Hey, so, basically, it's late, I have to be up in 6 hours, I can't sleep, so that means, PERCY JACKSON FANFIC TIME!
"Leo, it's a lost cause!" Percy says for the millionth time. "No one gets back!"
"I don't care!" I shout. "There has to be a way! Somehow..."
"It's been how long?" Piper butts in.
"Almost a year," I admit.
"Then it's probably too late. Trust me, my mom's the love goddess. I think I know a lost cause when I see one. Besides, isn't there something about 'never finding the island again' or whatever?"
"Well, yeah, but -"
"Leo. Give it a rest."
"But Piper!"
"No."
"I was raised with the idea that if I tried hard enough, I could build anything. I spent almost all my time on that island trying to get off, but now that I'm here, I'm just gonna spend my time trying to get back there."
"Trying, and failing."
"Listen here, I only came back to finish the stupid quest because I knew you would fail without me, okay?! Upon my leave, I promised I'd be back! And if you made a promise to the love of your life, you'd follow through with it, right?!"
"'Love of your life?' Really, Leo? How long were you even there?"
"I dunno, time's different there."
"Leo," Percy says, "you're not getting back to her island. And it won't even matter. I mean, look at me. In a few years, you won't care anymore. It'll just be some old adventure. A little vacation from some quest."
"Percy, she loved you! She was cursed to spend eternity alone, loving people she can't stay with! And I love her back! I wanted to stay with her! Didn't you? Didn't you love her? Didn't you want to stay?"
"Don't you answer that!" Annabeth shouts from across the room.
"Truth is," Percy tells me, "yes. I did. But I got over it. And you will too, if you give up your stupid dream of getting back there. It's impossible."
"Nothing is impossible," I retort. "If there's a will, there's a way, and I definitely have the will."
I storm off, leaving my friends shaking their heads and facepalming after me. But I don't care. I made a promise. And I intend to follow through with that promise.
So, I know it's kinda short, but, I'm getting a bit tired, and I want the next part to be a new chapter.