And for anyone who caught it, the title of this, The Reckless and The Brave is based on the new All Time Low song. I saw them at Warped and they preformed it and well, I was in love XD
"Kyle is like so going to be captain." Some plastic blonde girl drawled while smacking on her gum loudly. "Like, again." The other three girls around her agreed eagerly and Thalia didn't even try to hide her distaste. The four girls didn't notice anyways.
If this had been anything else, Thalia won't even be here. Sitting on uncomfortable bleachers by plastic, make-up covered cheerleaders, while idiot, ego-filled boys trash talked each other wasn't Thalia's thing. At all. She'd rather be running on the track but more importantly, listening to music. Green Day anyone?
But, this was for Percy, who was admittedly her favorite cousin and she looked to him as a brother (Not that she'd tell him) and swimming was important to Percy. So when the Kelp Head asked her to come, in a very round-about way, ("So, uh, Thals… You don't completely hate water do you? I mean with our, um, parents and all—" She rolled her eyes. "Guess you'll find out if I'm there, Kelp-for-Brains.") She was fine with showing up and showing support.
Apparently, for the past two years, Chiron didn't let Percy try out for sports due to unfair advantage and other bullshit, but after the whole Gaea thing, Chiron relented. The son of Poseidon had to loose steam somehow anyways. So to Percy's excitement (and Thalia's, she loved to run) he got to try out for sports and show these mortals up.
Thalia smirked. Who ever this Kyle guy was, he was going to have to get used to second best because Thalia had no doubt Percy was about to wipe the floor with his ass.
So when the coach blew the whistle and Percy launched off the block in perfect form and time, leaving the coach gapping, Thalia only rolled her eyes. And when Percy gained enough lead to be doing his own laps, Thalia had to smother her laughter when the four cheerleaders stood open mouthed and the gum tumbled from their lip gloss covered lips.
"Close your mouths, you'll catch flies." She laughed. The four turned bright red (Thalia was pretty sure their faces would be even brighter if there wasn't so much make-up hiding their faces) and spluttered.
"Who is that?" One of them screeched. Thalia smirked,
"Just Percy Jackson." If they looked stunned then, they looked absolutely blown away now. The coach blew the whistle as best he could while trying to keep his own jaw from becoming slack. Percy just hopped out of the pool and shook his head.
"Jackson!" The coach bellowed. "Where the hell were you when we wanted to win state finals?" Percy only shrugged,
"Dunno." As the other swimmers finished up and came tumbling out of the pool they all crowded around Percy and the coach.
"Well, Jackson, you made the team. I'd have you be captain, but I'm afraid you need one year at least of seniority." The coach looked genuinely disappointed. Percy only shrugged but Thalia could tell by the slight tension in his lips that he was cursing Chiron in his mind.
"So, Louis, I guess you're captain again this year." The coach said, turning to a blonde guy. He gave Percy a smug look but Thalia could still see the jealousy burning in his eyes when he looked at Percy. Thalia rolled her eyes again, boys.
The coach then dismissed the rest and told them to check the locker room doors on Monday to see who made the team. Percy came walking up to her and Thalia tossed him the towel.
"I'm impressed Kelp Head." Thalia teased and Percy rolled his eyes.
"Stupid Chiron." Thalia laughed but silently agreed. Damn old horse. Thalia looked over to the cheerleaders to see them staring at Percy, jaw slacked (again) and ogling his body. Thalia snickered; Annabeth wasn't going to like that pretty much anyone who wanted to get to see Percy shirtless. But Thalia had to give it to him, years of monster fighting and titan slaying had done the boy good.
"You ready to leave, Perce?" Her cousin nodded.
"Yeah, don't you have track tryouts tomorrow?" He asked as he slung an arm around her shoulders. She nodded.
"Yeah and there are football tryouts tomorrow too." She informed him. "And I need you to pick me up later, I have soccer tryouts today." Percy smiled,
"I'll stay if you'd like. It's only fair, right?" Thalia snorted but she smiled internally. She was really glad she was getting to know Percy better.
So, yeah. Fluff, friendship fluff! I love these two and I've always wanted a good best friends fic, so yeah :) They're going to get to know one another. And I want to know your opinion; don't those sports seem like sports the two would like? I mean swimming is a no brainer bur, I always thought Percy was a football kind of guy and Thalia strikes me as the type to love running, so track and soccer it is :P
Oh, and 'Louis' is Kyle's last name. Just wanted to clarify that because that might've been confusing.
TBATDP