Disclaimer: Percy Jackson does not belong to me. (I wish)

Everything in italics is taken from 'The Titan's Curse'

This is Zoe's death in her POV. It is a One sidded Percy x Zoe fic.

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Stars

I could hear Annabeth and her father chattering. She sounded so excited and even though I had known her for mere seconds I wanted to be happy for her but I could see the spark in Percy's eyes as he watched her and the small show of affection felt like the poison in my side.

I heard Thailia calling them but everything was getting colder and their words were slipping from my grasp. I knew Percy was speaking but his sweet voice would not form into words. Then my Lady Artemis' voice rang clear, "-there is little I can do. But I can try." Try? What?

My Lady reached for my side but I caught her wrist and grasped it. I stared into her enchanting eyes, pleading, I didn't know what. She seemed to understand what I did not. I gripped her thin wrist tighter and tried to speak but words escaped me.

I shivered and swallowed hard, then forced out a simple question. "Have I... served thy well?" I meant to speak audibly but it was a breath. My Lady's voice was soft. "With great honor," She brushed a strand of my hair away. "The finest of my attendants."

Her words calmed me even as death drew close, I sighed with a strange content. "Rest. At last." She drew in a quick breath. "I can try to heal the poison my brave one." I tried to shake my head but the effort was too much. I could feel my father's blow taking its toll even as I felt the poison sharply in my side again.

My eyes found Thailia and I dropped my Lady's hand and took hers and clutched it. I licked my lips and struggled out, "I am sorry we argued," I no longer felt my pride clouding my view. "We could have been sisters."She squeezed my hand, "It's my fault." She blinked hard, "You were right about Luke, about heroes, men- everything."

I looked at Percy, my chest ached, but not from wounds. "Perhaps not all men." I knew they could hear even though I was murmuring again. I smiled at Percy fondly. "Do you still have the sword, Percy?" He nodded and pulled the pen out of his pocket and gently placed it in my hand.

He looked about to cry. I held the pen with a new fervor, I was happy he held it. I swallowed again, "You spoke the truth, Percy Jackson. You are nothing like... like Hercules. I am honored that you carry this sword."

A shudder ran through my body, a cold piercing pain shot through my heart. "Zoe-" I stopped him, "Percy, I..." I could not continue. My eye had caught on Annabeth. I knew very deep down I should tell how much love I had seen in him for Annabeth, that I should warn him not to let her slip away but even as my heart fluttered and beat slower I felt jealousy.

But I needed to say it. My heart told me I needed to tell him how he made me feel. "Percy," I tried to beckon but it was feeble. He knelt next to me, "Yes?"

I used the last of my strength to lift my hand and cup his cheek. I gasped in pain. "I love- I- Percy I need to tell you something. Very important. I-" But I couldn't bring myself to upset him. My hand dropped back to my side and I looked from his tears to the sky.

"Stars." I whispered it with such awe. "I can see the stars again, my Lady." The world was slowly turning black."Yes, my brave one. They are beautiful tonight."

With my last breath I whispered it again. "Stars."


(Percy's POV)

And she did not move again.

Thailia lowered her head. Annabeth gulped down a sob, and her father put his hands on her shoulders. I watched as Artemis cupped her hand above Zoe's mouth and spoke a few words in Ancient Greek. A silvery wisp of smoke exhaled from Zoe's lips and was caught in the hand of the goddess. Zoe's body shimmered and disappeared.

Artemis stood, said a kind of blessing, breathed into her cupped hand and released the silver dust to the sky. It flew up, sparkling, and vanished.

For a moment I didn't see anything different. Then Annabeth gasped. Looking up in the sky, I saw that the stars were brighter now. They made a pattern I had never seen before-a gleaming constellation that looked a lot like a girl's figure-a girl with a bow, running across the sky.

"Let the world honor you, my huntress," Artemis said. "Live forever in the stars."

I would never forget her but I would always wonder what she had meant to say.


How was it? Did it flow smoothly? I got the idea reading another fic like this.

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~The Person Who Wrote Everything Above