Title: Regrets
Author: xMalloryXHeartsxLoganXLermanx
Summary: Drabble. The thoughts of six people and the actions of one after Travis dies. Kudos to you if you can figure out who thought/said what.
Disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Or anything else I may have mentioned. :)
Quote: "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." -Harriet Beecher Stowe
(ONE)
I knew it would get him killed one day. He thought he was so much better, cooler, and hotter than everyone else in the Hermes Cabin. Shoot, he thought he was better than the whole camp.
His stupid arrogance. To Hades with him! Get it? Cuz he's dead.
I know. I'm his brother. I shouldn't be cursing him; I should be grieving him. But this is how I grieve. I make jokes; it's what I do.
We never got to initiate the ultimate prank. I had put it off for months. Now it's too late.
(TWO)
I can't believe him! I told him he had better come back from that idiotic quest alive!
So what does he do? He effing dies.
And knowing Travis, he did it just to piss me off.
I hate him. I hate his curly brown hair, and cool blue eyes. His mischevious smile. His lame jokes.
I hate him. I hate his guts.
But I regret not telling him how I honestly felt about him.
(THREE)
It wasn't his fault. I blame it all on Dionysus.
Hades took him unfairly.
As much as Travis annoyed me with his constant pranking, I still missed him.
I mean, he had stolen Cokes for me countless times and asked for nothing in return.
Why didn't I just visit him before his quest? I had pearls.. He could've used one before that psychotic demigod killed him.
Why didn't I go?
(FOUR)
It doesn't make sense.
It's not logical.
Travis never did anything to him.. except, y'know, burn his favorite deck of pinochle cards.
But, still.
His cheesy pick-up lines were pretty funny, even though I would never date him.
I should've told him how funny he really was. I guess now he'll never know.
(FIVE)
The poor boy. Died at the hands of a murderer. A crazed murderer, driven mad by none other than a god.
A god I frequently played pinochle with, at that.
Even though I often punished him for his outrageous pranks, I knew it was just another great trait from Hermes. Just shows how smart the lad really was.
And I never saw it fit to tell Mr. D he'd been smuggling Cokes inside camp. Why go to the trouble?
It's too bad I never got to tell him about his mom's letter.
(SIX)
He was my son. Why him?
I have only saw him twice, and I have never spoke to him.
First Luke dies thinking I don't love him. Now Travis.
(SEVEN)
"What's up, Travis?"
"Well, I'm dead. (Pause) Why are youhere? What about the Isles of the Blest?"
"Change of plans."
"That's good."
"Here."
"What's this?"
"It's that pen that writes on you while you sleep."
"Oh, yeah! I always wanted to give that to someone as a gift and watch them walk into breakfast with a drawn-on mustache! You wouldn't even let me look at it."
"I know. I'm sorry. It's yours now."
"I won't be able to use it. Why give it to me now?"
"I should have gave it to you before."
(END)
A/N: If you really did guess who's saying what, then you are a very smart cookie. A very smart cookie, indeed. ;)
Well, review and tell me who you thought each one was. Make me happy!
Cuz that's obviously your New Year's Resolution.
To review and make me happy..
Yeah, I'll stop rambling now. Bye!:)
~MHLL
