[Luke]

Father left me with the words of forgiveness but the feeling of disappointment.

"You did your best, and I'm so very proud of you."

It felt so wrong to hear those words. They've never been said to me before, why now?

I wanted to scream at him for never being there, ask him why he had to stay away, beg him not to leave.

Instead, I asked him "why?"

"Because you did what you thought was right. You thought you were helping your family, and I'm proud of you for that."

That felt like a lie.

I kept silent.

He looked like he didn't want to leave, but did so anyways.

There were tears in his goodbye. I was too numb to even care.

They let me leave the infirmary, said I couldn't stay in there any longer if I'm not a danger to myself or others.

Percy met me in the Big House with the Di Angelo siblings, Annabeth, and Apollo.

"I'm sorry," was the first thing out of my mouth.

"We know," Percy answered tiredly.

"What's going to happen now?" I asked.

Apollo stared out the window, "Try to stop Kronos, I suppose. Fix as much as we can. Make sure Him and so many others don't get the support they need to try and rise in the first place. Help as many as we can."

"Will that be enough?"

"We can only hope." He turned around and gave us a sardonic grin, "This is where I leave you. I have a little girl to save, and a Triumvirate to destroy. Good luck."

That didn't make any sense to me, but Percy and Annabeth were smiling so I assumed that it was a good thing.

He disappeared in a flash of light.

"And us?" I asked, "What are our next moves?"

"We get their attention," Annabeth said. "We reintroduce Percy and Nico to the camp, introduce Bianca, and we tell the truth. We draw their attention, give the gods a show that'll stun them for days, and get the Camp on our side in one fell swoop."

Percy nodded, "No lies. We'll tell them about our godly parents and then we'll leave before they have a chance to try and stop us. You and Bianca will be staying here while Annabeth, Nico, and I go to the Sea of Monsters. Getting Thalia back should be enough to convince Uncle Z that we aren't planning to do something stupid, and get the Camp to trust us."

"We've been planning this for the past few days, but you've been a bit distracted with the whole infirmary thing for us to run it past you," Nico explained.

"It's fine," I muttered.

Percy and Annabeth shared a look, but nodded.

"Shall we?" She gestured at the door, and we all left the house.

[Percy]

The camp was on edge.

Quite a few of the campers eyed us as we made our way down to Cabin 11, where Luke and the Di Angelos will be staying.

Whispers of "Who are they?" and "Must be claimed, everyone got claimed, right?" followed us, and I wondered what they meant.

Perhaps Apollo was already a step ahead of us, getting the gods to claim all their children. That's good. It won't change the gods' nature, I've long learnt that they don't care for us and the only way to get them to do something is to make them, but it'll help us stop Kronos' rise.

The ragged brown wood of the Hermes cabin greeted them.

With a nod from Annabeth, Luke opened the door.

We walked inside, just for Chris to practically tackle Luke once he noticed him.

"Luke!" He shouted, "What's going on? I got claimed by Hermes- awesome- but the next day every unclaimed kid got claimed- other than Ari and James- and there's a rumor going around that you went insane? Alabaster says you were fine, just a bad reaction to a demi-god dream, but we were worried! And Dad appeared! He told us all that he's proud of us- what? Why?- and then he gave us gifts and told us to be in contact! What's happening? Is something wrong in Olympus and they're trying to bribe us or something?"

Luke looked a bit overwhelmed at the sudden vomit of information, and gave me a desperate look for help, which looked pretty funny considering he's an adult and I'm eleven years old.

In fact, the whole cabin was looking at us for answers.

Annabeth squeezed my hand, and I stepped forward, giving a grin to our audience.

"Hello, I'm Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon. These are my cousins, Nico and Bianca Di Angelo, children of Hades. We've had a very long journey, and it's a very long story, but I believe we have the answers to your questions."

They all gaped at me, horror and fear and awe.

A smirk crept onto my face, "Perhaps we can start at the beginning, a year in the future?"

*Fin.*

A/N

So, unfortunately for Personal Reasons, I have to stop writing this fic. It had a good run, but ultimately I can't continue it. I gave it the best conclusion I could on such short notice.

It is up for adoption if any of you want to give it a try, I don't care as long as you credit me for this.