Hi, it's been a while. I wrote this while on a holiday. It's longer than usual. Don't expect the chapters to be this long.
Annabeth came back after an hour after she said she went to bed and 10 minutes after Tony went to check on her, we looked at her.
"Thank you" She walked away. We looked at each other. That was weird.
When Annabeth went to bed, for real this time, we kept sitting at the dinner table. I looked around, Natasha had a thoughtful look on her face, Clint looked slightly concerned, Steve looked surprised, Bruce had a calculating look and I guess I had a pounding look.
"So, what do you think of my niece?"
"And did you know that she almost ran out of the elevator." I told them, I had to be honest with them.
"And directly when she came inside she checked for possible enemies and ways out? Like she was about to get attacked. It looked like she was a soldier. Trained and all" Steve shuddered.
"So can I keep her?"
"Tony she isn't a pet you can just throw out!" Steve scolded "But I think she should stay, it looks like she has problems and we have to help her."
"Yes!" I shouted happily
"Everyone agreed?" Everyone nodded so it was decided she could stay.
"She needs to get trained because she lives with us. A villain could come and take her hostage and use her against us. She needs to be able to defend herself." Natasha said.
"What if we trained her after school? Like every school day train for like an hour and on weekend a couple hours. And then everyone does their own part."
They all nodded again.
"Anything else?" I looked at all their faces. One by one, no one added anything.
I just wanted to grab some drinks when a loud screaming stopped me. Steve mumbled Annabeth's name, we ran towards Annabeth's room and opened her door ready for anything but this.
Annabeth
I walked away from the kitchen, when I reached my room I closed the door softly. I looked around. It didn't really feel like home. It felt too big to be cozy, it was way too impersonal. I walked to my bed and sat down, I really wanted to IM Percy again but I still had the problem of no drachmas. I stood up and walked to the bathroom. I stepped under the shower, and took a quick shower, then I brushed my teeth. When I walked out of the bathroom I walked towards the walk in closet I grabbed an old shirt of Percy. He had worn it so much that it had no model whatsoever. It's a miracle it wasn't torn or bloody or anything. I put it on and I directly smelled Percy, it smelled like the ocean and blue cookies. I missed him more and less because of it. I found it pretty ironic. I missed him more because all I could think of now is him and I missed him less because it felt like he was here. As I had nothing to do, I laid in bed and right before I fell in Morpheus realm, a bad feeling overcame me. I put one plus one together and knew it was going to be a bad night.
I looked around, my surrounding looked like Tartarus. I looked around further. I saw no Bob or Percy, then a lone figure came into view, he was bigger than a big cyclops, she tried to see his face but that was hidden behind a hood.
"Hello, daughter of Athena. Shall I help you?" What was he talking about? Was there another war coming? Then he pulled his hood down. What was under was indescribable, it looked like something chew on his face and something ate his nose and part of his mouth didn't work. So it hang down partially. The still blooded from all his wounds. His skin was red and he had 2 horns, he practically looked like a devil.
"Who are you? I tried to sound brave but it didn't work as well as I hoped.
"Ha, wouldn't the daughter of Athena want to know." He started to chuckle. It sounded like it hurt. "Let's give her a hint."
Then the dream changed. My surrounding was my dad's house. They were playing a game. She noticed she looked through a window. The window was a little bit open so she could hear what was being said inside.
"Where is Annabeth? She is late." My father looked at the clock. I had tears in my eyes, I already missed them.
"I don't know, maybe she went to the library." Helen said. Annabeth and Helen had gotten on better terms, she was almost like a mom to Annabeth. She was on 3rd place of being a mom to Annabeth, first was Sally of course, second was Athena and on a very well earned a third place for Helen.
"I really hope she is there." My father said with a voice laced with worry.
"Dad, Annabeth loves us she won't leave us." Bobby said.
"Yes, she is probably walking home now." Matthew added. I looked at the clock and noticed that at this time I was still in the library. I opened the window and walked through, I saw a red hand with long claws scratch over a box. Then the lights went out. I heard someone asking why the electricity went out. I walked over the ceiling and jumped down. I screamed no. But I had no control, then I figured that this was the memory of the monster I just saw. I jumped on Matthew or Bobby and put my claws in his body and I made him a bloody mess. When I was done in just a few seconds he was almost unrecognizable. Then I jumped on Bobby. The same happened with him as with Matthew. Then I jumped to Helen. I first snatched both her legs then her arms and last I snatched her head. As I wanted more blood I tore her body to shreds. Even though she was already dead. Then I looked at my dad.
"Hello Frederick," I laughed maniacally. "Nice to finally meet you." My dad stood against the wall. He couldn't get away.
"What do you want you monster?" my dad spat.
"Well," I started to walk to him. "I want to make Perseus Jacksons live miserable." Then my dog jumped on me he bit on my face and bit my nose of. I grabbed him and threw him against the wall. He didn't move again.
"But why are you here then?" my dad asked very confused.
"Perseus's fatal flaw is Loyalty. If I hurt your daughter I hurt him too. So I start to destroy her live. I slowly kill everyone she cares about. Then I kill her. Percy will see it as his fault and will kill himself because he also lost everyone and will feel it's his fault that Annabeth died miserable. When he kills himself he can't go to Elysium anymore, so he will be forgotten and can't never be brought back." Then I jumped to my dad. I slashed at his stomach and cut it. His intestines fell out. Then I cut a circle in his chest, my father breathed hardly, then I put my hand in the hole I created and pulled his heart out. When I pulled his heart out slashed my father to the front and put a celestial bronze knife in the place where my heart was located. I turned slowly and painfully into dust. I heard my dad mumble.
"Not. My. Daughter." Then the light went out in his eyes. I closed my eyes. When I opened them again I was back in Tartarus. Instead of the monster I saw the Arai. I attacked and was lonely, but this time it felt even worse because I knew my family left me. Then I killed another one, there was immense pain but I felt that I deserved it. Then when it became too painful I started to scream.
Tony
We opened the door and Annabeth was trashing and screaming in bed. It looked like she was tortured. We ran to her bed and I started to shake her because she had to wake up.
"Tony!" Natasha hissed "stop it!" I did as I was told.
Natasha sat down next to Annabeth and started to talk in a hushed voice, telling that it was just a dream and that she had to wake up. But she didn't wake up she just went on with trashing.
"What now?" Annabeth started to hurt herself. She scratched over her wrists.
Steve grabbed her arms and held them tight. "We need to wake her or she ends up hurting herself even worse." Steve said. Clint grabbed Annabeth's legs and got kicked, so I grabbed the other one. Natasha soothed even more.
After an hour of screaming, holding tight and soothing. Annabeth opened her eyes, rolled over and puked and then she started to cry. I had no idea what to do. Natasha comforted her.
"Can I hug you" Natasha asked. While looking intently at Annabeth. She shook her head.
"Can you-" Her voice broke. "Can you please leave?" She looked pleadingly at Natasha.
I started to protest.
"Tony!" Steve gave me a stern look. We stood up and walked towards the door. Clint closed the door.
We quietly walked towards the living room sat down.
"So, what was that?" I looked at Natasha as I expected she would know because she knew what to do. But Steve answered.
"That was PTSD"
"She looked like she just saw someone die."
Annabeth
When they were gone I listened whether there were footsteps, there were, they went to the living room. I was still sobbing but I started to function again. I stood up and walked towards the bathroom. I looked into the mirror. I looked like a mess, snotty nose, red eyes, tears leaking out of them, my hair was tangled and my arms were bloody. Wait, what? I looked down and my arms were bleeding. I walked back in my room, went towards a cupboard and got a first aid kit out. I put the lights full on and sat down on the ground. I grabbed some alcohol and cleaned the wounds with it, it stung a little. Then I grabbed some bandage and put it on. When I thought I was done I walked to the bathroom and brushed my teeth so that the taste of puke got out of my mouth. I knew I wouldn't sleep again so I grabbed a book and read. While trying to read I started to think. What would they say? I wasn't even living here for a day and they've already seen me during a nightmare.
I don't know how I stayed up the whole night but I did. My alarm rang I put it out. I went to the bathroom, went under the shower, I stood very long under the shower until my whole body felt numb. I brushed my teeth and grabbed a hoody of Percy and some jeans. Then I walked out of the door towards the kitchen. When I walked in only Steve was up. He was making eggs and bacon.
"Hello, here is your plate" Steve handed me a plate. I sat down at the table "Thanks."
After a couple of minutes Clint and Natasha came in. They had some special kind of cornflakes. The also sat down at the table. Then Bruce and Thor came in. Steve also handed them their plates. They also sat down. "So, are you excited for school?" Steve asked trying to have a conversation
"Mmm." I shrugged and shoved some eggs in my mouth. The conversation was dead.
Then the door opened again. It was Tony, he walked in a bee line towards the coffee maker. He pushed the button and out came coffee.
"Hey. How'd you sleep?" "Great." I saw their doubting looks. I shoved the last of my bacon and eggs in my mouth and stood up. "I'm going to school."
"Wait up!" Tony walked to me. "I want to give you a present!" He looked very happy with himself. "Come on." We walked into the elevator. I didn't enjoy the ride. I saw Tony giving me looks all the time. He didn't do it subtle. When the elevator opened its doors I walked out very fast. He already knows I dislike elevators. We walked out in a garage. There were a lot of cars and motors, some were vintage and others were very new. The only thing they had in common was that they were expensive. "Choose any car you want."
I started to look around, I searched for any discrete cars, but of course they weren't there. I didn't know which car I wanted to choose. I looked and saw I missed the bus I wanted to take. So I would be very early. Too late to not choose a car. "Can you find one, or do you have one in mind?" I stood in front of a red Ferrari. I started to think what I would want. Then I remembered that Percy always wanted a blue Maserati Spyder. Why not? "Do you have a blue Maserati Spyder?" Tony flashed me a smile. "Yes of course!" He walked towards a cabinet with keys, he grabbed a key and walked away, I followed him. After a short walk we stopped. There stood a blue Maserati Spyder. He handed me the keys with a keychain of a koala. "Here you go! I expect not a lot of tickets and don't break this baby."
"Sure… Well, bye." I sat behind the steering wheel, I sat very comfortable. Then the garage doors opened. I looked at Tony he was drinking of his coffee. He saw me looking, he started waving. I waved back. I drove out of the garage, into New York. Midtown high here I come!
So, what did you think? The beginning was a little bit shitty because I already kind of wrote more than half and I checked the last chapter and she kinda already went to bed, and yes I kinda forgot Thor. But you probably didn't notice. How was the murder? Is there further anything I can improve?