Ever wonder why Thalia hates all things girly and pink? Well here's sort of an explanation I cooked up. Thuke of course but decidedly subtle. I place this around when Thalia was 10 and Luke 12. Part of the Inevitability series. More comedic Thuke oneshots will be here later as well.
He's got that annoying smile again, the one he only gets when he's being completely full of himself or he's out to piss her off, and she just wants to smack it off his face. Maybe if she hits him hard enough she'll be able to see his eyes roll around in his skull, like a slot machine. At least she might get the chance to play bowling with his teeth. She wonders how many she can knock out absently and grins at the mental image of him with holes in that stupid smile of his. Not to mention how he'd likely mourn his teeth like he lost his good looks or something but she has news for him: you can't lose what you never had in the first place.
Unless you're delusional. Then you can believe whatever the fuck you want and she won't complain. She'll just contact the nearest asylum and send him on a one-way ticket to the funny farm. He won't do her any good if he's bonkers.
He's hunched over some magazine now though and he hasn't bugged her but he keeps looking down at the magazine and then back up at her with that damnable expression. It's starting to make her as uneasy as she is annoyed. And then she catches a glimpse of what the magazine is about and her eyes grow into dinner plates as she darts forward and rips it away from him.
And he's laughing, hard enough that it looks like his eyes are going to pop like water balloons full of jelly. He's mocking her and she's ripping up the picture in the magazine of her in a pink tutu and a sash that reads "Little Miss California" with her mom on one arm parading her around like she's prime livestock.
She pauses at her own expression and a ghost of a smile comes to her lips. Even then, through her glinting eyes buried in sparkly make-up, she looks like she conspiring burn the tutu and melt the make up to thwart her mother's bid for turning Thalia into "Little Miss America." Serves her right.
Until next time,
~Crisi