Jewels // DNF

Chapter seven

The cave had lights hanging down from the ceiling, a wooden floor covered with a fluffy wool rug and three arm chairs which were set around a fireplace, one curved-ish wall was being lined with shelves to make somewhat of a mini library in the far back of the cave. It was coming together nicely.

Hermes had delivered everything and stayed a little to help with the flooring and fireplace while Tommy and Scarlett put the chairs together, it was kind of like a family bonding activity. Scarlett had also hung up the lights which now hung around the cave's roof like drops of morning dew clinging to the slick leaves after a night of rain.

Only thing about these ones is that they glowed with the light of hell fire, you could say a colour at it would change, George had to make a sheet of paper with all the colours and their commanded names and stick it to the wall. Scarlett tried to always have it on 'bloodmoon' which is where the white lights would slowly fade to a deep red colour before fading back out to white and having it all happen again.

Tommy tried to have it on eclipse all the time, where it was blinding only to slowly fade into darkness then back out into blinding. George had to take charge and chose dawn which was just a soft glow of yellow that filled the room and gave them enough light to see what they were doing.

George had accidentally got mud covering his hand before he placed it on the wall, leaving a handprint of mud there. Scarlett followed insute and placed hers beside George, Tomathy's was on the other side of scarletts leaving hers in the middle. 'We have claimed this cave!' she had cheered while they washed their hands, yes, yes they had.

The oldest of the three couldn't remember the last time he was genuinely happy with his life until he came to this camp, it all seems like a dream, if it is or isn't he was glad he could be free in this world, a world away from the stress and bullying and fights. Just in a world where he was able to be himself.

Scarlett was setting up her paints in a corner while Tommy was just lounging around on a chair in front of the forever burning fire which kept the place warm. Scarlett hummed and looked over "I've been reading.."

George smiled and nodded "About?" he was in the middle of setting up another shelf in the bookcase and failing, if only Hermes was still helping them. George was half focused on this while listening to Scarlett start to ramble on about how she was reading about different Volcanox breeds.

It seems to keep her happy so George would gladly listen to the girl ramble on and on about the different creatures which popped into her mind like a book turning the page to the next chapter. He smiled, having gone onto the next shelf thinking of ways to keep his siblings happy, maybe this cave was a good thing, it was starting to feel rather homey now. He hoped his siblings would like it by the end of this.

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They had finished a few hours ago, the shelves stocked up with books upon books about Greek mythology and the ancient cities, worlds and god's people have forgotten. George was sitting on a chair with both his siblings on the sme one using him as a pillow, a blanket draped over then as he wrote, a soft smile on his face.

Maybe he was meant to be here and this wasn't a dream, the small smile on his spread at the thought of finally being able to call somewhere home, somewhere safe with his two siblings he felt as if he needed to protect.

He had learned of Scarrlets anger issues, threatening to kill Tommy if he didn't shut up for 'a god damn fucking minute' before they went onto a convastion about what the best pillow was. Which ended in both of them agreeing on tits, George has silently mentioned his own option which was simply a males chest.

He had a feeling that Scarlett was bisexual at the least, lesbain at most. He had also learned that Cameron had made a bet with the hot headed girl with wisteria coloured eyes. He didn't know what it was but it sure as hell made the daughter of Hades pissed off. Tommy had told him about a group of friends he had made that day.

Something to do with a bay, they met at the lake where Tommy would just sit there and stare at the water, one of the names Goerge could remember was 'Deo' it was a strange name but also cool in a way. Tom had spoken about him the most, something about Deo being a child of Athena and then about how he wore a Santa type hat or an elf one made George want to laugh.

He didn't know if he was being real or not but it made the middle child happy that he would talk to George without having to worry, that he could let everything out and George would still be there to hug him and pat his back. That he wouldn't leave.

Scarlett also found that comforting, she would ramble on and on about the most random things and her siblings would sit there and listen even if she was horrid to them seconds before, if she was screaming and yelling they wouldn't care, they'd stay and let her cry if ended, something she wasn't use to. She was happy here, with her siblings.

The Hades siblings are all happy here, together it's times like these that bring a smile to people's faces. George set down his notebook and pen before leaning back in his chair, pulling his siblings onto his lap and off the arm's of the chair, he kept them close, Scarletts head resting on his chest while Tommy's face was stuffed into a mop of fluffy brown hair.

George smiled softly and readjusted the blanket, making sure they were all warm, the endless fire filled the room with warmth, the weed and root door continued to keep the head in. George took one last glance around the room, the small Malinox was curled up in front of the fireplace, fast asleep and soaking in the warmth.

George smiled and kissed the top of scarletts head before kissing two of his fingers and reaching up, patting the blonde boy's hair. He had placed the kiss atop his head to make sure he slept well.

George slowly closed his eyes, letting the soft sound of the wind and the fire crackling lure him into a deep sleep. As his world faded to darkness he whispered out to his siblings, adoptive mother and father.

"Goodnight.."