Well, I'm Here Now (PJO/HoO)

Comanded

When Drew woke up she was in a blue room. It was early in the morning, or perhaps it was early evening. She was laying on a small cot, on top of a light blue blanket that matched both the room and the sky outside. Her headphones were on the table next to her, still connected to her IPod. 

She picked them up and slipped them over her head before she calmly pressed play. She couldn't worry about being trapped in a blue room. She couldn't, she had to be brave now and if calmly listening to music was being brave that would be what she would have to do. She needed an escape, thank God she had her headphones.

The song started with the husky speaking voice of an old man "When there's nothing left to burn, you have to set your self on fire." Drew sighed and closed her eyes as the violins kicked in and the true song began to play.

Drew rolled onto her side and stared out the window at the blue sky, everything was blue. Even the song felt blue to her, blue like some winters. She wondered if they had locked her in. Then she decided she didn't care to much.

Drew knew, deep down, that she would have to do something. They would eventually come to find her. 

She wondered who she would be here in this strange new world. Would she be the same person she had been at her old school, the same person she had been in her old house in her old world upstate.

She shouldn't be old her, that she knew. Old her was quiet, friendless and boring.

She would have to be different this time.

She would have to be better.

The men on the porch had said something about being a demigod and another thing about being Aphrodite. Maybe she was part Aphrodite. Even it she wasn't she could probably use it as an excuse to get somewhere in this place.

She could become a bigger personality at the very least. And with her silver tongue she could convince everyone that she had been there for forever.

She was here now. She guessed she would have to make the best out of it.

She could figure out the rest later.

She smiled to herself at her good decision making skills and sang softly along with the song, "Live through this, and you won't look back."

She lay there in the cot and let her music wash over her as the sky darkened. In the morning she would get out of this room and she would go somewhere. She would find out from other people here what was going on in this place and then she would tell them to forget forever that they had told her. Maybe she could even convince them that they had known her forever.

She had been able to convince that boy for at least a little bit. Maybe she convince other people, who didn't have things written on their hands, for longer.

She didn't want to be that one girl any more. She wanted to be that one girl. It made sense to her at the time.

Drew didn't fall asleep for awhile after coming to her decision, but once she did her sleep felt strange. For once in her life she actually dreamed. A beautiful woman was glaring down at her from a beautiful throne, her hair and face changing like a kaleidoscope, she was a beautiful black woman with purple hair and then an equally beautiful redhead with porcelain pale skin and then another beautiful woman and another.

"What the hell do you think you are doing," The woman said in a beautifully angry voice to match her beautiful faces.

"I'm sorry. I don't know what you mean. Who are you?" Drew said, feeling badly for whatever she had done to offend this beautiful woman.

"So you get rescued from a world that you hate and you yell at your rescuers to take you home? You don't understand what kind of possibilities this place holds. And, don't you recognize your own mother?" The woman said, stopping the slide show of beautiful faces at the face and body of a woman that looked a lot like Drew, if Drew was the most beautiful person to ever grace the universe. Her hair was sleek and fell perfectly to her waist unlike Drew's shoulder length graduated bob and bangs that were getting too long. The woman's face looked just like Drew's, only without even one spot on her chin.

"I'm sorry, I was just surprised. I'm going to do what I have to do, uhm, mother." Drew said looking at her shoes.

"Well then assert yourself!" Her mother said.

"I'm trying to." Drew said.

"Look up!" Her mother said angrily.

"I am! I'm going to do what I have to!" Drew said looking at her mother, "Aren't you supposed to be supportive of me?"

Her mother smiled, looking proud, "I want one of my children to know that they are better than the others. You will be better than the others. They will look up to you. You, Drew, are going to rule the cabin. I know that you can, you are smart enough. Be brave enough."

Drew nodded and set her jaw, this was the amazing woman who had made her a person. This was the woman who had made her happen. This was the woman who, for her entire life, she had been trying to get back into her life. Now that her mom was here she had to impress her, she didn't want her to ever leave her alone again.

"Be the best." Her mother commanded seriously, "No more of this, 'Leave me alone, go away' bull. You will continue to be aloof but you will also be respected and instead of being looked down on people will look up to you. Do whatever it takes."

Drew nodded almost imperceptibly, suddenly scared about what impressing her mother might take.

"So?" Her mother said, obviously not seeing Drew's invisible nod of fear.

"I will do whatever it takes to become the queen of the Aphrodite cabin." Drew said, bravely smiling and trying to transfer the bravery of her smile into her actual life.

"Good." Aphrodite smiled.

A/N:

The song at the beginning is Your Ex-Lover Is Dead by Stars: watch?v=no-im2ULYJ4

Thank you for reading!