Fic: The Wronged and the Wicked (Percy Jackson)

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Title: The Wronged and the Wicked
Characters/Pairings: Thalia Grace, Luke Castellan, slight Thalia/Luke
Rating: PG13
Warnings: Spoilers for the first series
Genre: Drama/Angst
Word-count: 184
Disclaimer: I don't own anything in relation to this.
A/N: Written for ladyeni for International Women's Day 2012.
Summary: And after everything, this just isn't fair. This takes the cake. This is the end of the line.

Thalia freezes.

Of course she freezes. This isn’t fair. This shouldn’t be allowed to happen.

Luke is her friend. Luke is…

Everything she ever wanted. And now she has to kill him, and after spending almost all of her life being chased and turning into a tree, well, this just isn’t fair. This takes the cake. This is the end of the line.

She wants to throw down her spear and shout that she’s had enough. That this is too much. That she can’t take it anymore, that she won’t do this, anything else, just please not this.

She feels like she has been screaming about that all her life: that it isn’t fair. Like it has never stopped, all of this crap that they take.

If this were Luke, he wouldn’t hesitate.

And it’s Luke she has to kill.

She levels her spear, the moment of hesitation over, and strikes.

It might be the wrong thing to do, but it’s what she does, and if it saves the lives of the few friends she has left, then she won’t regret it.

She won’t.

Comments

[sunburst-city.livejournal.com]

You wonderful person, you. This was short but to the point and ohmygod it makes me yearn for more of these two.

[ladyeni.livejournal.com]

Their story is so heartbreaking... Why couldn't Rick have given them some sort of closure? She got trapped and some rock when he was dying?! Come on! :S
Anyway, I really liked this! :)