After The War

Chapter 28

Next chapter. Now you all will find out what happened to Jessica, and her past.

Yay!

Okay. Enjoy.

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Leo's POV

"Why don't you like it when Percy calls you Nemo?" I ask after we have a walked a couple blocks in silence.

"I dislike the movie," she says vaguely.

"How can you dislike Finding Nemo," I shout.

"I just don't really like Disney cartoon movies. They're annoying. Not true. I want to live a fantasy not watch one," she explains.

"So you wanna be a fish?"

"What?"

"Well you said you wanted to live it, and I thought you meant you wanted to be a fish," I say.

"I don't want to be a fish. From what I know of them they are really annoying."

"Of course they are," I drawl.

"Whatever. What did you want to talk about?" Jessica asks.

"I don't know. I just wanted to talk."

"About," she pushes.

"I told you pretty much everything about my past, how about you tell me about yours."

"Well okay," she starts a little hesitant. "The first thing you should no is that I'm Percy's sister."

I let of a low breath of relief. I was happy they weren't dating. That would be horrible for Annabeth. Yeah Annabeth. And her alone.

"So your a daughter of Poseidon?"

"And Sally Jackson."

"So your Percy's, full sister."

"Yep."

"Okay and when did you find this out," I say a little annoyed that she kept this from me.

"Since the day I came to Camp. I haven't been claimed, but I have a photo." She then pulls a picture out of her bag and unfolds it showing it to me.

I look at it noticing that it was Poseidon and Sally in the picture.

"So you've known about this for two weeks (A/N let's pretend that it's been two weeks) and decided to tell me now," I say slowly.

"Well I would have told you sooner, but Chiron told me not to."

"So he gave you the okay?" I ask.

"No, I just didn't want to keep it a secret any more."

"Does anyone else know?" I ask.

"Well Percy, obviously, and Annabeth because she was there. But they are all that know."

'Oh,' I mouth.

She nods.

"Okay so now that I know that. What else about the past do I not know about you."

"I was a foster kid since I was born. I have yet to meet my real parents and remember it. I mean I saw them in the picture, but I think that was it. The adults at the foster home said that the picture was in my baby bag when I arrived, so they let me keep it. When I was twelve," she takes a deep breathe like she was hating what she was saying. I grab her hand as we walk. She looks up at me and smiles. Then she continues.

"When I was twelve, I was adopted by John and Angelica Baker. I hated them. They-they hit me," she starts to cry. I pull her under my arm and give her a sideways hug.

We make it to a park, so I brought her to a bench. I sit down and pull her next to me. She puts her head on my shoulder and I hold her while she cries.

She pulls away a few minutes later and wipes her tears away.

"They would beat and yell at me for the stupidest things," she says in an angered voice. She then laughs bitterly. "And I couldn't do anything about it. You would think that Poseidon would help me, but I guess I'm not good enough for him. Haven't even been claimed yet," she continued annoyed.

"Anyways that went on throughout my teenage years. I always knew I was different. I mean, one time I thought I saw a man with one eye following me. And I was always drawn to the water. I would have never guessed that I was a daughter of Poseidon. And Percy said most demigods are ADHD and dyslexic, and I'm ADHD. I just never thought this would happen."

I smile slightly when she mentions ADHD. Out of all the demigods out there I think I'm the most hyper active. Even beating Percy. I haven't really paid much attention to one thing until I met Jessica. I'm not even building anything now.

"So when I met Percy and Annabeth I finally felt like I belonged somewhere. And then finding out that Percy's my brother, and Annabeth is pretty much my soon to be sister-in-law, I was ecstatic. I was nervous at first of course not really sure if they would except me or not, but whatever right."

"Right," I say happy that she was happy again.

"So Leo," she starts looking forward at the lake i just noticed, "you want to go get some-"

I didn't notice anything else because I felt the pressure point on my neck be pressed and a bag placed over my head. My last clear thought was Jessica's scream.

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When I wake up, I'm tied to the slide. I know that sounds really lame, but I am stuck.

I slowly begin to remember what happened before. I twist my neck upwards to look at my clock. It was six now and we left around four. I am guessing it took about half an hour to get to the park, so I think I was out for about an hour and a half.

'Where's Jessica,' I think before twisting my body looking for her. I end up falling over the edge of the slide, breaking my right wrist and landing on the ground. I'm not sure why my left didn't break, but I am more concerned about where Jessica is.

I stand up and wobble on my left leg. Guess something's broken in that too. How can I survive the war with only scratches, but ended up breaking things falling off a slide. The gods must hate me.

I look around for a while longer before deciding to head home. I limp for the what-should-have-taken-half-an-hour-but-really-took-an-hour walk.

I am super tired when I walk through the door, but those are the least of my worries now. I'm most worried about what Percy is going to do with me now.

"Guys help something happened to Jessica," I say before I pass out on the ground.

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Dun dun dunnnnn.

Okay I feel really mean. I didn't even tell you guys what happened to Jessica. Well other than the fact that she was kidnapped, but not by who.

So this is short than my other ones. I've been trying to make them about

1,500 words and this one was closure to 1,250 but whatever right same thing.

So yeah. What do you guys think will happen next. Who's POV do you guys want next. And no Jessica.

Oh and even though it wasn't clear and you still don't know a lot, at least I updated the next day. Maybe I'll update to tomorrow.

But anyways,

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