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My head was pounding as I looked at the door. Adrenaline and nerves made my heart beat rapidly at my chest, I didn’t know what to think. Not at all, so I just stood there while my friends regrouped.
"Someone has to stay behind, and when your time comes, do not despair."Nemesis had told me that. I was only 10, I don’t think I understood it. All 9 of us had made it out, Clytius and the witch were gone, this wasn’t my time, I didn’t have to go yet.. right? Can’t this be a happy day?
We all started our trek out of the Necromanteion now that Pasiphae’s labyrinth had collapsed, but as I took a step, I looked back, and-
Percy wasn’t with us.
I watched as he took a step back into the doors. Annabeth scrambled back. Trying to pull him out, before Nico put a gentle hand on her shoulder. “Annabeth… there has to be a sacrifice.” His voice was calm, but I could see the pain in his eyes.
Hazel shot him a glare, Annabeth was close to tears, Jason had to hold her back from going in with Percy. Frank was trying to shake awake an unconscious Leo.
I shook my head, snapping myself out of my near-disassociation. “Damn you, Percy.” I thought to myself. “You got a good ending, you’re gonna get a good ending, no way I’m letting you be a martyr now.”