NO TIME TO DIE|| L. CASTELLAN
© bushnellfilms 2025
[CONTENTS WARNING, parental neglect, parental death, cancer]

❝ was i stupid to trust you?
was i foolish to you?
was it obvious to everybody else?
that i'd fallen for a lie, you were never on my side. ❞
[No Time To Die ✵ Billie Eilish]

[CALLUM CARTER]
I don't understand all of you sometimes, Luke but I do understand that I love you and I know that you restored me to a stronger person.

[LUKE CASTELLAN]
I'm sorry that you don't always know me but I'm glad that I restored you from the wreck of yourself you were, I love you too.

❝ So tell me everything is not about me,
But what if it is?
Then say they didn't do it to hurt me,
But what if they did? ❞
[Who's Afraid of Little Old Me? ✵ Taylor Swift]

The world hated CALLUM CARTER, the poor boy reached Camp Half-Blood broken, a shell of the boy he once was. He was filled with rage, the primal kind burning like a fire. This rage drove his very being, he couldn't get away from it.

CALLUM CARTER arrived at Camp Half-Blood and was greeted by a harsh truth, his father didn't want him as a son. The only person that could bring him down from his rage was LUKE CASTELLAN.

LUKE CASTELLAN has been watching him from afar, recognising the rage inside CALLUM CARTER as the same inside of him. He took CALLUM under his wing, and slowly helped him control his anger and somewhere along the road both boys feel in love with the other.

CALLUM CARTER falls hard for LUKE CASTELLAN, the rage he once let control him turning into love for LUKE.

But young love isn't the most important in this world of Gods & Monsters.

❝ Standing in the yard, dressed like a kid
The house is white and the lawn is dead
The lawn is dead, the lawn is dead ❞
[half return ✵ adrianne lenker]

[CALLUM CARTER]
How do you bear it?
The bitterness of knowing your own father does not care for you?

[LUKE CASTELLAN]
The secret is the pretending that you do not care about the bitter feelings when in reality, it haunts you.

❝ I'm a dumb teen boy, I eat sticks and rocks and mud. I don't care about the Government and I really need a hug ❞
[Boys Will Be Bugs ✵ Cavetown]

The AESTHETIC of LUKE & CALLUM.

CALUKE STELLAR
[My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys.
Matching Wounds. Battered Converse.
I Hate You, I Love You. Rageful Lovers.
Bloodstained Hands. I Swear I Love You. Lovers Doomed By Fate. Gods Save Us.]

❝ I've been on my knees, change the prophecy. I don't want money, just someone who wants my company. Let it once be me, who do I have to speak to about if they can redo the prophecy. ❞
[The Prophecy ✵ Taylor Swift]

❝ The first time I tasted someone else's spit, I had a coughing fight. I mistakenly called them by your name. I was let down, it wasn't the same. ❞
[Night Shift ✵ Lucy Dacus]

CALLUM CARTER had a rotten life. He was born to Samantha Carter, an Australian immigrant who worked as a teacher, and Ares, the God of War, in a small town in the State of Arkansas.

Growing up in a small Conservative Christian town in Arkansas was not easy for him, he knew very young he was different from everyone else. He never felt attracted to girls even when he was very small, he could always feel this pull towards boys. He was also a very emotional child, thanks to his neurodiversity, which meant he was often teased.

As he grew up, he learnt to hide his emotions and romantic feelings. He acted like a completely different person around the outside compared to his mother. His mother, Sam was the only person to accept him. Sam didn't care if her son cried or if he was gay, she just wanted him to be happy.

But tragedy stuck when he was 14, his mother unfortunately got diagnosed with late stage breast cancer and died shortly after his 15th birthday. After his mother's death, he became this person the world seems to want him to be.

He became rude, arrogant, and violent. He would repeatedly skip school or just sit around smoking behind the gym. If he was in class, he would disrupt it, deliberately trying to be sent out. It's safe to say, he was miserable.

One day, by chance meeting, he ran into a satyr whilst skipping school, and defended the satyr against a monster. The satyr recognised that he was a half-blood and took him to Camp. He was happy to leave his hometown, the only thing he took was his mother's photograph.

When he arrives at Camp Half-Blood, he meets LUKE CASTELLAN, the counselor for the Hermes Cabin where the unclaimed campers went.

CALLUM CARTER had a crush on LUKE ever since he arrived at Camp Half-Blood when he was 16 years old. Little does he know LUKE always liked him back.

When the boys are 17, LUKE gets sent on a quest by his father. LUKE has no idea if he will come back from his quest, even if he's strongest swordman at Camp. So before he leaves he confesses to CALLUM and both boys have a reason for relief. However, now CALLUM is worried that LUKE is going to die before they start to date. But LUKE comes back.

After his return, he's different but CALLUM doesn't mind it, he's just happy to have him alive even if he has a new scar and seems bitter.

Everything seems normal until Zeus' master bolt goes missing and a kid named Percy Jackson is blamed...

❝ I'm doing fine, trying to derail my one track mind. Regaining my self-worth in record time. But I can't help but think of your other in the bed that was mine. ❞
[Night Shift ✵ Lucy Dacus]

LEVI MILLER AS

❝ I'm not angry anymore
Well, sometimes I am
I don't think badly of you
Well, sometimes I do ❞
[Interlude: I'm not angry ✵ Paramore]

CALLUM ARTHUR CARTER.
[Cal, Cally, CC, Cam]
Nineteen. He/Him. Gay. Sagittarius.
Luke Castellan.

THE RAGEFUL | SON OF ARES.

❝ I have emotional motion sickness, somebody roll the windows down.
There are no words in the English language I could scream to drown you out. ❞
[Motion Sickness ✵ Phoebe Bridgers]

[ADDITIONAL CAST]
Ethan Nakamura ✵ WILL GAO
Avantika ✵ SILENA BEAUREGARD
Jonathan Daviss ✵ CHARLES BECKENDORF
As Described ✵ CASTOR & POLLUX
Whitney Peak ✵ RAMONA THOMPSON
Katie Blake ✵ AMARA PENSINO
Andrea Chaparro ✵ SOFÍA AGOSTI
As Described ✵ SAMANTHA CARTER

Percy Jackson Cast ✵ THEIR CHARACTERS

❝ Strangers, to lovers, to enemies.
So I'll dance with your ghost in the living room, and I'll play the piano alone ❞
[In The Kitchen ✵ Reneé Rapp]

[AN EXCERPT FROM THE DIARY OF CALLUM CARTER, AGE 17]

Sometimes I wake up and wonder why I was born, why my father decided to love my mother, even for a short time.

Other days I wake and wonder why I am still alive, why my rage hasn't burnt me alive, why I haven't lost all sense.

On days like these my answer often comes to me quickly, I was born due to the unforeseen circumstances of a short lived relationship between two people. And I am still here because of one person. He saved me from the fire burning within me. For that I will be forever grateful.

[END OF EXCERPT]

❝I swear to God, I haven't thought of you in ages. I've lived a lot, I've loved and lost, I've let the rain in.I'm pretty sure, I mean I've heard, you never faced it. I understand, I changed your plans, I had to, baby. ❞

[I Knew It, I Knew You ✵ Gracie Abrams]

[TRIGGER WARNINGS]
Parental neglect, parental death, cancer
canon level violence, suicide, Kronos, Ares,
major character death, underage drinking,
manipulation, doomed romance.

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❝ The price of your greed is your son and your daughter. What you gonna do when there's blood in the water? ❞
[Blood//Water ✵ grandson]

[LJ's Yap Corner!]

hey my angels!!

welcome back to lj's delusions!!

this fic is going to kill you and i'm sorry, the angst level is crazy and my poor boy callum is traumatized as fuck...

basically for this fic, so far i have two acts planned. act 1 is pre the lightning thief so is building up their relationship etc.
act 2 is tlt era covering up to the betrayal!

this fic will contain spoilers for pjo in general!

the prologue for this is split between pre tlt and the last olympian 😔

the layout really layouted for this!

thanks to pookie mads glenpowells for making the cover i love it!!

ramona thompson & amara pensino belong to my friends apollo and liz <3

i love you all!