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    There had been a tragedy. The Ottawa Centaurs' plane had crashed in northern Georgia, during the course of their flight from Carolina to Tampa. They didn't know much else yet. All NHL activities were suspended for the next seven days.

    Wait, what?

    At seventeen, Shane Hollander met the love of his life. At twenty-nine, gravity took him away.

    Shane wishes he’d died, too.

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    'Every lover is a soldier. Love is a warfare.'

    I've changed this description a thousand times. None of them felt honest. I just wanted to read a story of broken people finding each other and dancing to good music in the middle of nowhere. I also wanted to figure out how to write about consuming love. The beginning isn't great, it slowly gets better. It's dramatic, extreme, a very unrealistic love story. But it is a love story. And there are a few lines that make me smile.

    (If you're back for a reread, might I interest you in a new story: If I Had a Boat - 2024)

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    On Percy's sixteenth birthday, stood before the Olympians; he never followed the line of Athena's gaze, never saw Annabeth's stricken face after he was offered godhood, and so his impulsivity got the best of him. At that moment, overcome with guilt and fear, he thought only of all the lives he might save if he were more powerful.

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    Thalia fell into step beside her. “This isn’t supposed to be your job anymore.”

    “Yeah, I thought that was the deal too,” Annabeth agreed.

    “I don’t like the sound of it, this prophecy. Seven? When has seven ever been a good number for a quest? And only demigods. Giants can only be defeated by gods and heroes together. How do they expect seven demigods to defeat them? The gods are fracturing and we all know its only going to get worse.” Then a thought seemed to occur to Thalia, and her jaw went slack.

    Annabeth could see Thalia had caught up. They both knew they were thinking of the same person, Annabeth could see it in her sister’s eyes; the image of a god that was purely Greek, undivided, with every reason to be involved in the progress of a demigod’s prophecy. They both knew he was sure to involve himself one way or another, he wouldn’t be able to help himself.

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    “One last question,” Percy requests, and she laughs again, and the autumn cold doesn’t touch him. “What made you want to become an architect?”

    Annabeth takes a moment to study him, and he doesn’t feel self-conscious. Finally, she speaks, and her breath turns to fog. “I wanted to build something permanent.”

    “‘Wanted’?” Percy clarifies, eyebrows furrowed. “Did you already do it?”

    “I’m doing it every day,” she answers enigmatically, a different kind of smile on her face that he can’t place. “It was nice meeting you, Percy. Thanks for walking me home.”

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    Annabeth Chase has been perfectly content with being alone - aside from the constant companionship of her best friend. Alone is safer. She likes alone. For years she's gone out of her way to avoid even the suggestion of so much as going on a date, afraid of stirring the ghost in her past.

    Piper McLean has never been content with being alone - even with the constant companionship of her best friend. Alone is terrifying. She hates alone. For as long as she can remember she's chased after any fleeting thing just too fill the void, while simultaneously closing herself off from anything, anyone, real.

    On the eve of their final semester of college their worlds get turned upside down, leaving Annabeth and Piper with a choice: take a leap of faith or risk never having the courage to fall at all.

    At least they know they'll have each other when they come out the other side.

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