Meme 34: Luke and Annabeth go to the park together for a picnic. While on this picnic, a troop of ants invades and steals the food! How does Luke deal with this?

Setting: Pre-Lightning Thief

AU: None

Pairing: None

Sixteen-year old Luke and nine-year-old Annabeth went to the park for a picnic. Annabeth held on to Luke's hand tightly as she skipped. Luke smiled when he saw how happy she was. Annabeth saw a puppy on the way and chased it.

Luke loved to watch the younger demigod have a rare moment of kid fun. Luke chased after the daughter of Athena, but stopped upon seeing the perfect spot for a picnic. The only downside was the ant hill right next to it, but Luke shrugged that off. A few ants never harmed anyone… well, okay. A few black ants never harmed anybody. Fire ants hurt like Hades.

"Annabeth, " Luke yelled.

"Huh," she answered, turning around.

"Let's sit here,"

"Okay, but what about the ants?" The daughter of Athena crossed her arms and gave him a look of irritation.

"A little bugs never hurt anybody." Luke replied. Annabeth wasn't exactly convinced, but the demigod decided that the son of Hermes probably knew what he was talking about.

Luke started to unpack the basket he had in his hand. There were rolls, sandwiches, crackers, water bottles, and… tin cans.

"What are those for?" Annabeth looked up at Luke for an explanation.

"Don't ask me. How would I know? Grover packed the basket."

"Of course." Annabeth rolled her eyes.

The two took their sandwiches out. "It can be our own Thanksgiving family dinner." Luke announced.

"It's almost perfect, but…" Annabeth trailed off.

"But what?"

"Thalia's not here."

Luke bit his lip, not knowing how to reply to that. Suddenly, he felt an intense need to change the topic. "So, how's the sandwich?"

Annabeth just looked at him like he was stupid. "It's a cheese sandwich. What do you want me to say?"

Meanwhile, Milky and Hyaline watched them from behind a tree. Artemis had been sending Hunters to stalk Annabeth for a while. She did it with all prospective Hunters. Why she was sending these two… well, the world would never know.

Milky giggled. "Oh, Luke. Look how adorable he is when he's being such a cute older brother."

Hyaline blushed and turned to her fellow Hunter with a glare. "Milky! No boys. I thought we'd already gone through this a million times."

"What? No, I'm just saying the image is cute, not that he's cute. Ew!"

Milky turned back to the daughter of Athena. "Look at her. She was so cute chasing those puppies earlier, even if they were really our wolves in disguise."

Hyaline turned to stare at Luke. "I don't like him very much. It's all his fault Thalia—"

"Oh, shut it, Hyaline. Blaming Luke for her sacrifice is taking the sacrifice away from her. Besides, Luke didn't keep Thalia from joining the Hunters. Thalia made the decision herself, and we should respect it."

The two started to bicker. Annabeth put down her sandwich. Luke and her exchanged glances. Luke spoke. "Can we tell those two Hunters that they really need to shut up if they're going to stalk us? It's really ruining my mojo."

Annabeth wasn't sure to be weirded out by Luke or the creepy, stalking, Hunters. She'd heard rumors about the one with the white hair. Apparently, children with an interest in the Hunters weren't the only things that girl has been known to stalk.

Luke screamed like a ten-year-old girl, knocking the girl out of her thoughts. "Really? You've lived on the streets for years bravely fighting monsters, but you're afraid of fire ants?"

"It's not funny. I could say the same about you and spiders." Annabeth shuddered. He had a point there.

"Luke!" She suddenly yelled. "They're trying to take our food to their ant hill." Sure enough, the fire ants were in fact trying to steal the food and take it to their home.

"Oh, no they don't," Luke seethed. He picked up his sword and ran it through the ant hill. Annabeth gushed. "You're so brave Luke. One day, I'm going to be big and brave and strong, just like you."

Luke laughed. "I bet you will, Annie." (1)

She giggled. Milky and Hyaline rolled their eyes. Artemis thought this simple-minded child would be a good candidate for a Hunter? You have got to be kidding me, Milky thought. I bet she doesn't even like yaoi.

Hyaline, sensing the thirteen year old's thoughts, just glared at her, thinking, why the Hades does someone's interest in two males getting it on have anything to do with being a Hunter?

Luke and Annabeth sat back down to eat their food in peace, deciding to pretend that they didn't see Milky and Hyaline, as annoying as Milky may be.

But then a giant polar bear appeared out of nowhere and did what the fire ants failed at, causing Luke to yell. "That was our Thanksgiving Dinner, you fatface! Besides, why is there a polar bear in Central Park anyway?"

This was my shortest chapter in a while. Annabeth might seem a bit OOC, but I didn't imagine her to be Bad-A quite yet at this age. Besides, my sister wrote the beginning scene, and I was having writer's block so I just went with it.

1.) I know Annabeth hates the name Annie, but Luke used to call her that during TLT and I've always had a headcannon that the reason she hates it is because he used to call her that before he was evil.

I'm going to tell some interesting stories about my family as this chapter was kind of short. During one of the recent episodes of Two and a half men (I think it was the one two weeks ago (the one where they were trying to get approval for adoption) and they kissed on the couch, this was my family:

Me: That was hot

Percico-Shipping sister and NiallXSelf Shipping Sister who I must call twin(Recently, she's converted to Solangelo, which makes me just as happy as the fact the other sister I converted to the religion of Percicoism): ARI!

Me: What? The teenage girl gets turned on by what the teenage girl gets turned on by…

Grandma: The funny part is that neither of them are actually gay…

Another weird story:

My step-mom(watching Dancing with the Stars): I love Bruno. He's always so… gay.

Another one:

Me(Playing sims): Okay I'm naming this one Nico…

*The game tells me Nico has a twin brother.*

My Percico shipping sister: *Watching me playing* PERCY

Me: Already ahead of you *hits enter*

My sister: I wish there was more Percico

Me: *holding back laughter*

Another story:

Me: You know, I don't like the Blood of Olympus very much…

My twin sister: But Nico and Will are so cute

Me: I know *suddenly feels like writing a Solangelo one-shot that I'll never finish*

Another story:

This was us watching the AMA's when Sam Smith was performing

My Percico shipping sister: You know, Sam Smith kind of sounds gay.

Either my step-mom or my twin, I can't remember: I think he actually is gay.

Me: Well, we think everyone is gay in this family.

My step-mom when we were trying to find somewhere to eat: There's a Chick-fil-A over there but they hate gays so we're not going there.

And people wonder why I'm obsessed with yaoi. This is my family for you. Speaking of which, did you guys know there's a store called Kirkland's? My family members think that this fact is hilarious, because of Arthur Kirkland (or England from Hetalia, if you guys don't know the human names.)

I have more siblings than the two I'm going on about, but I'm not around the others long enough to tell you anything weird or silly about them. I live with the other two, so I have to deal with them.

My Percico-Shipping Sister for now on you'll see with the name Morgana in Author's Notes and my twin(the Solangelo-Shipping one) is Shea. It's getting annoying writing out epithets, so I'm writing their names in here.

I hope you Americans eat a lot of food on the Twenty-Sevenths. For those of you from countries that don't celebrate Thanksgiving(Out of curiosity do Canadians and Mexicans celebrate it or just Americans? I'm too darn lazy to look it up) what is your favorite food?