Sealed fate || Percy Jackson

FROM THE VAULT I

Chapter title: "I'll be home for Christmas" (FTV).

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December 21, 2009

After their talk, Nara went back into the Big House, after all, she had a call to do.

She was in the rec room, with an humidifier stood on the ping-pong table and a torch to create a Rainbow.

She took a deep breath and sighed on a try of taking her nervous away and cleared her throat.

"Oh, Iris, goddess of the rainbow, please accept my offering," she plegged. "Show me Robin Aube." She said as she throwed the coin to the rainbow

At first nothing happened, but through the rainbow a image started apearing, showing her uncle and her aunt seated on the couch. He was reading while she seemed to check somenthing on her laptop, probably somenthing to prepare the defense of her new client.

She couldn't help a smile.

"Uncle Eric! Aunt Robin!" She called them.

They jumped scared, she even almost threw her laptop to the ground, but her reflexes were faster and quckly grabbed it.

When they saw the girl image a smile and a few tears formed on her face.

"Oh my gods, Nara" her uncle said. "I can't believe it is you! Your postcards were fewer each time so, whe thought that... we thought-"

"Yeah, I know, but don't worry, I'm fine." She smiled, "Actually, I was wondering..."

"What is it?" Her aunt asked puting her laptop away.

"Do you have room for one more?" She asked.

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That same evening, Nara arrived at her uncles' place.

"Thank you Argus" she smiled to the driver who encouraged her with a thumbs up.

She stood in front of the entrance of the building with her luggage, took a big breath and step inside.

Eric and Robin received her with a big hugh.

When she stepped inside, she got relieved that the dúplex apartment was still the same as the day she left.

They same big windows that gave a great lightness to the light red painted living room with its electric hearth and the same elegant lamp, from there she could see that there still was the same american styled kitchen with the very same draws she did when she was six or seven years old still hanging on the frizzer... She turned her head and smiled as she could even still see the marks next to the door frame where her uncle used to measure her.

"Come on, let's get your things upstairs." Robin told her with an smile putting a hand on Nara's back taking her out of her trance.

She followed her to her room, the same one she had left six years ago. They same color and posters on the wall, her desk with more things on it than it could hold.

She left her luggage on the floor and walked straight to it picking up a photo phrame with a picture of her mother when she was still pregnant. A new reminder of what the fates had in storage for her: to die or to be alone forever.