Frank
A/N: hello. I know its been a really long time since I updated, and for those of you who reads That Halloween, I know I said updates on Saturdays only but inspiration struck so here it is. This has given me trouble for a while now so I'm really glad that I have an idea for it now.
Frank knew he wasn't going to survive the war. His death wasn't optional. His whole life depended on a stick of wood. Frank didn't have any option but to die, but that didn't mean he was going down without a fight. He had known for a while that he would die fighting, so when he survived all the battles on the way to Greece, he was surprised. Looks like he would die fighting against Gaea and the giants. Hopefully the rest of the demigods would survive and Gaea wouldn't rise, but if she did rise, he had faith that she would be stopped.
When it came to the final battle, Frank forgot all about the fact that he was supposed to die. He fought next to Hazel, trying to keep her out of harm's way. He watched as Jason fought with Zeus and as Piper dragged a severely injured Leo away from the battle. He watched as Athena fought to shield her daughter with the help of Poseidon and Percy. He watched as an arrow headed towards Hazel, watched as her eyes went wide, watched the arrow fly towards her heart. He wasn't entirely sure what happened next. He does know that he couldn't let Hazel die. He supposed that's why he has a poisoned arrow in his heart, why he can feel the life draining out of him. It's probably why Hazel is crying and his friends are rushing towards him and everything is going blurry. That's when Frank realises that he is dying. The amount of ways he thought he might die, he had never thought an arrow would kill him. He had thought that he would die protecting someone, most probably Hazel, but the fact that his chosen weapon had dealt his deathblow was ironic. He would laugh at the thought if he weren't dying. He thinks he ought to say something, tell a joke or something. He doesn't really know any jokes though, so he settles for asking if they won. It's silent for a minute. He wonders if maybe he didn't ask the question out loud. He is about to ask again when Percy speaks.
'Yeah, we won. It's over.' He says. Frank looks at him to see tears streaming down his face. He is slightly taken aback by the fact that Percy is crying for him. He looks at the rest of them and sees that they are all crying. All except Hazel. She looks furious.
'You idiot!' she screams. 'What were you thinking? I could have avoided the arrow! You didn't need to take it for me!' and now she is crying and Frank hates it when she cries. But he was going to die anyway.
'I was a time bomb, Hazel. I didn't have a choice but to die. But I did get to choose how I died. And I like my choice.' His voice is barely above a whisper and he knows this is it. These are his last moments.
'I – I'll come see you someday, ok? Don't leave without me.' Hazel says. She's looking at him, trying to smile through her tears. And that's the last thing he sees, Hazel's face looking down at him. And he is so glad he died this way, he really does like his choice. Because he saved her. Saved her from dying a second time. She gets to live her life now. He smiles at her and then everything goes black.