"Why do you look so disappointed?" I asked curiously and she turned around, walking back into the back room we've been in. "Hey, don't just walk away." I said, grabbing her wrist and turning her to face me. "Why do you look kind of disappointed? Even if we die, we don't actually die, you can see your brother again regardless." I said, furrowing my eyes brows.

   "It means everything we do means a little less. We were opening up and talking and so scared we were going to die and now it's gone, all of that is just gone. Once we go back it will be like we're just some strangers, you'll go hang out with your friends, Annabeth will probably apologize and tell you she was wrong and beg for forgiveness, and I'll go off to the mortal world back to the streets." She said angrily, and I was surprised she was so angry, that's when she stormed upstairs, and I, being me, froze. Did she really care that much about her and I being friends?

    I was snapped out of my thoughts when I heard the sound of fighting, and I rushed up the stairs eagerly, watching her fight viciously, but 5 people were attacking her. "Maddy!" I shouted, and I ran forward, taking two people by surprise and I stabbed them, then I stood and kicked one in the knee and swung the dagger at his fallen form while using my other arm to grab someone's wrist who was swinging at Maddy, twisting it until I heard a snap. It was all going in a blur, and once everyone but Maddy and I were on the ground we paused, 5 people laying on the sound, one with a gaping hole through his forehead, others with chest wounds with cuts adorning their bodies. It was horrifying. It felt inhumane.

    "Don't ever, and I mean ever run into danger again." I sighed, and I hugged her tightly, but she was frozen, she didn't move a muscle to hug me back but I didn't care. This was the only thing keeping me sane at the moment, her, someone.

    "We don't die anyways." She said quietly and I shook my head.

    "I don't care, I might go insane if I see you die. And what if we're wrong?" I asked and she pulled away from me, frowning.

    "How would you go insane without me? You were doing fine when I found you?" She asked me and I found myself feeling scared, terrified.

   "Because once I start I can't stop," I gulped out, which only seemed to confuse her, "when I was in Tartarus, I couldn't stop using my power, I was overwhelmed by it, I'm scared that if I was alone, I couldn't control myself." I said nervously, she might run, she might kill me, she might freeze, I didn't know and it scared me.

    "You think if you didn't have someone that you'd go insane?" She asked me and I shrugged.

    "If I don't an an anchor, a reason, then I don't know, it's possible. You are my anchor, I have to fight, because I have to make sure you get to go home." I said sternly, and she seemed surprised. She was about to say something until an announcement came on.

    "Hello players! To celebrate the 200'th death, for dinner, friends of the players will be able to visit for the course after 3 public executions!" Ares voice played over the speaker system, 200 people dead already? It's been two days? Not even full ones! "If you guys look at the wall closest to you, this shows the burial site where everyone who died will go!" He said, Maddy and I looked, two hundred stones at least with people standing at each one.

   "We were wrong, we were so wrong." I gulped, grabbing Maddy's shoulder. "We better prepare our last words to our friends I guess, or I should. You are making it out of this alive." I said sternly and she shook my head.

   "You have your mom and your friends, you could probably get Annabeth back." She said, her eyes were watering, she was scared, I was the same. Fear grasped at me as I looked at the wall, people were crying, graves were everywhere.

   "I don't want Annabeth back," I started, "she left me because she was stubborn, she was angry, we weren't coping well for a while, anyways. Probably because she knew I wasn't telling her things, but now she knows if we're being watched." I said and she nodded.

    "But you're mom and your friends, you have so much more to live for. You can go back, make something for yourself, people need you."

    "Your brother needs you. You can live a normal life, you have a weaker scent than me, you can go to the mortal world, have a family." I said, and she shook her head.

"You want a normal life, you can go and find a lovely woman who could have your kids and you can live a normal life, the monsters know you can defeat them." She argued with me stubbornly.

"I can't have kids!" I said angrily before I sighed. "I can't have the life I want, that's why you need to go and live a life that's fulfilling enough for the both of us." I smiled and she shook her head, and we stood in silence, a peaceful one.

"It should be almost dinner, let's go before the rest of the people who were on this floor come back." She said and we walked quietly down the stairs. "Why can't you have kids?" She asked once we reached the bottom and I sighed, I should have known she'd ask.

"I got kicked a little to hard when I was a kid, I suppose because I went and got tested because Annabeth suggested, because she went to get tested to make sure she was able to have kids and I found out I couldn't." I gulped out. "I found out probably 2 weeks ago and I never got around to telling her. I don't think she even wanted kids but I told her I did."

"You haven't even masturbated, how would you have the nerve to have sex?" She asked and I blushed, rubbing my neck.

"I uh, was going to get therapy and try to slowly fix that issue but uh there's not really a point anymore." I shrugged, and we sat at the empty table in the middle of the room, we were both tired of being crammed in the small cubby room. "We really need to, uh, stop bringing that up." I blushed and she furrowed her eyebrows and tilted her head slightly, it was adorable.

"How come?" She asked curiously and I looked away, there's no reason for me to be attracted to her when Annabeth and I just broke up, and we're in a mansion where people are killing each other. I should expect her to kill me at any given moment.

"They're watching, remember?" I laughed and she suddenly face palmed and rubbed her face.

"Oh my gods, we said a lot, didn't we?" She asked and I nodded, turning pink.

"I'm so terrified of what my friends are going to say I told you so much. I really hoped I wouldn't make it out alive and wouldn't have them confront me but I guess my luck." I grumbled and she nodded, slumping in her chair.