Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN PJO!
Me: So, hopefully in this chapter, Tatiana may be rescued and Tatiana might get her memories back. Might, I'm not making any promises.
Grigori: So Cam and Zero still think you're dead. *I nod* Don't they think it's weird the story keeps getting updated?
Me: I don't think they've even checked the story. But, you reader people go ahead and read while I take care of some...business. Oh, and I closed the poll today so go check out teh results!
Tatiana's POV
The second I came to, I was up and alert. I was still burning hot, but freezing cold to the touch. Pulling my key from my hair, I unlocked my chains. I was getting out of here, and if I was lucky Henry wasn't here anymore.
I didn't feel right, and I swayed a bit when I stood up, feeling light headed. I placed my palm against the wall, trying to regain my balance. I stood there for a few seconds, letting my mind go back to normal.
"Alright. I have to get out of here, no matter what it takes." I said to myself and pushed off the wall. Making sure I felt fine...more or less, I moved to the opening of the staircase. I checked for a presence before quietly making my way up the stairs, feeling like I pasted a sort of invisile curtain as I walked. I stopped at the door and checked for someone outside the door.
Someone was out there.
"Damn..." I thought and checked the door for a lock. "Damn Henry...another door that's just a flat piece of metal on the side I'm on." My key wouldn't work on this...it can't...But maybe the door isn't sound proof. The invisible curtain kept the sounds in the room fom coming into the corridor...God, please let me be right.
I got down on my hands and knees, lowering my head so my mouth was near the sliver of space between the bottom of the door and the floor. I checked for the person, making sure they were there, and prayed my singing would work without the burning cold entering me.
I couldn't think of a song so I sang my orders to the person or whatever was outside.
"Hey...hey you out there...Please, please open this door, because I need a way out. Come on, come on, come on, help me out. Come on and open the door. Let me out to see the place beyond this door...Please whoever's out there, open this door..." I heard the sound of feet moving and smiled before continuing, releaved I wasn't being burned by the cold.
"That's it, that's it! Undo whatever lock has been placed upon the door! Please, open it. Help me escapse..." The door opened slowly, revealing a guy with green hair, his eyes now dull, blank, and lifeless because of my singing 'spell'. I slipped out the door and finished the song, "Now, kind boy, close and lock the door. Forget everything that happened and never look back. Forget that you saw and helped me...This is farewell...Goodbye green hair dude!"
I turned and ran, leaving green hair dude to finish his orders.
I ran for a few minutes before I realized I didn't know where I was going. Damn it! I had to try and use one of my gifts and inhance it to lead me out of here.
Closing my eyes, I consentrated. I pictured a maze in head. I drew a path through the maze, a black glow forming the path until I reached the end of the maze. "I wanted my path to be black...a black path to show me the way out of here..." I chanted that in my head until I felt a slight tingle in the air around me.
I opened my eyes. I was greeted to a normal floor, no black path.
Sighing in defeat I turned around, planning to retrace my steps, but nearly squealed in delight at what I saw. The floor had a black glow that turned left at a hall a ways down.
"It worked! It actually worked!" I walked down the path the black glow created, making sure to keep my scences on high alert so I wouldn't bump into unwanted people.
The weird thing is, I didn't sence many people. I senced maybe two people ever three turns. I had expected more. Way more. Henry had seemed so...determined to keep me in here, I'd thought he'd have the place crawling with people, guards outside my door.
Green hair dude...he'd just been there to have a smoke. I'd smelled that in the air and on him.
I froze. I froze right in the middle of an intersection in the hallways. Something was wrong. This was easy. Too easy to not be a trap...
I gasped as the temperature of the searing, burning fire inside me spiked. I coudn't feel it, but I knew the temperature of my freezing ice cold skin had also spiked to be even colder.
"Damn...he knew this would happen." I hissed through my teeth and fought off the pain, following the black glow to get out of here. "Damn Henry knew I'd try to get out...he planned for it in case it happened.
Finally, I emerged from the hall into the small room with the stair case that I'd first come down when I was captured maybe...24 hours ago? Damn...it felt like I'd been trapped for longer than a day.
"That's because time works differently here when they want it to." I jumped at the voice and looked around. No one.
Hoping it had just been my imagination, I hurried up the stairs. When I reached the point where my head was about to touch the ceiling, the same hole that had appeared when I came down, reappeared.
Only, the second that hole appeared, my cuff started to go crazy, making my condition worse. It not only sent burning cold, it sent that along with something that started making it hard to move.
Suddenly, the sound of the warehouse doors being kicked open filled my ears. I started to panic. I was trapped. Whoever was coming was bound to spot me and would make me go back to my prison, then tell Henry everything.
I heard what sounded like the clicking of heels on the floor and identified the person as a female, but I could sence more than one person coming.
"It's okay...come on out." The voice was familiar, because it was my voice. Maybe the me that was made of memories had come back...But it could also be a trick. There was a sigh. "She doesn't believe it's me."
"Tatiana, it's me, Ryo." I nearly ran to him, but remembered it could be a trap. "If you don't come out right now, I swear I will tell everyone in this room and in The Dark Society court what happened when you were 10. Remember? I had to go to your school because you had-"
"No! I believe you! Shut up!" I cried as I hurried up and out of the staircase. But it was hard to make it to him in my weakened state.
"I knew that'd get you." Ryo smirked and I glared, but a light headed feeling was setting in. Percy seemed to be the first to notice.
"Tatiana, are you okay?" Percy asked and I balanced myself.
"Um...yeah. I'm okay. I just...I just want to get out of here, that's all." I turned to my other self and she nodded.
"Well, I need to go back to being nonphysical." She walked over and placed a hand on the top of my head.
I felt like the memories were being poured back into me. I couldn't tell how many memories I got back, but I could tell I got back more than I should've.
My other self started to fade and became transparted as she pulled her hand away. I looked at her.
"I gave you what I could." She said. "This is goodbye for now. See you guys later." She disappeared completely and I looked at Percy, Ryo, Blake, and Dolores.
"Something's wrong." I said. "There weren't many people there to stop me from getting out. Henry seems to have been to...to confident or this is a trap that he planned."
I moved closer to them, but I only grew more light headed. I swayed a bit and the boys rushed over.
"She's freezing cold." Ryo said as he pressed the back of his palm to my forehead. I felt a bunch of the cuff's affects rush through me at the contact and I had to step back to keep from falling.
"And she's sweating." Blake observed. I grew nervous, because I was wearing so little clothes and had their eyes on me.
"Here." Ryo said as he handed me a long, floor length black skirt along with a elbow length sleeve white shirt.
"Thanks." I said. The boys all turned so their backs were to me-which I was grateful for-and I slipped into the clothes, removing the 'clothes' I'd been wearing and dispossing of them.
"Alright, how am I getting out of here?" I asked and everyone looked at me.
"Well, how about we start with killing Percy? After he's dead, you can go free." We all turned to see Henry standing in the now doorless doorway of the warehouse's entrance. He gave me a disappointed look. "Darling, really? I thought you liked the clothes I got you. You could've said something instead of trying to leave. Come here."
"No way in he-" I didn't get to finish. I was yank towards Henry, my feet moving to keep me from falling. The closer I got to Henry, the less light headed I was and the better I felt. I actually started to want to get closer to him. Anything to lessen what was wrong with me.
"That's a good girl..." Henry said when I came to a stop in front of him. He patted my head, treating me like a dog. I tried to move away, but I couldn't. "Annabell, you know what to do."
Annabell nodded and I tried to move away when I saw her hand coming near my neck.
I blinked and I was no longer in front of Henry and Annabell. I was in someone's arms. The feeling of their arms around me felt familiar and made me feel safe.
"What are you doing, Percy?" Henry asked in a calm voice. "It doesn't matter if you hold her as close to you as possible, she's already mine."
"No, she's not. Tatiana doesn't belong to you. She's a person, not an object." Percy growled and my mind clouded over again. Only this time, it wasn't a bad thing.
Feelings of love and care filled me and I was confused. The feelings...they were for Percy.
"Percy, I have claimed her as mine no matter what you do. The cuff on her wrist, that binds her to me. Isn't that right, darling?" I didn't listen to him. I was busy thinking what the feelings in my heart meant. Henry sighed. "Tatiana, come here." He made a 'come here' motion with his hand and the urge to go to him came back.
My inner temperature spiked and my outer one spiked down.
"Tatiana!" Percy said as his hand touched my arm. "You're getting colder."
"But my inner temperature is geting hotter...Like I'm being burned alive." I murmured.
"Tatiana." Henry called again. "Come here."
At the command, the arm with the cuff felt like it was being pulled by invisible hands and I was forced to go forward. I tried digging the my heels into the ground but that didn't work. I tried speaking, but my mouth took a ton of will power to try and open.
"H..H-help..." I managed and my free hand reached for someting to hold on to.
My hand connected with another, stronger hand and I looked to see it was Percy's hand. A shock of what felt like electricity shot through me.
I nearly gasped when I realized it. I realized why I felt the way I did. Why the heart that had been cold and uncaring towards Percy was now loving and caring.
The love in my heart was for Percy.
It wasn't for Bake.
I was falling in love with Percy.
Not Blake.
No, not falling in love. I was in love.
I love Percy Jackson. I loved the savior of Olympus, the boy who battled Kronos and won, the boy who's been used as a pawn by the gods. The boy who'd everyone had forgotten as soon as he wasn't neeeded anymore.
But none of that mattered to me.
Even if I love Percy, it doesn't matter. Because there was no proof those feelings were real, and they're not strong enough for me to believe them. It doesn't matter that my heart and soul are telling me I love Percy, because no matter what they say, I don't love Percy in my mind.
I will marry Blake and forget I ever met Percy Jackson.
It didn't matter that my heart fluttered at the thought of Percy loving me. What mattered was that I was promised to Blake Manet.
And not Percy Jackson.
Me: Hehe...didn't expect that, did ya? I bet most of you thought she'd remember and it'd be like 'Forget Blake, I love Percy!'. But I didn't think that was...fitting for my story and reputaion. Besides, she only remembers the memory of the feelings, not the memories that tell her why she loved him. Remember to review...yeah, just review, bye!