There were two things no one knew about Lee Fletcher.
The first was that he had Cassandra’s Curse. He could see the future, but was powerless to change it, and if he told anyone, they wouldn’t believe him.
This caused a lot of psychological problems for him. He was able to see the Titan war, the war with Gaia, and the war with Nero from the first moment he looked at Luke the morning they were all going to Olympus. He tried to hit Luke so hard that Luke couldn’t go, but Chiron pulled Lee off of him before it could get that far.
The only time Lee succeeded in messing with fate was when the hunt came to camp.
Because the second thing few people knew about him was that he had a twin sister, Phoebe. When they were both twelve at camp, she made the choice to join the hunt, and he rarely talked to or about her after that.
But when she was chosen for the quest, he could suddenly see her as the person in the prophecy lost in the desert. And he didn’t want his sister to die.
He was the one that poisoned her.
He thought the hunt would pick another, experienced hunter. Someone with no family left alive. But instead they picked Bianca di Angelo.
The moment they made that choice, Lee could see all of Nico di Angelo’s future. And was powerless to stop it.
He never stopped blaming himself for making that choice. It wasn’t his to make, and that fates had to punish him for it. He died utterly guilty for what he did to that child. He never stopped feeling like he was completely selfish for taking a sister away from a child who needed her more than he needed his sister.
The morning after Lee watched Nico leave camp (as he knew he would have) he was standing on the beach. He started to speak to his father, asking him, begging him to prove to him that this was all still worth it. He needed proof that his life wasn’t just some sick joke, or a twisted lie.
Lee predicted every major camp event that would happen for the next fifty years, but what he didn’t see coming was Chris Rodriguez, one of his best friends, coming back to him.
He was sure this had to be the sign from his father, that there was some purpose or forgiveness.
But Chris had come to them sick. And he never got better in Lee’s lifetime. Lee died believing, at least in part, that Chris was his final punishment, and that he was fated to just spend almost a year watching his friend slowly die as a final kind of penance.
A year later when Silena and Beckendorf came into the Underworld, he learned that Chris had been healed, and was alive and happy. That was the first moment that Lee actually had genuine respect for his father and the other gods.
His final dept was paid when Phoebe shows up in the Underworld two years later. She died protecting Nico di Angelo.
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