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Chapter 3

POV Nico

Having to find tiny people is not how I wanted to spend my summer. But here I am finding tiny people to raise with my boyfriend of only like 7 months. I was hoping this summer would be quest free, there would be less battling, less of being controlled, less of everything except for Will. I just wanted to spend my summer here and not deal with anything else. Obviously, that wasn't going to happen. Not just because the camp directors told us to but also because my father told me to.

Now I am not complaining that I have a better relationship with my father and stepmother however it was him that convinced me that this was a good idea. I guess he had been busy before Persephone and he got over fighting about everything. Will and l are going to be raising not one but two of my actual baby sisters. My dad said it was a mistake but he was still happy my sisters were in the world now. Both of their moms had horrible deaths due to being close to the king of the underworld.

"Hey," Will said when we finally made it back to the manor.

"Hi" I replied.

"Rough afternoon?" he asked while winding his arms around my waist.

He was the perfect height for me to place my chin on top of his head. I may have had a growth spurt after my junior year. Yea, Annabeth thought it would be smart for all of us to go to school. I mean Will is already in his second year of college and I will start senior year in the fall. Well, I hope I will. I have been thinking maybe that I could be a teacher. I know what everyone would think about that but I'm good with kids, I may not look the part with tattoos and piercings but I could do it. If only to homeschool the kiddos we will be picking up and maybe when they go off to school the campers that don't want to leave for the school year. I could probably talk Annabeth into designing a school room or something. A guy can dream, can't he?

"Yea," I said placing my chin on his head. "I just keep thinking about my sisters being all alone in this big scary world."

"But they won't be for long. Jason said you guys are off to find Bianca and Reyna once you drop off the first few." I nodded.

"Yep, dad said that we should find them together I guess that Bianca found Reyna really soon after she was orphaned. She's three!"

"I wish the Gods were better at keeping track of their kids. I mean look at my dad he has over 20 kids in that Cabin every summer and does he care? Maybe, but he has a funny way of showing it."

"Well, if it means anything my dad and ma" which is what I have been calling Persephone lately since she gave me advice on how to you know like woo someone, "like you quiet a lot. Which I know isn't the same they aren't your real parents but they care for you as a son or not like a son cause were dating so that would be weird since then, we would be broth- "soft lips connected to mine to shut me up.

"Nico," he says softly "it means a ton that they like me. I mean technically you aren't legal yet so I could go to jail for dating you."

I roll my eyes We have this conversation all the time. Yes, he was 20 the oldest out of all of us, but only for about 2 months then Thalia had her birthday, and yes, I was only 17 but it was only three years.

"Will they don't care about that. Persephone wasn't even born when my dad turned 100." It was his turn to roll his eyes.

"Your dad and ma are immortal babe."

My cheeks grew red and Will knew it too he is always calling me pet names knowing that it will make me blush. I was about to reply and make a snarky comment but Percy came over with a destressed Frank in his arms.

"Hey Will, Nico can I introduce you to my really cool friend Frank for a sec?"

Will unwound his arms from around me, Percy was just about to set down Frank so that we could get down to his level but Frank was having none of it.

"What's up Frankie they just want to say hi and I thought that would be easier if you are on the ground."

Frank shook his head quickly.

"No, no, no leave."

"What do you mean buddy?"

"You said you leave, no leave."

"Hey Frank," Will asked, "do you like to watch movies?"

"No movie, box."

His speech was very choppy but I knew the meaning of what he said.

"There were no movies in your box?" he nodded.

"Yea no movie."

"But you like animals, don't you?" I asked.

"Yea, bear, dog, hippos."

"Those are the best animals what about bunnies and foxes?"

"Yea, I like those too. They friends." Percy slowly put Frank down and each question was answered with words and a step towards Will who finally picked him up.

"Well, I know just the movie for you. Would you like to stay here with me and watch it?"

"Perce?" he asked and pointed to Percy.

"He has to go find a little boy named Charlie, he's going to be like your big brother while you live here."

"Come back home?" he asked Percy.

"I will always come back home to you baby boy, always."

"Not baby. I big boy." He said but seemed like he was feeling better about Percy leaving.

"You are such a big boy." He placed his hand on Frank's head and rubbed his hair.

"Beth?" Frank asked.

"She's gotta come with me. You see Nico and Will have a little girl that needs help just like you did and Beth is the best finder, I'm just the muscle." He said flexing his arms. Frank giggled but did it too.

"I help." He said.

"Hey Frank, I have a special job for you here," I said his eyes got really big.

"What is?"

"I need you to take care of Will for me. Don't tell him but I get nervous when he's home all alone do you think you can keep him company and be his muscle?"

Percy was smiling at the three of us.

"You know I think Uncle Nico is right Uncle Will might get sad all alone!" to keep up the scheme Will pouted. Which was really quite a cute look on him.

"Okay, I stay but we watch movie, and you find Chary and come home." He said but it sounded more like a question.

"I think that's a great idea, you'll watch a movie and maybe sleep some more and when you get up me and Beth will be there to eat breakfast with you."

"We say bye to Beth?"

"Yea, let's go say bye really quick."

Percy took Frank with him to go say bye while I went back to go pick up their girl's backpacks.

"You know I don't know why you were so nervous about being a dad," Will said watching me check to make sure everything was there.

"What are you talking about I'm still nervous."

"You know you just got Frank to stay with me and now you are taking the time to make sure our girls have everything they need."

"Our girls?"

I hadn't thought about it like that yet. They were going to be ours. Will's and mine, I mean the whole camp was going to know that all our friends were going to see that.

"Yea babe our girls."

I stood up and kissed him hard on the mouth. I started to deepen the kiss a little but I heard Jason yell for us to get ready to leave again. I also heard wines from Rissa, and Frank again. Connor had Katie keep him company.

"Go bring them home." Said Will. I nodded and grabbed their bags.

I was about to go save one of our two girls and bring them home to the man I loved. I was just hoping I was not going to mess them up. Hopefully.

POV Jason

"I think I should stay here. Just get everything ready she's the youngest and she'll need the most stuff. I mean I doubt she is even potty trained yet I'm not even sure she's really three. And then there is Frank and Rissa and Connor that need us here too, I mean Leo has to go to be the mechanic with the cars, and then your sister has to go because we don't really know where Gwen is exactly. Let's not forget your freaking dad thought it would be best for us to have three kids while everyone else had two. Jason, I need to stay."

"Piper?" she stopped her pacing. "Okay."

"Okay?"

"Okay. I think it's smart for you to stay and get things ready. You're right Reyna is the littlest and will probably be tuckered out anyway so she won't put up a fight. Plus, Annabeth will be there to so if anything happens I have her and Percy and Leo all there to help with needed. Now you go check on the rooms, go set up some stuff for them. Maybe get Rissa to help you to keep here the mind on everything. Make it a mission or something. It will all be fine."

My hands were on her biceps. She took a breath and then sighed.

"Yea okay." She leaned her head onto my chest. "I don't know what I would do without you."

"You would fall through the floor with all your pacing." She laughed silently.

"I love you. You go get our little one and when you get back, I will be here." I leaned down and kissed her.

"I love you too."

We stayed there for a while before I heard Percy coming back in with Frank on his hip. Frank looked a little upset but mostly okay.

"Piper is staying here to get more things ready and to give Katie and Will an extra hand."

"I keep her safe," Frank said while showing his muscles.

"You will?" I asked him.

"Yeah, I strong and keep monster's way."

"I bet you will bud. You know what?"

"What?"

"You think you could get Rissa to help you?"

"Yes, yes, and Connor to he be the brains and Rissa be the beauty and I the muscle."

Percy and I made eye contact. We both laughed silently mostly because we knew that Clarisse would not like being the beauty.

"That's right bud." Percy said, "let's go say bye to Beth and then we can go and find Charlie, okay?" he nodded.

"Bye-bye Uncle Jay." I smiled at him.

"Bye-bye, buddy I'll see you soon okay." He just nodded placing his head on Percy's shoulder.

I turned back to Piper and leaned in for another kiss.

"Be safe and bring her back." I nodded.

With one last kiss, I left. I grabbed the three backpacks that had the kids' names on them. Piper is not the typical daughter of Aphrodite but she had an eye for detail. All the bags had them. I yelled for Nico to come back to the hall. Will followed him Katie with Connor in her arms was already there kissing Travis goodbye he kissed Connor's forehead and then came to stand with the rest of us.

"You have to stay with Auntie Piper."

"NO, you say that I stay with you!"

"Clarisse, I know you want to come with us but you have to stay here. Lo and me want to make sure you're safe while we go find Gwen, okay?"

"NO, NO, NO, I go with!" she was near tears.

"Sweetie," Leo knelt down to her level and took her in his arms. "What's got you having all these big feelings huh?"

"No leave, please don't leave me. You won't come back they never come back."

Thalia stopped rubbing her back, closed her eyes she took a deep breath. When she opened them again, she looked determined?

"Claire, Lo, and I aren't ever going to leave you not ever, this isn't us leaving for good this is us just leaving for a little while."

"N-no," she cried into Leo.

"I know you want us to stay but do you want the other kids to be left out there like you were." Which did sound kind of harsh but I trusted my sister with what she was doing. Clarisse shook her head no. "So, you need to stay here with Auntie Piper and Katie and Uncle Will okay. You stay here and you be my little warrior you keep your head up and eyes open okay you never know what's going to happen. Can you do that?"

"I brave warrior." She said back. Thalia chuckled wetly

"Yea sweetheart you are a brave warrior. Now go over to Auntie Piper and we will be back before you know it okay." Rissa sniffed and wiped her nose on her sleeve.

"You go get my sister."

"That's the plan sweet girl."

"Just come back Lo no leave me." He picked her up and squeezed.

"Not ever baby not ever."

I went out to the vans to give them a family moment. I was in their van so I was a little nervous that Thalia was going to have one of her moments. The one where she cries and then has to punch something. I went to the trunk and put the bags in, hopefully, we could get the rest of the kids by tonight or as close to tonight as we can.

As I walked back to the front, I caught Leo and Thalia in an embrace, she was bawling. Leo whispered in her ear. I walked past grabbing the keys out of Leo's pocket on the way.

"I'll drive you too can take your time."

"Thanks, Jason," Leo said.

We were finally on the road again. After what felt like hours we were finally back on track. I was hoping that we could find these girls as quickly as possible. I mean three Reyna was three. Honestly, I'm not sure she was even that, the Scouters just said that might be the age range. We wouldn't really know how old they were or when their birthdays were until Will did his whole healing magic thing that his dad gave him.

We were on our way back across the country, all the way back to California. More specifically Palm Springs. We weren't sure what we would find or if the girls had moved but either way, we just needed to find them. We were about 15 minutes away at this point, with how Leo supped up the vans we had only been driving for 3 hours.

"15 minutes out." Nico was saying over the phone.

"You got a place we should start?" I asked. The phone was on speaker.

"Not yet but Annabeth thinks they could be close to a town or suburb or something I'm not sure."

"Sounds good to us we find a parking lot or something and make our way there."

"See you soon."

We hang up. We parked in a Walmart parking lot; it was close to what could be considered the town a little on the outside but it would do. We started walking. There was a wooded area behind the store so we started there. We walked for while until we started to hear screeches and broken-up speech patterns. I put my hand up for the group to stop. I nodded at Nico. He grabbed Percy on the shoulder and traveled them to the other side of the clearing. Annabeth put on her cap and walked on the outer ring to see what we were dealing with.

It took about 10 minutes before they all came back. We walked back a little way.

"Okay, they have them in what looks to be a giant nest."

"A what now?" I asked. "What are they doing with them?"

"Well from what we could hear they are trying to fatten them up. Says the little one isn't big enough and the older is closer to ripe."

"Like a fucking piece of fruit." Grumbles Nico.

"Okay, what's the plan?" asked Leo.

"Here's what we are going to do, Percy and Nico are going to go back to the other side, Travis will take the left Leo the right, Jason and Thalia will start at the end and I will start making chaos within the group. When it's time to attack you will see me in the nest, I will take the hat off and put it back on quickly. Like I'm winking at you or something."

Everyone nodded. Annabeth had us break up to where were stationed. It only took Annabeth a couple of minutes to cause the harpies to go haywire. First, it was their other food sources being thrown around, then it was water going everywhere, which meant that Percy was helping. I decide to play with them a little to cause gusts of wind to go around the camp. Finally, I saw Annabeth wink into the nest, and then she was gone again. All hell broke loose. Almost literally.

The harpies start squawking like not tomorrow. I took the opportunity to slice and dice as much as I could. Dust was going everywhere Percy was back to back with me at one point. By the end of the fight, no one was spared from the grime.

"That went better than expected." And of course, I spoke too soon.

When the girls found the cost was clear Bianca was on her feet running toward the store.

"CHRIS! CHRIS!"

"Chris!?" Travis asked alarmed.

"He was right there they had him! I was watching him Reyna needed the bathroom, and I was watching him and no he's gone!"

Bianca wailed and dropped to the ground. Nico immediately went to her aid.

"It's okay Bambina, it's okay!"

"NO! Don't touch me you just like them! You'll try and kill us and take us away!"

"Hey, sweet girl I'm not going to hurt you. My name is Nico. What's your name?"

The little girl sniffed and looked over to where Annabeth was helping a distressed Reyna. I looked over to my other side and Percy was helping Travis breathe.

"B-Bianca, I'm 5." She held up all five fingers.

"What a big girl," Nico said. "Do you think you can help me?"

"With what?"

"We need to find Chris." He went into a stage whisper voice. "You see that guy over there?"

"Yes"

"He's Chris's caretaker, and he's really worried about him do you think you can help me and the rest of us find him?"

"Yea, but, but he doesn't talk he doesn't like to. He just nods his head yes and no and doesn't make a sound."

Well shit. That just got about 80% harder than it could have been.

"Does he like to hide?" Nico asked

"Yes, in high places."

"Like a tree?" asked Travis "What with my kids and trees?"

"No, like a big rock or stairs." Said Bianca.

"That's perfect Bambina, lets's get you off the ground so you can help me, okay?"

Bianca stood up and reached out for Nico. He smiled softly and picked her up. I went over to Annabeth who was still having trouble with Reyna.

"Defiantly needs a diaper." She winced.

"Hey, their baby how's my brave girl?"

"Sad." She slurred.

"I can see that can I take you for a little bit so Annabeth can help find Chris?"

"No wost." She pointed to a bush that seemed to be shaking in fear.

"Travis, I think we found him," I said.

Travis was by my side in an instant. I pointed to the bush. Nico came over with Bianca and started whispering to her. She nodded and went over to the bush.

"Chris?" she whispered. "Is okay, they not mean they nice. Nico, say they help us. Please come out?"

Slowly almost painfully, a little boy no more than 4 came out of hiding. He was covered in dirt and tiny red scratches.

"Hi, their buddy, my name is Travis. Would it be okay if I picked you up and got you cleaned up? We could get you into some new clothes and then you and I are going to go see a friend of mine."

The little boy took a deep breath and as a group, we held ours thinking he was going to talk. But he just nodded a few times and held up his hands.

Reyna wiggled in my arms and started pocking my cheek.

"No wost." She smiled big.

"You did so good love already such a good tracker and your only three."

"I two." She held up two fingers.

I just nodded and took a deep breath. Annabeth was herding up towards the Walmart to go get cleaned up. She went as well to get a change of clothes and some diapers for miss Reyna. Once we were finished, we all got back into the swing of going toward the van. Nico quickly shadowed Travis and Connor to will to make sure everything was fine and then came back just as quickly. It was a good thing to because Bianca was about to have a 5-year-old tantrum.

As we started off for the next destination, I watched Reyna fall asleep in the car seat that Annabeth thought to grab since she was so little. It was amazing that after so much trauma this little angle could just fall asleep without a care in the world. It was probably the first time she had been safe in months. I slowly reached out and rain my fingers through her baby hair. She sighed and leaned into my gentle touch. I could do this. We could do this. I hope.

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-IAmHazel