The Life of Percy Jackson

Chapter 2

After Percy accepted the winchesters' help they told him everything they had found out about his mom and stepfather's deaths, that was helpful for Percy since he was pretty sure that he wouldn't be able to bring himself to go see his mom and stepdad's bodies himself. He didn't want to see their mangled bodies, he wanted to think of them as the people they had been in life. His kind, strong, smart, and courageous mother, and his kind smart, and brave stepdad.

They'd both been so good to him, honestly if it wasn't for his stepdad Percy probably wouldn't have graduated high school or been able to get into the college in New Rome. His mom had raised him on her own for a good portion of Percy's childhood, especially considering the type of person that his first stepdad had been. Once he got older she always seemed to know what to say to help Percy feel better or make a difficult decision.

Now they were both gone and although Percy knew it was true he still found it hard to believe.

Percy had left Camp Half-Blood early that morning before anyone else was up, so he wouldn't have to worry about someone trying to stop him. He hadn't really slept well that night either, he just couldn't stop thinking about his mom and stepdad, and once he finally had fallen asleep he'd eventually had a nightmare about Tartarus.

Percy knew that Annabeth and his friends were probably wondering where he'd gone but he didn't want them to know about the supernatural, he would keep that burden to himself, although he still wondered if his friends would somehow find out even if he didn't want them to. The Winchesters had gone to another room to talk among themselves, most likely about him.

Percy found himself wandering into what used to be his bedroom, he could see that the cops must have looked through it as well since some items appeared to be out of place, although nothing seemed to be missing. A sigh escaped Percy's lips as he spotted a framed photograph of him with Paul and Sally during a trip they'd taken to Montauk beach a few years prior.

Percy did have other photos of them that he'd taken with him to New Rome, but he'd left that one since he suspected he would return to the apartment sooner or later, and he hadn't needed to take everything with him. He just hadn't realized he would be returning to discover his mom and stepdad's, murderers. Percy's mind wandered from his dead parents to what he should do about the Winchesters.

He was wondering if he should tell them the truth about what he was or if he should keep quiet since once they knew they might think he was dangerous and try to kill him like one of the monsters they hunted so often. Right now, they thought he was mostly normal ignoring the fact that he was trained to be a hunter. For now, they didn't know he was only half human.

As he considered this an Iris message appeared in front of him and the annoyed face of his girlfriend stared back at him. Percy could tell she wasn't happy with him for just leaving camp without telling anyone where he was going. But in his mind, he'd done what he had to. He'd left early before everyone else was up since one of the advantages of not having siblings at camp was that it made it easier to sneak out if he had to.

He knew Annabeth and his friends would have tried to stop him if they'd known why he had left. And even if they didn't understand he knew he had to find his mom and stepdad's murders and see that they get what they deserve. When she saw him Annabeth said, "Perseus Jackson, where in the name of Hades are you?" That was when she took in his surroundings and said,

"Wait isn't that your room in the apartment, how are you even in there?"

Obviously, Annabeth knew that the apartment was still considered a crime scene, so she suspected the police wouldn't let him in as long he had somewhere else he could stay. He was old enough to live on his own now so that's what he was expected to do. Percy did his best to fend off the barrage of questions from his girlfriend without lying to her but even though he didn't lie he wasn't really giving her straight answers either, and that annoyed her further.