Fake it Chapter 2: Child Of Hermes, a percy jackson and the olympians fanfic

Sitting between to Percy and Nico at dinner, was, well odd. A good kind of odd. Like I belonged there. Camp Jupiter always gave me a queasy feeling, 'cept when I was around Frank and that was very faint. I didn't talk to them though, because I had my iPod blaring.
Ok, yeah, I had technology, big surprise because I'm a demigod. Well screw you guys, Thanthos apperently had given it to me for a birthday because, swear to my dad, there was a fucking app for list of people who had escaped the Underworld and needed to be returned.
Apple had even influnced Death. Gods bet Steve Jobs got into Elysium. He was a kid of Athena, obviously for you who didn't know.
I shut my eyes and leaned back, letting myself get lost in the music.

"When I close my eyes
if only for a moment
I can see the light
but the darkness is callin
pulling me down, taking me under
to the emptiness below
Cant hold it back, I'm letting go
of the innocence again

If you ever feel ashamed
Like you're the one to blame
and the weight of all the world
is on your shoulders crushing you
When the walls are closing in
you gotta fight it from within
Will you rise above the pain
or will you simply come undone

Every single lie
Every promise broken leads me
to the other side of a life going nowhere
pulling me down, taking me under the emptiness below
Cant hold it back,
Cant let it go
Will i ever live again

I found a little salvation there
under the midnight sun
I gotta fight this fear inside of me
'Cause I got nowhere to run

Nico was hiding something from us, Percy and I. I knew this easily, but didn't push it, knowing there was probably a good reason for it. What was unnerving me was how he eyed one of my tattoos. It was one I'd gotten two years before, when I was 14. It was the name Luke Castellan, with a swastika and a caduceus on either side.
The next song was Skillet's "One Day Too Late", and when I shut my eyes I saw him again. I remember running my fingers through his hair, trying to unmat it from the blood. Wiping the dried blood from his scarred face and thinking I'd never seen a more beautiful person in the world.

"Tick tock, hear the clock countdown
Wish the minute hand could be rewound
So much to do and so much I need to say
Will tomorrow be too late?

Feel the moment slip into the past
Like sand through an hourglass
In the madness, I guess, I just forget
To do all the things I said.

Time passes by, never thought I'd wind up
One step behind, now I've made my mind up

Today, I'm gonna try a little harder
Gonna make every minute last longer
Gonna learn to forgive and forget
'Cause we don't have long, gonna make the most of it

Today, I'm gonna love my enemies
Reach out to somebody who needs me
Make a change, make the world a better place
'Cause tomorrow could be one day too late
One day too late, one day too late."

Luke spent a week with me at the Foster home I had been at during that time. Thankfully my foster parents hadn't been home at the time. He told me about his friends, Thalia Grace and Annabeth Chase. I could tell he either had feelings for Annabeth or cosidered her his younger sister, I was hoping it was the latter and not the first, because, yes I had a massive crush on him.

"Tick tock, hear my life pass by
I can't erase and I can't rewind
Of all the things I regret the most I do
Wish I'd spent more time with you

Here's my chance for a new beginning
I saved the best for a better ending
In the end I'll make it up to you
You'll see, you'll get the very best of me."

He told me about the gods. The Greek gods, not Roman. I guess he knew I was a demigod, because he told me his father was Mercury. Though he wasn't entirely sure why he said Mercury.

"Time passes by, never thought I'd wind up
One step behind, now I've made my mind up

Today, I'm gonna try a little harder
Gonna make every minute last longer
Gonna learn to forgive and forget
'Cause we don't have long, gonna make the most of it

Today, I'm gonna love my enemies
Reach out to somebody who needs me
Make a change, make the world a better place
'Cause tomorrow could be one day too late."

The last day we were together, he told me about Saturn, and the war on Olympus. He promised me that I would not be pulled into the war, and when it was over, he would meet me in Chicago, Illinois, at Soldier Field, on January 13th, two years later. My 16th birthday.
Before he disappered into thin air, I wrapped my scrawny arms around his neck and kissed him, not even terrifed of Backbiter. And yes, he did kiss me back, wrapping his arms around my waist for a good three minutes.

"Your time is running out
You're never gonna get it back
So make the most of every moment
Stop saving the best for last

Today, I'm gonna try a little harder
Gonna make every minute last longer
Gonna learn to forgive and forget
'Cause we don't have long, gonna make the most of it

Today, I'm gonna love my enemies
Reach out to somebody who needs me
Make a change, make the world a better place
'Cause tomorrow could be one day too late."

My birthday came and went this year, Luke never showed up. I waited all day, but nothing. I never saw that dirty blond hair again.

"One day too late, one day too late
One day too late, one day too late."

"You ok Nathan?" Hazel asked me. I blinked and realized that tears had started to well up in my eyes. Dakota, Nico, Frank, Hazel, and Percy were staring at me.
I used the back of my hoodie sleave to wipe my eyes. "Uh, yeah, just my soda ya know. Carbon went up to wrong pipe," I lied rubbing my noise to make it look like I was telling the truth. "I'll catch up with ya guys at the war games, need to clear my head. Dakota could you tell my cohort centurion where I'll be?"
"Sure Nathalia," he burped, before drinking his kool-aid again.
As I stood up and wormed past Nico I muttered, "It's Nathan." Douche bag, get my fucking name right.
I ran out of the Mess and down the Via Praetoria, hoping to get back before the war games started. It didn't take me long to reach Pluto's temple.
I couldn't break down like I had back there. Out here I was alone, except for the gods watching above. The tears now streaked down my face as I fell to my knees. I swore I could hear Aphrodite laughing at me.