(I ONLY OWN THE PLOT AND THE FEW CHARACTERS I MADE UP!!!!! ALL OTHER CHARACTERS, LOCATIONS, AND REFERENCES TO PAST WORKS BELONG TO UNCLE RICK AND SHE WHO MUST NOT BE NAMED!!!)
[Chapter will have multiple POVs]
Bridget's POV:
The night he left I stayed awake in his room crying silently. At some point I remember closing and locking the door and then grabbed one of his sweatshirts and put it on. It was an emerald shade of green with a white zipper and hood with white tassels. It was way too big for me, but it smelled like him. My eyes were red and puffy from crying, I didn't even have to look at them to know.
After getting his sweatshirt I laid back down on his bed on my side with my legs pulled up so I held myself in a ball, I had his pillow scrunched up between my legs and chest. I looked out at his room past my knees. Tears continued to roll down my face.
I had no idea how much time pasted until I heard a small wiggle on the door handle...I looked over slowly to see who was there having forgotten I had previously locked it, Poseidon knows how many hours ago it had been now. I moved my bead back to it's original position. The door handle continued to wiggle. I ignored it.
I heard a muffled voice, "Bridget, I know you're in there, please open to the door. Nico said you locked yourself in here." it was my brother.
I continued to ignore him.
"You need to eat Bridget. Please come out." Percy begged me to answer the door. After I didn't answer for a while he finally left.
Then a few minutes later more knocks came. "Bridge? Please can you say something?" Jason had come to the door. I ignored him as well.
Finally I was left alone by everyone.
I thought.
Then there was another noise, but it wasn't a knock, it was a zap like sound. Apparation. Which meant...
Draco.
I didn't look back.
"Bridget?" I felt him sit down next to me, he put his hand on my knee, "I know you're hurting but you have to come out, you've been in here since last night and you need to eat."
He kept talking, I kept ignoring. Finally after what seemed like forever. He left.
I had peace and quiet for the next few hours. Every so often someone would come knocking on the door. But I would stay quiet. Once a plate was slide under the door. I got up and slid it back. I wasn't hungry.
"Please eat." I heard Piper's voice from outside of the door. I said nothing.
"Bridget come on, please?! you can't starve yourself!" Annabeth begged right after Piper spoke.
I kept quiet and just sat with my back against the door.
"We tried to Iris Message him, he dashed it before we could get any words in," Piper told me, I stayed quiet.
I heard a small thump, then Annabeth whisper scolding, "Why would you say that now she defiantly won't come out!"
"Gods I'm so stupid. Forget I said that Bridget, please just come out." Piper tried to recoil her previous statement. It didn't work.
I walked over to the radio in his room...I put in on quietly. Then I went back to his bed and laid back in my old position.
A song came on it was called "That's Us" by: Anson Sebra
"I shoulda known it wouldn't happen 'cause it wasn't right
I shoulda known it 'cause it happens every God damn time
Almost thought we could've been something
Almost thought we could have tried, but
It didn't happen so I need you to get out my life
I started to cry again.
But the other night I had you in my head
Called you on the phone
Want you stealing my time even though I said I wanna be alone
Oh and I should know this could never work
Oh, this could never end well
Know it's only human but I never learn
I want you for myself
I can take the fall, the pain, the pleasure
And you can take it all, for worse, or better
But oh, what if we're wrong?
What if we're not all that we thought?
Then we won't make it along
But hey, I guess that's us
We couldn't help it but you know that doesn't make it right
You say I'm selfish but I know you felt the same inside
Everybody says it's all okay
Everybody says we're fine, but
Guess someone else is what you need to make you feel alright
But tomorrow night I'll probably call a cab
Show up at your door
Love you in the night time, leave you in your bed
Cold and wanting more
Oh and I should know this could never work
Oh, this could never end well
Know it's only human, but I never learn, I need you for myself
I can take the fall, the pain, the pleasure
And you can take it all, for worse, or better
But oh, what if we're wrong?
What if we're not all that we thought?
Then we won't make it along
But hey, I guess that's us
Hmmm
Hmmm
Hmmm
Hmmm
I can take the fall, the pain, the pleasure
And you can take it all, for worse, or better
But oh, what if we're wrong?
What if we're not all that we thought?
Then we won't make it along
But hey, I guess that's love"
I didn't stop crying the rest of what I assumed was the day, eventually I fell asleep.
**two days later**
I haven't eaten or showered or even left the room. I barely even get up from my position on the bed. The knocks on the door became more frequent and different people, Draco every once in a while would pop in...but I would ignore him and just stay laying down with tears rolling down my cheeks.
Today, Draco brought Percy in to see me then left us alone.
I sat up and looked at my brother. I knew I looked horrible, my hair was greasy and frizzy and unkempt, tangled remains of old braids here and there. My face was blotchy, puffy, and red. I defiantly smelled awful. My eyes and eyelashes and face were still wet from recent tears.
Percy didn't say anything at first, he just stared at me with concern in his eyes, until I broke.
It was the first time I actually spoke since the night Leo left.
My voice was shaky and croaky.
"It's my fault..." I sobbed out because I started crying again and broke down laying my head in his lap and covering my eyes.
"It's not your fault," he whispered and rubbed my back, "It's not your fault.." he repeated...and that was all he said.
I think we stayed like that for hours, eventually I think I fell asleep. I don't know when. But when I woke up he was gone and the door of the cabin was open and there was a plate.
I pushed the plate back outside and closed the door and locked it again.
Jason's POV:
"She pushed the plate back and locked the door again," I said glumly walking back into the Mess Hall.
After Percy had left her sleeping we left the door open and a plate for her. I was standing watch to see what she would do, and it was exactly what we'd been scared would happen. She hasn't eaten or left the room in two days. And the only thing she has said, was "It's my fault." to Percy a few hours ago.
Draco slammed his fists on the table in anger, "Someone needs to get in contact with Leo! She's gonna keep doing this to herself unless he comes back or he speaks to her!"
"We've tried calling him a million times!" Reyna fired at him, she put her elbows on the table and rubbed her temples.
Hazel nodded, "We're trying to figure out where he is so maybe someone could apparate or do something to get there, but he always swipes the calls immediately. Plus he is on the move so it is hard to find and exact point."
"Rachel? Can't you like find him with your vision powers? Or like can't someone have a dream to something?" Draco asked desperately.
Rachel sighed, "Dreams, visions, and prophecies don't work like that. I told you a thousand times. The only way to contact him is IM and he is not answering."
Nico stood in the corner looking at the floor, I could tell he was thinking, "Nico? Everything good?" I asked him.
He looked up, "Yeah, just thinking."
Harry looked at him, "About what?"
He shrugged, "It's stupid and like a one in a million chance that it could be possible."
"Tell us," I spoke.
"What if there is a way we could send him a message that he could read?" he said, "I mean I can't think of any demigods artifacts that could help us here but I don't know what happens in wizard world."
Everyone looked to Hermione, "Of course." she mumbled barely auditable.
Ron nudged her, "Come on, is there anything from Hogwarts, A History we could use here?"
She looked at him with an annoyed face, "Ron, this is serious, don't joke. Anyway, we could use an owl. They don't need to know an address, just a name. But we don't have an owl..."
Frank raised his hand, "I can turn into one."
Ginny waved this off, "Most of the owls in our world are trained, not all but most to teach navigational skills, and I have always had a suspicion they also have to magic embedded into them at a young age, so it wouldn't work the same. Our owls can find by just a name they don't even need an address."
"Well where are we suppose to get a magical postal owl?" Annabeth asked urgently, "It isn't like we can just summon one all like 'I NEED A WIZARDING POSTAL OWL STAT!'" She kind of yelled a bit. None of us had ever seen her that crazy before.
What was even more crazy was when an snowy owl flew down into the room and landed on her shoulder...
She looked at it, "Um..."
"Hedwig!!" Harry exclaimed when he saw the owl, the owl flew over to his shoulder and began to nip his ear affectionately.
[HEDWIG NEVER DIED IN THIS STORY FIGHT ME I LOVED HER AND WANTED HER BACK THANK YOU VERY MUCH]
Annabeth kept gawking, "Um..." she pointed to the owl. "What?"
Harry smiled, "This is my owl Hedwig, I wonder why she is here, she doesn't have a letter..."
I looked at Annabeth, the gears in her head were turning, "Annabeth...you don't think?" I asked her.
She looked at me, "That either my mother brought this owl here or I freaking summoned it?! Yeah, Jason, I defiantly think it is one of the two!"
Thalia blinked with confusion and held up her hands, "How would that wor—oh..." she realized, "Cause your mother's animal is—ohhhhhhhhh, yeah okay, never mind."
Hermione looked at us, "What I'm confused what just happened?"
"Annabeth's mother's animal is an owl, because she is the goddess of wisdom and owls are wise. So that means that either Athena brought Hedwig to us OR Annabeth discovered she does have a power other than weaving and being smart," Will explained.
The wizards all looked us with cocked eyebrows. Percy rolled his eyes, "You guys have magical sticks!!"
Ron pointed at him, "Touché."
"I'll just go get some paper, envelope, and a pen," Grover said then trotted out of the room.
Piper clapped, "Okay, so we have our owl. Now are you sure she can find Leo no problem, no address."
Harry nodded, "My late godfather had to be in hiding for a while once cause of a really huge misunderstanding and he was like basically being hunted for a death sentence. I had zero idea where he was and said, bring this to Sirius and she found him zero problem."
I smiled, "Okay then let's do this." I said as Grover walked back in the room.
Leo's POV:
It has been a week now since I left, I was staying at a hotel in Pontoise, France. I had a strong feeling the ship was still docked in Paris. I only got to the next city over in my bolt. I didn't want to waste money on trains or buses so I walked.
They had tried to IM me so many times I had lost count, the only things I caught before I quickly closed the calls were "Bridget's—" and "LEO VALD—" I didn't know why they were opening with Bridget, but it made me want to send her an IM just to see why they kept saying her name...
Today they did it like four times in a row and I got "Brid—" the first time, "-t eating—" literally the sound that the letter "T" makes, I think they were trying to form a sentence very badly. Then, "-n't" which was definitely suppose to be the end of a contraction, like "isn't" or "couldn't" I don't know Then on the last one, "left room—" then they gave up. I tried to piece together what they were telling me, but I really had no idea. But I knew it was about Bridget...
I broke.
I IM'd her. What I saw broke my heart.
She didn't even notice the screen.
She was laying on my bed with red puffy eyes, blotchy face, my green zip up sweatshirt on, she was pale where she wasn't blotchy like she hadn't been eating, she had her legs scrunched up and my pillow in between them and her chest. She had large bags under her eyes, like she hadn't been sleeping, she looked as if she hadn't changed her clothes in forever, her hair was a wreck.
I wanted to badly to say something but something inside me didn't let the words come out. I just sat and stared at her. I felt a tear roll down my cheek looking at her body, it looked so lifeless...
and just as I was about to crack end say something a snowy owl flew through my window and through the IM closing it and dropped an envelope that had been in it's mouth on my lap and then flew to the windowsill and just sat there looking at me.
I looked at the envelope, it just simply said, "Leo Valdez" on the front. I opened it.
It was from the group...
Leo...you need to come back!! Please!! Nico told us all everything and we want to help you, and also Bridget isn't doing well. She hasn't eaten, drank, or come out of your cabin in a week. She will die if she doesn't at least drink water soon. She's killing herself. She barely sleeps or even moves out of a specific position. She has said one thing since the night you left, it was three days ago she simple said to Percy, "It's my fault." then started crying and eventually fell asleep. She has the door to your cabin locked and when we try giving her a plate to eat she pushes it away. She hasn't showered, changed clothes, or done anything. She isn't functioning. She cries all the time. We cannot complete this quest without you and by you leaving you are fulfilling the phrase of the prophecy of someone getting lost and possibly turning bad! That cannot happen, you are one of the most important people on this quest. We need you!! YOU BELONG!!"
with love, desperation, and lots of tears,
~Everyone
Oh gods. I was right, Bridget wasn't eating or sleeping, I could tell.
But even after my suspicions being confirmed...I still stayed where I was, there was some part of me that didn't want to go back no matter how much I missed my friends and no matter how much I wanted to tell Bridget to stop slowly killing herself...
But...I couldn't do it. Did that make me an asshole? Or just evil...maybe I should be on the other side of the war.
No. Leo. Don't think like that.
I wish there was a way I could get a message to Bridget without actually going back or IMing her. I didn't want to go back. I was embarrassed and angry.
Wait...
I looked at the owl...if it got the message to me then it will send one back.
I wrote down five words.
Percy's POV:
The owl came back with a note.
Tell her to drink
Leo
"Seriously?! That is all he says!" I screamed and slammed my hands on the table.
Annabeth came over to me and put her hands on my shoulders to try and and calm me down.
I breathed deeply..."She knows his handwriting...we'll slide this under the door and I don't know, teleport a cup in there?"
"Or...we could unlock the door..." Nico said sarcastically while using a knife to carve something into the table.
I glared at him, "How smartass?" I was never necessarily rude to people especially my friends, but I was frustrated and my sister was on the verge of dying from dehydration. Which would be an ironic way to die being the daughter of the sea god.
Nico gestured to the wizards like Vanna White...
"Oh yeah," I mumbled, "Sorry, I'm just stressed."
Nico just shrugged then went back to carving.
Hermione smiled, "We have an unlocking spell. Alohomora." she said.
"Thank you," We all went to the cabin, first we just slid the note under to see if maybe she'd come out on her own....then we she didn't but also didn't slide the note back, we unlocked the door.
She was standing in the middle of the room, arms crossed holding her stomach. She was crying, she held the note.
She looked at all of us, I handed her the cup and I spoke, "Water." the cup filled up.
She sniffed a snot filled sniff and then drank the water.
We all smiled at her, she smiled back.
She nodded at us, and we all knew what they meant so we rushed forward and attacked her with a hug.
I was right on her and groaned, "You need a shower." Everyone started laughing.
"Haha," her voice croaked out scratchy.
My sister was coming too...
I hoped Leo would as well.
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~Daughter Of Poseidon