This is an explanation post for the confused readers. To be fair, I've always wanted to do this, so thanks to im awesome. deal with it for the opportunity. Here we go, guys!

The entire point of this story was the similarities between Jason and Thalia, and Percy and Annabeth. It was meant to confuse you, because if the only thing you can hear was the thoughts with no way to tell one from the other, you'll find the similarities just too much to handle.

Okay, we got that part covered. But you're probably thinking, "What about that Artemis quote at the start of the story?" Alright; so maybe you aren't, but just go with it. But yeah. If I remember correctly:

1) Neither Annabeth nor Thalia was there at that scene.

2) Artemis is a thousand years old...times three.

and 3) When they were on the run, Luke, Thalia and Annabeth ran into the Hunters. Then the Hunters tried to recruit them.

See, this is the thing. If anything, the speech Zoe and Artemis give to convince Bianca is the same speech they give to every girl they want to recruit. After a thousand years, they probably memorized the thing.

But the quote wasn't part of the speech. Bianca asked a question to get that answer. Same thing with Annabeth. As a Daughter of Athena, she is naturally curious and wants to know everything. It is entirely possible that she asked the same question, and got the same answer.

But what about ""Thalia," someone calls?"

This is the part where Annabeth goes lucid, and is already half-dead. Her brain is already stopping, and she can't recognize that the voice is, actually, her own. She's still calling for help, any help, and calls for the one person she depended on for everything when she was younger, even if she isn't there. She probably doesn't even understand what she was saying, or that she was saying anything at all.

As she was calling for "the one person she depended on for everything when she was younger," it was just a part that proved that she was also in a childlike state of thinking. I remember that part clearly when my father was dying himself.

So that was Annabeth and Thalia's part. As for Percy and Jason's, it isn't all that confusing. But if you're looking to an explanation on why Percy went insane, here's one:

This was his life for four years: Slash. Stab. Deflect. Kill. Step back. Turn around. Repeat. He was fighting for a fourth of his life. It got to him. He wanted to scream. But he couldn't, and it unhinged him. Little by little. Once he realized that the only distraction he had from the fighting was the fighting itself, he lost himself in it. He forgot himself, he forgot Annabeth, he forgot what he used to be. But the thing is; a small part of him still did. That small part still remembered that he used to be a hero, that he used to be loved, and this is the part that surfaces and reminds him of the girl.

"There was once a girl, he thinks. She used to hold me and she told me she loved me. She used to hide me from the monsters. She used to hide me from the dark. She used to love me. Where was she?"

If I was talking about Jason, he would be thinking about Thalia and how she used to hide him from their drunken mother. But I'm not. The subject here is Percy, and he's thinking about two girls in particular:

1) His mom. When he was younger, she used to hold him and rock him to sleep. She used to kiss his head and whisper "I love you," to him every night. She used to hide him from the typical monsters that every kid is scared of, and the Greek monsters that he would later kill in the future. She used to hide him from the dark, which every kid is scared of.

And 2) Annabeth. She held his hand they whispered that they love each other, till death do they part. They used to save each other's butt from monsters every day. She used to keep him sane, from snapping, from giving up, from the dark. She used to love him. But she loved the funny, sarcastic, obtuse and charming Percy. Not the warrior with a heart of stone.

Then that's it. That's the end. Good-bye, sayonara, au revoir. He's gone.

So let's talk about the mystery guys and girls who remained anonymous for the entirety of the fic, although you probably figured all of them out. Just in case some didn't, here they are:

"They can all hear her shout "Unfair!" in a broken voice," - It was Piper. She looked up to Annabeth and Percy and thought of them as her older siblings. Their death broke her a little bit, but she's always been a tiny bit broken since Jason remembered Reyna and went after her.

""She's right," someone says, the one who was wetting her boyfriend's shirt," – Hazel. As the Daughter of Pluto and the only one of them who has actually died already (Yes. Including Jason, because he was only mostly dead when Piper charm-spoke him back to life, and everybody knows that mostly dead also means partly alive.), she knows that feeling of helplessness when you realize it's the end and that nobody can save you.

"One boy laughs, but it's marred by his red eyes and everyone notices." – As the class clown, Leo feels like he should try and bring the spirits up. But he's also in grief, because like Piper, he thought of Percy and Annabeth as his older siblings. This is his way of dealing with it.

""No we don't!"" – Frank. As the Son of Mars, he knows in his gut that this is war, and that some measly attempt at motivational speaking won't be that helpful. This is war, and death happens. It's what happened to his mom.

Jason is silent for the duration of this conversation, because all he can think about is the times when he pushed Percy away, when they fought, and the times when he hated a guy who was just trying to survive. He's drowning in guilt, and he can't speak, because if he did he knew he'd start blubbering. And that's slightly embarrassing.

"She sees that the passing of two of their campers leaves them in a severe grief." – Thalia. She's been informed of the death of her two best friends, and Artemis allowed her to go back to camp for her to ease her mind. It was hard for her to deal with, and she went to the forest to sob where no one can see her.

"A pale boy clad in all black confirms this." – Nico, and I suppose everyone got that. But he absolutely refused to eat anything but blue food when his father told him about Percy and Annabeth's passing. He's not used to it, so he's whiter than usual.

"S-She was like a star." – Thalia again.

"We didn't have a great start, not at first." – Jason.

And that's it. I'm done. I hope all of you enjoyed my writing, and that your minds are a little clearer because of this explanation. Please review, even if it's just a simple "Thank You!" or "I love this fic!" because all of them really brighten up my day when I'm sad and want to curl up in a ball and cry my heart out.

But anyway, thank you for reading this as, like I said in a fic a year ago that "humans are lazy ass bastards." You guys have no idea how much your words mean to me. Like, I actually squeal and dance around when ever I get one. Seriously.

Until we meet again.

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