I heard a movement behind me and I turned and started running, away from the sound.

I felt something, or someone, next to me. Then I was up against a tree, captured.

"Let go of me!" I yelled trying to get out of this person's grasp.

"Listen to me, first." I looked up at my capture, to see Luke.

"Why should I?" I spat back.

"Because Thalia, I love you. When you ran away I thought that you didn't love me. Thalia, I love you, every night I dream of having you next to me, with me, or even closer to me. I don't want you...I need you!" He said, looking at me like he meant it.

"Luke-" I was interpreted by his lips coming to mine. After a while he moved me from the tree into his arms. So he was holding me.

When he pulled back, I opened my eyes to see him right there. "Please, Thalia." He whispered.

I just smiled and smashed my lips on his, I felt Luke smil-

I shot out of my bed -again- with my hair stuck to my face and my breathing heavy.

"What is wrong with me?" I mumbled to myself, flopping down on my bed again.

"Thalia?" A little hunter asked, walking into my tent.

"Yes?" I asked.

"The breakfast is ready." She smiled.

"Ok, I'll be right there."

She nodded happily and walked out of my tent.

I got out of my bed and walked out.

A little thing about my tent, it is really small from the outside, but on the inside its bigger than my cabin at camp. It can also easily fit into a small pack for traveling.

I saw all the other girls with some soup in their laps, waiting for me. One of the hunters handed me a bowl, then I poured some into the fire we had sitting in between all of us.

"To Artemis," I whispered.

The others held up their blows and said the same, before digging into their meal.

I didn't feel hungry any more so I excused myself and grabbed my bow, walking into the forest.

I know its not that smart walking into a forest by myself without the rest of the hunters, but my second in charge is good with the hunters when I'm gone.

I sat down and started shooting at random things.

I heard a crack of a twig and I shot up off the ground.

When I looked at to see who it was I saw a deer, Artemis's deer. How did it get out here?

I followed it further into the woods, something was wrong. I couldn't hear the deer running anymore. I heard a twig snap -again- behind me and I slowly turned around and drew my bow.

What I saw was Luke, he was walking towards me with a smirk of his face, the one he's had since he was 14. I wanted to run, I tried to fight, I tried to at least move but couldn't, Luke came up to me and smiled, "Hey, Thals, I missed you."

"W-what?" I stuttered.

"Thalia, don't be afraid of me." He said, he took a step towards me and I took one back. "Don't be like this Thalia."

"Get away from me," I growled.

All of a sudden in a blink of an eye, he was no longer in front of me. He was nowhere around me. I felt something soft on the bottom of my face, where my nose and mouth are. I figured out it was a cloth; I was fighting the person who was holding me. I was struggling against him (I think he's a him) but he just held the cloth to my face. I was starting to feel light headed and I froze in place when I realized that what I had on my face smelled like chloroform and it probably was. Chloroform is a smelling gas that can make you pass out if you breathe it in for too long. I stared kicking and punching the guy trying to get away.

"Just hold on," I heard they guy say, I was so light headed I couldn't match the voice to anyone.

Then I blacked out, going limp in my kidnaper's arms.


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