CHB: Truth, Dare and Sticky Situations

Mission Octavian

*Reyna's P.O.V*

To say that pole dancing was humiliating, would be an understatement. It was beyond expression how embarrassing it was. And if that wasn't enough, Leo Valdez, His Annoyance™ decided his pants had to burn right after I dropped down. I mean sure, under normal circumstances having a boy drop his pants for me would be somewhat flattering- but these circumstances were anything but.

The saving grace was the fact that his pants burning distracted everyone and gave me time to pick a victim. So while everyone was distracted by Leo's Avengers underwear, I changed into my regular clothes  and scanned the present company.
Annabeth had already done a dare. Percy and Leo would suffer later. I didn't want to pick Katie, Travis, Connor, Miranda or Piper. Frank, Hazel, Will and Nico.. I was not going to make them suffer. Which left only Jason and Leo. Ew.

I considered the son of Jupiter. He had been acting weird. Which is why giving him a dare would seem appropriate but at the same time, for some reason I wanted to limit my interaction with him today. I watched quietly as he had his arm wrapped around Piper and was mocking Leo with Percy.
The way he smiled reminded me of Thalia. The thought sent a jolt through me.
Where in the name of Hades did Thalia even come from?
I shook my head, trying not to think of the extremely attractive Huntress. I wondered where she was. It would have been fun to have her with us.
Sighing, I realised that I did not have the liberty of being picky.
Unless...
I smirked as a plan started to grow in my mind.

I drummed my fingers along the floor, waiting for the Latino to come back, so I could execute my plan. Soon enough, Leo came back, back slouched and wearing what I assumed were his 'non-flammable' pants. I had no desire to witness his unflattering behind with Thor's hammer stretched across it. Eugh. That image wasn't leaving my head anytime soon. 

"Okay, guys, let's get this show on the road." Leo said, as he sat down as far away from me as possible. Which ended up with him wedging himself between Annabeth and Piper. 
"Hey!" Piper protested and he ignored her. 
"Okay, RARA, go time. Pick someone." Annabeth asked me and I made a show of looking at everyone before turning to Leo. 
"Valdez." I said and he sat up, gulping. "Truth or Dare?" I asked him and he opened his mouth and shut it like a gaping goldfish. 
"I forfeit." He finally answered. "You can't forfeit when you haven't even picked." Nico said and I suppressed a smile. "Shut up, Death Boy." Leo said and Nico rolled his eyes. "Whatever. Just pick one."
"You do realise this is a life-and-death situation, right?" Leo said and Piper snorted.
"Just pick, Leo. I'm sure Reyna won't kill you." 
"Yet." I added with a wink in her direction. Leo sighed, as the others began coaxing him to choose. I had to admit as much as I enjoyed the fact that he was getting scared, I didn't like it a lot. Leo may be a lot of things, and yes, he was annoying most of the time, but he was still a friend. And an ally.  After their unsuccessful attempts to get him to choose, I intervened. 

"Okay, I'll put your options out: If you choose Truth, I will ask you an embarrassing question which you will no choice but to answer. If you choose Dare, you will have to perform an embarrassing prank..." I paused and then smirked at him. " ..which involves our beloved augur, Octavian." The bunker burst into a chaotic medley of whoops and "oh damns."

At the sound of Octavian's name, Leo's face brightened, a mischievous grin appearing, which matched my own. Jason and Percy were snickering to themselves and Annabeth watched me with rapt attention.
"What exactly is the purpose of involving Octavian in this game, RARA?" She asked and I shrugged in response. "Don't you want to see him get butthurt after this?" Piper answered Annabeth, who laughed softly. "Of course I do! I love a butthurt augur." She said and shot me a thumbs-up. 
"I choose dare, Reyna." Leo finally said, as I turned to him. "Not that there's a fair choice."
Travis piped up. "Can we help Leo with the prank? It is our specialty, after all.." He trailed off and Connor nodded enthusiastically. "Sure." I said. "The more the merrier." And I meant it. It would be a  crazy decision to want to prank someone and not have these two around.

"Well, in that case, I'm sure Jason would agree, if we decided to help these guys out too." Percy added and then slowly, from one person to three, to five, everyone decided to be a part of this elaborate prank.

This was round three of the game, and our victim was Octavian. I wanted to feel bad for him, but honestly, I couldn't. This wasn't the response of a Praetor but, I had put those duties behind for the time that I was here in Long Island and at Camp Half- Blood. I focused my attention on the discussion to decide how to prank him. After a good hour or so, we finally came up with an idea and the details of how to execute it. 

This was gonna be fun. 

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A/N: I have nothing to say for myself for the late update :) But I had fun writing this chapter! And I guess I'll be able to update it within next week, because of the quarantine that's there. 
Stay tuned for more~~
Stay safe, wash your hands and stay inside your house! 
Lots of love
//Andi