Don't get me wrong; I love Percabeth. But that scene with Luke and Annabeth as he lay dying.. it got to me and I had to write this. Spoiler alert for The Last Olympian... but I guess that's kind of obvious.

I wrote this in about 10 minutes because of intense feels. I'm sorry if my grammar is all over the place.

I see it.

Elysium.

Hades was merciful.

I figure Annabeth has something to do with why I'm in this paradise.

Annabeth.

The only one who still believes in me despite everything I had done.

Her words still echo in my mind as I faded.

"You were like a brother to me but I didn't love you."

When people say words cut like knives, I laugh derisively. Knives hurt a hell lot, that I know from experience. I doubt that words could affect me the same way, no matter how cruel.

However, the words that she had admitted were not cruel. They were not intended to hurt me. But they had.

Coming from anyone else, they wouldn't. But they came from Annabeth Chase. The little girl who looked up to me when Thalia and I rescued her from her home. The little girl who grew up to be a strong young woman. The little girl who isn't quite so little anymore.

I know she could never hurt me. Either verbally or physically. Even though I had broken promise after promise and hurt her too many times to count, she could never do the same to me. She had a soft spot for me, I know. And I took advantage of this when I hurt her time and time again. But the pain from her words alarmed me. Why am I so hurt from meaningless words? But they weren't meaningless. I had known deep down that she was getting over the small childhood crush. I could feel her pulling away from me as she met Percy and went on adventures with him. At that time, I ignored the pangs in my heart and passed them off as muscle spasms but now I know better. I felt the pain of the last person who believed in me leaving me. Like everyone else has.

My father... No, I won't go there.

Who knew I could feel so much pain in Elysium?

I know I couldn't get away this easily. Not after all the pain and suffering I had caused.

This was one of my punishments. Remembering Annabeth's last words to me that will haunt me forevermore in this cursed heaven.

I bet Hades will cook up another punishment for me – something I know wouldn't be merciful.