Lucia

This was a very depressing place, gods damn.

The threats did stop. Nothing else did.

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Percy

Nothing.

That's why I felt.

Nothingness. With a side of regret, sorrow, hatred for myself.

The last two stuck out like an ass, though.

I was in my room. Chained to the bed so this time I would screw up my knuckles I guess. Leo was in the room, too. I wasn't really listening, though. Whatever he was saying was wrong. Unless of course he was saying I should just die. But he never would. Because he's Leo, and he's always happy.

I kept shaking my head in denial of everything he was probably saying, stuck in my own thoughts.

I should just kill myself. Popped into my head. Rot in the Fields. A coward. I don't even deserve that title. Or any title. Just Death to take me away.

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Triton

Dad was home.

"Where the hell have you been!?" Was the first thing I heard and I just walked by him, ignoring how mad he was. I don't care right now. I don't have the time. Because my brother is dead and the other is so depressed he'd praying for death I was sent back home. The one place I don't want to be. I wasn't the only one but... I don't know. I feel like I should be there right now. With Percy. Trying to talk through to him.

Not really in the mood to hear my parents thoughts, or anyone's, I slammed my door and  jumped into my room. Looking out the window. I felt like a horrible person and suddenly it was silent. Everything was silent.

It stayed that way for about 5 minutes until Dad came into my room. I really didn't have the motivation to tell him to leave. Too involved in my own thoughts.

"I..." Dad starts. "I'm not sure where to start aside that I'm sorry. Over my time away I came to realization and I just... I'm a horrible and shitty father. I shouldn't have yelled at you or Percy or Tyson or done anything. What you guys told me... I've never been told before. I didn't know how to react. I freaked out inside and so I flipped out to you guys. And because of that you guys hate me, right? U doubt Percy or Tyson will ever step foot in here again, honestly."

This is when he caught on.

"What happened?" For once in a long ass time he sounded concerned.

I just shake my head, wiping away the tears starting to fall. It was overwhelming. Tyson dead, that's was a huge shock and then Percy... I have this horrible feeling he's already dead. That he somehow managed to kill himself with the restraints on him.

My father sat there for 25 minutes, silent. Waiting for me to calm down so I could talk.

"I was at Camp." I answered his question from earlier. "Percy brought me. It was fun. Nice people. But Percy fell into an episode and I thought PTSD or something like that. A flashback. And it wasn't. They somehow got him to his room. Forced to restrain him so that way he won't run to the bathroom or somewhere and grab something and kill himself. And when they for him there they found Tyson's body and just... I thought for once things could be nice and it was ruined. Again."

I couldn't... I saw Percy in that episode. I saw him. How dead he seemed. How desperate he was for his life to be taken from him. He saw Tyson's body and he fell silent. He wasn't begging for death anymore. My brother waiting for it to just take over like it did Tyson.

That night I got a call from Leo.

"Percy lived." Leo gave me the good news. "But he got worse and he's just getting worse with every episode. I mean, he claims to be okay but... He's not. He really isn't, Triton. I have no idea what the hell to do. Grover and Annabeth don't dare come close in fear that they will break down from seeing that. Tyson is dead. They're not letting you come back for a while. Nobody wants to see their hero like that. Myself included. But I don't dare leave him alone."

My brothers boyfriend stopped himself, sniffling, and collected himself once again.

"I'm terrified, Triton." He was honest. "That when I wake up in the morning he'll be dead by his own doing."

He was getting another call. So I let him go answer that.

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Leo

It was my Aunt Rosa.

I did not have the emotional capacity for all of this.

"Leo." I knew her voice right away. I was shaking I've been crying so much. I don't dare do it front of Percy. I was in the main area. His door cracked open so I could see. He was sleeping. I had no idea how to deal with it. "Its... Its Aunt Rosa."

I remained silent. Not trusting myself to speak.

"We're in New York." She explains her reason to call. "Manhattan. I'm not sure where you are right now in the state but-"

I stopped her there.

"No."

"Let me finish." She insisted.

"No." I reexplain to her. Heading the kids in the back. Theyd be about 11 now. The other 13. "Not now, Rosa. Please. I'm dealing with too much shit to even..." My voice cracked. "To even consider."

It was silent for 30 seconds.

"Are you.. Okay?" My aunt asked me. "Did somebody else die?"

"No..." I then realize. "Well yeah, but that's not the problem right now."

"Oh, gods, dear." She sounded honestly worried. "You sound so shaken up. What happened?"

My aunt was the first person to know I was gay. I went back for a while. Her kids go to boarding school so I went and ta da I'm at Camp.

"At camp." I explained. She knew about camp. We kind of stayed in contact. "It's just been chaos lately. And my boyfriend, bless his heart, has depression. And two brothers. All at Camp. And he fell into a horrible episode earlier and then coming into his cabin he found his younger brother dead. So it worsened. He didn't kill himself, he's sleeping right now but... I'm afraid if I go to sleep he'll be dead in the morning."

"Morgan went through the same thing, about a year ago." Rosa tells me, the oldest kid. She's a sweetheart. "Not quite as bad. I wasn't terrified she would kill herself when we were asleep but... It got bad. How I survived it I don't know. I just did what I do everyday. What I have to do. And you have to eventually sleep, Leo. As much as you want to look after him, you have to trust he won't do it."

It was silent for a moment as I took the advice in. Thinking about it.

"I have to go." She told me. "Check in. Text me tomorrow. After you sleep."

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Rosa

I hung up and got into our room. It was late. Like 1 AM. We went to a concert. Morgan has a dance competition in two days, nationals. So we figured come a few days early and relax.

"What was that about?" Tyler, my husband, asked. He knows Leo. But its been a while.

"Leo's boyfriend." I explained. "The guy has depression and I guess he had a horrible episode today and it screwed with him afterwards so now Leo is terrified to sleep because he might wake up in the morning to a dead boyfriend."

"So me last year but way more extreme." Morgan simplified.

"Basically." I agreed. "Way more extreme. It involves very suicidal thoughts I guess."

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Leo

I finally passed out around 3 AM and slept for a while. Waking up around 10.

Percy wasn't in the cabin.

So I started to freak out. And I did so for a half hour until he walked in with a to-go box. And what got my attention to notice him being I was looking around his room for anything, he put the Styrofoam box down on the table.

"You slept through breakfast so I figured I would get..."

I cut him off with a hug.

"You scared the hell out of me." I was honest. "I thought you were dead or something, it-"

His turn to cut me off.

"I'm not going anywhere in those concerns any time soon." The handsome green eyes boy promised me, giving me a small kiss. "I'd go mad without down there."

Percy bad improved from the night before. Not a ton. But enough to be considered okay. For a demigods life.

"And I would go insane up here." I tell him and a small smile came from him. Something that had started becoming rarer and rarer as the days counted on.

"I love you." I told my boyfriend.

"I love you, too, Leo."