a/n: welp first thing i've posted in a while. so my friend ImpossibleThings12(who you should totally check out her writing is amazing) made an october writing challenge, and well i decided ah well, why not do it? so here's the first one guys! sorry it was posted late.

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a girl falls

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and the bodies kept falling, falling, falling, down to the ground, slipping away like ashes ashes ashes.

no, she couldn't save them.

they weren't alive, and neither was she.

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there were the demons.

oh, the demons that would never leave her alone, the voices in her head that wouldn't stop screaming and shouting. the products of the people who were supposed to be her parents, yet never were.

they screamed that she was a coward, she couldn't save them, your fault your fault your fault was all she heard.

and eventually she began to agree, and the screaming changed to a whisper—

my fault my fault my fault.

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she slid down to the floor, head in her hands, sobbing, she didn't even know anymore. the tears stung, and the utter pain in her body, the utter pain of her mind. she couldn't live like this, could she?

no. she couldn't. she wasn't alive.

not anymore.

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the tears were only a product of the pain, weren't they? so why did they sting every time they fell back to their owner, why did they hurt too?

everything hurt.

why, why did everything hurt?

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she was a void. she was broken, and no one was there to fix her.

and why?

her. she was the reason there was no one left, she was the reason that she couldn't live anymore. she was broken, and she couldn't be fixed.

not anymore.

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she didn't even know anymore, so confused, twisted into a whirlpool of emotions and the void of inky darkness that was her mind.

annabeth chase was falling down into an endless void, and this time, no one was there to save her.