I *wipes away tear* DO NOT OWN THALIA, NICO, ECT. RICK RIORDON DOES.

Nico's POV

I decided to follow Thalia.

She ran fast! I must have followed her for five minutes at a sprint before she slowed down.

Finally she got to Zeus' Fist. She sat down and moved a few rocks away from the bottom of the pile. She pulled out…a snake? No, a coil of rope. She went over to a tree and started working on a VERY complex trap, of sorts. I walked over to her.

"Hey, what's the trap for?" I said. O.M.G. She was crying! ! !

"Hey Nico, Clarisse and I are on a pranking war." she said, wiping away a tear. "I also got kicked out of the hunters."

"Oh, well if you don't mind my asking, why?" I questioned.

"I got kicked out because Artemis…thinksIloveLuke," she said hurriedly.

"Do you?"

"No, well, kind of," she said. "I was 11 when I ran away, I met up with Luke, and we found Annabeth. Eventually, after a drakon attack and a few hundred monster attacks, Grover found us and took us to camp. But through all that, Luke was my brother. That kind of love," she said.

"Drakon attack?" I asked. She showed me three, four inch scars on her calf. "Cool. So, how much do you miss your life when you mom was, like, normal?" I asked. But then she started to really cry.

I sat down next to her and hugged her. "S'okay, I'm sorry," I said. "I never knew my parents either. "I was four when Apollo's Oracle blew up my mom. My dad put me in the Lotus Casino for a while then he got me out and had my memory washed away by the Lythe," I explained.

She looked up at me. Her eyes were a dull dark grey/dark blue. "Really?" she said.

"Uh-Hu." We were quiet for a minute. Just sitting there. Thalia was quietly crying into my shoulder. Then the bell sounded for five minutes till curfew.

"I'm sorry I got you got kicked out of the Hunters. Y'know you liking me and all."

"I don't regret it," she said.

"Why," I asked.

"Cause I can do this now," she said and she leaned in and kissed me on the lips. She pulled back after a few seconds.

"Ok. . ." I said a little stunned.

"Sorry?" Thalia said, starting to climb down. I grabbed her arm.

"Wait," I said. She climbed back up.

"Yeah?" she asked.

"I'm going to ask Chiron for a quest," I said, "Would you come with me to Rachel's cave?"

"Sure," she replied, and we headed off to the Oracle Cave.