Part Two of Two
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Peter and Luke ran forward, pointing excitedly.
"Look, it's a playground," Luke cried, before running up to Percy and Annabeth. "Please can I have a go? Please?"
Gale stepped forward. "Hey, we're hitting a strict-," Luke jumped up at him. "Argh, control your child, Jacksons," he exclaimed, before trudging off.
Annabeth fainted at the thought of 'Annabeth Jackson', and Percy walked ten paces before he realised she was gone.
"Annabeth?" He asked blankly.
Katniss sighed. "Why Peter? Why can't you be cool?"
Peter ran over to Cato and Glimmer, who were walking hand in hand, talking to each other.
Glimmer laughed as Peter made his way up.
"Guys, can I go and play on the jungle gym?"
Glimmer bit her lip, looking over at the playground. "I don't know, honey. It looks dangerous."
"Sure champ," Cato said.
Peeta ran off as Glimmer rounded on Cato. Katniss heard 'irresponsible' and 'too young, could hurt himself' ring out.
Woody sighed as he got stuck in a snow drift.
Gale ran over, growling. "This isn't a fucking holiday Woody! Get your shit out of there!"
Cato walked up, grabbing Woody and hoisting him up. "Shut it, Gale."
Gale spread his hands. "Oh, sorry. I didn't know we were part of the retard brigade. I thought we were after hot girls?"
Cato put up a hand. "Got it, okay? Don't worry, I'll find some proper transport for us, just calm down for two seconds."
Gale nodded, hands on his hips as Chiron rolled up.
"What's up bitches?"
"We're getting transport," Cato told him, before walking back to Glimmer.
"Good, because I am pooped from all this rolling," he sighed.
Grover looked shocked, because he'd been pushing him for at least three hours now.
"Hello? I've pushed you everywhere!"
Chiron shrugged. "Yeah, but Satyrs don't have feelings."
"Yes we do," he stated indignantly.
"Yeah, but more like animal ones; fear, pain, stuff like that," Chiron reasoned.
Grover just walked off.
Meanwhile, Cato was talking with Glimmer, as Katniss came up, dragging Peter away from the playground.
"Guys," Katniss started. "Do we have a plan? I want to get Peter out of here."
Percy and Annabeth came up. "Yeah, we need to get Luke out before he wets himself," Annabeth stated.
Cato held out his hands. "Be quiet, all of you. Let me think."
"But-"
"Please, I need to think-"
"Are we getting-"
"Really, let me-"
"Hot girls we have problems too-"
"LET YOUR FATHER THINK!" Glimmer shouted. She glared at Peter and Katniss. "You two, be quiet, and stay right here. Don't move until I tell you." She turned to Percy and Annabeth, who backed off slightly. She smiled at them. "Sorry, I'm really embarrassed about this. You understand."
Percy nodded, still looking scared. "Yeah, don't worry. We have kids too."
Annabeth looked at him in shock. "We do?"
He waved her off, looking up. "Where's Cato gone?"
They all looked to see him waving at them in the distance.
"HEY GUYS! I FOUND US SOME TRANSPORT FROM THIS HOMELESS GUY! WHAT A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE, EH?"
10 minutes later, they were all driving along a road in a bright pink camper van.
Cato was driving, Glimmer in the passenger seat, the rest all crammed into the back.
Tyson, who had been forced to wear his seatbelt by Percy, was not in the best mood, but Gale was nearly hopping.
"Can you believe this?" He started. "We are so near to getting some Goddess child pussy!"
"Shut it Gale; there are kids present," Percy told him.
Tyson sat up. "I'm not a kid!"
Annabeth gave him her serious grey eyes. "Yes you are, but I don't think Dad was talking about you."
"Yeah, he was talking about Woody," Katniss interjected.
Woody tried to laugh along. "Yeah, very funny guys. I'm laughing."
Luke reached into his pocket. "Hey, Glimmer, Cato, can we listen to a CD?"
Glimmer frowned. "What is it? I'm not listening to some crappy pop Christmas music."
"It's probably Katy Perry," Percy sighed.
Luke shook his head. "Nah, it's 'Noah and the Whale' singing Christmas songs!"
Glimmer frowned. "Erm, okay."
"Wait!" Grover cried out. "if we're listening to that, why can't we listen to Taylor Swift singing Christmas?!"
"That would fall under 'Pop'," Percy pointed out.
"I love Taylor," Annabeth put in.
He looked at her. "You do?"
"Yeah," she nodded, looking at Percy.
Percy looked around. "Let's listen to Grover's CD."
"HEY!" Chiron interjected. "I want to listen to some shit from the 60s! Failing that, I want the Beatles, or Ferris singing a Beatle song!"
Tyson gaped at him. "Why?"
"I love that movie," Luke cried.
"Shut it, all of you!" Glimmer snarled.
Cato looked around. "I could do with some 'All I Want For Christmas Is You', on repeat."
"NO!"
Woody cupped his hands at Glimmer. "What do you want to listen to?"
She blushed. "Doesn't matter."
Cato looked round at her. "Go on, we'll like it."
"Okay, in that case. I want to listen to 'Christmas'; the entire album by Michael Bublé."
"Nooo!" Woody cried. "Not that Canadian-"
Gale turned on him. "What was that? Are you racist, huh? Don't like Canadians? Need I remind you that they created some of the greatest artists on the planet?"
"Yeah, like who?"
Gale blushed worse than Glimmer. "Forget it."
Peeta sat up as the van hit a rock, and fell back onto his bottom, but he thundered on with what he wanted to say.
"I have an IPod with a shit load of stuff on! My whole family uses it, so I have over 10,000 songs on this."
"Right, a solution!" Cato cried. "Done, plug that in, and let me drive!"
Glimmer took it, and plugged it in.
The first track was Barney's Christmas Song.
"What is this shit?!" Chiron cried.
"Sorry," Peeta cried. "It has over 10,000 songs-"
"Does Barney count as a song?" Percy asked.
"I love Barney!" Luke shouted. "So listen to his purple genius, and fuck off."
They listened to the dinosaur song.
Percy glanced round at Annabeth, numbly noting her beauty in Cinna's winter clothes. He coughed to get his voice working before moving closer.
Luke grabbed his shoulder. "Don't move too fast Percy; let me deal with this. I'll show you how a master does it." He smiled, before sitting next to Annabeth.
"Hey you."
She looked around. "Hey Luke, doing okay, or has the music killed you yet?"
"No, I'm fine." He turned serious. "Look, I may not be the best looking guy here, but I'm the only one talking to you."
Annabeth frowned. "What?"
Luke held up his hands. "Don't get touchy; I know you might not be the best looking girl here, but beauty is only a light switch away," he told her.
"Did you just insult me?"
Luke looked confused. "No. Do you want to be?"
"Pardon?"
He tried a new tack. "Are you a parking ticket? Cause you've got FINE written all over you!"
She looked shocked. "Luke!"
"Sorry… I'll go." He looked at Cato and called out: "Can we stop soon. I need a piss."
"Yeah, I think we're coming up to a town. We can take a break there."
"No breaks!" Gale shouted.
Luke turned back to Annabeth. "Before I go, I lost my phone number, can I borrow yours?"
She smiled at him in a disgusted way, before moving to sit next to Tyson.
Percy was grinning. "Nice one Casanova."
Luke scowled, before moving away.
Artemis sat down with Apollo on the sofa. The entire family was watching the 'Christmas Special' of 'Demigods', Artemis' favourite program, as it contained Percy.
Oh, and by whole family, that means that it was Christmas in the Zeus household. There were the usual crowd: Zeus and Hera, and their children Apollo and Artemis, but home for Christmas were Aphrodite and her husband (who Zeus didn't like) Hephaestus. Ares was off in the army somewhere, Hermes was the paper boy, and only related down a long line, Athena was working overtime on University papers for her class, but would be there on the 25th, and Poseidon was gong to be spending Christmas with Sally, Percy and Tyson. Hades was here though; depressed when Nico and Bianca went to Persephone's for Christmas. Mr D was being a pervert somewhere, no-one liked Demeter as she hit on Hades, and that was it.
At the moment they were watching all of the demigods in a van, joined by a couple of extra people, like Guest Stars.
"Hew, dhad, ih chouhld thotthally gho fhor thaht bhlonhd ghirl aht theh fwoht," Apollo said.
His dad, looked at him. "What did you just say?"
"Little bro still hasn't learnt how to get rid of his lisp," Aphrodite teased. "You're still TOS."
"What was that?" Hera asked.
"Totally on steroids," she translated, looking at her Mum like she was stupid.
Artemis sighed. "Apollo said he liked the blonde girl in the front of the van. The Glimmer girl."
"Who doesn't," Zeus sighed. He saw Hera staring at him. "Erm, besides you of course," he added.
"Nwice shave," Apollo nodded.
"Nice shave?" Hephaestus asked.
"No," Artemis sighed again. "Nice save."
Zeus turned to squint at Hephaestus on his sofa with Aphrodite.
"Is that your type of woman, eh? Beautiful? A little vicious? Do you fancy her, boy? Huh?"
"No sir, I'm fine."
"Not thinking of abandoning my daughter-"
"DAD!" Aphrodite cried.
Zeus turned back to Hera. "You saw his eyes when I asked him," he hissed. "He's going to leave our daughter soon. Never liked him, stupid jumped up owner of my company. Give me a job, will he?"
"He was trying to be nice," Hera placated. "You didn't need to take it."
Zeus shook his head. "It's hard enough to get money in for a family. I needed the job. Maybe I wouldn't if the failed Mr. Olympus got a job."
Apollo sat up. "Ih'm whorkhing ohn iht!"
Artemis watched the TV as it all settled down again.
"I'm off to the bathroom," Hades stated, before lifting his lanky figure out of his chair.
The rest of the family turned back to the TV screen.
"God no…," Zeus whispered.
The entire van full of demigods and mortal humans were listening to…
"Baby you light up the room like nobody else, the way you flick your hair gets me overwhelmed, the way your smiling at the ground make sit not hard to tell-"
They were singing 'One Direction'.
"Has that boy got a guitar!?" Hera asked.
Gale was playing a guitar, Katniss leading the singing, Peter backing her up by looking at her sappily.
Hades came back in, holding his phone.
"Did you know," he sighed, "that a group called 'Demigods' have just got the Christmas No.1."
Artemis stared at the screen. "But- but, that's a huge race! You can't just 'get it'."
"That's them," Hades moaned, pointing at all of them, joined for the chorus, Cato whacking the wheel with his passion.
Luke was on his feet, doing Gangum Style to the beat.
"Hey sexy lady!" He screamed randomly.
"Jesus Christ…," Aphrodite muttered.
"I know," Artemis agreed.
"No, not that Arty. But, I mean," she looked around at everyone. "Don't you see him? He has to be the most beautiful man I've seen." She glanced at Hephaestus. "Sorry, Heppy."
"What? Percy?" Hera asked.
"No, not him."
"Gwale?" Apollo asked.
"No, not- whoever that is." She pointed at Woody. "Him!"
Woody was scratching his belly absently, looking around at the van, bleary eyed.
"Urgh," Zeus muttered. "What's that?!"
Hades sighed. "Sorry."
"Not you, Hades." Zeus looked back at him. "Cheer up," he tossed him a cracker.
Artemis laughed. "Ha, ha, what a loser!"
"Got a phone call from Percy recently, Arty?" Aphrodite snapped.
Artemis sobered up.
Cato finally drove the van into a parking space, and turned off the engine. Glimmer twisting in her seat to survey her charges.
"Katniss, stop hitting Peeta-"
"Peter!"
"Sorry, dear, Peter, Katniss stop hitting Peter, Gale," she pointed at him. "Hands to yourself. Woody, stay near your father and I. Right, okay." She turned to the Jacksons. "Are you guys ready? Yes, okay, let's go."
They all piled out of the car. Percy and Annabeth rounded up their charges, with the latter getting on her knees to look at Luke, Chiron, Grover and Tyson. "Right you guys; be nice. They're being kind enough to allow us to go to the cinema with them, so I want best behaviour."
"Listen to your mother," Percy put in, to make it look like he was doing something.
"Yeah," Annabeth look at him disdainfully, "what your daddy said."
Tyson raised his hand.
"Yes, Tyson."
"Yeah, if I'm Percy's brother, does that make me the uncle?"
"Be quiet," Percy said, pushing them all along after Cato and Glimmer.
Cato made sure the others entered first before joining them. Glimmer was speaking to the kids seriously.
"Right, listen to me: we are all going to agree on a movie, and we're going to do that quickly, because we still have a long way to go. No," she raised her finger as scuffles broke out. "You will choose a movie you all like, and- what Katniss."
"Can we get sweets?"
"Maybe, if you're good."
"Yesss!"
Percy came up. "Should we hurry up; get in quickly?"
Katniss went running off to the movie list, Peter following.
"Look, they have the Hobbit," Peter pointed out. "Besides Thorin getting owned by a white Orc, I heard it was good."
Katniss grabbed Peter's arm. "Better! They have a Jennifer Lawrence movie!"
He frowned. "I don't see it."
"No," she pointed up to the 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' poster. "She makes a cameo; she's girl who rides on bike! Sure she's uncredited, but she's in it!"
"But… isn't that movie really bad?"
"Oh, it's terrible," Katniss agreed.
"Then we do we want to watch it for a glimpse of Jennifer Lawrence halfway through?"
Katniss glared at him. "Are you saying you don't want to watch 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' with me?"
Grover came up. "I, like, don't want to watch a film, with, like, that's crap."
Katniss pushed Peeta in front, before whining. "But I want to see Jennifer Lawrence."
Cato moved forward. "Hey Kat, how about we buy you 'Silver Linings' on DVD and you can watch that later?"
"No! I want to watch a Jennifer movie NOW!"
Percy moved up. "You don't seriously want to want Abraham Lincoln: Blockbuster Trainwreck', do you?"
"Back off seaweed! Peter: hit him!"
"What?" Peeta yelped.
"You heard me: hit them and let us watch the movie!"
Everyone backed off.
"Peeta-"
"It's PETER!" Peter shouted, stressed out.
"Don't hit us," Glimmer placated. "Calm down."
Chiron flew in with his wheelchair, hitting Peeta.
"Take that, villain!"
Peeta kicked him away.
Woody came forward. "How about we just calm down-"
Peter sucker punched him, sending him down.
"Okay, we'll watch the crappy Lincoln movie!" Annabeth shouted.
The snarky ginger guy smirked as he looked at Woody's ticket. He had stupid ginger hair, slightly pudgy with a 'Assistant Manager' badge gleaning on his chest, with his drew attention to regularly.
"Enjoy the movie, faggot."
Woody stared at him. "What did you just call me?"
"Next."
Woody was pushed away as the rest of the unhappy group moved forward, all scowling due to the crap tickets they had had to buy for rip off prices.
Cato handed his over with a sigh, and only Katniss was bouncing happily.
They made their way into the screen, taking their places, some muttering obscenities at Katniss as they went past.
Percy sighed, before realising, with a start, that Annabeth was right next to him, staring, smiling and generally being too close.
"Errr, hey, Annabeth."
"Hey!" She replied perkily.
Percy nodded, looking round at Grover, who was staring at a movie poster, disbelief on his face.
"Ergh, they have Joey Waston in this film."
"You like him?" Percy asked.
"No, he's terrible! Help! Let us out!"
Chiron snorted. "I don't know what you losers are complaining about. This film will rock!"
"This film's worse than the Lightning Thief," Chiron muttered.
They were ten minutes in when Woody had his plan. He leaned over to Gale, keeping his voice low.
"Hey chuck," he whispered.
Gale tore his eyes away from Abraham's father having sex with the vampire mother, his face pale.
"Yes?" He breathed, fear in his eyes.
"I have an idea to get out."
"Tell me," he hissed.
"If we cause a distraction," Woody smirked, "we should get away just fine. They'd have to kick us out!"
Gale looked at him like he was a God-send.
"You are the smartest- don't ever let me insult you-"
"Don't worry," Woody held up a hand. "I've got this."
He stood up, and started waving his arms around.
"I HATE MY LIFE! LET ME DIE!"
The ginger guy whipped around the corner. "Hey, shut the fuck up and watch your movie!"
Woody ripped off his shirt, swinging it around his head.
Glimmer had the misfortune to turn and saw his body. She whipped around, clutching her stomach.
"That… was something I didn't need to see," she muttered, green in the face.
Meanwhile, Annabeth was trying to talk about herself to Percy.
"Hey Percy, if you're 6'0, and I'm 5'9, then that makes you 3 inches taller."
Percy frowned at her, not quite sure she was being serious. "Err, yeah? Good… erm, good work?"
She frowned. "But Jason's taller, right?"
"Who the fuck is Jason?"
"That makes him 6'1, right?"
"Maybe, but wait, who are you talking-"
"Is he tall?"
"Yes, wait, I don't- is this-"
"That makes him 4 inches taller."
"Annabeth, did you have too much popcorn-"
"But Cato's taller than all of you, he's 6'2."
"That's great-"
"But Gale is taller than ALL of you, right? He's 6'3, isn't he? But if he was already over 6'0 when he was 14, that means he must have only grown, like, 2 inches."
"Why are we talking-"
"So what I'm saying, is that could I be a model Percy?"
"If you want-"
"No, could I be? Am I pretty enough?"
"Annabeth, this is getting-"
"Just answer!"
"ANNABETH!" Percy stood up. "Be quiet!
She quailed in her chair. "I just want you to smile Percy. I want to be happy!"
He frowned. "I think we need Chiron to fix you up. You've-"
"I need fixing! Thanks Percy, you big jerk!"
He waved his hands. "No, it's just-"
She ran out of her chair. "I hope Jason kills you!"
"Annabeth! Get back! Talk to me! WHO THE FUCK IS JASON!?"
Percy stood there as Woody was dragged out by security, wondering how he had gotten into this conversation.
Luke chose that moment to lean over the seats.
"Hey, if you and Jason did fight, I'd vote for you."
Percy didn't even turn around. "Luke, I'm not going to give you a kiss."
"Damn it! In that case, I'm going for Zeus."
Cato and Glimmer watched from the side, staring at the demigods.
"Who the hell is Jason? Did we miss him?" Cato asked.
Glimmer took his hand. "Forget that, let's get out of here."
"How?"
"Leave it to me." She dragged him off to the doors.
The ginger guy sneered at Woody.
"I have a great idea."
Woody smirked. "Throw me out."
"Oh no… that would be too easy, wouldn't it? No… you're going to stay here, and enjoy the movie."
Woody paled. "Please, don't."
"Then, I'm going to write a message to all the other cinemas, and get you banned from all of them."
"Please!"
"Looks like this is your last movie…," he guy glanced at his watch. "You still have 5 hours to go. Enjoy."
Woody was pulled away as Glimmer and Cato walked past.
They approached the guy guarding the door.
"What now?" hissed Cato.
Glimmer took a deep breath. "Now…," she turned to Cato. "I think I need to seduce him… I'm so sorry."
Cato looked back at the movie.
"Are you a vampire, sir?"
"I am indeed Lincoln."
"Right-o, I must destroy you if I'm ever to return to my magical homeland, Ezareth, and reunite with my magical brother Washington."
Cato whipped back to face her. "Do it quickly."
They walked out, smiling, hand in hand.
"Let's go see the Hobbit," Glimmer suggested.
They skipped over to the doors, forgoing tickets because they were so in love.
Percy ran up to the guy guarding the doors.
"Hey, you. Did you see a girl go past? Blonde, tall, probably crying?"
The guy glared at Percy. "Yeah… she said you were beautiful, but I can see right through you… you're not leaving this room until the movies over."
"But it sucks!" Percy cried. "And I need to talk to Annabeth!" he added. He looked around to see Chiron slitting his wrists, his face set. Luke was waiting for the knife, occasionally glancing at the screen to strengthen his resolve.
Gale was pale, veins bulging in his neck. "Aphrodite cabin… think about that… don't. let. GO."
"Look at them!" Percy pointed.
The guy stared at Chiron. "Hey, no dying in the movie theatre. Do that afterwards."
Chiron threw his knife away with a sigh, hoping he'd lost enough blood. Luke looked forlornly after the knife as it whistled away.
Katniss sat up in her seat.
"It's Jennifer! LOOK! LOOK PETER, LOOK!"
A girl went whizzing past on a bike.
Peeta gaped at the screen. "We sat through 2 hours for a blur on a bike! What the FUCK!" He started spasming in his seat.
Katniss sat down, looking at the screen as if for the first time. "Wait… this movie sucks."
Peter sat up, grinning madly. "Oh? Just got there, have you Sherlock?"
"No, but… this really sucks!"
"This is rich!" Peeta giggled. "I'm enjoying it so much! I- I… I-" his mouth went slack and he crumpled in his seat.
"Lucky bastard," Luke muttered as Peeta went flying past on a stretcher.
Katniss seized her chance. "I'm his wife, I must go with him!" She cried.
Luke, Chiron, Woody, Gale, Grover and Percy all watched as she waved at them, smiling as she escaped the movie.
"I'm his wife!" Percy tried desperately, but they ignored him.
The ginger guy came up.
"Hem, hem, I just need to say that we have found the extended cut, so, free of charge, we are putting on the movie for another 6 hours!" He looked at Woody as everyone screamed. "Hey, fat boy! Looks like you get to enjoy your last movie for longer." He made to walk off, before turning back.
"Oh yeah. I also have a message for a Perseus Jackson. A Miss Chase wants to see him. Who's Percy?"
All 50 people in the cinema stood up, shouting out that they were Percy.
"I'm Percy!"
"No, I'm Percy!"
"I'm Percy," the real Percy cried.
"Right, take him," he guy pointed at Grover. He was brought to the front, smiling.
"Hey guys," Grover smiled, "I'm not Percy, I was just joking." They continued to drag him out. "Wait, I'm not Percy! I'm NOT PERCY!" He protested as they dragged him out.
With nothing else to watch, they all turned back to the screen.
Hours later, they emerged outside, blinking in the sunlight.
Cato and Glimmer had been laughing their heads off over dinner when the others finally emerged. Not only had they seen a good film, they had also had dinner, and Cato had won Glimmer a stuffed animal from an arcade machine. Katniss was pissed, pushing the blame of the movie onto Peeta, and Gale was hysterically insisting they get moving again. The demigods were drained, but no more so than Percy, who was now back on speaking terms with Annabeth because he picked up her bag. Needless to say, he was very confused.
They all moved towards the van… or what was left of it.
"It's Christmas! This shit is supposed to ease off!" Grover shouted at the air.
Cato moved up to the ruined car, as Chiron rolled behind it.
"Yeah," he said. "That's gone."
Luke ran up to the CD player and whacked at it.
"My greatest hits of the 70s are on there! Now they're stuck!"
"What a shame…," Percy muttered sarcastically.
Peter, on the other hand, looked shocked. "I'm sorry… that sounds fantastic."
Luke just nodded glumly.
"Shut it ladies!" Gale roared, pointing forward. "We have a quest, and we need to head for it! Buckle up, and dream of the pussy!"
No-one was very encouraged, but they all walked past the van, following the faint glow of the star in the sky.
"I'm connected to everything!" Peeta proclaimed.
"A bold claim," Gale snorted. "Care to back that up?"
"Sure… ask me anything! I can connect to everything!"
"Okay," he frowned, as the others gathered to watch. "Snow. How are you connected?"
"I'm standing on it," Peter said. "Do a proper one."
"Okay," Gale glared. "How are you connected to DVD's?"
"Okay… Peeta Mellark is a character in the novels, 'The Hunger Games', which was adapted into cinema. This was then later released to home release, which was in the form of DVD's, which featured Peeta Mellark on them. Peeta is a form of the name Peter, my name."
Glimmer moved forward. "Impressive… how about… carpet? How are you connected to carpet?"
"Carpet is a material. Material comes from District 1, which you are familiar with. Baking aprons are created in this district, and sent to District 12. I have a bakery apron, and therefore Peter is connected to Carpet."
Percy strode up. "How about Poseidon? How are you connected to my father?"
"Your father is God of the Seas, which includes the Atlantic. The Black Sea is joint with this, and bridges the gap between Eastern Europe and Western Asia. Incidentally, Naan bread was created in Asia, and every Friday I bake Naan bread in the bakery. That's how I'm connected."
"That's…," Percy frowned. "Freaking amazing."
"How are you connected to Jennifer Lawrence?!" Katniss butted in eagerly.
Peter smiled at her. "Jennifer Lawrence was in 'The Hunger Games'. Late in the film she found Peeta as a rock, hiding. She pronounced 'Peeta' as 'Pita'. Pita is a popular nickname for me, as Peeta sounds as such, and Peeta sounds like Peter, which is my name."
Katniss looked up at him adoringly. "How are you connected to me, Peter?"
"Anyway you like," he purred.
"Oh, Peter!" She cried with delight.
"Look!" Tyson pointed.
They finally saw it, looming over the hills. Even the HG characters, because the writer couldn't be bothered to try and think up a story on how they can see the Camp. They also walked through it fine too, no protective barrier.
"Huh?" Chiron scratched his head. "That should have worked. I thought we had a magical- oh, whatever, the entire camp is going to the dogs."
The HG characters looked around.
"Looks like a training place for the Games," Glimmer muttered. "I don't like it."
Percy ran forward. "No way, this camp rules. We have," he pointed at a guy getting cut up by swordsmen from the Ares cabin. "Okay," he said lamely. "Maybe it's a bit dangerous."
Glimmer raised an eyebrow, before moving forward.
A girl rushed up to them, beaming.
"Great, you guys made it! The Christmas party is just starting off in the Amphitheatre."
Gale pushed past her. "Yeah, yeah love. Where's the hot cabin?"
"The what?"
Annabeth took Gale's shoulder and pointed at a cabin.
"That one. Try your luck."
Gale grinned, before sprinting towards the cabins.
"Gale takes down deer with his fists. If they don't comply, he'll probably rape them," Katniss said simply.
Grover looked horrified at Gale, who had just kicked down the door and jumped in.
"Come on," Luke hopped around. "lets get to the really cheesy ending party for this Fan Fiction story which should have been released much earlier and now leaves the writer depressed as Christmas is over!"
They all ran past, and Katniss tried to take Peter's arm to ask him if they could dance together. Unfortunately she missed him, and he went running off with Luke, Percy and Grover, Tyson following in their wake. Chiron muttered something about pancakes and Cato and Glimmer ran off to have commandeer Percy's cabin for… personal reasons.
Annabeth came up, shaking her head sadly.
"Boys can be so stupid, can't they?"
Katniss nodded.
"Then again," Annabeth reasoned. "You did force him to punch Woody, take him through a crap film, blame him for it, then ignore him for the rest of the trip. Maybe," Annabeth looked at her. "You don't deserve him, do you?"
Katniss shook her head, screwing her face up.
"He's a great guy… if a little weird," Annabeth added.
Katniss straightened up. "I have to get his attention."
"Well, they have a beautiful little sing-along if you're interested. You could sing 'A Thousand Years'?"
"I need Cato and Gale," she decided, before taking off.
"Oh," Annabeth said. "Don't mind me," she raised a hand. "Not like I have boy troubles of my own."
Katniss was already streaking across the lawn.
Night finally settled, and everyone assembled while people sung their songs.
Annabeth stood sadly, while all her friends milled around her.
"Hey there," Percy emerged through the crowd.
Annabeth smiled. "Hey."
"You okay?"
She had been focusing on his hair, which was waving slightly, before jerking her eyes back to him.
"Yeah, fine."
Luke came behind them, holding something over his head.
"Mistletoe!" He cried.
Percy looked up in shock.
"It's over you two!" Luke cried. "That means you have to kiss."
Percy was still gaping at the mistletoe, and Annabeth was blushing. This was too soon. She hadn't planned, or checked her lips weren't dry. She wasn't ready.
"No, no," she backed off, "that actually looks like Dodder. You know, Cuscuta, also known as the Devil's guts. Very different. But both are a species of over 100 genus, so that would be understa-," Grover came up behind her and pushed back towards Percy.
"Is it?" Luke looked at the plant stupidly, but Grover hit him.
"Of course, Tesco never gets it wrong!"
"Yes, but I'm not sure Percy wants to kiss me," she said.
Percy smiled. "Don't I?"
"No," Annabeth told him. "No, you don't. get used to it."
Percy moved closer. "I think I'll be brave. I'm going to take a risk."
"One step closer!" Luke and Grover cried.
"Why are you doing this?!" Annabeth cried. "You don't care about me, and the feeling is… it's mutual."
"What did we say?" Luke asked Grover.
"What is Annabeth to you, Percy?" he replied.
"And how did he respond?" Luke smiled.
Percy took Annabeth's arms. "I told them you were the beauty in everything we see."
She frowned. "Beauty-"
"In everything I see. You're my beauty Annabeth. I know," he clenched his jaw. "That I've been… not- I- I've messed up, but I want to fix that. I want to- damn it."
He leaned in and kissed her, wrapping his arms around her. Annabeth's senses opened up, but it all blurred together, the sound and colour, the taste, to form one whole which dominated her life. She almost thought she was tasting happiness, but that was a silly notion, and impossible to boot.
Percy drew away, but he continued to grin down at her stupidly.
She put a hand on his cheek, as the song changed. They turned to face it, before realising, that it was, in fact, Katniss on stage.
A spot light fixed onto someone in the crowd, and Peeta dropped his drink, surprised at the attention.
"Do you want me to dance?" he asked.
Then Katniss locked eyes with him as the song begun. Woody was up front, playing the piano for it.
Glimmer rushed up. "Did I miss it?" She saw Woody. "I didn't know he could play piano."
"I didn't know he could anything," Chiron muttered as he rolled up.
I don't want a lot for Christmas
There is just one thing I need
I don't care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas Is you
I don't want a lot for Christmas
Cato, Gale and a load of demigods started singing the backing to the song.
There is just one thing I need
And I don't care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I don't need to hang my stocking
There upon the fireplace
Santa Claus won't make me happy
With a toy on Christmas Day
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is you
You baby
Oh I won't ask for much this Christmas
I won't even wish for snow
And I'm just gonna keep on waiting
Underneath the mistletoe
They all looked at Peter, who was gobsmacked, a huge bag over his shoulder.
I won't make a list and send it
To the North Pole for Saint Nick
I won't even stay awake to
Hear those magic reindeer click
'Cause I just want you here tonight
Holding on to me so tight
What more can I do?
Baby all I want for Christmas is you
You
Oh all the lights are shining
So brightly everywhere
And the sound of children's
Laughter fills the air
And everyone is singing
I hear those sleigh bells ringing
Santa won't you bring me the one I really need?
Won't you please bring my baby to me?
Oh I don't want a lot for Christmas
This is all I'm asking for
I just want to see my baby
Standing right outside my door
Oh I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
Baby all I want for Christmas is
You baby
All I want for Christmas is you baby
All I want for Christmas is you baby
All I want for Christmas is you baby…
Peeta broke his daze, and ran up to the stage.
"Are you telling me," he asked, throwing the bag at Katniss' feet. "That I collected over 267 consecutive gifts for nothing!"
Katniss beamed at him. "You got all my presents off my list!?"
He nodded. "And what a waste that was-," she leapt at him to cheers.
Percy took Annabeth's hand. "At least you didn't make me get 200 and something presents."
"That's because I knew you'd mess up," she smiled.
Hours later, they all regrouped together. Chiron, staring at a sweaty Woody with a new respect, Gale, with his trousers down, still trying to recover from the Hot cabin, Luke smiling at them all like they were his children, Grover doing his nails, Peeta stroking Katniss' hair happily, Tyson looking disgruntled he hadn't got a juice box, Cato carrying Glimmer with one arm, much to her annoyance, and Percy and Annabeth, swinging on his arm.
"We'd give you a lift," Chiron said, "but the Oracle stole the bus."
"Its fine," Cato assured him. "We'll walk."
"Maybe you will, but you're carrying me all the way, right?" Glimmer asked from his arm.
"I feel it in my bones," Luke said randomly.
Percy held out his hand to them. "Good luck guys."
Gale took it. "Thank you…," he said weakly, still worn out.
"Yeah… erm, pull up your trousers."
"Time to go," Peter nodded. "We'll try not to steal anymore of your viewers."
"No, you won't," Percy stated.
"No, I won't," Peeta agreed.
He started walking off, the rest following. They reached the crest of the hill, before waving down.
The first sprinkle of snow began to fall lightly.
A quick ending, but this has gone on too long, and it needs to end. I had much more, but maybe another time. Thanks for reading, please review, and I hope you had a great Christmas, and Happy New Year!
