Never Again

Chapter 3

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Jason POV

The seven and I were all sitting silently around the table in the Argo II's dining room. Everyone was in shock from the day's earlier events, I mean, we all knew that Percy had probably seen some terrible stuff down there, It's Tartarus for Pluto's sakes, but we never expected his happy and sarcastic attitude to completely leave him. We certainly didn't expect him to be capable of doing such dark things, something so raw and uncontrolled. As much as I hate to admit it, he scared the Styx out of me. Just as I was coming to realize this, I hear the stairs creak behind me. I whip around and then sigh with relief when I see it's only Annabeth. 

"Hey" she says. "Percy is pretty tired from earlier, so he is going to stay below deck." She seems a little bit dazed, but I decide not to question it, she's probably just startled from earlier. She sits down at the head of the table. We all sit in silence for a little while until Frank found the courage to ask the question that had hung around the table ever since we sat down. 

"So... guys, I know it's not really a topic we want to discuss right now, but what are we going to do about Percy?" 

Annabeth looked at him with fire in her eyes, taking a deep breath before saying, " what do you mean do about him? We are going to be nice to him until he heals, and if any of you do anything else I swear-"

I cut her off. " Annabeth, I know you love him, but we do have to consider what he did earlier. That was pretty dark stuff. He might be too dangerous now. I'm not suggesting we do anything to harm him of course, but we may have to er.. contain him somehow until he 'heals' as you put it." When Annabeth looked at me with a look that probably would have made Jupiter shit himself, I quickly added, " c'mon, you have to admit that was pretty terrifying earlier. He could kill us all in a moment of anger, an accidental flick of his wrist. He's a wild card at this point, keeping him with us is just an unnecessary risk." 

This time Nico spoke up,"you should just be glad he's on our side. He's very dangerous to his enemies Jason. If you want to talk about it strategically, then you could say he's our key weapon to winning this war." He said this last part with a sharp glint in his dark eyes.

I sigh. I was really hoping someone else would bring this up, but here we are. "What if he betrays us? You all saw that look in his eyes. It's like someone had taken a hammer to glass. They were dull too, with a sort of lost look in them. And his scream? It was haunted to say the least." The others nodded in agreement.

Annabeth, who had been trying to hold back the entire time I was speaking, finally burst out with, " YOU IDIOTS! HIS FATAL FLAW IS LOYALTY FOR GODS SAKES! DO YOU REALLY THINK HE WOULD BETRAY YOU? You don't know him like I do. You don't know what he has been through. The fact the he is still sane is really surprising. His entire life, he's never gotten a break. He never got a childhood. Ever since he was twelve, someone has always been out to get him. Heck even before that, he lived a tortured life. Yet he still managed to become the bravest, kindest, loving demigod ever. Even after all that, after saving everyone here's asses, you still question his fucking loyalty? It's sickening." With that she storms out of the room, heading back below deck, no doubt to her tortured hero. And she calls us sickening? Could she really not see how dangerous he could be? Besides what was that crap about having no childhood and whatnot? I mean, it's no secret that before he found out he was a demigod, he had had the best life out of anyone here. I mean sure he wasn't that popular at school or whatever, but he had a loving mom and a great home life, certainly better than what I had been through. I was abandoned by my alcoholic mom when I was still a toddler! I sigh and begin my meal, wondering what in the gods' names she could have meant.

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