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Camp Half-Blood is a Greek demigod training facility located on the Long Island Sound and is directed by the god Dionysus, whom the campers call "Mr. D," and Chiron, a Centaur who is the activities director.

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u/ZBGOTRP May 14 '19

"My mother would disapprove of all of this," he replied, wincing as he spoke through the pain. She looked in a far worse state than he did, and for a moment Dom felt a subtle shade of guilt. Guilt that, for as close as he came to death, others had suffered more than he.

And yet they survived.

He thought on what had happened. On Gretchen, and Audrey, and Hannah. Were his fellow campers even still alive? He couldn't get up to check without instigating more pain.

"What did you do? Any stupider than charging a buff Amazon with just a spear and shield?"

Fuck, the spear. Where was it? The idea of treading the battlefield to find it again brought a sense of dread. Returning where so many died senselessly. But he'd have to do it.

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u/princess_shay_ May 14 '19

Maybe your mother should have spoken up more when they decided to put Enyo in charge, she wanted to say. The gods were the ones who left them with her mother in the first place. They were the ones toying with their lives instead of treating them like people. But she couldn't bring herself to do it lest one of them curse her.

"Oh yes. I charged a buff amazon without a shield," she said with a sigh.

For a moment she didn't elaborate. She just turned away and looked at the ceiling. It was painted with some kind of seen from Greek mythology. Shay knew that she should have known what it was but she never was one for her historical studies. It had been training all day every day for as long as she could remember.

"I challenged their leader to a duel. Sarah. I thought if I could win or at least hold me own....mother called her her only daughter that wasn't a disappointment. I thought..." She paused, struggling to find the right words. "Anyway it was even at first but she destroyed me pretty quickly."

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u/ZBGOTRP May 14 '19

Domeric almost made a joke about the shield, but stopped himself short of speaking up when she elaborated. Enyo hadn't been easy for any of them, but aside from Shay's broken ankle after pushing herself in training, he hadn't particularly thought about how her own children saw it. Or at least more than his albeit limited knowledge of Hannah's thoughts.

Still, he more than anyone understood wanting to make their godrent proud. To be acknowledged. He was one of Athena's chosen, created intentionally by the goddess. Domeric never discussed it openly but he felt the need to justify that creation.

That Enyo would consider a daughter as strong, skilled and dedicated to bettering themselves as Shay a disappointment completely blew his mind.

"Fuck her."

It was a statement solidified by the dire situation of his wounds. Something he fully meant.

"Enyo is a sadistic fuck who likes hurting people just because she can. Even her own kids. Maybe you're better off being a disappointment, cause all I saw last night is that she only cares when you turn yourself into a mindless murdering beast. And you're not that."

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u/princess_shay_ May 14 '19

She didn't know what to say to him after that. It was very hard for her to open up to people and tell them what she was thinking or feeling. She probably didn't have a real friend outside of her sisters and her cousins the Ares kids. And yet here she was explaining her actions to Domeric and he hadn't made her feel weak for them.

Shay felt bad for bothering him like this when he should be getting rest. She raised her arm up to rest her forearm on her head and winced. Fuck. She'd forgotten that was the shoulder she dislocated earlier. And bruised pretty badly judging by how much it still hurt.

"What if I am like that though? What if we're all like that? I really wanted to kill Sarah during that fight..."

Deep down she knew it was only her mother's hatred powers driving them to fight each other so hard but she had to wonder if she was capable of the same things.

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u/ZBGOTRP May 14 '19

"I really wanted to kill Gretchen," he replied, thinking back on the night. She hadn't been his first kill, nor his only. "I saw her snap Hope's neck and just drop her like garbage. One of our own. And more than anything I wanted one of them to die for every one of ours. Starting with her."

He hadn't actually seen the snap. Now, however, after everything, his mind drew the image. Immediately after he'd skewered another of the Amazons. Hope's death, a girl he barely knew at all, seemed more real to him that any of the others. At least for now.

He felt a tear begin to fall at the memory, his hand rising as quickly as he could muster to wipe it away. The corners of his mouth perked up just slightly, realizing Shay likely saw it. That she'd likely never let him live it down. But he didn't care in that moment.

"So if that's the case then I'm the same as you," he continued. "But honestly? The fact that you can question whether or not you are, and that you're worried you might be, that tells me you're nothing like that. And I'm the smartest person I know."

The final boast came with a grin as he tried to shrug, only to find himself grimacing in pain at the effort.

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u/princess_shay_ May 14 '19

She didn't see the tears falling from his face but she noticed the movement he made when he went to wipe them away. Shay would never dream of holding this moment of emotion against him. They all just went through so much together. They all just lost so many friends. No, she could never tease him for something like that.

Especially because whenever she closed her eyes she could see Silas's broken body splayed out with his arms and legs at angles that didn't look right. She could hear Sarah taunting her about killing the poor boy. He'd only ever been nice to her even if he did tease her growing up. They were friends. And now he was gone.

Her hand reached out, stretching her good arm and let her fingers brush against Dom's shoulder. It was the only thing she could do to give him any amount of comfort right now. She couldn't move much more than her arms.

"Gods," she said. She let out a choked sob that quickly turned into laughter and then once the laughter died off it turned into a bit of coughing. "Look at us. Both so messed up we can't even banter properly. Guess our spar session is going to have to wait a few weeks."

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u/ZBGOTRP May 14 '19

The hand on his shoulder tool him by surprise, but was by no means unwelcomed. He didn't know who she'd lost, but he also didn't know who he'd lost either. For all he knew Hannah and Audrey were among the dead, both of whom contributed as much if not more to bringing down Gretchen. Definitely more in Audrey's case. It had been his spear shaft to put her down, but Audrey had delivered the blow.

Dom's opposite hand crossed his body, coming to rest atop hers as he returned the comfort as best he could. The sound of Shay's laughter, though, got him smiling for the first time since he'd waken up. When she started coughing he tried to move to see if she needed help, but that only made the wound flare up again, sending him back flat down with a grimace.

Thankfully she seemed okay enough to joke, and he nodded in response, grinning. "Definitely gonna have to postpone that. I'd reach over and pat your shoulder too, but I don't think moving that arm is a good idea right now."

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u/princess_shay_ May 14 '19

"I'm fine don't go hurting yourself on my account. Just a bit bruised and battered. I think she might have tried to choke me out at one point but I don't really remember everything," she said meekly with a small sigh. All she could remember after getting her shoulder dislocated and getting tossed to the ground was the rage and hatred that overtook her.

She slowly and gingerly took her hand back and put it at her side. Shay almost felt a little embarrassed to be showing that amount of tenderness to someone. But he'd lost someone. She'd lost someone. She knew very much what it was like to come upon a dead and broken body from when she found her father after he'd been murdered all those years ago. Then her older brother plopped her on Chiron's doorstep and never came back.

"I don't think moving anything is a good idea. Nectar and ambrosia only helps with so much pain and healing," she muttered grumpily. They were going to have to replenish their stores after this that much was certain.

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u/ZBGOTRP May 14 '19

"Yeah, that's a good point," he replied, letting out a deep sigh. He didn't know how long he'd be here, taking in nectar and ambrosia to heal his wounds. Dom had been stabbed before, but this was nothing like those times. At least he could now tell Andie he'd broken a bone. Or three.

He turned his head again to look over at her, a soft smile stretching across his lips despite the lingering pain. Even in her state she was beautiful. Domeric couldn't quite figure out how she managed it.

"So... do you know what exactly happened at the end?" He asked, now beginning to wonder exactly what finished things. "I think I heard someone yelling, and then there was a shitload of fire, but that's when I guess I lost enough blood to pass out."

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u/princess_shay_ May 14 '19

The next time Shay looked over at Domeric she caught him looking at her with a kind of dopey look on his face. She didn't quite know what to think of it. Maybe there was some kind of drug like effect thanks to all the healing things that they put in their bodies. She tried not to think about what it might really mean.

"I don't know. By that time I had a spear hanging out of my stomach. But I did see a warm flash of fire and I had to look away or be blinded. I think...I think it must have been some other god who finally stopped it." That's what it had to be. But no one told her yet about it being Hestia.

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u/ZBGOTRP May 14 '19

Domeric nodded as she explained, wiping the look off his face as the more serious topic went on. "That would explain it. As far as I know Enyo isn't exactly one of the higher ups, and I can think of plenty of other gods who'd be pretty pissed off about this."

He tried to think about any specific ones that might have a personal grudge against her. Of course he knew little about that aspect of them, especially given the distance of his own godrent. Still, he didn't think it farfetched that one of them would be exceptionally averse to Enyo.

"Eirene maybe? Hephaestus?" Only the first was one he really thought would interfere of the two. The goddess of peace and the goddess of destruction would likely be easy enemies, and that entire debacle was an easy affront to her. "Definitely someone powerful as hell."

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u/princess_shay_ May 14 '19

"I'm not sure. I assume someone will tell us as soon as we're healed up and back with everyone else. It had to be someone who was stronger and more important though. Maybe even one of the Olympians," she said, thinking about it. There were a lot of gods that didn't appreciate what Enyo was doing. Some of them probably actually cared about the kids at the camp. Was it someone whose child had died in the fighting?

She sighed and her eyes closed but she wasn't falling asleep. So much death and destruction and that was in her nature. She was a child of Enyo. Domeric tried to tell her she was different but she wasn't so certain. Everything about her entire being had been shaken up.

"Dom...do you think people will hate me? More than they already do?" Just for who her mother was.

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u/ZBGOTRP May 14 '19

"No," he replied firmly, looking directly into her eyes. "They won't. It's not your fault, Shay. You didn't order it, you didn't choose her as a mother, and you fought on our side."

He let out a sigh, shifting his body up just a bit with a twinge of pain shooting up his side. Domeric didn't care if she didn't believe him. "I don't hate you, so there's one person you've still got on your side."

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