Chapter 9 Family Is Complicated

Deuce POV

I stumbled in the hallway with Cleo holding me up, my neck stiffer than the rest of on my I whimpered a little bit as she moved me the wrong way. I sighed heavily as she looked intel at me. I was trying to play it off like it was no big deal but she didn't believe a thing that I said.

So I just walked through the cold hallway while listening to the sound of the music from outside. The party was still going on and it was like 3 in the morning if I wasn't so exhausted I would probably still be out there.

"Deuce?" I looked up form m thoughts, and hesitated for a moment before pulling me and Cleo to a stop in front of a golden door that I knew led to my room. I curled my hand around the neon just holding it there for a moment. If I opened the door she would follow after me and then i would have to answer questions I didn't want to.

I pushed the door open and plopped down on the bed letting the cool sheets envelopes me as I stared blankly at the ceiling ignoring the approaching form of Cleo who was closing the door behind her.

"Deuce you told me that you would explain everything starting with your issues with your father and what happens to your glass" I felt my head loll to the side as I met the gaze of Cleo bright blue eyes were clouded over with concern as she looked down at her lap.

Her golden skin looked like it was getting paler and I think that this worry was really straining to affect her, and I was the cause of this. Great now I am the dick, I needed to come clean before the lies bite me in the ass. "Alright where to start. But before I tell do not tell anyone and I mean this Cleo. I told you about the trip and you told the guys the moment that they sat down so I need to know that you don't go into telling them."

I look at her as she snapped her head up.I could see excrement replacing the concern that was in her eyes."Yeah, Deuce I swear to Ra that I will keep it to myself." I looked at her I could hear the sincerity in her voice as her gaze helped me. It felt like she was staring into my soul as I knew that she would keep this to herself.

I took in a deep breath and held it there for a moment trying to steady my nerves before exhaling slowly and nodding my head. "Alright well, when I was 6 my father left me on Olympus for the day. He had to head into work I guess that you could call it work, but Zeus for some reason he hated me, he said that I was an abomination and that I shouldn't even be allowed to be here. I told him to shove it and then he started to lose it. He pushed me up against a nearby throne as he pulled, his lightning bolt out and stabbing me in the leg with it.

Sending thousands of volts into my body. I blacked out and when I woke up, I was cover in blood my head felt light and my whole body felt like one big bruise. My aunt and my cousin both helped me out.

They healed me up and when my dad came back my aunt confront him, she told him what happened, and he refuses to believe me. He yelled and screamed like there was no tomorrow. He was blue in the face and he just kept yelling. After that, we didn't have the best relationship."

I took in a breath just listened to the hammering of my heart letting it settle before interlacing my fingers with Cleo. When I looked at her hand with our finger interlaced it looked and felt like we were made for each other. I let out this exhausted sighed and counties to talk.

"After that the summer went by and things got tenser and things went downhill after that. Soon I couldn't take it anymore and I told him that I wasn't going to feel bad for telling the truth. After that thing didn't go so well I'm pretty sure his exact words were, he regretted ever having sex with my mother because I was the result. Since then we didn't really have the best relationship."

I looked up from my lap to see that Cleo was pulling her and out of my grasp causing my hand to go ice cold. I looked deep into her eyes and felt this warmth cover my entire body as she held my face.

As she tipped her head down so that we were face to face and I kissed her gently, as our lips melted together and I could hear her heart speeding up at the contact. When I pulled apart, she had this frown on her face as she looked intently at me. "I'm so sorry that must have been rough I get it now what you didn't want to get into the details. But I think that for our relationship can only work if we don't lie to each other."

I smiled at her and nodded my head, but I could feel the smile dropping from my face. "I know where you are going with this, you want to know what happened in the throne room." I looked at her with this smile that was on her face was replaced with a small smirk.

"Alright, I might have said that so you would come clean but Deucey you looked terrified something had to have happened and your glasses were missing." I looked at her she knew how to get what she wanted.

I pulled away from her embrace and started to pull my shirt off reveal the bruises, that were covering every part of my chest. I could hear her gasp as she gawked at the wounds that littered my body.

"While you were at the party I went into the throne to clear my head, I couldn't take the pounding it was messing with my snake. I was jousting thinking taking in a few deep breath when Zeus came up to me he said the same manster hating shit that he always says. He beat the living crap out of me a then told me that I had until tomorrow to leave it he would kill me. Then he took my glass and threw them to the far side of the room. Then there is this."

I lifted my chin up and let her see the burn pattern that the blot left on my skin the other day. "This is what happened when I first got is going to kill me and make it seem like an accident." I let out this sigh, family was complicated for sure but this shit was just fucked up even for him.

I let out this sigh and whimper as she started to take her hand over my wounds, my skin turning from black a blue. Her hand seemed so cold as it raked over my skin it forced goosebumps to rise. When she pulled her hand away from my skin I could see the anger in her eyes were glowing like something I had never seen before. I think that was a vengeful rage in her eyes. "Well, then that means that we are going to have to destroy him before he gets the chance to do that to you." I could hear the intensity in her voice causing me to sigh heavily

"Fuck no he is the lord of the heavens I am not doing that, I'm going to bed, so I will see you in the morning." I kissed her cheek gently as I pulled her up from the bed. She nearly tipped over put I pulled her by her waist steading her.

When I walked over to the door I gently push her out of the room, leaving her shell-shocked as I slowly closed the door and plopped down on the bed. I pulled my shirt back on just in case my father walked into the room. I sighed just staring at the ceiling for a while. When I looked down at the clock. This sucked I rolled over and curled into a ball drifting off to sleep.

I could believe this I was laying on the floor a bloody mess and it was so clear that he beat the living shit out of me. But my father wasn't going to believe me. I looked over to my cousin Ares. My entire body shaking from fear and the coldness of the floor. "Hey kid calm down."

I looked up and was met by his searing red eyes. There was so much anger in them that I had never seen before. Even though we were family even one seemed so tense around me that was until they saw Zeus leaving me on the floor broken and beaten. I nodded my head and looked at Ares for a moment before snapping my head back down at the sound of feet shuffling.

I let out this whimper as I looked up to see my father bright green eyes, I watched him let out this low growl and he wrapped his arms around my waist and he lifted me up. He cradles me in his arms and he looked at Ares. "Thank you, Ares."

He nodded his head slightly at my father carted me off into his room." He placed me neatly on the bed and gave me this small smile as he closed the door. "Your aunt told me that you said your uncle did this to you. It's that true Deuce." I looked at him, I could hear disapproval. "Dad I swear it was him, on the fates and the river of Styx that it was him."

My father's eyes flared with anger as he looked at him. "Don't you ever swear on the river of Styx, that is the most sacred oath we can make, and you made it into a lie. I disappointed in you, I should have listened to my mother and kill Medusa the moment I found out that she was pregnant." I didn't even know what to say to him, what the hell did that even mean. That he regretted my existence. I stared at him as the anger started to crawl into my heart. Fuck him!

I hear the sound of shuffling in the room forcing me from my messed up and demented memory. I slowly started to open my eyes to see that my father was watching me intently. He was leaning against the door looking me in the eyes. His green eyes meeting mine, it was nice to not have to put my glasses on all the time.

"Hey, dad." I look at him and he smiled back at me and sighed as this frown started to form with a new relation. "Do you want to tell me what happened to your glasses. Or should I guess?"

I looked at him and I could feel this frown starting to form on my face. "I'd rather not if it's okay with you, you're only going to yell at me if I talk about it." I could see this hurt on his face as I spoke. "No, I won't, Deuce I'm here to spend time with if you tell me I swear I will listen." I nodded my had he seemed to really mean it this time but I doubt that it will turn out any different than last time.