She who laughed at dragons

A.N: This is the updated version I promised you. Shout out to my lovely beta-reader LittleOddStar. If you haven't checked her out, do that! She is about 10 times better than me.

Why was she so scared? She had laughed at dragons and titans, she had killed every monster that had crossed her path, she was fucking immortal! Why was she so scared?

"Put me down, Jason!" she screamed, trying to hit her brother in the face before realizing that he might drop her if she did.

"Come on, sis, you're a daughter of Zeus; you're safe up here." He smirked at her. She shot him her best I'm-gonna-kill-you-look. He didn't understand, he had never had a problem with heights.

"Of course I'm safe up here, but I'm definitely NOT safe if I fall!" She tried to hold back the tears burning in her eyes. He just gave her another one of his confident smiles. "You actually believe I wouldn't catch you?" he said and looked at her with mock surprise. She raised an eyebrow at him. "That's not my point, you know what I mean!" He didn't answer.

As long as she could remember, Thalia had been afraid of heights. Though it wasn't really the height that scared her. It was the fall from heights that terrified her; plummeting through the air without a shred of control, knowing she was doomed. She hated herself for it. She was a child of the skies, how could she be afraid of heights? She shut her eyes and tried not to think of heights - naturally, that was the only thing her panicking mind was thinking of.

A moment later she heard shouting from below. Glad for the distraction, she opened her eyes and looked down to see who it was - which proved to be a big mistake as she felt a wave of nausea. She quickly shut her eyes again.

"Who's shouting?" she asked Jason instead.

"It's Coach Hedge" he said in an amused voice.

"What is he shouting?" She couldn't hear much over her own beating heart.

"Just the usual, that he will kill us painfully if we didn't come down this instant."

That made her smile. Now she had an excuse to go down to again. And when they were safe on the deck of the Argo 2, she would make Jason wish he had never forced her to fly.

A.N: So, new version. Better I hope. :) Please review.

StG