Phases of the Sea

Chapter 8

Perci POV

The weeks seemed to fly by after meeting the pack. Paul had told me what had happened in the impromptu meeting he had called in the woods after meeting Triton and discovering my secret, and I had been greatly relieved to find out that Sam had issued an order to make sure nobody in the pack told my secret to someone not allowed to know.

Paul had ended up meeting my dad as well in the days that followed the 'big reveal'. It had been interesting to say the least. Dad had spent an hour alternating between threatening him, and thanking him for ensuring that I wasn't alone in my new eternity, especially when we found out that as long as he kept phasing, he wouldn't age. He did thank the pack for helping to keep the beaches clean though, which was somewhat amusing when Embry nearly fainted at shaking hands with a god. Paul hadn't been able to stop laughing for nearly twenty minutes. I had told them all about camp, and even had the chance to introduce them to Nico, who had come by for a surprise visit.

He had ended up becoming friend with Paul after threatening the daylights out of him, and had left with Bella's fear, and Charlie's approval. Nico had terrified Bella simply by telling Paul within her hearing range that if Paul hurt me, he knew over two hundred ways to kill him and make sure the body was never found. Ironically, that was also how he had gained Charlie's approval, and a job offer if he decided to take up law enforcement. Both Nico and I snorted at the thought, though my goth cousin did appreciate the offer. When the camp found out though, it had been a near riot, which Jared had found hilarious.

~Flashback~

Paul and I were cuddling on the couch in Sam and Emily's place since he didn't have patrol yet, enjoying the quiet when an IM appeared in front of us, startling Paul. I groaned inwardly and glared slightly at Annabeth through the rainbow.

"Your timing needs improvement, Wise Girl." I told the wide eyed girl.

"Why is that, Seaweed Brain? And who's that you're sitting very close to?" She asked, a suspicious gleam in her eyes.

"I'm Paul, Perci's boyfriend." My poor wolf said before I could warn him. Annabeth's eyes went as wide as dinner plates before she turned her head slightly to face the camp from the porch pf the Big House.

"Perci has a boyfriend, and I'm talking to him right now!" She bellowed, making me sigh and pat him on the thigh.

"Good luck." I said simply, before getting up and walking into the kitchen. I knew I shouldn't, but I would enjoy hearing all the threats me friends had for him, especially since they now knew he could see through the Mist, since he was speaking through an IM. It turned out, Aphrodite made him clear sighted when she talked to the Fates into tying our strings together, and since he was, the pack was due to the pack mind. I still had no idea how that worked when they weren't wolves, but it helped, so I didn't complain.

It was only five minutes into the riot/interrogation/major shovel talk session Paul was receiving from everyone, even Chiron and Mr. D, amusingly enough, that the pack came in for lunch. I quickly signaled for them to be quiet, letting them hear the hilarity that was Paul being threatened by so many people. It was oddly touching to find out that so many people at camp cared, but funny as hell to see the hothead of the pack actually pale at some of the threats he was getting. I couldn't wait for Thalia to find out.

By the time everyone at camp had said their piece/threatened Paul with multiple forms of death and torture, Jared had collapsed to the kitchen floor unable to breathe, he was laughing so hard.

~End Flashback~

Today though, I sat at the kitchen table, watching with amazement as Emily made such massive amounts of food for the pack, waiting for Bella. Ever since the pack found out that the redheaded vampire, Victoria, wanted to kill Bella, she had been told to spend as much time as she could at Sam and Emily's. I was there most of the time because I liked Emily, and I had told Sam that Celestial Bronze worked on vampires, since they were a creation of Hades and Aphrodite. Some mortal had insulted them, so they had cursed them to become a vampire that sparkled. That mortal bit another, and so came the vampire race. It was always funny to find a few that worshipped the Greek gods though, since they were technically created by two of them.