Poseidons Daughter

Memories

"We have completed lock down Mr Jackson, no Lukes are able to enter the premises," Leo salutes at Percy and sits down.

Do not ask how Leo got invited to this sleepover, but I guess I won't complain. They boy's really funny, and I'm not gunna say that's not what I need right now. He's welcome if he can cheer me up, all other attempts have failed, and I'm not allowed to step a foot out this cabin to find anywhere to get some tranquility.

I'm practically in a prison.

Nico sits down next to me holding a small picture, it's the one of my real mother. She truly was beautiful. My current mum says I'm turning into an identical version of her, it always pains me when I hear that, I'm a daily reminder to both her and myself that she is gone.

"So this is your-"

I nod in response.

"She died when I was young, so my aunt, my mum, she took me in. I used to get confused and I started calling her mum, they looked alike, she didn't have the heart to stop me. I never stopped calling her that, she hasn't given me a reason not to, she's been a mother to be since my real one left so what gives me a reason not to?" I say.

"You look like her, your birth mom," Annabeth chips in.

"I know," I sigh. "I hate it sometimes, I just stare at myself in the mirror and then I just remember, she's gone. I can tell sometimes when my aunt looks at me she can see her sister, and it pains her, the eyes say it all," I say quietly.

It hurt me when I called her my aunt. I've never thought of her as that, never.

"Bells, you may look like your mother but you aren't going to be like her. You should embrace yourself, you know? Why should your looks be a negative thing when they're one of the only things you took from her, you may be a living reminder but you can't let that get you down, this won't last forever Bella, you won't stay like her all the time. You should make the most of it while it lasts," Piper comes and sits beside me and wraps an arm around my shoulder, initiating yet another group hug.

I'm grinning now, talking about it really helped me. I've had all of this inside me for so many years and now I've let it out it feels good.

"Time for a movie?" I raise an eyebrow, and everyone cheers as quiet as they can.

Leo pours me some tea and I slowly glance up at him, smiling slightly.

"You remember that time that we first 'met' at camp, when there was that huge crowd and you were passed out on the floor,"

"I vaguely recall it," I smirk.

"Well, nobody got you that tea did they?" He grins and hands me the mug.

I think back to the time I first got here and remember, just one line, but it made me realise what Leo was talking about.

'SHE'S BRITISH, GET HER SOME TEA!'

I hear the Leo shouting in my head.

He always was good at welcoming people to places.

The memory makes me grin.