Silena and Beckendorf

It had been almost a year since I died during the war against Kronos. And I still regret doing what I did for Luke. But things have gotten better in the sense that the guilt has lessen over time. I found my into Esyluim. With Charlie. I can't say he was overjoyed when he saw me but he was still happy. It went like this.

I had just been judged and just barely got to go to Esyluim. I knew I would see Charlie there. But I don't know how he'll react to seeing me. I'm even more unsure about how he'll react when he finds out how I died and than what I did. I walked up to it and it was amazing. Paradise which makes sense since it should be. As I walked in felt ten times better. Happier and I had more of my usual bounce in my step. Even more!

Everything was perfect except I couldn't find Charlie. I needed to find him. I started asking people if they knew where he was but they gave me confused looks. Than I remembered that I was the only one that ever called him Charlie. Everyone else called him Beckendorf. So when I asked again they pointed in the direction of a workshop. Why didn't I think of that before. I ran to the workshop. It had no door as I noticed with all the other buildings here. I guess they all had a lot of trust. I slowed down and to catch my breath. I didn't want my face to be all red when he saw me. I walked up to the first person I saw.

" Hi I'm looking for Charlie." I told him. He gave me a confused look. I sighed. " Beckendorf?"

He recongized the name. " He's in the back. Hasn't really left the place since he got here.

" Thank you." I walked to the back to see him messing around with some tools. It was wonderful to see him again. I was devestaed that I never got to say a proper goodbye.

" Hey Charlie." I said.

He jumped. He looked as handsome as he did before he died." Silena."

He tackled me with a hug and spun me around. I was laughing with joy and cry too because this was the happiest I had ever been. He pulled me out of the hug and kissed me. A good long proper one that he knew would make a daughter of Aphrodite just melt. So that means I loved it.

He pulled away from the kiss first. " How are you here? WHY are you here?"

" It's a long story." I said.

" Than just start from the begining."

" From when you died? Well I became an emotional wreck. I was crying like crazy. No matter what Clarisse did she couldn't make me feel any better. Than everyone started getting ready for the war but Michel Yew got Clarisse really mad at him so she refused to have her cabin have any part in the war. And there was a dracken. Percy, he told me to try and convince Clarisse tocome join the fight but when she still refused I put her armor on." I was starting to get really choked up just thinking about Clarisse. He noticed and pulled me into another hug.

" You can tell me the rest later." Charlie said.

" No. I'll finish. It needs to come out some point. I put her armor on and lend her cabin into the battle. The dracken spat it's poison on me. It stung so badly and Clarisse showed up and no one knew it was me. So toke her helment off me and Charlie I did something that I totally regret."

" What?"

" Don't be mad but at the time we weren't together and Luke was so charming, I couldn't help but fall into his little spell."

" Silena what did you do?" He asked.

" I was a spy for Luke. At the time we weren't together. Once we were I tried to get out of it but he said he would kill you and I thought I was protecting you but than you died and- and-" I was almost balling now.

He pulled me into a hug. " It wasn't your fault."

" Yes it was." I cried into his shirt.

" Do you want to know the last thing I saw before I died?"

" What?" I asked.

" You. I had a picture of you in my pocket the whole time." He smiled down at me.

" You did?"

" Yup. I looked at it when ever I could."

" That still doesn't change the fact that I'm responsible for your death."

He pulled me tighter into the hug. " No you weren't. It was all Luke's fault and I chose to die, alright? I don't ever want to hear you say that it was your fault I died. Okay?"

I mumbled something into his shirt.

" Was that yes?"

I didn't respond. So he started to tickle me. I am the most tickleish person you would ever meet and he knew it and he also knew that my knee was the most tickelish spot on my whole body.

" Charlie-Charlie please! I ... said yes." I said through fits of laughter

He stopped and pulled me into another hug. " I love you, you know?" He said.

" I love you too."