maribelle park just wanted her string to lead to frank zhang, but his string only led him to hazel levesque. until, maribelle's mother sends her on a quest with frank, hazel, and a new boy by the name of percy jackson.
[ frank zhang ]
[ son of neptu...
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eight. trust
MARIBELLE SAT NEXT TO ELLA on the boat, the harpy muttering to herself. They hadn't planned on having her follow them, but Ella wouldn't leave Maribelle's side, having already decided for them that she'd be going.
As they sail, Frank told silly jokes to keep their minds off of what was waiting for them in Alaska. But Maribelle could barely pay any attention. Frank and Hazel were sitting too close for her liking, and Percy wasn't paying any attention either. She frowns, she wasn't going to talk about her troubles with a harpy.
Maribelle crosses her arms and looks out into the sea, trying not to sneak glances at Frank and Hazel.
No one will ever forgive you. No one will ever trust her again. She glances at Percy, wondering if she should tell him Phineas was right. That she can't be trusted, no one should forgive her. She should still be in the principia, or dead. Death would've been kinder than having to live with the regret, the guilt. Her family turned on her. Even though her half-siblings seemed to have forgiven her, she knew they didn't fully trust her. Not even Suzanne and Bellamy.
"Maribelle?" Percy speaks, startling her.
She stares wide-eyed.
"Hm?" She sneaks a glance at Hazel and Frank, they were both passed out, holding hands. She curses her mother silently. She had done this on purpose, probably still punishing her for what she had done. See what you can't have because of who you are?
"Are you, uh, are you alright?"
"Mhm," Maribelle says.
"About what Phineas said—"
"He's right," Maribelle winces. She sees Percy gripping the ballpoint pen that could be a sword at any second. "I mean, not now. You can trust me." Can he? "I—" Tears flood her vision and her lip wobbles, "I did a terrible thing."
"What did you do?" Percy asks warily.
Maribelle wipes the tears that were quickly falling, "In the first Titan War—I, I betrayed them."
Percy doesn't speak, he waits for Maribelle.
"You don't get it. You won't get it. But, I, I loved him. And, and he promised me all these wonderful things. He believed in me, he loved me, that's all I wanted. And in return, I betrayed my best friends."
Jason and Reyna . . . Bellamy and Suzanne . . .
Percy's grip loosens on his pen.
Maribelle cries, Ella moves further away from her.
"Gabe," Maribelle whispers, "His name was Gabe."
"Oh."
"He was tired of the gods and the way they used us. He was tired of his father ignoring him. He'd gotten the idea from some other demigod, I never knew who. But I know that there were a lot of others that agreed with this ideal, they worked together."
