Lucy

Chapter Seven

Lucy had disappeared and Percy had been quiet and still for at least twenty minutes. for a moment, he remained in the same place, stunned. He tried his best to pull himself together and come to terms with everything. He looked around a bit, thinking of how nice it was for what he imagined hell would look like. He didn't know if he was allowed to leave the room but there wasn't anyone around to stop him, so he left out of a large oak door, which brought him onto a balcony that overlooked where he had been a little while ago.

The foyer type space below him was filled with souls, something he still needed to wrap his head around. They lined up to administration and who knew where they went after that. Percy lent against the railing and put his head in his hands. If this was really happening, How was he ever going to get home? He sighed, closing his eyes and letting the calm breeze wash over him like water. Breeze? Inside? There cannot be one normal thing here. 

To either side of the balcony overlooking the foyer were stairs leading down to it, and nothing else. It seemed as though this floor was dedicated entirely to Lucy's office. Lucy, who is Hades, and Lucifer, put together. Is it weird he had never thought of Lucifer as a woman? Let alone a beautiful one. 

"You take your time, coming to grips and such" The deep voice sounded from beside him. A huge man lent against the railing next to him. He crossed his massive arms, relaxed.

"I'm Clav by the way, Lucy's Head Hound" He didn't offer a hand to shake, which is good because he would have broken Percy's hand.

"Percy" Percy said.

"I know. The one that's got her distracted. Not good for business when the boss is distracted" Clav smiled.

"...Sorry" Was all Percy could think up. Clav laughed and elbowed him playfully, but near knocked Percy to the ground. There was a long pause as Percy straightened back up.

"Is she...out?" Percy asked. She disappeared suddenly and hadn't reappeared, which made Percy confused as to where she would have gone. He wanted to see her, but would not admit that to himself, pretending that his biggest want was to go home.

"Yeah, probably annoying her brother" Clav said with a snort.

"Zeus?"

"Goes by Daemon" Percy watched Clav pick something out of his teeth with long fingernails and eat whatever it was, he grimaced. Clav noticed his reaction and laughed, a deep throaty laugh that vibrated through Percy's insides.

"You're a dead man walking, Percy, good luck" Clav laughed again "nice talking to ya." Clav walked away, his heavy boots pounding against the floor. Percy ran a hand through his hair and made the split decision to check out some of the other rooms downstairs, he had nothing else to do until Lucy reappeared, and maybe he could find the exit.

***

Lucy had brought herself to 'Jupiter', a club where, unknowing to mortals, gods, goddesses and mythical creatures spent there neverending time. The name was rather fitting. Lucy was bursting with searing energy, she wanted to kill something because she was so angry with herself. 

The place grew instantly silent when she appeared. Herself and her two brothers were the most feared and sometimes most respected beings in the universe. Pretty much just fear in Lucy's case. Lucy smiled and walked to the bar, a green-skinned nymph with purple eyes approached her warily and asked in a shrill voice what she would like.

"Gin and coke, double" Lucy said without looking at her, if she had the nymph might have peed herself. The club remained quiet aside from the dull music and faint whispers of those on the other side of the bar. From her seat at one end of the bar, she saw a man in a dark hood, drinking alone. The nymph brought her the drink she ordered and Lucy sipped it thoughtfully. Tilting her head to the side she listened to the sound that emanated from his aura. For sound to emanate from you, you had to be very powerful. Not many would be able to pick this up. 

When Lucy heard the musical sound, she knew who it was. He would have known she was there too if he had bothered to listen to his surroundings, but he seemed to be busy drowning himself in his own pity. 

Without a thought, Lucy threw her glass at the man's head and it shattered, of course, it didn't hurt him at all. The music went out and everyone's watched in silent horror as the man pulled his hood down and looked Lucy dead in the eye. 

"Was that necessary?" Dylan asked. Half the club ran out when they realized two of the most powerful people in the world were in the same room with them, and one had just thrown a glass at the other, which could lead anywhere.

"Wow, something really has got you down" Lucy laughed, usually her little brother had some sort of snarky remark set aside just for his sister. Instead, Dylan rolled his eyes half-heartedly and went back to his quiet drinking. Lucy gasped, even the sound of the ocean around him, which usually sounded like a symphony, was dull.

"Two unhappy brothers in two days, what are the chances?" Lucy spoke to herself, making her way over to Dylan and taking a seat next to him. She looked at the nymph behind the bar and she brought her another gin and coke without hesitation. 

"Would you mind pulling your obnoxious head out of your ass for one moment?" Dylan was not pleased to see her, unsurprising of course, no one was ever really happy to see her.

"Calm down" Lucy said before taking a long sip of her drink. The two of them sat in silence for a while in the nearly empty club.

"I happened to notice your little sounds are quieter than usual, and you're drowning yourself in alcohol when you know that doesn't work on us" Lucy pointed out. Dylan sighed and ran a hand through his sandy blond hair, so unlike Daemon and Lucy's. He knew he couldn't kick her out, he didn't have the power to make her leave him alone, so he spoke.

"What about your sound? Louder than usual, actually quite annoying" Dylan said. Lucy couldn't hear herself, so she had no way of knowing. 

"You're joking, I'm actually rather angry" Lucy said in defense, she wasn't lying. Dylan looked at her in an odd way, cocking her head to the side like she did, observing her. 

"Well then you have must have conflicting emotions" Dylan said, "and one of them is stronger."

He was trying to change the subject and it annoyed Lucy, he always made everything about her, taking the weight off of his own shoulders. Lucy pushed Percy to the back of her mind, thankful that Dylan couldn't read it. 

"You're making this about me, when it's about you and your alcohol addiction"

"It's nothing Lucy. Stop hounding me"

"Fine, just know that I was here to talk, like the loving sister I am, and you didn't open up" Lucy finished her drink and stood. She was being sarcastic of course, and he knew that.

"Open up? To you? The living wall?" Dylan laughed. Lucy shrugged and left, she still felt like she needed to kill something before she went home. Before she had made it to the door, Dylan spoke once more.

"Daemon's mad you know, that move you pulled, not your smartest"

"What move?" Lucy knew Daemon was angry, but she hadn't done anything aside from being her usual self. 

Dylan just shook his head, motioning to the nymph for another drink. She blushed and brought him one with a little umbrella in it. 

"How come he got an umbrella?" Lucy asked, searing into the nymphs skull with her glare. The nymph shrieked and ducked for cover under the bar. Dylan took no notice of anything. Lucy laughed and left.