Daughter Of Light- Book 1: PJO

Chapter 24: The Doctor Will See You Now

"Lunch!"

I dropped my bow, skidding the arrow back into my quiver. Will scrambled over and yanked the door open. A young man with sunshine bright hair and a smile that was full of braces stood holding a tray piled with food.

"Good afternoon Demi god's! I bring lunch. Sorry, it's just burgers and fries, sorry, last minute ya know?" He came almost bouncing into the room. He placed the tray on the table and then flopped into a chair. We all kind of stood staring at him confused.

"I promise it's not poisoned!" He said, and leaned forwards snatching a french fry off the pile and shoving it into his mouth.

"Uhh, not to sound too rude...but who are you..?" I asked

"Oh I'm Hippocrates's son. He was a physician in Greek's-"

"Classical period! No way!" Will squealed. "He was like the father of medicine for Apollo's children! Oh my gods oh my gods!"

"Your dad was the father of medicine? I thought that was Apollo's son Asclepius?" I asked, finally sitting down and grabbing a cheese burger off the stack. It was greasy, full of cheese and bacon.

"Di immortals this is so freaking good!" I mumbled with a mouth full. Raph eyed me up and grabbed a burger and shoved it I to his mouth.

"Well family trees are a little... unorthodox in the Greek world. But yeah. There's rumors that dad's great great great great grandfather was Hercules...but that lug head couldn't tell you what the difference between a common cold and the plauge is. Hercules married into the family, and of course got the glory because he's Zeus's son. But I digress. We're descendants of Apollo."

"So...who are you?" I asked, my mouth stuffed with more cheese burgers.

"Alistair of Kros. I'm immortal before you ask. I'm in med school right now, so for right now...just an orderly in this place. Pays the bills."

"Well...cool..?" Raph said. As he grabbed a second burger off the tray.

"Who was the creep that tried to flash me?"

"Oh. Ya...he does that. Dude was a creep even before he went a little ...loopy. Adonis he was the minor god of passion and beauty. He thinks he's..."

"A Ken doll?" I asked.

"Ya." Alistair shrugged. "Sorry, we're still working on keeping clothes on."

"He's definitely too sex for his trench coat." Raph muttered. I choked on my mouth full of french fries. Will wacked me on the back.

"Alister of Kros." A voice on the intercom buzzed. "We have a code Red."

"Oh Styx." He grumbled and jumped to his feet. "Anteros at it again, no doubt."

"Who?"

"Old god, his thing was returned love. Greeks used to pray to him when they didn't know if their crush liked them back..."

"Alister of Kros." The voice called again. "We have a code Red."

"Ya ya I'm coming. Like I can't catch him. Guy has a walker... Anyways. I'll see you guys later." He turned to Will, "call me sometime." He handed Will a pics of paper and winked.

The door clicked shut.

"I think Will was just asked on a date." I grinned at him.

"No no..." He waved a hand, but his cheeks were pink. "That's our brother...that's weird."

"Zues married his sister." I shrugged.

"Doesn't make it better." He threw a French fry at me.

We are as much as we could stuff into ourselves. It seemed like forever since we last ate sandwiches from Hera. We were rather sleepy now. My head was just tipping with sleep when there was another knock on the door and it opened. A man with short salt-and-pepper hair, and a well-trimmed beard. Was looking at a clip board. He had a white lab coat over a business suit and a stethoscope around his neck, the pin in his hand had a small little snake that wiggled around and hissed.