A/N: I know, it's been a while. Apologies for the slight over-describing, I've been re-reading Tolkien all week, and if you've read Lord of the Rings, you'll understand what I mean! Anyway, enjoy this chapter.
7. Heaven
It was pretty late when I knocked on Annabeth's cabin door. Her cabin mates shushed her as she slipped out. No one really cared that we were breaking curfew again, it happened frequently enough that the harpies didn't bother us anymore and even Chiron had given up on telling us off.
We walked down to the beach and laid the blankets on the soft sand. I placed the beat up picnic basket on the faded blanket and proudly lifted the lid with a dramatic flourish, revealing the pitiful attempt at a picnic inside. Annabeth laughed when she saw the takeaway pizza box and cheap lemonade bottle nestled in the basket.
"Tada," I said with a grin. She kissed me lightly and grabbed the first slice of still warm pepperoni. We sat there under the stars, eating pizza and talking for hours. At one point I pulled out a pack of Double Stuff Oreos and we shared the pack, licking the cream off before eating the biscuits, just like when we were twelve, riding across the country in a Kindness International van with a forlorn looking zebra, a starving albino lion and a very angry satyr.
We finally lay back on the blankets, staring up and the inky blackness of the sky. Annabeth shuffled closer to me and rested her head on my shoulder; I could smell the lemon scent of her shampoo. I sighed contentedly.
"Look," Annabeth murmured "there's Zoë," she said, pointing to the horizon.
"I wonder if she's enjoying Elysium." I mused aloud.
"How can you not enjoy Elysium? It's literally Heaven."
"I don't know," I countered "I can't think of anything that Elysium could possibly offer that could console me if you weren't there. This moment, right now," I squeezed her shoulders to illustrate my meaning "this is all I want, in life or death. This is my Heaven."
A/N: Ugh! I found this in an old notebook from last year and it fit nicely, but there's something that I really don't like about it, I just can't place it! Anyway, please review if you like it.