A/N Hey guys here's chapter 10, enjoy. I decided to use the names you guys gave me as campers, as a lot of the well known campers would of left as they would have been like 30 +
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Title - Baby Blues
Summery - Percy and Annabeth thought they had raised their daughter Charlie right, teaching her about the gods and camp. But when Charlie gets pregnant they feel like bad parents and also betrayed, also the gods are always watching.
Chapter 10
The following morning I got up to find my aunties and uncles - which I still wasn't used to saying - up and out of bed. I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and dragged my ass out of bed. Before I went into the bathroom to get changed; I grabbed my phone and saw that I had twelve missed calls - 5 from Ash and the rest my parents. I sighed and put it back and went and had a shower.
When I had my shower I appeared from the bathroom wearing my camp shirt - with was feeling slightly snug -, pair of dark blue denim shorts and a pair of purple converse.
I went back to my bunk and started to brush my hair. As I was brushing my hair one of my aunties came up to me and sat on my bed; Jessica - who was seventeen - sat next to me. Her dark hair was tied into a tight pony tail (showing off her perfect porcelain skin - her large green eyes shone as she smiled at me, "Hello, I heard everyone saying you were back early" she said, tucking her legs into a basket.
"Yeah" I said frowning.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"I had a bit of a falling out with my parents" I shrugged, "Buts its fine" I said but she shot me a look that was full of sympathy and also thought I was completely wrong.
"Do you want to go for a walk and we can talk?" she offered. I nodded and she led me out of the cabin into the bright sunshine. "Okay spill" she said as soon as the door closed.
And I did.
After my little heart to heart with Jessica. She told me I should at least phone my parents and tell them I was safe and fine but I just told her they would race right up to camp and drag me home, but she sighed shook her head and left saying she had laundry to do. So she left me alone sitting at the boating lake.
I sat moping by the lake for what seemed like hours watching the water naiads swimming in circles; making their glittery tails reflect the beautiful colours of the seaweed and pretty rocks at the bottom of the lake.
I slowly made my way back to the main camp - walking slowly and stopping every few steps. I don't know how I felt so sad, was it because I knew my parents were right and I was so damn stubborn to realise? Or did I feel guilty for leaving without an argument?
I sighed and took out my phone. I scrolled through my contacts list until I found Ash's number. I sat down on the front steps of my cabin and waited for her to answer. "Charlie where have you been?" she asked, demanding an answer.
"Eh, a hello would be nice" I said, so relieved to hear her voice.
"Okay hello, where have you been? I didn't see you after you went to art yesterday" she said.
"I know look let me explain"
"Fine" And after I explained for the second time that day I managed to have an actual conversation with her, "So you are at camp and your parents have no clue" she asked.
"Well, to be honest I'm not sure, I pretty sure they know I'm here" I sighed peeling the paint off of the blue stair hand railings.
"What you going to do?" she asked.
"That is the exact same question I have heard from everyone" I sighed, "I have no idea, I'm running out of answers"
"Hmm" she said, contemplating it.
"I'm actually surprised they haven't…Crap I need to go, here comes the cavalry" I said ending the call and looking for somewhere to hide. The cavalry was mine and Matt's parents. I closed my eyes and quickly text Matt telling him to come get me at my cabin, telling him it was an emergency - leaving out the part his parents had shown up.
I tried to act calm when they marched over. My father looked absolutely livid; I crossed my fingers and prayed to every god known to man to make this go smoothly. I had no faith that it would work.
"Charlie do you want a death wish?" my dad shouted, when he reached me.
"Eh, no but can we talk about this somewhere private I don't want the whole camp knowing" I said quietly.
"I don't care if they hear, you are going to explain to me why you left last night without tell either me or your mom" he said.
"Because you wouldn't let me go" I said standing, up defending my corner.
"This isn't about not letting you go, this is about your child" he said desperately.
"Well I'm still a kid and I need freedom and a life" I said my voice cracking under the pressure of my tears.
"You could have had a life if you weren't so stupid" he said, in a smart-ass tone of voice.
"Yes I understand that dad, but what is done is done and I cant undo it. So you leave me alone and let me life my life - well what's rest of it" I said, stomping off in the direction of the beach.
Before I was out of earshot I heard my dad shout, "Get back her we haven't settled this"
When I reached the beach I immediately broke down in tears. I sat down on the soft sand and rubbed at my eyes. I constantly told myself they were right and I was being stupid and I shouldn't be here under my condition, but there was this little nagging voice at the back of my head that banged on and on, about staying young, rebelling and having my own thoughts. I wanted to listen to the nagging voice but I just couldn't let myself fall for it.
I waited for a few minutes and sighed and got up and went to go have round two of the argument.
I went to the big house, somehow I just knew they would be in there banging on about how I'm such a bad daughter. I went up the white porch steps and knocked on the door. Minutes passed and Chiron came to the door looking disappointed.
He let me come in and took me to a little room at the end of the hall where my parents were. I lightly pushed the door open and stepped in; they looked up when they saw me come in.
"Charlie" mom pleaded, "Are you okay? Your father just wants you to be safe" she said, standing up and walking over to me.
"Yeah I'm fine" I said, feeling tears build up again but blinked and they were gone.
"We need to talk about this and you have to stop running away when everything goes wrong" mom said, pulling me into her arms.
"Okay, so your letting me stay?" I said, getting my hopes up and then watched then crash around me.
"No" mom sighed, "I said we would talk about it"
After a lot of shouting and crying and reasoning with Chiron I was finally allowed to stay at camp.
"Okay, so we want a phone call from you every day, we don't want you doing any of the dangerous activities…" dad began his lecture, "Okay we don't want you to do any activities, especially sword fighting, and Chiron will give us regular updates on your behaviour, and be safe, and don't do anything stupid" I raised my eyebrows at him and he added, "Don't do any more stupid things"
"So basically it's the same lecture I get every year except it has some toppings to go with, no problem" I said, smiling.
"Charlie we mean it, any smart-ass comebacks we drag you home" dad stressed.
"Okay sorry" I said, losing the grin.
"Bye" mom said, hugging me and leaving me with dad. I walked to the front door of the big house with them and said goodbye as they walked back up half-blood hill.
I turned to go back to my cabin when I seen a large sized group of people going to the archery arena. One of them stopped and was one of my uncles, "Hey Charlie, you coming there a fight" he said, grinning.
"A fight? Who is it?" I asked following.
"Some new guy and a son of Ares" he said.
Dear God, what the hell has Matt done now? And followed the group of half-bloods.
When I reached the archery arena, there two boys in the middle with a crowd surrounding them. I was thankful they weren't battling it out with swords; they were just fighting like mortals all punches and shoves. I pushed through the crowd and yelled at them, "Hey, stop!" I yelled, pushing past a girl.
The guy who was fighting Matt swung at the same time I ran into the fight. And obviously the stupid numb nut hit me. He socked me right on my side. I swayed for a little bit and feel kind of dizzy and shaky all over.
Matt must of seen the expression on my face because he held me up and looked me straight in the face, "Charlie, are you okay?" he asked.
"I don't think so" I said, my eyes filling up. Matt held me close and smoothed down my hair and got me to stand off to the side. "What the hell dude?" Matt growled at the other guy.
"Oh man I didn't mean it, she was in the way" he stuttered. So much for being a son of Ares - heart of a lion - I thought rolling my eyes.
"I don't think so" Matt said, walking up to him and in a flash reached out and smacked him in the side of the face. I sighed inwardly; well his grandmother is Astarte goddess of fertility, sexuality and war; vengeance has to be in there somewhere.
Matt then walked away and grabbed me by the waist and pulled me out of the cheering crowds gathered in the archery. He took me to my cabin and sat me down on my bed.
"What the hell was that for?" I asked, looking up at him.
"The guy was being an ass. It's nothing, it doesn't matter" he sighed, sitting next to me.
I stood up suddenly feeling angered again, "What the hell? It doesn't matter, he could have killed you, he's been training at this camp for years and you parade in here and think you're great. Grow up. You are so lucky he didn't run you through with his sword. Boys your such animals" I said ranting.
"Okay look I'm sorry, I get it" he said, pinching the bridge of his nose.
"You don't get it, that's the point. You jump the gun and start ranting and then when it blows back in your face you regret it" I said, calming down.
"Why are you getting so worked up when I was fighting him? We fight and train here all day and you have no problem with it" he said, sitting down.
"That's because no one has explained anything to you" I said, massaging my temple, feeling a headache starting.
"Well explain" he said, resting my head on his shoulder.
"Fine. Twenty one years ago a very powerful Titan Kronos was reborn and a war broke out against him - his monsters and a bunch of demi-gods; he was able to coax to join his side - and our side - which had a little help involving the gods. My parents (and maybe your parents) fought against Kronos and won. And in doing so the camp had to work together, mortal enemies had to get along to defeat Kronos. And even after twenty one years things are still slowly getting back together. People had to learn to trust each other over night and it's not an easy job, considering the gods weren't willing to try and at least get on in the slightest." I said explaining.
"And this has to do with me because?" Matt asked.
"If you let me finish" I demanded, "Chiron wants us all to get along as he has a theory that the Titans will rise again and try to take over again" I sighed, "So don't go making enemies with the Ares kids, it's not a good idea. And plus you'll be mushed body parts when you leave if you get on their bad side, make that anybody's bad side" I warned.
"Okay" he said.
"Promise?" I asked, sitting up so I could look up at him.
"Promise" he smiled, down at me. "How you feeling?" he asked, his expression clouded over with revenge.
"A little better" I said, "How's you first day of camp been?" I asked.
"Overall it's been okay" he smiled, "I seen your dad today" I groaned, and he asked, "What?"
"My mom and dad came today along with your parents so they could drag me home"
"What did they say?" he asked.
"Well my dad shouted, I cried (as usual), mom calmed him down, we sorted it out and then they went home" I shrugged.
"That's good, I'd hate to see you go" he whispered, leaning in closer.
"Oh would you now" I smiled, "What would you do if I went home" I said locking gazes.
"Two options; go get you and bring you back here, or just find someone else to do this with" he muttered, brushing his lips very lightly against mine, making my stomach do a little flip.
"Well I would hunt you down and then castrate you if you did" I mumbled.
"I love when you talk dirty to me" he smirked, and the kiss deepened and became hungry and more like a need instead of a want.
We were rudely interrupted by my aunt Jessica who smiled when she saw us, "Eh the conch went for lunch" she said, raising an eyebrow.
"Okay I'll be there in a sec" I smiled. She slowly backed out of the cabin and lightly closed the door. "Let's go, we don't want suspicions raised" I said hold hands with Matt as we walked out of my cabin and headed for the dining pavilion.
When we walked in Chiron walked up to us. He sent me to my table and took Matt down to the front of the pavilion. Everyone fixed their eyes on Matt - most likely deciphering whether he was their brother or not. The pavilion had changed so much since before it was just twelve gods. There were lots of long tables going horizontally up and down the hall. It was so weird everyone who had the same god parent looked near enough identical. You could also tell which cabin was which; the Aphrodite children all were stunningly beautiful; with their silky brown hair to their captivating blue eyes. There was no difference between the personalities of the sisters and brothers; they all wanted one thing, love.
In comparison the Ares kids were a group of tough looking scowling sisters and brothers. The boys all looked like they were trying to outdo each other by seeing how big their muscles would go, and it was also the same for some of the girls.
In the corner sat Demeter's children. They all had kind faces and trustworthy moss green eyes to go with. They quietly chatted about day-to-day life, plants and such.
Hermes's children were a bunch of trouble makers. From their mischievous grins to their abilities to con others into doing what they wished. I stayed well away from them as I didn't trust anyone of them. Not even the quiet ones. They say it's the quiet ones who go mad first.
Chiron raised a hoof and pounded it on the marble floors. "Please quiet down. We have a new camper and he is going to get claimed" he said, projecting his voice out over the pavilion, Chiron didn't really need to shout because as soon as he wanted to say anything everyone shut up. He then turned to Matt and said, "State your name and the gods will claim you" he said.
Matt turned round to face us when he caught me watching me smiled and he held my stare as if it was just us and no one else was here and he stated loudly, "Matt Spence" and then nothing happened and then ten seconds later a light started to grow above his head and a symbol appeared. A purple circle with a star in the middle started to shine and spin around his head.
"Well a child of Astarte, Matt go join your cabin" when the Astarte children heard Matt was going to be in their cabin they got up and cheered letting him sit down beside him.
I never noticed before but Astarte's children all looked like Matt. Except for Matt having brown hair instead of red. There was a girl who budged up a bit so he could sit down. Her red hair was done up in tight curls which hung down her front, her piercing green eyes were just noticeable under her many eyelashes. Her ruby painted lips curled into a smile as she spoke to Matt. I was sure she could give the Aphrodite girls a run for their money.
Although there was a slight difference between the Aphrodite kids and the Astarte children. Aphrodite believed in love and being with the one you loved for a lifetime. The Astarte believed in just lust and sex.
A/N Okay here's chapter 10, thank you to everyone who has been reviewing reading and is still sticking around to read the rest. It means a lot :D