Ransom

Chapter 27: Castor Winehouse

**WARNING YOU ABOUT THIS CHAPTER: SELF HARM**

Castor sat there, looking at the door of his room. Jason was currently on guard.

Castor was a mess. He should have known to alert Percy of Allie jumping into the water. Man, Castor had been so stupid lately.

He let her slip through his fingers. 'I guess that I always seem to let everyone that I love slip through my fingers.' he thought to himself.

When him and his brother first came to Camp Half-Blood, they were seven years old. They lived with their mother, Monica, up until that torturous day.

Castor and Pollux were sitting by the fireplace while their mother read them a bed time story from the couch. "And they all lived happily ever after, the end." She smiled at them.

Pollux jumped up and hugged his mother. Castor did something that he has never told anyone about, besides Pollux, for he was the only person who knew of the actual events that occurred. Castor got up and stood before the raging fire. He grabbed an unburnt log and set it ablaze. Then, he chucked it at his mother.

The log hit her with such force that she was knocked unconscious. Pollux stared at his brother in horror as he backed away from their mother, unconscious and burning. The fire spread until it covered the whole couch and started to burn the rug.

"Cassie!" Pollux cried. "M-m-m" Castor started. He didn't know what he was doing or why he did it, but he just did.

Maybe he was possessed, that would be the only logical explanation to why he would do such a thing.

His mother lay there, her skin red and peeling from the fire and her head bleeding slightly from the head wound. She was too shocked to scream or run.

The walls started to burn. Soon, it became difficult to breathe. Castor and Pollux ran out of the house and into the woods that were behind the house.

"Why did you do that to mommy!?" Pollux yelled at him through tears. "I-I-I" Castor started, but he could not finish because he started to bawl.

They heard a sound behind them whilst they cried for their mother's death and their home that was currently burning to ashes. "Who are you kids?" They heard a female voice ask.

They whipped their heads around and saw a girl who went by the name of Julia Beauregard, older half sister of Silena Beauregard. Silena's mother was Aphrodite whereas Julia's mother was Iris.

"I'm P-Pollux and this i-is Cas-Castor." Pollux sniffled.

"How old are you?" She asked. "Seven." Castor sniffled. Julia smiled sympathetically and warmly at them and said "Are you demigods?"

The twins stared at each other in confusion before Julia asked them another question. "What am I holding?" She asked.

Then, she took out a long sword and held it with two hands in front of the two little boys, one hand on the blade and another on the handle.

"A sword." Pollux said. Julia turned to Castor and asked "Is that what you see, too?"

Castor nodded his head and Julia smiled in triumph as she said "You boys are demigods."

"Let's get out of here before the cops show up." She said. And so, on the five mile walk to Camp Half-Blood, Julia explained to them all that they needed to know about being a demigod. She was patient and answered any questions that they had about them.

Julia ended up as a Hunter of Artemis, and Castor wondered if she was still a hunter. Silena never spoke of her sister, mostly because she barely knew her. Silena came to Camp when she was born whilst Julia didn't come until she was 12, and she joined the Hunters when she turned 16.