Stories to be Rewritten: Elisabeth's Stories :Book 1 Lavenders and Pomegranates

Chapter 8

Jason walked back and forth, back and forth, as Chiron read his Lord of the Rings The Twin Towers in the comfort of the Big House. Jason groaned a little as he stopped pacing and kicked the wall, leaving a hole where his foot had crashed through the drywall. Nico and Percy were just walking into the room, jumping out of their skins when they heard the TWACK! fallowed by a groan of pain. Chiron looked up form him book, his reading glasses tilted on the bridge of his nose.

"You ok, Jason?" He asked, closing his book slowly as Jason sat on the couch. "You seem to be very uneasy since you came back from the arena."

"I'm just, well," Jason started, looking around the room a little to make sure that no one would hear his words. But Nico and Percy hid in the shadows, just out of his sight, so his words reached their ears like knifes and daggers. "I am a recent father, and well, I miss my child."

Chiron nodded slowly, sighing as he placed the book on the side table and rolled over to him in his wheelchair. "So you want to go home to your family?"

"No sir." Jason said slowly, choosing his words carefully. There was a storm brewing in his stormy grayish blue eyes, a determined, worried storm. "I ran into a camper who is having a relationship problem. And I'm scared for her since she has been in this relationship for a long time." Chiron's eyes narrowed, guessing who he was talking about.

"By chance, is it Elisabeth?"

"Yes." Jason said hesitantly. "She told me a few things that are signs that the boy, this Nick guy, is more like his father than anything. He doesn't like her around other men, he tries to force her to change, and he likes to beat up his brother. I'm afraid that he might start hurting her, and I don't know how far he will go to keep her." Chiron nodded, his face grim and worn.

"I actually talked to a few of the campers about her. I notice they all started to become distant from her, except Jonny and Alex of the Hephaestus Cabin. Seems someone had threatened them to leave her alone since last year, but they won't say who."

Nico gritted his teeth, his fist clenched in anger at what he was hearing. Percy, on the other hand, was shocked. 'Wouldn't Elisabeth tell us if something was wrong? Unless...'

"Does Elisabeth know about the threats?"

Both Jason and Chiron whirled their heads around, staring strait at where Percy stood, not bothering to hide anymore. "Percy, when did you-" Jason started.

"Just answer the question, Superman." Nico growled, coming out of the shadows as well. "We need to know.""

Chiron cleared his throat a little and sighed. "I'm afraid she seems not to."

Jason looked between his two Big Three cousins, his eyes scanning them over in curiosity. Percy was unnaturally cool about it, his face blank at the moment as he thought over the information that he had just received. Nico, on the other hand, looked like he wanted to kill everything in a split second. Then, a girl with white blond hair ran in with panic in her eyes.

" Has anyone seen Liz?!" She asked, looking at the four adults with pure terror on her face. "I looked everywhere for her!"

Jason arches an eyebrow. "I was just with her at the training arena. She wasn't there?" the girl shook her head no.

Chiron rolled to her side in a hurry, holding her shoulder steady. "Why are you looking for her?"

"Nick seemed a little sketch looking for her at dinner, and I when he came back to the cabin for bed, there was blood on his shoe that wasn't there before! And I haven't been able to find Elisabeth anywhere!"

Everyone in the room paled. This was bad. Really really bad. "I'll find her." Jason said, running out of the Big House faster than The Flash, right to the arena in hopes she was still there. But when he got there, he couldn't find her. Just her bottle of water, her camp shirt, her sword, and a small pool of blood. "Oh gods..."

He heard something behind him, and he whirled around. Jason squinted into the darkness, the moonlight unable to aid his sight in the dark corners. "Elisabeth?" He called, but with no reply. "Elisabeth! It's Jason!" Silence. This was bad, very very bad. He closed his eyes and tried to think. Where would she go? Where does she go to feel safe. All victims try and escape to a safe place. 'Where would I go if I was her?' One thought came to mind, something Nico and Percy had told him about when they were first in the closet.

'There was this lavender grove that we all just fell in love with. It was like our safe haven." Percy had told him, his voice ringing as clear as day in his head.

"Elisabeth always hides there when she wants to get away from people. She even sleeps there sometimes when she doesn't want to go to her cabin." Nico stated in his snobby matter-of-fact tone, perfectly echoing louder in his head than what Percy had said.

'Safe. Secure. Safe haven.' Jason thought. 'She would be there....'

Percy ran up behind him, stopping just next to him. So did Nico, his face paling more when he saw the blood. "She's not here?" Percy asked, heaving in and out as he tried to breath. Jason shook his head, and looked Percy dead in the eyes.

"I think I know where she might be."

Everything was spinning... The stars and the sky was switching places.... Wonder why the sky looks so blurry? Elisabeth laid in the grove, her head throbbing horribly like someone had just hit her in the head with steal.... 'Oh... Nick had steal toed boots... That might be why....' She groaned again as she looked up in the moon with hazy eyes. "Maybe I should call Tina... She would know how to cheer me up..." She sat up slowly, holding her stomach, the skin starting to turn a greenish yellow color. It matched the ones on her ribs. " It's a pretty color." she said smiling as she pulled a crystal off her neck and let the moonlight filter through, causing a beautiful rainbow.

"Who would you like to message?" A soft voice asked from the rainbow, which wasn't strange at all to her.

"Tina McGavin in New York City, Manhattan. I don't remember the address... I'm fuzzy on that." Then she flipped a drachma she kept on her at all times into the rainbow. It disappeared and instantly and the colors rippled like water in a disturbed ocean pool. The image in the rainbow started to glimmer, and on the other end was darkness. "Serpentina? You there?"

"Who this?" The voice was distant, like she was off the to the side or in the other room. "And it better be good. I was enjoying a message from my hubby."

"It's me.... Elisabeth." Tina turned on a light and she looked amazing, her sunglasses tilted a little and her snakes hissing in glee. She was dressed in a lovely cream colored robe, most likely silk, and it was hanging off her one shoulder. There was another figure next to her in his boxers. Her vision was blurry, but she assumed it was Tony.

"Girl! How is camp- IS THAT BLOOD ON YOUR FACE!?" The gorgon screamed, the image blurring in and out as the demigod tried to focus. Elisabeth closed her eyes, her head starting to go numb. "BABY, WHY DO YOU LOOK LIKE YOU ARE DYING!?"

"I think I'm fine." Elisabeth said groggily. "Nick kicked me... Not in practice..." Her eyes closing slowly as she tried to get her head to stop spinning. "I think I'll be ok. A few broken ribs... and I think he cracked my skull."

"YOU THINK HE WAHT?!?!" She looked angry... All three of her. "IF I COULD GET TO YOU, I WOULD KILL THAT STUPID MAN! NO, HE'S NOT A MAN! HE'S A RAT!"

"Calm down, love." Tony cooed as he held her gently. " Elisabeth, are you in the grove?"

"Yes."

"She sounds weak, we better call Henry and tell him to go get her to a hospital, ASAP." Tony suggested, and it looked like Tina was pulling out her phone. "Elizabeth, I need you to stay awake for me ok? Do you have any spare cloth on you?" She shook her head no. "I need you to find something, like a bundle of leaves, to stop the bleeding on your head. And I need you to stay on the line with me, ok? I'll pay Isis."

"But I'm..... Really..." Elisabeth felt her vision tunneling as she fell back to the earth beneath her, the connection breaking when the crystal on the chain slipped through her hands and into the grass next to her. But as her vision faded, she could have sworn she saw someone standing over her, she could have sworn she felt hands pick her up off the ground. But she remembered someone's words before falling into the darkness, probably just a tick of the mind but still, she heard them loud and clear in the spinning, fuzzing world she was plummeting out of.

"I got you, Liz."