BY fates design

Goodbye

When the siblings returned home, the demigods were waiting for them. "We thought we could spend some time together before we left." Delilah said as they walked out of the fireplace.

"It was sunshine's idea." Clarisse grumbled jabbing a thumb towards Will who simply nodded in confirmation.

"That name isn't nearly as insulting as you thought it was." Will remarked as he looked over to Clarisse. The daughter of Ares merely shrugged not meeting his gaze as she stared at the screen ahead.

"Well I like this plan." Cassiopeia grinned ruffling his golden hair. "I think spending your last day here together would be nice."

Conner, Fred and Kira left to grab some board games while Alex, Achlys, Luna, Annabeth and Delilah went and raided the library for some books. Eleana, Travis, George and Corvus went and stole food from the kitchen leaving Clarisse, Astro, Ginny, Grover, Percy and Cassiopeia to arrange the living room for them.

Once they were all gathered, they began to relax, enjoying each other's company. Clarisse and Kira engaged in an extremely competitive game of wizards chess while the five Hermes kids placed bets on who would win.

"I hate wizarding chess. It's a terrible game." Clarisse exclaimed, her eyes narrowed with annoyance.

"You just aren't very good at it." Kira teased sending her sister a mocking pout.

Will, Delilah, Corvus and Astro played a game of scrabble though the two demigods had to explain to Astro and Corvus what it was. Annabeth and Ginny teamed up with Delilah to help her since they believed she was at a disadvantage though they refused to elaborate as to why.

Cassiopeia was sat on the sofa watching them, a book in her hand. She glanced down when a weight hit her legs. Smiling, she recognised the mess of curly hair and tanned skin. "Hi." She whispered.

Cassiopeia smiled fondly at the memory displayed on the screen. It was dear to her heart, a rare pure moment of peace in her otherwise chaotic life.

Percy's face flushed, "hi." He muttered back.

"Do you want me to read to you?" She offered gesturing to the open book she held. Percy nodded slightly reaching out and grabbing a small bowl of strawberries from the table.

Taking a deep breath  Cassiopeia began to read, her voice was smooth and slightly deeper than usual as she recited the words from the page in Ancient Greek. Occasionally Percy would hold a strawberry up to her lips for her to eat, not once bothered about the fact he didn't understand half of what she was saying.

Grover watched the two with a curious gaze, he had known Cassiopeia for years and Percy was a close friend of his and he could confirm that he had never seen either act the way they were now.

"I hope it is known that I won the bet Jake started about when those two would start dating." The satyr boasted ignoring Jake's halfhearted glare.

He was munching on a can while he, Luna and Achlys played a game of exploding snap. He felt he wasn't very good at it.

"Do we have any cherries?" Corvus asked as he looked over the food they had spread out over one of the spare tables from the library that they had dragged into the living room.

"No, Betty's allergic." Cassiopeia didn't look up as she answered and didn't falter as she went back to reading in Greek. Percy smiled happily as he listened to her recount what he thought was the Odyssey.