Percy

I walked back into Camp. The war ended last summer. Life was good. At least for now.

Walked right into a fight.

Between Annabeth and Luke.

At this point she was trying to murder him.

And I'm dating her...

Not for much longer. Planned on breaking up with her anyways.

But everyone aside older demigods from Camp Half-Blood were all yelling at Annabeth to kill Octovain.

Yet I walked into Camp, talking to Octovain.

I knew they looked alike. But dam.

They could be twins.

"Um..." Octovain said. My parents are nice people and actually took in Octovain and let him finish high school. He was actually a pretty nice guy. I became pretty good friends with the guy. "That's not me..."

Nobody heard him.

And I realized who it was as Reyna bumped into us from behind.

"Oh, sorry." She said. "Octovain... But you're up..? What?"

Octovain shrugged.

"I just got here." He told the daughter of Bellona. "I don't know who he is.'

"Fuck." I realized it was Luke.

"What?" Leo walked up to us. "Dude. I think you have a twin. Annabeth is beating the living hell out of him."

I'll explain now that Luke is just Luke. There are certain people he won't fight back to. Mainly Thalia and Annabeth. Why? Because to him they're family. Even now that Annabeth I know hates him and wants him to stay dead, but I doubt he'd ever fight back.

"No, she's not beating him." Reyna corrected the son of Hephautus. "He's letting her do it. He's not even fighting back. Do you know him, Percy?"

I nod my head.

"Yeah." I answered. "Sorta do. It sounds like something he'd do."

"A demigod that doesn't fight back..." Octovain commented off that. "That's basically suicide."

"No, he does fight back." I explain. "But he would never ever harm Thalia or Annabeth. Even if they were hurting him. It's a long story. I don't even know the whole thing. But yeah, he is a demigod. The son of Hermes. He was leader before I was."

Annabeth took out a gun. By now, Luke was on the ground, bloody and bruised. Eyes shut. Waiting for the gunshot. The scar on his face more define than before.

"Shit." I said. "Hand me a gun."

"What?" Here's Jason. With Piper.

"She's going to shoot him in the head." I explained. "Give me a fucking gun."

Despite sucking at Archery, I'm really good with a gun.

"Um... Here." Leo told me, pulling a gun out of his magical belt thing. A hand gun. "Are you going to kill your girlfriend? I don't think a boyfriend is supposed to do that."

"I'm not heartless." I tell them and place the bullet, aimed.

The gun fell out of her hand.

Yes, I shot her in the hand.

"Fucking-" she said, grabbing her hand. "Who the hell... Where's the bitch!?'

Here comes Nico.

"Did somebody just shoot Annabeth?" The King of Ghosts asked. "In the hand?"

"Well... Yeah." I answered.

"Did you shoot your girlfriend?" Nico asked me.

"I'd rather have two injured people than one dead."

"She's your girlfriend!"

"Not for long." Octovain said as Annabeth started marching over. Blood oozing from her hand. I had discarded the gun back into Leos bag as soon as the bullet was released.

"Somebody shot me."

She was pissed.

We go to my cabin to talk about it.

"Okay, but why?" Annabeth asked me.

"I mean, you were about to put a bullet in Luke's head." I reasoned. "It's better to have two people injured than somebody dead."

"Luke had it coming for him when he stepped into the camp." The daughter of Athena tells me.

"Not really." I corrected her. "Treated like shit, more than likely. But not be beaten and killed. He did kind of kill himself in order to save us."

"Are you seriously agreeing with Luke?"

"Yeah." I was honest. "I kind of am."

"Oh my gods." Annabeth threw her hands up in frustration and exasperation. "How can you even agree with anything about him? Especially him being alive! He should've never been brought back. Much less come back here."

"Well what else does he have?" I questioned. "It's not like he can go home. It's not like he wants to go home. My guess he was thinking that hey, maybe they'll give me a second chance after what I did to save them. Because most of us are forgiving people."

Annabeth sat down and let out a frustrated sigh.

"Then I guess we can't be together." Annabeth said out of nowhere. "If you're really agreeing with him being here."

"Fine." I said. "I was going to break up with you anyways."

"I guess I beat you to it." She told me and marched out of my cabin, slamming the door.

Such a bitch.

Anyways, a minute later as I was unpacking, Nico knocked and came in.

"What was that about?" Nico asked me. "Annabeth just stormed out."

"Just the whole killing thing." I tell him. "No big deal."

"Then why was she so upset?"

I shrug.

"She hates the guy with a passion." I explained. "And no, she doesn't know I'm the one who shot her. Yes, we broke up. I planned ine it, anyways. She's pissed because I don't think he should die."

Nico just nodded his head. He told me at the end of last summer he used to have a crush on me and it was flattering. If he would've told me beforehand, when he still did, I probably would've dated him. Even if I didn't work no big deal. Tried.

Now way back when, Luke had stopped aging with the whole Kronos deal thing, we sort of had a thing. It was more secret than ever. Up until Kronos totally took over his body. But I found it funny. Because I do plan to pass down Camp to Nico if he's still around when I leave. So I mean... I swear if the leader after him devolps feelings for Nico... It'll just be odd.

Okay. Nicos hair was starting to bug me.

"You want to know what you need?" I told him.

"Hm?" The son of Hades asked me.

"A haircut." I told him. "It's been years since you cut your hair."

"If you're willing to pay for it, lets go." Nico told me. "I'm broke."

"Sit down." I told him, pulling out a chair.

"What?" He asked me.

"Sit down." I repeated and he obliged to the request and I found a towel and put it on his lap.

None the less, he was confused as shit as I took out a box.

"Now what haircut do you want?" I asked him. Yes, I can do hair. Shut up. It was a class in school.

"Um... Are you going to cut my hair?" Nico was nervous.

"Yeah." I answered. "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. It was the one class I got an A in."

"That's so gay." He said as he pulled up a photo off his phone he apparently had. An undercut.

This would be fun.

"Nico." I told him. "You are gay."

"And manly as hell."

I started laughing as I took the phone.

"No you're not." I was honest. "Clarisse is manlier than you."

"Clarisse is manlier than everyone."

"True." I agreed as I washed his hair with some conditioner and shampoo. "So what's camp been doing over the year?"

"Not a ton." Nico tells me. "Aside building the city and whatnot. Hunters were here a few times. About it. Kind of nice, though. Not worrying about dying all the time."

"It is nice." I agreed.

For a while it was silent between the two of us as I started styling his hair. Aside telling him when he had to move his head. He had Sam Winchester hair. In like what would be season 20. It was insane.

No, I'm not gay like he made fun of earlier. I'm kind of gender fluid, though. At camp nobody would notice being jeans and a camp shirt and tennis shoes. Sometimes khakis. At home its a lot more noticeable. And I think I'm that way because of one, I'm pansexual, and two Im androgynous. I have a flat chest and no dick. Periods are bitches.

"So." I said after maybe 5 minutes of silence. "Aside that, anything else going on with you or Hazel?"

I'm curious, okay?

"Not really." He answers. "Her and Frank are still together. Nothing really interesting. You?"

"Nothing really aside the break up." I tell him. "And I'm not gay. Gender fluid. Get it right."

He just kind of fell silent asnI finished giving him the undercut. Which took about 3 more minutes.

"Do you want to dye your hair at all?" I asked him, putting away the scissors and what not.

"Um... No..." Nico told me. "How much do I owe you?"

"Nothing." I told him. "Just a simple undercut. You can go look in the bathroom if you want.'

The son of Hades just nodded his head, getting out of the chair and to the bathroom. He liked it.

As I sweeped up the hair that had been cut off, Nico came out and leaned against the wall.

"So." He remarked. "Since when are you genderfluid? You don't seem the type."

"I always have been." I answered as I threw the hair in the garbage and put everything away. "Can't really tell because we all wear the same thing at camp all the time."

"True.' He agreed as we headed to the Big House for a meeting. Annabeth, nearly killing Luke was discarded from the council and replaced by Malcolm. The Stolls handed it over to Luke.

Piper, Jason, and Leo just looked at Nico for a moment until Piper spoke. Waiting for a few others to arrive.

"What the fuck." Piper said. Just the five of us there so far. "Did you do to your hair?"

"Excuse me." Nico said. "I like it."

"No, it looks nice." Jason told Nico. "But did I miss this today or something? When did this happen?"

"Like 20 minutes ago."

"Okay, so we're not totally insane." Leo agreed. "But who did it? We don't have a barber in the city and we don't get payed until we turn 18."

"I did." I told them. "His hair was too fucking long. It was irritating. He wanted an undercut, I gave him an undercut."

"That..." Jason commented. "That's actually kind of interesting."

"But that's also very gay.'

I just looked at him. Nico trying not to laugh.

" I'm not gay." I told them. "I needed a credit in something to graduate. And was dared to let Rachel choose the class. The class wasn't that bad. It wasn't hard. At all. I mean, at least I won't have to go to a barber for a while.'

"True." Leo agreed as Clarisse walked in with Beckendorf and Silena...

"Look who I found.' The daughter of Ares said as she took her seat at the Ares seat. Yes, we have assigned seats at meetings.

"Sorry if this sounds rude." Jason said. "But who are you guys?"

"Same for you three." Silena told them.

"And how the fuck are you alive?" Beckendorf sat down next to me, which used to be his seat. Not anymore.

"I asked that everyday." Piper told the older son of Hephaestus.

"Luke ended up killing himself." I answered. "And I guess he's back at camp. Annabeth tried killing him and she got shot in the hand before she could shoot him.

"Who is stupid enough to fuck with Annabeth?" Silena questioned.

"If she had a boyfriend..." Beckendorf said. "She can't hurt a boyfriend."

"It was worth it." I said.

"You shot her!?" Beckendorf asked me.

"Your brother is the one that gave me the gun." I was honest.

"I didn't know you were going to shoot her!" Leo claimed.

"Yes you did." Jason tells his best friend. "You didn't know he wasn't going to kill her. She is such a bitch at times.'

"Agreed." We all said.

"Please tell me Drew isn't on the council." Silena said.

"She'd be dead by now if she was." Clarisse assured her good friend. "One of your siblings went on a quest so that's kind of automatic."

"They're all lazy." Beckendorf said "So is my cabin. So I mean, unless we got a few new demigods at camp..."

"We did." I told them. "And allied with the Romans. And fought another war. It was a busy summer last year..."

"Oh my gods." Silena noticed Nico. "Your hair isn't long as fuck anymore."

Nico just remained silent as Luke and Will walked in. Luke was wearing a fresh shirt and jeans. Bandaged over his bicep on his left arm and his right hand. That's all that was visible.

Once everyone got there Beckendorf and Silena ended up staying. Theyd discuss that after the meeting. But we just went over the same stuff really. Nothing big. Just recruits theyd be getting this summer and what not. All the same stuff.

By the time the meeting was over it was almost curfew so I headed back and changed out of my clothes into just boxer briefs kind of thing; putting on a transparent kind of robe thing. It met at the center of my chest with ribbon and went and connected around my neck in the front and went down to about my mid thigh. Black transparent. It was a transparent robe basically. I liked to wear it.

Wearing this is what started the whole thing.