Luke

It had been hours since Thalia and Annabeth had been captured by Kronos.

Other then the few words she had said when I first saw her, Thalia still wasn't talking to me.

She had sat down in the corner farthest away from me and turned away, and hadn't spoken since then.

Annabeth, on the other hand, did talk to me from time to time. She would ask me questions like how long I'd been in there (I didn't know but it had felt like months) or why Kronos had taken me and Ethan and Chiron (He had taken me and Ethan because we knew his plans and couldn't risk it if we joined the demigods at camp half-blood. As for Chiron, he had mentioned some plan that needed the Centaur out of camp).

I wanted so bad to go and talk to Thalia. I didn't blame her for hating me. It was my fault completely. I had joined Kronos and helped him try to destroy camp. I was the reason so many half-bloods had died. I deserved her silence after everything I'd done.

Still, it hurt.

She wouldn't even look at me.

Finally, I got up and walked over to her.

"Hey." I said.

"Hi," she replied, not looking at me. I realized she was drawing something in the dust on the floor.

"What're you doing?"

"Trying to find a place out of here." Then I heard her mutter more quietly, "so we can finish this stupid quest and I can get back to the hunters."

She turned away from me.

"I- I'm sorry." I tried again. "For everything I did before."

She didn't reply.

I walked back to Annabeth and sat down, putting my head in my hands.

"She needs some time."

I looked up. "What?"

"Thalia. She was so focused on getting you back, she never thought about what she'd do once we saw you again. It's all she's been thinking about the past few days. She wanted to see you again so bad. Just give her some time." Annabeth said.

I opened my mouth to reply when Thalia jumped up. "I got it!"

"What?" Annabeth and I said at the same time.

"I know how to get us out of here."

***

"How? We're locked in by magic. Courtesy of Medea." I muttered that last part mostly to myself. I'd been trying to get out of here for months now, using my gift from Hermes. Medea's magic crossed out anything I knew. Eventually, I gave up.

"Back in Hal's house, when you were looking through the computer, I saw this spell for unlocking doors with the strongest magic."

"Yeah but none of us can do magic." Annabeth pointed out.

"I can, a little bit." Thalia said. We both must have seemed shocked, because she added, "what just because I'm a hunter doesn't mean I cant learn magic."

She walked toward the cage door and put her hand on the lock, whispering something I guessed was a spell.

The lock clicked open.

We were finally free.