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For those of you wondering about Percy...
If happily ever after did exist,
I would still be holding you like this~
Percy Jackson POV
Once upon a time, there was a little boy with green eyes and black hair. His mother was a lovely, warm, loving lady called Sally. His father was the god of sea, Poseidon. This little boy grew up, not knowing of his heritage, with his mother and his mean stepfather. Kicked out of school repeatedly, this boy one day finally discovered a place he belonged, at Camp Half-Blood. He found that he was a demigod. But a demigod's life, especially that of one of the Big Three, one who never should have been born, was tough.
Once upon a time, there was a girl with stormy gray eyes and beautiful blonde curls. She left her home as a young child, away from a father who never wanted her and a stepmother who blamed her for every monster attack. She was the daughter of the goddess of wisdom and war, Athena. She, too, found a home at Camp Half-Blood.
The boy, son of Poseidon, and the girl, daughter of Athena, were at first two quarrelling acquaintances with two competing godly parents. But after many quests, after saving the world together, they fell in love. They faced difficult challenges, heck, the fate of the world rested on them, but they persevered through them all. The trials never stopped, each harder than the last, but at least they had each other.
There was a time when the boy went missing. As part of Hera's plan, he was sent to the Roman demigods' camp with no memory of who he was. He was able to remember only one thing, the name of the girl. She on the other hand frantically looked for her boyfriend. Eventually they were able to reunite. True love prevailed. They lived happily ever after.
WRONG. Happily ever after just doesn't exist for demigods. The Fates are cruel.
There came a time when the entire human civilization was under threat. Tartarus and Gaea were rising. Again with the fate of the world on their shoulders, the boy and the girl journeyed into the depths of literal hell to open the Doors of Death. Whilst fighting the monsters while waiting for the Doors to open, the boy saved the girl from chimeras but was injured and poisoned instead. Knowing that he wouldn't make it, the boy told the girl to leave while he fended off the monsters. The girl would rather have died than leave the boy, but she knew that she had to save the world, so that the boy would not have sacrificed himself in vain. Love was strong, but the Fates were stronger.
But the boy did not die. There was a sorceress in Tartarus, a powerful sorceress by the name of Morgana. She knew of the boy and had fallen in love with him. She gave him a choice of life or death. She could save him, but he had to be her boyfriend forever. The boy did not want to betray his girlfriend. He did not fear death, but he wanted to live so that he could make sure the girl was alright. He would rather live as a misunderstood betrayer, able to protect the girl and the ones he loved, than be dead, a hero but powerless to help the living.
So he accepted Morgana's offer. He chose to live. He went back to Camp Half-Blood with his new girlfriend. He saw the hurt in his true love's eyes, but he could not tell her the truth. He saw her white hair and the fragments that remained of his heart shattered into smaller pieces, because he knew he was the cause of it. He saw her claim that his half-brother, a boy named Marcus, was her boyfriend, and he prayed that she would come to truly love Marcus. He hopes that she would find happiness. He never could.
He wishes that he would be able to be close to her forever, to be able to protect her forever, but his time is running out. Morgana had saved his life, but she was unable to remove all of the poison from his body. He had been too injured. The poison is slowing seeping through him, slowly killing him. Morgana periodically tries to remove the poison, but she could only postpone the inevitable. He accepted his fate. His only regret is that he would make the girl and his loved ones despair again.
So much for happily ever afters.
Perhaps he would be able to see the girl in Elysium one day.