Wow, there is just one chapter left in this installment. Which is probably my cue to get to work on the fifth and final SotSB. Shamrock though has been unnaturally quiet though which is bad because I am only half way through writing the next one. He's convenient like that though. Also please do review.
To Shadow Huntress my only reviewer (I am still lacking in the friends department so odds are if you review you will get recognized for it)
Five
Secret of the Silver Bow Fun Fact 5:The Idea of making Lilly Shamrock's sister didn't come around until I was half way through the second one.
My Dad Wears a Dress
Key – The Wild
The Conscious
The Instinct
Shamrock
Shamrock
We rolled into LA at noon exactly and I watched as the spirit of Hippolytus started to recede. He was an okay guy but I hoped Orion was better in the mood department. Now that I really thought about it I didn't have any idea what we were here for, or where to go in.
"Annabeth you've been to the Underworld before right?" I asked.
"Yeah I have, we need to find DOA, Dead on Arrival Recording Studios. Which is on the out skirts of the-" She was cut off by Grace.
"I found it, it's right down the block!" Grace pointed and sure enough there was a sign that read. DOA Recording Studios.
"Well that's convenient." I said.
We walked down the block and pushed open the door way. I felt cold and sick to my stomach, I sat down quickly.
"Are you okay?" Grace whispered.
"Give me a second to clear my head. I just don't belong here." I said. It was clear Lilly had felt it too. She was sitting next to me and shaking. We didn't belong her, our mother was the goddess of Child birth, this would be nasty, really nasty. "Okay lets go pay the ferry man." I stood up, pulling Lilly after me. Grace reached for my hand, and I put a drachma on the counter, Charon looked up.
"I know you, you're alive! You can't come here!" He stood up and glared at Annabeth. His suit was a brand I recognized.
"Is that Armani?" I asked.
"Yes, why kid?" He snapped, his gaze shifting to settle on me. He must have dealt with kids who are alive before.
"Oh nothing but my Uncle, Apollo, raised me, he has a few." I said and lay another drachma on the table.
Charon scooped them up and looked at me. "Fine, come on kid, quick." He ushered us on to an elevator, I reached for Grace's hand, which she let my take.
Suddenly we were over a river, a river filled with a bubbling green acid like liquid, and items, some toys, stopwatches, just about everything you could have imagined was floating to the surface for a few seconds then sinking back in.
Charon's suit had changed into a ghostly cloak, that was ripped in several places and the boat was more of a raft then a boat at all. If I looked to the right I could see the river Lithe, which was a milky white. A few dozen souls were taking their turns at going into it, the journey to rebirth. That was nothing compared to Hades' palace.
It seemed to shine, which was appropriate seeing as it was made of precious gems. It looked more like it belonged on Olympus. The stalactites and stalagmites jutted out everywhere, the gardens of Persephone shone with fruit, that looked delicious but would render us trapped in the underworld forever if we lay a finger on. The turrets of the palace were magnificent but menacing; I could completely see Nico Di Angelo living here.
Though Nico had mentioned that he disliked his dad, so he only came in the winter when Persephone was here. I guess he liked his step-mom better than Hades himself, I could understand that, though right now I was a little bitter towards my mom because of a few issues with my dad's identity. It felt weird to call Orion 'dad' so I guess I'll just call him Orion.
We docked on the other side, where a shadowed figure leaned against the E-Z death sign. We walked over to the E-z death line but the figure motioned us over. A hood was pulled way up over his head, so no one could see his face, his jeans were black and ripped, the hoody he wore had a skull on it, and I could just make out a lock of thick black hair sticking out of the hood. Nico Di Angelo, the devil himself.
"Are you the one's my dad needs to see?" He asked.
"Nico!" Lilly said as though she was actually happy to see the little flea.
"Lilly, no time for small talk Hades is growing impatient." Nico stood and lead us past Cerberus. Whom he called 'good-boy' and patted as we walked beneath him.
"He's big." I commented.
"Yeah well, we have a lot of souls down here; we need a good guard dog." He said grudgingly I guess we still aren't on good terms, but he seemed to like Lilly just fine.
"Could they leave?" I asked.
"Can babies decide they don't want to be born?" Nico rolled his eyes.
"No."
"Then souls can't leave the underworld."
"You two, stop bickering, we need to make a good impression." Annabeth scolded. I saw Lilly reach down and squeeze Nico's hand and in that second I think I wanted to punch Nico more than I've ever wanted to punch someone, which is to say that I nearly lost my control. You can't touch my sister. It's just against the rules, or it should be and is in my book. Grace saw what was coming and discreetly kicked my leg; I winced but got the message.
I guess the worst part was walking through the Elysium, we were supposed to go through Asphodel but I wouldn't have it so Nico took us the long way. We saw a few hunters whom Grace recognized, they waved at us and she waved weakly back at them. I swear I saw a boy lurking in the shadows, a boy who looked like Grace, but when I turned to get a better look he was gone.
Needless to say by the time we got to the front gate of the palace I was very shaken, and creeped out. I had seen a bunch of souls glowering at me and snarling like they wanted nothing better than to see me get killed slowly and painfully. Being who I am that was just about the hardest part, all those souls all that death in one place, it was sickening.
The gates were made of bones, Human leg bones, capped at the top with skulls, I stared into their empty eye sockets and my stomach rolled. It was the most revolting thing I've ever seen, but Nico waltzed right on through like it was nothing.
"Now, Persephone is gone so Lord Hades is in a bit of a bad mood, just be nice," Nico looked at me here. "Don't say anything offensive and you might escape with your lives." The entire time Nico never broke eye contact with me.
"What Me? Cause problems, when have I ever done anything like that?" I held up my hands innocently, though I'm not sure I was very convincing.
"Shamrock, I'm serious, if you say one wrong thing, you will get yourself and everyone else here killed. I'm telling you this because you seem to have a knack for endangering yourself and the population of America." Nico said.
"Wait hold up," Lilly held up her hands. "You're saying that if Hades gets angry the entire population of America is at stake?"
Nico frowned and cocked his head. "Yes I am, I assumed I had made that much of it clear."
"You did." Lilly said. "But you just put the population in the hands of Shamrock, whom, though I love has a tendency to be a little danger prone."
"I guess I just did." Nico seemed to realize his mistake and grimaced. "Shamrock you realize that you now have the ability to wipe out America right?"
"Yep." I nodded.
"And that includes you?"
"Yeah."
"And that there is nothing the rest of us could do to save you?"
"Uh huh."
"And that I will strangle you if you do get us all killed?" Grace smiled sweetly though her eyes showed that she was deadly serious. (Punny…)
"That seems a bit harsh." I frowned.
"Shamrock." She growled her green eyes seemed to fill with fire.
"Fine, fine, I'll be careful!" I rolled my eyes.
"Good, now let's go meet daddy." Nico sighed and we entered the palace.
If it looked big on the outside that was nothing compared to the inside. The front hall was huge, tapestries hung on the wall, most were of Persephone and Hades, and a few though were of hero's doing valiant things. Skeleton warriors were walking around the room nonchalantly like this was an everyday thing, but when they saw me the hissed and scampered away. I was a child of well, birth and Nico was the dead this was a bad mix. Lilly must have caught the vibe because she shuttered and scooted closer to Nico.
"Oh it's alright, they won't hurt you, but we have little time to explain, come this way." Nico pushed open the door and we strolled right in to the throne room.
There was fire on three sides of the throne room, though the room seemed no hotter than the rest of the underworld; I could hear souls screaming in the fire. I turned my attention to the center of the room where there were two thrones, Hades was seated on one of them, his was made entirely of human bones, and his staff was topped with a skull that had green fire coming out of its eyes.
The throne next to it couldn't have been more different. It was make of sparkling, brightly colored gems in the pattern of flowers. The scent of spring wafted from it and I have to say it was by far more appealing to me.
Next to the throne was my mother, her hunting tunic was clean, her hair was pulled back into a ponytail behind her. A man stood next to her, Orion, his black hair was wavy and he wore a black hunting tunic, not unlike my mother's but not so… girly. They were talking in low voices to Hades.
"Mom?" I called. My mother turned around startled at first, then she relaxed and ran over to me smiling.
"Shamrock." She hugged me, then she seemed to realize my eyes weren't green anymore. "What on earth happened to your eyes, did you get hurt?"
"Mom it's fine there was just a slight problem controlling instinct and the eyes are just a last effect." I hugged her back.
"Well I'm glad you're okay. Lilly, did you keep him out of trouble?" She asked.
"Yes Artemis, well I tried anyway. He still managed to pick a fight with Scorpio, a biker gang, steal a Girl Scout van, three cars and get into an argument with Hippolytus over Miley Cyrus." Lilly said.
"Miley Cyrus?" Orion asked.
"It's a long story. Shamrock, Orion is-"
I cut her off. " I know." I spat. "My father."
"Shamrock, try not to sound so bitter." Mom scolded.
"Oh gee, I'm sorry I just wasn't told that the only guy you didn't kill, the only guy you loved was my father!" I shouted, all my anger over the past few days boiling over.
"Shamrock, I had a good reason not to tell you, I'm sorry I didn't." My mother protested.
"Oh didn't- What are you doing?" Orion had lifted my off the ground by the back of my tunic and was holding me up to his height. Which was about six foot two. I crossed my arms over my chest, I heard Grace giggle, this may have looked funny from there but not from here it wasn't.
"Don't speak that way to your mother." He snarled.
"Well you knew who your father was didn't you? You grew up in a loving family? Didn't you, father" I guess it was a little harsh but then mom got involved.
"Orion put him down, Shamrock apologize!" She ordered.
"He just publicly humiliated me!" I protested pointing at Orion.
"It's not his fault you didn't grow, but look at you two, you have the same temper, the least you can do for me is to try to get along." Mom said, Orion dropped me, and I landed with a thud. I stood up, dusted myself off, and straightened my tunic.
"Fine, I'm sorry." I grumbled.
"Thank you now we need to talk to your great Uncle Hades." My mother turned and walked over to my Uncle.
"Well Artemis, we've been waiting for days, get on with it." Hades brushed a bit of his greasy black hair out of his face. He looked a lot like Nico, sullen, dejected, same black hair (Though Nico looked like he washed his hair) same black eyes and olive skin tone. They both seemed to glare and lurk in the shadows and seemed a bit anti-social.
"Lord Hades, I wish to request that we bring Orion back with us," My mother asked.
"Well Artemis as much as I love you I don't think you can do that. You are an immortal and the only way for him to leave is to go through one of the smaller passages. You may not exit like that though; you must teleport out of here." Hades said.
"What about one of them?" My mother gestured to me and Lilly.
"Yes I suppose they could leave but do they understand that they must not look back until they are out of the underworld?" He asked, looking at me inparticular.
"Yes we understand that." Lilly said. "We know the myth of Orpheus, who looked back to make sure his wife was still fallowing him and ended up getting his wife swept away back through the doors. We fully understand."
"Very well, then Artemis you may take, Annabeth and Grace, these two will take Orion through the passage on their left." Hades gestured to the passage that had opened to the left of us. I couldn't make out the end of it.
"Mother we will be fine, I promise, I won't look back." I said. My mother seemed slightly shaken. Orion touched her shoulder.
"We'll be fine." HE insisted. Grace let go of my hand and came around to look me in the eye.
"If you die while I'm gone I will kill you." She hugged me quickly and went to stand with my mother. I turned and looked at the passage.
"Well of we go, into the dark." I said.
We stepped forward and as soon as we were all in the door slid closed behind us, I decided that if I struck up a conversation with Orion I could make sure that we were all still there.
"So Orion," I said casually. "What makes you think your worthy of my mom?"
"Nothing will ever make me worthy of her, she's perfect and deserves much more than what I can give her." He said.
"Well finally something we can agree on." I rolled my eyes. "So how did you two become friends?"
"Hunting mostly, we did a lot of that." I could almost hear him smile. "Now I have a question for you. What's going on with you and this Grace girl?"
"Nothing, it's not your business anyway." I snapped.
"Shamrock, I know you haven't had a great past, and you don't really trust people, but neither does she." Lilly said.
"She's right." Orion said. "Sometimes two people with the worst pasts can make the best future."
"Okay stop with the poetics, you sound like Apollo, and I don't like Grace, she's my best friend. Besides it would never work out." I said.
"Sham, you're talking to me." Orion said. "King of relationships that should never work out, just look at me and you mom.
"Two things Orion, One don't ever call me Sham. My name is Shamrock and 2) I don't care what happened with you and my mom, this will never happen." I snarled.
"Okay, okay fine." He went pretty quiet after that.
You are never going to guess where this tunnel let out. My living room. Yeah that's right I ran into the door at the end of the tunnel, it opened and I tumbled head over heels ungracefully into the center of the living room. Lilly and Orion tumbled after me I sat up and looked around. Grace and Annabeth were sitting slightly startled on the couch. Grace was holding the baby Apollo had been caring for.
Apollo waltzed in and looked at us. "Well it's about time you got here; I see you found the entrance located in our house!"
I stared at him blankly for a few seconds before I said; "There's been an entrance to the underworld in our house for sixteen years and you've never told me!"
He shrugged it off. "You've never asked."
"Like that's a normal question; 'Hey Apollo is there an entrance to the underworld that I should know about?'" I was pretty annoyed at this, he gives us a quest to the underworld, and conveniently forgets to mention that we have an entrance in our house.
"Well Shamrock let's face it this is you we are talking about." Apollo said. I looked at Grace and the baby.
"Who's that?" I asked.
"I don't know but she's so-o-o cute!" Grace cooed.
"Where's my mom?" Was my next question.
"I'm right here." She said, she smiled at Orion and ran to hug him. That was it, no kiss, no nothing, just a hug. I guess my mom wasn't too big on PDA which was good because I was still in the mood to punch something, hard.
Apollo smiled at them "Aw, look at that, sis has Orion back!"
"Yes, now whose kid is that?" I asked, pointing to the baby Grace was snuggling.
"Babysitting." Apollo said quickly and uncomfortably. "Anyway, sis you are wanted on Olympus for an emergency conference, Orion and I can watch the kids, and we'll have a party after words."
"Yes well I had better be going. Shamrock," My mom turned on me. "No falling off cliffs."
"Does that happen often?" Orion gulped.
"No going back in time." Mom listed
"Again, does this happen often?" Orion was going slightly pale, and was rubbing the back of his head nervously.
"No vampire fights." She looked at me sternly
"Vampire fights?" Orion's eye twitched, as though he was about to go insane on us.
"And no fire." My mother was very firm about this whole thing.
"Fire?" Orion muttered.
"Gods mom I won't do anything that drastic." I siad.
"Shamrock." She warned.
"Okay fine, I'll sit here and be a good boy." I rolled my eyes. "Besides would I do anything like that?"
"I'm not going to answer that, but thank you, I'll be back soon." My mom hugged me tightly, I hugged her back. When she let go she looked me and Lilly over and muttered something about getting a leash. "Don't worry Orion, he'll be good."
"What about Lilly?" HE asked.
Mom laughed. "He's the trouble maker, not Lilly. Lilly just gets drug into these things."
"Oh." Orion muttered, my mom ran out the door and in a flash of silver light and was gone. Orion looked at me like I was a nuclear bomb about to go off at any minute. I grinned at him demonically.
"Shamrock." Grace warned. I scowled and rolled my eyes.
"Fine, I'll be good." I sighed and sat next to her. She was still cuddling the baby who was asleep.
"What's her name?" I asked.
"Aikatrina." Grace said, I wasn't going to tell Grace that this baby was dying but I looked up and Apollo and I was sure he knew that I knew about it. Apollo mouthed 'I'll explain later' Annabeth was reading a book on the couch, and I jumped, completely unaware that she had been here these last couple of minutes
"Orion, don't just stand there you're creeping me out a little bit." Apollo motioned for Orion to come sit down. He sat awkwardly next to me and I scooted a little bit closer to Grace.
Apollo turned on HBO and some movie about a single mom was on, I didn't really pay any attention to it and after about an hour I went up to my room. I collapsed on to my bed. I hadn't slept here in months and the last time I did the hunters were all here, it was nice to have my room to myself. I need my space and the hunt just doesn't give me that.
The sun was setting outside the window, and the moon would be up soon. I sighed, and closed my eyes. I only realized that I had fallen asleep when Grace came and woke me up. I looked at her; she was just watching me from the door, it was kind of creepy.
"Sorry, I was supposed to wake you up, but I couldn't. Anyway Apollo wants you to put this on, we're going to Olympus." She threw me a dark brown suit and left the room. I sighed and changed quickly. Then I looked in the mirror, and combed my hair over to the side, and flattened it. Then I went down stairs to wait with the others, Orion was standing looking very uncomfortable in his suit, or maybe he looked uncomfortable because he was holding a sleeping baby, in a very nice pale green dress. He waved with one hand at me.
"Do you want to take this?" He asked, motioning at the baby. The poor guys looked desperate and a bit distressed, but that didn't make me sympathize with him. I still didn't like him.
"Not really." I shook my head. "Where are the girls?"
"Changing." He said. Apollo came down stairs in his favorite white suit. I scowled this wasn't good, if we were all dressing nicely it meant that I had to be good which -now this might be hard to believe - I have a hard time with.
Lilly came down next, her dress was a silvery white, her hair was down and she looked way too pretty to be my sister. Grace was just behind Lilly and to say she looked beautiful is an understatement. Her dress was green and fluttery, she had left her hair along and wore no makeup, she looked like Grace. The dress was innocent, yes seemed just right for girls of her age group, but it was a little low cut...
Apollo ruffled my hair and broke my concentration. I scowled and looked up at him. He gave me one of those secret Apollo smiles.
"Hey where's Annabeth?" I asked.
"She went to camp, I drove her." Apollo said. I nodded. "Well let's go its eight o'clock and Arty will kill me if we're late.
Lilly
When Grace came down stairs to say the look on Shamrock's face was good would be the understatement of the year. The look on his face was priceless and I really wished I had gotten a picture. Backtracking to when Grace and I were getting ready, Grace looked pretty uncomfortable.
"It's a bit low cut isn't it?" She asked, self-consciously pulling the neck line up.
"No, god's Grace you act like it's a crime to show anything below the collar bone." I rolled my eyes at here.
"It's not but I want to be looked in the eye." She muttered. I turned around and looked at her.
"Grace, Shamrock doesn't look at things like that, he focuses on inner beauty." I sighed.
"He's a teenaged boy." Grace said.
"Who knows as much about girls as a nine year old." I pointed out.
"He knows as much about girls as a nine year old but he is still in the mindset of a teenager." She argued.
"I know my brother he doesn't care about how you look, to him that's just an added bonus; he cares about how he's treated." I insisted.
"Fine I'll wear it but no make-up, or hair things." She insisted.
"Fine." I grumbled, I had been really looking forward to putting some make-up on Grace, but if she would wear the dress (It really wasn't that low,) I was happy. We went down stairs, Grace somewhat behind me, as though she was scared to go down stairs and look at Shamrock, or rather be looked at by Shamrock
Shamrock cleaned up nicely, his hair was combed and his suit was clean, he even looked clean, which was something new considering that he always looked somewhat grubby and like a wild child. He even smiled a bit when he saw Grace.
Then we piled into the back of the sun chariot, Orion fumbled around but finally buckled in Aikatrina, who was still asleep as Apollo had fed her before Shamrock woke up. I sat on one side of Sham and Grace on the other, my poor brother looked very distressed at having to girls on both sides of him, I swear that boy is way to jumpy.
Shamrock
I was uncomfortable, and even that was an understatement. Grace was sitting on one side of me looking extremely nice (Well she can always pull that off) and Lilly was on the other side slowly, and discreetly pushing me closer to Grace. I did everything I could to not think about how close we were. I thought about everything else.
The dying baby, Orion, my mom, Apollo, what had happened in the last few days, I even resorted to thinking about those movies Apollo liked about the vampires. I had to stoop that low to avoid thinking of Grace, how she looked didn't really matter, I guess it would help if she was mean but she wasn't she was the nicest girl I knew (Other than my mom but even she could turn nasty) sure we fought sometimes, and spent time wanting to kill each other but we still got along great most of the time.
When we finally touched down on Olympus I was the first person out of the chariot. We still had a twenty minute walk to get to the throne room where this formal get together was being held. Apollo had brought along a stroller, in which he settle Aikatrina in and we started the walk up the side of the mountain.
There were wood nymphs everywhere, they smiled and waved and flirted with me. It made me a bit uncomfortable but I shrugged it off. The trees were beautiful, there were all the normal trees and then there was the Olympian variety. The silver and gold olive grove, the gardens of solitude had trees with silver leaves, taking on the color of the last person to be in the garden, my mother. There were satyrs playing the reed pipes in a pavilion with the wood nymphs gathered around them.
When we were about half way to the palace the walk way changed to murals of the gods, my mother's was the first one I saw, so I assumed then went in birth order, but Apollo told me they went in order of who had the most power, which didn't seem right because I'm sure my mother had way more power then Aphrodite. Zeus' was at the top; he looked angry and was throwing lightning down, the lighting on the mural actually moved. I guess he was supposed to look fierce but to me he just looked kind of crabby.
The throne room was amazing. All the thrones seemed to glow with a divine light, and the Olympians were milling around drinking Nectar, I couldn't help but wonder what this party was for. Annabeth saw me and ran over.
"So what do you think?" She asked.
"Um it's great, but what's the party for?" I asked.
"Oh, we finally finished rebuilding Olympus!" She gushed. "I think I did a great job, how about you?" She straightened her grey dress as Athena walked over.
"Hello Annabeth, you did phenomenal but I am here to speak with Shamrock." She said. I was a bit surprised and Annabeth looked a little hurt, I looked around for Grace, she was talking to Lady Aphrodite about something which was strange, but I shrugged it off and turned to Athena.
"Yes Lady Athena?" I asked.
"Shamrock, I know you are having a difficult time trying to cope with Orion as your father figure." She led me outside to a grove of olive trees.
"Why would you think that?" I asked.
"Shamrock Orion Clover, don't even deny it, I recognize these things. I once had trouble coming to terms with my father. I know things will be problematic - this is you we're talking about - but you can always talk to your mother." She insisted.
"I guess, but my mother will be busy with something else." I said.
"She will never be too busy for you though, you are her child and she cares for you." Athena chided.
"She only ever wanted a daughter, and I'm a boy." I looked at my feet; this was something that had been bothering me for a while now, since Lilly joined the hunt.
"Shamrock, you may be a boy but that doesn't change the fact that you're her child. She will always love you and you can always talk to Orion too." Athena tried.
I laughed. "Yeah right, the guy isn't there for my entire life, and now you expect me of all people, to go and ask him if I need help?"
"You have to start somewhere." Athena nodded.
"Why are you doing this?" I questioned.
"Well, if it makes you feel any better, it's not for you. I'm doing this for your mother." She frowned.
"Of course you are." I sighed.
"Don't be petulant with me! I am only doing this because little Artemis is somewhat anxious for you and Orion to get along. The relationship between father and son is vitally important. She worries about you; you're a little too audacious." Athena scolded
"What does that even mean?" I Asked.
"Audacious means, reckless, and petulant means to be very suddenly irritating." She said.
"I know what those mean, but what do you mean I'm reckless?" I asked.
"Shamrock, you got a virulent bite from a vampire, went back in time, set Ellis Island on fire, fell off a cliff, time traveled to the revolutionary war, fought your mothers hunters in 2001, and nearly got yourself wiped of the face of the planet by a giant scorpion. How are you not audacious?" Athena raised her eyebrows.
"Point made." I grumbled.
"Good, now, promise me you will try to get on good terms with your father?" She pushed.
"Fine I'll try."
She patted my head. "Good boy, now I believe Grace needs to talk to you." She turned and went back inside. Grace stepped out of the throne room.
"There you are!" She exclaimed. "I've been looking everywhere for you!"
"Why?" I wondered.
"Well, we need to talk." She insisted, biting her lip nervously
"Um, Grace ,the last time we did that I fell off a cliff." I pointed out.
"Well do you see a cliff around here?" She raised her eyebrows. "No. Good neither do I, but I'm sure if you really want one you can find one."
"Okay then," I tried to ignore the fact that she was standing a foot away from me and that if I wanted to I could just reach over and grab her hand. I didn't have to though; she reached over and grabbed mine. I jumped, startled by her sudden, unexplained actions.
"Shamrock, I was inside talking to Lady Aphrodite." She started slowly and carefully like she didn't really know where she was going with this.
"Yeah I know. Why?" I asked.
"Well, that bit was personal but she gave me some advice. She said that the longer I kept my feelings to myself the more self-destruction I would cause, and I have experience in holding everything in until I reach a breaking point. She also said that you needed to know these things, because if you didn't we would slowly destroy each other." Grace said.
"What things?" I frowned, if Aphrodite had been messing with Grace I would have a bone to pick with her, not that I already didn't have a bone to pick with her, in fact I had several bone's to pick with her.
"Well the effects of caffeine, not only make me speak pretty much nonsense, but they also make me speak the truth, even if I don't know what I feel, or am confused about it." She said
"Okay so you're telling me that you think the hunter's outfits are adorable?" I raised my eyebrows, because if it was anything else then it was that I was cute, which was weird.
"What, when did I say that?" She raised an eyebrow.
"Never mind it was a while ago, just go on." I insisted.
"Shamrock, they say love hurts, but this could kill me." She said, I nodded, even though I didn't really understand what was going on. "I wasn't lying when I said I loved you."
"W-wait you mean…" I trailed off she locked her green eyes with mine.
"Yes, Shamrock I love you." As soon as she said those words I felt a part of me fall away and I crumbled to the ground.
The Underworld
So, this wasn't exactly how he had planned things working out, but it would do, he was flexible. Besides, why would he let sixteen years of careful watching, and coordinating certain events to certain times go to waste just because of a small flaw in the plan? This could all be fixed and it would all be fixed. All he had to do was wait for the right time and he was good at waiting.
Okay now to go get over writers block... -ToThineOwnSelfBeTrue101/ Ginny