ꗃ ⎸⎸ 𝐇𝐢𝐬 ⎸⎸ ꗃ
A/N: Lmao this was directly copied and pasted from a text rant w/ the tolerable @labaguetteisdabest 🤪 Here's my masterlist! Dividers made by @cafekitsune
Warning(s): Depression, mentions of adoption, PJO x Inheritance Games crossover AU
Pairing(s): None :)
Okay okay hear me out- Grayson as a demigod.
Grayson Hawthorne is minding his business, being his imperial stoic self when he uncovers something interesting in Avery’s/ Tobias’s office.
He finds adoption papers. With his name under it.
And he starts freaking out- he’s clearly distraught- that meant he was never a Hawthorne in the first place, is that why Tobias made Avery heir??
And then he comes to the cold realization that if he’s adopted- then his family isn’t even his real family at all.
And his broken by this- coming to the realization that nothing is fully his, Nash, Jamie, Xan, Gigi, Sav- they’ve all only been half siblings- never biological siblings- and now they’re not even his siblings at all.
And so he ices out the world- isolating himself away from everyone, bunkering down in a five star hotel room that he hates with every fiber in his being because he doesn’t deserve it, it’s not his, it never was, he doesn’t belong.
And then he hears a knock on the door.
He opens it warily, only to see Gigi standing there, out of breath and clearly stressed.
“GRAY!” she says, her face flush and relieved, and he notices a clearly confused Savannah behind her.
“Can we come in? Please? We don’t have a lot of time.” Gigi says hurriedly, and barges her way into the room without asking permission, leaving both Gray and Sav extremely confused.
She huffs and sinks down onto the bed and opens her mouth to say something but then shuts it.
They stare at her for a few minutes, waiting for her to continue.
“So uh I have no idea how to tell you this but uh” she starts, fidgeting nervously, setting off all concern alarms in her siblings’ minds.
“So…I haven’t been very honest with the two of you…but Gray, Skye isn’t your real mom. Sav, Acacia isn’t either…” Gigi says, wincing at Sav’s horrified expression, but startles when she sees Gray’s normal one.
“…You already knew, didn’t you.” Gigi whispers, heart breaking as Gray nods without emotion. He wasn’t supposed to find out this way.
The man in question chuckles sourly, and nods “I found adoption papers in the old man’s office. Looks like I was never your brother to begin with.” he says his eyes turning watery for the first time in what seems years.
He scolds himself- Hawthornes don’t cry, they don’t show weakness. And then he remembered he wasn’t a Hawthorne anymore.
Gigi rushes to his side frantically, holding him by his shoulders and forcing him to look into his eyes. “We ARE related Gray- I said Skye wasn’t your mother, not that we don’t share a dad.”
Gray stares at Gigi dumbfounded, and then another question comes to light. “If Skye isn’t my mom, who is?”
Gigi glances at Savannah, who’s still reeling from the shock of the previously delivered news, and the former grabs her hand and squeezes it.
“You guys share one.” Gigi starts off, speaking slowly, treating them like glass.
“Have you guys…ever heard of the Greek gods?”
Gray and Sav nod slowly, unsure of where she’s going with this.
“They’re real.”
Sav recovers first, and chuckles nervously. “Geegs, if you’re religious that’s great- but I don’t see what that has to do with-“
“Sav you’re not listening.” Gigi cuts in. “Your mother is one of the gods.”
Gray and Sav stay still, unsure of what to say. They were people of science, they didn’t believe in God, or anything like that. But the look in Gigi’s eyes said that she knew what she was talking about.
For the first time in forever, Grayson Not-Hawthorne-But-Still-A-Hawthorne-Because-We-Call-Toby-A-Hawthorne was speechless.
No strategic silence- just simply shocked.
And then Gigi chuckles nervously. “And I’m part goat.”
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