Paul

The sound of howling was what woke Paul up, though still exhausted from his own patrol he managed to clamber outside, phasing quickly.

'What happened?' he asked as he began moving in the direction that his pack mates were headed. Immediately he saw the image of his imprint across from another male, dressed in some kind of armour. And unlike his imprint, the boy was carrying weapons. A growl escaped the werewolf as he pushed himself to reach his imprint. His immediate instinct was to protect her.

He had almost reached the place when he was shocked by the images that were going through the other wolves' minds. There were at least 3, and he knew given that all of them were seeing the same thing that it wasn't some kind of a joke. His imprint had somehow transformed the bracelet she always wore into a shield. She was able to defend herself.

As soon as Paul reached the area that the rest of the wolves were at, he phased back into a human and rushed to get to her. Only by that point she didn't have her shield anymore, the boys sword pressed firmly against her neck. Paul's eyes made contact with hers, willing for her to do anything as his body trembled in rage, the wolf threatening to slip out in an attempt to protect it's mate.

He hadn't noticed Sam and some of the others had followed until the boy swung the sword, being knocked to the ground by his imprint less than five seconds later. He stood in shock as the girl, as the small blonde girl that he had imprinted on, had pinned the larger boy to the ground. He was sure that he wasn't the only one.

And the conversation that the two were having? That made no sense to him. What he did realise though, was that it seemed to make no sense to his imprint either as moments later she was the one pushed to the ground. A groan of pain made its way through her lips and he wanted to move to help her, but Sam had glared, a hand on his shoulder. A whimper made it's way through the lips of the large wolf as he looked at his imprint on the ground. It was obvious that she had been hurt, and his body was trembling more now, partially from rage and partially from concern for her wellbeing.

"Looks like your family is here to watch darlin', took 'em long enough don't ya think?" to Paul, the voice was mocking him. A growl escaped his throat as he almost disobeyed the silent order that his alpha had given him not to intervene. He had to trust that Sam wouldn't allow anything to happen to her. He had to believe that Sam would keep his imprint alive.

Her grey eyes immediately seemed to find his own brown eyes, a small, bitter smile on her face. Her eyes were sad, before she closed them again. "I'm sorry," he heard her say, and his body froze as he noticed her launch to her feet and tackle the other boy over the cliff. His heart seemed to stop for a moment.

Without a second thought the werewolf ran, diving off the cliff as he had often enough before. The water was colder than it normally was when they did this, rougher because of the storm that was coming. Paul didn't have to think as he dived below the surface, managing to find his imprint within a few moments. A part of him was relieved when he grabbed her, feeling her fingers applying a pressure to his arm in order to let him know that she was conscious. Tightening his grip on her, Paul pulled them both to the surface.

When they did, the blonde was tightly clinging to him, gasping for air between coughs as she tried her hardest to fill her lungs with air. Paul looked at the girl in concern, focussing on swimming to the shore as quickly as he could so that they could get her into warm clothes and make sure she was alright.

He didn't let her go once on the trip to Emily's house, and no one tried to take the girl away from him.

Felicity

The demigod knew that her idea wasn't exactly well thought out or well planned. But it had worked quite well in her opinion, with Jack not realising what was happening until it was too late. The boy in question had tried to grab onto her underwater, but she managed to kick him away before his armour dragged them both down.

What wasn't fun was trying to resurface. Her lungs screamed for air as her brain pounded, thoughts pleading for the surface. For air.

Relief flooded through her when she felt a warm hand grab onto her. Somehow she knew it was Paul, lightly squeezing his hand as he pulled her up. Coughs wracked her body as she tried desperately to gasp for air the moment they surfaced. Felicity had to admit that she was glad Paul went after her. There was no way that she would've had the energy to reach the surface without his help. And even if she had managed to get to that point, her body was too weak to do much else.

Despite the warmth of the boy holding her, her teeth were chattering. By the time that he was walking on shore, her entire body was trembling. Instinctively she allowed herself to relax in Paul's arms, grateful that they weren't immediately starting an interrogation.

That was definitely still going to happen though.

Arriving at Emily's house, Embry was already there offering towels to both Paul and Felicity. Only at that point had Paul set the demigod on her feet, slowly and carefully in a way someone would assume he'd be incapable of doing. Felicity felt her legs wobble a bit, grabbing on to him to steady herself. Before she could reach for a towel, her half brother had already hung one over her.

A car pulled up at the house, and Felicity barely felt herself being pulled inside by Emily. It was only a few minutes later that Felicity's mind and body were actually able to function, the hot shower warming her body and stopping that shivers that shook her. Sitting fully clothes in the shower she looked at Emily, her head cocked to the side.

"Are you alright?" Felicity asked in a soft voice, the concern obvious. Emily looked at her disbelievingly for a moment, before she shook her head, a small chuckle escaping the woman.

"I'm fine Fliss," she said seriously. "I'll go grab you some warm clothes and make a tea for when you come out."

Emily left quickly, and within the minute she'd returned to the demigod with a pair of sweat pants and a large jumper. Nodding at her with a small Felicity finally turned off the water as Emily once again left the bathroom. She managed, with some issue, to pull off the wet clothes that now clung to her, wrapping herself up in a towel.

Slowly Fliss had moved towards the mirror, grey eyes evaluating the girl in the mirror. She looked exhausted, anxious, and at the same time relieved.

Taking a deep breath she knew that they were going to have a long conversation when she got downstairs. And after that had been settled she needed to call Chiron, she needed to know what was happening. Why the dead weren't staying dead.

"This is going to take a while," Felicity warned as she entered the room, sitting herself cross legged on the chair. She looked at her brother, who nodded in response, trying to keep herself as still as possible. As still as possible didn't really say much though, given that she was fiddling with the strings on her sweat pants.

"I think a good place to start would be that… dad never cheated on your mum," Felicity said, looking at Sam. Suddenly her eyes glanced at Embry, before she corrected herself. "Or at least, he didn't actually cheat on your mum with my mum."

The demigod wasn't stupid, she noticed the way Sam's eyes narrowed at that statement. Theoretically it was an impossibility. It took Fliss quite a while to wrap her head around the concept herself.

"Uh… how much do you know about Greek Mythology?" the blonde asked, her grey eyes wandering around the room. A hand went up, which was twisted from side to side. Translation: knowledge was so so.

Running a hand through her hair she nodded.

"Well… bluntly it's just as real as the legends we have," she stated, there was no other way in which she could explain it. "And, as you can guess from that I'm not exactly human. My mum is a goddess, Athena the Goddess of wisdom. I was born from her head… kind of like she was from Zeus if any of you know that story."

Most of them were struggling to digest that when her eyes met Sam's, grey eyes pleading for some kind of direction or question to come from him. It was Emily who had intervened instead.

"So who was the guy that…" she paused, and Felicity's eyes fell down to the table in front of her.

"I killed," the demigod finished for her, her eyes blank as her head tilted to the side. Emily looked uncertain at the girls response, but nodded slowly. "A traitor," she answered evenly, though her lips twitched down into a frown. "His name was Jack, I killed him two years ago during the Battle of the Labyrinth, unsurprisingly he wanted revenge."

"What made him a traitor?" she heard Embry ask, the girl turned to him.

"He wanted to raise the titans up again, end the reign of the gods… a lot of people felt abandoned by their parents and thought that it would be better under the titans," she murmured the last sentence, but Emily was the only one in the room that had struggled to hear it.

"And Lee also died in the battle?" Emily asked, the only one who had been aware that Felicity's only boyfriend had died. Her jaw clenched as she nodded, the image replaying itself in her mind. There were tears in her eyes at the memory, but he wasn't the only loss.

"He died in my arms," she said quietly.

That admission had left the room in a stunned silence as they looked at the girl. Paul, who had immediately realised that Lee was in fact her boyfriend, had moved himself a touch closer to wrap an arm around her side to comfort her. Paul was glad that she relaxed into his side as the tense atmosphere dissipated with Emily making everyone a hot cocoa and pulling out a stack of muffins she had actually been saving for the planned picnic in the afternoon.

A/N: I'm sooooooooooo sooooooooooo sorry that this took so long, I humbly beg your forgiveness, but I've been semi-busy in preparing for exams and in sightseeing with an exchange student. But thank you for the continued support, and all the reviews you guys sent, I've left you cliffhangerless this time!

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