"Hey yourself," Thalia said as she sat down next to him, "I missed you at dinner today."
"I wasn't feeling hungry," Percy explained as they both looked up at the cloudy night sky.
"I see..." Thalia said as an uncomfortable silence fell down between them.
"Annabeth gave me another lecture today," Thalia said breaking the silence.
Percy raised an eyebrow, "and….what did she say?"
Thalia sighed, "she just went on and on about how dangerous this could be. Zeus and Poseidon would flip out, the camp would probably accept us but….well you already know that you are super popular with the girls so I doubt they would be happy when they found out about us."
Percy chuckled, "I'm sure you can handle a couple of daughters of Aphrodite."
Thalia smirked, "that's what I said. Though….some thing she said really struck a cord."
"What? That we are too awesome?"
Thalia gave a sad smile as she shook her head, "no. She said that we barely know each other. She said that we barely knew the first thing about the other person and that this thing we have was…. Just a fling."
Percy sighed, "Annabeth sure doesn't pull back her punches huh?"
"From my personal experience, no, she doesn't," Thalia folded her legs pressing her knees up againt her cest suklking. "Though, she's not wrong."
'Is this really not going to last?' Thalia wondered in silence. She had just found someone, and already it was looking like they were destined to fail.
Percy could feel the depression roll off Thalia, and he didn't even have to use his powers of Empathy to know that.
"Look, Thalia," Percy turned to her with a smile, "Annabeth is right," Thalia sulked even further, "so let's do something about that."
Thalia looked surprised, "what?"
"Let's talk," Percy said with his smile growing bigger.
"Talk?"
"Yeah, Annabeth said we barely know anything about each other so let's talk. I'll go first," Percy cleared his throat, "hi, my names Percy Jackson. I'm the son of Poseidon, and Sally Jackson. I like my family and hate arrogant assholes. I love the colour blue, more specifically sea blue. And my favorite movie of all time is Star Wars: The Jedi Returns."
Thalia smiled as she crossed her legs opening up to Percy, "I'm Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus. Aah, I like my friends and my little brother. I hate my mom and ah… arrogant assholes. I love the colour black, though I'm starting to like blue too."
Percy smiled, "totally my influence."
Thalia giggled, "yeah, it is. And well my favorite movie if The Matrix."
Percy nodded, "so we both like family and hate assholes. I don't what Annabeth was worried about, we're perfect!"
Thalia threw a full blown laugh as the two began to talk more and more. Percy told her about his first quest. About going to Boston, meeting Ed and then fighting a demon.
Thalia was surprised at the fact that Fairies actually existed, but she got over it soon. Percy then told her about how he and the others saved a group of teenagers form a Nokken, about how they retrieved the shield of Ares obtaining rings of invisibility in exchange. About how they got to Los Angeles and how….how Luke betrayed them.
Thalia looked down in sadness, "so it's true huh. He really did turn his back on us."
Percy was hurt by Thalia's tone of voice. The girl sounded so defeated. Percy felt a pang of guilt of in his heart, Luke wasn't a traitor like she thought...he was a hero. And she deserved to know that.
"Thalia," Percy spoke causing the girl to raise her head, "Luke isn't a traitor."
Thalia's eyes went wide, "w-what do you mean?"
Percy sighed and he began to explain to her what happened. How Luke wanted to spy on Kronos for them. How he wanted to help the demigods in camp, the only people he cared about. Percy told her how it was because of Luke that he survived the encounter with Hyperion, how Luke helped save them all.
At the end of the story Thalia looked at Percy with a blank face. Percy wondered if she was angry at him like Annabeth was. He wondered whether she hated him for rejecting Luke's offer the first time like Annabeth was.
"Why didn't you tell me this before?" Thalia asked.
Percy sighed, "honestly….you had enough on your plate. There was no need to put the worry on your shoulders. You already had to deal with being reborn and the prophecy. It didn't seem right to make you worry about Luke as well. God's know I am."
Thalia's neutral face reminded, "why did you tell me this now?"
Percy scratched his head, "because….because you deserved to know. And….and I realised I had no right to keep this away from you. I don't want there to be secrets between us, and….well I thought you deserved to know."
Thalia nodded, "I see."
Percy sighed and lowered his head, "look Thalia I know what you must be thinking. I realise you're probably angry that I didn't tell you sooner but I didn't want-"
Thaila sent a punch right into his face knocking Percy's head back.
"What was that for?!" Percy asked holding his nose.
"For not telling me about Luke sooner," Thalia glared.
Percy opened his mouth to explain and just then Thalia lunged at him, pushing him down on the rocks. She then pressed her lips against his kissing him deeply. Percy was surprised, but he didn't protest. He wrapped his arms around thalia as he deepened the kiss, opening and closing his lips as she swept her fingers threw his hair.
Thalia slowly pulled back and looked at Percy. The demigod was still a state of semi shock. "What was that for?"
"For telling me now," Thalia said as she gripped his t-shirt tightly, "I get why you didn't want to tell me. And it's sweet that you wanted to protect me," Thalia's eyes went cold as the smell of ozone filled the air, "but never keep something so important from me again. Got it?"
Percy gulped, he was sure he could take anything Thalia threw at him. But that didn't mean he wanted to get turned into an electric rod, "yup. Totally got it."
Thalia smiled, "good boy," she then pressed her lips against his again as they continued their make out session.
Percy ran his arms all over Thalia's body, from the top of her shoulders to her lower back. He wanted to just grab her fat behind with both hands, but Percy didn't want to do something to piss her off.
Thalia for her part had one hand going through Percy's hair, it quickly became her favorite thing to do, while her other was rubbing his tigh. Thalia was pressed on top of him, she could feel the heat roll off of his body. She could feel his pants tightening and she would be lying if she didn't admit she was turned on as well.
Just as things were getting hot and heavy a bright light flashed out in the forest stunning both Percy and Thalia. Both demigods scampered to get into normal positions as they turned to see who or what had caused that flash of light. And standing in front of them was Artemis with a single raised eyebrow.
"Ah...hey Artemis," Percy said nervously, "what-ah, what are you doing here?"
Artemis looked at Percy and then turned to Thalia, "who are you?"
Thalia gulped, she could feel the anger hidden behind the Goddess's eyes. 'Please dont' tell me she like's Percy too!' "Ah, I'm Thalia, m-my lady."
Artemis narrowed her eyes, "I see...Percy, explain to me what I just walked in on."
Percy scratched his head, "ah, well you see, it's just that I and ah, Thalia were, ah-"
"You and Thalia were what?"
"M-macking out?"
Artemis nodded, "I can see that. What I mean, is why?"
Thalia spoke up, "w-we, we're kind of t-together." Thalia turned to Percy, "we are together right."
Percy raised an eyebrow, "you waited until now to ask that?"
"Well I was otherwise busy okay!"
"Enough," Artemis snapped, Percy and Thalia flinched, "do you two know the trouble a relationship between a son of Poseidon and a daughter of Zeus could bring?"
Percy and Thalia nodded, "yeah."
"And you are aware of the dangerous?"
Thalia spoke up, "yes."
Artemis narrowed her eyes at Percy, "Percy, do you intend to marry this girl?"
"Marriage?!" They screamed together.
"We literally just got together!" Percy cried out.
"I like Percy and all, but marriage?!" Thalia asked in horror.
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