[Percy tries to move and finds he finally can take a few steps. He walks to Scorpia’s side as the other Percy fires. The shots miss and the largest of the group charges at him. He leaps back, a horrified look on his face while the man who ordered him to fight pours himself a drink from the liquor cabinet against the far wall.

‘And to think my ideas were discard to teach you. Your parents were short sighted. But I will enjoy you killing each other.’ His sister shouts something as the Percy of now says,] That is Professor Anders. He betrayed my family in a bid for power and they gave it to him.

He was a vampire. Doubtless he decided to make his control light enough that this other timeline version of me was suffering and aware while his orders forced him to do as he bid.

In the original timeline which De Rolo he had in his claws was reversed. I came to deal with the Briarwoods once and for all. Likely Cassandra thought to do the same.