Ok so this one is really long. I've come to the conclusion that the chapters are just going to keep getting longer. Sorry. There are some heavy topics in this chapter like thoughts of suicide and panic attack. I will I will make theses parts bold so you have been warned]
Percy:
Finally, after months of being gone I finally saw the familiar shore of the Long Island Sound. Gods was it good to be back. Soon enough the Big House and the Cabins and all of camp came into view and I immediately knew something wasn't right. All of the campers had on battle armor like they were going to capture the flag except they didn't seem so friendly. There were demigods and wolves and hunters on patrol all around the borders and a group stood at under Thalia's trees. The Roman legion stood ready for battle a few miles away from the camp borders. Come on! One week. All I want is one week were nobody's fighting and I don't have to worry about dying. One fucking week Zeus!!
It had been three weeks since me and Annabeth had gotten back from Tartarus and we've gotten better, slowly. We've been able to walk around though with Annabeth it's more like hopping because of her foot. I can't move all that much due to the wounds on my chest, they no longer need gauze pads and are starting to scar up. I'm really stiff and look like I have a stick stuffed up my behind 24/7. My sword hand is still broken so fighting is pretty hard but I manage. The ambrosia and nectar still aren't working. Annabeth's back has scarred up and it isn't pretty. She still isn't sure how she got it, she thinks it was from the aria. It's jagged and messy and hard to cover up all the way. She had trouble moving her left arm around at the shoulder and her hip got rubbed raw sometimes. She managed her hair and didn't even have to cut it. I walked with a limp from a stab wound I don't remember getting on the back of my leg. My scarring chest still hurts a lot but it's become more bearable. The other little wounds have pretty much healed themselves and my face is clean for the most part.
I stood by the railing of the Argo II when Jason and Annabeth came over seeing that I was fuming. Annabeth thread her arm through mine and held my hand leaning her head on my shoulder. I immediately stepped back from her, my hand clamped around Riptide in my pocket.
"Fly me down there."
"What?" Annabeth reached for my arm but I pulled away.
"No, Annabeth I'm sick and tired of fighting. This isn't going to solve anything. Jason fly me down there."
"I-" I glared at him and he nodded, "hold on." He picked me up and flew me to the group by Thalia's tree. Chiron, Thalia, Rachel, Clarisse, The Stoll brothers, Reyna, and Octavian.
As soon as he set me down I told him to leave, "go back to the others, get them tied down safely. Oh, and tell Leo to get me a megaphone." He looked totally confused but did what I said.
"Percy!" Rachel, Conner, and Travis came running over and tackled me. That hurt. I yelled and shoved Conner off a little too hard. I didn't mean to, but getting tackled never really ended well for me so I just reacted. He rolled off and I realized I had elbowed him in the gut, ouch. Travis and Rachel immediately jumped up when the heard me yell, Travis helping Conner up and Rachel helping me.
"Oh gods Percy, did we hurt you? Are you ok?" I was holding my chest because, honestly it did hurt. I'm surprised the three of them hadn't broken a rib or something, but I didn't say that. I couldn't say that, not with Octavian and the Romans watching me.
"I'm ok guys, just a bit sore is all."
"Prissy! Your not dead yet!"
"Good to see you too Clarisse"
"Kelp head! How was the trip?"
"Pine cone face. It was-"
"Greacus, what are you doing here?" I turned to the person I came for.
"Octavian, shut up."
"Excuse me?!"
"For once in your life will you please just shut up!"
"You dare speak to me that way? You have no home! You have betrayed your Greeks for the Romans and you have become an outlaw to us by traveling to the ancient lands. You have no power here."
"Unlike you, Octavian, I don't need power nor do I want it. Do you know what I do want, though? I want all this fighting to stop. I have spent the last almost six years fighting and I am done with it. This Greek vs. Roman thing is useless and won't solve anything. We could be working together to better ourselves, we could be working together to fight the monsters that haunt all of us. Wars are supposed to be fought against the enemy, not the troops. Reyna, call off the Romans." As expected Octavian cut her off before she could even think about it.
"Reyna you aren't really going to let him tell you how to control your troops, are you? He's an enemy and if he wishes to be part of this battle then he can go along the loosing side with the Greeks." He stood up taller and held his augurs knife trying to be all intimidating.
I scowled at him, stepping closer my hand ready to uncap Riptide, "Octavian, you are the least intimidating thing I've seen since Bessy. Compared to all the things I've fought over my years as a demigod-hell! Compared to the things that I've fought for the last month, you are nothing. If you really want a fight then you can fight me. One on one. Greek vs. Roman, just like you wanted." I knew he couldn't take it, not if he valued his life. He's seen me fight and so had all the other Romans, they knew what I could do, he knew I could beat him in a fight.
"I will spare you this time Percy Jackson, but if the opportunity rises again I will not hesitate."
"I'm sure you won't" He turned around and stomped down the hill to the Roman troops. Reyna dismissed them and they all fled back to their camp in the city. Just in time, the rest of the crew showed up and Leo, as promised, had a megaphone.
"I believe you requested this"
"Thanks Leo." I turned it on and faced the Greeks. My Greeks. The kids I've known and fought with side by side for almost six years. Gods how we've all changed.
We used to all be so alive and full of happiness and optimism, but now... The Stoll brothers had become so much more serious, they still pulled pranks, but they were mature. Clarisse cared. She opened up and let us all in as a family, even if she would never admit it. Will had grown from that one Apollo kid that I rode a motorcycle with to the camps top healer. Thalia. She became one of my best friends after coming back from being a Pine tree. She became a hunter and will out live all of us, but she had taken on so much responsibility and she loved it. Grover, gods where do I begin with Grover? He went from being the scared little satyr to being the Lord of the Wild. These are my people.
"Greeks!" I yelled through the megaphone, "This is a battle you don't have to fight, go back to camp. Go take your armor off, get some sleep, or something to eat. The Romans are no longer a threat and will no longer be a threat." Without a seconds hesitation they all went back to their cabins. We weren't like the Romans, we didn't want to fight if we didn't have to, we fought to much just to stay alive, it's time we got to enjoy that life.
Annabeth hopped over to me with Piper's help. "What in Hades was that?!"
I turned to her kind of confused but relieved to have her back at my side. "Solving the problem?"
"They could've killed you, Percy!"
"Then they would've definitely started a war."
"Percy! Stop sending your self into dangerous situations." She had tears in her eyes, so I walked over and hugged her. I knew what she was thinking. I knew her too well to just ignored the fact that she was remembering everything we had been through, the time she thought I was dead for two week. "I'm ok, wise girl. I'm safe. We are safe." She wrapped her self around me and we stayed like that, her head on my chest and mine on top of hers, for a while.
"Ahem" Chiron trotted up to us, "glad to see you two moving. Have you fixed the ambrosia problem?" I shook my head and we untangled ourselves but she was still holding onto my arm like she was scared to loose me.
"I see. Well, we can't dwell on that, it's great to see you all back!" He held his arms open and we both went in to hug him. He had become the good father figure I had never had growing up and I loved him for that. We stayed like that for a few seconds before he let us go.
"We should have a celebratory dinner and capture the flag game!" Travis offered. I still wasn't used to food yet but it didn't sound to bad.
"I'm in."
"Sure"
"What about the rest of the seven?" Travis looked behind us and the others seemed surprised.
"Ok"
"Why not?"
"I like food"
"You can always celebrate me"
"Food sounds good"
It was settled, we would hold a celebratory dinner tonight and a capture the flag game tomorrow, me and Jason managed to convince Chiron and Reyna that any Romans who wanted to come were allowed. Chiron lead us all back down to the cabins and that's where it really hit me: I had changed and everyone could tell.
I wasn't sure how fast word of our journeys would travel around camp but I guess they traveled pretty fast. Me and Annabeth helped each other limp along through camp checking out everything that had changed, which wasn't much. Through out our walk though I could feel everyone's eyes on me, the older campers looked happy to see me, but some of the newer campers looked scared. I knew I had gained an extra level of protectiveness and defense but dam. People would occasionally come up and tell me how good it was to see me and stuff which was nice I suppose.
"Percy! Glad to see you aren't dead!" Jake Mason came running up to us and we high-fived.
"Right back at you, dude. How's the Hephaestus cabin looking?"
"We're all good here, can't wait to get Leo back in the shops though."
"Yeah, he's been a huge key to this quest so give him some extra love. We should be going though, see you at dinner?"
"You know it! Bye Annabeth" She waved him goodbye and we continued to stumble along.
Everyone had dispersed going to their cabins and to get cleaned up and ready for dinner, Annabeth had come with me to mine. Cabin 3 was exactly how I had left it 9 months ago which was kinda freaky. I had some clothes left on the floor and my bed was a mess, there were shields and armor thrown across the room and a few pictures tapped up to the wall above my bed. I plopped Annabeth on my bed, she did not like that. "I don't need you to baby me"
"Oh, I know. I just don't want my favorite girl getting even more hurt." I saw a tint of red across her cheeks I knew she was trying to hide.
"I'm fine seaweed brain, just a quick trip to the infirmary and I'll be good as new."
"Not with our situation, wise girl. You need rest and to stay off your foot."
"I could say the same thing about you and your hand" She got me.
"How about we both sit out of capture the flag tomorrow? Take some time to relax and look around camp."
"We can't! This might be the only time the Greeks and Romans aren't actively trying to murder each other." Her voice was stern and I knew instantly I wasn't going to talk her out of it.
"Fine, but just go easy." I picked out a camp Half-Blood T-shirt and some pants. "Shower, infirmary, then dinner?"
"Ok. I still need to get my clothes though." Without warning I scooped her up bridal style, it hurt but she didn't need to know that. I put my clothes in her lap and limped out the door.
"Put me down! I can walk by my self"
"Your broken ankle says other wise, besides it'll be quicker if I carry you" she rolled her eyes but ceased to protest.
In a matter of minutes we reached her cabin, it had a few of her siblings in it but mostly it was empty. As soon as they saw us they rushed forward
"Annabeth! Your back!"
"Are you ok?"
"I heard you went to Tartarus"
"Is that a sword?"
"You've been gone for so long!!"
She smiled at all of them and I placed her on her bunk, "I'm alright and it's so good to see you all again. Oh, and yes this is a sword, please don't ask how I got it." They all nodded and began to probe and inspect it at her side so she took it out and handed it to them, "you can go look at it while I'm getting ready for dinner. Don't hurt your selves!" They all ran off with it.
"Remember when we were like that?"
"What? Running off with a strange object our older mentor gave to us that also happened to be from the underworld?"
"He was your older mentor"
"He was a friend and you liked him too."
"He was pretty cool at first."
Annabeth had gotten so much better at talking about Luke over the months, some things were still hard, but she was able to talk about him now.
"What clothes you want?"
"Some shorts and a camp shirt is fine."
"Ok." I grabbed what she asked for and picked her back up again and shuffled us down to the showers.
"Need help?"
"Nice try seaweed brain. I can shower on my own" she hopped out of my arms and took her clothes.
"Ok, but I'll be in the next stall over if you need anything." She stood up on her tip toes and kissed me, "I'm fine, Percy. Go get yourself cleaned up, you smell like a pig." She hopped over to her stall.
"Hey!"
"I love you!"
"Love you too" I pouted and went to my stall.
Undressing was hard, I struggled to get my shirt off and bending down to take my pants off was practically impossible. Standing there in front of the mirror with nothing but my boxers on was honestly, intimidating. I knew I had lost a lot of weight and gained a lot of new scars but I didn't even recognize myself. Look at yourself. You're scarred from head to toe, you're pathetic. You should have died down there, at least then Annabeth wouldn't have to worry about you and herself, you hold her back to much. Shut up!! Don't think like that. Everything will be fine. We made it out together. ️
I tore myself away from the mirror and turned on the water, letting it wash over me. I immediately relaxed, the water melted all the tension and worry and stress of the past nine months away. Even if it was all just temporary, it was exactly what I needed in that moment, but that was all it was, a moment. I finished having my peace and washed my hair and body being really careful around my chest wounds. I got out, dried off, and started getting dressed when Annabeth called from her shower stall.
"Percy?"
"I'm still here, Beth"
"Ok. Just checking, you turned your water off and then went really quiet."
"Sorry, I was just thinking."
"No no, it's ok I was just-" thinking about the aria curse. I finished for her.
"Are you dressed?"
"Yeah" she sounded kind of upset at that which really confused me.
"Can I come in?" She unlocked the door and opened it.
Steam came pouring out and standing in the door way was a beautiful Annabeth. She was in her normal denim shorts, a camp Half-Blood tank top, and her wet mop of hair in a semi-dry ponytail. I could see her scar starting at her shoulder, disappearing into her shirt, then reappearing at the bottom of her shorts and going down to the side of her knee. It was still red and risen and sensitive, just as all new scars were. She didn't usually like showing off her scars, but this time was different, she seemed more confident in her self. To be fair, she did earn it with everything she's went through to get these scars.
I couldn't help but stare, "You look great."
She was staring at my chest, my bare chest. Schist!! I hadn't let anyone see me without bandages or a shirt on since I was healed up enough and even before that I tried to keep as few people looking as possible. It's not that I'm not proud, it's just some of my scars bring back bad memories for people and this one is no different. It's a constant reminder of what I went through, the horrors of the world. Flashbacks of the fall and Bob and Akhlys flooded my mind.
A pang of guilt and regret filled my chest when I remembered everyone I couldn't save. Bianca di Angelo, Zoë Nightshade, Lee Fletcher, Charles Beckendorf, Michael Yew, Silena Beauregard, Ethan Nakamura, Luke Castellan, Bob, Damasen, and all the other demigods and allies I didn't know the names of. Why didn't I know their names? They were allies and sacrificed themselves for us and I didn't even know their names.
️I couldn't breath. I gasped and gasped, but couldn't get any air in. The world seemed to turn upside and do backflips all around me. I wasn't sure when I had fallen, but I was on the ground with my head in Annabeth's lap. She looked scared and worried and was saying something but I couldn't understand her.
Why did she love me? I did terrible things and I killed so many people. I wasn't worthy of her, she deserved somebody good, somebody who could protect her and keep her safe. I couldn't do that, I couldn't even pull her back up. I really couldn't breath now, I had moved from gasping to just sputtering for air. I was shaking uncontrollably and could barely see Annabeth through my tears. She was yelling for some reason, not at me but she was just yelling out above me at the door. I wanted to ask why but I blacked out before I could calm down. ️
Annabeth:
"You look great." Percy stared at me like an idiot but I didn't care, my eyes were on his chest. I knew his scars were bad, but he had never actually let me see them before and holy Hera was bad an understatement. I wasn't sure how he didn't fall on the floor bawling whenever he had to clean them. They were still bright red and raised and hadn't completely shed all of the scabs. I was pulled back to earth when I noticed his chest heaving.
️He was gasping for air and looked like he was drowning. "Percy? Percy, you're ok just breath. Look at me. You're ok, you're safe, you made it out. The fighting is over. Just try to breath for me seaweed brain." He was shaking so badly he collapsed, I caught his head before it hit the ground. He was crying now and was practically suffocating. ️
"Hey! Someone! I need help in the showers!!" I yelled trying to get someone's attention. This wasn't his first panic attack, but this was the worst one yet. "Somebody help me!" Gods Percy. You're ok, just hold on. "Will someone get their ass in here and help me?!!" He was looking up at me with tears rolling down his cheeks, then his eyes rolled back and he went limp. Shit! Seaweed brain come on! I screamed.
I didn't know what else to do so I put all my force and voice into the loudedest scream I have ever let out. It worked. Three campers with armor and weapons out came barreling in with two other campers in normal camp clothes. One of the normal clothed campers was Malcolm the other was Conner, Clarisse was one of the armored campers.
"What happened to Prissy?" Clarisse sent the other two armored campers away and sheathed her sword. Conner just stared at Percy's chest, crap! He's gonna hate me for letting them see him like this. I grabbed his clean shirt and laid it over his chest.
"H-he had a panic attack and passed out. Th-they usually this b-bad." I was starting to panic my self, my breath quickened but I didn't care. I needed to get Percy help, he needed to be ok. My grip on his arms tightened when Clarisse made a step toward us.
"Travis help me."
"I'm Conner."
"Help me!" He scurried over and grabbed Percy's ankles. "Annabeth we need to get you and Percy to the infirmary, let me and Conner take him you can walk right next to him. Malcolm, help get her."
Malcolm came over and grabbed my hands to get them away from Percy. I struggled against him, "no! No let me go! H-he needs to b-be ok!" He pulled me away and I saw Clarisse hook her arms under Percy's. Malcolm grabbed my shoulders which made me wince and flinch back.
"I'm sorry Annabeth, but you need to calm down. Breath."
"I'm f-fine Malcolm" I stood up, pushed him away and ran to follow Clarisse and Conner. He ran after me and caught me when I tripped over my foot. I let out a yell of pain tumbling in his arms, "at least let me help you before you hurt yourself" I grunted but put my arm over his shoulder and we hobbled after them.
We just reached the steps of the infirmary when I heard Percy yell. He was screaming for me. I rushed forward leaving Malcolm behind and used the wall to help me instead. I found Percy's room and rushed in, he was standing in a corner with Riptide drawn and out ready to attack.
"Percy. I'm here. I'm right here, it's ok." As soon as he spotted me he dropped his sword and rushed forward enveloping me in a bear hug. His knees buckled and we slid down to the floor, I was in his lap and he silently sobbed into my shoulder.
"Oh gods. I-I thought I had l-lost you. I wo-woke up and you w-were gone." I rubbed circles around his back and started rocking back and forth a little bit.
"I'm here, you didn't loose me. We made it out. We're together. We are safe. It's ok. I'm right here." I repeated those words until he finally calmed down. He was still shirtless but everyone had already fled the room.
"Do you want your shirt?" He nodded, so I got up and crawled over to where it was and threw it to him. He put it on while I was making my way to him. "You ok?"
"No. But the others don't need to know that. We should go before dinner starts."
"Percy, you can't push them away forever, they want to help. Nobody is expecting you to be ok." Gods it hurt to seem him like this, he was trying to be brave for everyone else. He cared about everyone ese before he cared about himself.
"I know. We should still get going though."
I sighed, "ok, but first let Will take a look at our broken bones. Ok?"
"Fine." He stood up and helped me onto the cot where he sat next to me holding my hand with his good hand. "Will, you can come in!"
The beach blond surfer boy entered the room, he first went to Percy to check out his hand.
"Do you know how you broke it?" He poked and twisted it which made Percy wince and squeeze my hand tighter.
"No."
"Ok. It doesn't seem to bad, a simple brace should do the trick." He switched his attention to me and my ankle.
"I already know it's broken, I just need a cast." Still, he proceeded to poke and move it around. I had to bite my tongue to keep from yelling.
"We don't have the stuff to make a cast so a boot will have to hold for now. You should stay off of it as much as possible so you'll need a crutch." I hate crutches. The last one I had was still somewhere under Rome. I shuddered at the thought.
"Ok. How soon can we get these?"
"Right now, just give me a minute to grab them." He stood up and went to the door, "it's good to have you guys back." And he left.
"Good to be back" Percy muttered.
"Why don't we skip out on this? We don't really have to go. I'm sure they would all understand if we didn't come."
"No. You said it your self, this is really important and they're doing this in our honor, we have to go."
"Why do you listen to me?"
"Because your my Wise girl" I smiled. I was his wise girl and we was my seaweed brain.
"And your my Seaweed brain."
"We go together."
"Always." I leaned over and kissed him, "I love you."
"And I love you." We stayed with our foreheads touching until Will came back. He had the brace for Percy's hand, boot for my ankle, and crutch. He come over and put them on us and adjusted them silently.
"This should be good, we have some mortal pain killers if you want some." Neither of us took them though we both needed them.
We left the infirmary and started heading down to the dinning pavilion. We showed up while everyone was 'sacrificing' a portion of there food to the gods, neither me nor Percy joined in. We didn't have anything to thank or ask the gods for, they didn't help us, they used us.
Chiron let the Seven sit together along with Reyna, Thalia, Nico, and Grover. A few other Romans showed up, but I didn't know any of them, they all sat with their Greek half-siblings. Once everyone was seated again Chiron stood and raised his cup for silence.
"I hope you all know the reason for this celebratory feast, we have defeated Gaea and are on our way to making peace between the two camps. Though we shouldn't be quick to forget the hero's who have provided these victories for us. Jason Grace son of Jupiter, Piper McLean daughter of Aphrodite, Leo Valdez son of Hephaestus, Hazel Lezesque daughter of Pluto, Frank Zhang son of Mars, Annabeth Chase daughter of Athena, and Percy Jackson son of Poseidon. Roman and Greek together stopped the giants from rising. We are all eternally thankful for you Seven demigods." Everyone in camp cheered in agreement and the ones closest to us clapped us on our backs which I could have lived without. Jason got up and walked over to Chiron, probably going to make some big speech, I thought. And was correct, when was I not?
"Thanks Chiron, but we didn't do it alone. Thanks to the help of Nico di Angelo, Reyna, and Gleeson Hedge we were able to defeat Gaea. Some of us went through more hard ships than others on this quest" He's talking about me, Percy, and Nico "but we couldn't have done it with each other. And a special thanks to the Greek leaders on this quest, Percy and Annabeth." Yet another cheer from the crowd of demigods. Percy shrunk in his chair, he hated this kind of attention, gods was he too humble.
"What about a thanks to the gods?" Someone yelled in the crowed, most likely a Roman. The biggest difference between us Greeks and the Romans was the way we treated the gods. The Romans worshiped them in a way camp Half-Blood would or could never. They had little to no contact with the gods and when they did have contact it was a big deal. The Greeks didn't have that luxury.
We had been stuck with Mr. D long before I came to camp and the gods often interfered with our lives. They loved to send us on pointlessly dangerous quests and threaten our lives. Me and Percy had been to Olympus multiple times through the years and it always seemed to be to negotiate whether Percy would live or die. We all collectively agreed that most of the gods were assholes, but never said it aloud.
"Yeah Chiron, what about us?" Dionysus said while sipping his soda.
"What about you?" Percy spoke up, he never really liked the gods but he never argued with them even he wasn't that stupid.
"We helped in defeating Gaea and the giants"
"Dionysus, the gods did so little on the quest and war I'm surprised you guys didn't just sit up in the throne room watching us all fight for you with popcorn in your laps." Several of the Romans gasped and one even spilled his drink, but Mr.D didn't say anything else. I think that surprised them the most, the fact that Percy could talk to a god that way and get away with it, I guess non of them really know him.
"Thank you Jason! Now, let's all eat and celebrate our victory. We will be holding a capture the flag game where all the hunters and Romans are allowed." With that everyone started eating and chatting amongst their cabins.
"You know the gods aren't going to let that go unchecked, right?" Jason asked when he returned to the Poseidon table.
"They never do" Percy poked at his roast, but didn't eat it. I understood why, food was hard to keep down after not having any for 2 1/2 weeks. I was having the same troubles.
The night droned on and we talked and laughed together though me and Percy never truly laughed. About midnight most of the campers had gone back to their cabins and me and Percy were roaming the beach.
It was peaceful, we hadn't had peaceful in such a long time I forgot how nice it was. We found a nice secluded spot and laid down on the dry sand facing the waves. I sat between Percy's legs with my back on his chest, it wasn't the best position but neither of us said anything. Riptide was out to provide light since neither of us could stand to be in the dark.
It was quite for awhile and I turned to see Percy starring up at the stars. I looked up and found the one of the hunter, one the first casualties in the second Titan war.
"Bob says hello" it was barely more than a whisper, but I heard it. This was something we did every night since we had gotten top side, we would not break this promise. I said my own hellos for Bob and we sat in comfortable silence for a long while.
"Luke was right"
"What?" I knew Percy had similar thoughts to Luke's, but I could never imagine him agreeing with him.
"About the gods, they're nothing but a pain in our asses. Sure they're better than the Titans and Giants but not by much. He was right to hate them. I mean what did they ever do for him? What did they ever do for us?!" Thunder crackled above us and lighting struck just outside of camp. "Oh can it Zeus!"
"You know you can't afford to think like that, Seaweed brain. Maybe they aren't the best, but they're all we've got and they're our parents."
"Some parents they are"
"Percy-"
"I know I know, it's just they abandoned us. They left us when we needed them the most. They left us in that place and didn't even help." I turned to look at him and saw tears in his eyes. I knew he had a lot of mixed emotions about the gods and I knew they would only get worse.
"I know. But we made it out, gods be damned." Another lighting strike closer this time, I ignored it. "We did something even they didn't dare do. You know, we've finally one upped the gods" He chuckled as it started raining.
"Come on, we should go before Zeus decides to take control of our fates." He stood up, helped me up and handed me my crutch.
We walked in silence until we reached his cabin. I grabbed his hand to stop him from opening the door, "don't. Please don't. Don't make me leave, not like last time." Images of the night Percy disappeared flooded my mind.
I had been working on designs for Olympus in Percy's cabin while he was working on some homework he had to complete over the break. It was about 10 when he walked me out, he had kissed me good night and I watched him retreat into his cabin. I didn't see him again until 8 month later.
He opened the door and pulled me inside, "Hera can try all she wants, I'm not leaving you again." He shut the door behind up and fell back onto his bed.
"Don't give her any ideas." He ditched his pants and just laid in his boxers and shirt, I crawled into bed next to him being carful of our injuries. He wrapped his arms around me and pulled me closer to him, I snuggled my head closer to his neck and we laid there in silence for a while.
"I love you, Seaweed brain"
"I love you too, Wise girl" and we were asleep.