This will be my last chapter thing. I'm moving on to write other things, blah blah blah. You know the drill. So thank y'all for all the support and requests! It was amazing! So this last chapter was a request from the dedicated Percabeth-Is-Endless. I don't think I've ever had someone review that much. Haha so thanks for that. This takes place during the fight on Mt. Tam with Thalia and Luke. Somebody I Used to Know by Gotye ft. Kimbra. And yes, I did take these two's relationship into my own hands…so sorry in advance.
"Luke," My voice was full of pain. He wanted me to betray my friends and everyone I loved. But my voice couldn't be heard, it wouldn't come out. He couldn't hear me.
"This is only a taste of what is to come," Luke said. "Soon we will be ready to storm Camp Half-Blood. And after that, Olympus itself. All I need is your help."
I paused at the terrible thought. My thoughts ceased for that terrible moment. I gazed at Luke, I wanted so bad to believe him. But I thought this through for a few seconds. Now and then, I think about all the times he screwed me over. It had me believing it was always something that I'd done. I don't want to live that way, reading into every word he says. I could let him go and not catch myself hung up on someone I used to know. I knew what my decision had to be, "You aren't Luke. I don't know you anymore."
"Yes, you do," he pleaded with me, "Thalia, please. Don't make me…don't make him destroy you."
Percy looked at me and Zoë. It wouldn't be so bad to die with my friends like this. I could see the same thought behind their eyes. "Now," Percy said. Together we charged.
I don't know what the rest did during the entire battle, but I went straight for Luke. My shield made his dragon-women body guards flee in terror and drop the coffin. He was all alone. Though he looked sick, he could still move like the Luke I knew. He snarled and attacked me with his sword. When his sword met my shield, lightning erupted between us.
"You didn't have to cut me off, Luke," I said through clenched teeth. I pressed him harder and he tried to ignore what I was saying.
"You can go make out like it never happened with someone else," Luke spat. He swung his sword again to be met by my shield. "You act like that we were nothing after that kiss."
I jabbed my spear at him but he dodged it, "I don't even need your love. It was one kiss. We were both so young and confused." One night, we were on the run and Annabeth fell asleep early, leaving us alone. We talked and before we knew it, we kissed. I was turned into a pine tree a few weeks later. "You treated me like a stranger after that! It felt so rough. You drove me away." I hit him with my shield, channeling all my anger.
"Now and then I think of when we were together like that, like that time when you said you felt so happy you could die," He swung his sword for extra emphasis. I reflected his attack. I told him that after we kissed. It was true then.
"I told myself that you were right for me," I admitted with a terrible laugh and jab of my spear. Our fighting was going pretty slow due to our conversation but our anger was quickly changing that. "But I felt so lonely in your company. That was love, Luke, and it's an ache I still remember." A lone tear traced my dirty face. "Yield!" I pushed my shield towards him with my voice loud. Our conversation was low before but now my anger was besting me, "You can never beat me, Luke!"
"We'll see, my old friend," He laughed as he continued to attack me. "You know, you can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness, like resignation to the end." He said the last part with barred teeth and narrowed eyes. "It's always the end, isn't it Thalia?" I let another tear fall. Things were always ending for us, our family.
"So when you found that we could not make sense," I thought aloud while still attacking him, "You said we could still be friends. What happened to that?" I shook with laughter. I was going mad. "But I'll admit I was glad it was over. You've always been a monster, Luke!"
His eyes held so much anger and hurt. They weren't the blue eyes I knew, "You died." His voice was so low I almost missed it over the sounds of lightning and fighting.
"You didn't have to stoop so low," I back Luke up to the edge of the cliff. Tears stung my eyes and Luke had a bloody slash across his chest that I didn't remember giving him, "Now it's my turn."
He lunged at me and I slammed into him with my shield. His sword went flying into some rocks. I moved my spear to his throat.
"Well?" he asked. Fear laced his voice but it gave me no satisfaction. I was too angry for that.
"Don't kill him!" Annabeth's panicked voice sounded behind me.
"He's a traitor," I said as calmly as possible to her. "A traitor!" I yelled.
"We'll bring Luke back," Annabeth pleaded with me. The girl had a soft spot the size of Texas for Luke and that was really getting in the way. "To Olympus. He'll be useful."
"Is that what you want, Thalia?" Luke sneered. He knew what I wanted and his next suggestion was not it at all, "To go back to Olympus in triumph? To please you dad?"
I hesistated. Did he have to do this to his friends? It's like us collecting his records, getting him together and him changing his number and running away. I guess that I don't need that though. And neither did Annabeth. We deserved better. We were promised family!
And because of my indecision, he made a grab for my spear. I was so lost in thought I relied on my instincts. "NO!" Annabeth yelled behind me. But it was too late. I kicked him away. He lost his balance, terror was all over his face, and he fell. Annabeth made an odd noise, like her voice got stuck in her throat. She had to get over him like I had. He wasn't coming back. He wasn't our Luke anymore.
"Now you're just somebody that I used to know," I whispered.
Hope it wasn't too bad. I've never tried my hand with their characters. So yeah I added some complications to their relationship and stuff but was it too OOC? Nah, I didn't think so. So I hope you guys liked this little series thing of mine. I enjoyed writing it. So go check out some of my other stories, I posted one for Avatar if you're into that. And um, again thanks for all the reviews and favorites!
