A/N: I don't own PJO, HoO, Disney World, or Green Day. Also, this is my first PJO/HoO story.
As Thalia and Nico sat talking, screaming could be heard outside. Curious, the two hurriedly got ready for the day and ran outside. There, Thalia saw Jason holding back Piper, who was glaring at a girl about their age with long braided hair, dressed in a pair of jeans, a purple t-shirt, and black converse.
"Reyna.", Nico whispered to Thalia, who had not actually met the Roman demi-god.
Thalia nodded and watched, prepared to strike if Reyna made one wrong move.
"Why are you even here?", Piper yelled, trying to get free.
"Jason, you are a Roman, so you should not be near this Greek camp. We must go!", Reyna yelled back, showing no signs of noticing Piper.
Jason did not move, then, he saw his sister by the Hades cabin. Thalia nodded to him, but then returned her gaze to Reyna, devising a plan.
"Oh, Reyna!", she called, distracting the dark haired girl.
"Yes?", Reyna growled.
"It's Saturday, so why don't you stay for a while. I'm Jason's sister, Thalia. I'd like to know you better.", Thalia said in a fake sweet voice.
"Okay, I guess.", Reyna replied, falling right into Thalia's trap.
Nico had to hand it to Thalia. Her plan had worked. It was nearly four o'clock when Artemis had shown up looking for her former First Lieutenant. She had brought the rest of the hunt with her, Phoebe nearest to her looking superior with the silver circlet on her head.
"Welcome, Lady Artemis. I do hope you and your hunters are well.", Chiron said diplomatically, knowing we'd have to have a Capture the Flag game, even though we had just played last night.
"We have lost a sister, Chiron. Thalia quit last night. She said she would be here.", Artemis said, Chiron not quivering under her glare.
"She is speaking with a Roman demi-god who came to visit us this morning. I trust your girls want to play the traditional Capture the Flag game?", Chiron asked, smiling to himself.
"Yes, will someone explain Capture the Flag to the newer recruits who have never played it.", Artemis ordered, walking off to find Thalia.
She did, and aforementioned girl stood at once.
"I thought I said I'd talk with you next month!", she snapped, her hand on her stomach.
"You did, but I need to take your immortality back.", Artemis said calmly, laying her hand on Thalia's head.
The now mortal teenager collapsed, but only momentarily. She stood up weakly, and glared at her half-sister.
"You better not have done anything to my child!", she hissed, lighting sparking off her body.
"I did nothing to- Wait, your what?", Artemis growled, enraged at the revelation.
"You heard me.", Thalia replied, slightly out of breath.
Not giving Artemis a chance to do anything more, she ran towards the Big House where her boyfriend stood, talking to Percy, and she ran straight into Nico's arms.
"She's taken my immortality, but she also found out about the baby.", she said before fainting.
Nico carried her inside and to Chiron. The centaur looked worried.
"What happened?", he asked.
"Well, Artemis took her immortality, and then Thalia told her about… Well, I don't know if you know about why she quit.", Nico said, just as Thalia started to stir.
"I only told Apollo, you, and Artemis.", she said, though it was muffled as her head was in Nico's chest.
"Nico, carry her to her cabin, let her rest. We need her for Capture the Flag tonight. We have to win at least one game against the hunters!", Chiron said.
"No. She can't go to the Zeus cabin. Reyna came by and tried to force Jason to leave with her. Thalia got her away from Piper, who she was attempting to probably maim or seriously injure, and Jason was with Piper. With what could be going on, for instance, sex murder, fighting, I don't want her in there. It could be detrimental to the-her health.", Nico said firmly, noticing Thalia was asleep.
"I'll check on those three, you can let her rest here.", Chiron sighed, leaving the room.
Thalia woke about twenty minutes later, smiling as she saw Nico in an armchair, reading a book.
"What are you reading?", she asked, making him jump.
"Oh, it's The Outsiders, and I really haven't been reading. How do you feel?", he asked, closing the book and moving over to where Thalia sat on the couch.
"I feel great. I guess we should tell Chiron. Wait, where's Tempe?", she asked, looking for the eight year old.
"My dad wanted to talk her about why she was stuck in the foster system and why he never helped her. She's in the Underworld temporarily.", Nico said, pulling Thalia into his arms as she sat up.
"Oh, well, did Artemis bring the hunters with her?", Thalia asked.
"Yeah, and Chiron wants you to play in the Capture the Flag game." , Nico said, scowling.
"Good. I'm going to make sure we win.", Thalia said with an odd look in her eyes.
"As long as you don't get hurt.", Nico told her, getting a half-hearted hit on the shoulder.
"Do you honestly think I'd endanger the life of our child or myself?", she asked him, smiling as she said, 'our child', but seemed to add herself in as a last thought.
"Of course I don't. I just worry about things like death because I can feel it when someone dies. I really don't want to feel you dying, either of you, so I'll probably worry about you no matter what.", Nico said with a smile, not noticing the centaur in the doorway.
"Did I hear correctly?", Chiron asked, hoping, praying, he had not.
"Yes, Chiron, you did. I'm pregnant, Nico's the father, and I plan on taking the hunters down tonight.", Thalia said, suddenly feeling sad at the look of disappointment in Chiron's eyes.
"You should go and get ready for the game. However, I will have to alert your fathers.", Chiron replied, only for Thalia to shake her head.
"We planed on telling them separately tomorrow. It's better they here it from us, and that way, you stay away from harm.", she told him, getting a nod of approval.
"Thanks, Chiron!", Thalia said with a smile, dragging Nico out of the room.
At six o'clock, the game started. Percy was guarding the Camp's flag by the creek with Conner. Percy, however, had Annabeth's Yankee's cap, as she couldn't play, so he was guarding the flag, invisible, with Riptide at his side.
Nico and Thalia were in the shadows, not a wise place for the hunters to attack them at. The others were spread out randomly, determined not to loose a 57th game in a row.
The game started, and the Hunters descended upon the campers like mad hounds, but the campers fought back. Thalia saw one of the hunters nearly miss Will Solace with her blade and ran forward to help. The girl, she saw, was Phoebe, now First Lieutenant. Phoebe aimed at Thalia, only for a skeleton soldier to block her.
Nico stood in the shadows, manipulating his army of the dead, not willing to let anything or anyone harm his girlfriend and child.
Thalia slipped passed Phoebe and ran into the Hunters' territory. She could see the flag, perched in the crevice of a high rock.
"Damn it!", she swore under her breath.
"Need some help?", she heard a voice ask.
"Travis, Katie, it's up there!", she hissed, turning to face the daughter of Demeter and son of Hermes.
"I'll be right back.", Travis replied, sneaking up onto the rock.
Just as he grabbed the flag, the Hunters appeared and began attacking them. Katie and Thalia fought as Travis hurried off, handing the flag to Chris, who ran off into the trees. Travis then returned to Katie's side and fought the Hunters with the daughter of Demeter and daughter of Zeus.
Out of nowhere, Thalia felt a blade in her side. She looked down and saw a small amount of blood. Panicking, Thalia ran to Chiron, who, as usual, was serving as referee and field medic. He had Annabeth patch her up, and then Thalia ran off to where the army of the dead was nearly slaughtering the Hunters.
"Nico, we're fine!", she cried to him, making him drop the army.
"What's that?", he asked as the sound of joyful shouting came from behind them.
"WE WON!", Percy's voice came.
"Perce, you're still wearing the Yankee's cap.", Thalia told him, placing a hand on her side, pain pulsing from her injury.
"That's it, you're going to the infirmary.", Nico said, grabbing Thalia's wrist and shadow traveling off.
The next day, all anyone could talk about was not loosing the 57th game in a row. Thalia said it was all because of the skeleton army of the dead. Percy, however, disagreed and said it was Piper taking her anger at Reyna out on the Hunters.
Reyna was another issue. Chiron had talked her into leaving Camp Half-blood just before the game. Of course, she only agreed because Jason and Piper had bolted the Zeus cabin door shut. Reyna thought one thing while Thalia knew another.
Piper had broken down in tears and asked Jason to Iris Message Thalia for her. Seeing Piper's eyes change color so fast was unsettling to Thalia. At this point, they had been a deep bloody red.
"Piper, what's wrong?", Thalia had asked.
"I hate her!", Piper spat, her eyes shining with unshed tears.
"Pipes, calm down. Take a deep breath and count to ten.", Thalia warned, not expecting to hear the word hate come out of the mouth of a child of the love goddess.
Piper did as told, and her eyes mellowed from red to dark brown. She blinked the tears away, drying her cheeks with the end of her jacket sleeve.
"Better?", Thalia asked, smiling at the daughter of Aphrodite.
"Yeah. How are you so good at calming people down?", Piper asked, smiling back.
"I don't know. It's just natural after being in charge of the Hunt while Artemis was away.", Thalia said as Apollo appeared behind her.
"Hey, Sis, we have to set up your appointment. I don't want my niece or nephew to be affected by you loosing your immortality.", the god said before noticing the Iris Message.
"Thalia, please tell me our brother did not just say you're pregnant!", Jason cried out, causing even Piper to remember he was still there.
"Um, I plead the fifth!", Thalia said quickly, swiping a hand through the mist.
"Bad timing?", Apollo guessed.
Thalia just glared.
Now that Jason knew, Thalia knew they would have to tell Zeus and Hades. So she left the Hades cabin and wandered into the swordplay arena where Nico was with Percy. The sight of the Aphrodite girls hovering around the arena nearly made Thalia sick, though that may have just been the morning sickness preparing to strike.
Of course, the moment she thought this, she spotted Annabeth run out of the arena and straight for the newly-remodeled Poseidon cabin. She looked back at Nico and Percy, who were too distracted by the swords they each held, and then ran after Annabeth.
"Owl Face, are you okay? Dear gods, please tell me it doesn't get this bad.", Thalia asked, throwing her hands in the air as she stood in the doorway of the cabin's new private bathroom.
"What are you talking about?", Annabeth asked before a second wave of morning sickness hit.
"Apollo said morning sickness is, for lack of a better word, a bitch. I'm a few weeks behind you, so you're me in a few weeks.", Thalia replied, sitting on the edge of the tub.
"Wait, you're pregnant?", Annabeth asked, flushing the toilet and moving other to the sink, grabbing her toothbrush and her mouthwash.
"Yeah, I am.", Thalia said, actually smiling at her admission.
"As your best friend, I think I should be aloud to inquire as to who the father of your child is? Is it Nico? Wait, did you even have sex with Nico?", Annabeth asked with a small smile of her own as millions of questions plagued her brain.
"It's-", but she was cut off by Percy and Nico running into the cabin.
"Let me guess, Aphrodite girls?", Thalia asked, her hands on her hips.
"No, it was worse. Your brother knows now.", it was not a question.
"It's Apollo's fault. He had to appear behind me while Jason and Piper Iris Messaged me! I was actually coming to get you from the arena. We need to tell our dads before they find out from other sources and go postal on us.", Thalia replied, answering Annabeth's question.
"So the baby is Nico's! She's right, you should go tell your fathers now!", Annabeth cried, shoving the two out of the cabin.
"Wait, Nico got Thalia pregnant?", Percy asked.
"Yes, and we're sorry you're so out of the loop.", Nico said with an eye roll.
Thalia merely giggled and drug Nico to the Hades cabin, where they immediately were met by an excited eight year old and a reserved looking Hades.
"Dad, Tempe, I didn't realize you were coming today.", Nico said, nearly speechless.
"Well, I wasn't until… Tempe, go to your room.", the Lord of the dead replied, shooing his daughter off.
"It has come to my attention, via your thoughts, Nico, that I will soon be a grandfather.", Hades said calmly.
"Are you angry at me or disappointed in me?", Nico asked, looking his father in the eye, acting braver than he felt.
"I am only disappointed that you are just sixteen. I am thrilled at the thought of a grandchild, really. That is why I am inviting you two to the Underworld for dinner. I take it you will be visiting Olympus today as well?", Hades asked, looking from one half-blood to the other.
"Yes, sir.", Nico said, feeling a bit better knowing his father was not angry; that was never a pretty sight.
"I will see you tonight then. Dinner is at-", but Nico cut him off.
"Six o'clock. I know, Dad. I lived with you for enough time to figure out when dinner is.", he joked, smiling at his father, who rolled his eyes.
Hades vanished with a nod to each of them, but Nico began laughing moments later.
"What?", Thalia asked.
"My dad says I'm grounded from hanging out with the dead soldiers. They apparently made me too much of a smartass.", Nico told her, snorting.
"Are you sure it wasn't me?", she asked with a smile.
"No, but I'm not telling my dad that.", he whispered in her ear.
"I have to go get ready, so figure out what you're wearing to dinner.", Thalia whispered back, placing a light peck on the lips.
Nico groaned, but did as told, though he watched her as she walked away towards the Aphrodite cabin in search of Piper.
Thalia knocked on the door of the glittery cabin, and waited as it was opened by a bright eyed blonde girl about Thalia's own age.
"Is Piper here?", Thalia asked, the blonde's mere presence leaving her with an unsettling feeling.
"Yeah, I'll get her.", the blonde replied, turning back to the cabin, "PIPER!"
Piper was at the door moments later, squealing at the sight of Thalia. Without warning, she drug Thalia by the wrist into the Counselor's room, then into the massive closet.
"You're pregnant!", she said, squealing again.
"Piper, please don't squeal. I know I'm pregnant, as does my boyfriend.", Thalia whisper-yelled.
"Please tell me it's Nico. He's the only person that makes sense.", Piper nearly begged.
"I'm dating Nico, and I'm pregnant with his child, yes. We're going to dinner tonight at his dad's. That's why I came to see you.", Thalia said, laughing at Piper's true Aphrodite-child personality shining through.
"I'm sorry, but if you're with Nico, those Barbie dolls will shut up about him. If I hear one more thing about how good they think he'd be-Never mind. You would know better than they would anyway.", Piper replied, stopping herself before she said something she should probably not say.
"I won't tell anything about that, but you know what they say about it only takes one time? Well, that's true.", Thalia said, laughing slightly.
"I don't mean to pry, but when?", Piper asked as she opened the large door with a golden T on it.
"It was the night before we found Temperance. We both think your mother was involved.", Thalia answered, ducking as a high heeled boot came flying at her head.
"Sorry, you're meant to wear those, not be beheaded by them.", Piper called over her shoulder as she turned back to the closet.
"I would hope so! Have you decided on anything yet? Your closet terrifies me.", Thalia responded, looking around as if something on the shelves would attack her.
"Here, go into the bathroom and put that on.", Piper said, handing Thalia a small stack of clothes.
"You have a bathroom in your closet?", Thalia asked, an eyebrow raised.
"No, but I have my own in my room, remember?", Piper replied, pushing the other girl from the room.
Thalia rolled her eyes and went into Piper's bathroom, glad to see the lack of pink, just white with swans and doves embossed and engraved on everything.
Silently, she began to undress, listening in as a few Aphrodite girls walked into the room on the other side of the door, Piper's bedroom, to talk to their sister.
"Piper, why was Jason yelling at Nico?", one asked worriedly.
"Breena, Jason was just upset that he didn't know why Thalia left the hunt, but Nico did.", Piper lied easily, sitting down at her vanity and filing her nails.
"Why did he know anything about her?", another, the blonde who had answered the door, asked.
"Serena, be careful what you say. Thalia is my friend, and I won't tolerate insults aimer towards her.", Piper said calmly, her eyes flickering towards the bathroom door.
"What does he see in her? She dresses in black when nobody's dead and she listens to depressing music!", the third complained, Thalia not hearing her due to the morning sickness.
"Trina! Shut up!", Piper screamed, walking into the bathroom to find Thalia, in her dress and boots, hovering over the toilet.
"Don't ever let my brother get you pregnant, Piper. Morning sickness is a bitch, just ask Annabeth.", Thalia said before barfing again.
Piper sighed and held Thalia's hair back, knowing the other girls were at the door.
"Don't you have something else to do?", she snapped, sending them scurrying.
"Thanks, Piper.", Thalia said as she leaned back against the tub.
"I'd do anything for you, Thalia, as I think of you as more of a sister than I do some of them. So, do you want a boy or a girl?", Piper asked, leaning against the counter.
"I'm not sure. I know that a girl would be in more danger because of how much my dear sister hates me, but I see this vision in my head of me watching as Nico plays with our dark haired, pale skinned little girl.", Thalia said, drifting off into her daydream.
"That sounds adorable. I think you would be amazing parents no matter what, because of what you two have gone through, so I don't really think it will matter.", Piper replied.
"Is there anything else you need to do to me, or can I go?", Thalia asked, fiddling with the skirt of the dress she was wearing.
"I trust you with your own make-up, so you are free to go. Let me walk you out, Thalia.", Piper said, knowing she'd have to talk to Serena, Trina, and Breena.
Thalia got up and followed Piper from the room, unfortunately noticing the stares from the Aphrodite girls. This just made her pull on the leather jacket and wrap it around her body tightly. What were they whispering about?
"If any of you breathe one word of what you saw in my room, she will be on kitchen duty for a month!", Piper hissed quietly, glaring at the three blondes in the corner.
Serena, Breena, and Trina nodded before rushing to their bunks to hide.
"Thanks, Pipes. I'll see you later.", Thalia said as she hugged the other girl.
"No problem, Thalia. See you later!", Piper replied happily.
An hour later, Thalia had finished her make-up, found her purse with the spikes on it, and was walking towards the Hades cabin when a pair of arms snaked around her waist.
"If you're not Nico, you better run.", she sing-songed.
"Babe, it's me. You left this in my room.", Nico whispered in her ear, handing her the golden bracelet that held her Aegis.
"Thanks. We should get going if we want to be able to tell my dad and make it out alive.", Thalia replied, her tone serious.
"Well, incase we do die, I want you to have this.", he told her, placing a necklace around her neck.
Thalia got out her mirror from her purse and saw it was a locket, and engraved upon it was a Greek looking skeleton.
"Just my style. I love it.", she said, kissing him on the cheek.
Nico wrapped his arms around her once more, and they shadow traveled to Olympus.
A/N: I do not own The Outsiders. I always found something in each story that I would have changed, so I think about that when I write. I try to write what I want to see, but I try to write it in a way that my readers want to see it R&R, please!
TUNE IN NEXT TIME FOR: Zeus' reaction to the pregnancy!
