𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗔𝗗 ⋆━━⋆ percy jackson

𝐯𝐢. never meet your heroes

BRIARES left into the Labrynth, his face in shame.
Tyson was weeping on Cassie's arm, his hero had failed him.

Tyson would've stayed there the whole night (was it even night?) But they had to move.

They settled in a corridor made of huge marble blocks. It looked like it could've been part of a Greek tomb, with bronze torch holders fastened to the walls.

"We must be close to Daedalus's workshop," Annabeth said. "Get some rest, everybody. We'll keep going in the morning."

"How do we know when it's morning?" Grover asked.

"Just rest," she insisted.

Cassie didn't need to be told twice, and neither did Grover.

He pulled a heap of straw out of his pack, ate some of it, made a pillow out of the rest and was snoring in no time.

Tyson took longer getting to sleep, but Cassie gave him her hoodie to lay his head on. Annabeth was pretty tired too, and she was anxious about her role as quest leader.

She wanted to do it well, Annabeth was nothing if a perfectionist overthinker.

Percy and Cassie were the only two left awake, in the dark.

They pressed their backs against the wall, the glow of Kairos providing some light.

"Hell of a day." He started.

She snorted. "Nothing we aren't used to."

"Remember Circe's or the Hoover Damn?"

Cassie laughed, but the others didn't wake up. "Gods, we didn't have a clue of what we were doing."

"We don't have it now."

"Yeah." She mumbled.

Cassie wished the stars were visible, they always comforted her.

"Whatever happens we'll do it together."

She looked at his profile in the dim light. "We will."

He hesitated. "I'm sorry if I haven't been there much when your mother's thing happened."

They hadn't talked as much since, Cassie had turned cold and tried blocking everyone out.

"Are you mad at me?" He asked.

She almost laughed. Her? Angry at him? "No Percy, I'm not. I couldn't be angry at you."

He smiled. "Good, me too." He then saw something on her wrist. "You kept it?"

The beeded bracelet he made for her his first summer in camp, he rose his sleeve. "I kept mine." Cassie did one in return.

Cassie's heart did something weird that shouldn't belong in a friendship.

Somehow, when he was there they were always two, sometimes there could be an entire group of people and Cassie could be alone, but not with him.

And she's tried to push him away, she's really tried, but sometimes things don't go the way you want them to.

"Cassie?"

She smiled at him. "Percy?"

"You're my best friend, you know?"

But for some reason Cassie wasn't as elated to hear those words as she usually was.

"Hm, I'll keep the first guard." He gets up. "Percy." He looks behind. "You're my best friend too."

He smiles softly at her. "Good night Cassie."

"Good night Percy."

Cassie then decided, she wasn't going to risk her friendship with Percy for some weird random feeling.