Reyna POV

Watching Owen take in everything that we were telling him was both surprising and really something you don't see often in people. I've had this conversation many times as I've been Praetor of New Rome and very few people take it as well as Owen is taking it right now. You can't see much emotion in his eyes but his questions are not questions that suggest that he doesn't believe us. They are questions that clearly show that he wants to find out more about what he's dealing with and how he falls into everything.

"Ok so let me get this straight" He says.

"The Greek and Roman Gods and Goddesses are real, your all sons and daughters of these gods and you've just gone through two wars to save the world. Gone through unbelieveable amounts of stress and endless possibilities of terrible things happening to you" He starts laughing then.

"So you don't believe us?" Percy asked sounding worried.

"Oh no I do, i've the idea that their was something different about all of you. You and Jason are in the internet so much during the last few years and you're still living normal lives like nothing's happened. Sounds off to me." He laughed again looking calm and happy. Then his face changed to a more worried and caring expression.

"Now however, before Sally left for her romantic dinner she said that you lot have all gone through tough times recently. Now you don't have to answer this question if you don't want as i'm sure talking about it will be difficult. I can only imagine what you people have gone through so you can all stop whenever you need to." He said this softly as if talking to scared animals not wanting to scare them off. It's quite sweet really.

"No, we told you some about what our life is like now it's your turn" Annabeth says rather coldly.

Owen stiffens and starts rubbing his wrists looking like a deer caught in headlights for a good ten seconds before he closed his eyes and breathed slowly. I heard him mutter "I can do this, I can do this" He does for about ten seconds were all waiting anxiously.

"Guess I'll do it all at once not get the courage to do this again" he laughed then one without humour. A laugh filled with pain.

"A week after the car crash I was in still recovering from the crash. I had gone through several operations at this point. That's why I don't do PE much in case you were curious. It hurts a lot if I push myself to a great degree even though I still do it though. Anyway during one of the recoveries after one of the operations, I can't remember which. My Dad was there, he worked abroad over in the far east so seeing him while was good was surprising. We talked a bit I'll spare you the details except for one small bit…." He took a drink then and his hands shaking we leaned forward slightly. Piper said "What… what did he say"

He looked at us with tears in his eyes and said "He…. he said that it was my fault that mom died and that I was dead to him." We gasped, Owen took several long drinks of his beer.

"I'm going to need a lot of these…. be right back" As we watch him leave to go to the kitchen we discuss what happened.

"Well… guess parent issues aren't unique to demigods then…" Leo says.

"Poor guy… do you think he believes it" Piper says looking worried and distressed.

"Maybe… but something tells me Owen isn't done with crawling schist (hehe see what I did there) creek just yet" I say looking into the kitchen. "Let me go check on him"

I walked in and I was stunned from what i saw. Owen hunched over the counter and I could his back and my heart stopped. What the hell is that I thought.

"Owen…. what is that" He stiffened and looked at me like a deer caught in headlights.

"You...you can see that"

"yeah… why could I not?"

"Most people don't….. you're the first person to notice them"

"How…" He looked at me with a face filled with misery and pain.

"Not tonight Reyna… I can't do it tonight" His voice was thick with emotion and his hands were shaking violently. I walked up to him and pulled him into a hug.

"We are here for you… I'm here for you, you know that right" He held me close.

"Yeah… yeah I know thanks Reyna" Looking at him again I saw him with the walls all down and what I saw scared me. He looked broken and filled with so much pain that he was ready to just give up.

Suddenly he grunted in pain and pulled back. He walked back and all of sudden there was a flare of darkness and light in his hands. Suddenly two swords appeared in his hands. He looked at them and said

"what the hell are these?"