Thanks to everyone! And I know my last chapter was kind of confusing. I was really tired and really bored. Not a good mix. Anyway, so the whole thing is that Thalia can't follow the Hunters anymore because this monster that I made up is tracking her. It will eat her and her cousins, unless she keeps on moving. So hopefully, it won't ever catch up to her!
Thalia was not having a good time. She would rather kill a bunch of monsters than this. She was pushing the twin stroller, with a very heavy backpack balanced perfectly on her shoulders. Nico and Percy were both wrapped up in individual blankets, and Percy was drifting off to sleep. Nico, on the other hand, had decided that now would be a fantastic time to play dollhouse. He kept moving his Evangeline doll all over the stroller, bothering Percy, and speaking loudly in gibberish.
"Nico!" Thalia scolded again as he set up Evangeline's home on Percy's face. "Get your doll off of Percy, and shut up!"
"Get you shtupid doll off of me!" Percy hollered.
"Mama, where we going?" Nico asked innocently.
"I don't know." Thalia answered tiredly.
"Can we stop to sleep? Percy whimpered. Thalia looked around. There was a park nearby, where she could see plenty of homeless people already spent their nights. What was three more?
"Alright." Thalia gave in to the whining. "But you two have to be quiet, and you can't complain if I wake you up early to get a move on."
Please, Father, don't let this creature catch up to me. Thalia silently prayed to her Father, and then Artemis, before noiselessly finding a private part of the park to lay the blankets down on and let the boys out.
They snuggled up to her like two puppies, and wrapped the blankets around them, sacrificing herself to the cool winds.
Without a word, Thalia found her eyes closing.
Several hours later, around seven o'clock, when the other hobos were beginning to stir, Thalia woke up with a start. She looked down at Percy, who was wrapped in his own blanket like a little prince, and Nico, who-wait! Where was Nico?
She was up and on her feet in an instant, scanning the park for a little boy.
"Oh, Hades. Where did your son go this time?" Thalia cursed under her breath.
She loaded Percy into the stroller and hoisted the backpack back on her back. Then, she began to furious search of the park.
She heard a soft noise right by a group of men. She whirled her head around and saw Nico, (her heart stopped pounding for a moment) poking a hobo in the face with a stick (and there we go, her heart started hammering again.)
"Nico!" She hissed. "Come here!"
Nico looked up and smiled at her. "Hi Mama!" He yelled at the top of his lungs.
Thalia froze, but thank the gods, the men didn't wake up.
"Nico, um, come on! We're going to play, um, with Evangeline now!" Thalia bribed him.
Nico dropped his stick and came running towards her. She caught him and forced him into the stroller, and then took off running at high speed, in case any of the men had woken up. She knew she could hold her own in case any of them were insane, but with two kids? She'd rather not chance it. Plus, the monster was probably still on her trail.
"Evangeline?" Nico asked hopefully.
Thalia sighed and grabbed his doll from the back pocket of the backpack where she had stuffed it in earlier. She handed it to him roughly.
"Where going, Mama?" Nico asked curiously.
"Oh, shush, Nico."