Title: Moments In Life As A Queen

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Prompt: 97. Strawberry

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Word Count: 266

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A/N: This one was messier than I'd like to think.

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The first thing Reyna noticed when she walked up to Camp Half-Blood with the Athena Parthenos with Nico and Coach Hedge was the strawberries and the smell of death. She noticed the strawberry field the first time (she also thought it was the last time) she came here with Octavian.

There was blood scattered everywhere ('You should feel right at home, child of Bellona,' a voice whispered in her mind) along with strawberries. There were bodies of her soldiers and her allies (if she could, she'd kill Octavian herself). And strawberries.

The strawberries were everywhere.

She had to force herself to stand strong and not reel back from the way Camp Half-Blood smelt.

She remembered the first time she entered the border of Camp Half-Blood. Despite the fact that there will be a huge battle every single demigod in Camp Half-Blood was happy. She was able to see the smoke from the campfire every night when the Romans prepared themselves to fight. And strangely she could smell the strawberries even outside the border.

And to her, it felt like home.

The strawberries, the warmth, the happiness was everything she lost in Camp Jupiter and in C.C's spa resort. She remembered plucking strawberries with Hylla and she remembered seeing the children of Ceres supplying them with strawberries and grapes. Both of them went up in flames.

And every time her home was destroyed there was a mixture of blood and strawberries. Something that never stopped to horrify Reyna.

Now, Camp Half-Blood smelt like blood and strawberries.

Her third home was destroyed. And she was responsible for it.