Eva's P.O.V
They were all staring at her, like she'd grown a second head. The room was so quiet she could've heard a pin drop.
"You're bullshitting us right?" Charlie asked nervously.
Eva blinked at Charlie blankly, giving her the classic; are you serious? look.
"Yes, I go around saying I have a psychotic brother for fun Charlie!" Eva grumbled sarcastically standing up on wobbly feet, ignoring Will's offered hand with a grunt.
"Rude," Charlie grumbled.
"Charlie shut up!" Will grumbled, "Eva what do you mean your brother is about to bring destruction down us?"
"Exactly what I just said, dammit he's going to kick us too the curb with evilness!" Eva shouted, hobbling over to Charlie so she could lean on her.
"No! I mean why?" Will asked exasperated.
"Ohh, that's a long story…" Eva mumbled cryptically.
"We have time," Will said.
"Actually no we don't…" Charlie cautioned.
"Eva explain!" Will ordered, earning nods of agreement from those who were in the room; except of course Charlie.
"Okay then, you'll all want to sit down than," Eva said, motioning for them to sit on the floor, or on one of the beds.
"It's actually ironic how this all started, mum had just wanted to get some groceries…"
May 5th,
Gisela, Arizona.
(8 months before finding Nico.)
Eva ran through the school corridors; sighing in relief when she heard Kian's terrible guitar playing, from the music room.
"Finally Kian! Did you not get any of my calls?" She asked, stomping into the room towards a sheepish Kian.
"Sorry I was caught up and my phone wasn't turned on." Kian said, leaning the guitar on a desk.
"Yeah well mum wants us to meet her at the supermarket," Eva said, picking up Kian's bag and handing it to him.
"Thanks," Kian said taking the bag, "I thought mum didn't get off her shift till 5 o'clock?"
"Her boss let her off early," Eva explained, as they exited the music room.
The school corridors were surprisingly empty; but you could still hear the shouts of students from the field, playing their sports.
"Ev?" Kian asked quietly when they hit the school parking lot.
"Yeah?" Eva answered.
"Has mum seemed off to you this past week?" Kian asked.
"No. Not particularly. She's been quiet but that's about it." Eva answered as she waved to a few people she recognized.
"Huh, she's probably just having trouble with Jacques." Kian said.
Eva pulled a face as Kian uttered that slimeballs name.
"I don't know what she sees in Jacques," Eva spat, "He's such a manwhore, with his slicked back hair and that whiny french accent."
"Ev he's not that bad…" Kian chuckled.
"I still don't trust him," Eva said, looking in front of them in confusion; it seemed a crowd had gathered on the pavement near the supermarket.
"What's going on?" Kian asked looking at Eva.
"I don't know, ask someone!" Eva said motioning to a young guy, wearing glasses and a grey shirt.
"Hey!" Kian said, tapping the guy's shoulder.
"Yeah?" The guy grunted.
"What's going on here?" Kian asked in a sickly polite tone.
"Someone was shot, police said it was a women with blonde hair, that's all they said." Glasses guys said.
"Blonde hair?" Kian asked, worry edging into his tone.
"Yeah blonde haired, she was wearing orange nursing scrubs I think," The guy said, shrugging his shoulders.
"Oh god Kian." Eva whimpered, "I think he's talking about mum…"
"You can imagine who got our mum killed," Eva chuckled darkly, breaking away from the story.
"Jacques right?" Charlie asked softly.
"The french bugger himself." Eva spat.
"I know this might seem rude; but what does this have to do with your brother bringing destruction down, on us?" Will asked impatiently his eyes sliding over to Nico's bed.
"Kian changed from that moment," Eva said, "he was more cold, more protective; easily riled up. I remember a day or so before I was stabbed-."
"You were stabbed!" Charlie exclaimed.
"Yes now shut up and let me explain!" Eva shouted. "As I was saying, Kian had reverted to himself slightly. It was like Nico could bring him back when I couldn't; but of course that changed when Nico couldn't save me…"
They were all sitting around a dying campfire, under the stars; according to Nico they were a few hours away from San Francisco, where Nico would explain things.
"It's so quiet tonight," Kian noted absentmindedly.
"Hmmm," Nico agreed, staring at the stars shining brightly in the sky.
"As if nature decided to take a break…" Eva said leaning against a Willow Tree.
"Something like that…" Nico muttered darkly.
"If I had my guitar i'd strum a few chords," Kian said, blushing when Nico looked at him in surprise
"You play?" Nico asked, genuinely surprised.
"Well ye-." Kian said.
"He does not play Nico, he destroys." Eva joked, dodging the stick Kian threw at her.
"I'm not that bad deirfiúr*," Kian grumbled.
"That's not what I recall saying, dear brother." Eva chuckled.
"Shut up she was just amazed by my AC/DC guitar skills," Kian defended.
"You keep on believing that…" Eva said, turning on her side so she could sleep with her head on her brother's legs.
"Night guy's." She said, completing her taunting for the night.
But of course, none of them would sleep peacefully; that would be too easy.
Eva was woken up by her brother shaking her shoulder harshly.
"We've got to go, the empousa found us," Kian shouted.
Eva let herself be dragged up and pulled behind Kian in a fast sprint. She gasped loudly, as she heard the familiar hissing from behind them.
"Can't you shadow travel us out of here Nico?" Kian pleaded as he saw them gaining on us.
"No i'm sorry! I'm drained from the last jump." Nico shouted, motioning for them to run faster.
They dodged branches and trees, their eyes lighting up when they saw the highway up ahead.
"Just a little further," Kian encouraged.
But of course she lost her footing and Kian carried on running, eyes widening when she realised he wasn't holding Eva's hand. The seconds ticked by slowly; they watched helplessly as Eva struggled to get up and the Knife flew out of nowhere.
"Eva duck!" Nico shouted.
He was seconds late as the Bronze knife reached it's target, glinting in the moonlight tauntingly. The knife hit her chest and she fell back to the ground, blood beginning to seep from the wound.
Only one thought had registered, in all their minds.
Who had thrown the knife?
"As you can see I should probably be dead," Eva said wearily.
"I am so confused right now." Charlie and Will said in unison, looking at each other menacingly.
"To cut it short, Apollo was feeling nice and saved me, booting out my memories in the process." Eva said darkly.
"Lovely…" Sterling mumbled, shocking a few people by his surprise appearance.
"I still don't see what this has to do with Nico and the end of the world," Austin spoke up.
"You guy's are stupid." Eva sighed out, "Kian was on the verge of tipping off the deep end, my 'death' pushed him even further."
"But not completely off?" Will observed.
"No." Eva said nodding at Will thankfully.
"What broke him then?" Charlie asked impatiently.
"Nico's rejection." Eva said cryptically.
"Rejection?" Austin urged.
"Kian is...well he's not into girls." Eva said, tiptoeing around the point.
"Kian is gay!" Shouted nearly everyone in the room.
"Shout it louder why don't you? I don't think Poseidon heard you from Atlantis!" Eva hissed, glaring at them.
The group comprised of Jason, Wyatt, Sterling, Will, Charlie and Austin all looked sheepishly at her.
"Sorry," They all mumbled.
"Still… What does this have to do with the prophecy?" Austin grumbled.
"I am about to stab you Austin." Charlie shouted.
"Well I love you to!" Austin shouted in the same tone.
Eva smirked at their romantic frustration, she shipped it so much.
What could she call it?
Chartie? Austie? Chaus-.
Stop brain! Stupid ADHD.
"Kian is the only one who has the skill and is dumb enough to send himself to another time with a guy who he wants dead." Eva said bluntly.
"Skill? Is your brother a son of Hecate? Do you even know your parents?" Jason asked, regaining his questioning nature.
"You could say my brother and I are related to two gods…" She said ominously.
"Two! How does that even work?" Charlie asked.
"Kian and I are both children of Apollo." Eva said, earning huge grins from the Manchester twin's.
"Yay!" They shouted.
"Don't be idiots. Here's where it gets confusing, my mum is a granddaughter of Hecate." Eva said, waiting for the wide eyes.
"Holy schist!" Wyatt shouted.
"How does that even work?" Jason shouted.
"Isn't that incest?" Sterling asked.
Eva looked at Will and Charlie who looked relatively calm about it.
"Aren't you surprised?" Eva asked.
"Eva I threw a jandal at a cyclops; nothing much surprises me anymore." Charlie said shrugging her shoulders.
"I'm just curious about how you know all this," Will said.
"Meh, you can probably ju-." Eva said, grumbling when an all too familiar voice interrupted her.
"I think I can help with that question children.
"Evening dad."
Nico's P.O.V (1956)
Nico had officially, conquered every realm of pain possible. From burning in flames to starving to death; he'd seen it all. But never had he ever, wanted to feel like a girl getting her Godsforsaken period. He had cramps where guy's shouldn't get cramps; at first it hadn't been that bad but then it had moved till his whole body was consumed by gut wrenching cramps.
But almost as quickly as they had came they had left, leaving him sweating and shivering. All the while Kian had been making loud explosions in the Kitchen; Nico guessed. Nico had know idea why he'd gotten the weird ass cramps, but he could certainly tell something was not right. He felt untethered, like he didn't belong. It was like a weak invisible string was tugging him towards somewhere else; yet he couldn't follow it. Nico was too confused to deal with his plate load of random schist served to him. So he stood up and shuffled out the door, towards where he assumed Kian was hopefully making food.
Nico shuffled through the hall, grumbling when he placed his feet on the cold wood of the dining room. He shuffled till he met with a disastrous sight. Kian was making pasta apparently, there were ten burnt bowls in the sink, and a pot boiling over on the stove.
"Having fun?" Nico asked sarcastically, wincing at how bad his voice sounded.
"I honestly don't even know how to use this stove and i've been here for five months!" Kian shouted exasperated.
"You've been here for months?" Nico asked his brain going haywire.
"Yeah, I couldn't really deal after Eva...after we buried her; so I made a deal with a Heacte child and well here I am." Kian said shrugging his shoulders.
"I'm really sorry Ki-." Nico tried.
"Please don't say it; I'm trying to move on from her." Kian said sadly, resuming his pasta making.
"You didn't let me finish," Nico grumbled, "I was going to say I'm sorry about turning up on your doorstep out of nowhere; especially after what I said before I left."
"S'okay, I'm over it now." Kian said, leaning on the kitchen counter.
"I know bu-." Nico tried.
"I understand Nico, you had a crush on somebody else. Its cool." Kian said, giving Nico a blinding grin.
"Then why do I feel like i've broken your heart?" Nico mumbled sadly.
"Because Nico your fatal flaw is holding grudges; now you're holding a grudge against yourself." Kian said, sieving the pasta in the sink and dishing it in white bowls.
Nico nodded his head and watched intently as Kian doused the pasta in what appeared to be tomato sauce.
"Voila!" Kian exclaimed grinning, handing him a bowl and guiding him towards the table.
Nico looked down at his food suspiciously, the tool had probably burnt half of it.
"Eat!" Kian demanded, "its not that bad."
Nico stared critically at Kian, cautiously raising a bite towards his mouth. He sighed in relief when nothing too burnt stuck out to him.
"See," Kian said happily.
Nico allowed a small smile to grace his face and continued to eat. He gorged his food happily; not realizing how hungry he was.
"Done?" Kian asked, motioning towards the empty bowl in Nico's hand. Nico nodded and moved to put it in the sink, grunting when Kian stole it from his hands and placed it in there himself.
"You go back to bed and sleep; you look terrible!" Kian said, pointing back towards the hall.
"Gee thanks!" Nico muttered, "but i'm not tired."
"Nico…" Kian warned.
"But!" Nico mumbled.
"I have Apollo powers and I know how to use them!" Kian said.
Nico gulped and dragged his feet back to where he had been sleeping; one thought stuck in his mind.
It was strange how much Kian was like Will.
Nico wondered if Will would ever care about him like Kian?
Jacques' P.O.V
Jacques grinned as he turned away from the mirror; facing his master.
"It seems the Apollo child has gained Di Angelo's trust," Master observed.
"Yes it does." Jacques said, slicing his hand through the mirror image of Kian's apartment.
"Good, keep it that way Jacques; this plan cannot fail." Master said brusquely.
"Yes master," Jacques hissed, bowing his head as his Master exited the room with a flourish.
Soon he'd be a king, soon chaos would rise.