[ okay forget alibis for a second. he's right. thalia is a hero. she's always thought she was, anyway. she's always done the right thing. she sacrificed herself for luke and annabeth. she always fought on the right side. she's never crossed that line separating heroes and villains.

she'll have a weird heroes guilt complex. that's non-negotiable. ]

I won't fuck it up. If I do, Jason dies, and that's not happening. If you fuck it up, Annabeth dies. Also not acceptable. So we can worry about our feelings after we pull this off, if at all. [ jason's her hostage. she has to kill to save him. leaving things to luke would save annabeth, but she lost jason once already. and he doesn't deserve this. annabeth doesn't. the people they're planning to kill don't.

well, draco maybe does. he's kind of a dick.

it's wrong. it's not right. she knows that. but she can't just sit around and accept the people she loves dying, even if that's right. thalia can make it through bloodshed and a trial on sheer willpower and pride alone, can't she? and love. and then she can shatter into a million pieces or whatever comes after when she stops acting and starts thinking. ]

I'd ask you the same but we both know you already did a triple backflip swandive into oblivion.

[ look she can only go so long without jabbing a finger into a gaping wound between the two of them to see if it still hurts. despite the fact that the answer is always yeah, still hurts, please stop tearing me open any day now.

wait shit right she's supposed to be, like, enticing him to work with her here or something. play nice. right. why's that so hard? ]

I'd say no offense but, you know. Let's just split the difference and say "go team".