Heroes of Olympus Children

Bad News

A/N: This chapter is dedicated to my friend Cripple who gave me a genius idea and I put it to paper...or internet. The picture is of the window outside of Trenton's room when they receive the ''bad news. Tell me what you think of the chapter in the comments:)

The day is May 21st, the day after Alex's 15th birthday. It's rainy and once back from school Trenton and Lily don't leave their house. In fact no one exits the house once they enter.

"It's killing me." Jake says finally.

"Where are you going?" Angel asks standing up and following him out of the den at his parents house.

"To find out why Trenton and Lily haven't come over like they promised." Jake says.

"Bad idea." Angel grabs hold of his arm and spins him around. She may be one of the tinniest girls but she certainly is the strongest, Inara a close second.

"No it's not." He say rolling his hazel eyes. "It's Trenton and Lily. the worst that'll happen is Trenton will shove me out of his room and Lily will slap me."

"No it's a bad idea." Angel says. "I can feel it in my gut, Isobel does too."

"When did you talk to Isobel?"

"Before I came over her." Angel shakes her head, her thick, curly hair bouncing around her face. "It just doesn't seem like a good idea to head over."

"Why?"

"I dunno." Angel sighs bitting her lip. "I just have this feeling that something bad happened, okay?"

"Then we should be there." Jake says yanking his arm from her grip. "If something bad happened then Lily and Trenton will need us to be there for them."

With that the blond put on his jacket and shoes and heads over to Percy and Annabeht's house. Groaning Angel puts on her jacket and shoes and follows her cousin. By the time she catches up Jake's knocing on the front door, why they didn't go through the backyard Angel didn't know.

Annabeth opens the door and gives a forced smile before letting them in.

"Are Trenton and Lily okay?" Jake asks and Angel gets an even worse feeling in her gut.

"Sort of. I'm sure they'd love to see you two." Annabeth says watching the teens pull off their shoes. "They're in their rooms."

"Thanks Aunt Annabeth. Tell Uncle Percy we said hi." Angel says before she and Jake run up to Trenton and Lily's room.

"I'll check on Lily." Jake say going into her room.

"He should be checking on Trenton." Angel grumbles before opening the boys door and coming in quietly.

"Hi." she says.

"Hey." Trenton sniffles and wipes his eyes.

"You okay?"

"No." Angel goes over to him and hugs him as he starts to sob.

"Do you wanna talk about it or no?" she asks thinking how odd it was that the weather matched the entire Jackson family mood.

"My dad's mom died." Trenton says through his crying.

Angel gasps. She and the other had met Sally a few times, she was nice and very kind to all of them. So of course it made sense that she would be sad about the recent news of her declining health. They had all hoped that she would get better though, but Angel guesses that those hopes weren't doing any good. They were certainly useless now.

"I'm sorry." she whispers. "I don't know what to tell you other than I'm sorry."

"Can you just...not talk for a bit." Trenton wipes his eyes. "Not to be rude or anything but..I just need some quiet right now."

Angel nodded and looked out the window, the rain definatly reflected the mood of the family right now. She sighs and rests her head on Trenton's shoulder as he starts to cry again. And to think they were all laughing and playing in the sun yesterday.

A/N: So I gave you plenty of tears in this chapter. Is it bad that i was listening to Fall Out Boy while I wrote this chapter? I dunno. Anyways let me know what you think and the funeral is the next chapter. -G