-something wicked this way comes-

Macbeth

Thalia sat down on the dock, and pushed out her confused mind to simpler things, the feel of the wind and the rain and the energy in the air. Slowly she began to release her hold on the world, watching as she made the clouds jumble together, and listening to the wind pick up speed, making the waves crash against the coast. She pushed the clouds together, feeling how they got heavier with rain, and then released it, making a sun shower. A rainbow came out, and she half-smiled at the colourful mirage.

She leaned her head on her hand, drawing on the rough wood of the dock with her finger, she couldn't bring herself to let lightning cross the sky, it would just remind her of what she had done to revive Luke. She flushed as she remembered the last time the tingling electricity had been shared with Luke. She hadn't done it on purpose that time, it had just happened. Luke had been her confidante, when she had joined the hunters, it was because she knew if he asked her to join him again, she would have, and it scared her that he had that much power over her. She was angry at him, but she knew him, knew why he abandoned the camp, and wasn't surprised when Annabeth told her.

She had hoped things would be different though, a fact that she now bitterly cursed herself for, because it made it all so much worse, but she always knew, because they were so alike. But, now with him being reborn, for once, she didn't know what he had planned, and that scared her. The fact that he was constantly in her thoughts, the way his face looked when she was electrifying him, the memories of his hands on her face, her stomach, her arms, memories of whispered conversations and stolen moments in the dark after Annabeth had gone to sleep, she couldn't get them to stop, and that scared her too.

Thalia turned her mind away from all that angrily, mentally chiding herself for thinking about it, and headed back to her cabin, it was getting dark. She hardened her face into the mask she had been using since she was nine years old. Before she reached the cabin however, she saw a shadow pass through the doorway. She sprinted towards the cabin, only to see Ben stooped over and going through her bags. She froze.

"What the hell are you doing?" she yelled, putting as much ice into her voice as she could, she was surprised and a little bit freaked out to see Ben, but like hell was she going to let him know that, again.

"Looking for something."

"Get out!"

Ben turned towards her calmly, and the smug smarmy look on his face made her want to punch him. He held up a, orb, about the size of a marble. Thalia's blood ran cold. The sphere was an electric blue, with swirls of black inside swimming around, an eerie silver glow emanated from it, "Found it."

"Give that to me." Now she was on the defensive, the only objective on her mind was to get the orb back.

"No, this is one of my favourite games," he took a few steps towards her grinning sadistically, "the hunters are here by the way.'

"So?" Thalia started to reach for the marble, "Why would I care? I have nothing to hide from them."

"Except this..." Ben said, holding out the orb, turning it around to catch the light. "And that is why... I'm here to show them, add more flavour to the game."

"You son of a-"

"Don't worry," he cut her off," you won't have to suffer through this."

"No," Thalia started to back up, she reached out her hand willing the electricity to funnel through her, but she couldn't focus, her eyelids drooped, and she struggled to keep them open, "don't you dare Ben... don't be a coward."

"Am I really the coward here?" the last thing she saw was the son of Morpheus's face tilted slightly to the side, as if pondering this question that hung in the air between them, "Am I?"

muahaha... filler/cliffhanger chapters FTW!

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