Halloween! Yay.

Too old.

Percy and Annabeth lay sprawled on the couches, where they watched a movie on television in their messy little home in New York, one evening. Both were contempt and perfectly at ease, both highly intrigued by the on-goings-on of Finding Nemo.

Without looking away from the screen Percy asked,"Hey Annabeth? You know what it is today don't you?"

Frowning, she shook her head, her eyes also not leaving the screen. She didn't remember anything that was scheduled for October 31st. "No, what?"

He grinned, "Halloween!" She vaguely remembered grudgingly taking Bobby and Matthew for a two hour walk at night in freezing weather to collect candy from all the old people on their street, "So?" She asked.

He looked excited, "Lets go trick or treating!" He exclaimed, looking away from the movie. "What- why? What kind of sensible twenty-year-old goes trick or treating?" She asked incredulously, not liking how his eyes lit up in anticipation, "My thirteen-year-old cousin even thinks it's childish."

"You're never too old to trick-or-treat!" he retorted, "Come on please!" he begged.

"I can't believe I'm doing this." She groaned. After his constant begging, he somehow managed to get her dressed up as a teacher. "You're brainy and smart! A teacher is the perfect costume." He insisted. He was dressed as a bull. It was supposed to be a minotaur, in honor of his first monster, but all the store had was a bull, so he wore the top half only. He wore regular jeans as the human half.

As they were about to open the door, three raps on the door had Annabeth scrambling to remove her costume. "I'll get it." Percy declared, and stalking toward the door. And there stood Thalia. Annabeth relaxed, and joined Percy.

"Uh, hi Annabeth." Thalia called, poking her head into the door frame, "I got time away from the hunters, and I was wondering if you and Percy wanted to…" she trailed off, checking out their costumes. She scoffed, "Ew. Percy you look like something out of the Underworld. What the Hades?" Suddenly Nico, and Rachel showed up behind her. "He's a Minotaur." Nico said, rolling his eyes.

"Annabeth! Lets go trick or treating! You already have the costume!" Rachel suggested, "It'll be fun!" Assuming she was joking, Thalia laughed, "I'm serious guys. Let's go!" Rachel whined, and Percy grinned. Thalia snuck off with a lame excuse about the hunters. Nico agreed to tag along, so long as a costume wasn't necessary. Annabeth had no way out.

"Off to a costume party?" Someone called. Percy grinned, and Annabeth quickly looked away, "No!" he called, "My friends and I are trick-or-treating!" Nico snickered, laughing at Annabeth's humiliation.

Percy and Rachel laughed as they walked around, getting a lot of stares from the little kids. They rang countless doorbells, only receiving candy once. People were exasperated, saying things like, "You're too old to trick or treat!" And one especially annoyed young lady had said, "Go buy your own candy! Are you so broke that you need to trick-or-treat! Stop gambling all your cash!" And that was just plain weird.

After getting chased by an old man, and having the cops called on them for "Threatening, and expressing vulgar behaviour", then having two candy bars thrown at them by some little boys, and a little girls fairy wings smashed on Percy's head when she thought he was a monster, They'd had enough.

Lying on the couch that night, Percy shook his head, "I guess we are too old for trick or treating."