If I fall you will catch me?

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Thalia POV
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I had just gotten an anonymous text message on my phone. Some one by the initials of TC were texting me, something about that sounded so familiar like something I should remember but couldn't. Who ever they were has send me a cryptic message saying "La di da, time is ticking Thalia
~TC". I would have to deal with this after we found Annabeth it's been almost six days without her and everything is falling apart with her missing. Percy hadn't slept in days trying to find some possible clue to her direction but the poor dude was stuck, he knew nothing about who had kidnapped his girlfriend. Frankly, I had no clue either but i had this feeling, it was unsettling like I should know what it is but I didn't. This left me hanging for days, and stole my nights of sleep away. I went out to the balcony, nothing I enjoyed more than a strong wind in my hair, makes me realize of the greater forces around us and how small we truly are.  I haven't dated anyone in a while since my ex-Luke who should be in jail, so whenever I'm lonely I come out here and stand at the edge spread my arms out and have a little titanic moment by myself. I miss my best friend so much, she was the kindest and smartest person I knew, not a single soul on this Earth had anything bad to say about Annabeth Chase. She always had strong relationships with everyone that were healthy. My memory was killing me, it was like having all the pieces and trying to put them together without the big picture. I took out my phone again and looked at that message from TC then it clicked. I spun around and yelled "PERCY!"

Percy POV
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The space between me and Annabeth is killing me it's harder to reach her even though I try. I was lost on her whereabouts but I knew it had to be something bad. Last night in my nightmares I was too late to find her and she was bled to death tied in chair tortured for a crime I never knew about, and I couldn't save her I wasn't fast enough to get to her. She had died and I couldn't do anything about it, out of the many nightmares that was the worst by far and it haunts me even when I'm awake. Everyone here loves her, but not nearly as much as I do, I love her damn me to hell to be without her. All this stress was eating me up, so I went to rest my eyes, never to sleep and be haunted. As I lay down I hear someone call my name from a distance, and soon enough I see Thalia running in panting.
"Hey, hey calm down. What's up?" I said to her, she took a moment to catch het breath
"I know who took Annabeth. It's Luke"
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Flashback
Summer last year

Annabeth and Luke just started dating, but only a few months ago he had blown it off with Thalia, Annabeths best friend. Thalia had never talked about why they had split, but she always warned Annabeth to stay away from him. But love gets the best of us, and Annabeth had fallen deep with her childhood friend, almost too deep. Thalia had loved Luke and he loved her, they were supposed to be a match made in Heaven till something took control of Luke and Thalia couldn't stand it. He had fallen victim to drug abuse and couldn't stop, he would come and see Thalia late at night higher than the Empire State Building. He would say bad and nasty things about her things no one should have to listen to. That was at the early stages, soon the verbal abuse went physical till one night he tried to assault her, and the boy she once knew and loved  was gone into this dark cycle of abuse. Her heart was wrecked but she left him, got a new number and pulled her heavy heart away from him. Till one day he found her, and accused her of cheating and mistreating his poor soul. If Nico hadn't walked in the room that day she might not still be alive. A gun was held to her head ready and loaded is something you don't forget as long as you live. Nico had knocked the gun out of Luke's hand probably moments before he shot Thalia. In many ways they owe each other their life's, hadn't it been Thalia who kicked Luke in the face, the bullet would have pierced Nicos heart instead of his shoulder. Shortly after the authorities were called in and Luke went to jail. His drug lord house was confiscated and his men prosecuted. The one place he had held open was the warehouse which was his safe house since a young kid hiding away from a crazy mother. And poor Annabeth never knew about Luke's doings till his trial. She went to visit him one day in prison and after that nothing was the same. Thalia was the only one who knew the whole story of their conversation in his cell.   And frankly after that he hated Annabeth more than the girl who had put him in jail to begin with.

      Driven by rage and abandonment Luke was out of prison and as dangerous as ever.

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Annabeth POV

I ran and I ran in every possible direction till I found a door which was, naturally, locked. I had to work quick and escape before any of his men came to find me. I pulled out some pins from my hair and picked the lock as quickly as I could. I stepped out into the street relief rushing over me till I heard a loud "Hey!" and spotted two of Luke's man. No matter how tired I was and how much my ankle hurt I started sprinting and running away from them. I looked around trying to recognize my surrounding but nothing seemed familiar except the smell. It smelled like horse waist and stacks of garbage left outside for long periods of time. And then it hit me I was back in the city probably some poor neighborhood. If I wanted to get away safely I had to find a main road or a cop. The people behind me were catching up their eyes ablaze so I ran faster towards the north. I tripped and rolled on my side scraping my arm the little precious distance I had between us was now closed and I felt a pair of arms grab me. Immediately I elbowed one in the face and kicked the other in the balls and started running more in pain now than ever. I sprinted down the street and quickly ducked into a department store and hid quickly under the stacks of clothes. I heard them come in and look around while I was bleeding out slowly but thank the gods they did not see me or else I would have been dead. As soon as they left I went up to the cashiers station and called 911 on the landline only to pass out from exhaustion and blood loss. I was traumatized and
nothing could change that.

It's been a while mates welcome back
~Elli the Carrot