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Chapter 26

"Exactly!" Thalia suddenly yelled. "We can't let that bastard get away from the things he did to Percy! He can't, and that's why, we're going to win this court case. I don't even care if it's illegal or if we bribe the judge, we are going to win!"

The nurse frowned at Thalia's choice of words, while the rest just looked startled. Percy started grinning at her and she grinned back as if they had a moment of glory.

"Thalia's right," Nico agreed. "We can't let him get away!"

"Bribe the judge with what though?" Percy asked, while the nurse left. "Chocolate?"

Thalia nodded as if it were a good idea. "Brilliant! Everyone loves chocolate!"

"I don't!" A random person yelled.

Thalia glowered. "Except for you of course. Anyway, everyone agreed?"

Nico and Percy nodded enthusiastically. Thalia looked at Annabeth for confirmation. She shook her head, her blonde curls bouncing around.

"First of all," Annabeth started, her grey eyes looking amused. "We can't bribe a judge with chocolate."

Protests started all around but Annabeth held up her hand, gesturing for everyone to stop talking.

"That would make Gabe seem mature," Annabeth continued her grey eyes more serious. "I don't know why, but he wants Percy for some reason... A slave maybe."

Percy flinched, but Annabeth kept on continuing, showing him a guilty look before she spoke again.

"So he might want to have custody. And since he's an adult that would seem like a good idea for the judge to put you with him."

"And then we bribe the judge with chocolate, Annabeth you're a genius!"

"No," Annabeth's tone was sharp and firm. "We don't bribe anyone. We need to convince the judge with facts, not chocolate. We need to convince the judge that Gabe needs to go to jail, and that Percy will live with you guys."

"And then what?" Percy's voice interrupted Annabeth's one.

"Percy," Annabeth sighed. "In order to convince the judge, you need to show the judge your scars. The ones on your arms, legs, and head."

And that was the end of Annabeth's tiny speech. Percy gaped at her in shock. The other two cousins stared at her.

"Isn't that a bit too much?" Thalia asked her best friend a bit slowly. "I mean, Percy-"

"I'll do it," Percy interrupted his cousin. "I'll do it. It's better than Gabe owning me."

"That's true," Nico admitted. "You sure Perce?"

Percy nodded slowly, cracking a small grin in the process. He was so close to being free...

"We'll win," Annabeth reassured him, squeezing his hand. "I'll make sure of it."

"We'll make sure of it," Thalia corrected, and smiled.

With Gabe, right after he got arrested:

"Let me go you little punks," Gabe raised his voice as he got placed in a police car. "I didn't do anything, I swear."

"Swear on what?"

"On the boy's life."

The cop raised an eyebrow. "Seeing as you were strangling him only a few seconds ago, that swear doesn't seem so special to me."

Gabe glowered, his pudgy and beady eyes glaring at any person he saw. He stayed silent as the caw pulled up along the sidewalk, and he got out, a cop assisting him as he walked.

Another car pulled up along the sidewalk, and Gabe squinted to see who it was. He growled as he saw four 'punks' get out, Percy being in a stretcher. He smiled in satisfaction at all the bruises and scars.

A cop noticed this and frowned heavily. He roughly pulled Gabe away, and continued leading him into the interrogation room.

A creaking noise was heard once Gabe sat down, and the cop was surprised that the chair could even support his weight. He sighed, and stared at the man that was strangling the boy only just some time ago.

"Let's start of with the basics," the cop started, getting out a paper and a pen. "Name?"

"Gabe Ugliano," he couldn't help but spit it out.

"Date of birth?"

"Figure it out yourself."

The cop sighed again, staring at Gabe, and making a guess. "Forty-two."

Gabe sneered, glaring at the cop with so much venom in his eyes that it almost looked comical.

"Reason of strangling?" The cop continued, ignoring the glare.

Gabe kept quiet, refusing stubbornly to answer that question.

"We listen to both sides of the story," the cop finally said after a long silence. "If you don't tell your side, then I'll only listen to theirs."

Gabe still stayed silent. The cop began packing up his pen and paper with very little writing on it.

"One last chance."

"Go screw yourself."

"There's still court to think about."

The cop left, leaving a very disgruntled Gabe. He started cursing like hell when his interrogator left, cursing everyone, Percy the most. His hands were still cuffed, and he struggled to get out of them.

"Y-You- Damn you boy," Gabe yelled angrily. "Screw you- you bastard, no good piece of shit! I hate you, you know that? And when I go to court, I'm going to kill you, you hear me? I'm. Going. To. Kill. You!"

And then another person came in. Gabe was startled to see that the person looked exactly like Percy. He growled at the person, angry.

"You had to get me arrested didn't you boy?" Gabe hissed. "Let me tell you something Jackson, when I get out of these damn cuffs, I'm going to kill you. Slowly. Painfully. Harsher than any other beating I've ever given you."

"And then what?" The person asked.

Gabe smirked, happy that the person asked that question. "And then I'm going to feed you to the wolves, you hear me?! I'm going to feed the rest of whatever's left of you to the wolves, and I'm going to watch you die."

Gabe was not happy with the person's lack of reaction. He snarled, anger and fury building up inside him.

"And what if I told you that you won't win the court case," the person asked. "And that you'll lose?"

"Then I'll escape jail and make sure you die!"

The person just smirked.

"How about this punk," Gabe finally calmed down his angry breathing. "I'll make an oath hmm?"

"What oath?"

"As long as I'm breathing, and that I'm alive, I'll swear on my life, that I'll continue hunting you down."

"What an oath!" The person chuckled lightly. "But now that we're done with the show, let's introduce ourselves shall we?"

"What?"

"I'm Poseidon. And you?"

A/N: Sorry for the late update again! Hope you all enjoyed the chapter, even though it's mostly people talking. I know this story has some people being OOC, so sorry about that. Thanks for all the support!

book freakz: Thanks a lot for the compliment, I don't usually reply to people who compliment the story, but yours was really something, so thanks!

Nathaniel Gabriel Baker: Thanks, yeah, on one part I'm sorry for offending the cops, but on the other part, I know that some cops actually do that. And here's chapter 26.