Chapter 51
A/N This chapter is basically a mixture of feels and fluff.
Percy's point of view
After I returned to my palace I contacted Chiron to inform him of the change of leadership, since I figured that Dionysus probably hadn't told him yet. After I finished talking to Chiron. I didn't do all that much. The next day I went to my dad's undersea palace as we had planned. When I got there. They were in the throne room waiting for me. When I walked over to them they exchanged glances, and I really wasn't sure why. I soon found out why though when my mom said, "Percy there is something we have to tell you."
"What?" I asked in confusion.
Mom answered, "Percy you are going to have a sibling."
I was kind of surprised but pleased, to be honest I shouldn't have been that surprised since my parents seemed to be just as close as they had been when they had gotten back together. It was still a bit weird to be getting a sibling at this point, if I was still a demigod I would be thirty three now.
So yeah that made it a bit weird to get a sibling. I guess I'm not completely used to the weirdness that comes with being a god. While those thoughts were going through my head I managed to smile and say "That's great." It wasn't really forced, I had kind of always wanted a sibling, I know I have Tyson, and I treat him like a little brother even though we are technically only half siblings but still.
I figured that my new sibling would probably get Triton's titles since even though it had really hurt dad to do it Triton had been stripped of his titles for betraying us. All the traitors had been dealt with. Khione had been imprisoned and her powers minimized so she couldn't escape. Annabeth and Demetrius had managed to save their hides by returning to our side and giving us the information that we needed. The worst they got was the fact that they were often shunned at camp because of what they had done, and Zach Stphens was killed for his crimes. Any other demigods who had sided with Tartarus had escaped, and since I don't really like the idea of killing demigods I didn't give away their location.
We talked for a bit before we moved on to the real reason I had come here. That reason was dad's insisting on seeing Amber before I Marry her. I took them to Amber's apartment building and I knocked on the door to her apartment. I know it wouldn't be long before she opened the door since she knew we were coming. I introduced them and they seemed to like her. I honestly hadn't been all that nervous about this, I figured they would like her. After a little while my parents left leaving me with Amber.
Just before they left my dad smirked at me and contacted me mentally saying, "Don't you be up to anything now."
I think he was a bit late saying that, but regardless his comment still made me blush, and him to look amused. Besides we won't be doing that for a while, at least not until after we are married. We are still getting used to being together again, I think it's a bit early for that. Shoving those thoughts aside I returned my attention to Amber. We just sat there in silence for a bit before she said, "Luke told me about what happened,"
I looked at her questioningly not sure what she was talking about.
Being more specific this time she said, "He told me about your daughter. I would say I'm sorry but I know that doesn't really help."
I just nodded and sighed in response.
I said, "I guess I should have known something like that would happen to her, since she didn't get to camp until after she was fourteen, her birth father Ares broke an oath on the river Styx. Usually if a god breaks an oath on the Styx and the oath had something to do with their demigod children the punishment usually falls on the demigod that oath was related to."
I sighed again saying, "I know it's not right, but there's nothing we can do about that."
Amber said, "I'm worried about Luke. Everything he has gone through this summer, He will need help to get through it."
I sighed saying, "I'll try and talk to him. I know what he's dealing with all too well, Losing one person is hard enough, but from the way he has been acting I'm guessing that he lost more than just Christina."
Amber said, "He did."
I whipped my head around and looked at her. I said, "Let me get this straight, he told you but he refused to tell me?"
"It seems that way." she replied.
She continued saying, "I didn't give in to his stubbornness, I wanted to help him deal with what had happened so I pushed him until he told me."
I replied, "I did want to help, but I could tell that he didn't really want to talk about it so I didn't push him. I figured he would tell me when he was ready to."
She said, "I've learned how to deal with his stubbornness over the years, he got that from you by the way."
I said, "yeah sure you're not the least bit stubborn."
Detecting my sarcasm she said, "I am not."
I replied, "Fine then he got it from both sides." She huffed in slight annoyance, but she quit arguing.
I said, "Since you know what happened to Luke how about you tell me."
She nodded and repeated what Luke had told her.
When she finished I understood what was bothering Luke, two people had basically sacrificed themselves to save him. I knew the thoughts that followed something like that all too well, and I would try and help Luke through it.
I said, "I'll try and talk to him, I know what he's dealing with. I've gone through it myself far too many times."
She said, "No-one his age should have to go through that."
I sighed saying, "I know. That's why at first I thought I would never have demigod children, but then I met you. I think I fell for you the moment I saw you, I just didn't realize it until later. I honestly don't know how I stayed away from you all those years. I wanted to come back to you, but I guess it was how much I wanted to keep you and Luke safe that made me stay put.
I love you more than anything, and I will do everything I can to help Luke through this, after all he is my son too. I will try and make sure that he doesn't have as difficult a life as I did. Maybe now that both the demigod camps have cities more demigods will get happy endings. All I know is that no matter what happens I will always be with you, and we will get through it together."
After I finished speaking I kissed her passionately, and she returned it with just as much passion. After we separated we just sat there in silence for a while, just enjoying being together again. I had meant every word I had said to her I knew that no matter what happened I would be by her side.
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