Thalia is a leader. However, she sometimes wishes that she is not a leader. Set sometime after The Last Olympian.
Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
Leaders must Lead
Thalia does not have a person whose arms she could cry into. She doesn't have a person who can hug her and tell her everything is fine, and that there is no need to worry. Before, it would have been Luke, but he is one of the numerous reasons she has to cry, and let out all of her sorrow. She doesn't really have a friend she can trust with her emotions. The only person besides Luke that she would trust with her emotions would be Annabeth, but she has grown farther away from her while she was a tree. After she was revived, she found a mature thirteen-year-old girl, instead of the perky seven year old that she and Luke found in an alley. Time changes people, even if they don't want to change.
Still, Percy and Annabeth have each other. So do Grover and Juniper. Whom does she have? No one. She has her fellow hunters, but she cannot show weakness, tell them that she might have loved Luke. She can't tell them how crushed she is that she was not there when he died. She doesn't think any of them will understand how she feels about the fact that she never had the chance to say goodbye to the traitor who was once her friend, maybe even more. She would be kicked out of the hunters, or at least shunned, and she would lose what has become her family. Anyways, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. How bad would it look if the weakest link were the leader? And she is a leader, so she must lead.
She bottles her emotions up, and she will not let them out because she is supposed to be invincible. She is the daughter of the king of the gods, Zeus. The very way she acts, the way she carries herself, even the sound of her voice suggests that she is a daughter of Zeus, a born leader. Would anyone expect something less from her?
As a daughter of Zeus, people look up to her. People expect her to lead, since Zeus is the king and leader of the gods, and she is his daughter. She is a natural leader, although she doesn't always feel comfortable with the fact that people expect her to know what to do, how they look to her to provide a solution to whatever problem arises.
Leaders are different group of people; they are a breed apart. Leaders are fated to lead, fated to set an example for others. They must be strong, calm, and collected, even when others are not.
Thalia is a leader. She has the burden of fate upon her. Unlike the prophecy, it is one thing she cannot escape. She will carry it proudly, and without complaint, but there are times when she wishes that she were not a leader. She wonders what would happen if she were not destined to be a leader, but she quickly banishes that particular train of thought from her mind. If she were not a leader, she would not be who she is: Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus, and lieutenant of Artemis. Being a leader is hardwired into her blood as firmly as her dyslexia or ADHD.
Even if Thalia does not want to be a leader, she does not have a choice. She is a leader. She must lead.
So here is one of my one-shots. Sorry that it is ridiculously short and probably a pointless rambling on about the properties of a leader. Anyways, please review. I would especially appreciate feedback about whether I got Thalia's character right, since I'm not too sure if I portrayed her correctly.
For those of you who don't know already, I'm actually going to do NaNoWriMo, so during November, I don't think I'm going to be on here often. I'm writing a fanfic for this category, so I'll probably post it sometime during December, when I finish refining it.