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CHAPTER THREE

The city's noise

was muffled between the walls of an apartment building.
The unconscious males breathing is slow. The other teen watched him sleep from afar. He noticed how the wounded man has a handgun holster strapped onto his right leg. On his calf he has a pack of extra ammo on his left leg. He also noticed how on his black combat boots there's a small pistol that's peaking out from the top of the shoe. While Percy was watching the tip of the gun hiding he noticed on the other shoe he has a pocket knife.
'man this guy needs some pro-tips on how to hide this stuff'
Percy then started observing his upper half of his body. He was wearing a belt that contained to what looked like a few small smoke bombs. He wore an open jacket on top. The jacket had many pockets- filled with who knows what. Then it kinda occurred to Percy that there was most likely a reason to why the mysterious person wore a helmet that masked his face.
Percy exited the room.
'is it a good idea to have most-likely-killer armed alone in my guest room'
'seems totally normal to me'
'oh okay'

—

Redhoods eyes flutter open. Blinking a few times until his eyes adjusted to the lighting. He groaned quietly. He stretched out his arms outward and his legs.
'where am I?'
Then the memories slowly emerged back into his brain.
'where is he?' he questioned as he got up looking for the teen who had helped him. Once Redhood got up from the couch he realized his helmet was still on. Confusing.
The teen had helped him without knowing his identity? Then Redhood has checked to make sure all his weapons and gadgets were still in place. They were. Who was this teen who had helped him? Whoever they were- they must be crazy.
Redhood starts searching the place. As he walked he heard  foot steps coming from someone else.
It was the same person who had helped him. Now that Redhood wasn't lightheaded he could get a better look at the mysterious person who had helped him.
The teen had pitch black curly hair. His hair had a few strands that fell down to his eyes. He eyes were were a bright colored blueish green.
"you gonna say anything or? I mean a thank you would be nice" he chuckled.
"oh um... who are you?
Percy smirked showing his dimples on one side, "a thank you would have been nice." Percy walked closer to Redhood, "names Percy. You are?"
"Redhood,"
"oh come on- really? I saved your life I deserve to know a name," Percy mumbled. "Redhood isn't a real name. You aren't even wearing red hood- that's a red helmet," Percy retorted.
"true- thank you for saving my life- I see you stitched up the wound pretty good. But, thats not getting you a name."
"oh my gosh, what am I gonna do? I can't do steal your identity or expose you or whatever. I'm not that smart. Just a first name? Unless Redhood is your real first name- hah that would mean your parents actually thought that that would be a good name- or they wanna torture and torment you."
Redhood thought for a bit.
'there's something about him, I don't know what- but I have a feeling I can trust him'
'he won't recognize me as Bruce's ward, I have after all been dead for awhile...'
'yeah that was Bruce's fault'
Redhood didn't say anything- he just put his hands on his helmet. And lifted it up.
"then you Percy for saving my life,"
"oh I didn't think you were actually going to..." Percy said stopping slowly as he studied his face.
He had emerald green eyes. His hair was black with a white floof in the center.
'wow shiro who?'
'wait a minute... I recognize him'
"Jason?"
"what? That's not my name?"
"I knew you. Oh my gosh it's been so long- how you been?"
"I'm I'm sorry you must be mistaken,"
"no- no I definitely know you. We used to be friends. It's me Percy Jackson. You are supposed to be dead though. So you came back from the dead? Huh, not one of the craziest things I've seen, but hey how'd you do that?"
To say Jason was confused was an understatement. This 'Percy Jackson' really did seem to know him. But, how come he can't remember. As he pondered on the thought- he realized there were parts of his childhood that are just completely missing.
While Jason lingered Percy was just watching him with a blank face. After a little less than a minute Percy started to get bored.
"you still there?" Percy said while he waved his hand in front of his old friends face- who seemed to not remember him.
Jason lost train of thought, "wait what?"
Percy wondered what really happened to Jason. Even he was confused. They both stood there for a few seconds. They wondered if they should tell the other about their secrets. It all

went silent for a few moments.

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«I worked on this in the car
on the way to Washington, D.C.
lowkey freaked because
in Billie Eilishs instagram post
I was in the exact same spot
as her earlier that same day»

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