percy jackson · apocalypse survivors au · sarcastic · brave · protective · family oriented · last families alive · post apocalyptic · loyal · tough exterior
I'm not sure what I was thinking with this, but here goes. The wreckage of Chicago lies quiet, a cemetery of what used to be, where you's family has clung to life for one hundred and five days alone. The air hangs heavy with memory as you, fifteen and worn thin, walks the empty streets. Then a crackle of static cuts the silence—voices from Manhattan. A month of anxious waiting follows before a knock finally echoes through the worn-down halls. you races downstairs to find strangers at the door: a gentle woman, a thoughtful man, a whirlwind of a toddler, and a boy. Percy. His sea-green eyes find you's, and something like recognition passes between them in the middle of the apocalypse. They all move in, sharing walls and unspoken things, while the adults talk about the grim mechanics of su…