SORRRRRYYYY! DON"T KILL ME! Half-way through the week everything was going good and then a lot of stuff hit at one time. Gosh, it was stressful. I am so sorry! I started this chapter maybe an hour ago, and finished it 30 minutes ago. :P Yeah, so this was last minute yeah...
Anyway... Ship of the Dead comes out tomorrow and I am very very much excited. I was on tumblr, and someone posted a bunch of spoilers, and I saw them and I cried! I'LL BE OKAY! Just I need to forget that I saw those! UGH!
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN PJO OR HOO
10/2/17
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Nate's POV
July 23
"Wait. Hold the phone. I thought we were camping out here tonight? You know, take a break. A much needed one." I asked.
Annabeth swung her backpack over her shoulder. "Nope. I am officially done with these stupid Katastrofí mou. I want to know why they're out for my blood."
We had just watched Jason walk away. It was strange to think that we could be safe and sound if we just walked a few feet. But I knew that wasn't an option. After this past week, I figured we were going to finally solve this mystery. More and more was being uncovered, and the more uncovered the more Annabeth breaks. And if Annabeth breaks, our whole team does, too.
That's not an option.
"So what are we going to do? We can't just turn ourselves in. That's stupid." Sara said. She turned to Annabeth, who was smiling. "Oh, no! No! No! We are not just going to hand ourselves in to those-those things. That is a stupid idea, Annabeth."
"Or it could be a really smart one." Annabeth countered. "If we do this right, we could beat them."
"Annabeth, are you sure this is a good idea?" I wanted to make sure she wasn't just saying this. Annabeth rarely ever just handed herself over. Well, she doesn't now, so I'm just gonna go with she didn't used to.
"Yes, I am." She began walking towards the woods "I have been thinking this over. No-Sara don't even start." She pointed her finger at Sara, who had her hands spread apart, as if to say, What? "I know what you were going to say. You were going to say that sometimes 'thinking without consulting is a bad thing.' I really hate that Katie taught you that." Annabeth bent down and picked up a hand full of grass and threw it at Sara. "Anyway… The Katastrofí mou know my weakness. They know exactly what to say to bring me down. Last time we saw each other, made it particularly worse because of Jason being there and everything. This time I am not going to let it bother me. No matter what they say."
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is what I like to call brave face.
Brave face is something I started saying a long time ago. Like before I met Annabeth.
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~Flashback~
Growing up it was just me and my dad. We came from quite a poor family. My dad would try to show we were doing okay, but I soon caught on. He was putting on a "Brave Face"
Everyone has 2 different faces. One shows exactly how you are feeling, the other hides everything. If you have a bad day, you stick your mask on, and everything is good on the outside. On the inside, you feel like you want to crawl into a corner and cry. When you put your mask on, not only are you lying to other people, but you're also lying to yourself.
My dad would do that all the time, but as I got older, his mask became transparent. Sometimes, at night I would hear him crying in the corner. I decided I was going to do something about that. My dad was my hero. Seeing him like that just wasn't okay with me.
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