Hey everyone!
So I've been have writer's block for my other stories, so I thought that I could publish this one. Plus, I wanted to.
Either way, Percy takes Thalia up on her offer of cheeseburgers and fries at Le Parker Meridien, and brings Annabeth and Nico along. Oh, and chaos, of course.
Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson. It sucks. I do, however, own my own copy of the books. Sigh. It really does suck.
Please read and review!
"Seaweed Brain!" Annabeth spread her arms out, grinning as Percy appeared around the corner, wearing his Camp Half Blood t-shirt to match his girlfriend. He briskly walked up to her and wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close to him. "Thalia or Nico here yet?" he breathed out, his mouth close to her ear.
Annabeth pulled back and shook her head, scrunching her nose disapprovingly, Percy's arms still around her. "Guess she's being held back by Lady Artemis." She said, rolling her eyes. "But Nico should be here, it's not like he would be stuck in traffic, or be held back by anyone. He can shadow travel." She wondered out loud, the jealousness obvious in her voice.
"Yeah, I guess he can, maybe he just had a little trouble finding a shadow in New York that wasn't freaking crowded with mortals who probably aren't accustomed to a kid materializing from a shadow." A voice came from behind Annabeth.
"Woah, zombie dude," Percy smirked, and unraveled his arms from around Annabeth to high-five Nico. "Didn't see you there, man." He was wearing all black, but left his aviator jacket behind, since it was way too nice outside.
Nico scoffed. "Percy, really? Zombie dude? Is that the best you could come up with?" he asked, smirking.
"Death head."
"Pegasus mouth."
"Skeleton face."
"Hippocampi hugger.
"He who speaks to the creepy undead."
"Er, Seaweed Brain?"
"Hey!" Annabeth intervened. "That's mine!"
"Seaweed Brain!" A distraction had arrived in the shape of Thalia. "Annabeth! Nico! Your favorite Huntress has arrived!" she yelled dramatically, bowing ceremoniously, her black hair spiked up. Her combat boots were splattered with mud, and she was wearing a dark blue shirt with a black jacket over it.
"Thals!" Annabeth grinned and embraced her friend, closely followed by Percy, while Nico just gaped indignantly. "She can use Seaweed Brain, but I can't!" he yelled childishly.
Annabeth ignored him, and beckoned everyone all inside the shop, a pouting Nico in tow. As the young demigods walked in, the letters Le Parker Meridien flashing in neon letters above them. After much shoving and pushing, the four teenagers finally settled themselves in a four seat table near the windows, where they could watch and laugh as the people of New York walk by.
"Hello, what can I get you?" The waiter, a clearly unshaven and bored teenager, walked up to the half bloods, and held up his notepad expectantly, jutting out his hip to one side.
Annabeth straightened and picked up a menu professionally, reaching out to open it when Thalia aggressively slammed the menu right out of her hands. "Annabeth, what the Hades do you think you're doing! We're getting a cheeseburger and fries each. Done. End of the freaking story." She said, turning to the waiter, her electric blue eyes piercing into his, as if to say You screw up my order, you die.
Annabeth's eyes narrowed. "No way, Thalia! That is not what I want to order!" she protested. "I need time to look through the menu and make an organized choice based on the different options this place offers! Thalia, you can't just walk into things blindly." She chastised the girl sitting next to her.
The waiter glanced at his watch impatiently. "Look, guys, I get off duty in a couple of minutes. So your choices are you order right now and I'll get your food, or you wait and flip through the menus, and I go, leaving you with another waiter who could possibly take more time than I would." He said, tapping his foot expectantly, apparently impervious to Thalia's glares.
Thalia opened her mouth, but Annabeth beat her to it. "We'll wait." She said, smiling widely. She pushed her blonde curls back, and exchanged a smirk with an entertained Percy across from her, as Thalia crossed her arms huffily.
"Well," Percy started. "It's nice not to be the one fighting with Thalia this time!" he said cheerfully, causing Nico next to him rolled his eyes.
Annabeth sat with her back perfectly straight, and Thalia glared daggers at Percy, who was making little droplets of water from the water jug fall on Thalia's nose in his boredom.
Nico, on the other hand, was watching this endeavor silently. He glanced nervously at Annabeth and Thalia, but then quickly averted his gaze to the ground.
After the fourth water droplet fell on Thalia's nose, she narrowed her eyes dangerously and let out a cry. "Jackson, you are so dead!" A spark of lightning materialized in the air and directed itself towards Percy's arm.
"Ow?" Percy smirked. "Achilles, remember? The whole dip in the river Styx thing?" he said, raising an eyebrow at the now fuming Thalia. Annabeth, next to the close-to-spontaneously-combusting girl was unperturbed, while Nico looked like he was regretting ever coming to this 'friendly get together'.
Thalia gaped at him for a second, and then turned to Nico. "Death boy, this is your fault! You just had to make Percy take a dip in the Styx, and now what am I supposed to do when he annoys me!"
Nico frowned. "Well, in context, it seemed like the best decision." He said, unsure, and maybe a bit confused as well. "Y'know, seeing that we were under attack by the Titans and whatnot."
Thalia growled, and averted her glare back to Percy. "Alright Jackson, you win. I can't hurt you. But I will get you back." She threatened, while Percy just shrugged smugly.
Annabeth carefully placed her menu back down. "Done. And Thalia, if you hurt my boyfriend, I will personally snap your bow in half, no matter what crap you spew out about your irreplaceable bow." She said menacingly.
Thalia glared right back, but crossed her arms in acceptance.
Nico leaned over the side of his seat. "Er, waiter?" he called nervously. "Please? I'm not sure how long I'll be able to survive." He finished softly, glancing at the sparks flying off of Thalia.
Finally, a suited teenager, around seventeen, strutted over to the demigods' table. "'Sup?" he said, running his hand through his hair.
"Thank gods!" Thalia said, throwing her hands up. "We will take 3 cheeseburgers and 3 small fries, and whatever the princess next to me wants. And get it fast." She snapped, and then turned to Annabeth, waiting for her to order.
Annabeth smirked. "Well, after a lot of thought, I have decided that I would like a cheeseburger and fries. Small, please." She said, grinning maliciously as Thalia fumed next to her.
The waiter smirked. "Sure, sweet cheeks." He said, winking at Annabeth. And with that, he whirled around and set off to get their order, leaving a fuming Annabeth, a near to being deadly Percy, an amused Thalia, and a pretty much scared out of his wits Nico.
As soon as he was out of sight, Thalia burst out laughing. After a while, Nico joined her, Annabeth and Percy staring at them as if they still couldn't believe what just happened.
"Thalia, Nico, stop!" Annabeth pleaded, blood rushing to her cheeks, turning them a bright red. Percy had crossed his arms and leaned back, staring out the window and glaring at the pedestrians walking by.
"That's karma." Thalia said, still chuckling. "If you had just ordered with the last waiter, you wouldn't be having this problem." She said, causing Nico to go into another fit of laughter, his dark hair shaking with every breath he took. Thalia joined him, but suddenly a stream of water splattered in the two half bloods' faces, causing their laughter to cease abruptly.
Percy smirked. "That's karma." He mocked. "If you had just stopped laughing when Annabeth told you to, then you wouldn't have water up your nose."
Nico coughed, wiping his face with a napkin. "And this is why I refuse to come to social gatherings."
"Aw, Nico, buddy, you don't mean that!" Thalia said, leaning over the table to ruffle his hair. "Alright kid, let's talk about things that don't annoy you. So how's, er, y'know." She finished lamely, and exchanged looks with Percy, unsure. What doesn't annoy him? She mouthed to him
Percy shrugged. No Idea.
Nico threw his hands up. "You two need a better means of communication. I know what you're saying!" he said, rolling his eyes. "And, as for what doesn't annoy me, let's just say that as long as it doesn't involve cats, Katy Perry, me getting electrocuted, me getting soaked, or dying my hair pink, it's cool." He said, shuddering from the last prank by the Stoll brothers.
"Uh, hair, pink?" Percy asked, snickering. Thalia, across from Nico, was also obviously trying to hide her amusement, but was failing dreadfully. Nico crossed his arms and leaned back in his chair, trying to ignore his cousins' dreadful attempts to hide their laughter.
Drip.
"Perseus freaking Jackson!" Thalia wiped the drop of water off her nose, and was about to chuck a napkin holder at his head when the waiter arrived.
He set down the cheeseburgers and fries, winked and shot a finger gun, which caused Thalia to roll her eyes, at Annabeth, and walked off to another table to take their order, pulling a notepad out of his pocket.
Annabeth picked up her cheeseburger and bit into it, while Percy looked at her incredulously. "Annabeth," he started. "He just winked at you!"
Annabeth shrugged. "There are always going to be some people who hit on you, and you can't do anything about it. I just ignore it." She said, leaning over the table and popping a fry in Percy's gaping mouth.
Percy choked, and swallowed the french fry. "Wait, others have hit on you! How do I not know about this?" he asked indignantly, pounding his fist on the table, accidentally sending a couple of packets of ketchup flying.
Thalia smirked. "Seriously Percy, calm down." She said, and took a bite out of her own cheeseburger. Percy stared at her for a moment, and then turned to Nico, silently pleading for back up. Nico just shrugged, smirking, and nibbled into a fry. Percy sulked, and threw a fry into his mouth.
Drip.
With an outraged yell, Thalia picked up Percy's fries and dumped them over his head. "There!" she said, satisfied, a smug smile plastered on her face. "You have had my revenge."
Percy gasped. "Thalia! You just wasted a completely good bag of fries!" he said, covering he mouth with his hands dramatically.
"That's what you get for annoying me!" Thalia sang childishly, grinning at the shocked expression on the son of the sea god's face.
"Thalia!"
"Percy!"
"Thalia!"
"Percy!"
"THALIA!"
"PERCY!
"…Nico?" the pale kid sitting next to Percy piped up.
Percy and Thalia stared at him for a while, before shaking their heads exasperatedly, trying to fight a smile. "Just like Bianca." Thalia said, smiling nostalgic. Nico immediately stiffened at the sound of his dead sister's name, but relaxed a moment later when Percy glanced at the kid nervously.
After a couple of minutes of silence, the waiter walked up to the four teenagers' table again. "You all have everything you need?" he asked, staring right at Annabeth. Percy gritted his teeth angrily.
Annabeth sighed. "We're all fine, thank you." She said.
The waiter winked at the blonde daughter of Athena again. "Whatever you say, pretty girl." He said to Annabeth. "In the meantime, how about you give me your number so I can call you later today?"
Annabeth opened her mouth to snap back, but Percy beat her to it.
"Hey! That is my girlfriend you're talking about!" he gritted his teeth and sent a glare towards the waiter that made Thalia proud.
The waiter raised an eyebrow, but shrugged. "Alright man, if that's the case, then she's all yours. I never really liked blondes anyway." He said casually.
Percy rose from his seat. "Take that back." He hissed, glaring at the waiter. Percy's anger caused the water in the water jug had started to swirl around. "Blondes are freaking amazing."
Thalia elbowed Annabeth and waggled her eyebrows, causing the grey eyed girl to blush profusely.
"Well, alright man, calm down. If it means that much to you, sure, blondes are great. Whatever. But they're not for me. I guess that I'll just settle for this one here." The waiter leaned over so that he was eye level with Thalia and twirled a strand of her dark hair around his finger.
For a moment, all was still. Annabeth, Percy, and Nico stared in shock as Thalia just looked at the waiter disbelievingly. Then, in a second, Thalia flipped him over her shoulder, onto the table, and had twisted his arm behind his back, her knee on his chest.
"You foul disgusting little boy!" she spat the last word out as if it was the worst insult in the world. There were staff members running up to her, trying to pull her off of him, but their efforts were futile. Percy, Annabeth, and Nico were just staring in shock.
Annabeth was the first to take action. "Thalia, get off of him. I, er, don't think he meant to hit on you." She said, pleading.
Nico chuckled. "Heh. He hit on her, so she hit him. Geddit?" Percy punched him, and Nico doubled over, groaning.
The waiter, on the other hand, was trying to apologize, but he seemed to have a momentary lapse of memory, and had forgotten how to speak the English language. He resorted to yelling gibberish in Thalia's face, right arm flapping around pathetically.
"You freaking pathetic ignoramus!"
"Thalia, let go of him!"
P-p-please! Buhh, I, uh, s-sorry? D-don't!"
"Thalia, I think I can add this to the list of things that annoy me."
"Nico, this is not the time! And Thalia, calm down!"
"How dare you speak to me like that, you spineless mortal!"
"Alright, Thalia, let's just calm down and talk about this like rational people."
"Annabeth, you are the only one here who actually thinks that would work."
"Well, Percy, I don't see you coming up with any bright ideas!"
Drip.
"PERSEUS JACKSON!"
"SEAWEED BRAIN!"
"…What? It was to relieve the tension?"
Annabeth had finally successfully pulled Thalia off of the poor mortal, and the waiter had immediately got up and darted out the door. He was followed by a screaming Thalia who had escaped Annabeth's grip, a pleading Annabeth, and a fuming Percy, who wanted his own revenge on the waiter.
For a couple of moments, everyone was staring at the last dark haired boy left alone at the table.
"…Er, can I get a doggy bag for this?"
Aw, poor Nico. ;)
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Signing off,
fawkespower