Different (Percy Jackson Superpower AU)

Episode 9: Mistakes

Seven Years Ago

"Come on! Just a little bit further!" 

The eleven year old boy stumbled on the uneven ground. The smell of fire was thick on both of the young boys. The night sky was clouded over with smoke, the orange lights sparking from behind them.

His black hair was sticky with sweat, and plastered to his forehead. He struggled to keep moving even with the extra weight on his side.

"Perce," the other boy said shaky. His breath was hot against Percy's neck. "You have to let me go."

"No!" He stumbled again. Thick blood was trailing down his cheek but he barely even noticed it. The screams behind them were getting louder, closer.

"Perce...you can't...you can't..."

"I can!" Percy whimpered. His footing slipped and he fell to one knee. The pain felt like a pinprick in the chaos that was coming. Coming so fast behind them. He had to keep moving. He had to.

"Percy... my legs are... broken." The other boy coughed coarsely, "I'm...dead...weight."

Percy ignored him struggling up again. His shoes scraped on the overturned rocks. "It's just a little bit further!"

"You're....my...best friend," the other boy said quietly. Percy's heart thumped in his chest. He could feel his tears running doing his neck through the seat and the aches. "I...don't...want...you... to...die..."

"We aren't going to die!" Percy yelled. He wished he felt half as confident as he said it. "We...we aren't!"

The other boy didn't respond. Percy held his breath, waiting. Waiting.

"Grover?" He asked, "Grover!" He slid the other boy off his shoulder, in a panic and the body hit the ground heavily. His eyes were closed, his face pale. "No! Grover Wake up! WAKE UP! GROVER!  WAKE UP! SOMEBODY HELP!"

"GROVER!"

***(Theme Song and awesome animations)***

Percy stared at the soda can in front of him. The condensation slipped down the side and he moved the droplets with barely a thought making an intricate design. 

Piper finally sat down the last of the drinks that she and Leo had left to get. They were all sitting in the coffee shop still. Percy perched next to the wall and Hazel was blocking his escape. Will was resting across the table, but with every passing moment he looked to be getting worse rather than better. Frank sat next to him casting worried glances at the doctor. Piper sat on an adjacent table and Leo was sitting on the flat top of the booth kicking his legs in between Frank and Will.

"Do you guys know what blood types you have?" Percy asked finally breaking the silence.

"Uh, bro, I'm a runaway with no money to my name and a tendency to break out of enclosed places I don't want to be." Leo popped the tab on his Rootbeer and took a long swig. 

"I saw my medical report once," Frank admitted, "But it made no sense."

" AX," Piper guessed. 

"Yeah that," The taller boy said, "How'd you know?"

"That's what mine is," She replied, "I thought it was a joke or something. I mean there's no such thing as AX blood. Just A, B, AB, or O..." She glanced at Percy and Will, "...right?"

Percy made the condensation run backwards up his can.

"All of you have AX blood." Will explained, "About twenty seven years ago, medical doctors came across a group of individuals from all over the world that donated blood in a blood drive. These individuals were found to have A blood but there was something different about it. The genes or something, gave it extra properties. Doctors decided to call this type of blood AX: for something eXtra.