AN: This one-shot is kind of a song-fic. It's to Love Story, by Taylor Swift. Reveiw!
Disclaimer: FANFICTION. 'Nuff said.
Love Story
"Is the radio working yet?" Thalia asked, glancing over at Piper, who scowled.
"No." Thalia groaned. They had been on the Argo II for a day know, which was more then enough time for all of the excitement about going to Camp Jupiter (Jason had nearly all of his memories back now) has worn down. Now everyone was just plain bored.
"Ah ha! I think I got it!" Piper grinned, obviously pleased.
"Thank the gods. I was about to die of boredom," Thalia said, listening to the comercial. The comercial soon ended and a song came on. Thalia frowned, hearing what song it was.
"What's wrong?" Piper asked.
"Nothing, I just don't really like this song." Piper looked at her curiously.
"Why not?" Thalia shrugging, even though she knew exactly why she didn't like this song. It brought back memories. Good memories that did nothing that made her sad.
We were both young,
When I first saw you,
The flashback starts,
I'm standing there,
On a balcony in summer air,
That was actually exactly how it happened. It had been summer, at the time. The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. So beautiful that the monsters decided it was the perfect time to go hunting for a certain daughter of Zeus. Thalia had been staying in a fancy hotel that day. Not staying, exactly. Actually, she had snuck in. But a dracnea had found her. She had come along looking for demigods, disguised as a maid. She had cornered Thalia, forcing Thalia out onto the balcony, much to the daughter of Zeus' dismay.
"Die, daughter of Zeus!" the dracnea had hissed. Thalia had scoffed, refuseing to show how terrified she was. Her back was to the railing. Thalia risked a glance over the railing. Would she survive if she jumped? That's when she saw him. He was picking an old ladies pockets, making his way to the hotel. That's when the fury decided to join the party.
"Hello, honey." Aleco hissed. Thalia began to edge away from the railing.
"This is my kill, Alecto!" the dracnea screamed.
"Then you should've killed her when you had a chance." Alecto countered. While they were distracted, Thalia decided to take her chance. She jabbed the dracnea in the chest, causing her to disinigrate, before running off the balcony and back into the room, Alecto behind her.
See the lights,
See the party the ball gowns,
See you make your way through the crowd to say hello,
Little did I know,
There had been a wedding going on. It seemed to be princess themed, because everyone was wearing ball gowns. It was a nice wedding, probably extremely expensive. Crystal chandeleirs hung from the ceiling. Large amounts of food was piled on long tables. Thalia was reminded of the set of one of her mothers movies, where she had been a queen. The same blonde boy that Thalia had seen earlier was stuffing his pockets full with cakes, biscuits and everything else he could find. Behind him was a door. The exit. Thalia sprinted a little faster. Alecto screamed somewhere behind her, causing the boy to look up, his eyes widening. To Thalia's surpise he pulled out what looked like a dracnea's sword. Thalia leaped over the table of food, nearly colliding with the boy, who ducked, causing her to do a face-plant into the wall. Thalia groaned, picking herself off of the floor.
"Are you okay?" The blonde boy asked. She nodded.
"I'm Luke."
"I'm guessing your a demigod."
"Hello, Guessing-Your-A-Demigod." He said, grinning. Thalia smiled, despite the fact Alecto was getting closer. "Son of Hermes." He said, pointing to himself.
"I'm Thalia." Thalia mimicked him, pointing to herself. "Daughter of Zeus."
"That explains the fury."
"And your parentage explains why your stealing," Thalia indicated to his stuffed pockets. Luke shrugged.
"A demigods gotta eat." That's when the fury caught up with them. People screamed and ran for the exit, apparently only noticing the creature now.
"Wonder what they see," Luke said thoughtful, ducking as Alecto swooped.
"Giant, killer pelicans," Thalia suggested, missing as she tried to stab the fury. "Balloon gone wild. A flying, old hag with a whip. Who knows."
"Die, honey!" Alecto screeched. Luke swung his sword, scratching her arm. "Oh, your asking for it, honey. Die!"
"Gods, the 'honey' must get annoying." Thalia nodded.
"Tell me about it." Alecto swooped, scratching Thalias arm with her talons. Thalia bit her tongue, trying not to show how much it hurt. She jabbed at Alecto with her spear, this time getting her wing. Alecto screched, slamming into the table. Luke took his chance and stabbed her in the chest, watching as she turned to dust. Thalia dug into her bag, pulling out a bottle a taking a sip of nectar.
"What's that?" Luke asked, watching as her arm healed.
"Nectar. Gods' drink. Demoigods can drink it, but only a little. You drink to much and you burn up." Luke nodded.
"You know, we make a pretty good team." Thalia grinned, holding out her hand.
"Team?" Luke nodded.
"Team," he agreed, shaking her hand.
That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles,
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet,
And I was crying on the staircase,
Begging you please don't go,
And I said, Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone,
I'll be waiting, All theres left to do is run,
You'll be the price and I'll be the princess,
It's a love story, baby just say yes,
Thalia woke up to Annabeth shaking her. "Monster?" she asked, reaching for her spear. Luke looked at her, amused.
"You know, Thal, sometimes we do have other reasons to wake you up. Beleive it or not, monsters don't always attack when you're sleeping." Thalia rolled her eyes.
"What's up, then? And don't say the sky." Luke didn't answer. Instead he pointed to the seven-year-old daughter of Athena, looking amused. Annabeth smiled.
"We should play a game." Thalia looked at her blankly.
"A game?" Annabeth nodded.
"It'll be good to get the monsters off our heads."
"Okay, what game do you want to play?" Annabeth thought for a moment.
"Princess," she decided. Thalia glanced at Luke, to see him making a face. Annabeth, seeing this, said, "You promised you'd play with me. Besides, I'll be the princess, not you. And Thalia will be the queen. You'll be the king." Luke stuck his tongue out at Thalia.
"Haha, I get to be the king." This earned him a flick in the head, curtousy of Thalia.
"And I get to be the queen, so ha."
"Okay, so the story goes like this; You just became the King and Queen, and I'm your little sister, so I'm next in line for the throne, but I was captured by an evil witch, and..." Thalia listened to the little girl drone on. Suddenly a fury swooped near then.
"Die, honey!" Thalia looked at her family.
"Looks like we found our evil witch." Luke grinned.
"So let's go save the princess." Annabeth giggled, and the three of them pulled out their weapons, ready to play.
So I sneak out to the garden to see you,
We keep quiet, 'cause we're dead if they knew,
So close your eyes,
Escape this town for a little while,
"Wake up." Luke said, kicking the girl lightly. "Thalia wake up! Thalia? C'mon, get up."
"Whaaa?" She asked groggily. She blinked a few times. "Where's the monster?"
"No monster." Thalia pouted.
"Then why'd you wake me up?"
"Food."
"Food?" Thalia asked, now interested.
"Follow me," he said, taking her by the hand and leading her to a garden.
"You need to keep quiet," he told her, stuffing some tomatoes into a bad.
"We'd be dead if they knew," Thalia agreed, glancing at the large house and then to the leash tied to a tree. "Let's hope that leash dosn't belong to a guard dog." she said, grabbing a cucumber. Luke nodded before moving on to the carrots. After they had grabbed all the food they could possibly carry, they ran.
"Poor people are gonna wake up to find their garden missing," Thalia said, shaking her head with fake sympathy. Luke snorted.
"Poor us has to steal an entire garden just to eat." Thalia smiled, plopping down by a tree. They were in a park, somewhere. Luke sat down next to her, closing his eyes.
"A toast, to actually haveing food," Thalia said, raising a tomato. Luke opened his eyes and grinned.
"A toast," he agreed, tapping her tomato with a carrot before taking a bite.
'Cause you were Romeo,
I was a scarlet letter,
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet,
But you were everything to me and I was begging you please don't go,
And I said,
Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone,
I'll be waiting,
All theres left to do is run,
You'll be the price and I'll be the princess,
It's a love story, baby just say yes,
Romeo save me they try to tell me how to feel,
This love is difficult,
But it's real,
Don't be afraid,
We'll make it out of this mess,
It's a-
"Oh, come on," Piper moaned, causing Thalia to snap out of her memories. The only noise coming from the radio was static. But still, the last lines of the song rang in her head. She was a huntress. Hunters aren't suposed to love anyone. She always thought they'd make it out of the war. Everything would be okay. It always was, for them. But not that time. Thalia opened her eyes to see Piper watching her.
"Thalia," she said slowly. "Why don't you like the song Love Story?" She asked again.
"The endings wrong," she said quietly.
"What?"
"The ending is wrong. Romeo dies in the end. They don't make it out of the mess. They don't, they-"
Thalia stopped. "They don't get married. They don't have a happy ending." Piper stared at Thalia. "I-In Romeo and Juliet, I mean," she lied.
"Thalia?" Thalia looked at the younger girl. "Why'd you do it?"
"What?" Thalia asked, taken aback.
"Join the hunters." Thalia paused.
"Because there was no reason not to. There was a prophecy, about a child of the Big Three turning sixteen, and it was my birthday the next day. It made sense. If I joined, the prophecy wouldn't be about me. And, it wasn't like I was ever going to love anyone be-" Thalia stopped, catching herself.
"What was his name?" Thalia looked at the daughter of Aphrodite. Normally, she would never tell a child of the love goddess anything about her love life. Ever. But Piper wasn't like other children of Aphrodite.
"Luke," Thalia said quietly. Piper nodded, not pushing for more information, like others would, which Thalia appreciated. "I'm going to go to bed," she said, though it wasn't even dinner time. Piper nodded. Thalia layed down in her hammock, and allowed herself to dream. Dream of what should've been.
I got tired of waiting
Wondering if you were ever coming around
My faith in you is fading
When I met you on the outskirts of town, and I said
Romeo save me I've been feeling so alone
I keep waiting for you but you never come
Is this in my head? I don't know what to think
He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring
And said, marry me Juliet
You'll never have to be alone
I love you and that's all I really know
I talked to your dad, go pick out a white dress
It's a love story baby just say yes
'Cause we were both young when I first saw you