Authors Note: Please read this before you begin to read this story: this fanfiction was based/inspired by one of mrs. lovely 123's drabbles in her drabble, "I love you". So you'll get why it's similar to one of her drabbles it was based by that drabble of hers. So... yes, I'm aware that I've added two of my characters in it. I just felt like adding Carole and Patricia in it. That's all.

Thank you Lindsey7618 for BETA this story for me.


This couldn't be… no! It wasn't going to end this way, but it happened- Atlanta sacrificed herself just to save me from that threatening god. But why did she do this? I could've beaten him like nothing and she pushed me aside just to get killed by Cronus.

It was my fault she died. I let her die, I could've have pushed her back, but I couldn't do it properly. Tears were streaming down my cheeks as if it was my entire fault. I felt hatred in my eyes as I wanted to strangle Cronus with my bare hands. But I needed to be strong for the guys. But still…

"Now what's wrong, Theresa?" taunted Cronus smirking evilly at me with those frightened red eyes of his. "You know, Theresa, it was bound to happen like that. Atlanta will sure be missed by you guys, but as for me, the world will be soon belong to me."

Then I saw my boyfriend running towards Cronus with his sword. I smiled evilly and let Jay have the fun with him. Cronus had a surprised look. I laughed my head off and with that, Cronus weakly stood up as he scowled at Jay.

Cronus tried to dodge him, but apparently he failed and as he turned to me, he grinned. "Theresa dear, will you be my queen and conquer the world with me? I surely need to appreciate it."

This made my body boil with rage. I was close to turning purple, but I needed to control my feelings. I was going to approach him with my hands clenched tightly and jump on him, but someone grabbed my waist as he pulled me back.

Cronus was finished off with a sickening thud! Good thing he's down, I thought with tears in my eyes. He has killed my best friendAtlanta, why did you sacrifice yourself?

I turned to Neil, who shook his head in a disapprovingly way and Odie, Archie and Herry walked quietly behind Neil. They were covered in blood and those eyes… they were sad.

They knew what I was feeling right now, but right now, they were feeling angry at themselves for not stopping Atlanta. I felt my lip quiver as we saw Campe leaving with Cronus to send him back in Tartarus for eternity, but that didn't bring back Atlanta… my best friend.

"Terri, you need to understand that we can't bring back Atlanta. You were lucky to bring me back from the dead, but won't happen again. You need to understand that you have to move on."

This was Jay's response as he kissed my bottom lip. We held hands and started weakly walking to the portal. We turned to see the bloody body of Atlanta. Her eyes were just stareing at us with those now tinted green eyes and I cursed myself for not being able to help her out. Oh, how do I miss her…?


"Hey Atlanta, do you want to shop with me just to get away from those boys?" I had asked one morning as I pointed to the direction of the boys who were watching television.

Atlanta laughed as she nodded and we called out that we were heading out. We bolted out as we joyfully went in my car. We both realized that shopping wasn't our obsession, and went to a restaurant instead.

"Atlanta, there's something that's bugging me: Do you love Archie?" I had asked, as I stared down at the men. Atlanta had spit out the water from her mouth as she flushed deep red on her cheeks and rubbed the back of her head.

"Yes. Why do you have to ask me this, Terri? You know that I love him."

Very good, to be exact- she was right, I already knew the answer, so what's the big idea of asking her this? "You know, Terri, I wonder what you're thinking of right now. Making love to Jay, I suppose?"

It was my turn to feel my cheeks go into a deep red as I played with my hair. I didn't know what to say. Atlanta just laughed as we noticed Granny with a baby in her arms with a woman. Carole, to be exact, was entering the restaurant. I waved at them and they smiled back at me as they came towards us.

"Greeting dears, how've you been and how's my little boy doing?" Carole asked as she placed a hand on her cheek as she smiled sweetly. "Herry isn't a little boy anymore, but for me he still is."

"Oh, he's good Carole," stated Atlanta. "He hasn't scared us for a very long time."

"That's good to hear. Has he ate the whole fridge again?" continued Carole as Granny handed the baby to Atlanta, who's name was Patricia, gurgling and then laughed. I had smiled as I nodded and both females groaned and the baby playfully smacked her head with the back of her palm. All of us laughed and Carole asked us if we wanted a picture with Patricia.

We both nodded as Atlanta held the baby high and I kissed the baby's cheek as Patricia was laughing and the shutter of the camera went off. The photo was taken and then we had another one with my PMR. Then Carole took Patricia gently from Atlanta and they said goodbye to us and we waved back as we took our orders. What a day to have a best friend's talk… and a memory that will be always cherished.

Granny and Carole had returned with Patricia so that the baby can say her goodbye to us. Patricia had slowly waved as she said, "Bye".

We both laughed as Atlanta gave her a big kiss and she said that she was the little sister she ever had. That made Patricia aww as I told her the same thing and Patricia laughed more and then they left.

When we were in my car, and as I started the engine to return to the brownstone, Atlanta gave a happy sigh as she said that she really thinks of Patricia as her baby sister. I had replied with the same thing as I kept my eyes on the road. I don't ride fast like Herry does, with his pickup truck.

I told her that and she simply laughed and agreed as we finally arrived at the brownstone. We walked in the living room. We started to laugh until tears were coming down and Jay walked in as he asked, "What's so funny?"

"Oh, it's just we thought of Herry's driving, how he drives makes other drivers wild mad," said Atlanta, as she fell on the ground as she wiped a tear away. "Theresa was going slow and so, yeah…"

"By the way, we saw Herry's granny, mother and baby sister at the restaurant. I know it's supposed to be shopping, but we changed our mind. We explained to Carole that her son was eating the whole fridge again and she and granny aren't happy about this at all."

I smirked as I said this. This caused Herry to come out. He had loads of food in his arms. Part of the food was in his mouth and he gulped them loudly as he caused a burp and he excused himself.

"Did you just say you saw my mother, granny and baby sister?" asked Herry as he shoved another cake in his mouth and I nodded as he suddenly felt sick and dove for the sink as he vomited.

The others made did sickening sounds just to hear him vomit and a minute later, Herry had returned with a pale face and no longer had food in his arms as he leaned on the wall. "Seriously, did you have to tell them this?"

"Well, no, but I just had to let it all out, including that we've told them that you are no longer scaring us from the window."

I walked over and placed a hand on his shoulder as I felt he was going to collapse on the ground. Atlanta and I helped him to get in his room. Afterwards, we went in my room to have a "best friends" conversation…


"Theresa?" I was snapped into reality as I saw that Jay was snapping in front of me. I felt like I was going to collapse.

I was caught by Jay a moment later as I rubbed my temples.

"It's my entire fault." I said out loud as tears streamed down my face. I couldn't believe that she was really gone.

Then we saw that Hercules had brought back the body of Atlanta. This made our faces guilty. I turned to look at the guys as I noticed that only Archie, Herry and Odie were covered in blood, Neil had been untouched, while Jay only had scratches on him. Me… well, I only had a scar, but inside my heart, though I wasn't covered in blood or had scratches, I was touched inside of me.

My best friend was dead and I couldn't do anything about it. Jay wrapped an arm around me as we followed Hercules into Chiron's study. A minute later, the two of us were left alone and I slowly took Jay's arms off from me. I turned to him with my eyes filled with tears as I kissed him on the lips with passion. "Leave Jay… for now, go join the guys and I'll see you around."

Jay gave a sigh as he left and he closed the door. I slapped Atlanta on the arm hardly as I clenched my teeth together. I punched her on her body full of blood as I didn't gave a shit about this- I just needed to rise my temper at her, I accused her for leaving me behind with five boys.

I don't know why, but I thought I heard some water running. It's probably Herry, Odie and Archie taking a shower due the fact they were all covered in blood.

I angrily stared into Atlanta's tinted green eyes as I snarled, wanting the urge to scream with rage but I controled myself and tried to be mature. "Atlanta, do I ever hate you right now! Why did you have to sacrifice yourself just to save me? I mean, I could have defended myself, thank you very much, but now… why did you have to do this to me, how I ever hate you right now!"

"Theresa, you need to stop this instant!" a voice yelled.

I recognize it as Mrs. Persephone's. She had a stern look on her face and I just felt like exploding. Who does she think she is right now, my mother? Excuse me, but I have a right to hate Atlanta… she didn't need to die that way… she didn't need to sacrifice herself just to save me.

Persephone sighed. "Theresa, don't hate Atlanta, it was the only way to protect you. I know you could have defended yourself. I mean she has made a choice and her choice was complete- she is now in Elysian Fields with her ancestor."

Then Jay entered the room. He agreed with my mentor and that devastated me as I finally let it all out and my aura came out of my body. The aura punched my boyfriend's face as I held my hand out as if I wanted to help Jay.

Tears streamed down my cheeks as I calmed down and my aura went back inside of me. I dashed towards him. Jay hugged me as I apologized and to begged him to please forgive me as Jay suddenly woke up dizzy and he weakly kissed me on the lips, saying he forgave me.

I suddenly saw that the other guys were around Atlanta's body, but what I mostly noticed is that I saw Patricia was there in Herry's arms. I saw that her lip was quivering and I thought, wow what a tough baby!

Wait, since when she has arrived? I don't remember her arriving with her mother, unless it was a while. She probably arrived when my aura was out. I don't know why, but I had to say this out loud: "It's my fault, I should have died instead of her."

"How dare you say such a thing like this, Terri," bellowed Herry as he placed Patricia's little head on his shoulder and tightened his arms as if to protect her. "You're so wrong to say this, Atlanta was like my third sister and no way will she be pleased to hear this!"

"But it is the truth… I wish I would have-" I started to say, but Herry cut me off again as he gritted his teeth together and shot me one of his murderous looks. I suddenly saw that he had tears in his eyes, and then they started slowly heading towards his cheeks. I suddenly regretted saying this.

"Don't you say what you were going to say, Theresa, because no way I would want you to die that quickly or that young! You're my second sister- but I would never let you or Pat do this to yourselves. I love the two of you too much and I've already lost a third sister here. I would never want another sister of mine get destroyed or for anything else bad to happen to you or Patricia."

I saw that Herry was crying now and Patricia lifted her head and held her hand towards me and I saw she had watery eyes too.

"No Terri, no… pwease!" the baby called out and started to wail. Herry gently rocked her as he smiled at me through tears and said, "You see, Theresa? Patricia doesn't want to lose you either… as she takes you as the older sister she'll never have."

Then I realized that I had truly hurt Herry and I went to hug him tightly, but not too tight to hurt Patricia. Then I kissed the baby on the forehead as I stroked her cheek and then stared right into Herry's dark brown eyes.

"I am so sorry Herry for saying this, but let's say I was mad, huh? Don't worry I won't do it for real…"

"That's great to hear," said Herry, as he hugged me tightly with one arm and the baby squealed with joy. In a second, she had fallen asleep. I kissed her forehead before Herry left the room just to go to bed at the brownstone with her. I smiled and hugged Archie, Neil and Odie too as I said, "sorry", to them, because I was. I freaked them out, I think and all of us had left except for me and Archie.

Archie, with tears, kissed Atlanta's unmoving lips for the last time before she was buried as he said, "I love you, Lannie, and I will always love you."

And that's when he left and with a wave, I said to Atlanta, "May Zeus be with you and that you'll enjoy being in Elysian Fields for some time before we join you… someday."