Leave, Get out [RAYNE]

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One week. It had nearly been a week since Daphne had come back from her quest, but Nora still wasn't getting any better. Maybe it was because she kept running away. It wasn't her fault, though, she absolutely hated being confined in this tiny space. She'd already been confined in the Underworld for four months, and traded into slavery there six before that. She didn't need any more time locked up, but she had to if she wanted to get better. She still hadn't regained any of the feeling in her toes, and it was starting to worry her. The large gash spanning across her torso was slow healing, as well as the smaller, deeper gash on her ribs. The smaller cuts spread over her flesh were healing nicely, but the bruises were taking their sweet time fading.

"Can you just...Move me to my own room now?" She hissed out the words to the Apollo girl who she knew was standing right beyond the curtain, where she'd been since Nora's last escape. "No. Chiron can't trust you to stay in bed, so you're not going back to your cabin." In pure frustration, Nora lashed out at the object closest to her, the chair next to her bed where Daphne usually sat. The girl had Cabin things to do, though, she'd had to abandon her friend until she was finished. "Oh yes. Beat up the chair. Real mature." Nora didn't know what she could do, especially with the new pain that shot up her side from over-extending her arm. She clenched her teeth together, not wanting to make any noise, but the girl still heard. "Hurt yourself again, didn't you?"

"Will you just shut up? Seriously." Nora knew that as soon as she got out of that bed, she would kick the crap out of the girl that had been tormenting her for nearly a month. The girl did, in fact, go silent. For a while.

Nora had finally just started to drift off into a painless sleep when she heard the curtain move slightly. She blinked open to see the head of the Apollo girl sticking through, showing nothing else outside the curtain. "Um...Nora. There's someone here to see you..." Something in the girls voice made Nora tense up, every muscle screaming at the action. Something was wrong, she could feel it. She just knew that something bad was about to happen, but she nodded anyways, allowing the girl to let the visitor through.

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Life was nothing like he had ever wanted or expected. He wasn't sure how much of this he was supposed to take before the Moirai let his life lift back up again. Would it lift back up again? He couldn't even be sure at that point. He had already died so maybe his thread had already run out, but had a new one started for him? Or was he simply walking along in another generations world with no seer or fate to lead him? Both options were equally terrifying in his eyes. How was he supposed to tell what was right or wrong? How was he to know what to do? Aside from hiding from his brother, he just didn't know anymore.

But she came back to his mind and he knew he had to do something. Warn her at the very least. The son of Hephaestus was not someone he wanted anybody to consider neutral or even on their side. He was...He was Jaime. There wasn't a good way to describe Rayne' brother. He had heard she had reappeared around the same time he did. After sitting down there for so long in hell. He....he knew what that was like. He thought the hardest part was knocking on the door when he got there. He simply didn't have the strength to lift his arm to even touch the door. He didn't really have to though.

When he had finally gotten the courage to rap on the wood, the door had swung open and he met eyes with the Apollo girl who had been working on everyone who was in the infirmary. No words were spoken as the two of them stood there. He watched silently as the Apollo girls eyes widened at the sight of him before they simply stood there for a minute. Finally he cleared his throat and glanced past her at the hanging curtain around one of the beds. The Apollo girl was obviously distressed about the fact that he was there but he didn't turn away, no matter how much he wanted to. After a couple minutes he was let in and the girl moved to the curtain to ask Trell if she had wanted the visitor. His gut tightened and turned more than ever before. It hurt more than anything else he had experienced, to be standing there but the words he had expecting to hear, when those curtains swung open, came from the wrong person.

"You need to leave." He couldn't control himself as his eyes hardened on the redhead before him. "Now." He practically growled at her. His hands clenched tightly at his sides, making fists around the soft fabric of his shirt.

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Nora's entire body was tensed as he slid behind the curtain. A mixture of emotions flew through her, but only two stayed. Anger. Betrayal. Her fist clenched at her side, shooting a pain up her arm, but she ignored it. "Hello sweetie." She hissed out the words just as the Apollo girl slipped back behind the curtain, sitting next to Nora's bed. This had to be the first time that Nora was actually glad for the annoying girl's presence. She didn't say anything, just sat there, but she was poised to strike at the first sign of something wrong. Of course, she didn't even get a hello. Why did she think she would? He'd left her to rot, after all.

She couldn't help but openly laugh, which made the Apollo girl tense. "I think you have that backwards." Her own words were cold, eyes narrowed as she glared at the blonde she once called her love. "If you can't tell, I'm slightly unable to even leave my bed. But thank you for such a warm greeting after you left me to rot in the Underworld." She kept a sickly sweet smile on her face. She couldn't let him get to her. Refused to let him get to her. "Oh. Your brother dearest says hello, by the way." Her smile turned into a smirk, then. No. He wasn't getting to her. Not today.

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He ignored the harsh remark she gave him. He knew he didn't say hello. He had planned to but it just didn't come out like he had wanted to. Instead it went in a completely different direction. Pain almost immediately filled him when he had spat out those words, but he couldn't stop it. He had been through war, sparta, hell, and now he was here. He knew where he wanted her and that was in the safest place he could think of. At the moment, even if it seemed like the scariest option, he wanted her with Nyx. Nyx was someone that could be dealt with later by someone else. But...

"You can't be serious..." He muttered under his breath as she continued to talk at him. Quietly, he averted his eyes. This wasn't a conversation, and it wasn't even considered such by either end. It felt like a war. He couldn't stop himself from grinding his teeth together when she mentioned his brother. His eyes began to fill with water for a moment before he swallowed deeply and looked up at her again. "What the hell did you think I was going to do, Trell?" He couldn't stop the anger that pumped in his own veins at her. She couldn't be serious. "Or have you forgotten?" He was talking through his teeth by now.

"I was down there too...For a lot longer than you were!" His hands curled up into fists. "Did you really expect me to charge into where ever the hell you were being held and just forget about every year that I went through down there?!" He couldn't stop himself from shouting by this point. "That isn't something that you just get over!" Still...at the mention of his brother he couldn't stop himself from taking a step back and forcing a shaky breath into his lungs. "You need to leave, Trell..."

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The Apollo girl had taken her hand, attempting to give some form of comfort, but Nora barely noticed. All she noticed were the tears in his eyes. It clenched at her heart stronger than she ever thought it would, but she had to fight it. She couldn't let herself fall back into that. "It's not supposed to matter." She hissed the words, trying to keep herself calm. The Apollo girl squeezed her hand a little tighter, the pain bringing her back a little bit, but only a little bit. "It's not supposed to matter what you went through! You were supposed to love me!" Her voice got gradually louder until the last word was choked out. She was actually surprised that she felt a dampness on her cheeks. She hadn't cried since the day Nyx told her she couldn't go back to the surface. "I sacrificed myself for you." Her words were lower, and she was attempting to take deep breaths, but she didn't know how much longer she would be able to control herself. "I gave myself up so you could live, and what did you do? You didn't even take it."

She thought of the necklace. The very thing she'd given herself up for, which was still resting around Daphne's neck. That one image was enough to spur up the hatred she'd been harboring for the last year. "I'm glad I mattered so much to you." The sarcasm poured out through her hiss, and she was so angry that she didn't even feel the Apollo dabbing the tears away. She hadn't been sure how this meeting would go. If it ever would go, but this was not what she expected. Crying like a small child, acting so fragile. That wasn't who she was. Not anymore, and being called that name broke her. "Don't you dare call me that. You killed that girl by giving her false hope. You killed that girl when you left her to die. You don't get to tell me what to do anymore, because I am not that girl!" Once again, her voice slowly raised until it was a shout, and the Apollo girl finally spoke, resting a hand on Nora's forehead. "Nora, I know it's hard, but you need to calm down. You can't strain yourself." Nora attempted to regain her control, but she didn't know how long she was going to hold out. Her throat hurt from screaming, her arm was in pain from squeezing the Apollo's hand so tightly. She was broken, plain and simple.

It took her a minute to calm herself down, but when she did, she looked him dead in the eye. "What did you expect, Rayne?" Just his name stabbed her in the heart. "Jump back into your arms, even after the rumors I've heard? You do realize that I've been back for weeks. I can see where your loyalties lie." Oh yes, she had her own informants, people keeping an eye on her enemies, and more than one confirmed that he was a little too close to that Aphrodite girl. "Ignoring the fact that I literally can't walk, I don't think I will leave. I'm right where I belong." Her gaze wavered a little bit, but in the end, she found herself staring directly into the eyes she'd fallen into so many times, and what did she feel? Numb.

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"It does matter! He didn't try to stop his shout this time, his voice nearly failed him though with the last word. He quickly began to shake with each passing moment. Why did he come out to the infirmary? To check on her? To make sure she was safe? How could she blame him for this? "You know it matters! You were down there for a year! A year! After that could you step back down there?" He was done staying away from her. He stepped closer to the bed. "How about after ten years?! or a hundred?! A thousand?!" He couldn't stop his hands from moving with each word. How dare she blame him for this! "Then could you do it?!" He was glaring at her by now.

"NO!" He lashed out, his hand smashed into the closest chair, knocking it away from him. Ignoring the pain in his hand he turned back to face her, tears in his own eyes by now. "I didn't kill you." He let out a shaky breath, trying to control himself. This was going too far for him. He had to leave before he did or said something that would break him. As quickly as possible he turned away from her and moved for the door. It was too hard to stay in that room but those last few words were too much.

"How could I take that necklace from you?!" He shouted at her again. The adrenaline in his veins no longer let him feel the pain from his own wounds. "I didn't want you to go down there in the first place! I WOULD HAVE PREFERRED TO BE DAMNED RATHER THAN PUT YOU THROUGH THAT!" He lashed out again, striking the door this time. "How could I hold onto something that would only remind me of what I let you do for every second of my miserable existence ?! I'VE ALREADY BEEN THROUGH HELL!" He stopped again, his eyes staring at the large crack in the door before he swallowed the lump in his throat and he tried to speak again. "I did love you, more than I have ever loved anything...before you went and killed yourself."

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The rage was building, and she didn't know how long she would last. The single potted plant on the window sill was starting to shake, and the Apollo girl was growing more and more worried with every passing second. "Nora. Nora please you need to calm down." She kept her hand on the red-heads forehead, trying to calm her down, which wasn't working in the slightest. "I would, Rayne. That's the difference between us." Her words came out softer than she'd expected, but the anger was still here, plain for anyone to hear. "I would go down there a million times, regardless of what I've been through, what they did to me down there. If Daphne was down there-" Her words cut off with a choke at the simple thought, but she shook it off, turning her eyes down to her hand in the Apollo's. "Hades...As much as I hate to admit it, but if you were down there, I would go. I would go as many times as it took, because I loved you, once. You meant the world to me." She closed her eyes, blocking out the tears that wanted to fall again. She hated herself at that moment for being so weak, but this conversation had been in the works for ages, and she was holding nothing back.

"I'd do anything it takes for the people I care about, because there's so few of them. I'd sacrifice myself all over again to save someone I love." She shook her head, a short laugh escaping her. "You want to say that I made myself who I am right now? Go right ahead. Maybe I did turn myself into this heartless monster because all I wanted to do was give you the life you deserved." Finally, she raised her eyes, the tears clouding her vision. The Apollo girl squeezed her hand, and she was thankful for the comfort, but her face was left expressionless. She was a blank canvas, the only paint being the tears in her eyes. "So you go right ahead and shout at me all you want. It makes no difference. I'm not leaving until I see the time is right. I'm going to stay right here, protecting the people I care about from what's about to come."

She mentally cursed herself, hoping she wasn't giving too much away. Of course, the few who knew her story would know she would be out for revenge. Who wouldn't? But she wasn't going to put those she loved in harms way. No. She'd protect them and get them to safety before everything got out of hand. She still had some of her heart left.