First off - a slight pet peeve: why is it that whenever someone writes a girl/girl story, everyone assumes the writer is a guy, and when someone writes a guy/guy story, they assume it's a girl? It's annoying.

But guys, really, thanks to everyone for all the reviews, favorites, and alerts! That's a lot O.o For those of you who have wondered: I do not have a regular update schedule. I write what I can when I can. Because of all the reviews I have been trying to get at least a chapter up each week but that makes them be fairly short. But that may change as school is getting really hectic and I've been working on two other fanfictions as well (A Kingdom Hearts one and a Kingdom Hearts/Doctor Who crossover)
So I'd like to get some feedback from people - I have a couple of different ideas I can use. Would you all prefer if I just stuck with one idea and finished the story, or used the story ideas as arcs? And would you prefer longer chapter and much slower updates... or continue with the try once a week update with what I have?

And if anyone is interested in the music for Break Myself...

Break Myself – Something Corporate
The Story of a Boy – Between the Trees
Scream, Scream, Scream – Ludo
Be My Escape - Relient K
Everything Changes – Staind
A Lullaby For You – The World Ends With You Soundtrack
Don't Jump – Tokio Hotel
Until The Day I Die – Story of the Year
This is Home – Switchfoot
Me Against the World -

There's more too, but those are the main ones for now. If you have any suggestions of songs that you're reminded of, let me know! I'm always looking for inspiration. It helps me write faster.

PharaohDeli - If you have a Disney obsession and anime, we may have to investigate a doppleganger theory.
Mission to Marzipan - you totally made me laugh, mate. Henry James or Henry James Therou? either way, chuck the book out the window and read something else.
Paraxenos - the chapters are rather short, but that's because my ADHD causes my attention to totally wander even while writing. So I can only really do concentrated bursts. . I wish I had the time and attention span to make them longer.

Anyways, on to the chapter mates.

Chapter 11

If he wasn't so pissed and scared at the same time, Nico would actually consider this whole scene absolutely hilarious and be sprawled out on the black marble floor laughing his lungs out. As it was, he skidded across that polished floor struggling for traction, hollering despite his sore throat from ambrosia being forced down it, dodging the massive pillars in the labyrinth castle, and struggling to keep up after his father, who was currently trying to kill Percy.

"Perseus Jackson you will regret the day you ever met my son!"

"Dude, Uncle, chill!"

"Dad! Sto-Dad! No fireballs!"

Nico rounded one pillar and nearly collided with Percy, bracing himself against Percy's heaving chest. "Aside from the fact he's trying to kill me, this is kinda fun," Percy said with a breathless grin.

"Are you insane?!" Nico demanded.

"Slightly."

"PERSEUS!"

Percy grabbed Nico's wrist and ran, yanking him along after. "What exactly is your plan here?"

"Making it up as I go!"

Percy laughed, turning back to look at Nico just as Hades materialized in front of them. Both boys collided with Hades' gut and bounced off, clattering to the marble as a tangle of legs and arms. Percy was still laughing and hearing it made some chuckles bubble out of Nico until he looked up at his father. Hades looked about one shade of 'pissed' away from going to his complete god form and disintegrating them where they were sprawled, Nico half on top of Percy.

"Get. Out. Nephew." Hades ordered in a steely voice that lesser beings would crumble under.

"Okay, okay." Percy shifted to move, and Nico quickly swung his legs off him. As Percy got up, he offered his hand to help Nico up. "We better head back to camp, Nico."

Hades smoldered and clasped Nico's shoulder, pulling the boy back towards him. "I would prefer if Nico stayed here."

Nico glared up at his father. "Dad!"

Percy looked confused and slightly annoyed. "Why? If you have another mission for him can't it wait?"

"I would prefer that my son stays in my realm where he is protected." Hades' fingers tightening in Nico's shoulder joint hurt.

"Dad!" NIco shifted uncomfortably but Hades didn't release.

Percy's eyes narrowed. "Why? Cause it did such wonders for your personality?" he asked sarcastically.

"Leave. Now."

Nico got pissed with being talked about and ignored, and jerked free from his father's hold. "Dad! I'll only be gone another week or so!" Nico's shoulder throbbed and he clutched at it.

"Shit, Nico!" Percy reached for him and carefully peeled his fingers away and pulled aside a charred black T-shirt shoulder. Nico looked in surprised at the burn marks starkly standing out against his pale skin. Percy hissed at the sight. "He hurt you," Percy said icily.

"It was an accident," Nico replied uneasily, feeling uncomfortable with Percy's face only inches from his as he inspected the younger boy's burns. Percy raised his gaze to match Nico's, and just held for a second.

Then he disappeared in a fog of black. Nico's heart skipped as he felt Percy's touch linger for a moment after he disappeared, before he instantly reached out to sense Percy but couldn't feel him anywhere in the Underworld. "Dad!" Nico snapped.

"I sent him back to that wretched camp." Hades voice sounded like stone, absent of anger or even his usual strength. "He is unharmed. But unwelcomed here."

"He's my friend! He's my only friend!"

Hades didn't reply. He didn't even look at Nico. Nico steamed as he figured his father wasn't going to acknowledge him with a response. "Fine. Whatever. You can keep yourself cooped up here. I'm going back to camp." He turned away to leave.

"Nico, you are confined to the Underworld."

Nico stopped dead at his father's voice. "Wha-"

"And to assure you don't leave, your abilities will be capped."

As he spoke, pins and needles shot through Nico's limbs like he had slept in every position wrong and he collapsed to the floor on his knees. His senses were suddenly dulled, and there was no background echo in his head of the souls he could sense or the Underworld's usual white noise of silence. He hadn't even acknowledged it as something outside the normal mind, a constant movement in his mind he had throughout all his memories. Nico felt the keen pain of it's loss now – like a misplaced comforting blanket. For a pure moment there was nothing except his own thoughts, the blood pounding through his temples, and his father's footsteps on the marble as he walked away leaving Nico miserably alone, more alone that he had ever felt in his entirely too long life.

To Be Continued