Chapter Three

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Hazel

Jason was on crutches and ready to beat Nico upside the head with one of them.

Nico was in a really good mood, though. I don't know why, he's been in our cabin for most of the day. Maybe he was just happy he won the fight. But he seemed too happy for just that.

And by him being happy, I mean he was laughing and joking around and breaking through another shell of his isolation.

I wasn't the person who noticed. Knowing Jason was pissed he stayed away and hung out with Thalia, Clarisse, and Grover. A few others, too. But the older Demigods. Percy must still not be feeling good.

"Where is that laugh..."Leo noticed the sound of his laugh because it stuck out like a sore thumb. Annabeth wasn't here, Chiron hasn't let her leave the Big House, which is weird. But Piper and Jason had left for a walk. Meaning there wasn't many of us. And Leo's eyes went wide.

"What?" We asked and he told me to look at my brother. He was laughing his ass off, a smile on his face.

"Who did this?" I asked. "Because I need to find them, and hug them."

"I second that," Leo agreed with my idea as we all looked at my happy brother. Legit, 100% genuinely happy either. "And if he's high, I need whatever he's smoking."

Everyone knows that Nico smokes pot. He doesn't do it all the time. He doesn't smell like weed or anything. It's just an occasional thing when he's super stressed or he's had a bad day and just needs to mellow out enough.

"I don't think he's high." I told them. "His eyes aren't red."

Percy

I don't regret doing what I did. I've had weird mixed feelings about Nico for years because I never knew what he thought of me and it confused me and tortured me.

But he's comfortable with me. He just said he was gay like it was some random fact that everyone kind of knows, when in reality, I'm the first person he's ever actually told and the second to find out.

Then again, he's the first person to find out that I like to draw. That I don't like sex because sex gives me anxiety and I was raped. I told him about Gabe, too. I told him everything.

I don't know why I told him everything. It just seemed really easy. Like earlier when I told him what Annabeth did, I felt like I could trust him.

Thank gods he was still in a good mood when he got back from Campfire. He didn't stay the whole time, but he was still there for a while. Which, I don't mind. Alone time isn't always a bad thing.

But I like him being here. He's warm.

Walking over to his dresser, Nico grabbed some pajamas and when his shirt was half way off, he remembered I was in here.

"Oh, shit," he was watching the boundaries of what he could and couldn't do with where my comfort levels were at with him now. "I'm sorry, ba—"

"I don't mind." I insisted, enjoying the sight of his abs. They were defined his v oh my Gods. If I could have sex without having a panic attack, he'd be the one. "just be dressed crawling into bed, babe."

Ah yes, the name the use just to watch him get a little flustered and embarrassed. It was cute.

Nico crawled into bed next to me, and we fell asleep cuddling.

Hazel

We headed to my cabin, figuring it to be the emptiest.

And it was just Nico's room with people. But he forgot to lock his door so we figured he was awake and when we went into his room, I think I found the guy that's making my brother a smiling piece of shit and it gave me mixed feelings.

It was Percy.

My first thought is that it was cute.

And then I realized that he was cheating on his girlfriend, whom he had sex with not 24 hours ago.

Which raised the question of how many people has he slept with before.

We saw this and they all had that same train of thought.

Well uh... We're all curious. So we took Percy's phone and find the video.

I won't even... I mean, I had to stop watching the video. So did Leo, and Leo doesn't back down from watching stuff.

Because it wasn't what Annabeth told us, okay. It wasn't sex.

She chained him down, gagged him, woke him up, and raped him. He couldn't move, but he was shaking with fear and he was sobbing. He was terrified.

That bastard wasn't sick today.

He couldn't face Annabeth. And frankly, I don't blame him. He skipped our half of dinner because she was there.

That's who Nico was texting. He was letting him know if Annabeth was there or not.

Not really sure what to do, we went to Chiron about this. He just told us that the matter is being taken care of already. Charges are being pressed, that's why Annabeth can't leave the Big House. There's too big a risk it'll happen again if she's not there. We handed over the video for proof and he thanked us

I just... That image will never leave me.

Annabeth sitting on Percy, riding him. While he's sobbing and trying to scream for somebody to come and get him out of this.

He's obviously treating my brother right, we saw that. My brother better fucking respect his ass to the grave, though.

We put Percy's phone back and relaxed for a little bit before Grover, Thalia, and Clarisse showed up.

"Hey, what'd we miss?" Thalia asked once they arrived and we told them that they might want to sit down for this.

The trial was going to end up being tomorrow. Chiron said they were just calling all of camp down after breakfast tomorrow. They want it over as soon as possible for reasons that I could understand.

"We're going to be called down to the old court house tomorrow after breakfast," I told the Greek Demigods. "To witness a trial. Jackson vs. Chase."

"Jack... What's the crime?"

"Sexual assault."

They just stopped.

"Percy raped Annabeth?"

They lost all respect for him.

"No!" We all insisted. "Oh my gods, Percy didn't do that. Annabeth uh... This morning. That's the video she was talking about. That's why Percy hasn't been out and around today."

"Wait," Clarisse said and thought this through. "So you've seen the video?"

We showed them the video and they uh... Reacted about the same as we had. Shocked, it took them a bit to work through that. Especially Grover, because from I hear, him and Percy were really close.

"Are you okay, man?" Thalia asked the satyr as he just sat there.

"She knew..." Grover responded, taking this harder than the rest of us. "Wow."

Percy

I was nervous, sure. But this had to he done. I talked to Mom, to Paul. Our neighbor was going to testify being his bedroom is right by mine in the next apartment over and he kind of heard everything. Recorded it once he realized what was going on. Handed it over to Chiron for evidence. The video was... That was part of it, too.

Nico and I had been in his cabin, and he was getting ready to go to meet up with the others so that way they get decent seats.

Running his fingers through my hair quick, Nico placed his hands along the curve of my neck.

"You can do this," my boyfriend, knowing that I was nervous. I threw up like right after getting up because of it. But I ate some food, so I should be good throughout the trial. They want it done in one afternoon as long as the jury doesn't take forever. Which it shouldn't. "Just keep breathing. Alright?"

I nodded my head, giving him a small smile and he gave me a small kiss.

"I love you," Nico told me and headed out, wishing me luck.

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