I'm a-back! I do not own PJO, although I really wish I did. I can't wait for the House of Hades!
Thalia hurried away from the park as quickly as she could without screaming. If she didn't look at another hobo for as long as she lived, it was too soon for her.
After they grabbed some food to go from McDonalds, Thalia began a long and probably to Nico meaningless lecture on how poking hobos is not right.
"Mama! Evangeline!" Nico shrieked as Percy snatched it out of his hands.
"Percy!" Thalia growled. She grabbed it from him and stuffed it into her back pocket.
"No!" Percy shouted, crying over the loss of Nico's best friend.
"Why don't you two go to sleep?" Thalia suggested wearily.
"No! Naps are for babies." Percy explained. "I want to sing. LALALALALALALALA!"
"Percy, did anyone ever tell you how good you are at singing?" Thalia mumbled sweetly.
"No!" Percy grinned up at her.
"Well, there's a reason for that!"
Nico giggled uncontrollably. "Bunched! Chewchust got bunched!"
Percy looked at him, bewildered. "You mean burned? I just got burned?"
"No. Bunched. Chewchust got bunched!" Nico repeated the sentence several times before Thalia placed her hand evenly above his mouth.
"Shut-shh. Shush up." Thalia snapped, quickly covering up her mistake. The last thing she needed was the two of them going around telling people to shut up.
"Sowwy." Nico looked at her slyly, waiting for her to melt and say that it was alright, the way that most toddlers who knew they had done something wrong and didn't want to get in trouble for it.
Thalia sent him a steely glare, and stood her ground. She wasn't going to fall for it.
"Mama? Where are we going?" Percy at last cut in.
"I don't really know, Percy." Thalia answered tiredly.
Nico opened his mouth, but before he did, Thalia stopped in front of a gas station.
"Bathroom break!" She announced.
Nico looked as impressed as a three-year-old could get. "How did you know Nico had to go pee?"
Thalia frowned. "I don't really know." She admitted.
Nico shrugged, his short attention span already pulled away.
After the bathroom break, (Thalia did her best to clean the three of them up so that the cashiers didn't look at them like they were homeless wild children) Thalia pulled the stroller out towards a park. She could see that Percy and Nico were itching to get out and run around, releasing some of their pent up energy.
She let them go and then sat down on a bench nearby. She began to mull over what was happening. How did she suddenly seem to know what Nico and Percy wanted, or needed?