Chapter Eleven.
I seriously cannot believe that we're on chapter eleven already, it seems like only yesterday that this story was just an idea in my head. Ah, memories :)
Right, rambling. Here's the chappie!
Love you all!
Ro x
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Walking when dried blood was glued to your back and moving in one wrong direction would cause blood to flow out of the cuts like a mud slide was not Percy's most favoured activity.
He walked over to the bathroom, biting his lip hard. Last night had been awful. After he passed out, he was fairly sure that Gabe's friends had carried on doing bad things to him. Percy was just thankful that he was unconscious for the most of it.
Turning on the light in the bathroom, Percy took off his top (with much difficulty) and inspected the cuts. He swallowed thickly when he saw what the horrible monsters that were Gabe's friends had done to him.
Written on his back, overlapping scars and other words were insults. Worthless. Waste of space. Stupid. And the worst one was... Percy couldn't even bring himself to think about it but it had something to do with his Mum. Maybe it was true, or had some level of truth to it.
Moving caused agony to shoot up and around his veins. Slowly, he turned around and saw the bruise on his jaw had travelled to his neck and just above the right corner of his lip.
Fuck it, Percy thought. I'm not going to school today.
He strained his ears to try and hear any indication that his step father was in the house. Normally, Gabe would sound like a bear and cause the whole house to shake with his loud snoring.
Not hearing anything, Percy turned on the shower and painfully washed himself. After that, he opened up one of the drawers in the bathroom and took out some bandages. He did a rather bad job at patching up his wounds and walked back into his room with a towel around his waist.
He got dressed in a black jumper and navy blue pyjama bottoms and navy blue socks. Percy reached for the water bottle he kept at the corner of his bed and took a long gulp of it.
Feeling the cold liquid travel down his throat made Percy feel more alert. Since there was no way in hell he would leave his apartment today, he fell face first into the covers and closed his eyes, hoping in vain that sleep will numb the pain.
Sally Jackson was gagged and tied to a chair. She had tears cutting through the thick layer of dirt on her skin. The room in which she was in was dark and old with no windows.
Standing over here was Gabe Ugliano in all his vile glory. He ran a hand down the side of Sally's face. "Pretty thing aren't you?"
She spat something at Gabe but it made no sense considering she had a gag stuffed in her mouth. There was a flash of silver and Percy recognized it as a knife. "I don't like it," Gabe murmured.
From above her ear, Gabe stabbed the knife into the side of her skull and dragged it all the way across her face until it reached the other side. Blood dripped down from the cut at an alarming rate, she looked like something from a Halloween store.
Percy's fists shook with rage. He wanted to scream, he wanted to run up and punch Gabe and keep punching him until he died and then he hoped that he'd become a ghost so Percy could just keep on hitting him for all eternity. But he couldn't. He was literally frozen to the spot.
Sally didn't move. She didn't even scream. That's why Percy loved her so much. She was a fighter, life had threw so many awful things at her but somehow Sally had managed to turn them into something that resembled lemonade.
Gabe swiped one fat stubby finger across the cut, getting the crimson liquid on his skin. "You can blame that lousy excuse for a son for this." He whispered and took the bloodied knife and drew a cross on her face, cutting deeper with each line.
Sally bit her tongue and managed through the gag to say with as much venom in her voice that she could muster, "I despise the day that I met you. You are pathetic, do you hear me? Pathetic."
Percy's step father was enraged, he wiped the knife clean and threw it between Sally's eyes. She screamed as her veins burst and blood fell rapidly. She forced her eyes closed so the liquid wouldn't trickle into them.
Then, she let out a blood curdling shriek and went limp in the chair.
Percy woke with a start. He was panting and drenched in sweat. No longer caring about the pain of his back, he ran into the bathroom and splashed some cold water on his face.
He took a deep breath and wiped his eyes. Forcing the dream out of his head, he ran a hand through his black hair. Suddenly, Percy heard the door rattle. He remembered that he had not locked the door and Gabe surely wouldn't of when he left for work. Or whatever, wherever, it was he went each day.
Bolting for his bedroom, he dove under the covers and closed his eyes. He hoped that whoever that was on the other side of that door was not Gabe Ugliano.
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Annabeth had been worried about Percy all day. He hadn't shown up for school. During the day, she had talked herself into believing that he had came down with something. It was the first of December and the jacket that he always wore did nothing to keep out the cold so it was defiantly plausible.
But now that the school day was over, the worry in her stomach had grown ten times worse. Annabeth knew the way to Percy's building of flats and if she was quick, she might be able to catch Jason and ask which number the apartment was.
She saw his blonde hair and immediately ran after him, not caring about the weird glances she received from school mates. "Jason!" She called out.
He spun around, "Hey Annabeth."
"Hi. Um, what's Percy's apartment number?"
"Thirteen. Second floor, third door on the left. Why?" Jason answered with a quizzical expression.
Annabeth shook her head, "Not important, but thank you!"
She walked off and when she was in Percy's building, she took a deep breath and began walking up the stairs. Finally, she reached his door and tried to open it, even though she had no key.
Surprisingly, the door opened. What Annabeth saw completely astonished her. Yeah, Percy wasn't the tidest or neatest of people but she thought that maybe his parents would clean up a little. Treading over crushed glass, she opened two doors before she found Percy's bedroom.
Laying in bed was Percy, he looked so cute when he was asleep. Annabeth felt warmth spread through her. She placed a hand on his cheek and whispered ever so quietly, "I love you."
Sorry for the Authors Notes on both ends of the story, I thought it would be fun to do it this way :)
And yes I did it! I have done it! I HAVE ADDED PERCABETH! Hehehe :)
Reviews! Can I just say that whilst writing this chapter I received 5 notifications on this story! That's just absolutely incredible!
ScarletSaphire Thank you so much! You're making me blush! Ha, I'm home schooled and it really does wonders to my writing schedule :)
Thanks for your review, it really made me laugh :)
Love you guys!
Ro x
