Chapter 3
Thalia POV
They told us that Percy could now go in my fathers domain and I could go in Poseidon's. I then asked them about my sudden change from 16 to 21 and they answered that they thought it would be better if we were both about the same age and the meeting ended, Hera took us back to camp and walked us over to her cabin Percy went in first and said "whoa" I follow him and I understood why. The cabin was nothing like it was the last time I was here instead of being cold and empty in was warm and well furnished. Hera's statute was gone which I was thankful for because it would have been creepy. The windows had dark blue curtains over them, there was a couch and TV on one side of the room and a table on the other with two chairs and a nice digital camera in the middle. I also noticed that there was a lot of blank picture frames on shelves around the room.
Hera clapped her hands "ok so the bottom floor I made a lounge space for the two of you, I picked out the furniture myself so I hope you like them. The TV can get just about anything you want including Hephaestus TV." she said "and if you noticed the picture frames I put them here in the hope that you use them to capture you good times together, now would you please follow me upstairs" "I'm starting to sound like a realtor" she mumbled to herself".
I watched as she walked towards a wall turned and seemingly walked right through it. Following her I found that it was just a clever illusion, the wall looked to be in one piece but was actually in two, the right half stuck out a bit which was where the staircase was. I quickly went up followed by Percy. When we both got up stairs Hera pointed and started talking again "the bathroom is in over there and it has a shower in it so you won't have to use the camp one. You'll both sharing a bedroom which is on your left, I gave you both separate beds so you don't have to share one till you're ready like Aphrodite wanted you to.
You also have your own dresser which I took the liberty of moving your clothes into for you." I wasn't really happy about it since most of my clothes wouldn't fit any more, Hera must have noticed because she said "don't worry Thalia I had them adjusted so they should fit you now. Oh and one more thing before I leave, well make that three things first if you go down the hall you'll find a rec room where I have some board games, a stereo, and a few other things I think you'll enjoy. Second the two of you are required to spend at least on hour a day here in the cabin with just the two of you, and third I also wanted you to know that you can trust your feelings we've made sure that Aphrodite can't interfere."
And with that Hera left us to get settled, Percy was the first to break the silence "so want to go check out the rec room" I was stressed beyond belief but I said "sure why not" and followed him. When we looked inside I gasped this place was awesome, there was like a hundred different board games, an air hockey and pool table, and don't even get me started on the stereo. It was an older one but it had huge speakers and a massive collection of CD's that had everything I had ever heard of and some that I hadn't. We played a couple rounds of Air hockey before we heard the conch horn blow for breakfast meaning it was like 8:30.
"Wow so much has happened today I thought it would be later" Percy said and I nodded in agreement "'c'mon seaweed brain we should probably head to breakfast" I said "please stop calling me that he said. I realized it probably reminded him of Annabeth "fine" I said "then how about feather brain because of Hera's whole peacock thing" Percy chuckled to himself "whatever" he said heading down the hall. When we got the the mess hall we noticed that Poseidon's table had been removed and when I tried to sit at Zeus's vines stopped me courtesy of Mr. D so I reluctantly sat down at Hera's with Percy.
I saw My little brother Jason walk in "Thalia" he called walking over and giving me a hug "when did you get here" he asked "and where are the other hunters?". "I just got here this morning" I said "the hunters are somewhere in Mississippi and before you ask I'm not with them because I'm not a hunter any more". "Why not" he asked "because I'm getting married" I said solemnly.
Jason POV
I didn't really know how to react but I tried for the excited approach "oh so who's the lucky guy and why are you sitting at Hera's table?" "I'm sitting at her table because my new fiance is her son" Thalia said "she has a son?" I asked in surprise "I thought that didn't have affairs" "he's adopted" Thalia explained "and as for you other question Percy is my fiance" I looked at Percy who was sitting with his head buried in his arms "two things first when were you adopted by Hera" "around the time my mother died, Hera sort of took her place" he said I nodded "well knowing you I guess I don't have to give you the whole better not hurt my sister or else speech".
"Ok second since when did you have feelings for each other I mean I thought you guys were friends and that was it" I said "we don't" Percy and Thalia said "then why are you two getting married" I said narrowing my eyes. Percy sighed "apparently the day I was born my dad and Zeus made a deal that Me and Thalia would be married when we got older. And no matter what we try we can't get out of it well except suicide maybe but we both would rather be alive and married then dead, besides I'm almost willing to bet that if we did they'd just have Hades bring us back." He said. The nymph's started bring out the food so I went to my table.
Percy POV
Me and Thalia ate breakfast in silence and head back to our cabin. A few minutes later Piper came by to ask how well we were adjusting to the whole arranged marriage thing "how do you think we're doing" Thalia said clearly still pissed about the whole thing "Percy just got his heart broken and I got kicked out of the hunters" Piper looked down "sorry" she said. Thalia took a deep breath "no I'm sorry I shouldn't have snapped, it's just a lot to deal with right now". Piper perked up a bit at her apology "It's fine" she said looking around the bottom floor "Hey do you guy think I could borrow that camera". I looked at Thalia who shrugged "sure go for it" I said.
Thalia POV
Over the next three days we went to Percy's usual activities then went back to Hera's cabin after lunch, we didn't talk much during that time. Things were a little weird between us, we just didn't really know how to act around each other, one moment we're just friends the next we're engaged. Today we had just got back from combat practice and we both headed to the shower at the same time, before I could say anything Percy said "rock paper scissors for who gets to go first?" "ok" I said and Percy won. It was probably best that he went first because he took a 6 minute shower and was out while I took maybe 15 minutes, in my defense at least 4 of those minutes was because my hair was 2 feet long now because of the aging and it took forever to wash.
I got dressed in the bathroom and went down to the bottom floor where Percy was at the door talking to some girl. The girl was flirting with Percy a lot, even though I didn't even like him that way I got a little mad he was engaged to me after all. It may have been forced but I still didn't want him going around with other girl noticed me and said good bye before giving him a note and leaving. Percy read it before crumpling it up and throwing it away. "Who was that" I asked "Kayla, she's one of the transfers from the Roman camp" he said "oh" I said slightly annoyed while going to the couch.
Percy POV
Things had been weird between us since we started living together and today I noticed that Thalia seemed a little upset about something "Thalia we need to talk" I said plopping down next to her on the couch "I know somethings bothering you so spill". Thalia turned to me "the problem is we've been engaged for 4 days and every girl in camp has been filtering with you and sending you love notes. I know you can't exactly help that, but I get worried when I find out about these certain events from other people instead of you like yesterday when that Aphrodite girl Drew tried to kiss you." she said.
"So you're worried I'm cheating on you"I asked Thalia thought for a second then nodded "you do remember that my fatal flaw is loyalty right" "yes I know but would it really be that far of a stretch I mean we were forced into this marriage and we have zero feelings for each other" she said. "if that's what you're worried about let me start of by saying that I didn't tell about stuff because even though this is an arranged marriage I plan on being a faithful husband." I said but she didn't look to convinced. I meant what I said but I couldn't think of a way to reassure her except... "maybe this will help put your mind at rest" I said "I Percy Jackson son of Poseidon and adoptive son of Hera swear on Styx that I won't ever cheat on Thalia Grace daughter of Zeus".
Thalia POV
I stared at Percy wide eyed after he took his oath "why did you do that" I asked. "well you didn't seem sure that I would stay faithful like I said I would, so I decided to remove all doubt" he said giving me a blank look like it was the easiest choice he ever made. I was stunned but hugged him "thank you" I said "you don't know how much that means to me" 'he can be such an idiot sometimes but then he turns around and does something like that' I thought. "Is there anything else you want to talk about while we're here" he asked "can I get the shower first in the morning" I asked flashing a cheese grin. Percy laughed "sure I like to sleep in anyway" he said. We talked about a few more thing like who should do what chores around the cabin all of which were resolved pretty easily, then he flipped on the TV to one of those tv edited versions of the terminator. I liked the movie so I didn't mind and leaned back in the couch and watched.
Timeskip later that day
I felt pretty good after my talk with Percy and decided to take a walk with Piper who I had run into on my way to the forest trail I like to use. "So how are things going with Percy" she asked "really well actually" I said "today I was upset because I thought he might be cheating on me and instead of getting mad he just sat down with me and we talked it out, he even made an oath on Styx just so that I could have some peace of mind on the subject." "good" Piper said "I getting Kinda worried about you guys the for a bit" "I know but things have been kinda weird with the whole friend now fiance thing" I said "then how about this" Piper said "instead of going to dinner why don't you two go out to eat, there's this great burger place in town you can go there then to the movies. You can use it as a date just as boyfriend girlfriend, forget about everything else, for tonight you're just another couple".
I decided to take Pipers advice and asked Percy if he wanted to go and he agreed. The date was fun we ate at the burger place but decide to ditch the movie and hit the fair that happened to be in town. We play some of the little side games and Percy managed to win me this tiny dolphin thing, it was on those things where you try to shoot water into a clowns mouth to get the balloon to pop which I thought was kinda cheap because he could control the water of his and everyone else's to make sure he won. Then I dragged him on a few roller coasters, after the last one I was a little dizzy and accidentally pulled him on the Ferris wheel.
About half way to the top I realized my mistake and my fear of heights so I naturally I freaked. When he got near the bottom I started to calm down and I notice Percy had his arms around me apparently I had latched onto him "it's ok" Thalia he kept saying "I gotcha it's gonna be fine". Listening to him with his arms around me was surprisingly really comforting. "Thank you" I said when we got off "no problem" Percy said the fair was raping up so we went home.
Percy POV
On the ride home Thalia conked out in the passenger seat of my navy blue Lexus which I got from my dad for my 20th birthday last year. When we got to camp rather than wake her up I just carried her bridal style back to our cabin, put her on her bed before pulling a blanket over her. I noticed she was smiling 'she must be having a good dream' I thought looking at her face 'she looks so pretty when she's smiling', subconsciously I reached down and tucked some hair behind her ear and kissed her forehead "good night" I said before climbing into my own bed.
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