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Title: Four Leaf Clover
Word Count: 678
Rating: K+
Characters: Piper, Jason, (Other mentioned characters)
Piper never believed in the fact that finding a four leaf clover would give you luck. It was just a plant, that had an extra leaf among others. It was sort of like considering a human with an extra arm was lucky.
No, most people pitied the people with extra limbs. But a four leaf clover? People considered it lucky.
Piper had found one once.
She had been small, and she did believe what other kids said about the plant. And for a long time, she believed them. She thought that it would give her luck, that her she could convince her Dad to spend more time with her.
For a while it worked. Life got so much better. Every day Piper would clutch the small plant in her hand, hoping that school would be better. Day after day, Piper held the plant believing the magic. Until plant dried up.
At first she had been broken, and she tried her best to find another one. Until she realised her classmates were laughing at her, saying that her luck had been only a joke.
Tears pricked at her eyes and anger had burned in her palms. She wanted all of them gone, and for one moment, she had wanted them dead. She thought the clover would make her life so much better, when yet, it just made it worse.
When Jason gave Piper the clover, Piper didn't know what to say.
He said it would give her luck, luck that would hopefully keep them alive during the quest. She couldn't deny the gift, and yet, she didn't want to keep it. The plant had laid in her palm like a everlasting scar, something that had been clutched in her hand years ago, something that should have helped but only made things worse.
She had set the plant on her bedside table. She didn't want to touch it, heck, Piper didn't even want to see it. But she kept it there on her table, because she wouldn't dare throw it away.
Jason had given it to her. How could she not accept it? How could she just throw it away?
It wasn't like she could walk up to Jason and say that she had a rough relationship with clovers. He'd just think she was stupid. Stupid and dumb.
Piper wanted to see if the clover worked, even though it hadn't before. The hope that luck would come her way was rather childish, sitting on a flying warship heading to Greece to stop Gaea. Which would be hard considering the fact that Gaea would do everything to stop them.
Piper didn't mean to be a downer, but who wasn't feeling low on hope? Even Leo couldn't keep up the happy act for so long. She hoped Jason and the others were more hopeful than she was.
That night she couldn't sleep. Her mind had been churning, thinking hard about the prophecy, hoping that some of the lines wouldn't be true. But of course, they would always be true, whether they were confusing or not.
Piper sat up, and slipped out of bed. She clambered up to deck, feeling the cool sea wind blast in her face. Her hair flew behind her, and her eyes stung. The taste of salt settled on her lips, and goosebumps spread up her arms. She walked to the edge of the deck, peering over the edge. Black waves beat gently on the edge of the boat, and white foam shimmered in the moonlight.
Piper noticed that she was clutching the four leaf clover. She glared at it, but didn't let go. The wind had calmed, but only for a moment. She glanced back into the ocean.
Holding the clover by it's stem, she held it over the black water. The sea calmed by the slightest bit.
"Wish us luck." Her voice was a small whisper.
The four leafed clover fluttered down into the dark water.
For a moment, the reflection of the moon shined a little bit brighter.
And her heart felt a tiny bit lighter.
End.
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