Thalia

In the pitch black, dead of midnight I left campus. No one would miss me. No one would even notice that the silent girl in the back of the class would be gone. No one would miss the girl responsible for the shootings.

I knew about it and was supposed to take a shot at Annabeth but I couldn't bring myself to do it.

I packed a small black bag and took very few belongings, a few sets of clothing, toiletries and a picture of our group. I took Nico's hoodie that he let me borrow because I was cold. A few bottles of black hair dye was put in the bottom of the bag. I was naturally a brunette but I hated it so I dyed it so no one would notice.

Nico was actually the only one who had seen me when I was a brunette with my long wavy hair before I cut and dyed it.

"My gorgeous Thalia," he said, "only you could change yourself so much and remain so beautiful."

Nico

I woke up to find the black hoodie gone with a scrawled note from Thalia.

Don't even bother trying to find me.

-Thals

"Thalia is gone." was the first thing that everyone heard that morning. Hazel started crying, she thought it was her fault that her roommate left. Piper joined Hazel and Annabeth stood up and said, "We have to find her!"

"We can't, she told us "don't even bother trying to find me." I hate that she's gone but we have to deal with it until she comes back," Jason told her.

"Nope. Not letting this happen again," Leo interjected.

"Again?" Nico asked.

"Yeah, she did this a couple years ago at camp and returned three days later."
"Oh. Just three days?" Percy asked, "I thought she'd last longer."
"She said she got cold so she came back," Leo explained.

"She took my black hoodie," I said darkly, knowing that she might not return.

"Oh dear- the black hoodie!" Percy said sarcastically.

"Percy, that hoodie was her favorite and was the only thing that could keep her warm," Nico said.

"Oh…"

"Yeah…"
The eight of them stood there in silence, knowing that Thalia might not return.

"Well, this has been interesting but I feel like it's time to bring our girl home," Leo said, taking out his phone.

He had put a tracker on all of us to make sure we were always safe and to find us if we were kidnapped or ran away.

"What?!"

"What is it Leo?" Piper asked, through tears and smeared mascara.

"She-she's not showing up. She took off her tracker…" Leo said, shaking.

"How hard is it to remove a tracker that you put on us?" Hazel asked, trying to regain her composure.

"The trackers are embedded in your left wrist. Near the radius and ulna…"

"Did she take any of her knives with her?" Someone asked.

Thalia had many knives from around the world and throughout history that she collected.

"She took the two sharpest of the pocket knives."

I nearly fainted.

"Nico, are you okay? You're looking paler than usual," Jason asked, genuinely concerned.

"N-no." And that's when I did faint. The thought of Thalia cutting that deep into herself to get out the tracker so we couldn't find her… She had enough scars on her wrists and she didn't need that wound to add to them.