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    “I think everyone deserves a second chance. Not a fifth or a fourth or even a third, but just one more shot at making things right. And I guess I’m sorta hoping she’s yours.” — or, if Jane hadn’t lost his entire family to Red John.

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    She’s so disoriented by her own sadness, so unfamiliar with it after months of unbridled joy, that she doesn’t hear Cho walk up beside her.

    “Where’s Jane going?”

    “Someplace nice apparently,” she says bitterly, trying to subtly wipe the tears off her cheeks without him seeing.

    “What does that mean?”

    “It means he’s a coward.”

    Cho doesn’t say anything to that for a moment, just studies her carefully before finally settling on, “Let’s go get a drink.”

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    The expression on his face is inscrutable. “Excuse me?”

    “Your wife,” Lisbon repeats. “Have you been in contact with her spirit?”

    Patrick stares at her unblinkingly for several seconds. Then his breath rushes out of him like the air out of a deflating balloon. His shoulders slump. “Teresa, I’m not a psychic, I never was.”

    “But,” her protest is instinctual, “you spoke with my mother.”

     

    Teresa Lisbon was sixteen years old when she met Patrick at a carnival on the outskirts of Chicago. Now, at thirty-two, Patrick reappears at her job, grieving the loss of his wife and child to serial killer Red John and completely oblivious to the existence of their fifteen-year-old daughter.

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    25 Feb 2026

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    there are nearly eight billion people on the planet, and annabeth's soulmate just has to end up being the roman son of neptune who gets on her nerves in every way imaginable.

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    24 Dec 2025

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    Time moves, unforgiving like the sea, relentless and indifferent, sweeping away the days with a rhythm that carries everyone forward, everyone but her. Her feet are anchored ankle-deep in the sand, fighting the tide urging her to move. But she remains rooted, caught in the undertow of a memory, a place where the world was a little simpler, or perhaps where the pain was a little less excruciating.
    Annabeth is left with a fickle ankle, immune to ambrosia and nectar, that seems to take pleasure in catching her off-guard, rendering her limb useless, the heat of humiliation spreading up her leg and to her cheeks like a wildfire. She’s angry. She’s so, so angry. The condemnation of being helpless, a burden to every poor soul unfortunate enough to come across her. To Percy, especially, once he finds out. She pushes that thought to the side. He can’t see her like this. She refuses to let him.

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    Annabeth can't seem to move forward and Percy can't seem to let her suffer alone

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    22 Dec 2025