Percabeth Best Friend Oneshots Chapter 9: Unfair, a percy jackson and the olympians fanfic

Hi guys!

Before I start, SPOILERS FOR TLO!

Sooo… this one-shot features Joe, the character of LolzBolz02. Don't forget to enter your character! This closes on the 22nd of January, 2016. If you submit a character, they are guaranteed to be featured in a one-shot! :)

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This isn't strictly canon (Zeus, Percy was a little too busy learning that he was going to DIE), but if he had time, I think our sweet, caring, self-blaming Percy would have done this…)

Ummm... I think that's all I have to say!

Let's get this show on the road, folks!

Set during TLO. Spoilers.

Joe's POV:

Death is unfair.

It's not just cruel. Not just unmerciful. Not just agonising and terrible and searing and excruciating to the survivors.

It's unfair, and this is the thing that shatters my heart into a thousand irreparable pieces and I can't fix it, I can't I can't I can't.

My older brother, my hero, my idol, one of my best friends.

He's gone.

Beckendorf.

Why didn't I volunteer for the quest, what do I contribute to the camp? Beckendorf had everything. A girlfriend, a future. A life. He was going to college. I'm the one who blends into the background, the one who's only ever noticed when I'm with Percy or Annabeth, my only two other friends.

They would be the only ones who might even think miss me, and even then, they're probably a little too busy saving the freaking world.

I flop down in my hut, the one we built in the bushes at the back of the Hephaestus cabin. I can hear muffled sniffles from inside my cabin, but no-one'll find me here.

No-one still alive knows about this hut.

The tears finally come.

I don't know how much later, half an hour, a minute, a century, I don't care, when I hear the sounds of someone pushing through the bushes.

Percy POV

I can hear sniffles from the middle of the bushes, and I think I know who it is. It's Shark. (Yeah, I know his name is Joe Hayes, but everyone calls him Hammerhead, so I can him Shark.)

I push through the bushes, into this amazing hut that Shark must have built, with the help of Beckendorf, and I know they both helped because something about this place that is Joe Hayes, but different. The slope of the roof isn't what Joe would have chosen.

Also, I saw Beckendorf holding blueprints and sneaking around the side of the Hephaestus cabin.

I enter the hut, and see Shark flopped down on the floor, wearing an expression that brings back memories, because I know I've worn that look so many times.

He blames himself.

But I'm the one who deserves wearing that look, because I could have saved Beckendorf, could have stopped Luke, could have prevented so many deaths and so much destruction and Zoe's death and Bianca.

Shark is innocent.

I move next to him.

"You know, it's not your fault." I say.

"You didn't do anything wrong"

"I'm to blame."

Nothing gets a response. He's too stubborn to talk.

I turn to leave, knowing that it'll only get better with time. I knew how close Shark was to Beckendorf.

A whisper comes from behind me.

"Percy." Shark says.

"Thank you."

AWWWW BECKENDORF WHYYYYYYYYYYYY.

This is probably the saddest thing I've written in the fanfiction yet, and I don't want to make you guys too depressed, so hopefully the next chapter will be funny!

Yeah… so what did you guys think? Do you miss Beckendorf as much as I do? Tell me in the reviews!

Remember, my make-your-own character is open until 22nd January. I also welcome story ideas!

I sat down for about half an hour yesterday and tried to think of some story ideas, so I've got a large bank of them and hopefully we won't have any more 2 month gaps!

But, you know, sometimes words don't flow, you need a break, something comes up. I'll try to update at least every fortnight, but sometimes I might miss a day, whatever.

Yeah… so I'll try and do a funny one next!

Also, I was thinking, instead of a Hunger Games SYOT, I might do a collection of Heroes of Olympus one-shots. Basically, I want to write about the characters that come later in the books.