Ghost

Not quite right

E POV

"You know nothing! You know nothing about me! You know nothing about the gods! And you probably know nothing about yourself!" He screamed. "You have NO right to just turn up and act like some massive know it all! And just so you know, I owe you NOTHING! Just because I am a son of Hades it doesn't mean I owe a favour to everyone who has lost someone! I DID NOT KILL YOUR FATHER, ESPERELDA MARCH, YOU DID! THAT'S ON YOU!" He stopped, breathing hard as realisation dawned on his face; the reality of what he'd just said sinking in.
We stood there in stunned silence, neither of us knowing what to say. I was too shocked to ask how he knew all these things: my name and my current situation.  It also later occurred to me that it probably should have made me cry, but at the time I felt frozen. Something told me this was a person who rarely raised his voice.
When I finally remembered how to use my voice I could only manage one word;
"H-how...?" I croaked. He looked at loss for words but that started to make me angry. How dare he blurt out two of my biggest secrets and then shut up? He hadn't stopped talking since he'd first appeared next to me and then he had the audacity to close his mouth at that precise moment? I stood up and took a step towards him;
"How?" I repeated, more confidently this time. I wanted answers, and I was going to get them.
"E..." he murmured, "I...I'm so sorry, I didn't mean..."
"Save your apologies 'angel', I'm not in the mood. I asked how and you will tell me." My temper was rising fast. I didn't know where the emotion was coming from but suddenly I felt like I wanted  him to pay. I wanted justice for my father and revenge against Nico merely for knowing those things. It scared me but I tried to channel it into strength. The strength I needed to get answers.

He lowered his gaze and began to talk; "It's a long story," he began "It started yesterday..."
He explained how he'd gone down to the underworld to see Hades and had seen a man crossing the river Styx. He had looked like a perfectly normal modern guy but had had a drachma to pay for the journey. This had caught his eye so he'd gone to talk to him. As it turns out the man was my father: James Stephen March. And the drachma had been a gift from my mother when they parted (I still didn't know who she was, mind). He'd told Nico what had happened to him and told him about me. He had told him that I wasn't a bad person and he wasn't angry with me at all. He had also told him to tell me that he loved me and that he was sorry for anything he'd done to disappoint or upset me. When I heard that I sat down and wept. I had been the disappointment, not him. Everything was all my fault. And he was apologising to me? I just all seemed so wrong, so back-to-front.
I sat there, in my own little world, crying about everything that had ever happened. I cried for the good moments in my life. Of those I'd spent with Dad, laughing and joking, just us and no one else. And I cried over all the bad things. That fateful night, running away, entering Camp Half Blood to be greeted with anger and arguing.
I was completely in my own little world until a cold hand rested itself on my shoulder. I looked up and realised Nico was still there, watching me make an absolute fool of myself. He cleared his threat and said;
"We'll have missed dinner by now but I can see the camp fire smoke. You should go join in, they'll be wondering where you are."
"What about you?"
"What about me?"
"You said that I should go, but you never implied anything about you going."
"I tend to kill the mood at these kinds of things." He looked genuinely sad at this fact.
"Well I won't go unless you do." In all honesty I don't know why I said that. I guess I was just trying to help him out a bit. He stared at me surprised and then offered me a hand up. I gratefully accepted it, and that was my next mistake.

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Hi guys! So sorry I know it's been a while but I've been under a lot of stress lately with school and not having enough sleep et cetera so it's been really hard to find the time to update. I know it's not a massively long chapter either so sorry about that but I'll try to get the next one up quicker.
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