Chapter 4

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Percy

I stayed up all night with Charlie. He woke up a few times but eventually went back to sleep. Everytime he moved, my heart stopped, I went into panic mode. I wanted for Annabeth to be with me but I knew she needed to be at home with our other child and soon-to-be baby.

"Daddy, can we get icecream on our way home?" Charlie asked as he ate the cookie I had just given him. "Dude, you are literally eating a cookie right now" I chuckled, brushing his hair away from his face. Charlie pouted, sticking out his lower lip and widening his eyes. "Maybe later" I laughed.

"Okay, how are we doing in here?" asked Will as he walked in, Nico trailing behind him. Will went over everything with me while Nico played with Charlie. Nico would disappear and reappear at random spots in the room via shadow traveling. Each time Charlie would laugh harder.

"Just change the band aid every day, keep it all clean. If you see any blood take him here right away but I doubt there will be any. Children recover much faster then adults with this kind of thing so you shouldn't have any problems. Come by next week and I'll remove the stitches and we'll talk more then" said Will. I nodded, "And what about Annabeth? Is she going to be okay being at home with all this while pregnant?" I asked in a low voice.

Will sighed, running his hand through his long blonde hair. "You know, I'd watch out. At this point, we don't want anything to go wrong. Her body has just been through so much, if she is at all tired, I'd step in so she could rest. We just don't want another case like Piper's you know?".

"Okay great, thanks so much. We'll see you next week" I said picking Charlie up. Nico appeared behind me, making me jump. "Gods" I muttered glaring at him. Both Charlie and Nico laughed, enjoying my annoyance.

"I'll shadow travel you home, it'll be faster" said Nico putting his hand on my shoulder and held Charlie's hand. "Tha-" I began but then everything went black for a second then we were home. "-nks" I finished. Charlie laughed "Again! Again!" he cried. "Not today bud, lets go find mommy" I said looking over to Nico. "I'll see you tonight, at the beach?" I asked. Nico nodded with a smile before disappearing in a cloud of black mist.

I set Charlie down on the ground. "I think mommy is upstairs" I said as I walked, Charlie following in close pursuit. "Annabeth?" I called looking around. Then I got to our bedroom were she was asleep with Zoe sitting upright looking over to us. Zoe smiled before crawling and jumping into my arms.

"Hey, lets go downstairs and make some breakfast for mommy" I whispered, taking Charlie's hand with my free one and walked down the stairs to the kitchen. Once we got there I set Zoe down on the counter to sit and Charlie in the chair on at the bar.

"What do you think Mommy would like for breakfast?" I asked. Charlie jumped up, running to the fridge as if his big band aid on his face wasn't even there. "I think Mom wants chocolate milk!" he exclaimed picking up the jug of milk and throwing it in the air.

Everything went in slow motion as the jug slipped out of his hand and flew across the room, landing on the other side of the kitchen in an explosion of milk. "Awe! Charlie!" cried Zoe who was now covered in milk. Charlie was in a fit of laughter as he fell to the floor, making angels out of the milk.

"Woah there" I exclaimed frantically as I picked him up, running to the bathroom as milk dripped down his body all over the new hardwood. I set Charlie down in the tub. "Take a bath, don't get your face wet" I said as I ran back into the kitchen before grabbing Zoe and putting her down in from of the TV.

"Stay here until Daddy cleans up your brother and the milk okay?" I asked before running to the kitchen cleaning up the milk. Suddenly, Zoe screamed bloody murder. "Zoe!" I exclaimed jumping up and running back to the living room. Zoe sat on the floor covering her eyes.

"What sweetie? What happened?" I exclaimed holding onto her shoulders searching for injuries. Zoe uncovered her eyes, pointing to the TV. I turned and saw that American Horror Story was on and somebody had just had their face ripped off. "Shit" I muttered lunging to turn it off. "What does shit mean?" asked Charlie as he came out of the bathroom wearing nothing but his milk soaked Aqua-Man undies.

My eyes widened. "I didn't say shit? Shit's not a word" I exclaimed picking up our now tramatized daughter and running over to Charlie. "But Uncle Leo says it all the time" I sighed, making a mental note to have a "discussion" with that boy. "Your Uncle Leo is crazy, he doesn't know what he is saying" I explained hoping Charlie would just drop it.

Of course, he didn't. "Shit, shit, shit!" screamed Charlie as he began running back upstairs, running into Annabeth on the way. "Shit!" Charlie said proudly looking up at Annabeth.

Annabeth had the most horrified expression on her face. "I-I heard screaming, what happened?" she stuttered leaning down to hug Charlie. "Uh, Zoe was watching TV and AHS was on and well-" I trailed off going over to meet her at the bottom of the stairs.

Annabeth rubbed her eyes taking a deep breath. "Um" she said closing her eyes for a second. "I take it everything went well, he's good, uh, healthy?" Annabeth said looking down at Charlie. "Yeah, come back next week and he'll take the stitches out" I explained rubbing Zoe's back trying to calm her. Poor girl was shaking and kept touching her face.

"Why is he naked?" asked Annabeth. "There was an incident with the milk, he is supposed to be taking a bath" I said glaring at him. Charlie went quiet and muttered "shit". I looked up at Annabeth who was both horrified and annoyed. "Charlie honey, what did you say?" she asked in a quiet voice. "Shit!" he exclaimed proudly with a big smile.

Annabeth scoffed. "Not in this house, nuh-uh, we don't say words like that". "But Daddy and Uncle Leo say it" he said, his eyebrows going together in confusion. "Well they shouldn't, its a bad word" said Annabeth walking to the kitchen.

When she got there, she stopped dead in her tracks. "Shit" she whispered, looking down at the mess.

***This chapter is dedicated shit. All forms of shit, dog shit, cat shit, cow shit, human shit, because lets face it, everyone shits. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I wanted to write something happy and fun because I'll have to adress the whole Clarisse issue in the next few chapters or so. This of course means to prepare yourself. Be nice to people and I love all you demigods! -Izzy

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