Like you promised

~~chapter 3~~

My bones shattered and my heart dropped, the feeling of rage crawled up my spine. I was silent for a good measure of time, my arms folded as I just kept my gaze to the floor. Luke continued his not so civil discussion with Percy

"Now Percy, how would you like to die?" Luke pulls out his sword Backbiter and raises the tip to lift Percy's head.

"No Luke!" I beg "please don't hurt him," Luke ignored me, he waited
for an answer from Percy.

"Make your decision Percy, you should feel grateful I'm letting you choose your death" he smirked a little still holding his sword without a struggle.

"Annabeth-" Percy moved his attention to me but before he could say anything Luke intruded him,

"Enough." Luke sighed in boredom, "ill deal with the sea boy later, Alec and Beatrice take Percy down to the cella" he pointed his fingers to two Demigods that grabbed Percy by the hands forcing him to walk. I still stayed still in my spot frightened to move. "Clear out!" Luke shouted making me shudder, all his soldiers and followers left the large control room scattering out. It was just me and him, he slowly turned around to face me. A rise of anger filled the air surrounding me, we were alone and I wanted to just let it all out.

"Did I even mean anything to you? Or was it just once after Thalia died I was just pointless because only Thalia mattered to you." I yelled at him furious for all he's done

He sighed with a little temper I guess from my statement "do you really think that, that you meant nothing to me" he gritted through his teeth.

"Yes! I do okay because if you did you would never betray me, you left me broken! Because you were the one person I trusted for the longest time and it felt like you stabbed me in the back and let's not forget, the time I did not side with you and your resolution was to end my life. ALSO that time you were going to have Percy watch me be eaten and then you tricked me into holding the sky for you!" My face felt hot and tears welled in my eyes. Luke saw it all the rage, tears the betrayal he saw all the pain inside of me, he's known me for years, Luke's watched me grow up, he knows my weaknesses and when something's wrong, and I don't know if I hate it or- All I know is that I used to feel protected when he knew (before he betrayed the camp). "I was like a sister to you Luke" I sobbed "and you were like my protective big brother... you were even more than that at one point." As the tears were unleashed leaking from my eyes.

Luke's eyes turned shallow "Annabeth-" it was like he lost his words "I know after everything I've done, you pretty much hate me but that never changed what you were to me" his tone went from '80' hating Percy to '1' apologising, and I missed him. "But don't you dare think that you meant any less to me then Thalia" even though he said those last words harshly, I felt relieved like a billion questions were just answered and my heart felt like it was beating uneasily.

"Do you remember your promise?" My expression was hopeful and he could see it.

"Like I could ever forget," Luke disarmed himself leaning his sword up against a chair. I cried more and my words muffled the first time but then I repeated my sentence,

"Then why did you break it?" I felt weak I have no idea why it's so hard to tell myself I no longer care for him when I clearly do.

"I never broke your promise Annie, and I never meant to betray you or Thalia, I just... want a world- a better world without the gods." His eyes never left me even the moments when I just stared at the floor ashamed of my tears. "But there were moments when I felt like you betrayed me," I held back my gasp.

"Because I didn't side with you?" I asked shaking,

"That and the times you, Thalia and I always talked about the gods and how we felt-" he took a deep breath "I just believed you'd side with me, maybe you would've if Percy never came along." He seemed to tense from speaking "I promised myself I'd protect you for as long as I could after Thalia died. And I will always protect you Annie but times have changed and we're on different sides."

"You know I would've sided with you!" I spat out "yes maybe Percy stopped me from joining somehow, just like he stopped me from joining Artemis, but I know that Kronos rising is worse then-then the gods living. He ate his children what makes you think he won't eat you?-"

"You were going to join Artemis?" Luke interrupted me

"Luke you were the only reason why I didn't join when I was 7, you were family and once you left I felt like I could never trust men again, but then there was Percy... and Grover" I smiled at there names a little, thinking of the three of us together comforted me. "To everyone, I was strong when you left, on the inside... I felt like I was dying, it felt like I lost someone else I cared for and now he's gone forever."

"What do you mean?" He asked confused.

"The Luke I knew is dead" I growled, "now take me to Percy."

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I'm so pleased with the amount of views my fanfic has already gotten I imagined I'd get 5 reads in a year because there so many other amazing story's on this app thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed this chapter, another note sorry if you've found mistakes if you have pleased tell me I probably skimmed over it.

Date released: 30/June/2017