𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄, PJ2

𝟎𝟎𝟓.𝟏

"Julie," Thalia had tears welling up in her eyes as she rushed and engulfed her in a hug. "God, Julie, I-i can't believe this,"

Juliet broke the hug, leaning back a little as she turned and looked around, scrambling away from Thalia as tears blurred her eyes, "You're-no! no! No you can't be dead!"

Thalia hastily moved forward pulling a shaking and sobbing Juliet in her arms while tears escaped her own eyes, she patted the girl's hair and spoke soothingly, "I'm not, I'm not dead Julie, shh, everything is okay."

Juliet hiccuped as she whispered, "not dead?"

Thalia's expression turned somber as she pulled away from the hug, her gaze meeting Juliet's. "No, Julie I'm not dead," she hesitated for a second before saying softly. "But you're, you're alive."

Juliet's eyes widened in disbelief, her mind struggling to comprehend what Thalia had just said. "Alive?" she repeated, pointing at herself with a lost puppy look before turning around and looking at her surroundings, she was sitting in the middle of ruins, still wearing the peach dress that she had been wear in the underworld but right now she was sitting up in the mortal world and....was that Hera? "What-How? What is happening?"

Thalia paled at that and looked at Juliet with pain, "I don't know, gods I don't know!" Thalia pressed her palms to her eyes.

"You are alive again Juliet Alexander, the soul of Patroclus lives again," Hera stared at Juliet with a cold stare, "Touching reunion we'll see with Achilles again, Your father will finally stop spreading diseases like a wildfire now,"

Juliet was spiralling, alive? She was what? Was she supposed to be happy or sad? What was she supposed to do? Where was Percy? Oh gods, what was she supposed to do!?

She could hear Thalia and Hera arguing in the background but their voices were white noise as she felt an overwhelming pressure build up in her chest making it hard to breathe.

A choked gasp felt out of her mouth alerting Leo who was standing behind her, he awkwardly shuffled his hands, knowing too well that the girl was going through a panic attack. He tried to seem nonchalant but ended up lightly patting the unknown blonde's shoulder, "Um, it's gonna be okay,"

Juliet sniffled, while the unknown boy patted her back, she nodded as thank you and shuffled to her feet, messily. She needed to find Percy.

"Stop it, you two," Piper yelled to Thalia and Hera, while helping Jason to his feet and gave him the last nectar from their supplies. Then she glanced at Juliet a little defensively, "Now ...Hera—Your Majesty—we couldn't have rescued you without the Hunters. And Thalia, you never would've seen Jason again—I wouldn't have met him—if it weren't for Hera. You two make nice, because we've got bigger problems."

Juliet stared at the girl with a lost look, "Who are you?"

Piper gave Juliet a glance as she replied, "Piper, daughter of Aphrodite,"

"Jason Grace, son of Zeus," Jason stepped forward, Juliet's eyebrows rose in confusion, "Grace? As is in Thalia-"

"He's my brother," Thalia answered making Juliet look between them twice, then Leo stepped forward throwing a peace sign, "And I'm Leo Valdez, the hottest one in the trio,"

Juliet pulled out a pained smile at that, the boy reminded her a little of herself and Augustus, god Augustus she couldn't wait to meet her friends again, "Juliet Alexander, daughter of Apollo." she then looked at the trio once again before speaking, "It was nice to know your names, but who are you again?"

"New campers, Julie," Thalia answered making Juliet sniffle again, wiping her tears as she passed Thalia a sad smile, "Guess we are not the cool kids anymore, huh?"