Loss of life

Plans and crushes

Chapter 27

I flutter my eye lids open, letting in a ray of sunlight. Squinting I lift my head up off the table, a piece of paper sticking to my cheek. I bring my hand to my cheek and pull the paper away, slamming it to the table. Stupid paper.

Jackson and I were up all night planning out our attack on Hades. We actually came up with a pretty good method of attack an I think it may be enough to take him out.

But, technically we weren't up all night. We fell asleep after five in the morning.

Jackson's head starts to move and he lets out a low groan. He lifts his head and smiles at me with a sleepy face.

"Morning beautiful" he compliments.

"Morning handsome" I say smiling.

Jackson leans back in his chair and stretches his arms, yawning.

"We did a good job didn't we" Jackson says placing his hands on his knees, leaning forward.

"Yeah we did" I say, "if only we didn't have to stay up so late"

I attempt to rub the sleep from my eyes, but realize it's no use. I feel like someone sucked the life out of me. And that says a lot, since I have no life left in me.

"You look horrible" Jackson says wrinkling his nose.

I make the face that says 'really I had no clue' at him.

"Thanks"

The sarcastic grin fades off my face as someone knocks on the bedroom door.

"I'll get it"

Jackson rises from the chair and hobbles over to the door. He swings it open and greets Ronnie.

"Morning buddies" Ronnie says smiling and walking over to the table with Jackson.

"So we came up with a plan" Jackson says clapping his hands together.

"Yeah" I say.

"Okay care to explain" Ronnie laughs.

"Sure thing", Jackson says, "we know hades contacts us through the connect picture so the first obvious thing to do would be to destroy the connect picture. It's already cracked but we need it to be dust and ashes. If we don't burn it then Hades still may be able to contact us through the picture and we don't want that" Jackson explains.

Ronnie sits there and takes it in, chewing on his upper lip.

"We're going about this all wrong" Ronnie says shaking his head in disagreement.

"What? What do you mean? We stood up all night looking at this plan, we know it's perfect" I say protesting.

"Calm down Elena. I have an easier way to do this" Ronnie says placing his hand over mine.

He's right, I should just calm down. After all, he's only trying to help.

"Sorry" I say and nod, taking a deep breath.

"No need to apologize little lady. Now as I was saying, I think I have a better and easier way. Don't destroy the connect picture, not at first at least"

I stare at Ronnie and out of the corner of my eye I can see Jackson mimicking me. I can only imagine the look on his face right now, because Ronnie is out of his mind.

"Stop looking at me like I'm crazy" ronni says putting his hands up in defense and chuckling.

"Well what do you expect us to do? You just told us a out of the box idea that possibly couldn't work!" I say raising my voice. I push my chair back, the wooden legs skidding across the floor as I stand up and walk away from the table.