A Promise Never Kept

Of Guilt and Grief

Bold is for Percy's dreams and Italics is for what he hears while unconscious.

Percy PoV

-I looked up to see what I had fallen over and froze in place.

There sprawled on the last step was my stepfather's now lifeless body. Blood was oozing out of a deep looking hole on his forehead. His eyes were wide open staring into nothingness, the warmth and kindness that they had once shone with now gone.-

-"Percy" Mom said in a shaky whisper. "Sweetie you have to stay strong Okay. You are going to get through this alright. Don't lose hope and always remember that I love you and even if doesn't seem like it I am always with you. I love you sweetie."-

-"Percy I will do everything in my power to get you out of there I promise you. Okay, just hang on. I WILL get you out. I love you..." If he had anything else to say I couldn't find out because at that moment Atlas disconnected the call. -

--"Bianca!" I yelled and kneeled down beside her. I couldn't believe this was happening. How could I have let this happen? How could I have let her take a bullet for me? A bullet! "Bianca hold on it will be okay, you'll be all right okay. We-we will get you to a hospital they'll fix you up you'll be fine." I said my voice shaking.

"T-tell Nico I-I love him. Okay."

"No, no you'll tell him yourself. You will be fine. You are gonna make it. I wont watch someone I love die, not again."

"I'm sorry Percy." Her eyes closed and her hand went limp in mine.-

-"Did you find your mom?"

"He told me I had to wait until you were dead so that I couldn't rat him out just yet. But I grew impatient so I snuck in and drugged him. I looked around and I-I. Bottom line, she was already dead so I came here as fast as I could. I am sorry Percy I should have known he wouldn't keep his end of the deal."-

-I watched in horror as Luke fell to the floor.

"No!" I screamed kneeling beside but it was already too late. Luke Castellan was dead.-

-"You are a selfish coward boy." Atlas said smirking. "All you ever do is hide behind other people and get them killed in your place. You're worthless. A murderer.

I looked down at Luke and I knew he was right. Something caught my eye as I tried to tune out Atlas's ramblings. Tucked into Luke's waistband was a small gun. Suddenly anger took over me and I saw red. I grabbed the gun in my right hand slowly so he wouldn't notice.

"Well if I am already a murderer then-" I said looking up. "-I guess it wouldn't hurt to add one more to the list."-

-"Percy!" Annabeth said shaking my shoulder, panic creeping into her voice. I wanted to tell her I was fine, that everything was okay but that would be a lie. Everything was not fine nothing was okay. The pain in my chest grew and I knew I could only take it for so long.

I also knew that if I talked about what happened-and I will have to if I said anything at all-the pain would grow, just grow more and more and I knew I couldn't take that. So I did nothing, I said nothing. All I did was stare blankly over her shoulder at the spot Atlas had been standing I don't know how long ago. He had said I was a murderer, that I was a selfish coward and I knew he was absolutely right.-