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No.
No, no, no.
This could not be happening.
Percy was supposed to live. We were supposed to live happily ever after. We were supposed to live together in Elysium.
But we both got the other end of the deal.
Isles of the Blest.
Fields of Punishment.
He wasn't supposed to endure a deadly curse. He wasn't supposed to have his abuser as a torturer. He wasn't supposed to be mistaken for an augar.
He was supposed to be cured. He was supposed to drink the special blue liquid. He was supposed to live with me forever.
That shattering of the glass wasn't just that.
It was the sound of my heart crumbling, shattering, disintegrating into a million pieces.
It was the sound of my hopes shattering before my very eyes.
It was the sound of the future Percy and I had together being crushed under the weight of our opposition.
We were meant to be together.
Forever.
We were the perfect match. We had been through thick and thin together.
Maybe something so precious just wasn't meant to last.
I crumpled to the floor, defeated. I couldn't control the sobs that came out of my mouth. It was over.
Next to me, Percy's cries of anguish rang over the side of the bed.
The sounds of his pain were a vocalization of what I felt on the inside.
Defeat.
Hopelessness.
Loneliness.
Complete brokenness.
He was suddenly silent.
I stood up despite my shaking. I went over the where Percy was lying and collapsed onto his unconscious body.
I cried.
I cried, and I cried, and I cried.
I curled up on his body and sobbed. I cried into his shirt, my salty tears just like the ocean that he knew so well.
Maybe it would heal him?
Ridiculous. My tears couldn't heal him.
Nothing could.
Not anymore.
It was all hopeless.
But even if the tears didn't heal him, they woke him up.
"Hey, Wise Girl," he croaked.
I laughed weakly. "Hey, Seaweed Brain."
"Could you guys maybe. . ." he said to the others.
They seemed to understand. They all left the room one by one. Piper was the last to leave. She gave me a sympathetic look before closing the door.
I turned back to him. "Percy-"
"I'm so sorry," he said. Tears started forming in his eyes. "I kinda ruined it, didn't I?"
I shook my head. "It wasn't your fault. I should have realized that you were shaking. Or I should have taped your arms down as I fed it to you. Or I should have-"
I was cut off by Percy's lips on mine. He rapped his hands around my waist as I rapped mine around his neck.
When we pulled apart, I saw his eyes filled with pain. Emotional pain. "This was not your fault. If it wasn't mine, it was Gabe and Octavian's."
I put my head on his chest and sighed. "You're right, I guess."
He laughed. "You guess?"
I brought my head up and smirked. "Fine. You are absolutely, one hundred percent correct, Perseus Jackson."
He chuckled. "That's more like it."
He kissed me again. This time it was more passionately.
We broke apart after a bit and rested our heads together.
"I love you," he said. "You know that, right?"
I nodded. "Yeah. I love you, too. I love you so dam much."
"I'll never leave you. I swear it on the Styx."
Thunder boomed overhead.
"Now you're just making promises you can't keep."
He smirked. "I'll always be with you. No matter what."
I hugged him tightly. "Good. Cause I don't want you to ever leave me."
"Don't worry, Wise Girl." He kissed the top of my head. "You're not getting away from me. Never again."
"As long as we're together."
And we fell asleep in each other's arms.
665 words. One away from evil. But it was evilly short. Oh well.
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