Love Story: Thalia and Luke

8

They were crouched behind a tree watching a group of giants. Thalia was scratched up and bruised and Luke looked like he had taken a sled down the side of Mt. Everest. Their day had started out with Luke saying that he had the best idea ever and then it progressively got worse after that.

"Who's idea was this?" Thalia asked.

"Mine now shut up." Luke hissed.

They had been sent to scout for something and they ran into a little trouble along the way. Thalia and Luke were the dynamic duo...that was when they didn't use Luke's plans. Thalia wanted to Iris Message Annabeth so badly at the moment but she couldn't.

"So what are we going to do?" Luke asked her.

"Well it looks like we'll have to try to sneak away....I mean we've done things like this millions of times before." Thalia shrugged.

"You're right this isn't anything we haven't dealt with before." Luke nodded.

Thalia and Luke began to snake through the trees around the giants' encampment. Everything was going good until a giant threw a fireball right at the tree in front of Thalia and Luke. The giant made a grab for Thalia but didn't notice Luke so in the end Thalia became the damsel in distress and Luke had to figure out how to save her.

Luke sat behind a boulder and contemplated for a moment before deciding to do what he did best...improvise. Luke stood up and made sure he looked good; knowing these giants they still might possibly recognize him from his not so flattering times. He didn't care; all he cared about at that moment was rescuing Thalia before they made Thalia pot pie out of her.

Luke strode out of the trees and the giants turned around. They bowed to him, "Master Castellan."

Luke raised his eyebrows, "What do you think you're doing?"

Thalia looked up at Luke with a confused expression as did the giants, "What do you mean Master?"

"I mean that you're about to eat my prisoner." Luke said pointing at Thalia who was tied to a post and gagged.

"Your prisoner?" one asked.

Luke nodded, "This is my prisoner and she escaped me, now I would like you to return her to me."

The giants nodded and set about as they were told. Thalia was handed back over to Luke in a bundle of ropes and the giants started giving their sincerest apologies for trying to eat his prisoner. Once Thalia and Luke were far enough away Thalia threw her arms around Luke, "How did you do that?"

Luke shrugged, "I improvised."

"Thank you, I didn't want to end up as their dinner." Thalia said as she hugged him again.

"I wasn't going to let them eat you, you do know that right?" Luke chuckled.

"No more plans got it?" Thalia asked.

Luke nodded, "No more plans."

"Good then we've come to the agreement that I make the plans?" Thalia asked.

Luke nodded once more, "You are the official plan maker."

Thalia kissed him quickly and they decided that they should get a move on before the stupid giants figured out that they were tricked. So later that night Luke and Thalia found themselves cuddled together in a hotel room where there was warm water and cable...Luke couldn't complain...as long as he didn't make any plans they should be good for the rest of this scouting event.