HoO One Shots

🌊 Just Winter Things 🌊

Female Reader 
Child of Hephaestus

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"Percy don't even think about it," You said, not looking up from the sword in front of you. You heard Percy sigh in defeat as he sat down.

"How did you know it was me?" He asked in confusion. "Do you have some kind of sixth sense?"

You almost burst out laughing but didn't want to risk wrecking the almost finished sword in your hands.

"Today's Monday and everyone but my lovely boyfriend know not to bother me on my work day," You responded as you picked up the bronze blade. You examined the newly made sword and nodded, showing that you were happy with how it turned out. After putting the blade down, you turned to see Percy drawing in the dirt on the work table. 

"So, it's snowing outside," Percy said, refusing to look up at you.

You slowly arched an eyebrow at him. "Your point is?"

"Can we maybe go outside?" Percy asked. He now met your gaze and started giving you puppy eyes.

"I don't know Perc," You said. "I've got another couple weapons to make to make up for the shortage we have right now."

He pouted and you turned to look at Leo, who was also in the room with you, for help.

Leo looked at you with confusion before turning to your boyfriend. "She'll just melt all the snow?" He said but to you it sounded more like a question than a statement.

You hide your face in your hands as you prayed to the gods for your brother to come up with a better argument.

"So? The snow simply can't handle her hotness. That doesn't answer why she can't go outside with me," Percy said in retaliation.

You sighed. You were going to accept your fate and go outside before Percy and Leo started another rap battle.

"I'll go outside but if I can't make our date on Thursday, it's because I'm stuck in here, doing twice the amount of work I would've done today," You said, grabbing your coat from the stand behind you.

Percy instantly shot up out of the chair and hurried to put on his winter things. It wasn't every day that he could get you away from your work and he wasn't going to waste the time he had with you.

"How about we play hide and seek first?" Percy said.

Saying you were confused was an understatement. You thought he was going to take you out for hot chocolate or something. You were going to deny it but you couldn't say no to big smile on his face.

"Alright but I'm only gonna give you 30 seconds to hide," You said, covering your eyes with your wooly mittens.

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You were finished counting and uncovered your eyes. After letting them adjust to the light, you looked around for any sight of Percy.

Sadly, you couldn't find him. With a sigh, you followed his footprints that were in the snow.

It was starting to get cold and all you wanted to do now was to go back to the Hephaestus cabin and sleep. With a shiver, you walked towards Thalia's pine tree.

After a bit, you noticed a second set of footprints that were smaller than Percy's. 'Maybe someone noticed Percy and started talking to him,' You thought as the two pair of footprints continued.