Disclaimer: I still do not own this series. Grrr.

Also, if it feels like a lot of people haven't been talking much, that's mostly because either I forgot they were there, or I just couldn't of what there reactions would be. Yes, I know, I'm a terrible person. On with the story!

Before he could start though, 2 more people appeared. One mortal bound and gagged that made the Jackson's squeak in fear and hide behind someone, and a demigod with a scar on his face.

Once the commotion of the Jackson's hiding settled down, the futures and the new demigod stared at each other. All the others looked too, he looked like an older version of Luke. Finally, Annabeth and Thalia couldn't take it anymore. They went up and punched him as hard as they could. This drew an even more shocked silence from the younger kids, while the futures just nodded in approval.

Of course, to have both Thalia and Annabeth punch you is no picnic, Luke was pretty sure he felt a few ribs crack, he's just lucky they decided not to punch him in the face. That was, of course, until Percy did it for them. Now he knows he deserved all of it, but it still hurt.

Finally, Luke found his voice, well, somewhat. "Um, ah, did something happen?" He had a pretty good idea what happened, but, he also thought that the girls would have understood. Luke looked at him, then back at Percy. "How much have you told them and what time is this? The Fates didn't tell me much, just that they were trying to fix things."

Percy looked at him and sighed. "We haven't told them much, we were going to let the books do it. As for what time it is..." He looked at Annabeth trying to decide how to word this without giving anything away.

Annabeth stepped up and said, "It's the Winter Solstice before the scorpion... incident." While everyone who wasn't there for that murmured in confusion, all the futures eyes hardened as they remembered how Percy had looked coming out of the forest (those who were there, obviously). Luke understood immediately when he heard that, this was the day he stole the Lightning Bolt, this was the day he made his decision and caused so much pain for everyone he cared about. He sighed, 'great, now I gotta work on changing my own mind...'

He glanced over at Luke, and seemed to be in thought for a minute, then he requested to see the book so he could catch himself up on the chapters he missed, Hades tossed it to him and he went over to sit in the corner after eyeing the future Greeks, all of whom had a hand on their weapons.

None of the younger people missed this, but they decided to let it slide for now. If it was important they would find out later.

While he did that, they turned their attention to the man tied up, the younger kids still glancing looking between Luke and Annabeth, clearly wondering just what on earth happened between them.

It was then that everyone realized that after punching Luke, Percy had retreated back to his hiding place, and was even now staring at the man with a mix of emotions on his face. Those who knew him realized that one of them was fear. Percy Jackson was terrified of this man. They glanced towards the other two Jackson's and saw the same looks on their faces. Who was this guy, and why were all three Jackson's so terrified of him?

All this time, Gabe had furiously been sitting there in silence, for the moment too shocked to really start yelling for Sally to get over there and untie him. He was angry when he noticed the brat, the brat that had destroyed his car. If he can just get out of these ropes!

That's about when the demigods noticed the smell. It seemed to be coming from the man, and that's when they realized who this was. Hadn't Percy mentioned something about a SMELLY Gabe before? Hadn't Percy told both Grover's and Annabeth about a Smelly Gabe? Looking again at the Jackson's, they decided that whatever this man had done to them, they didn't want to know.

And, of course that's when the Fates saw fit to take off the gag.

"SALLY!" Sally cringed, it had been years since she last heard that voice, years since she no longer had to put up with him again. "WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? IF THAT BRAT HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS..."

He let the threat linger, and all three Jackson's retreated further, they knew exactly what would happen. Percy and Sally may not have seen him for years, but they would never forget.

Sally swallowed, looked between Paul and Poseidon as if assuring herself that she was safe here, then stood and slowly started walking towards Gabe, schooling her features as she went. She dimly noticed her sons also schooling their faces, that just made her angry. If he laid a finger on her son...

She stopped in front of him and adopted the light, cooperative tone she used to use on him, the one that told him she would do as she was told but she was soooo not happy about it. "Now, Gabriel, Percy had nothing to do with you being here, in fact, er..." Here she was at a loss for words, how to explain to the man what was going on, for that matter, why.

For some reason, she looked to Hades for help. Maybe it was the fact that the Gabe in her time was dead and he was the Lord of the Dead, or maybe it was just the fact that so far he seemed to be the nicest of Percy's uncles. He was certainly the one to have not yet threatened to kill her son just for existing. And she didn't exactly trust Poseidon to speak with him, who knows how much he knows.

Hades raised an eyebrow when he realized that she was asking for his help, but a moment later Gabe and Hades disappeared to who-knows-where so he could explain. He could have just done it then and there, but he figured that the Jackson's had some explaining to do where their reactions were concerned.

With Gabe gone, Demeter and Persephone made the room smell like flowers, muttering something about Jackson's, miracles, and noses. A somewhat awkward silence also fell, with everyone staring at Sally or Percy, clearly wanting an explanation. They would have demanded one from Percy, but, well, he's 8. They didn't want to pressure him like that.

Sally and Percy actually had a staring contest during this, although it was actually more of a conversation that nobody, not even Annabeth or Paul, could follow. And they knew the Jackson's pretty well. Eventually Percy joined the conversation, and it was a little while before they noticed any change in any of their facial expressions or postures.

Sally was the first to "snap," her expression changed so fast even Percy had a hard time catching it.

First disbelief, then anger, then blind rage, and finally guilt. Finally she just broke down. Both Percy's were on her in an instant. Percy made sure Percy could handle this on his own, then he formed a giant bubble around the two of them that nobody but the Sea people could see through before turning to face the rest of the throne room. He looked wary, as though he knew exactly what was about to happen and would rather be anywhere but here.

Nico asked him if he was alright, and he sighed and answered, "Personally, I would rather be facing down your father again on the River Styx than be here right now."

Nearly everyone caught the fact that he said 'again,' and started to seriously worry about his sanity, but Poseidon decided to ignore that for now and focus on finding out what that man did to his son and Sally.

Before anything else could be said though, Percy went over to Hestia and quietly asked her if she could just show everyone those memories, he really didn't want to talk about it.

She hesitantly agreed, not quite sure if she wanted to be seeing this at all, and knocked him out so she could do as he asked.

Everyone could only watch in horror as they watched the abuse. They watched Gabe beat him bloody until Sally came home, then he would stop, tell Percy to clean up, warn him about telling Sally, and then set Sally to work in the kitchen before she could notice anything was wrong. They saw verbal and physical abuse.

They saw a random girl too, heard Percy plead for his sister. Until one day, she just disappeared from his memories. The girl, Percy didn't see everything Gabe did to her, but he could hear her through the walls.

The only times Percy was free of him was at school or when with his mother. They even heard Percy plead that the man not hurt Sally or the girl, Lily, he called her, he could do whatever he wanted with him, just don't hurt the girls.

Then they saw his memory of the day he came home from the quest. Not that everyone knew when that memory was. Saw his rage when he realized that Gabe had indeed hurt Sally. Saw his pain when he realized that he couldn't help her, he couldn't fight all of her battles. This was one battle she had to fight on her own. They saw him gesture to the box that suddenly appeared. A box that only Grover and Annabeth recognized, and they knew what happened to Gabe.

Finally it was over.

They could only stare as they watched Percy wake up. He wouldn't look at them, finally he just said, "We never found out what happened to Lily, she just vanished. We were twins, you know..." At this he looked at Connor and Travis, but his face was blank. Somehow they knew he was thinking about Castor and Pollux. And Connor and Travis may not actually be twins, but they certainly acted like it sometimes.

It was then that Luke walked up to him, stopped, and then just hugged him. Triton threw up a bubble similar to the one surrounding Percy and Sally before Percy lost control.

It was at that moment that Percy dropped his own bubble and that Hades came back with Gabe. They pretended not to notice the new bruising on the pigs face. Wait, no, that's an insult to pigs. What to call him...

Hades got one look at everyone else's faces and announced that the Fates were right, Gabe was excellent for anger management. That's when Sally attacked.

She punched, clawed, kicked, and pummeled the man that she married to keep her son safe, only for him to end up the one to hurt him the most. She punched out of anger and hatred for herself, hatred that she had never noticed, never even suspected that he laid a hand on her children. It took Poseidon and Ares both to pull her off of him, and when they did, a note appeared in Annabeth's hand.

So, by now you all know why the Jackson's hate and fear him so much. We've made it so that no matter what you do to him, you will not kill him, pity, I know, but if you just up and kill him then you won't have anything to take your anger out on the rest of the book. (everyone smiled evilly at him, and somehow Riptide found its way between his legs where he was sitting on the floor. Everyone pretended not to notice.) And Percy, don't worry about your sister. She's still alive. If you behave, we might bring her in later.

The Fates.

Percy started jumping for joy at the thought of seeing his sister again. He hadn't seen her in years! And she was alive! (He and Luke had come out of the bubble while Sally was attacking Gabe. They'd actually had a nice talk, considering they were usually trying to kill each other and that Luke was in fact actually dead now.)

Everyone started, they hadn't noticed that Percy was back. Before they could say anything though, Poseidon asked to speak with his family alone, and vanished off with the Percy's, Sally, Amphitrite, and Triton.

Hestia decided to go ahead and they would have their break now instead of later and everyone took off to the kitchens. Leaving Gabe still tied up in the throne room, alone with Mrs. O'Leary. You know, the dog that was fiercely protective of her human and had just seen her humans memories of this man... yeah.

Thalia had to help Annabeth walk, and Luke was doing the same with Grover. They had wordlessly agreed on a truce in the hopes that they could still change things. That Luke could be talked to. Besides, Luke had made it clear he regretted his decisions in life when he went to help Percy after his memories were shown.

Annabeth and Grover were in shock. They'd never known any of that had ever happened. They never even knew Percy had a twin sister! They were his girlfriend and best friend! How could they not know that about him? It was small comfort that apparently not even Sally knew about the abuse, and she lived in the same apartment where the abuse was happening. She had even interrupted it several times.

As they sat down, Thalia and Luke had to practically force feed the two of them. They were in shock too, Thalia was as close to Percy as the two of them were, but they also still saw themselves as kind of Annabeth's parents. If not that then at least her older siblings, they were going to take care of her.

The room was very subdued. None of them could comprehend how the great, funny, brotherly Percy Jackson had ever been so abused. Jason felt that his jealousy earlier was now completely unwarranted.

The other Future Greeks were in shock as well. Now so much of Percy's behavior when it came to siblings made so much more sense. His protectiveness towards Pollux when Castor died made so much more sense. His fight or flight response when he first arrived at camp made so much more sense. His rage whenever his "family" was threatened. For they had all at some point heard him refer to them as family.

Suddenly so much of the mystery that was Percy was gone. And they hated that it was this way. That he had been forced to tell them something so personal and secret that not even his own mother knew, all because of some stupid book. Yes, they had been happy to learn more about Percy, but not like this. Never like this.

After about half an hour of trying to stomach her food, Clarisse couldn't take it anymore. She left.

At first she wandered a little aimlessly, but then she found herself in the throne room. Alone, with Gabe tied up and at the mercy of a protective hellhound. She was angry. She smirked at him and told Mrs. O'Leary to get some food. She would take it from there. It wasn't like he would die from anything she did to him. And her and Percy may not get along in public, but in private, they were like brother and sister. And now that she knew about Percy's twin...

In the backs of all the Futures minds who knew him, was one question. Why had Percy never told him about his twin sister?

Meanwhile, with the Jackson's and Sea people...

After flashing them all to Poseidon's rooms, Amphitrite took Sally off to have a mother-mother heart-to-heart. She also knew that the boys would want to talk privately.

After the women were gone, Poseidon brought both Percy's in for a bear-hug. Percy noticed that he was shaking a little and tried his best to calm him down and reassure him that he was alright.

During this, Triton was brothering Percy, but oddly enough, Percy didn't mind. Not now that he knew his sister was going to disappear.

Finally Poseidon spoke.

"Percy, I-I'm so sorry. I thought I did a good job keeping an eye on you, but I didn't even know anything about this... I never even noticed Lily was gone until a few days later, I was going to search for her, I swear! But then Zeus was breathing down my neck about who even remember's what and by the time it was safe to search, I couldn't find her anywhere, and I-" He started rambling, the feeling that he had failed his son was evident in how he was talking.

Percy cut him off with another hug, telling him that he doesn't blame him for anything. He understands. He knows that Poseidon couldn't be too attentive for fear of Zeus finding and ending them. He knows Poseidon did the best he could, he doesn't blame him for anything.

When Poseidon finally calmed down, he managed to sit his sons down for a physical. He may not be a healer or know anything about medicine like Apollo, but you'd be amazed what the King of the Sea could do with some salt-water.

On Percy he found some evidence of long healed broken bones, bruising, and numerous cuts. All of which seemed too old for his life as a demigod. The more recent ones, the ones that when asked Percy chalked up to being a demigod, included extensive burns, cuts, poisoning, etc. He even found traces of the Achilles Curse. It was gone of course, but the evidence remained. Then there was the empathy link. Satisfied that Percy was healthy and didn't have any lasting problems from that man, he moved to Percy.

He found hours old bruising, fresh cuts, a newly broken rib, and his ankle was still swollen from being badly sprained not too long ago. He wanted to go back and murder that man here and now for hurting his son, but he forced himself to stay and heal his son first.

It was evident by the relief on his face how much pain he had been in, the fact that he had hid it so well was worrying for Poseidon. His son was a little... too good, when it came to hiding pain.

It was then that Sally and Amphitrite came back from their little talk and the six of them could talk together.

The first thing Sally wanted to know was how Percy and Lily could have hidden something like this from her. She'd seen enough of the memory through the bubble to know what had been going on in that apartment, to know what she had been interrupting every day she came home from work.

Percy looked hesitant before finally spilling everything. How Gabe had treated them when Sally wasn't home, how Gabe made them provide his gambling funds, how they had to take summer jobs to keep him happy and so they had an excuse to be out of the house. How whenever they came home and Gabe wasn't having a poker party... how he called it play-time. How Gabe had threatened to kill Sally and Lily if he talked about this with ANYONE, how he had threatened Lily with the same...

All of this was said in a casual monotone that, quite frankly, scared the parents like nothing else ever had. And Sally had put up with him going on quests and fighting in the war.

When he was done, he looked at Percy and quietly informed him that it was on their 9th birthday that Lily disappeared. Percy gasped and felt tears come. That was in a week! No! Now he knew why she was nowhere to be seen, why his older self hadn't mentioned her, why Percy had silently stopped him from mentioning her earlier when he had been about to ask about her.

He now understood that Percy had never spoken about her to anybody, that it would have been too painful. He knew that he couldn't even imagine being able to talk about it after it happened.

That's when Sally said that not even Paul knew Percy was a twin. She smiled sadly. It was too painful for either of them to talk about, she said.

Percy asked, "Mom, your not mad at yourself, are you? Because, it's not your fault. You were trying to protect me, you had no way of knowing he would turn out like that..."

Percy was confused, something Percy noticed, so he elaborated. "Gabe smells so bad that he covered up our demigod scent so monsters would find us. As children of Poseidon, we're stronger than most demigods, so monsters find us easier. And since there was two of us... double the smell." Percy 'ahh'd' in understanding.

Sally looked at her sons sadly, and told them that, of course she was mad at herself. She's his mother, she should've known something was wrong.

Percy looked distinctly proud as he said that he went out of his way to hide it and he was a pretty good actor if he did say so himself.

Poseidon chuckled then sighed, saying that they better get back with the others and grab something to eat. He then looked at Amphitrite and Triton and they all came to a silent agreement to made that man pay for hurting the Jackson's. Triton looked especially angry since he now knew he had a sister that wouldn't be as crazy as Kym and that man had touched her.

Sally looked at her watch and yelped that they had been gone for over two hours! (a/n remember how Clarisse was only in the kitchen with others for about a half hour before heading to the throne room? Yeah...) As if to prove it, all the boys stomachs rumbled, loudly.

They all flashed to the kitchens, where the short break and snack had turned into full on lunch, Poseidon announced that nobody was to bother either Percy or Sally for details, and then they all broke for food.

Percy made beeline for Annabeth's table, where he found Nico, Luke, Grover and Thalia. He sat down and started pulling food towards him after giving Annabeth a quick peck on the cheek. He looked at her and silently promised that they would talk privately later. The others had already decided that when Percy came back they would wait for him to talk first. For now, they made small talk.

For Percy, it was like that first summer at camp after the quest all over again. Except now Thalia and Nico were here to enjoy it with them. Him, Annabeth, Grover, and Luke. They had been quite the foursome that summer until Grover left for his search.

Percy went to go sit with the younger demigods, something Percy noticed and really hoped Luke would keep the Stolls under control. The camp just might not survive if the Stolls managed to pass on their ways to an 8 year old Percy. The camp had been in enough trouble when a 12 year old Percy and the Stolls met.

Finally, once the Jackson's and Sea people had managed to get some food in them, they decided to get back to the throne room.

It was only when they got there and saw Clarisse standing over Gabe's already healing form that they realized that they hadn't seen her for the past two and a half hours.

Oh.

What they saw almost made some of the younger kids lose their lunch. Clarisse looked at her older self almost in fear, while the other futures just looked indifferent. They all knew that Clarisse and Percy had a strange brother/sister relationship thing going on. However much they tried to hide it.

She looked at them like, 'What?' so they decided to ignore it and get on with the book. Mrs. O'Leary came back and immediately claimed her human, both of them, grabbing them and curling up in a way that made it clear they were staying right there and nobody was coming near them.

She even growled at Annabeth to stay away!

Hades grabbed the book from where Luke left it in his corner earlier and sat down to read.

"Chapter three, Grover unexpectedly loses his pants?"

Surprise! Percy has a twin sister that disappeared suddenly in my version. She may or may not come in later, don't know yet.

So far, Sally, Clarisse, Hades, and Mrs. O'Leary have let Gabe have it, and Poseidon only restrained himself in favor of helping his son.

Next chapter coming ASAP.