One night, Hades met Elena at a bar. Elena was working as the bartender and he decided to engage into a conversation with her. The two soon became friends and started seeing each other more. Hades told Elena about himself, the other Gods, and the camp but it didn’t change the fact that she loved him. He didn’t believe her, so one night, she proved to him how much she loved him. 2 weeks after, she found out she was pregnant and told him.
Hades left her to fend for herself during the pregnancy since he was currently married to Persephone. She was heartbroken, but she didn’t let it show. She wanted the pregnancy to go well, which it did, and 9 months later, she had Caitlin.
Caitlin’s childhood was fine, she was perfectly raised by her mother, she had a good couple of friends and she knew she was diagnosed with ADHD and Dyslexia, but it didn’t affect her way of seeing things. She always thought positive when it came to her father. She would think that he was a nice man and that she would meet him one day, but that never happened.
At her 12th birthday, when Caitlin went to her room to sleep, she noticed a celestial bronze sword resting on her desk. The sword could turn into a silver bracelet, so she could wear it like jewelry. There was no letter or note with it, just the sword, and she suspected it came from her father but she still found it quite strange. The sword could turn into a silver bracelet, so she could wear it like jewelry. So, she started taking lessons in sword fighting and soon knew the basics. Not all too long after, Caitlin was attacked by a Harpy when she was returning home from school.
Luckily, Caitlin was wearing her silver bracelet, and turned it into a sword. The Harpy left a lot of injuries on her, and at first she couldn't correctly hit it with her sword, but she managed to defeat it in the end. When she got home, she told her mother about the attack and Elena brought her immediately to the camp in her car. Once there, Caitlin was greeted into the Camp with open arms while her mother returned to their home.
A week after residing in the Camp, Caitlin was claimed by her father, but never saw him. Caitlin decided to stay in the Camp, which was safer for her, but sometimes left to visit her mother for a couple of days, and then return to Camp. She celebrated her birthday at camp a couple of days after she's been claimed.