Bloodlove: a dark piper au

the combination of beauty and love is a catastrophic force, but the children of it are taken for granted. piper, a legendary sixteen year old assassin living the grandiose city life, doesn't know what or who she is. In truth, she'd rather not think about it. piper is just fine with the one thing she knows: murder, a form of beauty that most will never understand. but when piper is sent on an assignment to kill some goats and strange teenagers that hit too close to home, she'll have to face both her origins and her future, and what they've turned her into.

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"There was something beautiful about a killing, about the way something could go through and through and simply stop the procession of air, the procession of being. The way that if you did it fast enough, no blood even stained the blade. The way a body heaved backwards with the force of a blow and wrenched forward when the intruder left the gleeful direction it came from- and the majestic impact of a person hitting the ground as whatever was inside left existence. There was beauty in that power."

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have fun reading this, guys! I really went into piper's identity here but you'll also see percy and annabeth and a lot of CHB references throughout :) There are some pretty graphic blood and gore descriptions so that is definitely something to avoid if those are triggers for you. thanks for sticking all the way to here and don't forget to vote! It means a lot <33