Percy

Someone was missing.

All of them were there, on their feet, looking at me and Nico. Bloody, but alive.

All of them except one.

I couldn't be true. I started to laugh : of course it couldn't. I saw it in his eyes just after he killed the last Telchine... I knew that Nico would feel it when when someone dies, and he didn't feel anything. So I just couldn't saw her, that's it !

And that's when I saw the blond hair my fingers know better than my own, spread on the ground.

My smile disappeared in a gasp. There she law, broken down, in a plash of blood.

I didn't even hear myself cry, starting to run.

Nico was faster than I. His hand were resting on her bloody chest the time I arrived. He looked at her, an expression of incomprehension crossing his face.

I crashed on the ground and took her head carefully on my knees. She didn't move, her eyes closed.

I heard Nico whisper : " No.. It isn't possible... How of Dad's Hell... "

I knew he had always had a weak for Annabeth, but this was different. " Nico ? "

" I don't understand... She isn't there... I always feel when people are dying... why not her ? Why ? "

A spark of Hope blaze up my heart. She wasn't dying ! But Nico saw it and gave me a desperate smile.

" No Percy she's gone, or will soon be. There's nothing we can do... "

No !

I Stood up and pulled Riptide out of my pocket. Dawn Gods ! I started to beat the rocky ground with me sword. No ! No ! No ! Harder and harder ! Great gods ! Riptide snapped in two pieces in an ultimate gash, just as my heart just did. However !

I stumbled back to Annabeth, fell down next to her, and began to cry.

The others formed a large circle around us three : Nico, I and... and.. my Wise Girl... I heard them whisper: "He broke Riptide?" "How can he have done it?" "It's a magical sword!" "It's because he's broken himself, than the sword loses his..." One look of mine was enough to shut their stupid mouths!

" Seaweed Brain ? "

It was just a whisper, but my heart started to beat again. I looked up. Her eyes were half opened. She tried to smile, but she couldn't.

" I love you, you know Percy... "

Of course I knew ! I tried to smile too, but I couldn´t neither, tears running still down my face.

" I Know, Wise Girl " I bent to kiss her gently. " I love you too, always "

Her lips were cold and didn't respond to my touch.

When I looked up, I saw her eyes were closed again.

She was gone !

" Not yet. " I stared up at Nico. What ? " She's still living, her heart is still beating, weak, but it is. "

I heard an other voice, Clarisse I guess. " Perhaps the Gods can save her, I'm sure they're already one their way. "

But we all knew it would be to late. Nothing could save her anymore. I had lost her in the final battle we won. She was gone.

And that's when I realized me one thing : if Nico said she wasn't there, at the road of deaths, it would mean that she wasn't going to die. Someone else would.

I don't exactly why, but I looked up at Nico and said eight words :

" You know how to save her, don't you ? "

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