Cory sat at a table in his favourite coffee shop clutching at a now cold cup of coffee. He couldn't she had done this to him, chosen that d*ck over him. How could she? How could she do this? Just throw him out not even giving him a chance to grab his stuff even just attached and bashed him up before chucking him out, like trash. He looked down at his hands at least he had managed to hold onto his phone and used it to call his twin and asked him to get him his stuff. He let out a shuddering sigh but at least his 4 siblings were not homeless like he was now. It would kill him to leave his siblings and especially his twin behind but he couldn't put their place at home with mum in jeopardy because of him. He sighed, he had heard whispers about a camp for children like him and he decided that he would head to see if he could find it.

Five year old Stella clung to her brothers side, a bag of her and some of their little brothers possessions on her back. Her cheek was pink from where their stepfather had hit her in his rage at her older brothers. She didnt know where Corrin was taking them but it was preferable to staying near her mother or step father. She smiled slightly when she saw Cory and let go of Corin to run over to him. "Cory. Corin told us we where leaving. I don't know why but pa hit me", she blabed honestly to her older brother, rubbing her cheek.

Cory couldn't help the scowl that took over his face at her words how dare that waste of space lay a finger on his baby. He pressed a gentle kiss on her cheek. "Better?" He asked her, "It was nothing you did Pa was just a mean old man, but we don't have to worry about him anymore it'll just be us now. You, me, Braelyn, Sally and Corin. Doesn't that sound better?" He hugged her tightly pressing a kiss to her forehead before settling her on his lap before taking Braelyn from Corrin who was fussing even though they looked exactly the same Braelyn seemed to prefer Cory, maybe it was the way he mothered the kids but if his mother wouldn't someone had to. But he sent Corrin a cutting look wondering what happened, they had agreed that they would stay with them so that they were not homeless like he now was.

Corin had been stuffing clothes of his brothers into a bag as he tried not to think about the fact that he was going to be saying goodbye to his other half soon. Corin didn't even hear their stepfather step into the room behind him until he heard the yelling about him running away now too. Before Corin could react, he was knocked to the ground by a punch. still it wasn't until he saw his sister get hit that he knew he couldn't stick to the plan he had made with Cory.

Corin saw the look on his twins face as he pass over their little brother and took a seat opposite him. He shrugged slightly. "I couldn't let him hurt the girls", he replied. He hoped his brother understood. The idiot had hurt them enough in the past and Corin would not let his siblings get the same.

Cory could see that Corin's eye had started to swell as well so he nodded, bouncing Braelyn to calm him down. Cory couldn't help the drop in his stomach at the fact that that man had hit Stella and Corin. He moved his chair closer to Corin leaning near him. "Sorry." He muttered feeling bad that he jumped to conclusions about Corin leaving. "What are we going to do?" He asked feeling overwhelmed and out of his depth, sleeping rough by himself he could do but not with Sally, Stella and Braelyn and even Corin he felt terrible that it was his fault that they were all here. He could feel his eyes filling with hopeless tears he had to protect them they were the most important thing to him.

Sally giggled as she sat in their chair swinging her legs back and forth she knew something bad had happened but she just, couldn’t make her mind think of the bad things. “Can I have a chocolate?” She asked feeling worms wiggling in her belly and if she didn’t feed them they would swallow her whole. “Are we going to camp to see papa and daddy?” She couldn’t sit still and wiggled out of the chair before crawling under the table and over to Cory leaning against his legs looking up at him. He was the best mummy she had she hated evil mummy and that man who hurt them.

Corin shrugged off his brothers apology. He would have done the same in his brothers position after all. He sighed slightly. "I don't know", he replied honestly but quietly to his brother. "I think we will have to take it one step at a time", he continued. "Maybe find somewhere safe to spend the night before trying to find the camp. That may take us a while to do. I wouldn't know where to began to look for it." He wished he knew where he could find the camp for the people like them but he really didn't. "Maybe Sal", he replied with a smile. He wanted to go their and he hoped that Cory agreed that it was the best place for them.

Cory nodded at Corin. "One step at a time, I saw a hotel around the corner and I have a little money saved so we can go there." He says giving Braelyn kiss on the cheek feeling better than before now that they had a little bit of a plan. "Are any of you hungry?" He asked, feeling like he needs to make sure that they were always taken care of especially since they were now homeless he feels the need more than before. He knew that they didn't have much money but he needed to make sure they were not hungry.

Ares had been sent by his mother Hera to grab more demigods even though he was the worst at it leaving them broken and not very open to working for Hera. He walked towards the 5 demigods he had to lick his lips three sons of Zeus and 2 of Dionysus kids they might be a bit of trouble they seemed to dislike him. He walked over and stood near them. "I hear that you all need to get to camp, I'm Ares, the god of war and I can take you. All you have to do is grab onto me and we can go easy peasy." He says trying to act like he wouldn't attack them given half a chance.

Corin smiled at his brother, glad that they did have a plan at least. "I'm fine", he replied when he asked if any of them wanted anything to eat. He looked at their siblings though. He wished he had more saved up to help Cory then what he did, but at least he did have some. He looked up as he saw someone approaching them. Giving him a good look as he stood near them. "I'm not sure of this. I think we can find it ourselves", he stated quietly to his brother. The guy was giving him weird vibes. Even if he was their brother and all.

Cory couldn’t help but feel his spirits lift over the fact that they had someone to help them get to camp before things got dire. He felt a little tingle of unease but pushed it away because he wanted to trust that Ares, who was their brother and he decided to trust, little did he know that he would come to regret it dearly. “I think we can trust him.” He said, softy to Corin looking at him softly ignoring Ares for a moment to see what his brother had to say. “I don’t know if we can find it ourselves without running out of money.”