Daphne
"Why did you do that?!" Logan was yelling at the now dying Thalia as they all flew over the United States on the back of a thousand headed dragon.
"I had... to protect you," Thalia rasped, "if... I hadn't jumped... in front of that spike..." She didn't finish but the message was clear.
Then Daphne remembered Thalia's fight with Artemis. "That promise Artemis made you make," Daphne realized, "she made you promise not to protect Logan. She saw that moment before it happened!"
"Lady Artemis wanted Logan to prove he could protect himself," Thalia explained, "but she also didn't want him to get hurt. I broke my promise to protect my lady's child." And just barely audible she said "It was worth it." And she closed her eyes for the last time.
Logan, with tears in his eyes, bent over and put his hand on her mouth. He said something in Ancient Greek.
Sleep forever in the stars.
A puff of wispy, silver smoke came from Thalia's mouth and into Logan's hand. Her body shimmered and disappeared, as Logan blew the small puff into the sky. Suddenly the stars seemed brighter, and a new constellation glittered among them: a girl holding a shield with a gruesome face on it with a bolt of lightning behind her.
The trio bowed their heads in silence. "We should get some sleep," Sarah said, "before we get to camp."
"Promise not to freeze me?" Daphne joked. The three of them smiled and slept.
Daphne dreamed she was in the Underworld, standing at the mouth of a dark pit.
Tartarus.
A boy stood next to her. He wore a black hoodie and black jeans. His eyes were bright gold. He spoke to the pit. "The sacrifice is coming father. You will not have to wait much longer to rise again."
A voice, as dark and evil as the most devilish demon ever. Daphne recognized it from about seven years ago, from the Second Titan War.
Kronos.
He said "And what of the son of the Sea God?"
The boy smiled. "He shall be there too."
The dream shifted to Daphne and Logan sitting on Half-blood Hill, looking into eachother's eyes. Daphne was wearing an orange camp shirt. "So," Daphne said, "tomorrow's the day. You ready to fight some monsters?"
Logan smiled. "Always. And in case we don't come back..." He kissed her.
And Daphne kissed back.
She heard Artemis's voice saying "You have betrayed me."
The next thing Daphne knew she was waking up in an unfamiliar bed. She looked around and realized that she was lying in the Demeter cabin at Camp Half-blood. What was she doing here? Why wasn't she with the other hunters?
Then it hit her. "I'm not a hunter anymore," she realized, "I'm in love with Logan."
And she laid there crying her eyes out until breakfast.
