moment: first argument
song: The Only Way That I Know How To Feel by Boys Like Girls
extras: words, make me, century
Set a bit after the last chapter.
'cause everything feels wrong
and I don't know where I belong
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Walking into the camp feels like her world is slipping upside down.
Everything around her is bright and sunny; Percy's smiling, kids are laughing, and the scent of strawberries fills the air, but it takes all she has not to throw up. What is she doing here? She's not a half-blood – she's nothing special, not in this world, not in Percy's world, not really.
"Percy!" calls a girl, her delighted words a second knife in Dominique's heart. Within seconds, a blond girl wearing an orange t-shirt has collided into Percy, hugging him and laughing and not even noticing Dominique. And it hurts.
"That was Annabeth," Percy tells her later, giving her a tour of the camp. "She's my best friend. And in, like, ten minutes, she's going to make me help her with head counselor duties, so before that happens, how about you – "
"I wanna go home," Dominique interrupts, and the silence that stretches after her statement feels like a century.
"Why?" Percy asks, his voice unnaturally quiet. "Did – did I do something – ?"
"No, I just…I don't belong here."
"That's ridiculous."
"You know what's ridiculous, Percy?"
She's home by the end of the night.
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i'm fallin' to pieces
misery is company
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