...𝖜𝖊 𝖈𝖆𝖓 𝖜𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖊 𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖞...

❛why her?❜

❛why anybody else when she exists?❜

my love, you have too many smiles left in you to be so sad. 

— atticus

presenting ...

༉‧₊˚.彡 MATUTINE !

published :: 28.4.23

started :: 05.05.23

ended :: ?

...Lorena McGee always wanted to die.

Maybe it was a rare wish, perhaps strange. But the desire burnt in her soul, and ignited her eyes. She had seen the vengeance they longed for, with all of their body and soul, all of it directed at her. She had seen the fear that clouds their eyes, their mind preparing to defend themselves when they talk to her. She had seen the destruction she caused, the broken hearts and minds she left in her wake. When she walked, blood trailed behind her.

The word she was looking for...was monster.

But at the same time, she wasn't. Monsters were made. They were once humans with souls as soft as silk, their eyes once had the shine of kindness. Lorena was a monster from the day she was born. She may not have killed some of them, but she watched. She watched them pleading for mercy, she watched them getting knocked over, again and again. That was the type of monster Lorena was.

When she was at her lowest, bodies flashed in her eyes. Her mother. Her brother. Her classmates.

They had gotten her wish. She did die, after all.

"You're a hero", Percy smiled, as he kneeled beside her dying body.

Lorena shook her head. "One good deed doesn't make the bad deeds vanish."

Pandora's box has been open since the start of mankind. It was the sweet taste of revenge for the gods, the sweet buffer from letting mortals live their lives. It was cruel, but kind in a way. Without it, no one would know the difference between good and bad.

Close it, Amphitrite begged. Close it.

The Fates had plans. Lorena was their pawn in a bigger game of revenge. They did not care for the quest itself, but the people she would meet. The Seven. Two prophecies tangling together, impossible to break. A tragedy from the very beginning.

It will break your heart, and we will make sure they stomp on it, the Fates said gleefully.

Leo Valdez was exactly what Lorena had been trying to avoid. His jokes, his grin and his words infuriated her, but if it was in a good way or bad way, she couldn't tell. He made her want to open up, he made her want to think that she deserved this. He made her want to live life again.

We have you right where we want you, the Fates laughed.

Be obedient, Lorena. Do you think you deserve peace? , her mother smiled.

Monsters deserved bitter ends. Creatures worse than monsters deserved the worst of the worst. This quest was written in the stars but the ending....well, everyone has a choice in the end.

༉‧₊˚. lorena 'lora' mcgee

daughter of amphitrite.

'it's you, it's you, it's always you,

everything I do,

I tell you all the time,

heaven is a place on earth with you.'

༉‧₊˚. leonidas 'leo' valdez

son of hephaestus

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