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[Athena]

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Ten Things Athena Never Said

[Athena]

When her mum finally managed to kill herself during one of her crazy, brilliant experiments, Athena did not say, "I expected it." Neither did she make any allusions to any voices that no one else could hear.

[Athena]

She saw things. Not just animals - things. Fairies and invisible sprites, and she didn't tell Scout about the pretty dwarven lady who always followed him around.

[Athena]

There was an old skeleton in her dorm. The skeleton had been a twelve year old girl. The twelve year old girl had been buried alive.

The twelve year old girl had been buried alive in the stone wall right next to Athena's bed.

Sometimes she heard screams and the thumps of tiny fists against stone.

Athena didn't say anything.

[Athena]

Athena flinched inside every time she saw the sun. She knew - though she didn't know how she knew - what would happen to it.

She let the horror live on in her absence of words.

[Athena]

She followed her red string and found it tied to Snow. She followed his red string and found it tied to someone-who-was-not-Athena.

That was all that mattered.

The sad truth was that Athena could give her heart to no other, but Snow could not return it and never would.

Athena didn't say anything. She knew no one's string led to her. She knew that no one would break their heart over her, and - and nothing.

[Athena]

The castle spoke to her, its borrowed voices sliding through her head. Chairs shared memories and forks shared phantom flavors, and every so often a bed or room would share a memory of a rendezvous between lovers.

The sensations - all of them - were altogether overly realistic. She could have done without the... Okay, maybe she did appreciate them, and Taryt really was a sweet, cheerful young man, but...

Taryt had very interesting ideas and solutions when it came to outer-species relationships.

She was slightly tempted.

She was very careful not to express this aloud.

[Athena]

They called her nuts. That was okay. She wasn't precisely sure that they weren't entirely correct.

They didn't hear all she didn't say, though, and the unspoken was a lot less insane and a lot more horrible than what she did say.

She wouldn't want the entire world to be like her, after all.

When she spoke to Snow after the clockwork fiasco (though it could have been much worse - trust Athena, but no one ever did because she was cursed like Cassandra and definitely preferred it that way), he sent her a questioning glance, as if to ask, 'Why don't you...?'

She didn't say anything.

And then he was gone, but he wasn't hers so it didn't matter.

[Athena]

((This doesn't fit here. But I didn't want to start a new thread. So.))

"Oh," the ghost says peering from behind a stall door. She seems disappointed. "It's you."

"It's me," the girl agrees dully.

"I'm not going to tell you what its like to die," the ghost says in a sing-song voice.

"Good," Athena says dully, wondering if Pippin was on the other side of the Line. She knows it is useless to rail against death - it happens to everyone sooner or later. "I don't really want to know right now."

As the ghost watched in astonishment, Athena sank to the floor, pulled her knees to her chest and began to cry.

[Athena]

She knew Pippin and Gen would live desperately entwined together no matter what. That's why she found staring at Gen to be so interesting. Even Athena couldn't fathom how he kept managing to screw it up so often.
When she stared for too long and Gen's face got red, he would snap, "What?!" and she would very pointedly let the silence and the cupids speak.