10- Secrets
All characters are owned by rick Riordan except for the ones i make.
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This chapter feels so awkward but i tried my best to improve it!!
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It was clear to Ellie that someone was awake because of the creaking of the floor upstairs.
As she made them dinner she was sure that they were all awake and talking in hushed whispers.
Removing her apron and tasting the food one last time she ascended the stairs.
She could hear them arguing among themselves.
She knocked on the door as if informing them she was going to come in.
"Hey",Ellie said hesitantly while poking her head inside."Can I come in?".
"Sure",Hazel replied giving her a small but grateful smile thankful that because of her arrival the argument stopped.
"We need some answers", Annabeth demanded.
"Fine",Ellie sighed entering the room and closing the door behind her.
"Are you a demigod or a clear sighted mortal?",Percy asked cautiously.
"I'm a demigod",Ellie answer.
"Greek or roman?"
"Greek?",she replied.
"So who's your parent?",Nico asked while playing with Will's hair.
"I'm a daughter of --"
"why is there extra dinner",Bella demanded as she barged into the room unannounced.
Bella was met with a shocking silence.
"WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE!?",bella shouted at Ellie.
It was clear to the demigods that Ellie was panicking.
As Annabeth tried to form a lie, Ellie spoke.
"Bella,meet my boyfriend Theodore and his friends",she said while faking a smile and holding Theo's hands.
Bella looked like she expected it."Glad you moved on from him".
Ellie immediately froze giving bella a glare.
"Now why don't we eat dinner and talk?",bella said bemused at theo.
Without waiting for an answer she dragged Ellie downstairs while the demigods reluctantly followed.
As the dinner was served an unsettling silence lingered in the air.
"So aren't you going to introduce them to me?",bella asked as she set down her spoon and crossed her arms.
Ellie muttered something incoherent under her breath.
They started introducing themselves as Theo's friend.
The last person to introduce himself was Percy ,to say that Bella was intrigued by him was an understanding.She was only looking at him while the others introduced themselves.
"I'm Percy Jack-"
Bella snapped her neck towards Ellie so fastly that her neck almost broke.
"Did you not learn enough?",Bella seethed at Ellie her words dripping with venom."How could you!".
It was Ellie's turn to be angry."How dare you talk to me like that",she demanded standing up from her chair.
"I'LL TALK TO ANYONE WHO KILLED MY DAD LIKE THAT",Bella shouted at Ellie while holding back tears.
Ellie looked worse ,she looked like bella had stabbed her in the heart with her words.
"I-I-I d-dint mean to say that",Bella stuttered after realising what she had said.
But the damage was done.
"FINE I KILLED YOUR DAD!!IM A MURDERER!! HAPPY NOW?",Ellie shouted back while tears streamed down her eyes."I'm leaving and I won't come back again, if I die you'll be notified by the funeral bureau",Ellie added before storming upstairs.
Bella's sobs echoed through the room,the demigods stood silent,while Percy looked distressed.
Soon after Ellie came downstairs with two big luggages.
Without even looking back she stormed out of the house leaving the demigods speechless.
One by one the demigods compiled leaving the house.
The last one to leave was astraea.
"She won't die,I promise",She assured bella while giving her a small hug.
"Thank y-you",Bella said as she sobbed uncontrollably.
Astraea left the house which she hadn't known was filled with sadness.
The walk to Argo II was very silent.
Ellie walked before them with theo who was holding her hands.
Annabeth and Hazel gave astraea pitying gazes but she knew she shouldn't be jealous at Ellie.
Even Leo was silent giving them no comedic relief.
As they reached the ship Ellie fell to the floor and broke down fully.Theo held her in his arms giving her all the warmth she needed to let go.
She was aware of the others watching but at that time she didn't care.
The dam that she bulit inside her finally broke,it felt amazing to express her feelings and not bottle it up.
She full on sobbed thinking about what bella said before,it was her fault afterall, because of her their father died. Gods,she didn't deserve to live,she should have died instead of their dad.
That night Ellie found it difficult to sleep,she layed on her back looking at the stars and thinking about her dad.
She missed him so much , it felt painful to even think about him.
"Hey you alright?",Will asked as he settled down next to her.
Will was last person she would have thought she would find solace with...that's funny because his name is Will solace.
She thought about this as she laughed.
"Is there something on my face?",Will asked consciously.
She shaked her head before muttering a quick no.
They stayed like that for a while simply looking at the stars in silence.
"What...are you guys doing?",a sleepy nico said as he joined them.
"Looking at the stars",Ellie and Will replied at the same time earning a weird look from nico.
"Well you guys are definitely weird",nico chuckled softly before laying down next to Will.
Again they were met with silence.It was something that Ellie liked, sitting with someone in silence.
"You know you shouldn't blame yourself",Nico said breaking the silence.
Ellie nodded she knew what he was talking about.
She sighed and replied "It still hurts when I think about him".
"Your father would like you to move on"
"You know my father?",Ellie asked confused.
"I've only met him once in the underworld",Nico said smiling fondly at the memory.
"He was a good man always talking about you and bella",Nico added trying to make the girl smile.
To his relief she did smile and relaxed as if a huge weight was lifted from her shoulders.
After smiling to her herself for a minute she yawned and closed her eyes as if she was going to sleep.
Nico and Will watched Ellie slowly falling asleep.
She looked peaceful and not at all worried while sleeping.
Nico and Will silently watched her while promising to take care of her in the future.
The next morning the members of Argo II saw an amusing sight.
Nico, Will and Ellie was sprawled on the ground.
If you looked close enough you could see how tightly both on them held on to Will.
A exhausted Will was trying to break free from their grip.The more he struggled the harder they held on.
Sighing in defeat he went back to position pulling both of them closer.
Pitying Will , Annabeth and Hazel rushed forward to help him.
Seeing them come Will smiled brightly."Finally someone who'll help me".
With the help of Annabeth and Hazel they finnally pulled Will away from nico and Ellie.
Finding that Will was missing Ellie and nico frantically searched for his body with their hands before finding one other.
Ellie then pulled Nico to the position Will was before.
Both looked contempt before they resumed to sleep peacefully hugging eachother tightly.
Chuckling fondly Will went to his room leaving the others to go to the dining room.
Percy was busy drowning his pancakes in syrup when a scared looking theo and a laughing Piper entered the room.
Piper was laughing so hard that tears streamed down her cheeks."y-you sho-uld ha-ve se-en his f-ace".
"What happe-",Percy was about to ask before nico and Ellie came into view.
That shut them up because both looked like ghosts.
Ellie's eyeliner was ruined and was half on nico's face,both of their hairs were sticking out in different directions and because of the eyeliner the area around their eyes were black.
Being not able to control themselves they all burst into laughter.
Hearing all the commotion a freshly dressed Will entered the room.
Seeing Nico and Ellie he tried to hold in his laughter but soon burst into laughing.
Nico and Ellie pouted at Will for laughing.
Ignoring them Will took a seat at the table.
Seeing Will sit Nico and Ellie pulled a chair each.
Before they could sit an annoyed looking Will stopped them.
"No breakfast for you both if you don't go and freshen up",he ordered sternly giving them his best glare.
"Fine mom",Ellie replied groaning.
"Hey! why am I the mom!?",Will protested asking the others.
Not knowing what to answer the others avoided eye contact and started changing the topic.
Seeing this Nico quietly chuckled before going to freshen up.
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"I think we should talk about yesterday", Annabeth said interrupting their talks.
All grew silent at this staring at Ellie.
"What?,Oh...you mean yesterday",Ellie said frowning.
Nico slightly glared at annabeth for bringing up the topic.
"It's alright neeks!,I'm not that fragile",Ellie said smiling at Nico.
She closed her eyes in concentration before snapping them open.
"Be prepared",Ellie warned before clapping her hands.
Everyone gasped as they found themselves in a pitch black room.
They turned to see Ellie come out of the shadows.
"Can you do that?",Percy whisper-asked nico.
"No I can't",Nico whispered back.
"Well everyone welcome to my memories",Ellie said interrupting them as an iris message popped up infront of her.
"I'll show you some of my memories so that it will be easy for you guys to understand",she explained.
"So it all started when my father met Hades".
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A/N
So that's the end of this chapter hope you all enjoyed reading it!! Please vote and leave a comment!!!
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