I Don't Own Percy Jackson

In a way, Will and I were lucky to get back to camp so late, for one thing everyone was asleep and probably didn't know we were back yet, well, nearly everyone. Grover had woken Chiron up when he had gotten back to let him know we were safe and alive, so Chiron had taken it upon himself to wait for us.

He had let us know that by morning, everyone would know that we were back, and we wouldn't be getting a moment of peace for at least a few days and that we had better enjoy the quiet as much as possible. He told us that we could stay in bed for as long as we wanted to catch up on missing sleep. He told Will, who had complained that wouldn't work for him, because knowing his siblings, they'd probably wake him up begging to know how the quest went, especially his younger siblings. So Chiron offered to let him stay in the Big House for one night only. I had suggested that Will should spend the night in my cabin, but Chiron wouldn't allow. Saying it was because of a rule that camp had that said that ' unless you had the same parent, no boy or girl could stay in the same cabin'.

So, after saying good night, Will and I headed in separate directions. Planning on getting a proper good night's sleep. Something we hadn't had since leaving camp two weeks ago. Unless of course the one night we actually slept at the Lotus Casino and Hotel back in Vegas, but I don't think spending the night in a time stopping hotel really counts.

I sighed in relief when I reached my cabin; it felt so good to see it again. I opened the door and breathed in the familiar scent of the sea that seemed to fill the room. Locking the door behind me, I made my way to me bed and just stood and looked at everything I had left behind. On top of my bedside table the Minotaur horn sat in the centre, just in front of the sea shell lamp that I had just turned on. On the floor at the foot of the table were the toiletries Luke had gotten for me when I had moved into his cabin. My bed was still unmade, just like it had been when I had left. I smiled to myself. No matter what happened. This was home to me, and I didn't want to lose it.

Figuring that I had better get ready for bed, I made my way around the cabin closing the thin blue curtains. After my little task was done, I changed into my old pyjamas and slipped into bed. As cheesy as it sounds, I was still smiling when I fell asleep. But could you blame me? I was home.

Unfortunately, good thing don't always go the way we plan them to. Especially with me. I was woken up the next morning by someone banging like crazy on my door. I groaned and pulled my pillow over my head, praying that whoever was at the door would leave. When they didn't I dragged myself from my bed and trudged to the door. Planning to too punch whoever was there in the face.

I threw the door open after unlocking it glared at a guilty looking satyr.

"Please don't kill me"

"You have ten seconds Grover before I decide that you could do with some quality time with my uncle."

"Everyone's going to the camp fire and Chiron told me to get you."

"What about Will?" I let out a big yawn. Don't judge me, I was tired.

"Annabeth's gone to get him."

"Alright fine. What time do I have to be there?" Grover shrugged

"Chiron said to give you time to shower and get dressed, so probably half an hour."

"Will there be food?" He nodded. "Give me twenty minutes." I slammed the door in his face and was about to make my way to my shower when I remembered something.

"Grover?" I called when I opened the door once again only to come face to face with his surprised one. "Sorry, but a quick warning. If you ever wake me up again by banging on my door, you definitely will be spending some time with my uncle."

Then, without waiting for an answer, I shut the door on his face, again.

Like me, Will had almost killed the person waking him up, Annabeth said she had been surprised to the son of Apollo looking so angry when normally he was calm and hardly raised his voice, I just told her that if he continued to hang around with me she'd have to get used to it.

But as it turned out, I ended up being actually kind of glad that Grover woke me up. The camp had thrown a sort of welcome home kind of party for the three of us in the only way they could.

We ended up burning shrouds that the camp had made for the three of us in case we didn't return. The Apollo cabin and sown a golden shroud with musical notes, an archer preparing to fire at the sun, his youngest siblings, who were about five (they were triplets that a satyr had risked his life for when their mother had been killed) had obviously wanted to add something to the golden cloth had covered as much of it as possible with red paint and green paint. Grover's satyr friends had made him one out of green fabric with brown stitching, they had made sure to put everything Grover loved onto the one piece of fabric, like flower, food, music and for some strange reason tin cans.

And since I had no one in my cabin to make one for me, the Athena cabin had made one for me. I had been surprised that the Athena cabin had made me a shroud, but Annabeth had said that it was her way of saying sorry, and it was either her cabin, or Clarisse's cabin. The latter not being too happy that I had come back to camp relatively in good shape, and made sure to express this. My shroud was a mixture of sea blue and green, and was similar to Grover's in design. Because I hadn't been here for that long, they didn't know me that well. But from the short amount of time that Annabeth and I had been around each other she had learnt a few things about me. Like a miniature picture of the camp lake, a sword master, a trident and a trident. But the only thing that mine had that the others didn't was writing on it. In grey thread was one singular word in ancient Greek. Sorry.

I had to laugh at that, and ended up giving Annabeth a big hug and said that she had nothing to be sorry for. Out parents were rivals, and it's only natural for us to feel the same way as they did, even if we had nothing to do with the feud.

Apollo's cabin ended up playing some music and led a camp sing-along and refused to let Will help lead them as they believed that he needed a break, Will had been a bit upset about that but eventually started clapping along to the songs like everyone else and had as much of a laugh as everyone else.

About three hours into the celebrations, Chiron came around and handed out small beads to everyone. Once he got to me, he gave me mine on a piece of thin leather, similar to Will's and told me that it was time for me to 'start collecting'. Looking at the bead I smiled, on the small brown bead was a green trident. Symbolising my claiming.

We ended up spending the entire day just messing about near the campfire, Chiron said that we had rarely anything to celebrate, as birthday's were only celebrated within the cabin you belonged to and festivals only happened every so often, and most of time not everyone at camp was there to celebrate them as people went home to go to school or just to spend some time with their families. So Chiron had explained that the campers had jumped at the chance to have a party.

The next day though, we had to get back to work and training. But I had somehow convinced Chiron to let me go and see if my mother was home yet. He had agreed, but only if I let him call me a cab so that he knew that I would actually made it back to camp. He said that I had an hour to spend with my mother, and that as soon as that hour was; I had to find a cab to bring me back to camp. And that he'd know if I went over the time limit.

The entire cab ride to my apartment I kept moving around like. I kept moving about to the point the cabbie had ended up glaring at me through the rear view mirror.

And, typically, as soon as I had paid him and stepped out of the yellow cab he sped off. Leaving me on the sidewalk looking like a complete idiot.

I looked up at the familiar brick building and took a deep breath. I couldn't figure out why I was so nervous, it was only my mother. Well, it's now or never.

I walked along the plain halls until I came to the door I always spent running in and out of as a child. I raised my hand and hesitantly knocked. After a couple of seconds of complete silence I heard the sound of someone approaching.

I smiled sheepishly as the door opened and revealed my mother, who looked as though she was having trouble believing that I was here.

"Hey mom. Mind if I come in?" Instead of moving aside like I hoped she would, she just stared at me blankly. "I can come back if yo-"

She cut me off by pulling me into a tight hug.

"Thank the Gods you're okay." She murmured into my hair.

"I missed you mom." I whimpered, pulling her closer to me, still trying to believe that she was here safe and sound and not dead like I had thought she was just a couple of days ago.

"I missed you too sweetheart," She released me from her tight grip and led me side into the green kitchen we had spent so much time in before I found out I was a demigod.

She sat me down and went to fetch us a can of coke each.

"So tell me," She started, sliding me a can while she opened her one. "What happened at camp?"

For about ten minutes, I told her the shortened version of what happened from the moment the Minotaur got hold of her to me getting back to camp.

"Wow," She said looking at me impressed. "Sounds like one heck of an adventure"

"I know, and I'm not planning on having another one for a long time." I said picking at the blue chocolate chip cookies my mom had set out for us to share. She said she had made them after she had woken up in her bed and realized that she was back home. So she had made them thinking I'd be coming back at some point.

"See to it that you do that. I don't want to wake up one morning and end up getting told that my daughter is dead."

"I'll try me hardest not to end up dead," I promised.

We sat in silence munching on the amazing cookies she had created.

"So tell me about this Will boy," She said suddenly. "He sounds like a good friend"

"He is," I nodded.

"Is he cute?"

"Mom!" I looked at her shocked where had that come from?

"What?" He said raising her hands up in surrender. "I'm only trying to have some girl talk with my daughter. Is that a crime?"

"Yes," I laughed and threw a chunk of cookie at her.

We laughed for a moment before we fell silent when we heard something crash in the living room.

"Wait here," I told her before pulling my pen out of my jacket. The one Will gave me, but before you think the wrong things I was only wearing it because it was comfortable.

I walked quietly into the living room, not wanting whoever was in there to know that I was there. I looked carefully into the living room, making sure I wouldn't be attacked immediately after looking in. I looked around in confusion when the only thing I found in the room was a brown box sitting in the middle of the living room floor.

"Hey mom? Was this box here before?"

"What box?" She asked and peered around my shoulder to see what I was on about. "Oh that one. Nope, never seen it before."

"Hmmmm," I walked forward slowly, hoping nothing was going to jump out of it. When nothing did, I peered at the top of it. Sitting on the top of the box was a familiar slip of paper, only it had something extra written on it and had a small piece of paper stapled onto the back.

Olympus

600th Floor Empire State Building

New York

NY

Hope you have a wonderful day, Sophia Jackson

*Return to sender

I flipped the address sheet over so I could see the paper on the back and laughed.

As much as the gods appreciated you're gift,

I figured you would put it to good use.

Hope you have a wonderful day, Poseidon

"What's so funny?" I handed my mom the letter and looked at the box curiously. What should I do with it? "I always thought that you and your father shared the same sense of humour."

I looked up to see my mother looking at the note with a sad smile on her face.

"He still loves you, you know."

"It doesn't matter, I can't see him anymore." I wrapped my arm around her waist and pulled her to me.

"If it helps, he misses you to." She gave me one of her famous 'annoyed' looks so I dropped my arm and changed the subject. "So what are we going to do with this?"

She shrugged, looking slightly happier with the change of subject.

"How am I meant to know? You're the expert." I snorted.

"I'm no expert."

"Out of the two of us who's got the most experience with sort of thing?" She had a point.

"That doesn't mean I know what to do with it."

"We stood in silence for a few moments before the door crashing open caught our attention.

"Woman! Where's my meatloaf?"

My mother sighed and I looked at her pointedly.

"Sophia no! How could you think that?" She exclaimed.

"Quite easily, look, we don't need to have him around anymore and instead of going through the trouble of divorce why not use her?" I asked pointing towards the box. "I'm sure she'll be glad to help."

"Sophia Persephone Jackson that's wrong. We can't do that to him,"

"Then you shouldn't have married him."

"Sophia, I've told you a thousand times before, I did it to -"

"Yeah, yeah I know. You did it to protect me. But now that I know who I am there's no point. My sent will be too strong for even him to cover."

She opened her mouth to answer me but ended up being stopped by the appearance of a walrus standing in the door way of the living room.

"Ye'r back are ye?" He growled when he spotted me.

"Don't worry, I was just leaving." I looked at my mother pointedly as I left.

"Well? Where's my meatloaf?"
"I'm just about to take it out of the oven Gabe. While I'm getting that, why don't you take a look at the parcel someone dropped off for you?"

I smirked as I left the apartment; I think my mom has finally decided that enough was enough.

Summer went by a lot quicker than expected, and soon notices went up everywhere telling half-bloods that they had to let Chiron know if they were staying for the rest of the year or if we were going home. There was a week left, but Chiron wanted to told as soon as possible to get plane and train tickets for those who lived to far away for parents to pick them up. There was a camp van taking people who lived in the city home if we didn't have a way home. We were told that if we didn't say we were leaving or staying the harpies would end up eating anyone who stayed behind and wasn't meant to. To be honest, I don't think he was joking.

There was something I wished I had noticed a lot sooner than I actually did, and if I had remembered this small, important piece of information, it probably would have saved everyone a lot of time. There was one line of the prophecy I was given that had yet to be completed, but I had been spending most of my time in camp trying to make the most of my summer while I still could.

I had just came back from letting Chiron know I was going to be leaving at the same time as everybody else would be when Luke had came up to me asking if I wanted to spend some time with him killing monsters.

"I have soda," He said holding up a six pack for me to see.

Looking back, I should have realized that a sixteen year old, just about to turn seventeen, wanted to spend some quality time alone with a just turned thirteen year old was a little bit weird in normal circumstances. But I figured that since it was Luke, and since he had soda, something demigods where advised not to have due to so much sugar there was in one can, I figured that there would be no harm. And come on, have you seen Luke? I was pretty sure that every girl at camp would think I was stupid to say no to spending time with him. As it was, I'm pretty sure most of them glared at me when they saw me walking side by side with Luke to the forest alone.

As much as I now hate to admit it, I actually did have a good time with him. We didn't go really far into the forest, just far enough that people wouldn't see or hear us and far enough in that there was actually monsters around to fight. After two hours of just killing monsters, we sat down on a pair of rocks to drink the fizzy drinks that would guarantee to make a demigod go completely crazy after the second can. As proven by the two twins of Hermes, Connor and Travis Stoll. Only don't call them twins, they'll just deny it.

The two of us sat in silence sipping at our drinks until Luke spoke up.

"I never asked, how'd it go with the gods?" I shrugged.

"As well as it could I guess, why?" He ignored my question and asked another one himself.

"They didn't do anything to you did they?" I shook my head.

"No, why do you want to know." Again he ignored my question.

"And you're father, did he ignore you? Shout at you?" I shook my head again, getting confused.

"No he even said sorry for not being there." Luke snorted

"I'm sure he did,"

"He did." I insisted.

"But did he mean it?"

"Yes. Luke why are you being like this?" Luke let out a small growl and got to his feet, throwing his can to the ground.

"The gods are manipulative. They always make you believe something when it's never true. The charm the hearts of mortals and make them fall in love with them only to break their hearts after promising to always be there only to leave. They use demigods to do things they should be doing themselves. They don't listen to our prayers, they don't help us. Our pain is amusing to them. They ignore their children, they watch them suffer. You're father didn't mean what he said to you. He wants' you believe him so he can use you. He'll end up killing you, can't you see that?"

"No, I can't," I said defiantly. Luke didn't answer and threw his arms up in frustration. "Are you feeling okay?"

"I'm fine; it's you we should be worried about."

"Excuse me?"

"Can't you see?"

"See what?" I asked, getting frustrated

"You're under their spell," He answered getting to his knees in front of me and grabbed my arms.

"Luke, are you high?" He growled and shook me violently.

"Listen to me!"

"I am, but all I'm hearing is you sounding like a crazy person."

"I'm not crazy!"

"Could have fooled me."

"Listen to me," He screamed

"I am!"

"No you're not! You're listening to the gods when you shouldn't be."
"Really? Because I was under the impression I was talking to you, not them."

"You're not listening to what I'm saying. The gods are lying to you, they're using you."

"Look I'm going to find Will or someone, you needs help." I said standing up only to be pushed back down roughly by Luke who was looking at me with a manic look in his eye.

"I can't let you do that. If you won't help me I have to get rid of you."

"You haven't asked me to help you. I don't even know what you want help with."

"Join me," He said suddenly

"What?"

"Join me; together we can destroy the gods. We can live in a free world, a world run by titans. We wouldn't have to worry about anyone controlling us."

"You're mental." I said shaking my head, trying to push him away from me but he was too strong. He shook his head violently, his hair flopping all over the place.

"I can't let you leave, you'll just tell everyone," He stood up and ran his hand through his tousled hair. "I'm sorry for what I'm about to do."

He murmured a few words in ancient Greek, I didn't know enough to be able to figure out what he said but I knew I didn't like the feeling that surrounded me. A small cloud appeared over my head and a miniature object fell out and hit me on the head. I raised my hand to try and see what it was but Luke stopped me.

"I wouldn't do that if I was you," he said "Any sudden movement and you'll be injected by poison that will kill you quickly if you don't get any help. And since you're precious son of Apollo isn't around to save you again, I doubt you'll even live to see the next daylight."

"There's nothing going on between me and Will," I said trying to ignore the feeling of something trying to crawl down my body. "We're just friends."

"Don't lie to me,"

"I'm not lying." I said defensively.

"We could have been great together you know, I would have made you my queen."

"You're sick," I cried as I tried to stay as still as possible when I got to see what was crawling down me. A grey scorpian was looking up at me with his black beedy eyes, his stinger poissed at the ready above my thigh.

"Maybe, but it's you're loss. It was nice knowing you Sophia. We won't, be seeing each other again."

I watched with hidden panic as he turned around and walked further into the forest, until he disappeared.

I looked down at the scorpian carefully, trying not to startle it with sudden movements. It was still looking up at me, unblinking. I could feel my heart pounding in my chest at the thought of what I was about to do.

As quickly as I could my hand shot to my pocket and pulled out my sword quickly uncapped it and swung, just as the scorpian jumped up into the air and brought it's stinger down onto my leg.

I screamed in pain as it injected it's poison but I still cut it in half with my sword, people may think I was an idiot, but even I knew that if I wanted to live, I was going to have to move quickly.

Ignoring the pain I ran as fast as I could for the tree line. My eyesight started to get blurry, I could only just see where I was going. It wasn't until I got past the tree line that I let myself fall into the darkness that had been treating to capture me since the poison first hit my blood.

With one feeble cry for help, I let my eyes close and I fell to the ground, until all I saw was blackness.

Sunlight hit my closed eyelids causing me to groan and scrunch my eyes tighter, trying to stop the light that was giving me a headache.

"Morning sunshine," A familiar cheerful voice filtered through my ears and I groaned as my headache worsened.

"Don't be so loud," I moaned as rubbed my head, trying to relieve myself of the pain.

"If you open your eyes I'll give you a piece of ambrosia."

"Can you turn off the lights?" I heard him chuckle and I heard curtains being closed and the sound of a switch being turned off. When I could no longer see any lights I opened my eyes. I was back in the infirmary and although the closed curtains didn't block all of the sunlight out, it was a lot better than what it had been.

"Thank you," I murmured as he handed me a small, golden square of the familiar food of the gods.

"Eat it slowly and as soon as you can't feel any pain put it down okay?" I nodded but winced at the pain it caused me.

When I could feel the pain disappearing I spoke again.

"What happened?" Will looked up from where he had been tiding up some medical supplies and smirked.

"I know you're a seaweed brain, but I thought that even you could tell you were poisoned."

"I meant pretty boy," I started, glaring at the blonde who had gone back to cleaning. "What happened after I collapsed?"

"Michael found you, you know, my brother. The head councillor of my cabin?"

"Yeah I know," I snapped.

"Well luckily he had been heading to the infirmary to start his shift so he had some supplies on him and was able to remove some of the poison from your body then carried you here where we helped him get rid of the rest of the poison. And you've been for the last four days."

"So that means I'm leaving tomorrow?" I asked, groaning when he nodded. I didn't want this summer to end, I finally found a place where I belonged and now I had to leave it. But on the plus side, at least now that meant that I could spend more time with my mom. When I had last spoken to her she had told me that she had gotten me enrolled at a school not far from our apartment, so that meant that I could go home every day to see her, something we were both happy about.

"It also means that I'll be leaving today," My head shot up to look at Will with wide eyes.

"You're leaving?" He nodded.

"I've decided to give my mom a chance, and if it doesn't work out, I'll leave."

"Nervous?"

"Extremely," He sighed.

"Well you've always got the camp. And you can always call if you want someone to talk to."

"True, but I'm still nervous. I haven't seen her in two years, I know she said she was sober but I doubt she's been sober for long. What if she goes back to how she was before?"

"You can only wait and see Will."

We collapsed into an awkward silence. Neither of us sure what to say. A car horn beeped in the distance and Will sighed.

"That's probably mom," I smiled sympathetically as he looked petrified. "I should probably go."

"Probably," I agreed. He crossed the room and grabbed a bag that I hadn't noticed before and threw it over his shoulder. "Good luck Will."

"See you next summer?" I nodded.

"Defiantly," I waved as he left the room, but before he could close the door behind him I called him back.

"What?" He asked, sticking his head in through the door.

"In case I forget, Happy Birthday."

"My birthday isn't for two months," He pointed out, his eyebrows scrunching up in confusion.

"You know me, I'm a seaweed brain. I'll probably forget." I gave him a cheeky grin.

"Thank you," He said laughing. "See you seaweed brain."

"See you pretty boy."

When the door finally slid shut, I sighed as I fell back onto the bed and turned the golden cake like substance over in my hands. Next summer seemed like ages away. I wouldn't be able to see my friends, or the beautiful lake that I had spent most of my time at or taste the amazing food the camp always served until next summer.

The only good thing was that I could finally spend time with my mom, with no disturbances or Smelly Gabe ordering her around when we tried to spend time together. It was just going to be the two of us, and I couldn't wait.

At least I could spend next summer in normality, with no quests and no gods threatening my own life. I could spend it with just Grover and Will, and actually have a normal summer. Well, relatively normal. After all, I was the daughter of a God.

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