Madness
Chris and Clarisse
Summary: Clarisse/Chris oneshot. This is when Chris is still ill from the labyrinth, and Clarisse is staying with him in the infirmary. REVIEW!
The rainclouds gathered over the rainless camp. I can feel the weight pressing on my chest as my heart struggles to beat and my lungs gasp for breath. I blink and through blurred eyes I see no rain clouds.
I've gone mad.
Maybe they're just clouding over my soul.
An inaudible clap of thunder and I turn from the window. They won't answer my prayer to save a traitor.
Chris lies motionless on the bed.
Madness, he can't leave the labyrinth he's still a prisoner there, in the dark confines of the endless maze.
Don't cry. I move back to his bedside.
"Wake up."
I take his hand, glad to be alone because I'm never tender, never weak.
Even in his sleep the pain shows on his face, and if he wakes the visions and horrors will take him again.
I sit in the chair I've stayed in all day and grasp my dagger hilt. If madness could be fought, if I could kill it with a blade.
I'm angry at Daedalus for making the labyrinth, I'm angry at the people who've given up, the people who have tried to pull me away from someone worth saving.
And I look back out the window.