The Children of Poseidon [#Wattys2016]

Chapter 16: Confrontations

"What is it, Brooklyn?" She questioned, looking me up and down as if she thought I would explode.

"Why wasn't I informed that my fiance was going on a quest for you?" I hissed out between my gritted teeth.

"I thought Nico would have told you. Him and Annabeth had to rescue my sacred peacock." She waved it off like it was nothing.

"Then who the hell has been in my apartment? And why did they look like Nico and Annabeth?" I asked her aggressively.

"I'm not sure. Why? What happened?" She looked concerned. Dam you goddess of marriage.

"Well, when you walk into your brother's apartment and see two people who look alot like your fiance and his fiance making out, it kinda breaks you. Not just your heart, but your soul. It cuts you deep. Not just emotionally, but causes you to do some physical damage." I yanked up my sleeve, showing my white scars. "I don't know who they were, or why they looked like they were the people I love, but they caused me to do some stupid stuff.

"Percy had to stay with me the whole time because he was afraid I wouldn't eat, or I'd get drunk and I'd hurt my babies. He thought I'd hurt myself, and he was right. I hurt myself, physically and mentally. Cutting my wrists, asking myself why I wasn't enough. Why my fiance left me. Why he left our children. I shouldn't have had to go through any of that.

"I should have been able to know that my fiance wasn't a cheating weasel, that my soon-to-be sister in law wasn't a tramp. I should have been able to know that I wasn't losing my other half. That I wasn't being punished by the fates. That Aphrodite didn't hate me. I should have been able to know that my life was the way I always thought it would be. Perfect. Because my life had been perfect. I had a loving fiance, a wonderful brother and I was going to have so many amazing sisters. I was going to be a mother who had a great guy by her side to be an astounding father.

"But all that belief? Everything I was looking forward to? Was ripped away from me. Violently." We had an audience now, but I didn't care.I was letting all of my frustrations out. I needed to vent. "I was broken, for months, and Percy was left to pick up the pieces. And it was all because I wasn't informed of my fiance's quest. A quest you sent him on. If he hadn't of left, then his doppelganger wouldn't have come anywhere near me." I stomped past a shocked Hera and pushed my way through the crowd of watchers. I stormed into the throne room and made sure the babies were somewhere safe. Percy had one, so did Hazel. Then there was little Bianca, in the hands of her loving grandfather, Hades. They were all looking at me.

I stormed off to a place I had been told I was always welcome. Hestia's Temple.