The Life of a Demigod - Oneshots

The Struggle

I stood at the base of the tree and whispered her name. How could I do such a thing to her? I - I just couldn't. She had saved my sorry butt so many times I lost count, and this is how I repay her? By killing what remained of her spirit? I turned around ready to forgo the whole thing.

"Poison her you fool!" Kronos's voice rang in my ears. "But, but it would KILL her!" I cried choking back the tears. "She's already dead," he said softening his tone, "besides you'll only be doing her a favor" I shook my head as if to clear his voice out. I didn't want to do this anymore. The only thing I wanted was for this to have never happened. If she hadn't left me, we wouldn't be in this mess. We could still be out on our own quests together, living the life we both dreamed of and maybe, just maybe she would have eventually allowed herself to love me. Just like she wished.

                                                               * FLASH BACK *

She stabbed at me a playful expression on her face. "Maybe if you weren't such an idiot I wouldn't have to kill you!" she said smirking. "Well maybe if you were a little nicer I wouldn't have done it!" I retorted. "Oh really? as if how nice I am to you affects your level of stupidity! I can't believe you thought taking my journal was a good idea! 

"Truth be told, your diary -" I started before dodging her knife again. Her blue eyes sparkled. " It is NOT a diary! It's a journal! And you better not have read it!" she yelled. Her face was getting more red every second, I wasn't sure if it was from her yelling at me, stabbing at me, or the thinking about the probability I had read her journal. I grinned at her and cleared my throat and began reciting the first page..

" It's Christmas, so Merry Christmas to me I guess. Luke thought it would be a good idea for me to have this stupid thing to ' let out  my massive anger issues" I stopped there and noticed how the red had drained from hr fave with every sentence. For the first time since meeting Thalia I had rendered her speechless. Giving her a small smile I quietly      said " Hey Thails, are you doing alright" Her freckles now more than ever stood our on hr pale face. She looked at me for another second and snapping " Yes, of course I am alright." She was starting to regain her color now. "Or at least I will be once I permanently maim you! I just can't believe you read it! Besides how did you even get the lock off of it?" she demanded. I raised my hand waving my fingers and waggled my eyebrows at her. " Being the son of Hermes does have a few perks," I said with a smirk. She glared, I assume it wasn't as amusing as I had thought. Or she was upset I may have read all her secrets. Before she saw what I was reading, I had flipped through the pages, not really reading until I came across one I couldn't pass up - "One day, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, maybe even months from now I knew for a fact that Luke Castellean would be mine. And honestly, I couldn't wait for that day to come-"

My head was going around and around with those two sentences. I was at a loss for words. Did she love me? What did she mean by mine? I didn't know and as it turned out... I would never know...

* PRESENT *

I wanted her back now more than anything. Thalia was the logical  one who kept me from pulling stupid stunts, who always had my back in every fight. She had never abandoned me, heck she had even given her life so I could get Annabeth across the property line.She was always the first to stand up and defend her family, even though the exhaustion was clearly visible. I just couldn't help but wonder, if she had lived.. Who's side would she be on? Would I have stayed at the camp with Thalia? Or would we be on the run cursing the gods? Would she be Krono's favorite? She was s obviously more powerful than I was, because she was the daughter of Zeus... All these questions were just bringing up memories that I couldn't help but smile at.