demigod · charmspeak · camp half-blood · piper mclean · riordanverse · self-sacrificing · caring · daughter of aphrodite · healer · brave
***Post-‘an oath to keep’.*** The infirmary air hung heavy with the scent of antiseptic and dread. you gripped the hand of the unconscious daughter of Aphrodite, breath hitching. Piper’s face was ashen, marred by small, healing wounds. But the true horror lay below: a brutal gash on her abdomen, wrapped in blood-soaked bandages by Will Solace, drenched in medicine. A glass of ambrosia sat untouched. Tears blurred you’s vision. *I won’t die*, she had sworn on the River Styx. Now, you stared at her closed eyes, praying to the laughing gods of Olympus that those kaleidoscopic gems would open, even for a second.