A friend of mine told me that you don't need someone else to make you happy, you don't need to be in a relationship to be happy.
This fic was inspired by the love of my life a little pitbull runt named Princess.
I own nothing but the plot.
The demigods of the prophecy were walking around downtown New York picking up supplies for their journey home from Olympus. Piper spotted merchant selling little balls of fur near a café. She tugged at Jason's sleeve and pointed while simultaneously dragging him along. It wasn't long before all the girls were cooing over the little bundles of joy. Jason noticed that Nico was the only one staying away although he looked curiously at the box. Jason got a brilliant idea while looking at Percy's hand resting on Annabeth's waist. He pushed his way to the front of the box and picked up the fattest and smallest pup he could find. Percy gave a little gasp and told Jason, "Hey I think these are hellhound puppies like Mrs. O'Leary!" That only fueled Jason to buy the puppy.
He bought it and shocked everyone by walking up to Nico and handing him the puppy. "Let's go pick out a ribbon for her, the merchant says we can take two for free since nobody paid any attention to the runt until now." Jason nodded his head towards the merchant.
Nico was too shocked to respond; he just held the puppy close to his chest and followed the blonde boy. Nico picked out a pink ribbon with little skulls while Hazel joined him and cooed over his new "baby". Jason insisted he get ribbons with color so the second one he chose was a deep purple one with little white flowers and he even bought another sky blue one to match Jason since he gave him the puppy. Piper exclaimed something about chew toys. Hazel exclaimed it was their mission to buy dog essentials so they did. After their so called mission the demigods walked around a while longer and Nico floated like if he was on cloud nine, he didn't even seem to notice Percy and Annabeth because his attention was focused on the bundle in his arms that snored slightly. Jason and Frank even agreed to hold most of the packages so Nico could hold his little fatty.
When they got back to the Argo II they decided to have dinner.
Nico's face was etched with worry. He scooted close to Reyna and shyly asked her, "Reyna whats a good name for a dog? I've never had one before so I have no clue what to name her" He picked up his pup and held it near Reynas face.
She looked at the black ball of fur and hummed to herself. "Most people give their pet's names like Princess, Toto or humanistic names like Chloe." She kept her eyes on the pup.
"Princess sounds a little cliché don't you think?" Nico pouted.
"It's nice to have someone who depends on you like a little princess to depend on her prince or something" Reyna smiled softly at Nico.
He blushed and mumbled, "Having someone depend on me…..my own princess? That sounds pretty nice."
Hazel jumped into the conversation, "Then it's settled you should name her princess but maybe in Greek?"
Nico's eyebrows knitted together, "I think I'll name her tomorrow she looks hungry."
Reyna just looked at his concentrated face and chuckled. The little runt was seated on the table eating a plate of carefully cut up sausage and ham (Nico insisted on cutting it because he was afraid she could choke) drinking pomegranate juice. Annabeth grumbled about a spoiled dog and Nico just glared and continued eating. The dinner was peaceful until Leo started whining to Jason about how he didn't get him a puppy. Even piper agreed and said she wanted one too. Jason smiled and replied, "I just wanted to see Nico smile." Everyone looked wide eyed at him the then to Nico who looked up curiously not knowing what was going on. "Man you're so gay!" Leo joked and punched Jason on the arm. Nico blushed but before he could protest Hazel piped up "That was a great idea!" She beamed at Jason while frank threw a piece of bread at Leo to divert his attention. Reyna watched the exchange and noticed Annabeth looking puzzled and glancing at Jason.
For the life of me I can't decide on a name for the puppy gah! Suggestions would be loved!
