2: Meltdown
Summary: So dive in, and let everything be seared away, in this figurative and literal nuclear reactor. .:Bianca:.
Pairing(s): None.
Genre: Drama, Family, maybe Angst and Hurt/Comfort.
World: Canon, or at least head-canon.
Warning: ...hm...
Songs listened to while writing: Meltdown, by Rin Kagamine.
Disclaimer: Nope. Nothing.
Date Written: 16/07/2012
Bianca knows she won't survive this, that she'll die.
She hands Percy the figurine of Hades, and runs to the large, defective giant anyways.
.:hey, take me to a nuclear reactor:.
Somehow, she's in the large metal statue thing, and manages to press a few buttons for the control.
A flare of hope for a moment. Maybe she can survive!
But this is the land without rain, and the prophecy dictates the life of one lost. At her feet, a chute opens up, and she falls, screaming and clawing at the smooth metal path, trying to grab on. It's like a large slide, and Bianca-the-normal-demigod would have died of a broken neck or something.
Bianca the hunter is bruised, but pretty alright. At the end, it gets horizontal, and she stops just before going over the edge.
And thank the gods she does, because the metal around her is literarily glowing with heat, and it's quite uncomfortable when her hands are about to blister.
Getting up, she leans over the drop to see a circular chamber of a sort, filled with lava-like liquid that bubbles threateningly.
It's the power source.
The entire structure starts to jerk, and she falls over, only managing to grab the edge as she's about to fall. Bianca can't help but think that this is like the movies.
If so, who'll pull her up?
No one for her. The robot falls, and Bianca loses her grip. Screams echo for a moment before she's submerged in the super hot, seemingly radioactive material.
Mercifully, her end is quick.
All traces of Bianca di Angelo is gone, melted away. Her soul flies over to the Underworld.
The well-dressed man is scowling at every other ghost, but when he sees her, he smiles. "Welcome, lady Bianca," he bows, and escorts her, all by herself, to the elevator.
It feels like home in the Underworld. She's a child of Hades. That explains a lot.
.:surrounded by a beautiful blue light:.
She sends IMs to Percy. Appears before Nico. Persuades him.
The Battle of the Labyrinth happens, and her brother is alive. Relief, and that keeps her remembering. Elysium does, too.
She visits him again, and tries to hold him like she did so many times, but she can't.
Instead, Bianca fades away, like the coward she is.
.:so the memories melt away to white:.
He's going to come for her. And then she's going to get a new life, because the Doors of Death are malfunctioning, and then…
Then, when everything is made right, she'll be dragged back and Nico will be punished, maybe even killed himself.
Without hesitation, she demands rebirth. There are perks to being a dead child of Hades.
It's yet another life-changing (or in this case, death-changing) decision, a big step. She dives in without hesitation, letting the water wipe her memories, and everything that makes her her.
This is her only control, and she has used it. The last time she left her brother, it broke his heart. She hopes he understands.
"Good-bye, Nico," Bianca manages, before there is nothing.