Chapter 20: The end of the hail

Alex's POV

I rose from my bed and got dressed. Today was a big day. Today, I would kill… kill… I couldn't bring myself to say her name. Why? I looked at myself in the mirror. I could picture her next to me with a hand on my shoulder.

I could hear her whispering into my ear, 'I love you'. I could feel her warmth, I could hear her cute laugh, I could see those beautiful green eyes; I could feel her lips on mine. I banged my hand on my forehead to stop thinking these things.

"I am going to be the hero." I tell myself. "And no one will stop me." The silence was filling with the sound of hail falling.

Jacob's POV

I wake up and I find myself in Rosie's room and I was sleeping on a chair. Angie told me that Rosie needed time to heal so she was forbidden to walk or do any magic like teleport and summon plants until she Angie said that she was well enough.

I never mentioned it to her, but the teeth marks on her stomach were an ugly purpley-black color. They said it would heal and not be that color, but the scars would still be there.

I slug out of the chair and get dressed. I look into the mirror. The Jacob I know is gone. That Jacob was a boy. But the Jacob I see here is a man. I kinda hate that but things change.

I exhale and walk out of the room. Today is the day. Today, I will have to see my sister die before my eyes. And I couldn't do anything about it. It was hailing outside, hard.

Before I leave the room I stand over Rosie. "I'll tell her that you forgiver her too." She stirs in her sleep but doesn't wake.

I notice Angie's in the room too. Probably stayed up late taking care of Rosalie. (Just don't tell her I said her full name…)

I walk downstairs and half-bloods are resting on the couch. The roman half-bloods left yesterday cause their business was done.

I walked to the reception desk and dialed Reese's number. I waited but it didn't pick up, it went straight to voicemail. Weird, he wasn't in the New York area cause he was filming a movie in Cali. So he shouldn't be asleep under our spell. This was the third time I tried to call him, but yet he didn't pick up.

So then I decided to call Abbie. "Hola?" Asked a female voice that belonged to her.

"Hi Abbie, this is Jacob."

"What? The only Jacob I know is mute."

"I got my voice back." I replied.

"Ohhh. Well you have a nice voice." She replied. "Hey, did you call Reese yet?" I slid behind the reception desk and sat in the chair.

"Yea, but it went to voicemail."

"Oh." She sounded disappointed.

"Has he been ignoring your calls too?"

"Yea."

"And you're dating him right now?"

"Yes."

"Dump him that will put him in his place." I wasn't the one who usually said stuff, but whenever he dates her, he acts like he doesn't even know her.

"Err, ok, bye."

"Bye." I put the phone back at it's pedestal and dialed Caleb. I doubted that he'd be awake; it was a wonder that Abbie was awake. But it was worth trying.

I dialed the number and waited. On the second ring it picked up. "Hello? I didn't call this hotel, what do you want?"

"C, it's me."

"Who is me?"

I sighed. "It's Jacob."

"Wait, is this a prank call? The only Jacob I know is mute! Wait, have you kidnapped Jacob! Don't worry Jake! I'm sending over a SWAT team!" I banged my head in the palm of my hand.

"Has it ever occurred to you that after 17 years of me being mute that I have found the courage to talk?" Today was my 18th birthday so I wasn't sure if I should say 17 or 18.

"Oh… Sorry. Happy birthday anyway. I mean, if I wasn't for the freak weather than we would be at school. But you haven't been at school for the half of the school year! What happened man?"

"Um, I was put in a hospital. They were trying to help me regain my voice." I lied. "Where are you anyway?" I asked.

"In Spain. I brought Abbie with cause she knows Spanish and plus, she was really lonely so I decided to take her along for a vacation."

"Oh. Ok. Well I got to go, bye."

"Bye, Quinn! Stop it!" I hung up. Where was Alex? They said that he had to go with me, but why was he running this late? Damn, I really needed a coffee. But sadly, all the Starbucks around here weren't open since you know what. I was about to walk to the employees lounge when the phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Hi, it's Abbie again."

"Oh, hi, why did you call me again?"

"I left him an angry voicemail and now he's blowing up my phone." She started. "Ugh why won't he just stop it? God!"

"Wait, you broke up with him right?"

"Yea. Hey, where's Hailey? I haven't seen her all school year." I sighed.

"Well you won't be seeing her ever again. She's gone over to the dark side."

"Whoa, are you quoting Star wars? And seriously, where is she?"

I closed my eyes. "She's going to die today." My voice was shaky. There was silence.

"Oh, well I got to go now and cry in a pillow. Bye."

"Bye." I hung up and decided to go make some coffee, and save some to pour on Malexander if he doesn't hurry up.

Hailey's POV

The end is coming. I know it; I can feel it in the air. I wonder what month it is. I take the remote and turn on the T.V.

I see a room that looks like mom and dads. There's a baby crying.

"Ugh." A female voice says. It kinda sounds like my mom. A figure gets out of bed and then I realize it is mom. Just a younger mom. What was this?

She walks into a room and takes a small baby with freckles and fuzzy light brown hair out of its cradle. She sits on a chair and lowers one part of her shirt that's covering one of her breasts and feeds the baby. Then I realize that baby is me.

"So how's the evil baby?" Dad's leaning on the doorway.

"Shut up Travis." She said.

"Well, it's the truth."

"But she's still our daughter." So wait, dad didn't like me? I felt hurt. Mom glared at dad. "Why did I even marry you?"

Dad gave her a coy smile. "I dunno, cause I'm a god in bed." She rolled her eyes and picked up something and threw it at him.

"Hey! What the fuck was that about?"

"You were being cocky." She flashes him a smile and he gives her a look. He keeps staring at and she goes back at looking down at me.

After a while she holds me up and kisses me on the forehead. I make some kind of cooing sound and she just laughs and holds me closer to her.

Dad walks behind mom and wraps his arms around her waist. He kisses her temple and rests his chin on her head.

"She's our daughter, even if she's the host of Gaea." Mom stated.

"Should we tell them?" He asked her. She shook her head.

"I'd be better for them not to know."

"They stood there for a while. "She's asleep." He told her. Mom walked away from dad and softly put me down on the mattress. Then they walked away. Then the T.V. went blank.

So they knew all along. If they told me then we wouldn't be in this mess! But when people say I can't do something, it makes me want to do it… so…

But it kinda makes sense; they just wanted to keep us safe. They were doing what they thought was right. I mean they didn't shun me or treat me differently. You'd expect me to be mad, but I wasn't.

I went back to eating my cereal.

Rosie's POV

I woke up to find that someone was talking to themselves. "He's really hot." Angie said absentmindedly running her hands through her hair. "I mean, he's just… his voice is sexy."

"Do you talk out loud to yourself all the time?" I asked. She turned her face my direction and blushed. I wash getting out of bed when she screamed,

"NO!" I flinched and got back in bed.

"Fine, don't have to go all Sparta on me!" She sat back down on her chair.

"I'm sorry, it's just that you can't walk, summon plants, or teleport til you heal."

"How long is that going to take?" I asked. I couldn't imagine a world without doing those things. She sunk a little lower.

"Till the color of your scars aren't that color." I looked at her confused. "Just look at your stomach and you'll see." I lifted my shirt and saw ugly color of purple on me. "From the poison."

I swallowed and put my shirt down. "Oh gods." I muttered. "Where's Jacob?" I asked. She shrugged.

"I guess he went out." I looked out the window. It was hailing, hard. But the hail wasn't really big, just as big as a small marble.

"How long has it been hailing?" I asked. She shrugged again.

"It was still hailing like that when I woke up." She answered. "And no one is going out of battle today. It's like the waves stopped. Hm, I wonder why."

"What day is it today?"

"January 9th, why?" I felt a hole in my stomach.

"Uh, no reason." I doubted that it was fun dying on your birthday.

Alex's POV

I walked out of my hotel room and went to search for Jacob. I was late cause Katrina was distracting me and I had to do something…

I walked around the lobby. I saw him sitting alone drinking coffee from a mug. He saw me and walked up to me with the cup.

"You're late." He said gruffly.

"Wait, you can talk?" He poured the hot coffee on me. All though I could not be harmed, for some reason I flinched.

"Yea, you should pay more attention." I wiped the coffee from my eyes.

"Gah! Dude, why did you do that?" He just laughed. It brought my ego down when you heard an ex-mute guy laugh at you and before he couldn't.

"So many reasons Jackson, so many." His eyes were cold. "So yea, you wouldn't want to be the little hero who is covered in coffee, would you? Now get changed."

I growled and he just smiled as he held the pot in his hand and poured more in his mug. "I have all the time in the world at the moment." He sipped his coffee and smiled. "Now go." I turned to change. I felt my cheeks burning up.

How dare he do that?

Jacob's POV

I laughed my ass off. It felt so good to do that. I leaned against the table and took a sip. Ok, maybe I added a little bit of vodka to it, but I don't care.

It's my birthday after all.

I waited for 15 minutes and then Alex was strolling down the stairs. "Can we go now?" He asked. I looked at the door and swallowed the lump in my throat.

"Uh, err, yea." He started walking my I just stood there looking at the door.

"Well, are you coming or not?" He snapped. I gripped my sword tighter and started walking.

We walked under awnings so we wouldn't get hit by the hail. I put my hood on to cover my face. I didn't want Jackson to see the few tears that were rolling down my cheeks.

I bit my bottom lip to muffle the whimpers coming out of my mouth. But it wouldn't matter cause the hail was being so goddamned loud.

I was putting my masculinity to the test. Oh gods that made me sound like a tool. We stopped in front of the Empire State building. I looked up. That is where all of our fates would be decided.

I quickly wiped away the tears from my eyes and tightened my jaw. "Well, shall we go in?" Alex asked. I nodded.

The receptionist was still awake. He saw us and pressed the red button. The doors opened and we pressed the 600th button. We waited in silence. I kept my head down and sighed.

The doors opened and we stepped out. I could tell that the Gods where there, watching us. I scowled. If they were so great, why couldn't they fight their own wars? Oh yea, to save their godly behinds.

We stopped at the throne room. We shed our coats. "Are you ready?" Alex asks me. I close my eyes.

"As ready as I'll ever be." And then we swung the doors open. There, sitting by the hearth was my sister. She was wearing a white traditional flowing Greek dress with short sleeves. Did she know how cold it was? But then I reminded myself that this was Gaea and she wore whatever she wanted to wear.

"Ah, the young heroes. Here to defeat me?" She asked. We pulled out our swords.

"Gaea, give up! You'll never win." Alex barked. Gaea turned her head and stood up. The green from her eyes were gone and now replaced with a cold gold. She smiled.

"Foolish boys, I am your great grandmother, would you disrespect your grandmother? The one who gave your grandparents, your parents, and your life's?" This coming out of my sister's body was kinda creepy.

Alex gritted his teeth and lunged for her. She just smiled and raised her hand and the land above his feet rose. She just laughed. "Jacob." She turned her head towards me. "Join your sister, come to my side and we will kill this foolish boy. I know you hate him. He's kinda of a douche."

I forced myself not to smile at this. "No, I can't, you're evil." She looked hurt.

"What? No! I'm good! I'm practically mother earth. I'm practically your mother!"

"You're not my mother!" She sighed.

"I'm sorry to do this to you Jacob." She cracked the floor under me.

"Maia!" I floated into the air.

"I don't want to hurt you Hailey!" I yelled. I assumed that if I talked directly at Hailey then she would come through.

"Hailey isn't here anymore."

"Hailey! It's me Jacob! Listen, you can overpower her!"

"SHUT UP!" She threw a plant at me but I dodged it. Alex made another swing, but she knocked him over.

"Hailey! Think of us! Think of mom and dad, how we all love you! Just please! Come out! Don't let Gaea take over!"

For a moment she froze. Something was happening, and whatever I was doing, it was working.

"Think about all your friends! How much you hurt them! How much you hurt us!" I paused. "How much you hurt me." I was about to say something else, but I was thrown against the wall.

I felt a sharp pain going through me.

Hailey's POV

I dropped everything I heard Jacob's voice. At first it was faint but then I could make out what he was saying.

"Think of mom and dad, how we all love you! Please, you can overpower her!"

"JACOB!" I screamed. "JACOB!"

"Think about your friends! How much you hurt them! How much you hurt us!" There was a long pause. I fell to the ground and started to cry.

But then I heard his voice clear and strong. "How much you hurt me." The waterworks started coming fast. This was horrible. I couldn't do this anymore. I was hurting everybody.

And suddenly, my vision came back. "W-where am I?" I asked. I saw Jacob with his back against the wall and he was yelling in pain.

"Jacob!" He didn't respond but he was still staring at me, smiling. I looked around. "Oh my gods!" I gasped. I felt a hand on my waist. I turned around and soon I was ambushed by a lip, being placed on mine.

I opened my eyes and Alex was kissing me. OMG, Alex was kissing me! I closed my eyes and enjoyed it. After 12 seconds we broke the kiss. He held me by my shoulder. I was about to say, 'I love you', But then I felt a sharp pain.

I looked down and Alex's sword was going through my stomach, where my heel was. He let go of my shoulder and pushed me to the ground, pulled out his sword. Then he was pushed out of the way.

"Oh my gods." I kept breathing. My hands were on my stomach. "Oh my gods." I felt betrayed. Tears were rolling down my cheeks.

Jacob's POV

I pushed him out of the way. "Get the fuck out of the room you bastard!" I screamed.

"But I-" I took him and thrown him out of the throne room the doors closed with a loud thud.

I turned back to Hailey. My dear sister. She was laying on the floor sobbing her eyes out. I felt the tears come. I hurried to her and cradled her in my arms.

"I THOUGHT HE LOVED ME!" She sobbed. I held her close in my arms. I felt myself sobbing with her.

"Hailey, you are the hero, you hear me?" I demanded. She nodded. We were still crying but we weren't sobbing.

"You can talk." She said softly. I nodded.

"Yea." Her breathing was being less frequent now.

"Tell mom, dad, and Rosie that I love them." She said. "Jacob, I'm sorry. I'm so fucking sorry. I'm sorry that I hurt you all."

"It's not your fault."

"Yes it is." She held my hand tighter. I gripped on to her for dear life.

"Hailey." I said after we paused for a while. "It's hailing, just for you." She smiled. "

"Daddy said I was named after it." It was the first time in years that she called dad, 'daddy'.

"Well it suits you." I said between tears. "You were as fierce as hail." She laughed.

"Thanks."

"It's our birthday today."

"Happy birthday Jacob."

"You too." We stayed quiet for a long time.

"Jacob, the show is ending. Thank you for co-starring." She said softly. "So the show comes to an end." I looked down at her. She slowly closed her eyes. I let go of her and laid her down gently.

The tears flowed. "My pleasure." And that was the death of Hailey Stoll. It stopped hailing and the sky turned blue. I put both middle fingers up in the air. Fuck you fate. Fuck you.

Aw. There will be more chapters. R.I.P. Hailey Stoll. May she rest in peace. On that note, thanks for reading. Peace out.