Pairings: Nico/Thalia

Disclaimer: I don't own PJO or Just The Girl by The Click 5

Word Count: 471 words

Author's Notes: sorry about not getting this one up sooner, I couldn't get on a computer

Summary: Nico's Valentine's Day doesn't go quite as planned. He enjoys it anyway.

Prompt: Valentine's Day

Nico's face was bright red as he stared (rather stupidly) at Thalia.

Having spent much time in the Underworld training (AKA-annoying Persephone), he was a bit out of the modern times.

So, when his girlfriend called telling him to get his king-of-ghosts-ly-butt to her cabin, he (naturally) assumed it would be something important, like a death or Annabeth getting pregnant (c'mon, we all knew it would happen).

Nico immediately shadow-traveled (the best transportation EVER!) and knocked on her door. The Zeus cabin door opened.

"What...is...it?" He gasped out.

"It's Valentine's Day." Thalia told him with a hint of smugness.

"Huh?"

"Where's my gift?"

Which left Nico in his current predicament of not having a gift for his girlfriend.

"Uhh..."

"You didn't get me a present." Thalia accused, putting her hands on her hips. "Wow, what a cheapskate."

"Hey!" Nico protested, his face becoming a hue of an even brighter red.

"You're such a cheapskate!" Thalia teased-or at least, he hoped she was teasing. He could never tell with Thalia.

"Can I just come in?" He scowled. "It's cold."

"No!" Thalia grinned hugely. "Sit outside and think about what you've done."

And she shut the door in his face.

Nico decided that, as a show of goodwill and penance and amends and can-I-just-come-INSIDE?, he would stay outside in the snow.

He watched the sun sink below the horizon, blinding him as it glittered off the snow.

Nico hated the cold, and the snow, and the sun, and the light. Right now, as he shivered outside of his girlfriend's door, he hated a lot of things.

Thinking of Thalia made him remember a song, so he sang it-very very quietly under his breath.

"She's cold and she's cruel but she knows what she's doing. She pushed me in the pool at our last school reunion..."

The son of Hades, as unobservant as ever, didn't notice the door open or his girlfriend pop her black, spiky head out to listen.

Once he was finished, she started laughing.

He glared at her with the ferocity of a thousand suns.

She laughed harder.

"What?" He finally exclaimed.

"You sound like an idiot!" She broke off the seemingly endless giggles to talk.

"Really?" He asked, slightly hurt.

"No." She thought about it. "You sounded like a half-drowned cat."

"Remind me why I love you." Nico grumbled.

"Because I'm amazing and beautiful-"

"And have a seriously big ego." Nico replied, although he agreed with her.

"Whatever." Thalia stepped back. "C'mon in."

"Seriously?" He asked.

"Yeah, sure. We can listen to Linkin Park and Green Day." Thalia shrugged carelessly, although she smiled.

"Now that's a good Valentine's Day!" Nico smiled back and grabbed her hand to lead her back inside.

To an empty cabin.

...at night.

Zeus was going to totally go overprotective-dad on him if he found out.

So, finally done! Yay to me! Which was your favorite (if you had one)?