A/N: Hello! This is a short one-shot I wrote for my English assessment and I thought I would share it with you. I hope you like it!
Disclaimer: If I owned the PJO fandom, the House of Hades would already be out. As it is not, no, I do not own Percy Jackson.
It was official. I was crazy.
Not that I knew I wasn't insane before, with all the other stunts I've pulled, but this was on a whole different level. I mean, jumping into Tartarus isn't exactly a rational thing to do.
And if I wasn't crazy enough at the moment, I would be down there.
Or dead. That would definitely be an option from the whole 'dead monsters go to Tartarus' thing. There would be more monsters there than anywhere else, so the odds of me fighting my way out would be near non-existent.
Plus, Tartarus, the spirit of the abyss, fathered the giants, a lot of which we've killed, so he wouldn't be happy with us either.
And the fact that we were falling into the earth, exactly where Gaia wants us, so she can capture us and sacrifice us on Olympus and awaken, which sounds oh-so-pleasant.
Oh, did I say 'we'?
Yes, I am falling with Annabeth, which makes the whole' jumping into Tartarus' perfectly rational.
All it took was one look at her. She was dirty and dusty all over, from her amazing quest following the Mark of Athena, and her broken ankle was bandaged with bubble wrap as a makeshift cast, because she was clever like that.
It made me feel angry, knowing that I could have been there to stop her from being injured.
But I also knew that it had to be her quest.
And then there were her eyes. Her normally proud, stormy grey eyes were filled with terror, which wasn't surprising since she had just faced the literal mother of all spiders (and she hated spiders) all by herself, and now she was being dragged into the abyss.
And she would have been all alone, in the place that could – and would – break you, and she would have seen me letting go, like I didn't care, and us being ripped apart, just after we were reunited after eight months…
No. I knew what I had to do.
It was crazy. It was rash. It was impulsive.
But we would be together.
And, even now, when I am falling into eternal darkness with her, I know I made the right choice.
I told you that I wouldn't leave you, Annabeth. I intend to keep my word.
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