I didn't respond to the reviews from Going Under, so I'm doing those first.
I am Mer daughter of Nemesis: Thank you, I try. Is your name really Mer?
SomewhatCrazyOwl: Out of all the reviews that I got for this song, yours was my favorite. Although there were only three, so you can take that however you want. Anyway, thank you so much, there is no shame in loving the way things are told. It doesn't matter how good the story is, if it isn't told well, no one will want to read it. I love Hello too, I think it might be my favorite. I wrote one for The Scientist (and fell in love with the song in the process) and it seems perfect, actually. Thank you for requesting it.
Lucy: I wanted to PM you, but you're a guest, so I couldn't. Thank you for requesting a song, but I looked up the lyrics and listened to the song, and I can't write it. I think if you listen to the lyrics, you'll see why. See, every song has characters, just like a story, because songs are stories. The characters in The Last Tear are too different from Thalia and Nico, I can't write it. I'm sorry.
In response to the review for Raise What's Left of the Flag for Me:
Lucy: Thank you, I really liked this one. It is a great song, one of her best, I think.
I don't own Percy Jackson or Come Home by One Republic.
Hello world, hope you're listening
Forgive me if I'm young
For speaking out of turn
There's someone I've been missing
I think that they could be
The better half of me
They're in the wrong place trying to make it right
But I'm tired of justifying
So I say to you..
They were both just out of college. They'd been together for two years. He didn't know what he'd said to make her leave. But the apartment was empty without her there, without her clothes strewn across their bedroom, without her dancing in the kitchen while he tried to make breakfast in the morning, without her laughing at the stupid people on TV.
She was his better half, the one who'd pulled him out of the darkness and helped him to start over. He didn't know where she'd gone, just that he needed her back.
Come home, come home
Cause I've been waiting for you
For so long, for so long
Right now there's a war between the vanities
But all I see is you and me
The fight for you is all I've ever known
So come home
He'd left so many messages for her. He would stare at their pictures, wondering where they went wrong. Percy dragged him out for a few hours and he didn't know what to do. All he knew how to do anymore was fight for her.
I get lost in the beauty of everything I see
The world ain't half as bad as they paint it to be
If all the sons, all the daughters
Stopped to take it in
Well hopefully the hate subsides and the love can begin
It might start now
Well maybe I'm just dreaming out loud
Until then...
She'd loved to lie on her back on the balcony looking up at the sky. Her world was always moving so fast, fighting monsters and defending the gods, and she liked to take a few moments to not do anything at all.
She wasn't there anymore, and it tore a hole in his heart.
He would have dreams that she was hurt, and wake up in a cold sweat, panting, reaching for her, only to be reminded that she was gone.
Come home, come home
Cause I've been waiting for you
For so long, for so long
Right now there's a war between the vanities
But all I see is you and me
The fight for you is all I've ever known
So come home
He would sleep with one of her shirts (actually his that she'd shirtnapped). Sometimes he called her phone just to hear her voice on the voicemail. It was never off, so he told himself that she couldn't be dead. It would have run out of battery by now.
Everything I can't be
Is everything you should be
And that's why I need you here
Everything I can't be
Is everything you should be
And that's why I need you here
So hear this now...
When his phone rang in the middle night, he had been dreaming about her again. When he answered, he thought he was still dreaming.
She was crying softly, telling him she was sorry, telling him that she never should have left.
He waited for her to finish. When she had, he told her that he needed her, because she was everything he couldn't be.
She started crying again.
Come home, come home
Cause I've been waiting for you
For so long, for so long
Right now there's a war between the vanities
But all I see is you and me
The fight for you is all I've ever known
So come home
When she begged him to forgive her, he told her only if she would come home.
When she appeared on his doorstep an hour later with a black eye and a cut on her cheek, he brought her to the bathroom, made her sit on the sink, and took care of her like they had always done for each other.
He never asked her what had happened, why she had left, because he knew that she would tell him when she was ready.
When they curled up in bed together that night, he whispered in her ear that she was all he needed. She promised to never leave again.
But all he needed was to know that she'd come home.
Alright, well that was sappy. This was a request from Keep calm and love on, and it was actually requested a while ago, I just never uploaded it. I hope you liked it, though. I have another one that I'll upload whenever I next have the time.
For followers of The Sadness Of Mistakes: I have not forgotten about you, but I started another story and the story won't let me go until I finish it. It's not a fanfiction, so you won't get to read it, unless I put it on FictionPress. Sorry. But I will upload, I have the chapter half done already, and I'm almost finished with the story. Thanks for understanding.
If Lucy is reading this note but didn't read my response to her review above, please go and read it. It's important, and I can't PM you.
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