Chapter 18: The Wrath of Karen

Cecilia's POV

The next day Thalia headed off with the huntresses. Emmett and I were going to drive back to Nome while Nico, Percy and Chiron went on a plane back to Long Island.

"Cecilia, be careful around him," Chiron said as he pulled me aside in the airport.

"I will," I nodded and hugged him.

"I'm serious, he is a vampire. I'll see you this summer." I smiled and we said our goodbyes. Emmett and I got in his jeep and sat down. I knew it was going to be at least twelve hours so I got comfortable and fell asleep.

Soon I felt someone shaking me. I looked up and saw Emmett.

"How long till we're there?" I asked.

"About three hours, I was getting bored and I someone to talk to." He said. I sat up but then it hit me. Aunt Karen was gonna kill me. "What's wrong?" he asked.

"I'm dead," I said.

"What do you mean; I can hear your heart."

"No, I'm not dead, yet."

"Explain,"

"I've been gone for three weeks and my aunt Karen has no idea where I've been." Emmett nodded.

"I'll make sure I'm outside." I smirked as he said this.

"I think I can come up with a good cover up for being missing for three weeks it's just how am I supposed to explain my scar?" I ran my finger down it.

"I'm sure you'll come up with something. Does she know about your dad?"

"No, nobody on my mom's side knows. They all think she got drunk one night and had a one night stand with a guy she didn't know."

"Oh. And she made her family believe that."

"Yeah, I never knew my grandparents because they thought of her as a slut. The only person who actually acknowledged my mother was my aunt Karen."

"Wow that's rough," I nodded and looked down. Talking about my mom always made me sad. Emmett was the only person who I had come completely out of my shell. Even Will didn't know what I had just told Emmett. A single tear fell down my face. Before I had a chance to wipe it away he tilted my chin up and wiped it away with his thumb. "I know you're sad about Will and your mom, but you can't grieve forever." I looked at him and he turned back to the road. "Wow, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. I sounded like a complete ass."
"Don't worry about it. And your right I can't grieve forever." He smiled at me and took his hand in mine. We made small talk for the next few hours until we reached my house.

"Call me tonight. So I know you survived your aunt." He chuckled. I slowly made my way inside and found my aunt Karen watching the news.

"Aunt Karen?" I asked cautiously.

"Cecilia!" she ran over and embraced me. "I was so worried. Where the hell have you been?"

"Well I was visiting a few friends in Barrow."

"BARROW! Cecilia, you've been gone for three weeks. You could've at least called or left a note."

"I did leave a note."

"Well is it invisible," then she spotted my eye. "Oh my god what happened to your face." She ran her fingers over the scar.

"Well it's a long story."

"Now you sound like your mother. I would ask her questions about her and you and your father and all I got was long story I want answers, Cecilia Marie Brown and I want them now."

"Fine I said," I was getting aggravated, "I was in Barrow but I wasn't visiting friends. Hell, I don't even know anybody in Barrow."

"I want the truth."

"Fine my father is a god. My mother fell in love with Ares, the god of war. They had me. That makes me a demigod. Every time you called and asked to speak with me, I was at Camp Half-blood. That is where I train. For the past three weeks I've been on a quest. All my friends are demigods. And Mr. Brunner, he's actually Chiron, the centaur from the Greek myths." She stared at me. Her eyes were wide with shock.

"You're half god."

"Yes and this scar was made by a fury. Furies are half woman, half bird. I had to fight off one of them and while I was fighting it scratched me."

"So does this mean that monsters are going to be coming around every day?"

"No, at least none have shown up,"

"I'm sorry, but why didn't you call me."

"Because monsters could've found me and my friends."

"Friends?"

"I and four other demigods were in Barrow. One of them was killed. He happened to be my best friend. The one that gave me this." I held up the charm bracelet with the boar on it.

"I'm sorry," she got up and hugged me. "Head up to bed. You look warn out." I nodded and walked up stairs. I fell onto my bed and instantly fell asleep.