L E G A C Y / / Percabeth's kids fic

.: chapter 36 :.

Mason Cooper

I fucked up.

I stood in my bathroom bandaging and cleaning my bloodied face. After Charlie took Andrew away several of my friends from soccer helped me up and I called my driver to bring me home. I was done with that party. Besides, I had work to do. Charlie slipped up, I knew she had said a lot more than she meant to.

I ignored my black eye and left the bathroom once everything else was patched up. I sat on my bed and opened my laptop. First I looked up 'godly parent' and scrolled through the results. I kept seeing the word 'demigod'. Wait, a demigod like Hercules? From Greek Mythology? She said that Lizzie was like her in that way. But that didn't make any sense. I knew Charlie had two parents so how could she have a god as a mom or dad?

But I was getting ahead of myself. That's impossible. The Greek gods are myths and demigods don't exist. However, if I thought about Lizzie, it seemed almost like a real possibility. Lizzie only had a mom and had told us before that she had never met her dad. Charlie said Lizzie's dad was the god Apollo. I quickly looked him up. He was the god of poetry, music, art, prophecy, truth, archery, plague, healing, sun, and light.

Lizzie's mom was a nurse, so if Apollo was real that might be why he took a liking to her, since he's the god of healing. Lizzie was also the best singer I knew, her voice was beautiful. She was in drama and loved acting which was a form of art.

My stomach flip flopped. This could be real, it sounded too true. But how did it relate to Charlie, she still had two parents. I thought back to her mysterious camp, then I remembered that she had a tattoo with symbols. One was a trident and one was an owl. I looked up the symbols in relation to the gods. The results pulled up Athena and Poseidon.

Why would she have those symbols? And why would there be two? Then it hit me. Her parents. All the stories surrounding them. Charlie's dad was a marine biologist -- Poseidon. Her mom was an architect and one of the smartest people I've ever met -- Athena. Charlie's parents were demigods. I wasn't sure what that made Charlie.

I thought back to the night I found Charlie, Andrew, and Ethan in the woods. Charlie was drunk and I remembered her mentioning that her grandma was a goddess. Andrew had tried to silence her but she just laughed. A legacy. She called herself a legacy. I had looked up that night and found nothing that made sense, so I tried again now. I typed 'legacy greek mythology' into the search bar.

The top result read, "A legacy is a mortal who is a second or further generation descendant of a god, namely the children, grandchild, or descendant of a demigod." So I was right. Charlie's parents were demigods.

Everything seemed to fit into place. Charlie spoke Greek, and she excelled in our Greek unit in history. She was an excellent surfer and Ethan was the best swimmer our school has ever seen. Cast was the smartest kid in his grade and was very athletic. And Lina was a literal child prodigy. If I had to guess, her summer camp was a camp exclusively for demigods. Trouble seems to follow Charlie and her family around. If the greek gods were real, then the monsters must be real too. The weird explosions at the twins' birthday must've been some sort of monster, but for some reason I just couldn't see it and they could.

I remembered Andrew's dad, Jason Grace. He must've been a demigod too and probably died at the hands of some monster. Everything just looked so suspicious because no one knew the truth but his mom and Charlie's parents. I instantly felt regret. I made people believe something that wasn't true and Andrew couldn't couldn't say anything different because he lives in a whole other world that people don't know about.

I searched up some symbols again, a lightning bolt and dove. Zeus and Aphrodite. I guess that made sense. People seemed to follow Andrew like he was a natural leader. He was good looking and all the girls liked him immediately. I wondered if maybe he had charmed Charlie into liking him or something. That would be messed up but it must be the truth. I knew Charlie liked our kiss. If she was under his spell then that means deep down that she did have feelings for me.

I leaned back in my bed and thought this all over. Did I really believe that the greek gods and myths still existed? If I were to tell anyone this I would sound insane. Maybe I am, this does sound crazy. I mean Charle being related to a god and goddess?

I picked up my phone, ready to dial Amelia's number then I remembered that she hated me now. How was that going to work? Our families were very close, she wouldn't be able to avoid me forever.

"Mason? Are you in there?" My mom knocked on the door.

I quickly got under the blankets and pulled them up to my chin and used my pillow to cover most of my head. I didn't want my mom to see I was in a fight. "I'm here." I called back.

The door opened. "How was prom?" She asked.

"Great." I mumbled, pretending to be sleepy so that she would leave.

"Tell me about it." She sat on the edge of the bed.

"Tomorrow Mom, I'm so tired." I groaned and rolled onto my stomach.

She stood. "Okay, sleep well."

She left the room quietly. I shot up and grabbed my phone. I should tell Lincoln this. He wanted an explanation. It was three in the morning, I would call him tomorrow. I laid back down and realized how tired I really was. I closed my eyes and fell right asleep.

Uh oh. Mason knows.

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