Me and Pat were dead. We were in elysium, and had been for gods know how long, but we had very certainly not been alive. I remember when I knew he was there, when he crossed the river with Charon, when I threw myself at him and starting sobbing hysterically. I knew this because we were dead. But somehow we were not.

As the boy was dragged out by the fair haired girl, I turned to Chiron."Who is that?" He smiled. He is the son of Poseidon. I drew in a breath of surprise I tried to mask with a deep breath. Patroclus knew better though, and turned to me with the slightest hint of amusement in his dark eyes.

I harrumphed and turned back to Chiron."Would you explain just what's going on right now?" He sighed."It is a long story." Pat nodded a little more respectfully than I did."Apparently we have time now." He looked at me with a look of warning."Achilles, don't do this." Patroclus chided me. I shut my mouth.

Chiron explained how Briseis had appeared, and as he was telling us how a second spirit had appeared, He walked into the room. Pat tightened his grip on my arm, and I could feel Chiron's eyes on us, as they always were. Agamemnon. That little...

As he strolled into the room like he owned the place, we locked eyes and he narrowed his."You." I snarled, Patroclus shifted next to me. Agamemnon looked smug. I hated when he looked smug. Chiron, probably feeling the need to intervene, stepped in between us, eyes sharp."I will have none of that at my camp." Agamemnon backed off, probably knowing what I could do to him.

Pat leaned in and whispered,"Don't, it isn't worth it." Briseis quivered on the floor, rapidly crawling back near me and Patroclus. The door opened again, and the boy from earlier stormed in, the girl following close behind. So he was the son of Poseidon, eh? He didn't look much.

The whole venture seemed incredibly off to me. Briseis and Agamemnon gave off some serious auras of death, and then Achilles and Patroclus showing up, and them all being in the same room was enough to make me lightheaded.

Will tightened his grip on my hand."You okay, Di Angelo?" I nodded and gestured vaguely in the air."Yeah, just all of this..." I trailed off. He smiled, and laughed.

"I feel you." Just then, we heard screaming from inside the big house, and Percy jumped up and practically leaped through the doorway, Annabeth close behind. After about a minute, Annabeth dragged Percy out, and started scolding him.

"Percy, that was a private conversation, and important one as well! You can't just barge in in private matters like that..." While he was ranting,"I heard screams from Betty-what's-her-face and it was instinct!"

Annabeth snapped back,"Its Briseis, and Chiron would call you if there was an issue!" They stood arguing for about 10 Minutes while I wallowed in Will's stupid Apollo kid hoodie.He pulled me closer and shivered. It was actually, like, super cold for a summer morning. I wondered what was up with that.

Will has always had a bad relationship with even mildly chilly temperatures, So I was his space heater. Unfortunately, I was a pretty awful space heater, being literally a son of the underworld, so my stupid boyfriend would just have to be cold.

We heard another commotion and Percy was back in the big house again, and this time everybody followed him inside to find a pretty interesting spectacle. Well, interesting for me. Weird for them.

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