DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT PJO OR ANY SONGS I MAY USE!

WARNING: CUSSING, VIOLENCE, SELF-HARM!

(Piper P.O.V.)

Ember had never talked about her past, I thought it was jsut hard for her, since she had lost control and stuff, but it was much much more than that. She told us all about the casino, the man, her brother and worst of all, the cocaine that she as forced to have. When she finished the story, she was at the verge of tears. She didn't tell us everything, the first thing she said, but she told us some stuff.

"The other's should really hear this, Ember, can we at least tell them some parts?" I asked.

She frowned, but she nodded, "You can tell them about the casino and my brother, but don't tell them about the drug. I'll tell them later. I promise."

"Of course, that's you're place to tell, not ours." Hazel said.

"You know that there is a cure for the drug. Well, something you can stop it from happening again." Will said.

"Yeah I know. It was just so much and... you know how I told you about my... er... job?" Ember asked, "Well, I was so scared and I thought that if I threw up enough blood, maybe all of the uh... hormones would go away."

Will shook his head, "Does nayone else know about this?"

"Well there that man, my boss, but I killed him a while ago, um Talia knew, but again she's dead, my brother knew, he's dead, my mentor Sky Hunter knew, but I killed him earlier today, there's Heather, but she died in car acciden-" Will cut Ember off.

"Is there anyone alive that knows?" he asked.

Ember thought for a minute, "Nope." she said, poping the "p", "Well besides four of course. Other than that, no. They all died somehow. Okay most of the died from or becuase me, it wasn't my fault they hated me! Okay that's a lie, they all have very good reason to hate me."

"Like?" Nico asked.

"Talia, well she beileved I betrayed her becuase I couldn't kill Glitch. Sky Hunter, well he's pretty pisst at his brother, and his brother is pretty pisst at me because I kill his daughter," she said, Will gave her a strange look, "Hey it was an accident, it was a war zone William!" she said.

Will flinched, no one used his full name but his mother when she got pisst.

"Anyway, Heather hated me becuase I turned down her brother, becuase he asked me once if I wanted to be his girlfriend. I said no, seriously what 18 year old guy asked a 9 year old to be his girlfirend? Dude had problems."

"Once?" Nico asked.

"Oh yes, he dead, he had a bar fight. Lot's of punches, blood loss. Told him to lay low on the sugar drinks, never listened to me that boy." she muttered.

"Ember... we're here for you don't forget that." Hazel said.

She nodded sighed and nodded.

(Nico P.O.V)

Half of what Ember said didn't make sense, I mean it made sense, but why did everyone die, it seemed Ember would take care of that. I wanted to find out why everyone died.

"Everyone except Ember get out." I said.

"Nico, are you-" Will started.

"Yeah. I need to talk to her. Alone." I said.

Hazel gave me a are-you-sure look, I nodded. She sighed.

"Come on, let's go tell the other's so they at least now some of it." Hazel said.

She looked at Ember for permission and she blinked and nodded slightly, but it seemed more of a bow. Piper, Will, and Hazel left the room, I sighed, it was silent, I seemed like neither of us were great at starting conversations.

"So... what did you want to me about?" she asked, although she seemed lost on thought.

"Why did everyone die? Everyone who knew well your past?" I asked.

she shrugged, "Some people... they die when they know stuff... You remember that song we sang. Carasoul and Heathens?"

"Yeah. What does that have to do with anything?" I asked, what did a song mashup have to do with death.

"Pay attention to the lyrics." she said simply, then she sang certain parts of the song.

Wait for them to ask you who you know
Please don't make any sudden moves
You don't know the half of the abuse

Welcome to the room of people
Who have rooms of people
that they loved one day
Docked away
Just because we check
the guns at the door
Doesn't mean our brains will
change from hand grenades
You'll never know
psychopath sitting next to you
You'll never know
murderer sitting next to you
You'll think, how'd I get
here, sitting next to you?
But after all I've said

We don't deal with outsiders very well
They say newcomers have a certain smell
Yeah, I trust issues, not to mention
They say they can smell your intentions
You'll never know
freakshow sitting next to you

Why'd you come, you knew
you should have stayed
I tried to warn you just to stay away
And now they're outside ready to bust
You look like you might be one of us

"It isn't really me who kills them. It's what they know. I tried to warn them, they didn't listen." she said.

"What are you saying Ember? That everyone who knows this will die?" I asked.

She softly chuckled, "No. I'm saying what people know should sometiems remain secrets. If you spill those secrets, well then you end up dead. I should know..." she said.

"But you aren't dead, how can you know?"

"When I was 10, I was forced to give out information, I did. I almost died that day, okay I did die on that day. I was dead for three minutes."

I went silent, "How did you.."

"How did I survive? I'm not sure, someone helped me. I didn't know who it was. I woke up in a forest, not in the room."

"I see..."

"Some parts are true. People like me... we know your intentions." Ember sighed, "Let's go. I'm sure the others are waiting for us."

I nodded, ending our conversation. We got up from the chairs and Ember put her hand on the doornob.

"Oh Nico, your promise still stands, what we just talked about, tell no one." Ember turned the door nob and walked out.

I followed shortly after and sat at the island in the kitchen.

"Wow... oh gods Ember. I'm so sorry." Calypso said.

"It's fine. I'm fine now, it doesn't happen anymore." she said, she seemed fazed again.

(Ember P.O.V)

Shadow: Did you have to tell them?

Me: Well no, but they were going to find out eventually.

Onyx: Shadow, she's just trying to save her friends!

Me: Do you two ever stop fighting? You've been fighting since I got here.

Shadow: I don't like this place, not enough shadows for me to check on you.

Onyx: You mean to stalk her Shadow. Seriously, she can handle herself, be a nice doggy and don't stalk her.

Shadow: One problem, I'm not nice, whatsoever.

Me: Shut up please. Both of you. You two are giving me a headache. Shadow, I thank you, but I'm fine, Onyx, the three of us aren't nice, it's kind of our personality. Now both of you scram and make up, come back in the morning or something.

I sighed and shook my head, the headache had been fainter, but still felt like nails in my head. I didn't show any of these, I had a bit of trouble showing pain, or really anything very much.

"Gods, how did you get through all that?" Percy asked, Annabeth nudged him and sent him a glare.

I shrugged, "I'm not sure... Besides getting killed in every single place in the world, I'm not sure how I'm not dead yet."

"Um, Ember..." Katie asked.

"Okay, this is going to sound like a creepy question, but... what do you do on your spare time?"

I thought about how I would answer this, hmm let's see, well I run from the law, usally it had to do some weird job, and I hurt myself. I wasn't going to tell them any of these, so I just shurgged, "I don't know. Usally it consists of random stuff."

"Like?" Jason asked.

Why are they so interested in what I do in my free time? "Well... it usally consist of some weird job. A bit of this, bit of that." I muttered.

"Like?" Connor asked.

I rolled my eyes, "Geez, you all reminded me of Shadow sometimes." I muttered.

Shadow: I heard that!

Onyx: Shut up.

I scoffed, "Both of you shut up, and I know you heard that Shadows." I growled.

"Uh... Ember, who are you talking to?" Hazel asked.

I shook my head, "Nevermind. It's um... complecated..." I frowned, I was trying to remember, but what? My finger started drumming the counter, like a beat. My mind picked up a beat. "Think I just remembered something I think I left the faucet. Think I got myself in trouble So I fill the bath with bubbles." I muttered.

"What are you talking about?" Piper asked.

I went silent, what was I talking about? "Uh, I'm not sure..." I muttered. I closed my eyes, trying to figure something, I was trying to find a string of words, random words. I scowled, "Why must you be so hard to find." I growled.

"Who are you talking too?" Will asked, he probably thought I was delusional.

I sighed, my eyes still closed, but all I saw was another part flashback.

~Start Flashback~

August 23rd, my birthday I hated that day, my best friend had died.

We were driving and singing songs, and laughing, it was 8:00 p.m. we had just finished dinner. Some drunk driver rang a red light, we had crash. My seat belt broke, and I fell on the headborad, glass had flown into my skin, I looked to my left. My friend, had a big glass shatter in his ribcage.

"No! NO! I'm not lettting you die!" I screamed, I moved from the passanger seat, which was hard, I somehow held my dear friend.

"Ember...? I can't feel anything... I'm soo tired, let me sleep..." he had whispered.

"No, you have to stay awake Diablo! Please, I don't want to lose anymore family." I said, I had considered my friends as family.

"Ember... so tired..." he murmured.

"No! No! Not again..." I sobbed, he just like my brother had died in my arms by glass.

I cried for 20 minutes or so, I wasn't counting. I heard sirens, and shouting from outside, I paid no mind to that, my friend had died.

"Why does everyone I care about die?" I whispered to myself.

"Hello? Anyone in there?" someone yelled.

I heard the car door open, the driver's side, a medic with blonde hair and blue eyes had opened the door.

"It's okay. You're safe now." He coaxed.

"No! No I'm not! He's dead! I'm not safe! I was never safe in the first place!" I cried.

He pried me out of the car, somehow, it took several medics to pry me apart from Diablo, I had spent a good three weeks in the hosipital. The man, the one who had pried me out of the car, went by the name of Ravi. He checked up on me a lot while in the hosipital, I didn't talk for three weeks, they had relised me back to my mom, Angela Ohita. She tried to get me to talk, I never did, I only answered school related questions. I had shut myself in my room for three days. I sighed, there was nothing I could do. Everyone I cared about was going to die, then and there after, I just stopped making friends, why cost people their lives to be friends with me? To pity me, no I wouldn't do that. My brother died on his birthday August 9th, my best friend Diablo had died on my birthday. My 14th birthday had sucked.

~End Flashback~

I gasped for air, we were outside again, and I was on the grass, I jerked up panting, my mouth hung open.

"Hey! She's awake!" I heard Leo cry.

I heard several splashes, why was I outside?

"Oh thank the gods! You're okay!" Silena said, she threw her arms around me and I flinched. Not only did I not like physical contact, she was dripping wet from the pool

I groaned, "How long?" I asked.

"About three hours. It's like 7 now." Nico said.

I groaned again, "Damn memories." I muttered, "Well I failed miserably."

"Failed what? Whatever it was I'm sure you didn't fail." Katie said reassurly.

I scoffed, "Oh I so failed it, and I failed my promise that I made a year ago."

"Which was?" Annabeth asked.

I frowned, "Get ready guys this is going to get dark fast." I told them about my sucky birthday, my friend, I never mentiond his name becuase for Connor's sake, the car crash, the hosipital, and the promise.

I finished and everyone was fidgety and looking at Connor, who was paler than Nico.

"Ember, wh-who was this?" he asked shaikly.

I looked him in the eye, green to blue, "I'm sorry Connor, my friend was Diablo Skyrah." I said slowly. We continued to have our intense eye contact. He said nothing, I expected that, and it was silent, I also expected that. Connor said but I fazed out again, pulling my self into Shadows.

Shadow: Well this is better! So many shadows!

Onyx: I told you to stop being a freaky dog stalker! Ugh, you are so unbearable.

Shadow: Hey! I take offense to that hairball.

Onyx: I know you take offense to that and what did you just call me?

Shadow: I called you a hairball, which is weird becuase you have like zero hair around your rib cage.

Me: 1. Shadow stop being a stalker 2. Onyx, calm down, 3. get the Hella out of my head. Both of you.

They left which was good, but what was bad was that I said it out lound and some of my friends were giving me weird looks. I shook my head and scowled and muttered something about shadows and pets. I closed my eyes trying to focus on something other than my pets, because they were arguing and that was giving me a headache. I phone buzzed, I made a habit of keeping it on me, I scowled again and answered it, I didn't even look at the number.

"Hello?" I asked.

"Hello again Ember." the voice said, Nova.

"What do you want?" I snapped, I didn't like Nova at all

My friends were giving me strange and worried looks, mostly Connor probably becuase I was going to die soon, which was probably true.

"Just a job, heard you with the sanes." she said.

"Oh really? And what exactly is this..." I sneered.

She laughed, it was as hollow as ever, "I have my sources my dear Em. As for the job, I need you to get something for me, SH21 died ealier correct?"

"Yeah. Why?" I asked.

"Well, there's something on him that I want. It's a necklace, I assume you've seen it?" Nove asked.

I pulled out the necklace that I may or may not have stolen off my mentor. It looked like mirror, but it had a white gem in the middle, I frowned.

"Yeah, I know that necklace. Why do you want it?" I asked.

She laughed again, "The reason I want the necklace isn't your concern, but I assume you know of the forces?" she asked.

I scoffed, "If you don't you an idiot then."

"Get all the necklaces. That's your job, they're all over the school, just find the right people." she said then ended the call.

I put my hone back in my pocket and held the necklace, "No way Nova, you're not getting it that easly." I muttered and put the necklace back in my pocket. I sighed again and closed my eyes again.