Love, Cassie → L. Evans [PJOXHP]

chapter six

guys ;-; id just like to say that school is really hard like what the fuck is up with that i actually have to like think D:

when percy jackson first met cassandra black, he was eleven. his first thought of her was that she was kinda pretty, all attitude and different hair colors. his second: hey, you have parent issues and i have parent issues, let's be friends!

and so they were. they used to skate to rite aide together (well, cassie would skate, and percy would jog behind her. she taught him to skate eventually, but when he first started no one within a thirty foot radius could avoid emotional and physical trauma when he was on a board.)

she carried a little first aid and make up kit in her backpack, and she would always patch him up and dab concealer on his bruises and cuts before school. the first time that she had realized what gabe and done to him, he'd had to pin her to the floor after some very graphic threats about maiming and torture were issued towards his step father.

cassie had grudgingly backed off, though, after he had explained why he wasn't leaving. his mom wanted to stay, and the last thing he wanted was to be away from sally.

and then grover had crashed into their lives, and she had welcomed him into the group, though she always seemed to walk on eggshells around the boy. percy had never known why until he was older. cassie wasn't interested in being outed as a demigod, and recognized grover as a satyr immediately. if she was identified, she'd be dragged to camp half-blood, and then she wouldn't be able to see sirius anymore. she could care less about regulus. (their relationship was forever fractured after he had put a spider in her hair and refused to apologize.)

but then percy had found out, about everything. and even though he hadn't meant to do it, he was slowly drifting away from cassie. he was under the assumption that she was a mortal. he didn't want to put her in danger, and slowly sulked out of her life.

cassie had never been more pissed in her fucking life.  but she let him go, and watched from afar.

she intervened several times. softened the water when he fell from the st. louis arch. aided him subtly in his fight against ares. willed him to bargain with the river gods. weakened the titans he fought. protected him from the blast that came from the explosion of the princess andromeda. guided him to the roman camp.

the first time she actually made herself seen was when she stopped him from falling into tartarus. she had leaped into the pit herself, sliced the web curled around the ankle of athena's daughter, and willed the water molecules in the air to push them up and out. she understood what she'd have to do in the pit, and she was determined to save her brother the pain and finish it herself.

she'd shot percy a small smile, and he'd screamed. they had both grown up, but he'd recognize her frame and her bright hair anywhere. dumbass had tried to dive after her, but the blonde had held him back. cassie didn't even know she was crying until she tried to scrub the dirt off her face (if she was falling in tartarus, she was doing it in style, godammit) and her hand had come away wet.

percy was waiting for her when the elevator doors rolled open, bob and damasen crowded behind her. small bob had stayed behind to guard the doors.

she'd kissed the top of his head and disappeared in a swirl of water. no evidence of her remained except for percy's wet clothes. 

the hardest thing she'd ever done was stay away from the final battle, but she knew it wasn't her fight. her presence would upset the outcome that the fates had woven (which she could fucking care less about, but they had shown her a peek and she knew that the demigods won, and percy would be safe.)

the next time she saw him was when she was leaning smugly against the doorway of his history class in a shirt that definitely wasn't school appropriate. cassie had given the wall next to the door a cheeky knock, and flashed her signature smirk when every head whirled around to face her.

percy was pushing out of his seat in a split second, a sob catching in his throat as he had thrown himself into her arms. he'd soaked her five hundred galleon top with snot and tears, but she could care less. (she'd bought it with sirius' not-so-secret stash of galleons, though, so it didn't really matter anyway.)

he'd promised never to leave her side again, and she had laughed. she didn't think he'd be able to keep that promise. he swore on the river styx that he would.

and he did. which was precisely why he was prying open the jaws of a very-dead-basilisk as cassie got sorted dozens of floors above his head. he wiped riptide against it's scales, whipping out a glowing dagger to saw it's fangs into a leather bag.

they'd received an iris message from nico pointing them to the giant snake hours ago, along with a promise that he'd join them at hogwarts as soon as he could. percy had insisted that cassie stay in the great hall while he killed the snake just in case he inadvertently released the snake, so there would still be someone to protect the students.

pulling the cords together to seal the bag, he flung it into the water that lined the stone pathway, concentrating for a second before watching the bag glimmer and disappear. cassie had taught him that trick years ago.

percy jackson climbed the stone steps out of the chamber of secrets.

cassandra black sat laughing at the gryffindor table.

nico di angelo sunk into the shadows behind a diner, racing towards hogwarts.

the world of magic wouldn't know what hit it.

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