I am so so so so sooooo sorry I haven't updated in forever! I have been so busy! I had a soccer tournament and of course school. I will try to update more frequently. Anyway…I'm every more sorry that I left you with an evil cliffe. I never said this story had a happy ending. There will be deaths! I am warning you now THERE WILL BE DEATHS! Now with that happy thought…on with the story, and review please!
Disclaimer: Nope, don't even make me write this!
Promise
I didn't remember lying down in bed, I didn't remember dreaming, and I just didn't remember anything.
I was numb.
I woke up the next morning with the sun shining through my window. It reflected perfectly off the mirror, creating a perfect rainbow. I slowly, as if walking through honey, I walked over to my dresser and grabbed a drachma. I threw it into the rainbow without even praying to Iris. Apparently she was in a giving mood, because, without me even saying who I wanted to talk to, my mother appeared.
She was sitting at the table talking to Paul Blofis, and it looked like they were discussing something serious.
"Mom!" I shouted at her.
She whipped her head around to look at me with a serious expression. "Percy!" she hissed. "What are you doing?!"
"Um…does Paul know yet?" I said, staring apprehensively at my mother's boyfriend.
"No!" she said, looking positively faint in apprehension.
"Sally, Percy," Paul said looking from my mother to me, "I have a confession to make. I'm a half-blood." He said.
"What!" my mother and I said, in disbelief, at the same time. After all this time, Paul was a half-blood too? No way!
"Yeah, sorry that I didn't tell you, I wasn't positive that Percy was a half-blood, so I dint want to say anything. But now, I know you are." He said with a chuckle.
"Good point." My mom said. She was taking the fact that her boyfriend was a half-blood quite well. "Now, Percy, do you think you'll have time to come to the wedding?"
My heart sank when she said that, and I couldn't look her in the eyes. However, my mom was smart, and noticed that I wasn't saying anything.
"Sweetie, what's wrong?" she asked in a worried tone.
"Um…nothing." I said, quickly trying to look pleased.
"Percy, I know I'm destined to die."
My heart froze, and my mouth closed and opened again like a fish. How on earth did she know she was going to die!? How long had she known? There were a million questions buzzing around in my head, but she answered them all for me.
"Percy did you really think Chiron wasn't updating me on everything! Part of the prophecy that he received about you, had me in it, he just didn't tell you. I'm sorry sweetie, but I've known for a few years. I have been arranging everything! Paul knows as well, so we already arranged the wedding to happen in three days!"
All I could do was stare at her. She had known she was destined to die and yet she was speaking to me so calmly.
For the first time in five minutes, Paul spoke, "Percy, you know I will take care of you when…when…well, when I need to." He said, while blinking very hard.
It was quiet for a few minutes while I contemplated everything I had just heard. In this short conversation, I learned as much as my head could take in.
"Percy, I need you to promise me something!" my mother said urgently, waking me from my thoughts.
"What?" I said, without looking at her.
"When Chiron told me I was destined to die, he told me there was a chance that I wouldn't. He said that if three heroes gave their lives for me, I would live."
I couldn't speak. There was a chance that my mom would live, but it would come at a cost…a cost of three lives.
"Percy! Promise me that you won't let me live!" my mother said in a stern tone that I had never heard her use before.
"I…" I began but I was cut off.
"Please deposit one more drachma." Said a cool, female voice, from inside the rainbow.
