Merry Christmas eve eve eve eve eve! Can you smell that? That's the smell of winter break! That's the smell of FREEDOM (for only 2 weeks..)
Hopefully this will mean better chapters since I'll have longer to come up with ideas and write it but then again it might mean shorter, later chapters as my family drag me everywhere imaginable to go and do "fun" Christmas things. I love Christmas as much as the next excitable person but sometimes family trips can just be too much.
A Very Percy Jackson Advent
December 20th
The sky above the Argo II was streaked with red and the golden glow of the setting winter sun reflected across the calm sea. The atmosphere on the ship was equally as calm and quiet. All the girls had filed into Annabeth's room (it was the tidiest) and all the boys had gone into Frank's room for the same reason. It hadn't been planned, they'd just suddenly accepted that tonight, they would have a sleepover. A fun Girl's/Boy's night in.
"Guys please," Piper pleaded, "Can we please dress up for Christmas - it'll be fun!"
"We don't have anything to dress up in," Hazel said.
"We can make something!" Piper exclaimed.
"What's the point?" Reyna asked. While she'd finally gotten used to everyone on the ship, she still felt a little like an outsider and so she wasn't completely comfortable with her current situation.
"It'll be fun!" Piper repeated.
"I'll join in," Calypso said. "I can even make the costumes but we have to make the boys join in."
"Yes!" Annabeth said. "I'm in."
Then, they all fell into an animated conversation about who would be what and how they'd make the costume and how much fun it was going to be.
Meanwhile, the boys were having the world's most intense pillow fight. Frank had started it by hitting Nico with a pillow to get him to stop excluding himself from their conversation. Nico had, of course retaliated. Frank had swung his pillow again but Nico had ducked away and Frank had instead hit Jason who then swung his pillow back at Frank. Frank had dodged the pillow and instead Percy had gotten hit and then Leo joined in because he felt left out and so it had progressed into something more. They had forts made out of all of their bed sheets and had made unspoken alliances between each other. They'd began to set traps and play tricks on each other. They did as much as they possibly could with the space they had and so the game went on getting more and more intense as it went.
When the girls had finally planned their whole dressing up escapade they had lapsed into silence.
"So Reyna," Piper said. "What's it like being a Praetor?"
Reyna shrugged and tried to hide her discomfort of being suddenly put on the spot. "It's a huge honour above everything else. I mean it's sometimes a little difficult especially when you have such bad luck with your co-praetor... Jason disappeared and then was replaced by Percy until Leo attacked camp and then he was replaced by Octavian and well you know how well that turned out."
"How do you get your hair to go into that braid?" hazel asked after a seemingly long uncomfortable silence.
Piper touched her braid and shrugged. "I just plait it. I guess it's a little harder to do this in your hair..." Hazel nodded. "Do you want me to braid your hair?"
"Yes please!" Hazel replied excitedly. "Oh, this is just like a proper sleepover! I've never had a sleepover before."
"Never?" Annabeth asked.
"Never." Hazel confirmed.
"I've never had one either," Calypso admitted.
"That's it then," Piper said as she combed through Hazel's long curly hair. "We're going to have the girliest sleepover ever! We'll braid each other's hair and do each other's makeup and paint each other's nails and then when they're dry we'll watch a movie and then we'll tell scary stories and then we'll talk all night instead of sleeping."
"Sounds fun," Hazel beamed.
"I've never done someone else's hair and makeup..." Calypso said.
"Oh you can do mine," Annabeth smiled. "And please, can we just not watch a chick flick? I hate chick flicks... Can we watch a documentary or something?"
"Whatever everyone wants I guess," Piper said.
"Truce!" Jason yelled. "I call truce!"
"Dude, come on!" Leo moaned. "We're winning! Look at them!"
Frank and Nico were leaning on each other as they panted for breath. Only Percy looked to be still ready to go and he was the only one who hadn't actually partnered up with someone. He grabbed his pillow and raised it threateningly. "Say I win and no one gets hurt," he said.
"You win, you win," Jason said as he threw his pillow on the floor. "Just can we please go and get some hot chocolate and play a card game or something."
"Please," Nico said, throwing his pillow down too.
Frank nodded and threw his pillow down.
"I'm not gonna let you win that easily, bro," Leo said, raising his pillow to meet Percy's challenge.
"Bring it on... bro," Percy replied.
They then proceeded to hit each other as hard as they could with the pillow while the other three watched with a mixture of amusement from Frank to resignation from Jason and awe from Nico despite how hard he tried to hide his ogling at Percy...
Leo and Percy eventually backed away from each other, holding their arms up in surrender as they panted for breath. "Let's just call it a draw and go get some hot chocolate," Leo said.
I can't believe it's the 19th already! It's getting really close to christmas!
Ana-DaughterofHades: It's a good idea but that would make writing christmas' chapter a little less fun x
Percy'sSisterSPQR: secret santa would be good but I think they should all get everyone something
annoyinreindeer: thank you :) I'm going to have them do something related to that soon :D
sonofthetrigod: I'm sorry the what you sent me?
thefangirlthatwon'tshutup: Thank you :) hope your english assessment went well, I'm really glad it's the holidays now, i'm so ready for a break.
I am a true warrior: No, I don't really think I want everyone to know Nico's secret. I don't think he'd ready for everyone to know yet. I think it's more of a thing that needs to be found out in the heat of the moment.
Remnant of Life: Aw, I'm glad that chapater meant so much to you. I'm partial to marvel myself also
RosesandThorns11: Thanks x
Lily: thanks :) I think I'm gonna try and keep relationships out of this as much as possible. Canon only in this fic. Of course when it's only implied, that's different (I made one of my friends start shipping Nico/Jason with this fic)
LeeOfHermes0330: I have the exact same opinion on the matter. Thank you xx
butterflygirly99: Glad I could make you smile :)
moonshroom420: I might just do something similar to that!
smojo12: I LOVED that idea (I mean, obviously since I used it) thank you x
Percabeth Jackson-Chase: Ah okay, I'm constantly tired and my brain is very slow to process these things...
Bob frank: Percy/Jason brotp was kinda hinted at here maybe? I might add more tomorrow :)
Aly kitten: Thank you xx
see you tomorrow :) Feel free to leave suggestions, it helps me out a lot xx