Sup' guys! I came back, and I'm so happy that someone took notice of this, it'll get better, you'll see. On the story you will see that I actually plan on girly!Thalia just because that canon its stuck in my mind . Percy is still a seaweed brain and that's it. Enjoy!
My Little Butterfly
Palm trees zoomed in and out from the rolled down window where a teenager -of fifteen maybe- laid his head on and stared at the tropical landscape of Hawaii. An Elvis song played on the radio as the three americans rode silently on the recent cleaned all-terrain; the road to the airport was dusty and the Jeep shook with every turn.
"Are we there yet?" Percy looked imploringly at his mom from the back seat.
"Sweetie, we just left the house, it'll take us at least half an hour to get to the airport." She smiled patiently from the rear mirror.
"But there are only palms! And birds!" He huffed and crumbled down in the back of the car, sprawling his arms and legs in the windows.
"Oh my gosh! Really, Perce? I wouldn't have realized that we are surrounded by palms and birds if you hadn't told me! I mean, we are in freaking Hawaii; who would've thought that?" She snickered and continued to read her Vogue magazine.
Percy pouted. "Mom, did you hear her? She's such a meanie!"
Sally just smiled exasperatingly and sighed. She loved her babies a lot, but they really knew how to annoy her in less than thirty seconds.
Twenty minutes later and a wet Percy -Thalia dumped her tea at his fourth "Are we there yet?"- they arrived to the local airport and climbed on a very expensive-looking private airplane.
[Break]
"Mom I will totally work in this hotel thing! Look at this! They've got a vending machine in here! That's totally awesome!" Sally groaned and smiled again. It's been two hours already and Percy had had three excess filled sugar drinks which had his ADHD on a field trip. He rambled on and on about the awesome plane they were travelling on and the things he would do if he had this and that at home.
Within a few hours, -six short hours- they would be landing on New York City where a surprise awaited for the young siblings. There in the Big Apple, two rooms awaited for them in The Hotel Plaza Athenee, prestigious for its service and cost. Sally leaned on her seat and remembered her last's week encounter with Zeus.
Sally smiled at the woman who booked for six nights and handed her the card room. The woman smiled back and left to unpack; it was nine o'clock and Sally's shift just ended. Candace had just arrived and Paul would be probably outside waiting to pick her up like he always did on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Candace sat on the desk's chair and waved Sally goodnight. The moment Sally stepped out of the lobby, Martin's wrist circled her arm.
"What's wrong, Martin?" He furrowed his eyebrows and leaned to whisper on her ear.
"There's this man waiting in the black SUV over there. He came asking for you two hours ago, right then you were having lunch, so I told him you'd be back at nine. He's been sitting there for the whole two hours. Do you want me to shoo him away until Paul arrives?"
Sally glanced at the SUV and turn to Martin. "Didn't he tell you his name?"
"Yes. Something like Zeus or Susy. I don't know, he scared me a little."
"Martin you are the hotel's guard; don't let a man like him scare you. He is alright, I know him. Thanks for worrying, Martin, see you tomorrow!" She waved at him and walked towards the SUV. Zeus stepped out and smiled at her. But it didn't have the same effect it had years ago; he left her alone with two babies to take care of and on top of that, one wasn't even hers. But it was okay; Thalia became her baby as much as Percy was.
"So... we meet again." She put her hands on the pockets of her jeans and bit her lip. Even that sounded bitter to her.
"Yes. Sally I know that I left you and I couldn't help it. But I'm back to see that you have done a great job of raising the children and I know you have found happiness in another man. That's fine by me; he seems okay, so I'm happy for you." Zeus voice sounded sincere, but it also had some jealousy intertwined.
"Okay then. Zeus, what are you really doing her?" Zeus looked away for a second and sighed deeply. Then he returned his gaze to meet beautiful, crystal blue eyes and said in a vulnerable voice;
"I just want to get to know them. I want to talk and laugh with them; I want to at least know what they like and what they usually do everyday. I'm just asking you to give me the opportunity to meet them."
Sally nodded thoughtfully and stood firmly. "Very well. You can meet them, after all; you are their father. But I don't want to put them in danger knowing that your wife will probably find out you are with us and hurt my babies. There's no way you leave Olympus like that; you better think of something else or you can't see them."
"Have you ever been in New York before?"
[Break]
As soon as the plane landed, staff came to help them with their luggage and walked them to a black SUV. Sally hugged the chauffeur and just like that, they were on their way to the Hotel Plaza Athenee.
Right in the moment Percy stepped out of the SUV, a man came and helped him climbing out. The man just kept on saying that if Percy were to need anything, he could come to him or anyone of the staff and they would 'satisfy his needs' right away. Percy just nodded and thanked him; a little confused because of the attention he was getting. Thalia came behind him and looked smugly at the attention the diva was getting. She wasn't mean; but vanity was on her principal traits and it was oddly one of the things she shared with her brother, except her brother's vanity was a little more in his looks than the way he acted.
She took his hand as they entered; offering a small smile and dragging him to check out the whole place while his mother talked with the SUV's driver. He smiled back and his dimples showed.
Thalia always reminded him to smile, because he looked 'cute' and because she said that someone could be falling in love with him.
Although in that moment, someone wasn't falling in love with the children of Zeus. Actually, right above them, Queen Hera of Olympus looked ready to kill them on the spot.
