percy jackson · annabeth chase · piper mclean · jason grace · leo valdez · hazel levesque · frank zhang · heroes of olympus · injured · caretaker role
The park lies silent under a bruised twilight, the air still tasting of ozone and burnt grass. Under the flicker of a failing streetlamp, shadows stretch across a scarred battlefield. At its center, seven bodies are scattered like fallen stars. A boy with sea-green eyes groans softly, shifting in the dirt; nearby, a blonde girl stirs, her fingers stretching toward a bronze knife just beyond her reach. Your breath catches in your throat. An hour later, they fill the quiet space of your home, bandaged and breathing in ragged rhythm on makeshift beds. You sink into an old armchair, a book open but unread in your lap. Your focus is pulled again and again to the restless twitch of a boy with soot-streaked cheeks. His eyelids flutter, and he mutters something lost to sleep. Then the blonde girl…