I BOUGHT SON OF SOBEK AND READ THE FIRST BIT OF HOUSE OF HADES! And oh my gods it is EPIC
Now. Just to clear thing up, only Percy and Annabeth can remember things from past lives because they are special. Any other past friends that were reborn wont remember.
This is a VERY HIGH T RATED! HIDDEN LOVE SCENE, nothing that will make you uncomfortable though.
Robert and Mayrse remained friends until they were 23 and 26. Robert proposed and while they didn't have kids, they were a happy couple for thirty years.
Around the age of fifty, a drunk driver crashed directly into their car, putting the two in a coma.
"Percy?" Annabeth stood, transparent, next to the body of Maryse Parker. Percy stood beside Robert.
"Annabeth. Finally!" He embraced her, and drew back with a frown. "Why return to us? Why aren't we...their spirits?" He looked at Robert and Maryse's lifeless bodies.
"Because this was our first life."
"So, one more to go?"
"We've lived two times. But we must be reborn three times. So two more." She hugged him one more time, then the machines flatlined.
"Robert?" Percy, Percy. "Robert?!"
She was in some kind of circus tent. Turning around and around, in a body not hers, her cries fell on deaf ears.
"Mayrse Parker. Annabeth Chase. You have lived one life, excluding your first life. You have two more to go."
The face of Cassandra Clare, a well known author, spoke.
"But, Percy, I mean Robert." Her two lives clashed, each fighting for the right to be on top in her brain.
"He's already gone." Robert Downey Jr. flicked a hand up. "If I was Iron Man, I'd-"
"You have two more lives. Live them well and you will go to the Isles of the Blest." Ellen Degeneres interrupted. "Now, be kind to one another!" Annabeth knew what was happening, Mayrse Parker didn't. Ellen then waved a hand and before Mayrse could ask, she vanished.
"Oh my god Katie, he was a total perv." Serena hissed into her phone as she briskly walked away from the Room of Doom. "Yes, I got the job but that's beside the point! He wouldn't stop staring at my- no I'm not proud of my womanly wiles! And yes, I guess he wasn't a total mean guy, he was really nice, but hello! My eyes aren't down there!"
Serena Barton was a single, twenty one year old. Her dream was to be an author and the closest she could get to one was to be the secretary of a publisher. Maybe one day she could approach him and submit her own work.
"I gotta go. Talk to you later." Serena jammed her finger on the elevator button and the doors opened soundlessly. Stepping in, she waited for the doors to close, except they didn't.
"Sorry, I have to, oh it's you." He smiled pleasantly at her as he quickly slipped trough the doors. His name flashed through her mind. Ryan Brouton.
They stood in silence. Until he said, "it will be a pleasure working with you Ms. Barton."
"Please, call me Serena." She answered. The floors seemed to go by so slowly. 30, 29, 28...
"Who were you on the phone with, if you don't mind me asking."
I mind. "My friend Katie."
"I had a friend named Katie Gardner at my old- huh. No I didn't." He paused, confused. "Ah, my memory, it's going."
"You don't seem old. Sir" Serena added as an afterthought.
"Twenty five." He answered the unspoken question.
"Aphrodite! Hades!" Athena stormed into the throne room."
"Not us!" They chorused, turning away from the screen. As I said, they both did enjoy a good love story.
The elevator suddenly stopped in between floors three and two.
"Shit. Oops, sorry." Ryan glanced apologetically at his new secretary.
"I've heard worse. Stupid elevator." She rubbed her face stressfully. "I'm claustrophobic. Can't be in here for too long."
"I can call maintenance." He pulled out his phone. After a few minutes, he hung up. "Another ten minutes they say."
"Great." They faced forward in awkward silence.
"Crap I forgot my papers in my desk." Ryan face palmed. "I guess I can get them Monday."
"You're such a Seaweed Brain!" Serena teased, then slapped a hand over her mouth.
"Did you just call me a Seaweed Brain!" He raised an eyebrow.
"I-I did. I'm sorry I don't know where that came from." Her face was burning now.
"S'okay. I've heard worse." He mimicked her previous statement. "I have a feeling you don't like me."
"Well you're right!" Serena snapped.
"What? Why?!" He hadn't actually thought shed confirm his suspicions.
"The whole interview you were staring at my breasts!" Serena glared. Then froze. She just yelled at her boss.
"What?" He repeated. "No! I was reading your shirt!"
"Likely." She hissed.
"Seriously! With my dyslexia, I find Greek to come easy to me. And your shirt is..." He gestured wildly to her shirt.
Serena had gone on a trip to Greece with Katie. It was a lilac with Greek words all over the front.
"Since you stared at it for so long, name one word on it." She quickly turned away so he couldn't see them.
"Even better. I can name five. Love. Elysium. Gods. Quest. Kiss. And it's the Parthenon in the background."
"Huh. You passed." All bad thoughts about him vanished as she stared at him in a new light.
"Great." Ryan said sarcastically.
Seconds later, the elevator continued its descent. "See you Monday."
"Yeah, Monday."
"So, how's the boss?" Serena had explained everything to Katie, her room mate and best friend.
"He's really nice. He's twenty five, dyslexic and can read Greek." Serena ticked off on her fingers.
"Yeah yeah yeah. Is he hot?" Katie leaned forward in anticipation.
He has gorgeous blue eyes, brown hair that looks so soft I could run my fingers through and I could literally see his abs through that shirt. "Oh, he's okay looking."
"Oh." Katie slumped back against her chair, no longer interested in an average looking man. "Actually," her eyes gleamed. "I can see the two of you for some reason in Greece. Sipping some kind of Greek drink by the water. You'd be so cute together!"
"You are such a child of Aphrodite!" Serena laughed.
"What?" Katie looked at her friend curiously.
"Never mind, I thought you were..." Serena watched in horror as Katie disappeared for a few seconds and in her place, was an even more beautiful girl. "Silena?"
She then turned back into Katie. "The name is Katie. Which you've known since third grade. I think he's made your brain go crazy."
"Who?" Serena was dazed.
"Ryan."
Monday
Six months later.
Okay. Sitting at my desk. Sitting at my desk. Sitting at my- oh my god.
Serena's eyes widened in appreciation as Ryan emerged from what was probably the shower room, with just towel wrapped around his waist.
"Holy shit!" He ducked back in and poked a head back out. "It's five in the morning! You're supposed to come in at eight!"
"I just wanted to get a head start." Serena answered, fighting to keep her face neutral. Wow, he really did have abs...nice abs...probably swims... "Thought we'd have a lot of work to do."
"Oh, well. Um, I'm going to go and change in my office."
"Sorry! I'll turn around!" Serena's swivelled her chair and faced the wall. Speaking to the wall, she laughed. "You didn't have to freak out. I didn't see anything."
She heard his sheepish reply from his office. "It was more for your sake. I honestly don't care, but I'm trying to preserve your innocence."
She faced her computer again and started filling out the calendar with meetings and other boring business things. "Innocence? I lost that a long time ago."
"Wait. What exactly are we talking about now?" He smirked as he emerged from his office in jeans and a dress shirt.
"Shut up." The last ten minutes, she had forgotten she was talking to her boss. Someone who could easily fire her. Someone who could get her book published. Over the last few months, that had happened. "Sorry sir."
"Ive said it once, I'll say it again. Call me Ryan." He tried to tie his tie, but was failing miserably. His eyebrows were scrunch in an endearing way, until Serena couldn't take it any more.
"Here." She stood up and easily slipped it through the loop.
"Thanks."
"No problem. So what's on the schedule today?"
"Eh. It's a Nothing Day."
"A nothing day?"
"Yeah. We don't do anything on Nothing Days."
"Really. So then what do we do?"
Ryan reflected the question with his own. "Would you like to go to breakfast with me?" He held an arm out and smiled.
"I'd love to."
"Aw! My baby!" Aphrodite cooed as the screen showed Katie talking to Serena. "My widdle Silena!"
"Is everyone getting reborn?" Athena threw her hands up in exasperation.
"No. But I see Percy and Annabeth." Aphrodite pointed out the couple eating pancakes. "They're on a date!"
"It's not anything romantic. He's her boss. Wait; he's her boss?!"
"Well, we got a lot done." Serena remarked dryly as he walked her back to the office. They had basically just ditched and spent the day going around New York. He had randomly hailed taxis and payed them to take them wherever.
One place in particular, he had kissed her. Don't go making assumptions of course, she wasn't one of those girls who kiss guys in first dates. Although today wasn't really a date. But anyways. It was a spur of the moment thing and she had that weird feeling she had with Katie. She knew this guy, felt like she'd known him for years. He called her Wise Girl and she called him Seaweed Brain again and they dismissed it all as something odd in the air that made them call each other names they never would have thought of.
"Tomorrow, we actually work. I've got a board meeting in the morning." He rolled his eyes as he pressed the elevator button that would take them up. "Where are you staying?"
"About a block from here." Serena observed New York getting smaller as through the windows in the elevator.
"That one?" He pointed the correct building.
"Yeah. Me and my friend Katie."
"Really? I live there too! Floor eight."
"Floor six." Serena replied as they got off on their floor. "Why have a never seem you?"
"I leave work late and get to work, well, you know how early." He referred to their encounter this morning. Serena could only blush.
"I'll walk you home. Let me get my stuff." He jogged into his office as she grabbed her papers.
"Thanks for ditching with me. I'm sure I'll get a lot of work tomorrow." He pressed floor eight of the apartment elevator.
"Anytime. I..." She stared at him. He was no longer a hot, blue eyed man, but a really sexy green eyed man.
"Woah. Did you just dye your hair?" Ryan reached forward and showed her a lock of her own hair. "It's blond."
"Huh." Great, I can't take my eyes off his lips. Serena thought worriedly.
His eyes gleamed mischievously. "Something you like?"
"What, no! I just..."
"Just...?" Ryan cocked an eyebrow.
"I thought you were someone else."
"Wow Annabeth, now who's the Seaweed Brain?"
"Percy?" Annabeth fought down her feeling of giddiness. Everything rushed back. This was her second time being reborn.
They stared at each other.
"Again?" He laughed. "The gods must be furious."
"No we're not!" Hades and Aphrodite sang.
Percy wrapped his arms around Annabeth and nuzzled her hair. "We have one more life, we've met in two of them. Do you think we'll see each other a-"
"Sh, just think about this life."
"Annabeth."
She heard the seriousness in his tone. "What?"
"We aren't going to remember being us in the morning. I can't lose you."
"You think I don't know that? I don't want to be with anyone else in this life. Or ever." Her eyes started to water. "At this rate, Ryan and Serena are never going to get together. Although there is a lot of sexual tension."
Percy thought hard. Then, "gimme a pen."
"Uh, here."
"Okay" he grabbed a napkin from the restaurant they had been at. "...waste...life...happens...reason. Now I'll tuck this in your jacket so tomorrow you'll see it as Serena."
"What about Ryan?"
"I have a feeling he won't regret what happens next."
"What happens next ?"
"Be quiet and kiss me Wise Girl."
When floor six came, the doors opened, then closed, no one getting off. Floor eight, a couple got out. After a few minutes of trying to unlock the door while passionately kissing, they fell inside the room, where they lost themselves in memories of Serena and Ryan, Mayrse and Robert, and Annabeth and Percy.
"Uuuuh, what time is it?" Serena's hand groped around where her bedside table should have been. Where her clock should have been. It wasn't there.
"What the..." She sat up and quickly pulled the covers over her. She wasn't wearing a top. Or anything else. She then gaped at the person sleeping on the other side of the bed. He wasn't wearing a shirt. A quick and regretful peek under the covers showed her he wasn't wearing anything.
"Omigod I slept with," she brushed the hair out of the man's face to see who it was and fell out of bed. "OMIGOD RYAN?"
"Huh wha..." Ryan sat up and took notice of the lady wrapped in sheets on the ground. "Hey, whatcha doing down there?"
"WHAT AM I DOING HERE?" She screeched. "I'm gonna get fired."
"Serena. I'm your boss. I'm not going to fire you." Ryan spoke calmly.
"Wait." She crawled onto the bed and peered into his eyes. His blue eyes. "Thought you had green eyes."
"And I thought you had grey eyes." He shrugged. "Did you regret this? I sure didn't."
Serena thought about it. "Not really..." She remembered kissing in the elevator, remembered everthing clicking into place and then she remembered feeling giddy almost. Her pocket. There was something in her pocket. "Be right back."
She raced to where her jacket had been flung on the ground and grasped a napkin. Scanning it, she slowly put it back. Whoever wrote it was right. She couldn't waste her life. Everything happens for a reason.
Walking back to an amused Ryan, she slipped in next to him. "Wanna ditch today?" Serena murmured as she softly kissed him.
"Sure I- CRAP THE BOARD MEETING!"
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