PJO Oneshots

Death In The Athena Cabin

This is not a request i just got inspired so i wrote.

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Annabeth could hear her open the door from across the room. She was here. And she wouldn't leave until she got what she wanted.

"We're over here." Annabeth said feebly, raising a shaking hand. Her tears shone brightly in the pale moonlight.

Annabeth was sitting on the cold floor, next to the poor young camper's bunk. The camper had injured herself on the climbing wall, and couldn't be healed. She was to spend her last moments with her family.

Everyone else had gone to sleep. Their tears were dried. They didn't want to see Death take another camper. They had seen it too many times. They were tired of it.

No matter how tired Annabeth got, she was expected to stay with the dying campers through the whole process. Its not like she wouldn't have, as she felt obligated to comfort them anyways. But something about watching the life deplete from her siblings' eyes made her want to receive the same fate.

Death walked over gracefully, taking the small camper's hand from Annabeth.

"Better luck next time." Death said mournfully. Almost as if she regretted taking the child's life. But it was her job. And she was condemned to do it for all of eternity.

Annabeth let the words play in her head, over and over again. "Better luck next time."  There wouldn't be a next time. It was just something Death said to kids, to make them feel better. Annabeth had watched this enough times to know that. But each time stung worse than the last.

Annabeth tilted her head away from the pale camper, and released her hand as it grew icey in Annabeth's. It was over. She was dead.

Death waved a goodbye to Annabeth, a cruel joke considering she would be back soon enough.

another one inspired by @simpingforsallyjackson on tiktok! she makes the most creative tiktoks and i was trying to put the one this was inspired by on here but wattpad wouldn't let me :(
- lizzy