Best Guy Friends
by Eris

Tonight was confusing. Since the moment Annabeth had invited Nico along with them on the quest, Percy had felt the cold grip of dread take hold of his gut. He hadn't known back then, but now…

Annabeth shifted closer, the warmth of her body heating his skin where they touched. On her other side, Nico reacted to her movement by pressing closer, his hand moving up her hip and settling just below her bared breast. Percy slowly released the lungful of air he'd taken, careful not to wake up his slumbering bedmates.

Yes. Now he knew why he hadn't wanted Nico along.

It wasn't that he didn't like Nico, because he did, and they were cousins, after all. But that was just it—they were cousins, and more than that, they were best guy friends. Emphasis on the word 'guy.'

This kind of thing wasn't what best guy friends do. Best guy friends don't have threesomes with their best guy friends, especially when the third party was the best guy friend's girlfriend!

Annabeth liked it, a little voice called from the back of his mind, pointing out the reason why he hadn't protested more when a more-than-tipsy Annabeth sauntered over in only her panties to a frozen-in-shock Nico and dragged him onto the bed with them. Before tonight, he'd always thought of Annabeth as a wholesome kind of girl. He should've taken her adventurous nature into consideration.

Okay, sure he hadn't not enjoyed himself. It was just…weird. No matter how many times his History professor repeated that guy-on-guy loving was normal in Ancient Greece, here and now wasn't Ancient Greece, so this almost guy-on-guy thing that just almost happened wasn't normal.

Thank the gods Annabeth was here.

On second thought, Annabeth was the reason this even happened in the first place.

On third thought, they shouldn't have had that bottle of vodka in the mini-bar. Percy nodded absently to himself, assuring his half-asleep-half-drunk mind that it was all the vodka's fault.

"Percy." He almost jumped out of the bed—and his skin—when Nico suddenly spoke. Turning his head guiltily, he found Nico giving him a sleepy glare. "Stop thinking. I can practically hear every word." Percy opened his mouth to deny it, but Nico glared harder and said, "Shut. Up."

Percy snapped his jaw shut. Nico suddenly sighed, the glare disappearing.

"We'll figure it out in the morning, alright?" he compromised. Percy blinked at him as he settled back down on his side of the bed, then realized that maybe the younger demigod had a point. He was about to drift off to sleep as well when he felt Nico move his hand, and he scowled upon realizing where it stopped.

"Nico?"

The son of Hades grunted, and clearly, it was all Percy was going to get for now. That didn't matter really. Percy only needed him to do one small thing.

"Get your hand off Annabeth's breast."

Author's Note

For some reason, I've lost the ability to write smut. These kinds of stories keep replacing them. But I like them (duh, I made them, of course I like them) so I'm sharing them to the rest of you people because I want some appreciation from people who aren't me.

Appreciate me please?

~E

P.S. That was me being needy. I'm not normally like that. No, really! I'm not! Are you listening to me? I'm not! =)