OMG I'm so sorry, it's almost been a month since I said I'd do it in a week, I mainly have to apologize to Allison237Gleek for her continued support, and also for the stimulus for these next to chapters, like I said sorry for not getting around to this sooner. The truth of what happened is that my writing confidence took a knock at the same time as my basic mood and self-esteem, so I had to take a few weeks to build myself back up, but here I am and hopefully the wait will have been worth it. :) Thank you everyone. So like I said in the previous chapter, this will be a series of everyone's reactions.

Pipers PoV

Shock.

That was my first response, I didn't cry for 5 days, I just continued about my business, silently helping everyone clear up and then remained stoic whilst we tried to move on as if nothing had happened. But we all knew it had.

The scent of blood was still present up to 10 meters away from... his room. Their bodies were still down in storage, locked on the freezers built specifically for the purpose of storing us in if we dies.

I'm pretty sure we were meant to be killed by monsters though.

I didn't blame him. It wouldn't be fair of me to blame him. The only reason he had killed himself, or had her kill him... there was so much blood we couldn't quite tell what had happened, was because he didn't want anymore of us to get hurt.

But did I blame her... I wasn't sure. Now I know that makes no sense, she didn't go insane, she never did any of us any harm. But that was it, why did she have to do that, why did she have to go and...

The answer was obvious of course. She loved him. You wouldn't have to be a daughter of Aphrodite to see that.

And if there was one thing I had learnt listening to my siblings, other than what types of shoes look simply dreadful with the colour orange, it's that even in death, love goes on.

Frank's PoV

I felt pain, I felt betrayal but most of all I felt sorrow. Betrayal came a close second though.

I couldn't help it, I mean, I looked up to that guy so much. He was my Hercules in a way, I wanted to be just like him.

But maybe it was that pressure that broke him. I shifted slightly in my bed, pain shot through the right side of my body. He had said something to me the other day, I hadn't thought much about it...

"You'll be a great Praetor Frank, just... don't take peoples expectations to heart, in fact... don't let them put you on that pedestal in the first place. No matter how great you are you can't live up to their ideals, and if you aren't great well... it's kind of drives me insane."

Me. He said me, how did I miss that.

Maybe we had missed other alarm bells... he had been wearing a lot of long sleeves for someone who was constantly running about in the middle of summer. He had spent a lot more time in his room. He had eaten a lot less.

Yeah. I thought smiling, that last one should really have been a sign that something was up.

That's when I realized, I could spend my whole life hating one of the bravest and noblest men I knew because of a few injuries that he had caused me and Hazel (which I must be honest I am seriously pissed off about) and because he gave his life to save us from his demons. Or I could move on, and accept that he had been a great friend, and a brilliant man, who unfortunately didn't die a hero, so lived long enough to see himself become the villain.

Jason's PoV

"Suicide is a cowards way out."

That's something I heard once, and I know now that it's complete and utter bullshit.

Percy and Annabeth took part in quests since they were 12, fought in and lead a war at 16, and made it through Tartarus at 17. These people were not cowards.

I still couldn't get my head around Percy's behaviour though. I refused to believe that was him. Because it couldn't be really, the Percy I knew was compassionate and loyal. Not an unhinged psychopath. No, something went wrong, people get a little broken sometimes, as Leo had said before, but they can't always be fixed. This was usually accompanied with some rant about how machines are better than people, but I digress.

In ways I'm glad Percy ended it when he did. He hadn't caused too much damage, he would still get into Elysium and everyone up here was safe, or healing at the very least. So for that reason, no, I do not believe that suicide is a weak cowards way out.

Sally's PoV

It was 2 weeks before I heard the news. 2 weeks.

Of course this was because after Ann... after they died, nobody knew where I lived to contact me. In fact none of them ever did find out.

Because he told me.

Poseidon claimed that he didn't know till 3 days before he told me, but he's a omniscient-freaking-God. And quite frankly him lying to me about this didn't improve my mood.

"What happened" I hissed through my teeth. I was determined to keep myself together until I found out what happened to my baby boy and the girl he loved.

"Sally.. I don't think you want to.."

"YES I DO WANT TO KNOW, OK?! MY SON HAS JUST DIED SO DON'T YOU DARE TELL ME THAT I..." that's when I just lost it.

All of my efforts had been in vain, and I just course there never was a way I could stay calm after hearing that the boy who I hadn't seen for over half a year, the boy who I raised, the boy who I had to fight desperately to keep safe for 12 years... after hearing that he had...after hearing that he's died, no there was no staying cam after tat, there was no wanting to stay calm after that.

Thing is, I almost felt like it wasn't just my efforts to keep it together that were a waste, for a moment I thought that maybe everything I went through to keep him safe might have been as well, but then I thought, I got to spend almost 17 years with my son, I got to watch him grow from a hyperactive young child, into a tired young teenager, then into a great hero, and then finally as it would seem, into his greatest villain. And I couldn't bring myself to regret one thing, not a single moment.

OK, so I feel like that's it for now. The characters that I've missed (Grover, Poseidon, Chiron, Rachel, Hazel etc) will get a PoV in the next chapter, which will be their funeral. I just wanted to get some basic reactions right now. Covering their love, Percy's betrayal, their suicide and Percy's journey. Hope you liked it, please remember to review. Thanks. :)