Prompt #009 - Months

Prompt # 009 – Months

Remain

Time Frame: Three months after Luke left to join Kronos

Pairing: Annabeth/Luke (sort of)

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“Three months and I’m still breathing.”

-Sober

By: Kelly Clarkson

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He is gone.

Annabeth sits on the edge of her bed, staring down at the carpeted floor of her father’s home.

It has been three months. Has it really been that long? It doesn’t seem that long, yet it seems like so much longer.

Luke. Not Luke. Anyone but Luke.

That’s not true, a voice in her head whispers. She pushes it aside.

How could he? After so much. After so much they’d been through together, how could he just throw it all away? All those times he’d saved her live. All those times they’d laughed, and cried, and thought it was going to be the end.

How could he just…

Annabeth puts her head in her hands.

It has been three months. But here she is, living life as if there is nothing different. As if she can just live her life without Luke in it.

He was…her older brother, her mentor, her role model, her…he was all she had to look up to. He was all she had when she was little.

How can he just toss her aside like last month’s trash?

She deliberately takes in a deep breath and let it out.

All you need to do is keep breathing, Annabeth, she instructs herself. Just keep breathing.

She stands up and walks over to the window, looking out over San Francisco.

Three months.

She is here…and Luke isn’t.

~fin~