New life ch. 1

another depressing fic, that my suicidal plot bunnies came up with. rated M for attempted suicide, and swearing. Pico, nercy, Percy x Nico. no smut! all fluff. AU, probably going to have over 5 chapters (hopefully) this is my first fanfic longer than a chapter.

Nico has loved Percy Jackson as long as he can remember, Percy has always made nico feel loved and happy, but all of that changes when Bianca dies in a shooting. Nico tries to hold back his feelings, keep his dad at bay and not grieve over excessively for his sister.

Diclaimer!

I don't own PJO, if I did, then annabeth wouldn't exist

(I hate percabeth! [and thalico!]) and half the characters would be dead, my stupid plot bunnies are evil.

Today was the day, today was the day his sister had died. On this very spot, two years ago, a maniac at her favorite café, had pulled out a gun and shot her. Nico thought it was unfair that everyone told him that he had to get over it, but he couldn't. How would you feel if one of the only people anchoring you to sanity had died?

So, over the space of a year his dads drunken... raids had gotten worse and worse, and Nico had slowly began to die inside. Until he became his friend. Percy was the only other person still living that cared for nico (besides Thalia and annabeth, of course). Percy was different from Nicos other acquaintances, in the way that he had been the subject of Nicos unconditional love for him for the past 7 years of his life, the day that they had met.

It had been the middle of fall, the concrete streets cobbled with an abstract fire, when Nico had looked up across the street from his apartment building, to see a certain boy with sea-green eyes staring at him, and of course this green eyed kid had to be the friendly ten year old he was, and introduced himself. Very soon, Percy, as he became know as in the Di Angelo family, became a close friend to nico. Until Percy's dad died, and his mother and he moved away to New York. Nicos mother died soon after, without his best friend, he often spent the days alone in his bedroom reading a book or hiding from his father, who had eventually began to spend more days away from home than with his children. One night, Nico and Bianca had been watching TV when their father burst in limping and slurring his words, started to beat them.

So as these thoughts ran through Nico Di Angelos head, one memory came to mind, the day Percy had came back to Seattle.

It had been summer, nico had been studying the patterns on the ground made from the sun filtering through the birch branches above his head, when he heard a moving van turn down the road. The broad grinning face he had remembered had all but disappeared, his happy Percy had come back. soon they became just as close friends as before, sharing more days together than with their family's. Nico tried to hide the black eyes and broken limbs while Percy stayed at school, worrying about the ignored text messages and the unknown (to him and the rest of the world) reasons for nico's sudden departures from The crowded halls at school.

Soon, nico began to sink into the dully clawed grasp of depression. He showed up at school with bruises on his face, he didn't care anymore if they found out, but still he would make up excuses.

Nicos onyx eyes glared at the white stripes of the crosswalk, people spilled past him across the street, like sand through fingers. His sisters death was the last straw. he knew it was foolish, to allow himself to give up, but he tried, and he failed. His younger sister had found him, lieing on the black bed, red had soaked the obsidian room.

Hazel levesque, his step sister had found him. soon after marrying hades, hazels mother, Persephone, had all but divorced hades, she had left the house (though nico spent most of his day there, and even slept there as often as he could) and even went as far as taking half of the furniture with her.

Nico sighed, how long had he been there? half an hour? he had tried to cross the street, but as soon as he moved an inch the never ending torture that were his thoughts pulled him back.

Enough of long lasting problems, how about his current one? Perseus Jackson. the over loving, doofus of a best friend had made nico fall in love with him. Sometimes, even just a touch, or a graze of skin against skin would make nico melt. He loved him too much, he wasn't even sure if it was even humanely possible to love someone so much. Percy, even though it was hard to admit it, was nicos hero, in the sense that everything was better when he was within twenty feet of nico. Speaking of the devil, nico thought, before Percy himself threw his arm over nicos shoulder. it took all of nicos self control not to kiss Percy right then and there.

"hey neeks, how's it goin'?"

Percy asked before frowning, seeing the look on nicos face.

"oh... that's today..."

he silently moved nico away from the side walk, leading him to a bench nearby.

"nico, talk to me"

nico opened his mouth, then closed it.

"come one, cat gotcher tongue?" Percy said with the familiar playful glint in his eyes.

"no" nico croaked.

"god, I'm turning into a frog."

Percy smiled at nicos bad attempt at humor, before hugging him.

Nico didn't reply to the hug, he just sighed.

"you know, you should really try to stop thinking for once"

"I don't think that's possible." Nico replied hoarsely.

"also where were you today? i thought we agreed to meet after school at pike place."

oh shit.

"er... sorry, I kinda forgot..."

hurt flashed across Percy's face, before disappearing as fast as it had came.

"come on let's get home."

they proceeded to walk toward a bus stop, and sat in silence. A greyhound rounded the corner and stopped where they had been waiting. they again, sat together in silence until they arrived in one of the many suburbs surrounding Seattle. Percy and Nico went their separate ways with muttered goodbyes. nico looked up at his house, dreading what would soon come.

Ok that's it for this chapter! sorry, but it might be a while until I get an update schedule set up.

thank you soooooo much for reviewing! :)

now to try and silence my stupid suicidal plot bunnies... *hides body bags and shovels behind back*

NOTE: i write my A/Ns while writing my story, and i wrote this about a week ago, so I've been mass-updating, right now i have chapters 1-4 up, even though this is the day i uploaded the first chapter.