Percabeth and the New Camper - Discontinued ✖

Chapter 3

I freeze, the knife still raised. The I jump to my feet and try to run to the nearest hiding spot, forgetting that all the classrooms are locked. I decide to slowly advance with my knife out, but hidden just in case. I strain my ears and hear voices. "Are you sure, Leo?", asks a male voice that sounds like a teenager's. "Positive. He's got to be here somewhere. Why else would The Godling Tracker 2000 lead us here? Also, why are we even here?" Another male voice. "Leo, first of all, you just used incorrect pronouns. As far as we know, it could be a girl." This voice was definitely female. "Second of all, I still don't agree with that name. I mean, why do you have to be so obvious? And lastly, your tracker thing lead us here, right where your Monster Censor 2000 (I don't agree with that name either) said there would be a monster. Hey, did you just hear something?"

The footsteps stop. "Um, Annabeth?" It's the second voice again. "Shh, Leo." "But Annabeth-" "Leo, just shut up!" "But I found her..." "What?!"I press my body to the wall, but it's too late. They've already seen me. I prepare my knife, getting ready to use it. When they step into view, I'm momentarily confused. They look exactly like I always imagined Annabeth, Percy, Leo, Grover and Calypso to be. Then I realized that they're all carrying weapons. The Annabeth girl has carrying a bronze knife, 'Percy' a bronze sword, 'Leo' a wrench and a weird device that resembles a phone, 'Grover' his pipes and 'Calypso' a glowing silver knife.

Before I can tell myself that charging is probably not the best idea since I have never actually been in a fight before, I attack. I lash out at the girl identical to Calypso and she's so surprised that she doesn't side-step. I don't use my knife or anything, but I ram into her, knocking her down. Then I start to run. Almost immediately, I am stopped by the guy who looks like Leo. He grabs me and holds out his hand and he must have been some kind of magician, because it looked like his hand was on fire...weird. My knife is at such an angle that I can't use it against him. 

For a few moments, there is silence during which Percy and Annabeth's doppelganger approach us. Then, I start laughing. A crazy, insane laugh that probably would have belonged in a horror movie. 'Leo' (I'm just gonna call the clones after whom they look like) looks confused. "What?", he asks me. I stop laughing and say, "Did you seriously think that a anorexic, depressed, suicidal girl with voices in her heart would actually want to kill you?" And then, realization dawn on his face, but before he can do anything, I stab my knife into my abdomen and the world goes dark around me as I pass out. The voices in my heart call out gleefully like in my suicide letter. Finally! You finished what you started! Just before I lose consciousness completely, I whisper, "I love you and it's not your fault." 

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  "Why? Why would you leave us?" "What did we ever do to you?" Faces swim in and out of focus as I hear the prayers. I know they're talking to me, and that they are being honest. "I told you a million times that no matter what you think, there's always someone who cares about you.", says Katarina's voice. "Keine Sorge, Marlene, alles ist gut. Du kannst gehen, aber wir werden dich vermissen. Alle von uns." My mother, this time. "Marlène, reviens. Ons t'amime." My father. "We love you, Marlene." "We miss you." "I never thought I'd say it, but I'm sorry for everything I ever did to you. I know what you did was partly because of me. I'm not asking for forgiveness, just please come back to us." Toivo? Okay, that's just weird. "Hey, Marlene. Uh, I know this is stupid and that you probably can't hear me, but I just wanted you to know that your funeral is exactly the way you always wanted it to be. No priest, no God only Greek gods mentioned. We did everything we could to make it as ancient - Greek as possible. I miss you, we all do. Please come back to us. Please." But I don't want to. I want to stay gone. I want to die. I don't want my life anymore. Let me die. Please, just let me go.