Chapter 8

Hades burns some paperwork

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This will be the last chapter of we went to college to get AWAY from the monsters, sorry.

Hey you guys know gullible is written on the roof right? I'm just kidding! This isn't over yet! You guys actually LIKE this story; there will be at least 2 more chapters maybe an epilogue. ;D

So here is Chapter 8….

Annabeth's POV

Dean refused to bury Sam so, he just put his body on a bed and stared at it. Nico and Jess were talking while Dean was sleeping and I was making supper. Percy had decided to help me.

"We're going out," Nico announced.

I nodded. "Yeah, ok." I said as Jess and Nico left the room.

"Goodbye, Annabeth," Jess said just before Nico closed the door.

Third Person

After long minutes of standing in line, Sam finally walked up to the judges. They just looked at him, judgingly.

"...He's a hunter." the one on the right said.

"Asfodel?" The middle one suggested.

The one on the left shook his ghastly head. "No, he should go to Elysium," it stated.

The other two shook their heads, "Asfodel," they chorused.

A shadowy figure appeared off to the side and strode up to the three judges, bearing down on them. It was Hades. He handed them a slip of paper and they opened it.

As Hades walked up to Sam, the three judges nodded. Hades clutched Sam's arm and shadow traveled away, over the river Styx and out of the underworld, back to his family.

Annabeth's POV

About 10 minutes later, Percy went to the bathroom, and I continued to chop peppers.

Waking up, Dean walked up to me and said, "Uh..."

I continued to chop peppers while saying, "You should go back to sleep."

There was a pause before Dean asked, "Um, what happened?"

I shook my head. "I know you're going through grief, trust me. I lost someone too," I said. It sounded like he turned around to look back at the beds.

"Dean-" I started, but he interrupted me.

"Dean is sleeping," he said. I stopped in mid-chop, surprised. I turned slowly to see Sam standing at the doorway.

"Agh!" I yelled and brandished my knife. Percy came out of the bathroom, and like I did, he yelled.

Sam stared at us. "What are you doing?!" He said.

I put down the knife. "Oh Shiva," I muttered. Percy looked at me, very confused. As if on cue, Nico entered the room. He looked at Sam, then nodded and smiled.

"Welcome back to the living," Nico ribbed.

"Nico..." I threatened.

Nico shrugged, and said, "An eye for an eye, Annabeth."

"But...? I believe I hear a but in there." Percy started.

Nico looked at us. "She was into it," he said.

Sam glanced around. "What happened? I'm so confused." He stated.

Nico patted him on the shoulder. "Come on, I'll explain it to you," he said and then guided Sam into the bedroom.

Percy and I exchanged a look while we waited for Nico and Sam to come back out. About 5 to 6 minutes later, Dean woke up, and he noticed that Sam's body was gone.

"Uh... What's going on here, Annabeth?" He started as Nico walked out of the bedroom.

"You buried him while I was asleep didn't you, guys?" Dean said, glaring at us. I stayed silent.

"DIDN'T YOU?!" He yelled.

"Dean-" I started.

"Don't," Dean hissed. "You could've told-"

"Dean," Sam said as he exited the bedroom. Dean turned to see his not-exactly-dead baby brother.

"Sammy?" He asked in disbelief.

Sam shifted his position. "Uh, yeah. Hi," he said, uncomfortable.

"How...?" Dean began, but then he shook his head and rushed forward to hug Sam. At first Sam, just stood there awkwardly. Then, he put his arms around Dean too. Percy, Nico, and I watched as the brothers embraced. Seconds later, they broke apart and Dean asked the million-dollar question.

"Sammy, how are you alive?" Sam looked down at his feet but didn't reply.

"Okay, Dean listen..." Nico started, "Jess couldn't live with herself knowing that she could've stopped Sam's death, so I called my dad-"

"Hades, correct?"

"Yeah, and I asked him if he could trade Jess's soul for Sam's… Dad said yes," Nico finished.

"She sold her soul for me?" Sam asked bitterly.

"Sam, I meant to tell you this... I made a request that Jess would go to Elysium that was granted for you... But Jess had two lives before this one, each of those she reached Elysium," Nico said. I gasped.

"What?" Sam asked, bewildered.

"She achieved the isles of the blessed," Nico explained. "That's like, paradise x100. There's no better place, if someone says 'she's in a better place,' that's an understatement."

Third person

Hades happily stacked all of Sam's paper work into a neat pile. He pulled out a box of matches and gratefully lit the pile on fire with glee. He looked at it, content obvious on his face. Since Sam wasn't dead yet, he didn't have to do that paper work until he did die, eventually. The flames licked the paper while it started to crumble at the edges. He then noticed something odd. There were some words that hadn't been burnt yet, but one of those stood out like sore thumb. The words that stuck out to Hades were "blood child."

Hades gasped and grappled for his phone. He accidentally tossed it into the burning pile of paper as he tried to open it. Hades looked at it, disappointed, then he searched for his iris message fountain. He pulled out a dranchma and tossed it into the water, then said, "Show me Nico di Angelo, location... Stanford?" He said. Nico's image shimmered and appeared there.

"Hey..." Nico started but Hades held up a hand.

"Nico, did you know about Sam?" He asked.

"What about him?" Nico questioned.

"He's a blood child," Hades stated.

Nico's eyes widened comically at that. "What?"

"Standard blood child procedure," Hades ordered.

"But, dad... Sam's my FRIEND," Nico protested.

"Nico, he's a blood child," Hades replied simply.

"But- I salt and burn CORPSES, not friends, dad." Nico mumbled.

"Then MAKE him a corpse," Hades said forcefully and waved his hand through the iris message, making it disappear abruptly.

TBC…

(sorry it was short, just making sure everything goes smoothly)

Also have you noticed the line breaks are working!

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