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"I've realized today how much I care about my boys. Sounds cheesy, but they're the best friends I could ask for." -Liam Payne
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Lukas sprinted to where Tally was still lying.
"Lukas?" Tally asked softly.
"Hey, yeah. It's me," Lukas smiled. "And guess what? I got the cure!"
"Really? Great! What is it?" Tally smiled.
Lukas took a deep breath and said, "Love by far is the greatest treasure, true love is something one cannot measure. When the girl I love has been badly hurt, the pain and poison I must divert. To myself for a single day, I must bear the pain to her great dismay—"
"What!? No! Lukas what are you doing?" Tally exclaimed.
"When the days has done and the sun has set, the pain will subside and gone is the threat," Lukas finished, ignoring Tally's protests.
"Lukas what have you done?" Tally gasped as the pain in her expression and eyes dissolved and the fang marks in her stomach slowly healed.
Lukas doubled over in pain. He could feel poison that didn't exist seeping through his veins. Lukas felt like his insides were being eaten away by acid. He liked his insides just like they were. He felt horrible. How had Tally lived with this pain for so long?
It's only for the rest of the day. Just wait until the sun rises and sets tomorrow. Then the pain will be gone forever. Lukas forced himself to think.
"Lukas, you're so stupid. Why are you doing this?" Tally moaned.
"Help you," muttered Lukas.
"Stupid, stupid, stupid," Tally groaned.
Lukas stopped talking. Talking only made the pain worse.
"Do you need anything? Water? Food?" Tally asked.
Lukas tried to nod.
"So what will it be? Water or food? Or something else?" Tally asked.
Lukas groaned.
"Oh. Okay. I'll go ask Mercury if he can send me some food by Hermes Express," Tally said, frowning.
Tally jogged off leaving Lukas behind to think of what happened. He was helping Tally, he was helping Tally. For Tally, for Tally, for Tally! Lukas scolded himself.
He felt like his skin was peeling off. He felt like he was being boiled then frozen then stuffed in a microwave. Groaning, Lukas struggled to bear the pain.
An hour later Tally came jogging back to Lukas with her arms full with grocery bags. "Sorry, took me forever to exchange denarii for drachmas, strange coins you Greeks use by the way to buy some ambrosia and nectar by Hermes Express. That's what you Greeks use right?" Tally complained. "But here. I got some ambrosia and nectar and also some mortal food."
Tally knelt down and pulled a Ziploc bag full of ambrosia squares and a canteen of nectar and placed them in front of Lukas. Tally pulled what looked like a lemon square out of the bag and held it out to Lukas.
Lukas tried to reach his hand out to grab the square, but he was so weak he couldn't raise his arm.
"Oh, sorry. Here," Tally apologized. She shoved the square into Lukas's mouth.
"Ack!" Lukas choked, his voice muffled by the ambrosia. Then his eyes widened, "Oh my gods, this is good."
It tasted like the warm double chocolate brownies that his Avia used to make. It tasted like home.
The pain wracking Lukas's body slowly left. His face cleared of the pain and he smiled at Tally. Tally grinned back. Then Lukas's eyes widened and the pain doubled back, stronger than ever. Lukas cried out in pain.
"Oh no!" Tally gasped. "It didn't work!"
Tally sat next to Lukas and fussed around for the rest of the day, looking guilty. The seconds ticked by slower than a snail.
As the sun finally began to dip below the horizon, the pain disappeared from Lukas's body. It was like being frozen then defrosted then baked then cooled until he was completely comfortable and the pain was gone.
Tally looked at Lukas, her eyes soft. "Lukas, th—"
"Later. We gotta go right now." Lukas interrupted. "How do we get to Camp Jupiter from here?"
