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So I didn't put in all of the song last chapter. I thought that was enough. Also, my 'previews' aren't accurate; sorry. This chapter is called Silena's Lesson.

Very sad. Starting off in clarisse's POV

Chiron: Hello, child.

Me: I'm seventeen!

Chiron: eh, its all the same to me. Do you own PJO&co?

Me: this is a sick joke, right? NO IDONT OWN PJO&CO, dammit. stupid pony...lmao.

Clarisse's POV

The good always die young, I thought at lunch. I wasn't sure where the thought came from, but it scared the hell out of me. It sent shivers throughout my body, making me blink the feeling away.

I looked up and met Chris's brown eyes. He raised an eyebrow at me. I gave him a small smile. He nodded and continued eating.

Chris Rodriguez. My boyfriend.

I have sacrificed so much for him and me. I was close to losing my sanity when he had already lost his. It was the hardest time of my life.

Annabeth had her quest, bringing Percy, Grover and Tyson into the Labyrinth. I was scared for them everyday. They are two years younger than I. I instinctively worried.

Then Annabeth came back alone. She looked so horrible. Dirt and leaves were stuck to her hair and her eyes were red. Her clothes were torn a little. I knew Percy would be twice as bad-looking as her. He always did; always protecting her without a second thought.

My first thought was: Help Annabeth.

She didn't want my help, though. She cried, and cried those two weeks. Every meal, she would turn to look at Percy's table and tear up. Chiron comforted her as much as he could, but he was suffering too.

I heard an argument between the two grievers.

"Chiron, I know he's there," she shouted at him.

"Annabeth, we cannot be sure. It is very rare for a hero to land there," he shook his head.

"In case you haven't noticed, Percy-is-not-normal." She articulated. Tears were falling freely down her face. She looked around the Big House, searching for any eavesdroppers. She didn't spot me.

"I know this. Do not worry over this." Chiron said sternly. More tears, fresh, fell.

"It's been a week and a half, Chiron. what if he picked to stay? What he decided to avoid the prophecy? To leave the camp for good?" She whispered the last question, "What if he wanted to leave me and choose to stay with-with Calypso?"

"Have faith in him, child," Were the only comforting words he gave her before trotting away. Annabeth fell to the floor on her knees, sobbing.

I promised I would hurt Percy for doing this to her.

It was worse now.

Annabeth lost all her faith, her hope.

It clicked in my head: The good always die young. Silena. She told me the best advice I've ever got. I needed to pass it to Annabeth.

Silena would be proud, wherever her soul was.

I knew she was in Elysium. She deserved it, along with Charlie. They deserved eternity together.

My heart ached, still raw from their death. I flinched at the pain. Annabeth was probably feeling much worse.

I finished eating. I barely touched my food. I lost my appetite after seeing Annabeth leave Percy's cabin, weeping.

It was just a painful reminder of Silena. Of Chris's insanity. Of loss.

After we were dismissed from the pavilion, I went to search for her since she wasn't at lunch.

I knocked on the door to the Athena cabin. I heard a muffled, "come in".

Annabeth was in her bed, working on her laptop. Diversion. It doesn't help the problem.

"Hey," I whispered.

"Hi," she croaked. Her face was pasty white and her eyes red. The blinds were down, making the room dark. I could still see the protractors, compasses and other things involved with smart people on work tables.

"We gotta talk," I told her. I flipped the light switch on the wall. She blinked at the sudden brightness.

"Okay..."She answered slowly.

"It's about getting your ass out of bed and doing something," I told her. She smiled.

"Ah, I see. Well, then."

"Get up, we're taking a walk again. No running. I still have a cramp," I growled. She smirked, stood up and shut her laptop.

"Do I look okay?" She asked. I pursed my lips, taking in her appearance. She looked horrible, but I wasn't going to tell her that.

"I'm a child of Ares, not Aphrodite. You look fine," I said instead of the truth.

"Okay," she said, clearly catching my lie. She ran her fingers through her long hair. It was blonde, but I saw a streak of gray. It was a streak starting at her temple-being the child of Athena, marking her temple would be hardcore rudeness-and it was as long as the rest of her hair. I heard the story from an Apollo kid, but I wasn't certain. She caught me staring at it and flinched at the memory.

"I held the sky on my shoulders for three days," She said with pride, but I caught something else in her voice. Fear.

Holding up the sky was something only the bravest people in the world had done.

"Artemis took my place before I could crumble from the weight," she continued with a distant look in her eyes. I knew the memory was replaying in her mind. "Percy took her place so her pain would stop. Holding up the sky marks you, Clarisse. It's a permanent reminder that you are apart of the balance. The love of sky and earth. Artemis and I are marked. Percy is too. Artemis's mark is in the parting of her hair. Her hair is blond too, so it's barely noticeable. No one really sees mine. It's marked on my temple to mock me. A child of Athena, having a reminder where her head is the softest. Percy's is in the center of his head. It falls to the side..."she trailed off, looking at the door, almost like she was expecting him to come him and say, "hey, I'm back from McDonald's. Here's your fry".

"You're brave. Percy too. I'm sure he's gone for a good reason." I blurted out before thinking. She whipped her head towards me, her eyes terrifyingly dark.

"Doesn't excuse him for just leaving, Clarisse," She snapped. I cringed at her ferocity.

"Let's walk," I said.

She nodded and I led her to Zeus's Fist. Sure, it was a bad place, filled with memories. But then again, what place wasn't? Percy had gotten into everything! Even a boulder! (Literally.)

I started to talk, just like Silena did in the sword arena once to me.

"When Silena died, there was so much pain. My heart still hurts when I think about her. She was one of my best friends. She was so damn loving. She stood for so much more than Barbies, like her other sisters and brothers. She knew that love makes the world go round, and she helped it spin faster. Its funny to think that, with all the love she was emancipating, she didn't see herself falling for Beckendorf. They fell in love. It was beautiful. You and Percy just came back from the Labyrinth. When Percy saw them kiss, I think he jumped up in the air, congratulating those two. He was so proud that he figured their feelings out before they did. Of course, so did everyone else, but he didn't see that, I guess.

"Silena knew love is the most powerful thing in the world. I know that now, too. When Chris was in the infirmary, there was nothing I could do. He was deteriorating." I closed my eyes, letting a few tears fall. I leaned against the rocks. Annabeth was standing in front of me, staring towards the woods. She loved Silena too. I continued. I had to. For Annabeth. For Silena.

"Chris was in so much physical and mental pain that it hurt to look at him. He would babble and cry. I was alone. I was angry. I was hopeless. Silena, being the loving and amazing person she is, helped me. She brought me here, to face the Labyrinth entrance. She said its always better to look your enemy in the eye and believe you are better than them. Its a dangerous thing to say, but she said it. She told me about her mother, the goddess of love. She said she never really talked to Aphrodite, but her mom loved her so much, that she promised her the best kind of love in her life and death.

"She told me about Luke. How he was so nice to her. She was his friend. Nothing else. She was hurt when he left, sure, but she survived it. She told me that."

"I lost him, Clarisse. He's gone. Without a goodbye. Why? Why do these things always happen?" She yelled to the sky, interrupting me. Thunder rolled in the distance, which seemed to be the only interaction from Zeus all month.

"Hope is all we have sometimes. Silena taught me that," I said softly to her. She looked as if she had been slapped. "When love seems to go wrong, all seems lost. That's what Silena told me. She taught me that hope is all we have all the time. You were there when Percy was tempted to give up Hope, in Pandora's Box. He wasn't going to, though. Hope was all he had. He is all you have now. But he's gone, so what you're left with is the hope he left behind, Annabeth."

I walked towards her, grabbing her shoulders, forcing her to look at me. Tears were falling again, making them seem endless. She looked me in the eyes, and I was tempted to cry with her.

"Silena taught me so much. She died a hero, a teacher, a lover. She died an amazing person. She died hopeless, without Charlie. I know she's with him now. It's meant to be this way. So are Chris and me. You and Percy. Don't give up hope, Annabeth."

I took a shaky breath, ready to end this discussion, to honor Silena again.

"Do this for Silena." I whispered. Sobs erupted from my chest. Annabeth hugged me fiercely.

"I will. I won't loose hope. For Percy. For Silena. Will you promise me something, Clarisse?" She whispered through tears. My head was on her shoulder and hers on mine.

"What?" I cried.

"Promise me you won't change, ever. You'll always love Chris until you die. Even after death, you'll love him. Don't change. Stay the way you are, Clarisse La Rue. I even give you permission to hurt Percy when he comes back. After I'm done, of course. Don't change. Be the anchor of this camp, like Beckendorf. Honor Silena and Beckendorf that way." She pleaded.

"I promise. As long as you and Percy stay the leaders of all of us." I said. She nodded into my shoulder.

Silena's lesson is the most important lesson in my life.