A/N
Just a small oneshot I wrote during the summer. Hope you enjoy.
Together.
They were together. That was all that mattered. Tears were torn from her eyes as they plummeted down, down, down. She curled her fists into his shirt. He wasn't getting away from her. Never again. After all they had been through, this was it. The end. But that didn't matter. Nothing did. As long as they were together.
Together.
Falling.
She hugged him closer. They had been falling for minutes. Or maybe it was hours. Or days. Or weeks. Or months. Heck, it could have been years. The point was, she didn't know. All she knew was that she was falling with her soulmate, and that it was her fault that they were falling away from the world. Away from their lives. Their friends. Their family. Away from light. And into literal hell itself. Falling.
Falling.
Falling.
Inevitable.
There was nothing she could do. Nothing she could do to stop their downward spiral. It was all her fault. If she had only been faster. She had signed his death warrant the second she embarked on that crazy solo death quest. She shouldn't be thinking that way, but she had enough of an understanding of science to know that if they hit the ground at terminal velocity, it would be, well, terminal. After all they had been through... all they had survived. They were as good as dead.
Inevitable.
Death.
As they fell through the dark, she thought about everything they had been through together. Everything leading up to now. They were going to Hades the hard way. She remembered being in school - maybe 6 years old - learning about the four stages of a story. You had the beginning, where the characters, settings, plot etc. Areu introduced. Then there's the build up - the problems/disputes that make the plot become apparent. The climax... this was the conflict. Where every huge reveal is made. Where everything happens. Where the problems multiply and disputes and lies are brought out into the open. And finally there was the resolution. The ending. Where everything has been resolved, and there was a happy ending. But their story didn't have a resolution. It ended here, with them plummeting towards certain death. The midst of all the problems. Once everything that could have possibly gone wrong had.
Death.
Love.
But none of that mattered. Nothing did. They were together. And together they could do anything. Nothing could keep them apart. He removed one hand from her waist and tilted her head up. And then he kissed her. "I love you" he whispered.
"I love you too" she replied. And then she decided. They would get through this. They could do anything. Seaweed brain and wise girl. Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase. Not two people, but more two halves of one whole.