Dead On Time (maylor)

Chapter 12

21th January 1973

Brian's P.O.V.

I woke up at the sound of my alarm clock, that seemed to wake Phane up, too. He was curled aganist me, in a very uncomfortable way. My grip around him was a bit tight, even though I remembered it looser the night before.

I loosened my grip around him, allowing him to sit "Daddy, can 'e wake papa up?" he asked, eyeing Roger  "I 'want to play wit' 'im"

I smiled at Phane and nodded, shaking Roger lightly "Rog, love. Phane wants to play with you" I whispered. He frowned before opening his eyes and sitting aganist the headboard.

He gave me a good morning kiss "Yeah? And what does he want to play to?" he smiled.

"I don't know, love. Ask him yourself, I'm going to prepare breakfast" I smiled at them, kissing Phane's head before heading to the empty kitchen.

Nothing or nobody was there, but a single note. I was really getting tired of the notes. Couldn't Chronos invent something more creative? He had an eternity of time, literally.

Despite my complains I opened the folded paper in the table, sighting.

Dear Brian, 

Thank you for taking care of Phane, but you need to know something else. He's not a normal son of a god, but a demigod. His mother was a mortal, but she died after giving birth to him, and I, unlike most of the gods in the Olympus, decided to be responsable enough to take care of him for a while. 

With this special condition he has, you'll have to follow a single rule: when he's around twelve you'll have to travel to Camp Half Blood, in Long Island, the USA, and leave him there. He'll be better there, believe me, there everyone will be like him. And don't you dare sign him up in any school, you can teach him home.

Thank you and see you in the afterlife

PS: I worked a little trick on him, I don't want to tase you very much. After all, you don't have time for kids on your busy rockstar launching career.

This man was weirder with every note he left. First a threat with the watch, then another threat with Roger (who I insisted on having by my side protected all the time) and now Phane, who I just learnt to love. 

"Brian?" John's voice interrupted my thoughts "Are you okay? You seem worried" Deaky yawned.

"Uhm? Ah, yeah. It's just, just him again" I confesed, sighting. I really didn't like how all of this was going. If I did what he wanted with Phane would he leave me and the boys alone?

"You mean Chronos?" he said, getting closer to me and reading the note himself "I think you should do what he says, after all, he's a god. He could destroy us when he pleases" he argurued "But it's you who has the 'power', you do what you think it's correct" he quickly added. His expression softened. He noticed a few tears wanting to escape my eyes and hugged me, trying to comfort me.

"It's okay, Bri. You'll- we'll get though this, he won't hurt us" Deaky placed his hands on my shoulders and slowly pulled apart "We'll discover what he's done to Phane and by the time he's twelve we'll be famous so you don't have to worry about the money for the flight" he smiled.

I smiled back "Thank you, Deaks. You're right, we'll get though this" he really was right, we always got though everything, no matter how hard it was. I knew I could count on them if we needed help.

"Brian? Are you okay?" the unmistakable voice of Roger said. 

I turned around to face him, Phane was next to him "Yeah, just this" I said, waving the note. He came closer to me, grabing the note and reading it.