Percy Jackson

My name is Perseus Jackson. I'm 18 years old. My mom is Sally Jackson. My dad is Poseidon. He's a god. Which makes me a Half-Blood. I have 6 siblings. I was abused until I was 13. I met my dad when I was 12. Mom Medusa'd Gabe so he'd go away. The abuse stopped. We moved. I met Tyson. I have depression and anxiety and ADHD and Dyslexia. I tried to kill myself. I started dating Mak La Rue. I fought two wars. And survived. And Tartarus. I have PTSD.Mom had Hailyn. Then started dating Paul again.

Gabe is back.

I'm having an anxiety and panic attack with a tiny bit of PTSD mixed in there.

I couldn't control myself. I was shaking so bad, I was terrified. Are you insane? Here's the man that chased away my older brother for his sexuality, abused me in every way, even sexually, hit my mother and more than likely sexually abused her, too. The thing I fear more than anything else.

He was right there.

Lukas Jackson

I was the first knocked out of my kind of fear. I was still terrified, but I could do stuff. Mom didn't dare move, Percy was having some sort of anxiety or panic attack he was so terrified. But I suppose, he was little when Gabe was around and he always got the worst of it and he's the only one that went through all of it aside Mom.

Gabe knew he was in trouble.

I went to my room and I cried.

Gabe was the reason I ran away. Everything he did and everything he said... When I came out to them...

It was too much. I couldn't handle it anymore.

So I left.

Paul Blofis

As you can imagine, I have never been more confused in my life.

Because for some reason all of Sally's boys are terrified of Gabe, Percy to the point of having a panic attack. Sally was, too. Terrified, not having a panic attack. It wasn't that bad. But she didn't anticipate moving any time soon. Lukas, after a minute went to his room, followed by Teagon. Who didn't seem happy about Gabe but wasn't afraid of him. TJ seemed like she knew him, but couldn't figure it out.

And then she did and I swear to god.

"Dad!"

Oh yeah. Gabe had a kid.

I thought she died, but I guess not.

That got Gabe's attention away from Percy and Sally.

TJ ran up and hugged her dad. Mak went to at least try to calm down, Percy. But that didn't seem very hopeful. I walked over to Sally.

"Hey." I said, placing my hands on her shoulders, earning her attention," you're fine. He's an old friend of mine. He was invited. Do you guys know him?"

She looked down, nodding her head.

"Then you already know he's a good dude, trust me. He won't hurt you, okay?"

I'm a fucking dumbass.

After like 20 minutes in a separate room Percy calmed down, after another 20 he willingly came out. Lukas on the other hand didn't leave his room. We found out that he had fallen asleep, though. That was why.

"Who the other kid that went to his room?" Gabe asked me. "I thought you only had the four."

"I do," I agreed on that statement," her oldest. Lukas. Luke, Chase, they call him a few different things."

"Wait. Who are you dating?"

"Sally." I told him. "Sally Jackson. Why?"

"And you invited me of all people?"

"Well yeah, why?"

"Sally's my ex-wife, Paul. Remember when I was am alcoholic? Remember when I was a nasty monster?"

"...yeah?"

"That was when I was married to Sally." He told me. "I chased Lukas out of the house, he ran away when he was 16. I did everything imaginable to Percy until he was 13. That's why Sally froze up and Percy had a panic attack or Anxiety attack or whatever he has now. I wouldn't be surprised if he was suicidal at this point. I ruined him. I scarred him to a point that therapy will never fix him. Medicine won't do shit. That's why they are ignoring me, that's why Percy is sitting in the corner right now. I'm shocked he left his room if that's really him. He's what? 18 now? The only reason TJ isn't afraid of me is because she ',died' before I got into alcohol. Apparently she didn't die, I don't know what actually happened to her but she's here."

So thats the kid he always told me about. The one he abused for years and if he could take it back he would but he can't. The woman he had a kid with.

That night was a hard one and Gabe would've left, but his car wouldn't start and nobody had jumper cables.

The next day was better. More relaxed. But oh my god.

Percy was near the fridge. We're in the living room, so Gabe asked Percy to grab him a soda. Gabe sobered up totally like 3 years it's been since he's touched alcohol.

"Hey, Percy-"

Percy jumped at just his name.

that's horrible.

That's how badly he scared Percy. 5, 6 years after it all happened.

"Can you grab me a soda out of the fridge?"

Percy mumbled something and got it, walking over and when Gabe thanked him he jumped then, too.

Like me, Gabe is bisexual. We grew up together. Dated once in... 10th or 11th grade. Or no, it was 9th until 11th grade and it just kind of faded. We were still great friends, which was really nice. He didn't seemed pissed at all I was dating his ex-wife.

"Well, okay," Gabe said," so your four kids, Sally's now four apparently. Who is everyone else? I know Marie and Angelica. Josh and Alex's girlfriends. Ryan is Elizabeth's hopeful boyfriend, and Wade is Eren's friend, wanna be boyfriend. But who is everyone else?"

"Um... Teagon, the older one is either Lukas's roommate or his boyfriend, I don't know Lukas that well so. Thalia is a friend of TJ, and like Percy's cousin or something on his dad's side I think, I'm not sure about that. Then Hailyn is the baby."

Gabe just looks at me.

"What?" I asked.

"There's somebody else you're missing. Percy's age. Yay high."

"Oh! Mak." I recalled, assuming for some reason he just knew Mak. "Yeah, Mak. Percy's boyfriend for... I want to say a year but it's been longer than that. Two years for sure, like 2 ½ more so. I teach at their school so I usually find this stuff out before Sally even does, its fun."

That night Gabe and Percy actually spoke.

Percy Jackson

"Hey, kiddo," Gabe walked out of his room and I stiffened up. Habit. I know he's sober now, but still.

"Relax," He told me and I tried but when I'm on alert I don't relax anymore. Camp did that to me," I'm just here to clear the wind for you."

He sat down across from me at the table. I had been playing with Riptide, capped. Wearing s short sleeve shirt so both my cutting scars and my SPQR showed.

"How have you been?" It was a simple question I only ever really get from Mak anymore. Mom stopped asking after I tried to kill myself.

"I..."

How do I answer the past six years of my life simply?

"Brutal," I answered his question,"hellish. Just overall kind of bad aside a few nice things. I mean, Hailyn, Mak, I convinced Lukas to come back. TJ showed up. At least we have a family again."

"That... Not good," he agreed," what about your dad, did you ever meet him? I know you really wanted to."

"Yeah." That answer was plain and simple to start off," we met. He's a fucking unreasonable asshole, or at least towards me he is, but we met."

"He's an asshole?" This was news to Gabe.

"I met him the last summer you around," I explained," right before I was home for like 10 minutes. The last time I saw you. He was talking with my uncle and called me a wrongdoing, saying that he knew his mistake. Told me he wished I was never born. We spoke once a year and a half later, then that next summer when I turned fifteen. On my sixteenth birthday although it wasn't for my birthday either time. Not long before I was 17 I saw him but we didn't talk. And yeah. Apparently he has another kid now. He has three, now four of us. Triton is the oldest, then me. Tyson's a year or so younger and apparently. Tyler is the kids name. I found out yesterday, so. I don't stay there so its not like I have reason to know. A fucking let down, that's what he was. A let down."

"Kind of like my mom," Gabe remarked," but my mom talked to me more. She constantly reminded me though that she never wanted me and she wished I would've died and the womb and just bullshit, right? At least you have your mom. And um... What the fuck is his mom Paul told me when I asked earlier because I barely even recognized you.... Mak! That's the guy. He seemed nice."

I let off a tiny smile.

"Yeah. He is," I agreed.

"If you're afraid I'm going to freak out on you like I had Lukas," he knew why I didn't comment much on the thing about Mak," Percy, I was drunk, it was the most stupid thing I probably said drunk."

"Why that?" I question.

"Because I'm bisexual, I dated Paul for like 3 years in high school, why if I'm right mind would I bitch out your brother for being gay? Or you? Like, you're 18 now, you can make you own damn decisions."

We talked for another few minutes before I decided to head to bed. It was late. Like 12:30. Mom was still up, but that because so was Hailyn.

When I got in the room Mak and I were sharing he was on the phone and after a few moments said goodbye and hung up.

"Who was that?" I asked, closing the door behind me.

"Just my mom," Mak told me," she said the fighting is still going on. He got home today and he was pissed off and I don't know what's going through my dad but I just... My mom didn't say anything, but I have this horrible feeling he's doing something bad to her. Like abusing her or just... I don't know."

At the time he was sitting on the bed and I walked over and sat down next to my boyfriend, giving him a hug.

"You mom will be fine," I assured Mak," I mean. Hey, look and me and my mom and Lukas. We turned out fine and we were all abused. Even if it's happening, as long as it doesn't last too long, she'll be fine. I mean. For gods sake, she had a kid with Ares. And Ares is not an easy man to put up with."

"I suppose," he agreed and asked, " how long did you guys put up with abuse?"

"Well in our case we couldn't afford not to," I explained to him," but it started after TJ died or whatever, so Lukas did for about 5 years, me and mom did for like 8."

"Holy shit," my boyfriend remarked, " no wonder you were terrified. That's a long ass time at a young ass age."

"It is." I agreed. "But he seems sobered up and better now. As long as he's no around all the time I think I'll be fine. As of my mom and Lukas. Who knows."

"I would suppose," he agreed and yawned," I'd also suppose it's bed time."

"So would I." I agreed and climbed over to the other side and got under all the blankets and I think Mak just sort of knew it was a weird day for me and he pulled me close into a snuggle and kissed my cheek.

"I love you," my boyfriend assured me.

"I love you, too," I returned, squeezing his hand.

And with that, we fell asleep.

The next day Gabe left and things went back to normal and we all relaxed a lot more. Went out and swam for most of the day, I met a really nice clownfish down there, managed to scare the shit out of Paul when I totally just pulled him under but it was so worth it.

"Out of curiousity," Mak said as we relaxed on the beach," will I ever get to meet your dad? Like not see him, but like actually meet him?"

"How badly do you want to?" I asked him. "I mean, me and my dad don't fight or anything. We just... Like took a step on the wrong foot. I can ask him if he wants to meet up one day."

"Yeah, that'd be nice," Mak remarked," because it's like we've been dating for 2 ½ years and I know the man your mom split up with like 6 years ago off chance more than your actual dad and just... I don't know. I feel like it's a thing that just needs to be done before we both head to college in the fall."

"Yeah, no,  I get where you're coming from," I emphasized to him," like it's something that probably should happen.  Whether it ends horrible or amazing. "

So that night, I called my dad for the first time in a long time.

"Hey, Perce." My dad seemed decently happy to hear from me. A little tired. "Sorry I haven't been around, its been busy. I know Tyson was there the other day, I wasn't sure if he told you about Tyler or not. But what's up?"

"Not a whole lot," I was honest," just at the cabin. We leave in like an hour. But I was wondering if sometime this week or so if you'd want to meet up? Like you said, its been busy and what not and were on a break right now, so. Plus, there was somebody I figured you probably should meet before I graduate and go to college even though it's just NYU. But still."

"Oh, yeah, that would be great!" My dad said. "I know Tyson offered to watch on Friday. Would that work? Sorry, km exhausted right now. I was up all night. I forgot about this part of having kids. And who? Like are they mortal or a demigod or would I know them?"

"You may have heard of them through like Apollo or something," I answer," mortal. Mak.  But yeah, Friday would work. Like noonish? Just meet at the Empire State Building and work from there?"

We agreed on that and hung up.

Here goes hell.