IN WHICH a daughter of Asteria falls for a son of Nemesis.
Or
IN WHICH a daughter of Asteria can't seem pick a side.
Book I of 'Written In The Stars' [Wits] Series
Percy Jackson - Pre Heroes of Olympus
Ethan Nakamura x Fem!OC
Wits - plural n. mental...
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ME AND PERCY BECOME WANTED FUGITIVES, IT MAY BE MY THIRD TIME BUT WHO'S COUNTING?
The river raced toward us at the speed of a truck. Wind ripped the breath from my lungs. Steeples and skyscrapers and bridges tumbled in and out of my vision.
And then: Flaaa-boooom!
A whiteout of bubbles. I sank through the murk, sure that I was about to end up embedded in a hundred feet of mud and lost forever.
But my impact with the water hadn't hurt. I was falling slowly now. I let go of Percy's hand and swam up, I was holding my breath. I barely made it out of the water before running out of breath.
I got out of the river, I was soaking wet. I decided to wait for Percy. After a few minutes Percy swam up.
When he walked out I noticed he was dry and he had my bow. I gave him a nod.
"Here let me help," He said. He put his hand on my forearm and I noticed my clothes was drying up.
He was draining the water from my clothes. Within seconds my clothes was dry. I thanked him, he gave me my bow and we started walking.
A block away, every emergency vehicle in St. Louis was surrounding the Arch. Police helicopters circled overhead. The crowd of onlookers reminded me of Times Square on New Year's Eve.
A little girl said, "Mama! That boy and girl walked out of the river?"
"That's nice, dear," her mother said, craning her neck to watch the ambulances.
"But their's dry!"—"That's nice, dear."
A news lady was talking for the camera: "Probably not a terrorist attack, we're told, but it's still very early in the investigation. The damage, as you can see, is very serious. We're trying to get to some of the survivors, to question them about eyewitness reports of someone falling from the Arch."
Survivors. I felt a surge of relief. Maybe the park ranger and that family made it out safely.
We tried to push through the crowd to see what was going on inside the police line... "an adolescent boy and girl," another reporter was saying.
"Channel Five has learned that surveillance cameras show an adolescent boy and girl going wild on the observation deck, somehow setting off this freak explosion. Hard to believe, John, but that's what we're hearing. Again, no confirmed fatalities..."
I backed away, pulling Percy along with me trying to keep my head down. I had to go a long way around the police perimeter.
Uniformed officers and news reporters were everywhere.
As we made our way through I heard a voice. "Perrr-су!"
I turned and Percy got tackled by Grover's bear hug-or goat hug. He said, "We thought you'd gone to Hades the hard way!"
