Based on "The Titan's Curse." I do not own anything that has to do with the Percy Jackson series.
Zoë thought the Fates were wanting a chance to have a good laugh.
It was in a different form, sure, (a pen? really?) but she knew for certain it was Anaklusmos, the moment it's sword form appeared.
The person wielding it... well, he was good looking, she wouldn't deny it. Wind-swept raven black hair with sea green eyes, like the river gods she had seen as a child, before her banishment. He had also seemed so concerned about the girl who had fallen off the cliff, like he actually cared for her. It made her feel refreshed, until she remembered why she became a hunter in the first place.
Looks meant nothing in the world, couldn't determine what really mattered, that much could be said.
As for the girl who fell... Well, could she really twist it this time? Make the male, the boy, seem like the bad guy?
She could very damn well try.
No, she would not allow a friendship with this specimen. She would not allow herself to think that he actually cared about a female, for no reason other than friendship. Absolutely not, her resolve was a strong as her arrows hitting a target, and she wasn't going to loose it.
This specimen's kind raped, cheated, lied, stole, took-advantage-and-left-the-other-person-banished-and-dishonored.
She was not going to make the same mistake.
She was not going to trust him.
She was going to treat him like she would any other male, and that was to say, she was going to be the person she knew she had the right to be.
For she, Atlas's daughter, had learned her lesson.
It was probably fear that guided her, fear of learning to trust him (though Zoë would never admit it).
Zoë knew the pattern, she had seen it in her own history and in countless other girl's- they would take but never give back.
They would be like the son of Zeus, the son of Zeus those two millennia ago.
Maybe it was uptight of her, no, she knew it was uptight, but she was not going to make the same mistake.
He looked up to Zeus's son, she knew that, all people did.
He also carried the sword, the sword that was her downfall from the Garden of the Hesperides.
She was not going to make the same mistake, he would only lead to her destruction.
