I pushed past tree after tree making my way far enough away from camp, that I wouldn't accidentally hurt someone.Jason was tagging along but he had fallen behind a little, giving me some space. After all this time of waiting we finally found a way to save Luke. It wasn't exactly a way we were too thrilled about, but it was a way none the less. We all divided up the majority of the responsibilities, Naturally Jason and I took the lightning and Percy took the sea water. But we got stuck on the last couple details. No one wanted to be in charge of finding a bone of a fallen hero or blood of the innocent. It sounded awful, but I was going to keep my head down and not ask questions. I was willing to do anything for Luke, anything that would return him to me.

Last night I was in his room when he snapped. One minute he he was loving and warm and the next he was evil, slapping me hard across my face. When I cried out he just smiled, "Such foolishness, as to think you could suppress me. It does not matter how strong your love is, I can promise you it is not stronger than I. Every touch you share with him, is also with me. You can not escape me. I know your fears Thalia Grace, and I will use every single one of them against you. Starting with the torture of you beloved Lucas." And just like that he was gone and Luke was screaming. Clawing at his hair, eyes squeezed closed in pain. I started to walk towards him but he just yelled at me and told me to leave him there. It was hard, but I did it, I walked away, leaving him alone in his misery.

Now it just fueled my determination to help him. Finally stopping at a tall tree a few miles from the main camp. I needed to calm down a little or my aim would be terrible. I pushed everything from my mind, until I was nothing but raw emotion. Hate and desire filling me until I burst, and then came the lighting. A huge bolt struck the tree right in front of me, again and again an again. Okay so maybe it was a bit overboard, but I didn't want to leave anything to chance.

As soon as the tree was done steaming I looked over to Jason, he nodded and flew up to pick a good sized branch to become a spear. It only took him a few minutes then he was back, holding the branch out in front of him admiring his choice.

We walked back to camp. Jason offered to fly us back but my stomach was already in knots, I doubted it could handle flight. We walked at a quick pace, it was silent other than the occasional comment. Things were still a little awkward between us, he had expressly forbade me from seeing Luke, and seeing as I am older and frankly didn't care about his "authority" I ignored him.

Camp was almost in view when he grabbed my wrist turning me around. "Thalia, I don't want us to be like this forever, I know you're mad at me for trying to keep you away from Luke. But you have to understand that I was just trying to protect you. He is in many ways unstable, unpredictable, and dangerous. But now that we have a way to save him we need to be on the same team. I want to help you, I really do. I want you to be happy. Just promise me you wont see him again until we have the spear ready. He's progressively getting worse, and we're so close to fixing him. Please. Just..." I didn't even let him finish I hugged him tight. He was such a sweet little brother. Slightly over protective, but sweet. I nodded and slung my arm through his. "I understand Jace, lets just get this spear to Percy.