Just a little flashfic/ficlet/shortfic/drabble/whatever you wanna call it that I thought of yesterday.

I wrote something similar to this a few months ago, but I don't care.

Disclaimer: I don't own PJO/HoO.

Broken Promises

By: Coqui's Song

I fight sleep until I simply can't keep my eyes open anymore. I know what awaits me once my dark eyes close, but it can't be stopped, and deep down inside of me, I know that I want this to happen; I want this with every fiber of my being. I want to see him smile at me. I want to see his sea-green eyes sparkle as they take me in, as if he's seeing me for the first time.

I want him to love me.

And this is the only way he can.

So I close my eyes, and I hear his voice wash over me like waves gently lapping on the shore.

"I missed you," he whispers as he embraces me.

My heartbeat speeds up and I tell him that I missed him, too.

We lie down together under the stars. He points out the constellations and I tell the different stories behind them, because he knows what is and I know what has been.

Something nags at me, though. Tugs at the corners of my mind, and I am somehow certain that not only do I know what has been, but I also know what will never be, and for some reason, what will never be is this.

Holding Percy's hand. Breathing in the smell of the sea as he wraps me into a hug. Wet kisses to my cheek, to my neck, to my lips.

How can something so right feel so wrong?

So I swallow in anxiety, just like every night. And, just like every night, I ask, my voice wavering slightly, "Percy, are you real? This isn't a dream?"

"This is real," he murmurs in reply.

Every night, he wipes away my salty tears. Kisses me. Gazes at me with beautiful sea-green orbs that blaze with love. Every night, Percy promises that this isn't a dream.

Every morning, I wake up alone in a cabin with walls made of obsidian and silver.

I realize with each morning that he has never kept a promise he made to me.

Do you know how hard it is for me to write a drabble like seriously whenever I try they end up being 3k or something. I finally write something below 500 words. Thank the gods.

Reviews are appreciated. :)

~Coqui's Song