This is a one-shot songfic about Hazel, her thoughts, and her reflections on her life. The song, which I do not own, is the Demi Lovato version of the song "Let It Go" from Frozen, with a few word changes here and there to fit Hazel. I personally prefer the Idina Menzel version, but this one fits Hazel better, in my opinion.
I do not own Hazel, Frank, or any of the plot points I mentioned. Rick Riordan owns everything Percy Jackson. I also don't own Frozen, Let It Go, or any sort of rights to Demi's version of this song. (Or any of her songs.)
Hope you like it!
Let it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn my back and slam the door
Hazel had always been a servant of someone or something else. First, she had created jewels for her mother, then raised a giant son of Gaea from the reaches of her own power.
The gems glow white on the island tonight,
Not a footprint to be seen.
A kingdom of isolation and it looks like I'm the queen.
The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside.
Couldn't keep it in, Heaven knows I tried.
Hazel had littered the island with precious gems she had brought up as well, casting them aside and trying harder to raise Alcyoneus. Not that she had a choice. Gaea had possessed her mother, for Pluto's sake, and Hazel knew that if she refused to take the boat to the island and resurrect the giant, her mother would have surely died.
Don't let them in, don't let them see,
Be the good girl you always have to be.
Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know.
Well, now they know.
She had tried to keep her power hidden, at first. When it became clear that it was a curse, not a blessing, Hazel refused to give gems to kids at her school, no matter how much they taunted her. She remained her mother's good girl.
Let it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn my back and slam the door
And here I stand and here I'll stay
Let it go, let it go
The gold never bothered me anyway
When the raven had perched upon her boat, croaking, 'Tonight. The last night,' Hazel took it to heart. It would be the last night, no matter what. She would stop complying with the voice that possessed Queen Marie. She thrust the giant back into the earth, and died, a willing sacrifice, in her mother's arms.
It's funny how some distance makes everything seem small
And the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all.
Up here in the cold thin air I finally can breathe.
I know I left a life behind but I'm too relieved to grieve.
As her soul floated away from the cursed island, sinking in gems and Gaea's wretched cries, Hazel felt a huge weight being lifted from her shoulders. She was no longer Mother Earth's minion- she was going to her father. She regretted leaving Sammy, but she had left her old life behind.
Let it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn my back and slam the door
And here I stand, and here I'll stay
Let it go, let it go
The gold never bothered me anyway
Hazel refused to let her mother be punished. The golden masked felt cursed for her, never to give her a fair trial, but when Nico found her wandering the Fields of Asphodel, she knew this was what she needed to do.
Standing frozen
In the life I've chosen.
You won't find me.
The past is all behind me
Buried in the gold.
Hazel was reborn into a new life, ready to right the wrongs she had caused. Nico took her to Camp Jupiter, but she never told anyone about her past, until Frank, but it wasn't important. She was there on a mission, to correct a life buried in gold.
Let it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn my back and slam the door
And here I stand, and here I'll stay
Let it go, let it go
The gold never bothered me anyway, yeah, whoa
Na na, na na, na na na na
Na na, na na, na na na na
Na na, na na, na na na na
Na na, na na, na na na na
Let it go yeah
Na, na.
Here I stand.
Let it go, let it go, oh
Let it go.
When she took Frank into her flashback, she knew they were done. Her past could no longer hold her back in the present, where she would stay. Hazel Levesque turned her back on her gold-cursed past, let go of her fear, and was finally free.
Tada, hope you liked it! ~Beth