estrangedlestrange: don’t let me fall behind (chapter 2)She had tried to put together a new se
estrangedlestrange: don’t let me fall behind (chapter 2)She had tried to put together a new self. New memories that could never fill the emptiness of the missing ones. She moved on. She pushed away her past and lived for the future. His face had been pale with shock, but the years had been kind to him, the last of teenage lankiness had become long limbs with firm muscles. His jaw was defined and shadowed in a way he was too young to have the last time she saw him. His eyes, though. His eyes were exactly how she remembered them. Exactly how they were in her first memory. Bright and earnest, full of pain and love, and entirely focused on her.She had spent so long running from those eyes. They were a ghost from her past she wanted to leave behind. But seeing them again, Annabeth just felt lost and sad. Part of her, a small part she had to silence for sake of living, yearned to remember why he looked at her like that. Part of her, so quiet she could pretend she couldn’t hear it, would give anything for her memories back. Shaking her head, Annabeth tried to steady her breath. Her memories were gone. The Annabeth that knew Percy was gone. He was just a stranger on the street, standing under a geyser of water, and looking at her like she was his world.Read from the beginning -- source link