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    Percy was four years old the first time his dreams led him to his many-great-grandmother’s chambers- a woman long dead yet somehow still seated in front of him, fingers grasping at her hair tightly as she wails about a wooden horse on the beach while her servants look on in pity. He feels the weight of something ancient and heavy settle on his shoulders in that moment.

    He was in his 1st grade classroom when his teacher screamed at him for making up lies about gods and monsters and scaring the other children. He was eight when his mother's own visions become too much for her to bear.

    He's at Yancy when Grover Underwood finally finds him and says "I believe you" for the first time. And as Percy begins to feel lighter, that ancient weight that has followed him his whole life slowly dissipating, he realizes that being believed can be just as horrifying as being thought mad.

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    Percy’s eyes narrowed as he continued to stare and slowly, the face came into focus. A pit formed in his stomach as recognition settled in. Long caramel hair and dark eyes-- the unmistakable, cruelly beautiful face of Calypso.
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    OR: Annabeth and Percy try to navigate life after the end of the Second Giant War. Percy finally has the chance to give Calypso the dressing-down she deserves.

    Takes place immediately after Blood of Olympus and goes through the end of The Hidden Oracle. No major spoilers for TOA. LOTS of angsty buildup to the main event.

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    Rudo doesn’t remember a time his hands didn’t hurt. It’d be weirder for him to try and imagine a time they didn’t hurt, because then he’d be making shit up, and Rudo was never good with his imagination. Not with things he didn’t understand, couldn’t understand. It just made him… weird. Well, weirder. Distant. The thoughts would spiral, spinning and spinning till they left him dizzy, body threatening to throw up all his gross, rotted insides all over his shoes and then he’d be pissed off and confused and… empty. So, so empty. But then the pain would remind him he was real and rotted and then he wouldn’t feel so empty because the pain would fill him up, up, up. No empty space left to worry about.

    That pain was everything, it was all he’d ever known. That persistent, prickling, nerve pinching pain of whatever fucked up shit his parents persecuted their infant son to has been like a phantom in his bones since before, well, just before. Before Regto. Everything before Regto was bad and terrible and something to be forgotten. Before Regto was painful, pure agony. And now, after Regto…

    It was unbearable.

    Or: This is a story about hurting. This is a story about healing.

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    “Speaking of rumors,” Riyo said while nibbling on the remaining chicken nugget. She should have gotten more. “There’s talk about someone falling from the sphere again.” The other two raised silent eyebrows and she shrugged at the unasked questions. “Dunno. I believe some traffickers claim they found a Sphereite, alive, apparently.”

    Zanka scoffed. “Sounds pretty fake if you ask me. Probably just want to squeeze money out of people and end up giving them a skeleton they found in No Man’s Land. Who survives a fall from the sky?”

    Riyo shrugged again. “It’s just rumors.”

    Enjin rubbed his chin thoughtfully. “I like rumors,” he said. “Should probably go check it out.”

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    Or: What if Rudo hadn't gotten picked up by Enjin in No Man's Land but was instead captured by the traffickers and the Cleaners rescue him later on.

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    He builds himself around that hollowness, an oil-slick pearl gathering around an empty space. Sometimes when he thinks no one is looking he presses his hand to his stomach, just below his ribs. It’s the heart of the hollowness, the coldest place in the world.

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