Fatal Flaw (a Percy Jackson AU)

D-Day

Will
We were all up staring at Connor with mortified expressions. Dionysus-we called him Mr. D-was giving Connor a look of pure loathing."Well, well," Dionysus muttered. "Looks like someone is in trouble. "
The silence in the room was so thick I could just feel it. The silence felt like a sticky fog. It was eating up any happiness and leaving me with just despair and loneliness. This was the part that made being bipolar so hard to live with. The depression came and set on before you knew it without warning. Your mood swung so fiercely that you scared people away.
  "Come on brats," Dionysus ordered with complete authority. His voice was filled with steely anger and his face betrayed no sense of humor. "Let's go to the armpit theater."
   When we got there, we all huddled together on two nearby tables. The look on Dionysus's face was a mask of pure fury, but his body language looked something like sorrow. I wasn't sure if I was reading his emotions right, but when he started speaking his voice was more filled with sorrow and longing than anger. "Castle Smith," he said. "Why did you wake everyone up at four in the morning?"
   Connor stared at his feet and his cheeks flushed bright red. His makeup was runny now. The blush was running onto his chin and the circles under his eyes were now closer to his nostrils. "I just wanted to pull a prank and have everyone laugh." Connor mumbled.
Dionysus's expression changed from mingled sorrow and anger to confusion and then humor. "Well," he said. "I guess that was a good joke, but you better not pull a prank at times like this. Now that we're awake, I guess we can just stay up and play some games."

Reyna
   I was shocked when Dionysus didn't punish Connor. He showed us another side of him- a more joyful and humorous side. Maybe that's what Dionysus was like before he joined the psych ward. Everyone looked a little happier-even Nico who was always down and Will who had severe mood swings. Everything seemed to make a little more sense. Dionysus was just like us. He was hurting on the inside.
  "Hey children," Dionysus announced. "Do you want to play truth-or-dare?"
   Several people exclaimed yes. "Raise you hand if you want to play?" Dionysus said.
   The vote was unanimous, though done voters seemed reluctant. "Okay," Dionysus said. "I will go first and then we will draw your names out of a hat. Connor, truth or dare?"
   "Dare," said Connor with a smirk.
    Dionysus gave a Cheshire Cat smile. "Connor, I want you to draw on that picture on the wall," Dionysus said.
Connor looked at the somber print of some random balding politician with a hooked nose and bloodshot eyes. Connor took out a marker and drew a mustache on the politician. Then he wrote:"Better Than Putin."
I chuckled. Percy and Jason started guffawing. Even Nico gave a small smile. Dionysus drew a name out if the hat. "It's Grover's turn," he announced.
   Grover-who had joined us since he had a night shift that night-examined all of us. "Percy, truth of dare?" Grover bleated.
    "Truth," Percy mumbled.
     "Punk," Clarisse said loudly.
     Several people snickered. Percy blushed slightly. "Percy," Grover said,"who do you like?"
   Percy looked at his feet. His face turned even more red. His cheeks were probably boiling like hot sauce. "Wise Girl," he managed.
   Everyone looked confused except Annabeth who smirked knowingly. "Your turn Katie," Dionysus announced when he drew out her name from the hat.

Katie
Hmm.. Who would be my victim. I looked around and saw the Stoll twins. Connor had already gone. I smirked. "Truth or dare, Travis?" I asked.
"Truth," he said while looking at his feet.
I gauged onto how to best embarrass him. "Who do you like?" I asked.
He flushed bright red. "Can I switch to dare?" he pleaded.
"I want to know who you like," Jason said.
Dionysus nodded in agreement. Travis looked confused and scared. "Fine," he said softly. "I l-like K-Katie?" Travis finished even more quietly.