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ANNABETH POV
I am hanging by a single thinning thread. I am hanging onto life. Everything I do, say, feel is Percy. No matter what I can't stop thinking of him. I am going crazy. I am holding on as much as possible, but I can't. I want to give in. Without Percy, why do I try? I mean, with him when I got like this he would be the only one I told. He was the only one that saw me cry, throw a tantrum, and knew all about me. Now after 5 months of keeping every emotion locked in because he is not there to tell, I'm dying. This Temporary Goodbye is starting to feel permanent.
NICO POV
One moment I am looking in amazement at my cousin, who somehow defeated Oceanus single-handedly, then we are running from something worse than a Drakon. How does this happen? I looked back at it; still running. That was my mistake. I tripped. Percy turned around, looking at me with concern.
"Go, Percy! Leave me! Save yourself!" I yelled. I must say so myself, I am very good at being dramatic. I even outstretched my hand and everything. It was great. Except I was the one on the ground, not the one nodding and running away. Great, Percy. Now's the time you come back and claim you could never leave your cousin! Ughh... Shit. Here it comes. I brace myself.
"WHERE THE FUCK HAVE YOU BEEN?! NICO DIANGELO, GET OVER HERE RIGHT NOW!" Thalia came running over to me, and jumped on me. She gave me the biggest hug ever, shocking me down to my bones, from not just the electricity. After I recover, I decide to give a smart, impressive answer.
"Uh... places. You know... things to do, people to see?" I said, cursing myself. Smooth, Nico. You couldn't have sounded more DUMB. Congrats! You earned the I AM A DUMBASS AWARD! YAY! And the crowd goes wild...
Thalia then gets off me, and helps me up. "We will talk about this later!" I was about to groan, when she smirks. "Shall we go kill a Kelp Head?"
I bow, relieved. "I shall be honored, Thalia Grace. Lead the way." I reply, and we run after that betrayer, laughing. Somehow, yes. Laughing. And it feels great to laugh again.
PERCY POV
"OW! Dammit, Thalia! What the hades?" I said, holding my electrocuted shoulder while running. I was running from a crazed Thalia and determined Nico. Great. I really had it in for me this time. Then, I felt sick. My knees buckled, and I fell face first in the dirt, heaving up nothing. I would love to say heaving up my lunch, but I didn't even eat.
"Percy!" I hear Thalia yell. She runs up to my curled up shaking body. "Oh gods, are you okay?"
I slowly nod, and try to get up, yet fail. Ugh. I felt as helpless as when I was in the ocean.
"Thalia, can you get me some food? I probably am throwing up because I didn't eat in a while."
She nods, relieved that I am not dying or anything. Right?
"Come on, Kelp Head. Camp is less then a mile from here. Let's go."
I look confused. "Really? I don't remember this place."
"Yeah, usually the Artemis and her hunters hang here, so we stay away from this general area."
I frown. "Well, how come I didn't know where it is?"
She laughed. "Because, you would go straight here any chance you would get, that's why."
I smile. "Probably. Now come on, help me up. After I eat, you may hug me and tell me how much you love and missed me."
She nods. "Uh-huh. Sure. Nico, get his other arm."
He frowns. "I'm not really feeling it. Maybe some other ti-"
"NICO. DI. ANGELO. You will get over here. Now. Right?"
He looked terrified of Thalia. I mean, who wouldn't be? "Yup! Just, just what I was about to do! How did you know? Heh..."
She rolled her eyes, and I got up with a lot of support. I felt weaker by the moment. What's happening to me?
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I kept drifting off into unconscious land as they dragged me. I felt my eyes shut again, and my feet drag even more, when Thalia stopped, and I fell face first onto the ground. I was so tired, though, I didn't even open my eyes. I was asleep for a few minutes, face first in dirt, and lost the world for a moment.
"PERCY!" Thalia yelled in my ear. I managed to open my eyes to slits. I grunted, and closed my eyes again. It hurt to open them. She pulled me up and forced me to look at her, even with my head bobbing up and down like a... I don't know. I just wanted to sleep!
"Percy, you have to stay awake, okay? We can't have you fall asleep in the middle of the forest." She said, a bit softer.
Then I heard her mumble to Nico something I barely caught. "What if he doesn't make it? When he falls asleep, his heart slows down a lot. Nico, he might not make it! What if- what if he dies before he gets to camp?! Annabeth will crumble!"
At the mention of Annabeth, I opened my eyes, barely. It was all my body could handle, but she was worth it.
Then I slur, "Let's go..."
THALIA POV
Kelp head was really scaring me. He was trying so hard to fight sleep/death, but his body was shutting down. I felt so bad for him. He couldn't even keep his head up or eye open, but his feet managed to move the slightest bit, so I knew he was trying. What happened? One second he was running and laughing, next dying? I don't get it. Oh well, at the rate we are going we may make it, and the Apollo kids can hopefully fix him. Right? Please, Gods, help Kelp Head. I can't loose him. Not again.
ANNABETH POV
"Percy?" I hear out my window, then a bunch of yelling. I don't even use the ladder down my bunk, and I am out the door. Could that really be my seaweed brain?
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