The Broken Hero (ON HOLD)

Chapter 8

Percy's PoV

And that brings us to the present. So after I had cut and I was taken to the infirmary, Artemis changed to rules to the duel. So if I won then I could call her any name I wanted and I could tell the hunters who I was whenever I wanted just the fact I had to tell them, if Artemis won then I would do whatever she wanted me to do for a month (if she wanted I could be her sex slave but she's not a dirty goddess, I hope not anyway) and I would tell the hunters whenever she wanted me to and I didn't have to call her lady Artemis or milady anymore.

I sat up and stretched. My arms flying up above my head, I heard a thump and looked down beneath the bed and saw a mad Artemis rubbing her head. I gulped and lay down making it look like I never woke up. I closed my eyes left the blanket at my waist.
"Urgh! Percy that hurt!" She shouted and got up to see me 'asleep',then sighed.
"He must have had nightmare or something," heard her mutter and I stifled at laugh. I turned my face away from her and smiled. She sat down and I turned around again to face her, this time I peeked through my eyes and saw her crouched down picking something up.

I realised that someone must of stopped me because I was only in my boxers. I gulped again, I think she heard that and I shut my eyes tightly and pulled my arms closer to me. I felt the bed sink down where Artemis had sat down, I realised either she was staring at me or doing something. I peeked another look at her to see her staring at my eight pack that was covered in scars. I though about moving around and just tried it but I moved so abruptly that Artemis wasn't ready and fell on top of me. I groaned in pain, right where they stabbed me and my back hurt from the memory. I opened my eyes to find my face full of auburn coloured hair.
"I'm sorry, Percy," she squeaked
"It's ok," I groaned
She pushed herself up but didn't leave my body, she was blushing madly and seeing her blush made me blush. I finally sat up with her resting in my lap.
"Milad-" Thalia bolted in through the door and faltered in her sentence and her step nearly falling onto their face.
"Percy! Milady?!" She shouted and both me and Artemis flew away from each other actually more like she flew away from me and pushed me into a wall hitting my pained whipped back into the wall. I screamed in pain.
"Percy! I'm so sorry!" Artemis said approaching me
"It's ok," I said through gritted teeth, Thalia walked over with a smirk.
"What are you smirking at? Lieutenant Grace!" Artemis said sternly and Thalia just burst into a fit of laughter.
"Your-Face! You! Should! Of! Seen! It!" She said between breathes
"Thalia," I said pained and they turned there attention to me, Artemis grabbed my left shoulder and I hissed. Thalia gently grabbed my right and they hauled my back onto the bad with my back facing them.
"What the HADES?!" Artemis gasped
"Don't worry, I'm totally fine," I said stuffing my face into the pillow.
"Get some ointment, call Phoebe to help us," Artemis said, Thalia scrambled out of the tent and Artemis looked around for ice.
"It snowed outside, last night, you can you use that and put some iodine in it to make it useable," I explained, I turned my head and smirked at her.
"Didn't know you had a brain, seaweed brain," she laughed, I stopped smirking and tears started to cloud my vision. I started to see flash backs of when she used to call me that. I sobbed out something I couldn't make out.
"No! I'm so sorry it's what's she used call you," Artemis said
I waved her away, I turned my head into the pillow.
"Just go get the ice!" I said coldly, Artemis shivered at my tone and looked frightened she just nodded before pounded out of the tent.

Thalia's PoV

"Come on Phoebe!" I called dragging her
"Why?" She groaned
"Percy is hurt now are you happy?! Hurry up!" I explained and at that she literally zoomed out of her tent and I into the infirmary.
"We need to get ointment first! Which is in Artemis's tent!" I said and she changed direction, I saw Artemis crouched down with a bowl picking up snow. Why the ointments are in Artemis's tent because the hunters feel really down sometimes and try to do stupid stuff with it.
I
I waited for Phoebe to come out of Artemis's tent and she just zoomed by me and I laughed. She motioned for me to come and I just told her to wait and walked over to Artemis. I saw she had puffy eyes and had silent tears pouring down her face. I grabbed her shoulders and pulled her into a hug. She looked up and smiled sadly.
"What happened? Percy do something?" I asked a bit ruffly
"No! I-I just don't know called him seaweed brain," was all I caught out of her mouth before she started to sob. I rubbed circles on her back, thank god that me and Phoebe shared a tent. Also that the hunters were still asleep.
"Come on, let's go back in, it sure he'll forgive you," I said soothingly
"Ar-are you su-ure?" She asked and I nodded. I picked up the bowl of snow and walked into the tent with Artemis following. I could hear sobs from one of the beds and saw Percy sobbing into the pillow with a worried Phoebe trying to calm him down. She looked up at me and walked over.
"He said he only want Artemis," Phoebe whispered and Artemis looked a bit happier at that.
"Milady, let us put the medicine on him first and then you can comfort him," I said she nodded. Artemis picked the bowl from my hands and walked over to Percy stifling a sob. She slowly put the snow over his back and he hissed in pain while still sobbing. Artemis's sobs mixed with his. She finished putting the ice over his back and picked up the ointment over on the table and spread it on his back. He screamed.
"Artemis!" He screamed
"Please," he pleaded and Artemis just cried harder they way it hurt him so much. I walked over to her and placed my hand on top of hers to keep on going. I know that she would break. But this ointment was hurting him so much.
"I'm sorry!" He screamed again and again.
"STOP IT! ARTEMIS!" He shouted the final blow and they both broke down in tears. I felt my cheeks get wet. She broke him so badly, I stopped. And Artemis got up and pulled the stool she was sitting on and went to the other side near Percy's face and started to stoke his forehead. He groaned.
"Please," he croaked
"I'm sorry, Percy, please forgive me," Artemis pleaded
"You were already forgiven ages ago," he said opening his eyes.
"I-I," Artemis stammered
"Shush," Percy said putting his fingers over Artemis lips earning a shiver from her. I looked over at Phoebe and she smiled at them and looked at me then motioned for us to leave. I nodded at her and we left the tent.
"They deserve each other so badly," I said
"Zoë would of been so happy," Phoebe said with tears in her eyes and I hugged and we walked into our tent falling back asleep.