This is a one-shot on the life of Thalia leading up to her pushing Luke off Mount Tam. Please read & review!
Disclaimer: My name is not Rick. I am not a guy. Put the clues together.
Enter Thalia Grace. A hot-headed runaway starting to doubt every decision she ever made. She's angry at life- everything and everyone in it- and was convinced that she could run away from her problems. Well couldn't she? Because every problem she had kept coming back to the drunken mom that was never home. No, she was sure she had left all her problems behind. The only problem was, she had made so many more.
Enter Luke Castellan. An angry boy with sorrow, confusion and rage boiling inside- causing him to leave his home and deranged mother behind. He can never go back. If he did- well no, he wouldn't. He'd never have to see that piercing green light behind his mother's eyes ever again. Fate intended for the two kids to cross paths. Another issue for Thalia's growing list of problems.
Enter Annabeth Chase. A small, scared, but determined little girl who needs Luke and Thalia's help. The three of them form a family. They grow to care about each other. And Thalia can tell them anything and everything, about the life she's ran away from and the new, exciting life she's run into.
Luke listens best to Thalia- his blue eyes so sincere, so understanding, that Thalia almost hands her entire heart to him. Once or twice, they even share a passionate kiss. Thalia loves and cares for him so much it almost frightens her- she'd be willing to die in his place. And so she does. You could probably agree that this is another problem to add to Thalia's list.
Enter Percy Jackson. His green eyes are the first thing she sees when she exits a tunnel of blue light. She's alive again. He's reassuring her she's alright. She tells them who she is. And then an innocent question pops into her head: where is Luke?
Where is Luke? The question would tear her heart in two. She couldn't run away from the problem. There is no way one can hide from the truth. And so she ran away from everything and anything that reminded her of him- deeper and deeper into the forest she ran- and sobbed and screamed until she almost cried her entire heart out.
Thalia volunteers for the quest. But not just to save for Annabeth- of course she does want to help her best friend- but more to save the boy with blue eyes and the understanding smile. Because she knows there must be hope for Luke, and if not… there was no hope for her either. Thalia's quest is to save her little family and somehow stitch their lives back together to cross a couple problems off her never ending list.
But it's not until she stands on the top of that dark mountain that the horrible, heartbreaking truth dawns on her. And it makes her heart stop beating, her lungs stop breathing. There is no light in Luke Castellen's eyes. It is only an empty void of dark blue water, water that she's drowning in- dying in. And so she suffers in silence, her heart screaming as its few broken pieces shatter into millions.
Enter Thalia Grace. A girl with a broken heart and a list of worries that ran as long as the earth itself . She kicks a boy off a cliff, and crosses him off the list.