These drabbles were written for: Percy Jackson Fanfiction Challenges - kitty132383: The 100 Prompts/100 Drabbles Challenge
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18. Time
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Becoming a Hunter of Artemis was a big decision.
Something you needed to think through, you need time.
Thalia Grace gave time to Angela.
The choppy blonde haired girl sat in the grass next to the dangerous looking, punk girl.
"Would you join in my situation?" Angela Thomson, a mortal girl, a potential Huntress asked suddenly.
"It's not my decision, but yours," Thalia said lamely.
"How much did you think before joining?" the blonde-haired girl asked.
"How much time I had? About two minutes," Thalia said half-jokingly, half-seriously.
"You are a demigod; surely you knew that you can be a Hunter, even before it was offered to you. You have never thought about it?" she asked curiously.
"Many years ago, I was at least as close to join as you are now," the black-haired girl said honestly.
"Why didn't you join?" Angela questioned her and the Lieutenant grimaced.
"I was naive," she said simply and the other girl knew better than to ask more questions about the topic.
"If you weren't here to recruit, if both of us were just two girls, sitting next to each other, would you suggest me joining?" the blonde girl asked and Thalia nodded.
"Yes, it's a big change, a big decision, but I have never regretted joining. Those two minutes changed my life, but it is better now," the Huntress said thinking about the family, the sisters, the home she gained.
"I should be more spontaneous, shouldn't I?" Angela smiled sadly.
"I understand that you need time. Everyone does," Thalia said reassuringly.
"However, the time has come," the other girl continued.
"Are you sure of your decision?" the daughter of Zeus asked and the other girl seemed hesitant for a moment, but she answered then.
"Time wouldn't change my decision, only postpone it," Angela said seriously but somehow in a frightened manner. Thalia understood her; she was just like that when she needed to make a decision about her whole life.
"Would you be kind enough to share the result of your decision with me?" Thalia asked as politely as possible. She didn't want to overrun the poor girl and she wanted to give her some more privacy. She would have understood if Angela said no.
"Meet me in an hour in the exact spot," Angela said and without an answer she left.
When you were (partly) immortal time shouldn't mean anything. An hour should seem like a moment. Well, in Thalia's opinion, one hour seemed like two when you could live forever...
"Hey," Angela said suddenly and the Lieutenant looked up.
"It's good to see you," she bowed her head.
"You too. I'm ready," Angela said suddenly and Thalia raised her eyebrows.
"For what?" she asked curiously.
"I don't need more time," the mortal girl said as an explanation but the Lieutenant of Artemis still didn't understand.
"I'm ready to pledge myself to the goddess Artemis," Angela said and Thalia had a shocked expression on her face. "You thought that I backtrack?" she asked curiously and a bit crestfallenly.
"I thought that you will need more time," the daughter of Zeus said honestly." I needed years."