Bianca di Angelo & The Olympians

Thalia Needs Google Translate

There is a huge chunk of Italian during this, and the translated version will be at the end.

Bianca POV

Nico gaped at me.

"And here I was thinking I was special because I was the gay one in the family."

Cue giggling.

Honestly, I had expected it to go waaay worse, although why I thought that was now unknown.

"So.." I waved my right hand vaguely, "You- you're okay with it?"

He scoffed. "I try not to be hypocritical. And I've seen the way you look at literally any pretty girl. Oh my gods-" Here we go, "-You must have been such a mess on that quest last summer! And you invited the two prettiest girls your age with you, oh my gods..."

I shoved him playfully. "Can you fangirl later? I was gonna go meet up with Annabeth, she had something she wanted to show me."

Let's pretend I wasn't totally freaking out about the fact that Annabeth had invited me somewhere. Without Piper, Nico, any of them. Oh, shut up, if you were in my position you would be acting the same way.

I walked out of the Big House, and tried (well, failed, but-) to stay calm. Usually when I was like this, Thalia would be the person I would go to. It used to be Piper, but I knew Piper and Annabeth talked a lot and didn't need her reporting back with the fact that I was really worried about literally everything.

Thalia was a good happy medium. She knew Annabeth well enough that I could talk about her, and didn't really care about the relationship. At least, not at first. She still had the thing against Hades, but after talking with Annabeth in private for a minute, the girl seemingly trusted me now. I pinned it on how much I had protected Annabeth over the years, because if I knew one thing, it was protective older sister dynamics. Even without blood relation, they were family, no doubt.

Luke had been, too. But he burned that bridge.

Telling Thalia had been heartbreaking. Luke had been a brother to her and Annabeth, that much I knew. But all that had bubbled up into pure hatred instead of denial like Annabeth had done. It made her a bit of a loose cannon, but when you were rebelling against the gods, is there really anything wrong with that?

Oh yeah, that was still happening. But after Thalia had returned, combined with the fact that we were alone, we elected to stay quiet and bide our time. This would be no small feat. We needed allies before we pulled a whole shebang and crazy things happened. Also, there was another, small, tiny, itty-bitty issue.

Thalia was older than me. Well, not chronologically, because I'm in my 80's, and even then the Daughter of Zeus would be chronologically in her, like, late teens or early 20's and-

I'm getting off track.

The point stands that Thalia would turn sixteen in about a month. Of course, Percy was oblivious to how important he and my ages were, meaning it was up to us to convince Thalia to help.

So it should have been no surprise when I walked into one of our hidden spots in the forest that both Annabeth and Thalia were waiting for me together. Still, I had to mask my disappointment.

Me and Annabeth haven't talked after that night. I mean, really talked. Everything had been so chaotic, so I understood at first, but eventually it became apparent she was avoiding me.

Which led to me having nowhere to put my emotions into, and spilling my guts to my brother. He was officially the first one to know about the event (of course, excluding all the 'take over the world' crap) between me and Annabeth.