Chapter 23

A/N: This chapter will be mostly flashbacks. Sorry but it is a filler chapter, and will answer some questions you might have been wondering about.

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Percy POV

Needless to say, I was the definition of 'bored-out-of-my-mind'. I was going to be bedridden for a week, even with my demigod healing. My leg wouldn't be able to walk on for a month, my ribs wouldn't be fully healed for 2 weeks, and my shoulder blade wouldn't be healed for another week.

I guess it's a good thing that lacrosse season isn't starting for another 4 months.

Earlier today I had a flashback of what my mom told me after Nico and I were forced to leave camp. I had called her about a month after moving in with Chris.

Flashback Scene

After a moment of hesitation I threw my drachma into the mist. "O Iris, Goddess of the Rainbow, show me Sally Jackson,"

The mist shimmered and changed to a familiar small apartment. My mom sat on the couch alone. Apparently Paul was out. My mom was holding something in her arms a small bundle of cloth. In a snap, I knew what it was. "Hi mom," my voice cracking at the end, my eyes were threatening to start tearing up.

Her head snapped up. "Percy, you've grown so much!" Then she noticed my eyes tearing up and she realized why.

"This is your little sister, Andromeda," she said happily, showing the sleeping child to me. She had to only be a few months old with a small patch of black hair and blue eyes.

"She's beautiful," I say softly, tears of happiness sliding down my cheek. I was so happy for my mom and Paul. I could have a new family member to take care of.

"I love her, when can I come visit my new sister," I ask eagerly.

"Actually Percy, there is something I have been wanting to tell you," she said avoiding looking at me.

"What is it?" I asked, I wanted to see my new sister so badly. I wanted to give her the life I could never have.

"Percy, I don't think you should visit her," she began before I cut her off.

"What! Of course I'm going to see her, she's my sister!"

"Please Percy, don't make this harder than it already is. She is full mortal, and I want to keep it that way. I want her to be safe and oblivious to the Greek world. If you visit, you will attract monsters," she pleaded.

I was heartbroken. First camp, then I am banned by my own mother to see my sister.

"B-but please! I want to know her, I want to watch her take her first steps, I want her to have the life I could never have," the last part came out as a whisper.

"And you can give her that by not bringing her into the mythical world," she said firmly but also sadly.

More tears started to slide down my cheeks, but this time they were not from joy. They were tears of a broken man. This was the last straw, everything was finally taken away from me. And I grew angry. "Fine, I will never visit her and you will never tell her of her brother, happy? First camp, then my own mother betrays me," I snarled out.

"Wait, Percy, what happened at camp?" she asked.

"Like you care! No one cares for me, I am loved by no one," I yell.

"Percy, what are you talking about? I love you, and so does Annabeth," defended my mother.

That drove me over the edge. "Goodbye mother, you will never see me again," I spat out and slashed my hand through the mist ending the connection.

Flashback End

I later found out from Nico after he got an IM from his father, that a month after my argument with my mother, the apartment caught fire because of a power surge after a lightning strike. Everyone died in the fire.

Thinking about it brought back memories of first maiden I brought to Artemis, a week before school started.

Flashback Scene 3rd POV

Percy appeared in the edge of a forest in Saratoga Springs, Utah. Percy looked around before making his way into the city. He was slightly apprehensive about this mission. Hestia had seemed angry when giving him the mission. She had even encouraged Percy to take his time when he dealt with the mortal, which is not something he had ever heard from the kind-hearted Goddess of the Hearth. He knew whatever it was he would find was not going to be pleasant. He just prayed there wouldn't be any kind of sexual abuse. Percy began to pick up the pace as he looked for Turner Street. He wanted to get the girl out of there as fast as possible. Finally he saw Turner Street and quickly located the house he was looking for.

He found the number house he wanted as he looked around it for any signs of danger. The house was large but not well kept. It looked like it had been nice not long ago but been neglected over the past few years. As Percy walked up to the house, he noticed the beer bottles that littered the porch of the house.

"Tracy! Where are you? Where are you hiding you little brat?" A male voice yelled from inside the house.

Percy scowled, it was noon and it was clear the man was already drunk from his slurred speech. Percy saw a small shadow run across the window in front of the porch. Percy could see a larger shadow slinking its way in the same direction. Percy's face contorted into one of anger. As the larger shadow neared the door, Percy walked up and kicked the door in, catching the unsuspecting man in the face with the door.

Percy stepped into the house were the man was holding his broken nose in shock as he looked at Percy enraged. "Who the fuck are you? Get the fuck out of my house!" The man yelled as he got up and charged toward Percy.

The man took at wild swing at Percy, aiming for his face. But Percy just moved to the side and shoved the man roughly to the floor. A soft whimper in the corner of the room drew Percy's attention. A small girl with blonde hair and grey eyes looked up at him with fear evident on her face. Percy felt his stomach twist into a knot. The little girl looked exactly like Annabeth except a few years younger than when they first met. Then Percy looked at the girl's face a little closer. The left side of her face was badly bruised. Her eye was swollen shut. Her lip was split and still bleeding.

As Percy looked at the girl he felt himself losing control of his anger. While Percy was distracted, the man landed a hard punch to side of Percy's face, causing him to stagger a bit. Percy stumbled but turned as the man tried to punch him again. Percy caught the fist in his hand before letting his hand catch fire. The man screamed in agony as his flesh burned away. Percy released his hand and threw a heavy punch into the man's face, his hand still on fire.

The man stumbled back and fell to the ground where he clutched his charred hand. Another soft whimper drew Percy's attention. Percy's heart ached when the girl looked up at him with fear and awe.

"Turn around and stay hidden little one. I am here to help." Percy said softly. The girl's eyes widened and she ducked behind a chair.

Percy turned back to the man, her father he assumed, and scowled. He so wanted to take his time with this guy but for the sake of the girl he knew he needed to be quick. She was already scared enough.

Percy walked up to the cowering man and pulled him to his feet before slipping behind him and wrapping his arms and hands around the man's head and neck. In one swift movement he snapped the man's neck effortlessly.

"I'll have my boyfriend make sure you face the worst Hades has to offer." Percy muttered as he dropped the man's now dead body.

Percy grabbed the man's limp shoulder and teleported his body to another room. He then turned back the chair the girl was hiding behind. "Tracy?" He asked softly. A trembling hand appeared on top of the chair before two teary eyes followed as the girl peered over the chair.

"I'm not going to hurt you Tracy, I was sent here to help you." Percy said softly.

"You're lying. You're going to hurt me just like my uncle did." She whimpered.

Percy sat in his spot looking sadly at the girl's trembling form hidden behind the chair. "Tracy, your Mom sent me to take you away from here. She didn't know what was happening but as soon as she did, she sent to me take you somewhere safe." Percy said slowly.

"You're lying. My mommy is dead. She died before my Dad died." Tracy replied back shakily.

Percy shook his head, "That's not true Tracy. Your mommy is very special. She is so special that she wasn't allowed to be around you or your Dad. But she sent me to bring you to her sister. She has a group of girls that are just like you."

"What do you mean special?" Tracy asked as she peeked out from behind the chair just a bit.

Percy gave her a warm smile, "Your Mom is a goddess. But gods and goddesses aren't allowed to visit their kids. That's why they send people like me to take them places where they can be safe."

The little girl looked at Percy critically, her grey eyes analyzing his words to see if she could pick up on any lies. The girl was analyzing him exactly like Annabeth used to.

Remember that this girl isn't Annabeth. Don't think about her, she betrayed you. Think about Nico! I thought before a soft smile came to my face.

"Do you promise you won't hurt me?" Tracy asked timidly.

Percy nodded, "Are you hungry?" Percy asked as he looked at the girl's skinny frail body. Tracy's eyes widened before she slowly came out from behind the chair and took tentative steps toward Percy.

"What do you like to eat? What is your favorite food in the world?" Percy asked softly as the girl sat on the ground warily a few feet away from him.

"Macaroni and cheese." Tracy whispered back. Percy nodded and smiled before he clapped him hands together softly. A large plate of macaroni and cheese appeared in front of her along with a fork and a tall glass of water.

Tracy's eyes shot wide open, "How did you do that?"

Percy smiled, "I told you, your Mom is a goddess. But I have a special job where I help find people like us and bring them places where they are safe. Because of my job, some of the other gods and goddesses gave me special powers to help. That is one of those powers."

Tracy watched Percy warily as he spoke. She tentatively grabbed the fork before taking a bite of the food. A small smile appeared on her face before she began to eat faster. Percy felt good when the girl's face contorted into a smile as she ate the rest of her food.

"So what happens now?" She asked nervously.

Percy smiled, "Now I bring you to your aunt. She is a very nice lady who dedicates her life to helping girls. After that, you can either stay with her or go to a camp for people like us."

Tracy nodded, "What about you? Where do you go?"

Percy looked at her a little surprised, "I find someone else to help."

Tracy's face dropped but she nodded. Percy looked at her sadly, "Hey?" She looked at him questioningly.

"My name is Percy. I want to do something to help your face. It might seem a little scary at first but I promise I won't hurt you." He said kindly.

Tracy looked at him nervously but nodded. Percy pulled out a water bottle from his pack. He uncapped it and willed the water out of the bottle. She seemed a little scared.

"I won't hurt you Tracy, this will help your face but you have to trust me." Percy explained.

Tracy looked at Percy closely before nodding. Percy crawled over next to the nervous girl. He slowly brought up his hand and touched the side of her face as he willed the water to heal her cuts and bruises. After a minute Percy sent the water out the broken door and onto the porch.

The daughter of Athena reached up and touched her face tentatively. Her face contorted into a look of awe before she lunged forward wrapping her tiny arms around Percy's neck and buried her face into his shoulder. Percy smiled. He slowly stood up and carried the little girl out of the house.

Tracy's eyes widened before he hugged Percy tightly, "Thank you for being so nice to me Percy." She said softly.

Percy smiled, "Okay now I am going to drop you off with the nice lady I told you about that will help you."

Tracy nodded but looked worried, "Will you come with me Percy? I don't want to go by myself." She asked pleadingly.

"Okay I will go with you until you feel comfortable with Artemis. Don't worry. She is really nice and a friend of mine." Percy answered.

Tracy nodded happily. Percy grabbed her hand, "Okay close your eyes. Don't open them until I say to, okay?"

Tracy nodded and they disappeared in a flash of flames reappearing a few hundred yards away from Artemis' camp.

"Okay, you can open your eyes." Percy said.

Tracy opened her eyes and smiled, "That felt weird." Percy chuckled before his face turned serious, "Okay, I have to change into some strange armor and a mask. Don't worry it's only temporary and it's still me."

Tracy nodded and Percy concentrated. His enchanted armor appeared on him as well as a black mask. "How did you do that?" Tracy asked shocked.

Percy chuckled, "Another special power the gods gave me to help rescue people like us."

Percy turned toward the hunter's camp and starting walking. After a few feet, he felt a small hand slip into his. He looked at Tracy and saw how nervous she was. Percy gave her a reassuring smile and started walking again, holding her hand comfortingly.

After a few minutes, a silver arrow flew by Percy's head forcing him to duck. Tracy hid behind Percy, trembling slightly. Percy saw a few hunters approaching him with their bows out and aimed for him.

Percy growled. He narrowed his eyes at the hunters and they froze in their tracks as Percy unsheathed his swords guarding the little girl behind him. Artemis flashed in front of Percy and gave him an angry look. Percy gestured toward the arrow embedded in the tree behind him with Alpha. Artemis' eyes widened before she whirled around on the hunters.

"Phoebe," She growled. "I told you to let him pass. You just earned yourself laundry duty for the next 6 months." Artemis said before turning to the other two hunters. "Go back to whatever you were doing unless you want to join Phoebe."

Phoebe looked angry but left after sending Percy a murderous glare along with the other two hunters.

"Sorry Percy. Phoebe has issues following orders when it comes to men." Artemis said apologetically.

Percy nodded and knelt down next to the now very scared seven year old girl. "Don't worry Tracy, Artemis is my friend. We're just going to go talk to her in her tent." Percy said comfortingly.

Tracy looked at Artemis who looked like a twelve year old girl and looked back at Percy nervously but nodded. She grabbed Percy's hand like it was her lifeline as they walked into the hunter's camp.

Artemis turned to a hunter who was currently glaring at Percy, "Atalanta, go get Thalia and send her to my tent. No one else is to enter unless I call for them."

Atalanta looked at Percy with disgust before nodding and leaving to find Thalia. Artemis led Percy and Tracy into her tent where they waited for Thalia.

When Thalia entered she was shocked to find the man from the day before in her tent, "Lady Artemis, why is he here?"

Artemis chuckled at Thalia, "He saved a young maiden from her abusive parent. Thalia, please leave until I've talked to this young girl about her decision. Once I've finished talking with her and Blaze then you can come in." Thalia blinked in confusion before nodding and stepping out.

Percy knelt down and gently pulled her out in front of him. "Tracy, this is my friend Artemis." Percy said softly.

Tracy nodded and turned to Artemis who smiled kindly back.

"Artemis is going to talk to you about what you want to do from here." Percy explained gently. Tracy nodded but clutched Percy's hand tightly. Percy looked up at Artemis who gave him a nod, letting him know it was okay to stay.

Artemis explained what the hunt was and then offered Tracy a place within it.

Tracy looked at Artemis then back to Percy, "I don't know. Those girls tried to hurt Percy. I don't like that. Percy saved me and then took care of me."

Percy smiled, "Don't worry about that. They just didn't know it was me. They are actually very nice. They thought I might have been trying to hurt you."

Tracy nodded, "Will I ever get to see Percy?" She asked softly.

Artemis smiled at her warmly, "Yes of course you will. Percy is one of the only men who is allowed to come here. He can come and visit you whenever you want."

Percy looked surprised but smiled a bit. Tracy turned to Percy, "Will you come visit me?" She asked nervously.

Percy nodded at her as he held her hand, "I will come and visit as much as I can. Once you get settled in, Lady Artemis will show you how to Iris Message someone. That way if you want me to come visit you can message me and let me know and I will come as soon as I can." Percy said before he reached into his pack and pulled out a small bag and placed it in her hand.

"This is a drachma. The others here will show you how to use it when they teach you how to Iris Message but you just need one of these to send me a message. There are about 50 in this bag. That should hold you over for a while but if you ever run low I will give you more so you can always message me if you need to." Percy explained.

Tracy looked up and smiled before wrapping her arms tightly around Percy's neck. He looked at Artemis to find her looking at him oddly. She looked at him with a mix of shock, awe, happiness and something Percy couldn't identify.

When she finally let go of Percy she turned around to Artemis smiling, "Okay, I will join Lady Artemis." Artemis smiled happily at her.

"I will show you around camp and introduce you to some of your new sisters." Artemis said kindly as she led Tracy out the tent entrance. Tracy stopped at the tent entrance before turning and facing me. "Wait, Percy you won't leave yet will you?" She asked worriedly.

"I won't leave without saying goodbye, I promise." Percy said earning a relieved look from Tracy. Artemis finally led the young maiden out of the tent.

Flashback End

I've seen all of the hunters that Nico and I have rescued every time I show up at the Hunt. We catch up on our activities. They ask a lot about my relationship with Nico as it is in their words 'odd'. It makes me smile when I get to talk about him as I remember all he has done for me.

Today also marked it as 2 months since Kate, and Victoria died, which made me think about how I had to silence both as they tried to kill Nico after finding out about Nico and I being were-wolves. It still saddens me that I had to lie to Alison and Chris about not knowing what happened. But I know that if I tell them the truth, then Nico and I will be removed. I remember their deaths as clear as yesterday.

Flashback

3rd POV

Oddly enough, thinking back on it, it took place after Nico and I had finished having sex in our wolf forms, except I was top. But back to the flashback.

We were lying on the ground, still in our other form, panting before shifting back into our normal selves when unknown to us Aunt Victoria walked in and saw the whole transforming and left the room before we noticed.

Later on that night, at about 2am, our door opened quietly, and before we could see who it was, we were both shot with tranquilizer darts.

Percy POV

Feeling a small electric current jump into my body made me jolt awake and look around. I was in the same room that we had to reveal our powers to Kate and Chris to. I saw that Nico and I were each connected to an electric generator, with wires connecting to our torsos. Our hands cuffed behind the pole that we are each suspended to, as well as our ankles. Then I notice something that sets me on fire.

Nico. Doesn't look alive. He is bleeding profusely from a knife that is in to the hilt, to his heart made out of silver. He looks paler than usual, and isn't breathing. I then heard a voice that made my heart drop. (I know I said that Nico and Percy were immune to silver and wolfsbane. They are, but only when conscious, I forgot to mention that earlier. In this scene, Nico was stabbed by that knife after he was knocked unconscious from the voltage.)

Kate. "Hello there sweetie, how do you like your current situation, because if you don't like it, then I can give you Nico's."

Warning Graphic Character Deaths

I only saw blood red as I erupted into Greek fire that burned right through my cuffs and the electrical wires attached to my chest. I pulled out both of my swords, bared my fangs and roared at Kate with everything I had before I dashed forward and stabbed her in the chests with both swords lifting her off the ground. As I held her up over my head, I reached forward and bit her throat before pulling back, ripping her esophagus to shreds. Her blood streaming down my jaw, I looked into her eyes as I saw her light fade from her eyes.

I heard a noise that made me turn to my right as I saw Victoria pointing a gun at me, terrified of what I just did.

"If you put that gun down and walk away I will let you live. I don't care that you were like a mother to me, put it down or you will face the same death as her." I growled out baring my fangs, as blood continued to run down my throat.

She shook her head and fired her gun. I brought Riptide up in a flash and cut the bullet in two before it would hit me and vanished. She looked around in a worry before starting to believe that I had left.

She was mistaken as she felt immense pain in her abdomen. She looked down and saw both of my swords sticking out of her chest, forming and 'X'. I whispered in her ear "you should have taken my advice dear aunt."

I slid both blades out and let her body fall to the ground before making my way over to Nico.

"No, Nico, you can't die on me. I need you, you can't go." I gasped out as I removed the knife in his chest, and started to heal him as quickly as possible. I called out to Apollo quickly, since he was more aware of what to do next. He appeared in less than 3 seconds, immediately noticing Nico's condition and started to patch him up.

End of Flashback

I was so grateful that Nico was still in a condition to be healed. If I lost Nico, I don't know how much longer I would go before joining him in the afterlife. He is my life, literally.

Lying to Alison and Chris about not knowing what happened to them was the hardest to do. Chris was the one to find them, and called us into the room by phone call. Alison and he were a mess for a while. Alison missed 2 weeks of school, and Chris stayed at the house for that first week after the deaths.

A/N: I wouldn't kill Nico off, what kind of fool do you believe me to be. FYI, in the next chapter will be a massive timeskip of a year that I will cover in said chapter. I think you will like the events that take place in the time skip.

A/N 2: Also, just so you know, I am very much behind on Teen Wolf series. I have only seen up to S4E10. And this next chapter will be my own twist on parts of Season 3, it won't cover all. But it will bring us up to where Stiles goes missing.

Updated: 01/01/2018