I DO NOT OWN PJO, RICK RIORDAN DOES.
So a friend of mine was making fun of me because i carry Tabasco around because i think northern food has no flavor, because in the south we put tabasco on verything. So i decided to add that in this chapter and make Kate use very southern sayings in the next, ahhaha :)
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Percy POV: Tabasco Sauce.
It had been a few weeks after we had come back from our quest to save Ava, and things were starting to get back to normal. Ava had sent 16 people to the infirmary in one week, so yeah, you could definitely say things were getting back to normal.
Kate and Rachel had been hounding Annabeth and I about planning our wedding. Annabeth was about as interested in it as I was, so she pretended to agree with everything Rachel or Kate said, so they would plan it for us.
"What colors do you want for the center pieces?" Kate asked. She was sketching floral arrangements and giving it to the Demeter kids. We were sitting in the middle of the strawberry fields, and Annabeth was counting seeds on all the strawberries to entertain herself.
"I like the color blue." Annabeth said, as she picked another strawberry and began to count.
"Yeah, me too." I added, trying to be helpful. Annabeth winked at me.
"Hey seaweed brain, my feet hurt." She said. "I think you might have to give me a piggy back ride all the way back to the dining pavilion for lunch." She said giving me a happy grin.
"Alright, but only if you give me one afterwards." I said, picking her up and putting her on my back.
"Not likely." She whispered in my ear. I laughed, as I gave her a piggy back ride all the way to dining pavilion.
We got to the dining pavilion and they were serving barbeque, my favorite. We got our plates, and scraped some of our food into the fire. Kate and Zach were explaining Thalia how to make you barbeque have 'flavor'. The two of them always carried Tabasco sauce around, and they'd put it on everything.
"Thalia, just take a bite! It ain't that spicy!" I heard Kate's southern accent say.
"Don't listen to her! It's way to spicy!" Travis called from across the dining pavilion. Annabeth laughed.
"He's not kidding!" Annabeth added. Thalia rolled her eyes.
"You're all a bunch of babies! It's not gonna be spicy, you just watch." She said.
Kate smiled. "That's the spirit!"
"Don't say we didn't warn you…" Annabeth said.
Thalia took one bite of her barbeque and screamed. "YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR MIND!" she shrieked. I handed her my glass of milk.
"Told you." Annabeth said teasingly.
"Well we do add cumin pepper to our Tabasco." Zach said. "We probably should have told you that." He said sheepishly.
"Would've been nice!" Thalia scoffed. Everyone at the table had to hold in their laughter. Thalia just went on saying things like 'southern people are out to get me' and 'that should be illegal'.
Kate and Zach found this extremely amusing and taunted Thalia for the rest of the meal.
Since it was almost the end of the summer, a lot of the campers were packing their things and saying goodbye. Only a couple campers were staying year round this time. Almost all of the head counselors were staying this year too.
Annabeth and Kate were helping some younger Aphrodite kids get their enormous suitcases. Annabeth looked like she was about to give up a ,so Kate snatched the suitcase and pushed it down Half-Blood hill so that I would slide the whole way down.
"Oh my gods! That's an original Louis Vuitton! Be careful!" An Aphrodite camper named Lacey screamed.
Suddenly I saw Annabeth and Kate give each other a look, and they started taking all of the campers suitcases and pushing them down the hill and then let them move smoothly along the hill as if they were on a slide at the playground.
Of course all the Aphrodite campers started to cry and scream their heads off because their designer bags would get damaged. So instead of letting Annabeth and Kate take their bags, they all took their bags themselves and carried them down Half-Blood Hill.
"You guys are evil geniuses. Know that?" I told Annabeth and Kate.
"We know." Annabeth said, winking at me.
During dinner, Annabeth had to call roll of all the campers who were staying year round, so that the harpies wouldn't be tempted to eat them.
"Alright for Ares: Clarisse, Jacob, Avery, Parker, and Cecelia?" She asked. Muffled "yeah" and "present" 's sounded all over the.
"Poseidon: Percy and Zach, right?" she asked.
"Whoop whoop!" Zach yelled, and Kate punched him in the arm, so then he decided just not to say anything.
"Okay, now for Athena: Me, Malcolm, Allison, Vanessa, Maya, Carter, Nathan, Robert, and Grace, correct?" once again you heard "yep" and "uh huh" in the back ground.
"Apollo: Lauren, Kate, Prosper, Michael, Drew, Callie, Alaina, and Will?" She asked. She got the same answers and kept going for all the campers.
It surprised me how little people were staying year round this year. According to Annabeth half the camp would be back in a month or so. She kept calling roll until she had finished her list, and then we all sat down and ate our dinner.
"Anyone want some Tabasco sauce?" Kate asked, obviously trying to freak out Thalia.
"We're eating spaghetti Kate." I pointed ate. She looked at me as if she was missing something.
"So?" She asked. Tabasco is great on everything!" she said.
"Even ice cream?" Nico asked.
"Especially ice cream!" She and Zach exclaimed. All of us looked at each other, and we all laughed, but Kate and Zach were still trying to convince us the wonders of Tabasco sauce.
like i said, i love me some tabasco sauce!
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