Carystus

Drive

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So after hot wiring a Toyota, finding Annabeth, and discussing the mission, there came the mention of who would be the driver. And everyone was looking at me expectantly. I shook my head.

    "No way!" I exclaimed, shaking my head, "I am so not driving you guys around."

Thais pursed her lips and cocked her head to the side.

   "Well, you look older than me-

   "I am older than you," I replied, grinning. This earned me a light smack on the back of the head. 

    Percy shook his head at us while Annabeth muttered something about lovebirds.

  "How old are you anyways?" He asked, arching his eyebrows, and looking Thais and I up and down, "I mean, Thais looks around sixteen or seventeen, and you said you're older than her, and you were in camp before I was around-even before Annabeth, so.. I'm guessing you're seventeen or eighteen."  Thais burst out laughing and I twitched. She hadn't laughed or smiled for quite a while. Oh well, I wasn't complaining. 

  "Eighteen! Eighteen! Oh my gods!" She broke off, gasping for breath and wiping tears from her eyes.  She shot me a questioning glance and I nodded, " Carystus here is around three millennium old."

  "Four," I corrected her solemnly, "Thais' three and a half or so," Percy and Annabeth had turned quite pale and Percy's mouth had formed a silent 'oh'. My mouth began to twitch as I tried not to laugh. "Okay, lets go-I'm driving." I said smoothly, and opened the back door like a chauffeur. After the girls stepped in with the typical eye rolling and grumbling, I sat behind the wheel while Percy took shotgun. 

 "Here we go." I muttered, rolling out of the parking lot, "Hope we don't encounter any monsters."

 "Amen to that," Thais muttered, and we burst out laughing.

 Percy frowned, "What?"

 I stopped laughing first, "It's an old thing. We've been on missions together since we were seven, so... Yeah. Brings back memories."

 Thais glared at me, "Many of which are stupid," She stated, and I pretended to look hurt, "Oh, quit being a baby, Car-eye." I could feel heat rushing to my face.

  "As you wish, Theeya."I retorted, saluting. This got me a murderous look.

   "Just drive," Thais snapped, glowering out the widow. I shrugged and pulled into the highway.

  Percy glanced at us, "I knew you guys were older, but not that old." He finally managed.

   Thais looked up, "There's a lot you don't know about us." She stated calmly. I noticed Percy swallow nervously underneath her critical gaze. 

   "Well, Thais," I replied just as coldly, "There's quite a lot we might not know about you."

  She shot forward so fast that the seat-belt ripped. I could feel her trembling in rage, 

  "Carystus, I'm pretty damn sure there's a lot you haven't told me as well." She hissed into my ear. I gritted my teeth and said nothing as Annabeth calmly pulled Thais back. The girls shuffled around a bit until Thais was strapped in again. We rode in tense silence until Thais fell asleep. 

   "Hey," Annabeth said quietly, so not to wake up Thais, "You might want to stop murdering the steering wheel." I looked down and noticed I was grabbing it so hard my knuckles were white. I let go and could'nt help but crack a small smile when I realised the exact shape of my hand was embedded in the plastic. 

  Then we heard the siren. Thais woke up with a start and we all groaned as I pulled over and a police officer walked over. I rolled down the window and nodded at the officer.

  "Evening, sir," I said calmly. He arched his eyebrows, then looked serious. 

  "Just a routine check, no need to worry," He stated, and I nodded understandingly, "He frowned at me suddenly, "Could I ask who you are?" I smiled. For a second his eyes glazed over and I felt my face changing to make me look like the typical thirty-year-old and more like Poseidon. I knew Thais was probably only changing her hair to blond, and letting it fall into her face a little so she could pass as, well, my wife. She was used to this. She used to change her hair colour every two seconds just to confuse me in a crowd. But I preferred to stay the way I was. Black spots flecked my vision and I managed to choke out,

  "Their father." The man nodded, though he looked a bit confused. I looked at the rear-view mirror and knew Annabeth had noticed Thais change. But neither of them noticed my change, since my head was turned away from them. Which was why they all jumped at my deeper voice. 

 The man looked at Percy and Annabeth understandingly and frowned at Thais. She smilled flirtatiously,

  "I would be his wife, sir" She said smoothly. He nodded, said he'd be back, and went to his car. I could'nt hold the facade any longer. I felt my face smoothing out and fell back against the seat, barely managing to breathe. Thais shook her head at me, "Why did you do that, Carystus? Ugh! You idiot." She suddenly switched languages to Gaelic, that was how mad she was, "You could've died! Do you freaking realise that? You should'nt try something of that scale without training!"

 Annabeth and Percy blinked rapidly, trying to make sense of the conversation. They both jumped when I spun around, face inches away from hers. They were used to the calm, quiet guy who just gritted his teeth when he was angry. But I had just had enough.

  "Oh, so maybe you wanted him to take us to jail?" I snapped in the same language. It rolled off my tongue in a torrent, "Because trust me, he would've. You can't control the mist, Thais. We all know that. I tried to teach you, but no, you said you already knew. You ran off with my brother. I warned you that he would try to kill you, but you didn't listen. And then you sent me visions-did you know how horrible they where? I had to watch you-" My voice trembled and Thais blinked rapidly, clearly thinking about how she could set things right. My voice fell to a whisper, and I switched back to English involuntarily, "I had to watch you get tortured, almost killed every day. And you knew that was the vision you where sending me. It drove me crazy, Thais," My voice cracked, and a tear rolled onto my cheek. "I-argh!" I turned around and slammed my head into the steering wheel in frustration. Percy and Annabeth just sat there, staring with wild, terrified eyes. I suddenly stood up and walked out of the Toyota towards the police car, slamming the door shut behind me. I closed my eyes and made the doors of the Toyota unable to open. Thais rammed her fists on the glass, screaming my name until her voice was hoarse, until she disolved into tears. 

  She knew what I was going to do-

                                              Basically turn the policeman into a living zombie under my command.