ੈ｡ﾟ ･ׂׂ ✩ RED ⌇˚ɞ act ii . . . if clarity's in death . .
· 。ﾟ *. 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 NINETEEN, ───── ❛ don't drink your poisons all alone ❜
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warnings! violence, panic attack, mentions of blood & death
LEAVE IT TO Percy Jackson to gatecrash a quest of an eternal girls club and summer campers on the search for a Greek goddess instead of going home for Christmas break.
And above that convincing the lieutenant of the Hunters of Artemis to let him stick around. Laurie couldn't believe her ears when she'd heard it.
"You are apart of this quest now. I do not like it, but there is no changing fate." Zoe had said.
Now, Laurie had about ten seconds to protest before it was decided, written in stone. She couldn't have that.
If Percy came along on the quest, there was the possibility that Laurie's mind about the Hunters could change. She wouldn't admit it, not even to herself, but she knew deep in her heart that if she got even a conversation closer to him she might never let him go.
Her heart would latch on and she'd be doomed. What she didn't know was that it already had, and she already was.
There was an indentation in the shape of him pressed into the walls of her heart, one that had been there even before blue eyes had ever locked onto hazel ones.
Laurie decided she needed to push him away as much as possible, as quickly as possible. Zoe needed to see that she didn't care about boys, even if she did. Even if she cared about this one particular boy more than her teenage brain could even fathom, so much that her conversation with him in her cabin a couple days ago had brought her to the verge of breaking down right in front of him, pouring out her horrific secrets and pain to him in a desperate waterfall of emotions.
None of that. She reminded herself of what had happened the last time she got so close to someone. Aside from Alec, of course, there were only two other people she'd ever allowed herself to be vulnerable in front of.
Now, one of them was dead and the other might as well have been, to her.
"Zoe, you can't be serious." Laurie objected quickly, a frown etched deeply into her face.
All of her companion's eyes snapped onto her, Percy's filled with hurt, but not shock. Based on their argument earlier, he reckoned he deserved it.
"He's a distraction and will only slow us down. C'mon, the only person that even gets along with him is Grover and maybe Bianca!" She pleaded, putting on her best show to try and convince Zoe to change her mind.
