Drew and Percy spent most of the day just talking. Since they had never really interacted with each other at camp they had a lot to learn. Besides, they had kept a lot of themselves hidden at camp, it was nice to let someone get to know there real her.
"I'm surprised." Percy said running his fingers through her hair, he really liked doing that, but she didn't mind. "You're less of a bitch than everyone seemed to think." Drew laughed.
"It was hard controlling myself so I wouldn't kill anyone. I guess the strain put me on edge. After killing those two men I feel better than I have in years. No one is a bitch in a good mood."
"I'll have to keep you in a good mood then." Percy teased. She reached around to put her hand on the back of his head. Her long nails dug in a little and Percy made a low sound deep in his throat, almost a growl.
"I'm sure you will." She purred and pulled him down so she could kiss him. He tasted better than anyone she had ever kissed before; salty and sweet, almost like chocolate covered pretzels but with only the sweetness of the chocolate, not the actual flavor. She had said he would become addicted to her poison but she was becoming just as addicted to his.
It was only when she started thinking about going out with the girls that she remembered she didn't bring any clothes when she left camp Half Blood. What had she been thinking!? She never went anywhere without spare clothes. She was angry at herself for a moment but then she stopped, there was no point in that.
"Where can I find Jane?" She asked Percy. He cocked his head to the side curiously. "I don't have any clothes for going out, I'll need to borrow something from her I think. We look about the same size."
"Her room is just down the hall." Percy told her and gave her directions. "Do you want me to come with you."
"No. I don't need a babysitter, I'm a big girl." Drew said swinging one leg over so she was straddling Percy's lap and kissing him. "I'll see you later." She said grinning at the dazed look on his face as she slipped off his lap. She could feel his eyes on her as she walked out of the room and swung her hips deliberately. She passed the blond boy, Ben on the way to Jane's room. She could tell he was about to swerve towards her, probably to try and back her against the wall.
"Keep walking." She ordered making eye contact and giving full downer to her voice. He looked puzzled as his legs took him past her and kept walking. She chuckled when she heard a bag and an oof behind her, he had kept walking right into the wall. She didn't look back or stop. When she got to Jane's room she found the door half open so she knocked on the doorframe.
"I swear if that's Jeff." Jane half shouted from inside and Drew laughed.
"No it's Drew." She said still chuckling.
"Oh well then come on in." Jane said an Drew stepped in. "What can I do for you?"
"I just realized I don't have anything to wear tonight." Drew admitted leaning against to door. "I didn't have time to pack before Percy needed saving and I can't just go dressed like this! I was wondering if I could borrow some clothes from you?"
"Oh I can do better than that!" Jane said already pulling a cell phone out of her pocket. "Just let me get Trender over here. He'll love you and he can make clothes out of literally nothing! He'll love you, by the time it's time to go you'll have so many clothes to choose from you won't know what to do!"
"Trender?" Drew asked.
"He's Slenderman's brother but they're so different! I don't think Trenders even a creep but no one cares." She held the phone to her ear as there was a click. "Ya Trender? We have a clothing emergency, another run away with no wardrobe in need of your help desperately…. No you'll love this one!... You have to see her. Trust me she's the model you've always wanted…. Ya I'm in my room." She hung up and then with a pop there was a tall faceless man wearing a vest and glasses.
"Is this her!?" He asked clapping his hands and turning towards Drew.
"Yep!" Jane said.
"Omg thanks for calling me!" Trenderman gasped "So tell me sweetie what's your style?" He asked and it took Drew a moment to realize he was talking to her.
"Sheik but dangerous." She supplied. "Simple because gods know I don't want my outfits taking attention away from my actual appearance. Mostly black with coloured accents." Trenderman made a squeak sound and clapped.
"Oh you know exactly what you're doing! Wonderful! This is going to be fun." He laughed. "Let' go back to my place I have practically a warehouse of clothes in every size. We'll find the perfect things for you!"
"Hey I'm coming too!" Jane said before Trenderman could whisk Drew away. "I want to see this."
"Fine." Trenderman said over dramatically and held his hands out to both of them. Jane took one and Drew hesitantly took the other. There was another pop and then they were standing in an aisle surrounded by clothes. Drew gasped in delight, she had never claimed not to be shallow and these clothes were beautiful! She spotted a few that had come right out of a catalog she had been oohing over with a couple of her sisters before leaving camp.
"Pick out and try on anything you want doll!" Trenderman said with a expansive gesture. "I know this place by heart so I brought us to the section for people your size. There's a changing room over there."
It quickly turned into a full on fashion show with Trenderman and Jane trying on clothes. The two who weren't walking at the time would oo and aww or critique the outfit. Jane had been right, by the time Jane finally said they had to go to get ready for their night on the town, Trenderman was sending Drew back with bags of clothes and some makeup.
"You HAVE to come back and see me soon doll!" Trenderman enthused to Drew as he helped her pack up the clothes in ways that wouldn't wrinkle them. "You know almost as much about clothes as I do and you're the perfect model! I've been thinking about starting my own line of clothes and you absolutely have to model them for me! Will you let me photograph you in my designs? Oh please say you will!?"
"Sure." Drew laughed, Trenderman reminded her so much of her siblings it made her feel right at home.
"Oh yay!" Trenderman exclaimed scooping Drew up in a hug. And then putting her down again quickly making sure he hadn't messed up either of their clothes. He transported them back to Jane's room and then left them so they could do their makeup quickly before heading down. They met a bunch of other girls in the front hall of the room.
"Drew this is, Clockwork." Jane said pointing at a girl with brown hair covering one eye who smiled widely and waved. "Scarecrow." Pointed to a girl with slightly grey skin and a jagged almost jack-lantern-esc grin, she wasn't paying attention. "Alice." A Girl with big ice blue eyes and black hair looked up from the beautifully detailed knife she was playing with "And Angel." Jane said smiling softly and wrapping her arms around the waist of a girl with short blond hair and eyes like the night sky.
"It's nice to meet all of you. I'm Drew, I'm new." She said putting on her most charming smile.
"It's nice to meet you." Angel said holding out her hand, which Drew shook. It felt like Angel was looking through her to her soul, it was a little uncomfortable. She had a instinctual feeling that charm speak wouldn't work on Angel. She could see the inside of people somehow.
"It will be great to have another girl around!" Clockwork piped going straight in for a hug. Drew stiffened though and Clockwork backed up quickly. "Oops sorry. Not comfortable with contact?"
"Not really." Drew said relaxing a little with a mildly apologetic smile. "At least not without warning."
"That's fair." Clockwork agreed. "Should we get going now?" She looked at Jane when she asked that.
"Sure." Jane agreed holding Angel's hand as they left. Drew Noticed that Scarecrow shot her a bit of a glare as they left. Clockwork dropped back to walk with her and noticed Drew looking at Scarecrow in confusion. It was true that Alice had been quiet too but Drew got the feeling that was how she always was. Scarecrow seemed to be actually hostile towards her.
"Don't mind her." Clockwork said softly. "Her thing is killing the girlfriends of boys she likes so that they have to spend time with her. She really likes Percy back she can't kill you because you're one of us and we would never stand for it. So she's bitter. It's her problem."
Drew made a hmm noise and looked over Scarecrow in a new light and smirked. Back at camp she would have used this to her advantage to make the other girls life hell. Here she didn't know whether it was something she could afford to do yet, she would find out later.
"We're going to a club." Clockwork chattered. "Darkness and strobe lights are our friends since we don't look so normal."
"I'm not technically old enough to drink." Drew pointed out. It wasn't like she hadn't but she figured it was fair to point it out.
"Oh we don't give a fuck." Clockwork making a dismissive gesture and confirming Drew's suspicions. "You look mature enough to pass anyway."
"Even if they ask for ID I can just convince them they don't need it." Drew said rolling her eyes. "I've been drinking at bars for years, since way before I looked old enough. Humans are just too easy to manipulate."
"Don't I know it." Angel called back over her shoulder making Drew jump just a little. She hadn't realized that their conversation had been listened in on but she smiled back at Angel and realized that she certainly did know how easy humans were to manipulate. Her eyes were like the night sky. Even Drew was having just a little difficulty keeping herself from being drawn into them. A human could become entirely hypnotized.
Conversation over dinner was interesting. They did their best not to talk about killing because they were in public, so conversation turned to their early life. Alice's parents died in a fire after which she went mad and was committed to an asylum where she was abused. Clockwork and Angel were both abused. Of course they were more specific and detailed than that but Drew summarized their stories in her head as she listened quietly and as sympathetically as she knew how to.
"What about you?" Drew looked up, it was Angel who had asked. For a moment Drew sneered and was about to refuse, reject, her 'sob sorry'. But all the other girls had already shared theirs with her and Angel was gazing at her so openly that Drew took a deep breath and frowned slightly instead. Of all of them Angels story was most like hers, even if they weren't the same.
"I've never really talked about it." Drew admitted.
"That's okay." Jane assured. "Part of becoming one of us is reclaiming your story. We're proud of who we are. Whatever made us the way we are, it made us powerful."
"Even though we might wish it away, memories must be claimed, not lost." Alice commented vaguely looking into the middle distance. She never seemed quite present.
"Well…". Drew said, she wasn't quite convinced but she felt like she had to give them something now, so she took another sip of the drink she got. "I've been used a lot, people tell me my looks are a blessing but it just makes people want me. People want me too much and it doesn't matter to them what I want or what I say. Apparently it was enough to tempt my father and his friends when I was a kid. It was my mom who ended up killing them, not me but still. If people are so willing to use and hurt me then I'm just as willing to hurt them and use them up." Drew fell silent, that would have to be good enough.
"Percy will be different?" Jane said, half a question half a statement, she was leaning forward on the table. Angel was leaning back and gazing at her levelly, Scarecrow was glowering at her.
"Yes Percy will be different." Drew assured then added honestly. "Or at least I really hope he will."
Jane and Angel nodded though, unsurprisingly Scarecrow still looked grumpy. Topics for the rest of the dinner were more light-hearted, fashion and other interests. Once they were done a waiter came to give them the bill, Drew was happy to see that it was a man.
"Hey do you want to get this for free." She asked softly leaning in towards the other girls grinning crookedly. They exchanged looks but nodded agreement she sat back and smiled winningly at the waiter. She put so much force into it that he stumbled and she giggled disarmingly. When he reached their table he stuttered something as he went to put the bill down on the table. Drew stopped him by resting her hand on his gently "Oh no sweetie you don't really need to make us pay do you." She told him fluttering her eyelashes.
"N-no of course n-not." The man stuttered and retracted the bill, gazing at Drew for another minute before he turned and stumbled away, missing a doorway and hitting the wall.
The other girls laughed with Drew as they gathered their stuff and left the restaurant. Clockwork linked her arm through Drews as they left. "Come on we know a great bar. It's kind of sleazy so no one ever cares when we leave with a few victims. No one pays attention."
"Great." Drew said resisting the urge to lick her lips. Blood was so new and she wanted more and more. She nearly laughed out loud when she realized that now. As a part of this group she could have as much blood as she wanted and they would only respect her more for it. She shivered slightly.
"Excited?" Clockwork asked smirking at her a little.
"Very." Drew agreed smirking back and then they both giggled together.
"What are you two laughing about?" Jane asked over her shoulder. Scarecrow and Alice seemed to have taken stations as quiet people at the back of the group. Drew wasn't planning on making any attempts to include them. If they couldn't assert themselves or wanted to sulk she wasn't going to coddle or humor them.
"You'd know if you and Angel would stop getting lost in each others eyes." Clockwork teased making an exaggerated swooning motion. Alice gave a short laugh from behind them and Jane gave a jokingly offended and shocked face. Angel giggled.
They got to the bar fairly quickly. As soon as they were there Drew convinced a man to buy them all drinks and then sent him on his way. "Since it's your first time, you find us our kills." Scarecrow told Drew, quietly leaning just a little to close to her face.
"Okay." Drew said wrinkling her nose just a little and leaning away from Scarecrow to make her feeling about the closeness obvious. "Honestly I'm expecting some to find me sooner than later." Sure enough just as they were finishing their drinks a man walked up to Drew and slapped her ass.
"Hey sexy it looks like you'll be needing another drink soon. Why don't you come sit with me and my buddies and I'll get you one." He said in a cocky tone.
Drew turned to the boy and smiled once she had taken a deep breath and gotten her anger under control. "Actually me and my friends are gay. We're on, like a triple date." Drew said then made a little show of looking him up and down, even though he was no where near as attractive as Percy. "Too bad too."
"Oh." The guy said looking a little disappointed then seemed to get an idea. "Hey can we watch?"
"Hmm what do you think sweetie." Drew asked grabbing Clockworks hand and pulling her a little closer. "If they come home with us, can we let them watch?" Clockwork played along and seemed to think about it. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Jane and Angel start making out as if to prove the point. Drew could practically see the disgusting boy salivating. Behind him were three other boys staring as well.
"Sure why not, as long as they buy us a few drinks first." Clockwork said after a moment and pressed against Drew's side. "Having an audience gets you hot after all, don't it."
"You know it does." Drew agreed and actually saw the boy swallow out of the corner of her eye and smirked, this was just too easy. In a bit less than a hour they were leaving with those four boys and two more Drew had managed to collect. That was one for each of them. Incidentally what she had told the boys as well. She singled out the first boy to come up to her first and slapped her ass.
"There's a shortcut home through the woods and I'm sure with you boys with us we'll be safe enough to take it." Drew said batting her eyes at the one who had slapped her ass. He had finally introduced himself as Joseph at some point but she didn't plan on remembering his name. She fell to the back of the group and chatted with him, giggling fetchingly at all the slightly funny comments he made like they were the best jokes she'd ever heard.
When they entered the woods she moved close to him like she was scared. He put his arms around her as they walked deeper. Finally all the lights of the city were lost between the trees. Drew caught Jane's eye and raised her eyebrows. Now? Jane nodded. All the girls burst into action at the same time pouncing on the men they had singled out.
Drew did too, turning to her chosen boy and kissing him quickly. His eyes slid shut and she knew that he was stunned and relaxed. She took the opportunity to push him down and get down overtop of him pulling a dagger out of her boot, where she kept it. She stepped on his wrists and crouched over him then stabbed him in the stomach. He yelled and she slit his throat cutting off the screams and gurgles, neither of those were death blows. At least not immediately.
It would be a while until he bled out and she could spend that time playing. Jane and Alice killed their chosen down quickly and came over to watch Drew as she strategically littered the boy's body with cuts. And people thought she didn't pay attention to fighting, pressure points and killing blows. She just never cared to fight if it wasn't to the death. She never administered a killing blow, she just watched as his breathing became slower and more struggled until it stopped.
"We need to go home now." Clockwork said gesturing to Jane and Angel who were making out against a tree. "Before they start having sex in the woods." Drew gave a breathy laugh but as she got up from the body and looked over it, she couldn't help giving a small moan as well. Clockwork raised her eyebrows and then smirked. "And it sounds like you should be getting back to Percy anyway."
"Probably." Drew agreed. Alice pulled Jane and Angel apart so they could get moving. They got back faster than she expected but she wasn't complaining. Angel and Jane disappeared as soon as they were inside.
"That was fun we, should do it again soon." Clockwork told Drew and then wandered away, shoving her hands in her pockets.
"Yes indeed, very enjoyable." Alice seconded walking away as she spoke, so her voice faded. Scarecrow went back outside leaving Drew to find her way back to Percy's room on her own. Once she managed it she found Percy sitting on the edge of his bed playing a video game. He paused it as soon as he spotted her and smiled at her.
"How was it?" He asked as she slid inside and shut the door behind her.
"It was great." She said striding across the room and sliding onto Percy's lap. "Just as much fun as the first time, but now that boy is dead and I'm not done having fun, so I figured we should have a different kind of fun." She wrapped her legs around his waist and pulled herself closer hearing him gasp softly.
"Are you sure?" He asked. Drew blinked in surprise. She couldn't remember a time when someone hadn't jumped at the chance to have sex with her. No one had ever taken the time to ask if she was sure. "I mean you've been drinking haven't you? I just don't want you to do something you'd regret. We can just-" She cut him off by kissing him.
"I'm sure." Drew promised him softly resting her forehead against his. "If I wasn't before, now I am."
Percy relented and kissed her back. That night he was the most careful lover Drew had ever had, and she had had plenty of lovers. He didn't seem at all worried about his own pleasure. Everything was all about her in a way she had never experienced before. He took every direction she gave him, even if there was no charm speak behind it, and asked for direction too. Even though he was on top he let her be in control and she had never felt safer.
Afterwards when they lay together, naked and tired. She didn't feel the need to get dressed again like she usually did. When his gaze roamed her body there was nothing predatory in it, only interest and affection. She could tell he liked what he saw, but she wasn't afraid that he would jump her while she was asleep so she let him turn of the lights and fell asleep. For the first time feeling safe in someone else's hands.
A/N 1. I got a comment pointing out that Nico says sisters in the last chapter when technically Hazel is his only sister now, I wrote that because he thinks of Reyna as his sister as well at this point. Apparently I forgot to clarify. :P sorry for anyone else I confused.
2. I'm sorry I haven't been updating much recently. I've been having some issues with depression and it's been much easier to write one shots where I don't have to worry about continuity, character development and everything. :/ So here's something but I'm afraid this doesn't mark the end of things being slow because I'm still having problems. I've just been trying to write slow but steady. I'll get there eventually and you'll just have to be patient with me please?