Percy Jackson One Shots

The River

"He's not the one I'm pretending to be friends with."

"What is that supposed to mean?" The girl asked eyes narrowing.

She stood. "You seem to know everything about me. So why don't you figure it out." With that said she grabbed her jacket and stalked out headed toward the river.

~~~~

He sat at the base of the tree rather than in it. He glared at the water as if it was source of all his problems.

Well in a sense it was. Here was the only place he could feel close to the person who was stolen from him by the river. What he would give to see her again. He would do anything. Anything.

He didn't even realize he had gotten closer to the river until the cold water filled his veins along with panic and fear.

He did his best to get t the surface of the water which was no longer calm. As if it had sensed him in the water and decided to pick up the speed. He coughs in splutters flailing trying to get his bearings. All memories of swimming and swim classes seem to have been replaced with fear 101.

He cried out in pain when he hit a rock. He held on to it but his grip was slipping.

How the hell was he going to get out of this?

She had always been there. She told him she'd keep him from falling in but had driven her away, just like everyone else.

What doesn't destroy you, leaves you broken instead.
Got a hole in my soul growing deeper and deeper.
And I can't take one more moment of this silence.
The loneliness is haunting me.
And the weight of the world's getting harder to hold up.

It comes in waves, I close my eyes.
Hold my breath and let it bury me.
I'm not okay, and it's not alright
Won't you drag the lake and bring me home again?

Who will fix me now? Dive in when I'm down?
Save me from myself, don't let me drown.
Who will make me fight? Drag me out alive?
Save me from myself, don't let me drown.

'Cause you know that I can't do this on my own.

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"Are you an idiot!?"

He looked down from where he was climbing the tree to the girl standing there staring at him.

"Not last I checked," he replied. "Now, can I help you?"

"You're so stupid your climbing the tree next to the river! The river! Are going to fall in!"

"No I'm not," he protested comfortably sitting himself on a branch and looking down at her. "I've done this many times."

"That doesn't make it a good idea!"

He shrugged. "Why do you care anyway? You've never talked to me before despite us being in three classes together."

She blinked surprised but ignored his question. "And what are you going do if you fall in?"

He paused and cocked his head to one side. "I suppose you'd save me," he decided.

"Me!?" She cried indignantly.

"So you'd just let me die then? Wow what's kind soul you are."

She frowned before letting out a sigh and situating down at the base of the tree.

"What are you doing?"