Disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson, thanks :D
So this is supposed to be set after HoO, assuming all the characters I mention here don't die an agonizing death...
Lol this is kinda just me messing around and having some fun with my boys, Leo and Nico~ Anyways enjoy I guess. XD
(Sorry for the lack of chapters in the last month. I hope to make it up soon! I'm pretty satisfied with how this chapter turned out, so please enjoy ^-^)
(Also I hope at least one person gets to joke in the title ;-;)
Percy's POV
Aaahh shit. I bit my lip thinking of a reply. Suddenly a powdered donut slammed me in the chest. I glanced up, and sure enough, there was Leo, holding a box of donuts and throwing one at everyone.
"Wow, Leo, that was random," I remarked, snickering a bit. He shrugged.
"Yo, I felt like we needed some donuts incorporated in here," He grinned his elfish grin of destroying-the-world. Piper took a bite, her magic Aphrodite daughterness not getting any messy powder on her face. She sighed and said hastily, "C'mon, stop stalling and answer the question already," I could tell she was getting curious over what her boyfriend and me fought over earlier.
I sighed and nodded, glancing over to Jason who was staring intently at the ground since the question was asked, his donut untouched on his lap.
'He, um..." I tried to think how to word this. "He said...He was asking me about how, um, what exactly happened with Thalia, and..." I glanced up at Thalia, then at Nico. I knew this was going to upset more than just he and I. "And so, I started telling him about how Thalia became the head of the hunters after... Zoƫ died..." I tried to say discreetly, seeing the sadness in everyone's faces. I saw Nico looking at me intently, daring me to continue. "And, well... I won't go into detail, but I lost my temper after a bit, and we started screaming, and so... Yeah." I tried to make it seem like I wasn't upset anymore, which I was more upset over what was said than over Jason, because Jay had a way with talking and being that alleged balance between the two groups of demigods that I wasn't mad at him, really. Besides, he already apologized. So it wasn't that big a deal.
Everyone was silent. I glanced up every so often but everyone was just going along doing nothing in particular, Leo took a bite of his donut. I never looked at Nico, who I could feel his glare on me. I sighed, reliving Bianca's death in my head, the sense of guilt washing over me like it did back then. I don't know if Nico's even forgiving me. I blinked out of my train of thought as I heard a voice interrupt it.
"Alright, Pipes, it's fixed," Leo announced and handed the phone or ipod or whatever to Piper, who nodded and replied with a quiet, "thanks." Leo went back to messing with something, thick layers of oil spread about his hands. Leo sighed after a moment, taking a look after everyone. Nico himself had stopped looking at me I guess awhile ago, and was playing with the knobs on his boom box. Something about that made me think that Leo's been rubbing off on him, and I thought it was kinda cute. Frank still looked upset over all the drama that's happened to him tonight, which, wasn't a lot, but for Frank it was, being Canadian and stuff. Nothing ever happens in the great white north... Maybe he misses his maple syrup. Okay, I should stop now... But anyway, with the awkward Leo and Nico thing, him talking about his Canadian crush, and a giant hell hound almost stomping him to death, (He's usually the one stomping) he must be pretty on edge. I looked at other people and saw Leo staring at me expectantly.
I scratched the back of my head. "What?" I frowned and looked down, and in all this tension-filled silence I completely forgotten I was wearing lingerie. Oh my gods, this night is going to haunt me. Poseidon's going to disown me. Though I bet Athena is up there right now laughing her ass off.
"It's your turn, mermaid,"
I let out a little sigh. So it wasn't about the lingerie! "Mermaid?" I inquired. "Haven't heard that nick name before," I looked around, trying to figure who I'd pick.
"Um, need I remind you, he calls me a breakfast bread," Hazel pouted. I kept looking and just nodded in recognition of Hazel. A few people laughed at the remark, and Leo frowned and began to agrue why it was a good nick name and sound cute and Frank gave him a glare. Juniper hadn't been pick, but she was just there for Grover. He wasn't at camp a lot, so she likes to spend all the time she can with him. She's probably having a good laugh at this party, too. I already lost track of who asked what and to whom and everything, but for lack of a better idea, I picked to redheaded oracle.
"Rachel, truth or dare?" I asked.
She pouted out her lip and looked around, as if thinking. But I was pretty certain I already knew what she'd say. (Pretty sure she already knew too, consider she...sees the future) After her drawing out her dramatic pause for a moment, she exclaimed, "DARE!"
"Do you always pick dare?" Thalia asked.
"Yes," She replied quickly.
I laughed. "Alright! I dare you to... " I pouted. Damnit, I couldn't think of one. 'Jump off a cliff'? 'Punch Leo in the balls'? Those weren't very good ones. Grover grinned happilly and replied, hey, yo, Percy, I got one," he said. I nodded.
He came over to me and whispered in my ear, "Make her go into the woods to go do something, and them make Octavian come with her," Grover chucked. I laughed a bit myself.
"But to do what?" I whispered back, though it wasn't exactly needed.
"Um... I don't know? Like walk around the woods for a few minutes, find something, I don't know. Oh, Okay, I got it. How about we make them go down to the kitchen and steal some food?"
"Wouldn't we have better luck having Conner or Travis do that? I wonder if Conner would be willing to do it if Rachel asked..." I stiffened a laugh and smiled.
Grover shook his head, "Come on, I'm hungry. I don't want donuts, tin cans all the way, brother."
I sighed and nodded. "True, true. Alright," I went back to normal tone, looking at Rachel. Grover went back to his seat next to Juni. "Rachel, I dare you to go into the kitchen and steal food,"
Rachel nodded. "Seems simple enough. Wait, there's a kitchen?"
I shrugged, "They made it when the gods were going loopy. It was easier to get food that way," Annabeth answered.
I nodded. "Yeah. Also, there's a catch to the dare," I added.
"What could be more catchy than stealing from a butt load of scary camp leaders?"
I laughed and answered, a smirk on my face, "You have to steal it with Octavian," I thought of an addition. "And don't just steal food, steal some wine from Dionysus."
I couldn't tell if there was pure fear in her face or excitement.
