PERCY
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I woke up from my dreams of Rachel and Nico to Thalia shaking me.
"Percy," she said. "Come on. It's late afternoon. We've got visitors."
Late afternoon? I didn't know I had been sleeping that long. I sat up, disoriented. The bed was too comfortable, and I hated sleeping in the middle of the day.
"Visitors?" I said.
Thalia nodded grimly. "A Titan wants to see you, under a flag of truce. He has a message from Kronos."
"Anything new?" I said, yawning as I got up and stretched.
"Tempest and I were running around, setting up some watch posts and barriers," Thalia said.
"You and Tempest? Really?"
She nodded. "Yeah. She had this idea to use the cars of mortals to our advantage. Well, cars, busses, scrap metal- if it was big, we blocked off a lot of stuff with it. And we've got ghosts looking out over the whole place, though they can't do much during the day. Tempest is like our walking radio."
"Sweet," I grinned. "Always knew she was a badass."
Just before I opened the door, Thalia took my hand. "Wait."
I turned.
She shook her head. "You're gonna see Tempest."
Fire can burn you. "Yes, I am not blind."
"No," she frowned. "Tempest is using her powers a lot right now. And she's stronger at night. She looks the way she did when she died, Percy. She's been hiding her real self from us this whole time."
I blinked in shock. "I... Wait, what?"
"She looks like her corpse," Thalia said lowly. "Don't freak out. If you saw a bald cancer kid, you wouldn't stare?"
"This isn't a bald cancer kid! This is a dead girl walking!" I shook my head, since that was mean. "How bad is it?"
"Very bad," she said. "Traumatic bad. It makes you understand why she's so hateful all the time."
I felt my stomach churning. "Oh, gods..."
"Just remember; she's not gone. She's still here."
"Oh, yeah, because that will make me not puke."
"Put on your brave face, Percy."
I did that, and opened the door.
Several demigods were running around, most of them keeping their gaze down, but several were looking in Tempest's general direction. She had her back turned to me and half of her body was hidden behind a counter as she talked rapidly on the phone in Louisiana French.
Thalia cleared her throat. "Yo, Tempest!"
Tempest froze and hung up. I took a deep breath as she turned around and walked closer.
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νεκρός || Annabeth Chase x Fem!OC
Fanfiction"I'm sorry that I hurt you It's something I must live with everyday And all the pain I put you through I wish that I could take it all away And be the one who catches all your tears That's why I need you to hear I've found a reason for me To change...
