Chapter 11

I was sitting alone by the ocean. The sound of waves breaking kept me calm and the familiar smell of salt water was filling my nose. We had still some kilometers to Philadelphia but it wasn't a god idea walking in the dark. It was Maddie's idea to sleep by the beach, because monster hardly come here. I wrapped my arms around my legs and rested my head at my legs. When I sat here it felt like maybe everything would be fine at the end I felt safe. I opened my green backpack and took out the picture of me and my mom. She was smiling at the camera but now when I looked closely, her smile never really reached her eyes. I stood next to her. I was seven when the photo was taken and I looked so different. My sea green eyes were dazzling and I smiled like it was for the first time ever. My black hair was in two braids and I was wearing a blue dress. The photo was taking on my birthday and we was at the park. When I looked at the background I saw a man smiling little bit. He wasn't in focus so it was hard to make out his face features but he was shining. He had dark hair and I could barely make out his sea green eyes. Could it be possible be him? Poseidon?

It must be him. And suddenly a piece of hope was building inside of me. Maybe he did care about me. I looked up at the sea, the ocean was still and it felt like he was speaking to me somehow. It was properly all imagination but I didn't care, for the first time I didn't care if I acted like a child. But then I looked at the photo again. Was that really my mom? I knew it was stupid to say something like that but I couldn't help myself from thinking it, I wasn't anything like her. My face wasn't like her, my appearance wasn't like her and my personality wasn't like hers. But did I really know my mom? And I didn't now dad either, so who was I after all?

With the back of my hand I brushed of the few tears who were running down my cheek. And by that I decided, even if I didn't know my father, I was his daughter. I would make him proud to have me as a daughter, he wouldn't regret saving me in the plane crash.

Nico was sitting alone in the shadows, almost melting in to them. I sat down next to him on a rock. He didn't say anything, but he almost never did that so it was fine by me. "You don't have to do that you know2 I said looking straight at him. He looked up and said "Do what". "Maybe you are a son of Hades, but you aren't him" then I looked up at the sky, like I had done the night he had tricked me. "That's the problem of being a child of a god, everyone expect you to be just like them, Athena kids are smart, Aphrodite kids are all in to makeup and boys, Ares kids are bullies and Hermes kids can't be trusted. But that isn't the truth" I continued, looking at the smoke from the fire Electra had started at the beach. "But we still are a bit like them, I am really moody for example" as expected he laughed a bit but just like a whisper.

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