A/N: Salutations! I'm back again with Part 2! Shoutout to MyNameIsAwesome for, well, being awesome (and really enthusiastic). Thanks to my reviewers

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Disclaimer: I am not Rick Riordan. It would be quite cool if I was, though. I'd have all that epic writing skill... plus, I'd be rich. But the Fates have decreed that I be a Sheeptopus-owning fangirl instead (if you don't know what I'm talking about, look at my profile). So no, I don't own PJO.

A Supremely Awful Idea

Part 2

Once he got over the shock, Percy's first instinct was to laugh. "Good one, dude. For a minute there I thought you were serious!"

For a second, Nico looked remarkably like a kicked puppy. Then the kicked puppy look was replaced with one of righteous anger. "What are you talking about? Of course I'm serious! Why wouldn't I be?"

Percy's eyes widened. "Di immortales... you actually mean it! Okay, forget 'are you serious' - are you insane? Thalia? NO. That is a terrible idea! There are so many things wrong with it, I don't even know where to begin!"

Nico looked affronted. "I don't see what's so wrong about it! I'm a boy, and she's a girl! I like her, Percy! And I'm pretty sure she likes me too!"

"Holy Poseidon... what on earth gave you that idea?"

The son of Hades started turning red again. "Um, well, the last time the Hunters visited, she said hi to me... and she didn't break all my fingers in Capture the Flag like she did the last time!"

Percy put his head in his hands and sighed. He might be here for a while... "Nico, Nico, Nico. She only broke your fingers by accident. And she may not have broken your fingers recently, but she did electrocute you!"

"Maybe so, but she still said hi to me!"

Just then, Clarisse walked by with a grunt and a nod. "Hey Death Boy. Prissy. Remember, punk, I am going to run you through with Maimer on Friday."

"Prissy" rolled his eyes. "Oh, the terrifying might of Lamer. I cower where I stand."

Clarisse made a low growl, and with a threatening glare and a mutter of "It's MAIMER. MAIMER!" she continued on her way to the arena.

"Nico. Clarisse just said hi to you. Does that mean she is madly in love with you?"

Nico looked faintly disgusted. "Cl-Clarisse? She'd sooner kill me than go out with me. And I'd sooner kill myself than go out with her!"

"My point exactly. Just because a girl says hi to you, it doesn't mean she wants to go out with you. And that's only the tip of the iceberg of 'Reasons Why Thalia Will Never Go Out With Nico'."

"Well? Why don't you enlighten me?"

"Fine! First of all, there's the massive age difference. If Thalia hadn't been turned into a tree, she'd be in her twenties by now! But as it is, she is fifteen forever. Forever. Got that? And if you hadn't gone to the Lotus Hotel and Casino, you would be a really old man now, if you were even still alive, what with your Big Three aura and everything. As it is, you're only twelve or thirteen! So, even just going with that, this hypothetical relationship wouldn't work."

"That's not fair! Those circumstances were beyond our control!" Nico argued.

"If they hadn't happened, it would be a really old man going out with a woman in her twenties, and let's face it, Nico, you're not rich enough to get away with that." Percy shot back.

"Touché."

"But the obvious, main reason, the be-all-and-end-all of why this relationship definitely wouldn't work, is that Thalia is a Hunter of Artemis. Heck, she's the Lieutenant of Artemis. She has sworn off boys. Forever. Sworn off dating. Forever. She literally cannot go out with you, Nico, even if she wants to. And unfortunately, if you try to ask her out, she, and all the rest of the Hunters, will beat you up. And Artemis will probably turn you into a jackalope. All in all, if you ask her out, you will come away as a severely wounded jackalope. Is that what you want?"

Nico floundered, trying to come up with the right words. "I... well... um... when you put it like that... I suppose..."

"Are you going to ask her out or not?"

"I... "

"Nico. Jackalopes. Yes, or no?"

He deflated. "No."

"Do we agree never to speak of this encounter again?"

"Definitely."

"Alright then. Nice talking to you."

"Yeah... see you..."

When Percy got back to the stables, he rested his head against the wall of Blackjack's stall and closed his eyes. He wasn't sure he had ever talked that much in one go in his whole life. He was pretty worn out after that, to tell the truth. Maybe he would take a nap... No. He stopped himself from nodding off. Stupid Curse of Achilles.

Yo, Boss, said Blackjack, just as the conch horn for dinner sounded. What did the creepy kid wanna talk about?

"Jackalopes," replied Percy with a smile, and, leaving a very confused pegasus in his wake, answered the call of his stomach.

A/N: Sorry if the ending's kind of abrupt. I couldn't think of a better way to end it. Oh, well. Again, sorry if you ship Thalico (and if you do then why on earth are you reading this fic?), but I seriously think that Thalico is just people finding two fairly important characters who don't happen to be in a relationship and putting them together to tie up loose ends, without any thought into if it is even remotely plausible (which Thalico isn't). Hope you enjoyed it, and PLEASE REVIEW. Thanks for reading!