Just a Girl (Percy Jackson and Avengers Crossover - No Mist)

Chapter Three: Anne

AN:

H'llo! Sorry for being so late, but here's the chapter you've been anticipating!

I am what I am, an' I'm not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,' my ol' dad used ter say, 'There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth botherin' with.

Anne closed the book with a sigh. She never quite felt on the same page with Hagrid, but he was right. Unfortunately, he also probably wouldn't be able to say that in this situation, considering the government would stick him in a cage.

The ice pack on her cheek slid off as she stood up to grab some juice. Stupid bullies. She had gotten soft since her days on the streets. Normally she would have been able to hold her own, but Janice was something else. She had no doubt that if a Monster ever met her in an alleyway, it would wish it hadn't.

Tom was doing homework in the kitchen. He had a couple of bruises himself, but that was what he got for trying to defend her. He looked up when she came in to finish off the soda. "I told you you shouldn't have-"

"Spare me the lecture." She snapped. She wasn't in the mood to be patronized. Opening the fridge, she eyed herself in the mirror down the hall. Black eye, cut lip. Deep scowl. "I know not to antagonize the Dubious Duo, but they aren't exactly hard to get to. I wasn't trying to get on their bad side." She chugged most of a soda can before continuing and sitting down next to her brother. "They get annoyed when you don't hang on their every word, and I have better things to do than gossip."

He didn't say anything while she finished off the soda. They both sighed, while Anne stomped on the tin can to compact it and chucked it in the trash. Tom waited for her to sit down again.

"I'm not going to tell you what you did wrong. However, you need to be more careful. While the world has it's eye on teenagers, having a black eye will elicit a lot of suspicion, especially with your records. It's not impossible to imagine you being a demigod."

Anne nodded. Mr. West had already talked to her about this. If she was a demigod, than she must be the daughter of a minor god, or maybe a legacy. She didn't have any powers that she knew of, and monsters didn't seem attracted to her more than anyone else. But there weren't a lot of ways to prove to the government that she was mortal, so she needed to avoid bringing attention to herself just in case.

"But mostly, I'm worried about what we're going to tell Dad."

Anne groaned and slumped down in her chair. She hadn't even thought about that.

"You know he's automatically going to assume that we ran into a monster."

She covered her face with her hands. "Oh, gods. He's going to kill us, isn't he?"

He chuckled, though the sound was tight and nervous. "Probably.

Anne slugged him on the arm. "Don't lie. He's definitely-" The door slammed shut and Anne cut herself off.

They looked at each other, and Anne retreated to the living room to pick up her book. She sat down on the couch, knowing she was just procrastinating for the inevitable.

"Tom. Bring your sister into the Kitchen. We need to talk."

Anne frowned. That was fast. And he didn't sound angry. Just... sad. Worried.

She went into the kitchen and sat down at the table, leaving the book in the den. Sitting haphazardly in her chair, she looked at her dad's face. He wasn't even looking at them.

"There was a Board meeting today." Mr. West was part of the School Board, meetings were extremely important. "The government was present." Oh. Oh.

Tom slumped in his chair. He wasn't looking at Anne, but at the floor. He looked panicked. "Dad. What's going on?"

The man covered his face. "There's going to be an assembly tomorrow. The government is going to come to the school and test everyone for godly blood." He seemed to be crying.

Anne let out a shaky breath. They had assumed it would happen eventually, but not so soon... it had only been a month.  "What... what are we going to do?" She didn't elaborate. They both knew what she meant.

Mr. West put his elbows on the table. "Well, we can't leave."

Tom finally looked his dad in the eye. "Why the hades not?!"

The man tried to pacify his son. "Tom, if we leave it will be suspicious. We have no reason to run, and I'm one of the very few people who knows about the assembly. The government can put two and two together."

Anne spoke up. "And besides, we're not even sure if I'm a demigod, or even a legacy. There's a chance that I won't even turn up positive. How are they even testing?"

Their father sighed. "They didn't say, just that it wouldn't have any negative results on mortals and that it would say for certain which people have the genes."

Tom ran his fingers through his hair. "So what are we going to do?"

"You're going to go to school as usual, and we'll have to hope for the best." Tom scoffed, but that seemed reasonable enough to Anne. There wasn't much they could do.

"I'm heading to bed, you two." Their father stood up. "I'm not in the right mindset right now to ask why you're both bruised."

The two looked guiltily at each other while their father walked to his room and shut the door with a soft click.

Tom sighed and put his head in his hands. "Oh, gods."

Anne stood up and put his arms around him in a loose hug. He didn't like close contact. "We'll be okay, Tom."

He pushed her away. "You don't know that. You can't know that."

The brunette stepped back. Her brother wasn't the type to lash out when he was worried. This must be bad. "Tom, the chances of me testing positive can't be that high. I don't get why you're so-"

He stood up and looked at her. "Yes, they can. The chances can be that high, Anne! Do you even know what will happen if the tests come back positive?! Do you?"

Anne bristled. "No! No one does, the government isn't exactly very open about it!"

"They take you to somewhere in the middle of nowhere, and they lock you up forever.  You never see anyone you know ever again, and you die of cold and quiet, if the monsters don't get you first!" He was breathing heavily, sweating. "That's what happens when they find demigods."

Anne stopped. "Tom, that's not going to happen. The test won't come back positive."

"How can you know that?"

"I don't. I just- you just have to believe I'll be okay, Tom. I'll-"

"Not everything is about you, Anne!" The door of Tom's room shut behind him.

Anne sighed and rested her head in her hands. She wasn't sure that it wouldn't come back positive. If she was being honest, she was probably going to be taken away tomorrow. She knew she had been seeing things, weird things, even before the Mist vanished. She was almost certain she was related to a minor god somehow.

And the worst part was, she was going to spend her last night with her family wondering what Tom had meant, and if that argument was the last thing she was ever going to have with him.

She went to bed, knowing she wasn't going to be getting much sleep that night.

None of them were.

An: There you go, things are starting to heat up! I'm really sorry about the wait, things have been pretty crazy for the past few months. Hope you liked it!

(Also please comment comments are my sustenance and if you have theories or literally ANYTHING to say that isn't hate then if you comment it that would be great ok bai)

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