Reconnections

Chapter 23

"Helios, I want to know who had snake venom and how it got in my back! It won't heal!" I shouted to him in my head as Adam replaced the bandages.

"I'm looking right now. More then likely it was probably Medusa's venom."

"Wasn't she slayed a while ago? She's only a head and besides, it's not like anyone can use her...eyes here."

"Technically, using her wouldn't cause anyone harm. It would just turn them to stone."

"Aren't there any gods who know how to heal a god?" Adam asked tossing the blood soaked bandages in the metal bin to burn.

"I'll be right over. I should be able to heal it." Helios said before it went silent.

"How would Medusa even be here? She's not even alive and last I knew Perseus had her head.." Then the realization his me. "POSEIDON!" I screamed with anger making the house shake. After the shaking stopped all I could hear was the children crying.

"What's the matter? You almost broke my eardrums." Adam held his hands over his ears.

"Are you guys okay in here?" Eros walked in rubbing one ear.

"I will... kill Poseidon if my hunch is correct." I huffed.

"Don't worry! I got the screaming babies!" My dad called.

"Can you bring them in here please?" I grabbed my shirt and lifted it over my head before Adam grabbed my arms.

"Leave it off till Helios gets here. That way that's one less shirt we have to burn."

"Why do you have to burn it?" Jefferson walked into the room eating an ice cream cone.

"Because, there's venom on it and a lot of vampires that want blood. If any vampire drinks her blood right now they'd die instantly."

"Wouldn't that send her to Hades then? Considering she'd be breaking her own rules." Jefferson laughed at me.

"It wouldn't work that way, it'd be up to Helios if I broke a rule what my punishment and vice versa if he broke a rule."

"Damn. I was thinking I'd get to meet Hades and become fast friends." 

"You don't wish to meet Hades. He can be kind but he never shows mercy to mortal souls. You may be a vampire but you have a mortal soul. don't forget that." Helios snatched Jeffersons ice cream cone out of his hand and started eating it.

"I'd say get your own but I feel like that'd be a bad idea."

"You'd be right. This is mine now. Thanks, strawberry is my favorite. Here hold this." He handed the cone to Adam and sat on the bed behind me. "Hold still. This will burn like hell."

"Haha, hell. I get it." Jefferson laughed giving the room an awkward aura.

"I wasn't joking. You vampires may want to leave if you don't want to get burned." Just like that the room was emptied and the door closed. "Take a breath and count to five."

"One." Just as I said that first number heat filled my body. It felt similar to fire filling my veins as I counted. By each number the heat just built up more. I clenched my teeth as I could feel my sweat instantly drying as soon as it lifted to my skin. Finally as I whispered the number five, the heat dissipated and I felt cold. I felt my cores temperature drop from well over one hundred degrees fahrenheit to freezing.

"You're going to be a little cold for a while but I burned out all the venom. Your heart's not beating but the serum you took keeps your blood flowing so as soon as that venom was in you, it spread like a wild fire." He sighed as he sat on the bed. I could feel the heat coming off of him and couldn't resist getting closer since I felt so cold.