Me: I am going to flunk out of college if I keep putting off work for the addiction of ff.

So, Romans or no Romans? Just a thought.

This is: Breaking the Rules.

CHAPTER 50! :D

I don't own PJO. Oh, and yes, this is going to be quite an AU set during Titan's Curse.

Thalia

Summary preview: Talk about rule breaking...

It went against every gut-feeling in your body to take Luke's hand and smile in the face of your ex-friends that first time after the whole tree incident.

The second time, it was a bit less guilt racking.

And by the third time, that forced smile (that you knew deep down wasn't all that forced) had turned pure and real. You didn't care if the rest of the world burned as long as he was by your side.

Yeah, you were breaking the rules that daddy dearest had set for you, and yeah, it feel frikken amazing.

Maybe, just maybe, you could still feel that twinge of guilt when you thought of Percy's face as he was taken away by the skeleton army. You could still hear his haunting cries of betrayal in your nightmares. Because you knew even in your nightmares, Percy couldn't escape death.

He was a variable that had to be dealt with after all.

So what if every time you got near the ocean it instantly turned into a hurricane weather and tried to kill you?

You never liked Poseidon all that much in the first place.

And yeah, you supposed that you basically left Annabeth to die while she sat under the sky, and that killed you, but you knew letting her out would only harm you.

Either she goes back to Camp Half-Blood and join the war trying to kill you, or she stays and takes back Luke's attention just like she always had.

And what did she know about brainwashing anyway? You were doing this because you wanted to. Not because when you met with Kronos he brainwashed you.

Sure, before then you weren't completely sure about staying here, but after he explained some things, you would never leave!

And Luke helped you with any doubts you may have at one time had. You was doing the right thing.

You were sure of it.

Me: You know, authors sometimes write 'Please don't kill me!" at the end of a cliffy chapter.

I have myself.

But I have never actually been told to flat out die.

Kind of harsh. So, if my writing seems kind of hesitate and iffy for this chapter, just know that was what keeps running through my mind everything I started to write something.

Sorry that it happened right when I was trying to make an epic half-point fic.

Next Chapter: Sport

Nice, non-life threatening reviews anyone?

~ Anna/ Booklover98