Daughter Of Light- Book 1: PJO

Chapter 14: I Have an Official Doctors Note!

I walked with Percy to the hearth and he tossed in some rasen toast and dumped some froot loops in. He bowed his head and muttered some stuff. I kept my respectful distance and then I tossed in some scrambled eggs, "Apollo."

I followed him back to his table. He set his plate down and turned to look at me, but frowned when I sat down, across from him beside Tyson, and started eating.

"Hey big guy!"

"Morning Nora!" His big brown eye looked me over. "Is Percy's little big sister hurt?"

"I'm okay. Will patched me up pretty good." I smiled. "So how come you kept Percy up last night? He looks terrible."

Tyson looked at his brother, who was sputtering still, looking at me like I was nuts. Tyson hummed.

"He does look tired. He needs a well balanced breakfast and sleep."

"Problem Percy?" I asked and raised an eyebrow.

"You're not supposed to be here!"

"Umm, excuse me?"

"Like here here. You gotta sit over there," he pointed to Apollo's table, "with your cabin."

"It's fine." I waved a hand. "Hey Will!" I called. The blond boy turned. "I need a doctor's note saying I need to sit here."

He turned around back to the table pulled something out of his hip bag and leaned over it for a second and then came over with a cheeky smile and handed me the small slip of paper.

"The prescription you requested."

"Thank you Will! See? Doctor's orders."

Will winked at me and walked back to the table. "I need to sit with my dear brother and worry about his sleep schedule."

Percy rolled his eyes but sat down, a small cocky smirk on his face. He leaned in, and I leaned forward, placing my elbows on the table. We were only inches apart and he whispered what kept him up; it happened to be this weird annonyamus Iris message he recieved from the underworld.

"So...let me get this straight." I whispered pointing a fork at him, "Your saying you saw Nico in the underworld, having a campfire on the beach of the River Styx."

He nodded, taking a bit of froot looos.

"And he was actually talking to a ghost about bringing his sister back to life."

"Ya." Percy nodded with a mouth full of cereal again.

"And this ghost has convince him he needs to commute murder. Murdering someone who has escaped death, calling it vengeance."

"Yeah." Percy nodded again.

"And now you have a feeling you knew what soul he wants to exchange- someone who had cheated death. This vengeance..."

"Yeah." He repeated, still shoveling food in his mouth.

"You're saying Nico di Angelo is going to come looking for you." I summed up flailing my fork and a piece of bacon around.

"Summed up nicely."

"Well Styx. This sucks."

"You could say that." He said gloomily.

Before I could say something else a shadow passed over our table. Chiron and Grover came over to visit. Grover was as bleary-eyed as Percy. His shirt was inside out. He slid his plate onto the table and slumped next to me. I hadn't been properly introduced. I knew who he was and all about him from Percy, but never actually introduced.