It was two days before Halloween and all of the gods were glad to be back in Olympus. Aphrodite wasted no time sitting around, she was already planning what they were gonna do.
"I have the best idea ever! We're gonna have a Halloween party tomorrow, and then were gonna go trick-or-treating the next day," She announced.
"Aren't we a little too old to be trick-or-treating?" Zeus asked.
"Speak for yourself," she told him, "I'm not that old."
"You're the oldest one here," Hera reminded her.
Aphrodite frowned.
"Well anyway, find out what you're gonna be, I'm gonna go have 'fun' with Ares and then start planning the party."
"You really just had to let everyone know that?" Poseidon got a disturbing picture of Ares and Aphrodite having 'fun' in his mind.
Then Aphrodite and Ares left the throne room, leaving it awkwardly silent.
"I gotta go...feed my llama," Hera said(Even though she doesn't have a llama)
And After her almost everyone else made some excuse to leave.
First it was Hades. "I have to go give Nico dog food. Oh, I mean give Cerberus dog food, not that Nico eats dog food."
Then Demeter, "I have to water my Cereal."
Persephone, "I was baking some flowers before I came here, so I'm just gonna go get that out of the oven."
Apollo, "And I have to feed my iPod."
You get the point. So now it left Poseidon and Athena alone.
"So, who are you gonna be for Halloween?" Poseidon asked her.
"I'm not telling." She wanted it to be a surprise.
"Oh, I'm not either."
"Are you going as yourself?" Athena couldn't resist passing up the opportunity to use a funny insult.
Poseidon seemed amused by it. "You know I bring sexy back."
"Sexy wouldn't have to come back if you hadn't made it leave."
The both laughed and Poseidon didn't notice until now how much he liked hearing Athena laugh. She didn't do it often because usually she was so serious. So he was determined to make her laugh again.
"My butt hole feels like corn."
Athena's body shook because she was laughing so hard. Who else would say their butt feels like corn besides Poseidon?
"That's...er, good to know. I like corn, I think."
Actually, now she'd never think of corn the same way again.
"Have you noticed animals sniffing each others butts?" He asked even though that had nothing to do with corn.
"I guess so, it's probably just something they do."
"I wonder if it's like how they recognized each other."
"That's kinda weird, don't you think?"
"I know, but imagine how odd it would be if we had to do that. Like If we sniffed each others butts once and then we remember it. So when ever I'm looking for you I can just think of the scent of your booty and it'll lead me to you."
"Seriously, my booty scent?" Athena couldn't believe they were even having this weird but entertaining conversation.
"Say booty again," Poseidon told her.
"Booty."
He started laughing and she did right after him. Athena liked not being serious and being more laid back, Poseidon brought out that side of her.
When they were about to leave the throne room and go home, things got kinda awkward.
Should I do something? Like...kiss him? No, maybe not, I should shake his hand or something. But that's stupid. Gotta think fast...
Meanwhile Poseidon was thinking.
Crap, what do I do now? If I wave I'll look stupid, and if we shake hands, that would be dumb. Gotta think fast...
Instead they both settled on a hug, because it could mean anything. It could be quick and friendly, or it could be long and romantic.
Athena inhaled and she thought Poseidon smelled like a beach, in a good way.
It's funny, she thought, A few weeks ago they couldn't even get through a conversation without arguing and now they were like this. Hugging each other longer than friends usually do. Not even just that, just a day ago They kissed. Well, he kissed her, but still. She liked it.
The Halloween Party
Aphrodite did a great job planning the party. The entire throne room had been decorated in a scary Halloween theme, there were lanterns hanging up, music playing loud, and a lot of people were there. Gods and Demigods.
Hades didn't wear a costume, he just came as his self. Nico was Michael Myers, Thalia was a zombie, Percy was a rock, and Annabeth was a roll.(get it, rock and roll :)
Zeus decided to go as superman because he couldn't think of anything else.
"You know who you should've went as?" Hera told him.
"Who?"
"Mr. Crabs."
"Stop making fun of me!"
While everyone was partying Athena was late getting ready. She put on her pink wig and did the finishing touches to her make up. She was dressed up as Wanda from Fairly Odd Parents. She wasn't much of a cartoon person, so no one would expect her to go as a cartoon character, which is one of the reasons she did.
As she made her way to the party she noticed someone else. She got a closer look and realized it was Poseidon dressed as Cosmo.
Seriously?Did he spy on me and plan this out or something?
"Hey, I like your costume," he told her.
"Was this all part of your plan?"
"What plan?"
"You coming here dressed as Cosmo when you probably knew I was gonna be Wanda."
"Oh, I didn't know what you were gonna be, you didn't tell me, remember?"
"So you expect me to believe that this is just a coincidence."
"I guess so, or it could just be...fate." he looked at her creepily.
"Yeah sure, Come on."
The linked arms and began to walk together to the party. Once they were in, they got some weird looks from Percy and Annabeth.
"Is there something we should know about?" They both asked.
It was then that Poseidon and Athena realized their arms were still together.
"No, why do you ask?" They scooted away from each other really fast.
"Because you're acting oddly friendly and you-" Percy was interrupted and couldn't finish because Kanye West appeared with a microphone in his hand.
He said, "Yo Percy, imma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of best videos of all time!"
"okayyy, that has nothing to do with anything."
Then Kanye disappeared.
"How did he even get here?" Athena wondered.
"Who knows." Poseidon shrugged.
After that, they got away really fast before Percy or Annabeth noticed so they couldn't ask them anymore uncomfortable questions. Neither one of them were really dancing type people so they hung out by the food table talking to each other while everyone else was dancing.
"I have no idea how we're gonna explain this to Annabeth and Percy," Athena said.
"So you're admitting it?"
"Admitting what?"
"That there is something to explain."
"Well...I guess so, or else this wouldn't be so awkward and complicated."
"Wanna go outside, some people are staring."
(I usually don't put A/N's in the middle of a chapter, but PLEASE don't skip over this. Before you read the next part open a tab or something, and go to youtube(dot)com/watch?v=uw9Om6kQ2VA&feature=related and then skip to 1:45 on the video. If you don't listen to the song, you won't get the full effect of the scene.)
Once they were outside they could hear the music from inside and some kind of weird love song started playing. Great.
"So..."
"So, what?" Poseidon didn't see why this had to be so complicated.
"What do mean what? I can't like you Poseidon, it's just..." Athena couldn't finish her sentence because she couldn't think of the right word to say.
"Just what? You're making it harder than it has to be."
"Don't you think I know that? It's not as easy as it seems. You and I aren't suppose to be together or even like each other. Did you ever think about that?"
Athena began to get frustrated, and so was Poseidon.
"Yes I did, but there's nothing stopping us, so I don't see the problem."
"We can barely even talk to each other without wanting to strangle each other. We're complete opposites, there's no way that this would even work."
"You're thinking too much again, that's the problem. Just stop for once."
"Remember what happened last time you told me to stop thinking," she reminded him.
"I know, that's the point."
"I have to go," Athena said. Right now she was having one of those rare emotional moments and she didn't really want to let him see her like that.
She turned around and walked away. Poseidon didn't want to let her go, so he grabbed her hand and pulled her back to him.
Athena did the first thing that came to her mind, and she kissed him. And this time it wasn't because 'a fly was on her lip', she just really wanted to do it. Actually, she'd been wanting to since the day of their wedding. It felt good to give in to her emotions.
Sooo, did you love it, or did you love it? Especially you Pothena fans, because I know I did :) Oh, and they'll have to go trick-or-treating next chapter which will hopefully be up tomorrow in time for Halloween.
