his facial hair. Yeah, his facial hair. He really does have facial hair. Apparently, over this past month and assuming after I practically raped him, he decided to stop shaving and let his facial hair grow. Not a lot, but enough for you to notice a few black lines of hair growing on his face and neck. I liked it. I personally thought that the facial hair looked pretty good on him. Most men just look like pigs with facial hair, at least I think they do. But with Percy, I don't know. There's just something about him having facial hair that actually looks . . . not like a pig.

"Here's an idea. We can be friends and tell everyone that ask us about this in their suspicions and confusions that apparently your hatred over Drew and my hatred of how she uses so many men just for sex disgusts me brought us some tolerance for each other and that somehow ended up leading to where we are now, being friends." Percy suggested.

'Holy fuck. Why didn't I think of that?' I thought to myself, but was still happy Percy had thought of it.

"Oh Percy, you are a fucking genius." I said tightening my hold over him in which he happily returned.

"I try to be at least." Percy said.

This was just perfect. This moment was just absolutely perfect. Everything around us right now was just perfect. That is until I thought I heard something. Some stomping noise being made that was sure as hell wasn't from Percy or me.

"Did you hear that?" I asked looking at Percy.

"Yeah, I did. It sounded like it came from outside." Percy said getting up and going to the door.

He opened the door and peaked out of his cabin in every direction to see if he could find something or someone that made a noise near us.

"Find anything?" I asked.

"Nothing suspicious going on, and no one seems to be around either. All the people you can find are just people yards away walking to somewhere. Nothing seems like its out of the ordinary." Percy answered closing the door and looking back at me.

I nodded and ended up letting out a yawn.

"Why don't you get some sleep Clarisse, get yourself some rest?" Percy suggested.

"Will you still be here if I do?" I asked.

"I'll be right here." Percy said taking a seat at a chair he had in here.

I smiled and just did what he suggested and crashed on his bed. Percy Jackson, I owe you so much.

Well, I think that's good enough for this chapter. Were Percy and/or Clarisse a little too OOC for this chapter? Half of me thinks so, but the other half doesn't. So I can't entirely tell really. I'll let you guys give me your opinions on the matter. As you all are most likely aware, this will be the beginning of some serious shit. So I hope you are just as eager to read about it as I am eager to write about it. Until the next time I update, peace out.