Silenced (Demigod Story)

Doing Favors

The infirmary was silent, I was just glad that Annie wasn’t snoring.  I pulled up a chair to beside Annie and took out a remedy book.  When I tried to focus on the book, the words didn’t seem to really sink in.  While I read, my mind kept drifting off to my dad.

I did save his life, but Gaea could be killing him right now and I would be powerless.  Maybe I should go to Ocala and take care of him.  I could protect him from the danger that he finds beauty.

But, if I was with him that would make it easier for Gaea to torture me with attacks.  Now that I know that she was just trying to make me doubt my power by telling me that I had none, I knew that she saw me as a threat.

It felt like I was reading for hours until Annie finally woke up.  When she first opened my eyes, all that I could think about was how pink her eyes where.  Her irises were a hot pink.  I was probably not the first person to think this but; I heard of pink eye, but this was just ridiculous.

“It’s about time you woke up!” I exclaimed.

“What happened?” she asked in pain.

I remembered that quote that said “be so happy that people become happy when they see you.”  Annie was in for some really bad news.  No wonder the Apollo kids weren’t taking care of her, because they are terrible liars and would have to let her know just how bad it is.

“Well, you were in a coma or something like that for three days,” I said happily.  I felt like slapping myself from how corny I sounded, but I would continue this act if it meant that it was less painful for Annie.

Annie seemed confused by my happiness and pushed it aside.  “Wow.  Wait, sorry.  Who are you?” she wondered.

“Floret, daughter of Demeter,” I answered.  It was much easier to lie when my whole tone was a lie.  “And you are…”

“Oh sorry!” she said like how all kids are when they realize the teacher called on them to answer something.  “I’m Annie, undetermined.”

Annie looked like someone that would be a hero.  I knew that she was in pain, yet she ignored it like a real fighter.  “I don’t see why…” I muttered, frowning slightly to think some God didn’t find her good enough to claim as their own.

“What do you mean?” she asked.

“You did something heroic or something.  I would take credit for a child like that in a heartbeat,” I admitted.

“No, more like I went into danger like an idiot.  Where’s Apricot anyway?” she started to scan the room, I was glad that she didn’t notice the body on the bed beside her with the sheet covering the whole body.  This was the part that I hated the most.

“She’s in a deeper coma,” I chirped.  I hoped that she understood what I meant.

She groaned, “This is my fault!  I was being stupid.  We shouldn’t have gone into the forest!”

Since it was confession time of things that we had little control over, I decided to play too.  “No, it was my fault for tieing myself too tightly in the tree so I couldn’t help,” I admitted.

“Yeah, but I suggested we go out there!  Ugh!” she then closed her eyes and sighed.

I was surprised that she didn’t catch on that I was there in a tree, so I tried it again.  “It was my idea to tie myself so…”

“It’s not your fault Floret.  You didn’t even know we went out there.  I take full responsibility that she is in a coma,” she claimed.  Oh, she didn’t get what I meant.

I felt nervous, I wasn’t used to telling people that someone that they cared about died.  Actually, I wasn’t even used to talking so I had an excuse.  “By deeper coma I meant…”

“Wait, she’s…she’s dead?” she freaked.  Annie could barely handle being the cause of a coma, imagine her trying to deal with death.

“For now.  We are fictional so anything could happen,” I shrugged.  I liked to think of my life as something that is controlled by someone that wants me to have a good life.  Ha!  They probably want my life to be worth writing about.

“Still.  Gods.  Does Sage know?” she wondered.

“Exactly,” I replied dramatically while staring at my knees.

“Oh gods.  He is going to kill me.  Oh crap, I’m surprised Evan didn’t already kill me.  Yikes,” she started ranting.

I looked up at her, wondering if she was always like this.  “I mean that he is trying to figure out how to save her.”

“That makes sense, he sooooo likes her,” she rolled her eyes.  “And she likes him.  It’s kinda frustrating.

I smiled, glad that I wasn’t the only one who noticed.  “I know right?  And she says that me and Alex should just go out and that it isn’t a big deal,” I groaned.  Telling me to do that when she is doing the same thing is what a hypocrite does, but I guess that we all are a little hypocrite in our own hidden ways.

“Who’s Alex?”

I tried to control my expression as much as possible, but I’m still awful at it.  “A person,” I then thought of the people that she mentioned.  “Who’s Evan?”

“A person, my finder,” she shrugged.  She expected me to go off on her, so I took it a little easier.

“Maybe he did kill you and brought you back.”

“Probably not.  He was probably waiting for me to wake up so he could lecture me.  I live to annoy him, it’s my entire existence,” she explained.  That was like start to all of the cutest relationships that there ever where.

I couldn’t help but smile widely as I thought of the ship name, “Evannie!”

“What?  What the heck is that?”

“It’s a ship that will sail.”

“Please tell me that you aren’t becoming Apricot.  She already embarrassed me about that,” she blushed.

“Did she prance around you singing the ship name?  She and her mom did it to me,” I sighed.

“No, but she about died when I grabbed him but the hand and dragged him so we could eat lunch,” she told me.

“She about died when I called Alex my boyfriend,” I muttered.

“OMG!!!That’s adorable!” Annie cheered.  She then gasped, “I’m turning into Apricot.”

“Allo alert,” I muttered.

“What?”

“Something I heard from Sky,” I answered.

“Who’s Sky?”

“Another fictional character,” I joked.

“Okay then,” she shook her head.

She reminded me of all the people that I could easily make think that I was crazy even when I wasn’t about to speak.  “What?”

“Nothing,” she lied.

“Am I scaring you or weirding you out?”

Annie laughed, “mm, neither.”

“Okay, don’t tell anyone about the fictional comments,” I requested.  Last time I told someone, they ran away a few days later.  Well, Dan ran away for some other reason but he wanted to run away when I told him that theory I’m guessing.

“Okay, I won’t,” Annie promised.

“Good, it scares others,” I laughed.

A scream and a bang made me jolt.  I got out of the chair to see that Apricot was finally back from the dead and on the floor.