Chapter 2

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"Thea!" came an excited shout from the entrance of the apartment. Thea sat up straight. She was sitting on the spare bed in Percy's room. Percy and Annabeth entered, and gave her a hug.

"Why are you here?" Annabeth asked. Thea quickly explained the situation with her mother. When she got to Oliver, her voice drifted off, thoughtful. "What?" Annabeth asked, seeing her mind drifting.

"Would it be possible for Oliver to be a demigod and me not of known it?" she asked suddenly, surprising her friends.

"Why would you think that?" Percy asked.

"I saw this cold in his eyes, when I accidentally snapped at him, one that I know from experience only comes from a war." Annabeth tilted her head thoughtfully.

"I really doubt it, but I suppose it is possible. We know your mom has had two affairs, whose to say she didn't have three?"

"It would break him. If mom cheated on Robert, and had Oliver because of it. It would ruin him." Thea said.

"Then let's hope that's not the case Thea. And I doubt it is. You probably just imagined it." Percy said, making her feel better. There was a knock on the door in at the entrance to the apartment. Sally walked into Percy's bedroom.

"Any if you guys expecting someone?" She asked the kids. They all shook their heads. Percy got up and fingered his pen. He glanced at Thea, who was doing the same thing to a special bead on her necklace, one shaped like a trident. It was a gift from their dad. He also noticed that her normal brown eyes had shifted to ocean blue. Eyes changing color was a rare trait among demigods. Annabeth's shifted between shades of gray depending on her mood, but Theas could be any combination of brown, blue, or green. It was a rare trait, but it meant she was disguised in public, as Poseidon's children had striking green or blue eyes. While she could usually control it, they were ocean blue when a battle would possibly be coming up. Annabeth pulled her cap out, but then seemed to remember something and tossed Thea a flat, glass bead. Inside of it, there was a picture of a wave so realistic it looked like it was actually captured inside of the bead. As she caught it, it morphed into a black handgun. She looked at Annabeth in surprise. The girl grinned back.

"Tyson made it for you. It has celestial bronze bullets, made by my dad. Tyson also made it so it doesn't run out of ammo, toss it up and it'll turn back into a charm, or press the front to the chain of your necklace like you do with your sword." Thea tried to add it to her necklace, and grinned when it morphed back into bead form. The heard the knocking at the door again. She frowned and pulled the bead back off, and gripped the gun professionally as she had been taught by the Ares cabin. They and Ares himself had taken a special liking to her. So much, that Ares had given her a downsized version of his blessing to her every time she was in battle. As she started to turn the handle, she could see the faint red aura flickering over her skin. She opened the door and pointed the gun… into Oliver's face. The red faded before he could notice it, and she winced.

"Sorry, thought you were someone else." Then she brightened and gave him a hug. "Thanks for visiting so soon!" When she pulled back, her eyes were brown again, and she turned to introduce him to Percy and Annabeth. "Oliver, this is Perseus Jackson, my other half-brother. And this is Annabeth Chase, his girlfriend." Both of them shook Oliver's hands. Oliver turned to Thea.

"When are you coming home? We can get you a place far from the Queen mansion, far from mom. You'll never have to talk to her again." Thea was already shaking her head by the time he finished.

"I'm staying here, Ollie, at least for a little while, and that's final." Oliver sighed, and Thea could tell he knew he was beat.

"Can I at least spend the day with you? One last day with my sister before I go back to Starling?" Thea sighed. Like her brother, she knew when she was beat. She glanced back at Percy and Annabeth. She could tell they were uncomfortable with her heading off into New York on her own, as the place was filled to the brim with monsters.

"Only if Percy and Annabeth can come." she said, spinning back to face Oliver.

"Fine." he said not bothered at all. As they walked out of the room, he decided to spring the awkward question. "Who did you expect to be at the door?" Thea gulped. She had no answer.

"My boyfriend over here has a habit of being kidnapped for some reason. We tend to be a bit overprotective of him." Annabeth cut in. Thea sent her a grateful look. Then she spun to Oliver.

"That does not give you permission to drag me out of here, understand?" Oliver scowled, but relented.

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The bed groaned as Thea shifted in her sleep. She was in the midst of a nightmare. Everywhere she looked, she saw her friends attacked by monsters. She saw one, a child of Athena, about to be destroyed by a hellhound. She tried to move, but couldn't. She watched kids from camp, some she didn't even know the names of, being killed off by monsters. And she couldn't stop it, she couldn't do anything. She had seen all of their deaths in the wars with Kronos and Gaia, and she couldn't save them then. She saw Leo then, flaming, riding Festus towards Gaia. She shouted after him to stop, that it wasn't worth it. And then he and his dragon defeated her in a big ball of fire, and Thea felt her heart break, like she did every time she saw it happen, again and again. And then she saw her friends, the rest of the eight (AN: sorry, I had to change it to eight because I couldn't bear to remove one and replace them with Thea), walking over to her with the rest of the camp behind them. Then the accusations started flying.

"Why couldn't you save them?"

"You failed them!"

"You let them die!"

"You're the reason Leo's dead!"

"I'm sorry!" Thea said, sobbing, on her knees. "I didn't want it to happen."

"You just stood by and watched!" Came a voice from her right. She spun and saw Hazel, eyes unforgiving. She turned around and walked off.

"Hazel!" she called after her. She saw everybody disappearing, leaving her because she let them die. She looked around and saw everybody but Percy had abandoned her. She ran up to him, calling his name. "Percy!" He turned and saw her approach.

"You can't feel anymore Thea. You let them die, you stood by and watched. Why should I listen to a word you say. Why should I let you call yourself my sister?" He turned and walked away from her, disappearing. She looked around and saw that she was all alone. She sank to her knees. She looked up and saw Gaia rising again.

"It's your fault I'm back little one." she said in a sickly sweet voice. Suddenly they were at camp. The rest of the eight were around her, supporting her and pointing their weapons at Gaia. "This is what happens when you disobey." Gaia snarled, and slowly the camp and all of her friends disintegrated into dirt, with agonizing wails of pain. Gaia's laugh was louder than any of it, and slowly a crack formed through what remained of camp, an earthquake shaking the world to it's core. Slowly the same thing started happening to Thea, and she screamed as she fell into the earth.

"Thea!" a voice shouted through the darkness. She felt someone shaking her. She slowly opened her eyes to Percy and Annabeth's concerned faces. She sat up quickly, wide awake, and curled up in a ball against her pillow.

"Shhh." Annabeth said, and placed a hand on her shoulder. "It was only a dream. Thea nodded, trying to get her bearings. She sat there, as her friends comforted her.

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