As of right now I can't post this chapter due to many malfunctions with internet land. Which, incidentally, made it so I can't check my email either so if any of you are (or were by the time I post this) trying to contact me via email my deepest apologies. Lots of love!

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Kiley wasn't eager to re-enter Bella's house but at least this time she wasn't unconscious upon passing the threshold. The fact was, Bella's house was extremely nice and displayed huge amounts of fortune. The stair case alone was probably a million dollars. It was made entirely of glass with gold and silver hand rails. Was Hecate such a rich goddess? Kiley shook her head and walked up the expensive stairs after Bells. She didn't care, she only came in because of Bells eager looking face. The stairs came out in a wide hallway decorated with a red Persian rug and paintings all along the wall. Though still Airabella didn't stop. They followed her around the bends and corners of the hall until she stopped in front of two wide double doors.

"My room." She mumbled as she pushed open the doors. Kiley stood beside Erin in the doorway while Bella rushed to enter. The room was spacious and highly decorated according to a teenage girls standards. The rooms paint scheme was black and purple, with the occasional splashes of white on the walls. Her bed matched said paint scheme, silk quilts and sheets striped black and purple like a witches socks, and her overfilling closet followed the black/purple/white scheme quite closely. It seemed the preppy clothes she wore at school was not her favorite attire. Kiley continued to look around the room as she slowly entered. There were twilight posters all over the walls and ceiling, along with Blue October, Paramore, Avenge Sevenfold, and other various hard rock emo bands. There was a odd assortment of weapons lying around the floor as if just disregarded in boredom. Mixed in with the weapons was dirty clothes and wrappers of candy bars and other various trash. Over all it was the natural habitat of an American teenager. Kiley sat on the edge of her bed and tucked her legs under herself, twirling her keys around her finger.

"Twilight Bells? Really? Could you have picked a worst thing to display up in here?" Erin pointed to the pictures of the vampires and wolves hanging around the room. Bella made a hurt sound from deep inside her closet where she was hidden and poked her head out.

"No twilight bashing!" Erin put her hands up in mock surrender.

"I'm sorry its just," She pointed to the Edward poser right next to the closet doors, "He's so ugly!"

"Here here!" Kiley added from the bed where she was randomly going through Airabella's pictures and books that were laying scattered across the sheets. Bella scowled.

"Your both blind. He's effing sexy!" Then she disappeared back into her closet, "No more twilight bashing! Shhh don't even think it!" Erin closed her mouth, which had been opened to protest the effing sexy comment, and shook her head. She preoccupied herself by picking up a scimitar off the floor and swinging it around a bit. Bella, meanwhile, had recruited Kiley into helping her pack strange assortments of clothes into a little black duffle bag with an emo hello kitty patch on it. Black mini shirts with Alice in wonderland jackets, skinny jeans and twilight converse. All black, emo, somewhat gothic clothing. She only had one small minute amount of clothing that was vibrant and expensive clothing, the stuff she wore to school. Kiley felt like she was going through Thalia's time capsule again. That was a strange day in which Thalia brought out a box full of Thalia's teenage belongings. It was fun but filled black clothing which Thalia forced Erin and Kiley to wear for a day.

"Well I think that should be good. Think we should grab some clothes for Trenton?" Erin stopped swinging the scimitar long enough to nod then chucked it in the closet. Bells hefted the bag over her shoulder and took them down the hallway some ways before pushing another set of double doors open.

Trenton's room was the complete opposite of Bella's room. His was as tidy as a military recruits. Things were all neatly put on the shelves, clothes properly folded and put away, bed made with a pristine crispness so not a wrinkle could be seen on the folds of the blankets, no posters and just a thin layer of blue paint on the walls. He had a desk with no computer on it but instead a gun repair and cleaning kit, each item laid out in a specific order. He had a few swords and a couple other weapons hanging on the wall above his bed, each marked in Greek.

"Makes you sick doesn't it? He's a neat freak. Everything has to be put away or he flips. So I had better get his clothes or he'll have a major break down about how the clothes are a centimeter out of place." The girls nodded and Airabella ventured into Trenton's room, carefully placing each step. She opened his closet doors to expose a tidy, ordered system of shelves holdings books, papers, a mini fridge and a dresser. She pulled open a compartment near the top of the closet to grab a back pack and used it to put the clothes she pulled out of his dresser in. She wasn't specific in what she grabbed it looked like, she just grabbed things.

"Done, lets go." Kiley nodded and waited for her to lead them out of the house, stopping only for Bella to run into the kitchen and grab an apple. Kiley poked it with her finger as Bella took a bite.

"You can't eat that in my car." Bella finished taking the bite, the apples juices running from the corners of her mouth as she did.

"Watch me." She said while chewing. Kiley glared a moment before shrugging.

"Fine but if you get anything on my leather seats, your life is forfeit." Bella rolled her eyes and pulled the seat forward so Erin could climb into the back. Once everyone was situated Kiley started the car back up and they were driving down the road again, Bella eating her apple noisily while going through Kiley's songs. She settled on a song called Smooth and rested her forehead against the glass window, singing along softly. Kiley couldn't help but laugh.

"Whats so funny?" Erin asked, trying to get Bells apple so she could have a bite. Bella leaned forward to take another tantalizing bite and pushed her palm against Erin's forehead so she couldn't reach.

"Brennion claims this to be his theme song." At this all girls laughed.

"Please! He couldn't be smooth if he tried!" Bella said between laughter.

"That is true, sadly." Kiley mumbled though a smile. Erin, hoping she was distracted with laughter, reached for Bella's apple. This time she hit home. She snatched it out of her fingers like a sneaky little fox and sunk her teeth into the apples soft green flesh with a satisfying crunch. Bella screeched at the loss of her apple and jumped into the backseat with Erin to reclaim it. While the two girls fought in the backseat Kiley sang along with the song and resisted the urge to dance which this song always tempted her into doing while she drove. Though, after the fight between Erin and Bella was settled by the apple flying out the passenger window and the songs change, they were back in the Jackson garage. The Backseat Brawlers tumbled out onto the contrite flooring of the garage when Kiley opened the door. She looked down at them a moment, as if checking to see if it was really worth letting people know she was associated with the two, then stepped over them. She grabbed Trenton's and Bella's bag out of the trunk and wandered back into the house. Everyone had left the kitchen, three plates set out with food still on them. The girls food they hadn't ate and Erin's seconds Annabeth or Thalia had probably left for them. She moved out of the kitchen, munching on a taco with one hand and the bags in the other, into the living room where everyone was seated. Annabeth was on the couch with DJ tucked under her arm and Izzy with her head rested on Annabeth's thigh. Nico and Thalia were both coaching Trenton, who was standing in the middle of the room staring at the TV blankly as they tried to explain to him how Guitar Hero worked. Percy had the other guitar on and was strumming the poor controller hard enough to break it while the twin boys, Nate and Brennion, sat on the floor laughing at him. Annabeth noticed Kiley enter and motioned her to come sit by her mother. Kiley shook her head and pointed to the bags. Annabeth seemed to understand and nodded. Her daughter smiled back at her mother and raced up stairs to put the bags up. She threw Bells bag on her bed and Trenton's bag on Brennion's then raced back down stairs. Bella and Erin had wondered into the house and were sitting on the floor in front of the couch laughing at Trenton as he attempted to play along with a song. Kiley shook her head at their brash teasing and settled on the couch beside her mother, leaning over and laying her head on Annabeth's shoulder while carefully picking Izzy up and setting the little girl in her own lap so she could sit closer to her mother.

"Did you get there without any problems?" Annabeth asked to start a polite conversation. Izzy wiggled restlessly in Kiley's lap, making Kiley antsy herself.

"Yup yup. Bella's house is huge and her room is messy-"

"Like yours." Annabeth gave her daughter a stern but amusing smile.

"Yeah like that. But overall it wasn't a bad ride. You know what we should do mom?" Annabeth situated DJ so that he wasn't pressing all his dead weight, because he had somehow fallen asleep with all the loud noise around him, into her shoulder.

"What should we do?" Kiley smiled.

"We should go to the beach tomorrow!" Annabeth laughed, her eyes twinkling with grey merriment. She reached over and ruffled her daughters tied back hair, setting it free of its elastic held prison and tumbling down her shoulders in a messy black avalanche.

"You take after your father, always begging me to go to the beach!" At the sound of the word Percy turned around with a wicked grin, sea green eyes lit up in excitement.

"The beach! Can we! Can we pleaaaaaaaaaaase Annabeth!" He went on. Kiley laughed and jumped up to hug her father. He grinned and turned her around to set his chin atop her head and the both of them giving her mother and his wife a look she couldn't refuse.

"Pleaaaaaaaaaaaaase mommy?" She stuck out her bottom lip and batted her eyelashes a couple times, hoping it would get her mother enough to make her say yes.

"I never said no so stop your teaming up on me or I wont cook either of you breakfast!" Percy gulped and turned Kiley's head to look her in the eye.

"Yeah Kiley, stop pestering your mother or she wont cook you breakfast!" Kiley sucked in a hiss of a breath and poked her father in the belly.

"She wont cook you breakfast either! Don't go blaming it all on me!" He wrapped an arm around her shoulders and threatened to mess her hair up more until Izzy came to her rescue and kicked Percy in the leg only hard enough to get his attention.

"Leave Onee-Chan alone!" She yelled in a quiet voice. She was a very quiet little girl. Astonishingly beautiful for her age yet very quiet and self-conscious. Percy blinked a few times and glanced at Kiley.

"What's Onee-Chan?" Kiley pulled out of her fathers grip and bent down to Isabella's level. She touched the girls silk soft and paper thin hair and bent to kiss her forehead.

"Its Japanese for big sister or at least someone who is like a sister figure." Kiley grinned at Izzy who only smiled smally before retreating into Kiley's arms. Thalia stopped to look at them, confusion and something like jealously written on her features.

"Why are you Onee-Chan?" Thalia mumbled. Kiley meant to tell her it was because she always came to Kiley when she needed someone to talk to and Kiley always helped because she was to afraid to go to her mother, thinking her mother would look down on her but her father spoke before she could say it.

"Better yet, how does she know Japanese!" Kiley looked down at little Izzy, looking into her velvet eyes. A mix between Nico's black and Thalia's bright blue.

"She reads manga." Izzy nodded and ran over to her mother, hugging Thalia's leg. Izzy, you would find after getting to know her a little better, was a very clingy little girl. It wasn't her fault of course, she just liked to know that the people she loved were near. Kiley winked at the girl and went back to sit by her own mother on the couch. Percy tapped his chin a few times.

"Whats manga?" He finally asked. Annabeth rolled her eyes.

"Its like a Japanese comic book."

"Oh." Percy still seemed a little confused though.

"Its reads from right to left though. And its actually pretty interesting, I read a couple with Izzy. Very deep and dramatic." Annabeth nodded to herself then, apparently, made herself laugh with something she either had said or was thinking. Erin stood up tapping her thigh like she was contemplating something.

"I want a popsicle…." She mumbled. Kiley glanced up at her twin.

"Me too. Mom do we have any?" Annabeth was watching Trenton being robbed of the guitar controller from Nico, not really paying attention to the girls, until Kiley had spoken.

"Hmmm? Oh yeah, in the freezer. Bring me one." Kiley nodded and went into the kitchen with Erin. She sat stuck her fingers into the ice forming in the back of the freezer, enjoying the cold numb feeling that overtook the flesh around her fingers buried in the ice. She wondered what that would feel like having that whole feeling over her whole body and thought being shocked by something might do that. That made her choke on what she thought was guilt and pulled her fingers out.

"Erin, we need to tell mom and dad." Erin was chewing at the plastic to free her popsicle to its doom in her stomach.

"Tell them what?" She said while chewing. Kiley grabbed a handful of popsicles out of the cold box and slammed the door shut, turning to face her twin.

"We need to tell them about the killings." The popsicle fell from Erin's hand and hit the floor, blue tented ice going all over the floor. She gave her sister a shocked look. Did Erin feel like Kiley's fingers had in the ice?

"Are you freaking crazy!" Kiley shook her head and glanced into the living room at her family.

"No. I'm telling them, whether you want to or not." She let her feet fall in the direction of the people but Erin grabbed her wrist before she could even get close.

"Wait. Wait. If we are going to do it lets do it together. Um, and they aren't going to believe us so we are going to have to get our armor and weapons and stuff to prove it. Lets go…lets go put them on." Kiley nodded and walked up the stairs with the popsicles still in her hand. She threw them on the blue silk sheets of her bed and fell on her knees. In the blackness under her bed she dug around with those sinful hands of hers for a trunk. Cold metal stuck her fingertips. She worked her other hand under the bed and pulled the trunk out.

Inside the trunk was her armor, a thick leather breast plate the connected the black leather leggings with a link of silver chain. She slid it over her body, tightening and fasting where it was needed. Then she slid the thin metal and leather gauntlets over wrist, having Erin tie them on with the cow hide straps. Next she worked the greaves on over the boots she was wearing. Her armor was done. She moved onto weapons. She pulled a rolled up piece of leather and rolled it out on her bed, displaying weapons that hung in it like a tool belt. She pulled out four Japanese throwing knifes and slid them into a concealed sheath inside her chest plate. A short sword that went in the sheath attached to her back along with its twin long sword, crossed on her back. Another set of Greek daggers were hung on her belt and two bent short swords went into her boot sheaths. She only had two pieces left, her shield and her main sword. They were both black for stealth and small. The shield, that she held on her left arm, was a standard Greek issue one, round and having a point in the middle for bashing. The sword was not but a hand-and-a-half sword. She was done. Erin was dressed the exact same way as she was.

"Ready?" Erin asked in a weak, fear filled voice. Kiley nodded.

"Alright then, lets go break our parents hearts." Kiley tapped Erin's shield with the tip of her blade, what they did before a fight. Erin gave her a nod as response and they walked down the stairs with slow, dreary steps. They didn't make a sound with all that they wore because they were used to walking with stealth in these fittings. That and they wore not but light armor which made it light for stepping. The heaviest thing they wore were the swords crossed on their back. Kiley could hear the noises of the video game and the laughter of happy people but she felt excluded from all that, pained at the sound for she knew she would make it all stop just by walking into the room.

"Erin wait," Her sisters steps ceased on the last step of the stairs that led into the kitchen, which through the kitchen you could go into the living room, "I don't think I can do this. Least, not with all this armor on. Its going to scare them and Izzy." Erin turned and gave her sister a pain filled look.

"I'm sorry Kiley but we can't turn back now. We are braver than this aren't we? We have to own up for what we've done. Come on sis, I'll be standing next to you the whole time." Erin gave her sister a sad smile which gave Kiley only enough courage to walk through that seemingly to short kitchen into the living room. Kiley pushed her booted foot against Erin's just to let her quaking body know her sister truly was standing there with her and it shouldn't be shaking like a baby. It didn't listen even with the proof.

Bella was the first to notice them. Her eyes grew big and a look of pure fear spread over her face. Her hand fell to her wrist on a gold bracelet, which it looked like, she was threatening to unlatch if she thought them to attack. After that each person in the room looked at them but none seemed more shocked than their own parents. Percy coughed and sputtered like a scratched DVD, trying to drink in the fact that his daughters were standing there in front of him in such a deadly attire. Where as Annabeth was frozen shocked, like someone had just walked up to her and smacked her then walked away. Kiley felt her body start to shiver more and her blade was ringing from how badly she was shaking it. Brennion and Nate both had their heads hung low in shame.

"What….what are you wearing? Where did you get those weapons?" Annabeth finally managed to get out. Erin caught Thalia and Nico looking at them from across the room with blank looks of pure disbelief. After a long silence of neither Kiley nor Erin wanting to speak Thalia said,

"Well don't look at me! That's not my armor, I didn't wear that crap and I always have Aegis with me so they couldn't have found my stuff!" Annabeth shot her a death glare and, it seems, lost control and spat Greek insults at the woman. Thalia acted hurt but was only pretending. Kiley gripped the hilt of her sword of which she now despised.

"It's really not hers mom. Its mine. I made it with Erin. Brennion and Nate have a similar suit upstairs. And Thals we don't normally wear all this either, we just put it all on to make a point to you." Percy blinked a few times before picking his head up.

"And what point is that girls? That you two are smiths?" He said to the both of them in a tone he saved for when he was stressed about something.

"That we know. We know about the half-bloods and the gods. And that we can fight and-" Erin was cut off by an eruption of voices. Thalia broke off into a happy talk about her sons and fighting and what not while Annabeth started yelling at her. Nico and Percy started speaking fluent Greek to each other which Kiley and Erin both understood perfectly. Strangely enough. It all stopped, though, the moment Annabeth held up her hands.

"You know?" She asked her children. They both nodded.

"This is awesome Annabeth! Now we can take the kids to the beach and I can teach them how to use their powers, you can tell them why they are so smart! We can take them to Olympus and, and,…and we can train them! And take them to camp half-blood!" Percy grinned from ear to ear at his children and, once Annabeth realized this, she smiled as well. Kiley shook her head as tears started forming and running. She went to wipe them away but remembered she had a sword in hand. A sword that had killed people just like her parents. Good people. She became so angry at the blade she threw it. It flew straight into the TV. Black glass rained all over the carpet and shook the very inside of Kiley awake. She needed to get a grip.

"Kiley Jackson!" Annabeth yelled jumping to her feet and shooting Kiley a look that meant she was in trouble, "That will not-"

"Mom we kill half-bloods." Kiley spat it out like it was venom in her mouth spoiling her tongue. Annabeth became rigged all over. All of the adults did, even Airabella and Trenton. Brennion and Nate stood and walked over behind the girls, placing encouraging hands on their shoulders.

"We did anyway," Nate said in an attempt for appeasement from his parents, "And its not because we enjoyed it or hated them. Well, we did then but not now-" Nico became so angry the room visibly got darker with a thick black mist that looked like it could devour you. His fist begin the glow red hot, white vapors of heat coming off of them. Kiley stumbled back in fear, unconsciously raising her shield in defense.

"WHY!" He spat at them like they were an enemy and not his children and friends children. Brennion had a wild look of fear in his eyes but he held his chin high against his father.

"We didn't know dad. That….guy told us half-bloods wanted to kill our parents and we wanted to protect you all! We didn't want you hurt!" Nico took large strides towards his son and got closer to his face, his fist now alight with black flames. Brennion didn't know this nor did any of the children in the room but Nico looked exactly like his father Hades in that instant.

"We are half-bloods! Me, your mother, Annabeth, and Percy. And you are close enough to one!"

"I know but-"

"No! You are dark! And you lie to me! All of you are evil-" This was the thing no one saw coming, most of all the four killers. Airabella ran between Brennion and Nico and shoved him back with a force of magic. Nico fell into Thalia's arms, her stopping him from fallen in broken TV screen glass.

"They aren't lying. They were tricked. They were just trying to save you. And they always killed the half bloods with mercy and with no pain. Yes it was wrong but they are making amends by working for my mother, Hecate. And for Chiron. They just don't know about that part yet." Percy looked away, ashamed of his daughters for the first time. Kiley choked and fell to her knees, sobbing. That had killed her. Her father was ashamed of her. She felt the salty tears of shame bite at her skin with a vindictive spite.

"Mom, dad, everyone; let me make a group apology by saying I'm sorry," Kiley said through her tears, "And I'm sorry we have shamed the name Jackson and di Angelo. So we'll leave. That way you don't have to live with shameful, horrible daughters and sons. I'm so sorry mom and dad. I'm sorry. I know you can't forgive me or Erin for-" Kiley looked up to speak to her parents directly but she saw her mother crying and her voice died in her throat. Had she shamed her mother to tears? Kiley had probably just shattered whatever image her mother had formed of her. Annabeth took steps, with a 3 second pause between each as if it was very hard to walk, to her children and went on her knees slowly in front of Kiley. Erin came to her knees with them, giving her mother an apology with her eyes. Annabeth reached out and touched her twin daughters both with the tip of her fingers to their cheeks. She seemed to just want to do that and look at them, watch Kiley cry and Erin stare at her mother before dropping her head. She just watched them. Kiley wanted to speak, and she opened to her mouth to do so but Annabeth spoke first.

"Your not going to leave," Her voice was just barely a whisper, Erin and Kiley were probably the only ones that could hear her, "No. You're my baby girls, no matter how big you are and what mistakes you make. I'm not losing you. Ever. I understand why you did what you did, if it were switched I probably would have done the same. Do what you must to appease yourself of killing those people but don't think for one second that I or your father don't want you here because you think we see you only as shameful things that shamed the family name 'cause sweetie let mamma teach you a lesson, our family name was shamed before I was even Annabeth Jackson. Your father made sure of that." Annabeth moved her hands to the back of the girls heads and pulled them closer to her so that she was hugging them both. "I love you. I'm sorry for what you did girls but I still love you. I always will, there is nothing you can do that will make me stop loving you."

"Love you Mom," the girls whispered at the same time. Annabeth hugged them until she was sure they understood she loved them then squeezed them real tight before letting go. Kiley looked around and noticed Percy was watching them. Brennion and Nate had walked down to the pool on the 1st floor of the house to talk to their parents. Airabella and her brother were walking up the stairs into the girls room though Kiley didn't know any of that, she couldn't see past her father bending down to tell the girls they were grounded.

The di Angelo's were hot in debate while the Jackson's sat on the floor in a circle including DJ, telling stories about all the people they had killed. Nathan was in a pool chair with his head in his hands while his mother was crouching in front of him trying to get him to talk. Nico was yelling at Brennion by the pool while Brennion stood silently taking it. He figured this would be what happened, this was how his father reacted to things. Instead of crying or getting upset he got mad or he got even. In this case all he could do was get mad. And he was very angry but Brennion knew, under that, his father was hurt. Both his sons had turned out bad in his eyes. So Brennion just stood there taking his fathers screams until he stopped because that would be his chance to speak.

The Jackson's weren't yelling upstairs, they were still talking. Kiley was crouching on the edge of the table on just the tips of her toes, showing her parents how they would do this on the edge of buildings to attack. Kiley told her parents how she had got that cut on her arm and that she wasn't lying when she said it was a fire escape. Erin told them about the time she had come home limping because she had been bit by a half-bloods pet monster.

Meanwhile the Bay's sat upstairs in the Jackson twins room. Trenton was sitting on the victory couch that was in the closet staring at the ceiling that happened to have a mural of a forest at night painted on it. Bella was laying on Kiley's bed with her whip wrapped around her from her ankles to her waist. She was petting the handle without realizing she was. Her whip was her best friend. Though she felt indifferent now, she had protected Brennion but why? She had one rule and that was to protect herself and protect her family. That was it. Brennion wasn't her family. So why had she done it? She never did like him, she pretended to be attracted to him to annoy Kiley. She groaned and rolled over, burying her face in Kiley's sweet smelling pillow. What had she done? She should use her whip on herself. Stupid Airabella. She heard her name being called from downstairs. It was against her better nature but she went to the one calling her with her brother behind her. It was Kiley. She had a phone against her ear. Her lips moved slowly forming unspoken words. Bella didn't read lips but she saw Kiley say "Boss" Immediately Bella was sitting next to Kiley, her whip coiled around her arm and ready for use.

"Yeah okay so what are you trying to say?" Kiley was speaking to the phone with a kind of hostility that was on the verge of disgust, "You want us to leave now to killher! But, but that's absurd! Why? What do you mean why? Its absurd because I'm at home and my parents will notice me missing duh! Alri-alright! Fine. We're on it." Kiley hung up and threw the phone across the room with an angry scream. Bella watched it slide across the carpet and bump into the wall. What had that guy said?

"So what did he want sis?" Kiley looked up at Erin then to Bella and Trenton, her parents. She met all their eyes before glaring at her phone that was lit up like the glowing eyes of a cat at night. Evil and ruthless.

"The Boss said he wants us to kill Melanie King today, right now, because he got some info that the half-bloods are going to try to save her tomorrow. They found out about us knowing or something like that. So it's now or never." Annabeth looked a little confused.

"Wait whats going on?"

"Well because of the half-blood killers," Trenton said gesturing to Kiley and Erin, "Half-bloods haven't been going to camp where they are safe. They are afraid of being killed. So my mother has asked them to transport those half-bloods to camp under theirs and our protection. We were going to go get Melanie King, daughter of Aphrodite, tomorrow but it would seem he wants to kill her today. So we have to go get her."

"Right now?"

"Right now." There was a silence in which Annabeth spoke quietly with her husband.

"Alright," Percy said, "You can go but we are coming with you."

Well I hope it didn't fall to short of the standards set so high. I mean 5590 words! Alright now I don't know why I had them tell them here or why they want to come with the kids yet because I had planned something entirely different to happen. I mean, they were gonna go to the beach for goodness sakes! They still will that will just have to be saved for later. So yeah, sorry if the chapter wasn't to your liking. If you hated it, tell me via review! Lots of Love!

~Jazzy