Percy

Percy was walking through central park. It was cool and the snow on the ground was not yet dirtied because of the early hour and the fact that the snow had just gathered there not even ten minutes prior. Percy often enjoyed walking early in the morning when he couldn't sleep anymore after a confusing dream and boy was this one confusing.

Percy was standing in complete darkness. Something seemed to be watching him and he felt uneasy but not threatened if that makes any sense. It didn't to him. He kept standing there until he saw a light in the distance and began to walk toward it. When he got there he was in a room full of video games. It seemed familiar but he couldn't tell what it was. It looked like the game room in the Lotus Hotel and Casino but in the background his dad stood holding fresh baked bread. The whole room actually smelled of fresh baked bread and other baked goods, like cake... weird.

As he sat there he began to see a figure walk toward him. It got closer to him and he realized that it was one Nico di Angelo. Nico sat next to him and rested his hand atop his. He looked down and saw that he was wearing white winter gloves. He kept looking at thier linked hands and Nicos gloves turned brown then red then gold.

"Hey Perce? Can I tell you something?" asked the slightly olive-skinned boy.

"Sure..." Percy answered, adjusting his hand to hold Nico's tighter.

"Well... I-I..."

Now as Percy walked he wanted to know what Nico was going to say. Percy was jolted from his thoughts when he felt a gloved hand on his. He looked to his right to see Nico di freaking Angelo. This kid was everywhere! He looked down at their hands and saw that nico was wearing white gloves. 'Well that's not weird at all', Percy thought.

"Hi Perce. Why're you up so early?" asked the curious, young boy. He was wearing a black wool pea coat with ripped up skinny jeans and his black and white chucks. He also wore just a bit of black eyeliner that accented his obsidian eyes perfectly. He had a bruise on his left cheekbone that was beautiful in a morbid sort of way. Nico as a whole was beautiful in sort of a morbid way so it fit. Plus his skin which had now gained back more but not all of it's olive glow since he started spending more time at camp, hid the bruise well.

"Couldn't sleep any longer. Had a freaky-ass dream." the older demigod replied, still holding Nico's hand. They did that often because Nico, at times, had the attention span of a squirrel and would get lost easily. Though the kid was wiser, sometimes, than even Annabeth and could match the beauty of her blonde hair and grey eyes in an instant just by giving Percy that little smile that was just for him. Not even Hazel got that smile.

Annabeth and Percy had broken up just after the giant war. They left things on good terms but Annabeth said she could see that she wasn't the one he really wanted to spend the rest of eternity with. Percy had held back tears as he said,

"Yeah, okay... thanks for bein' so cool 'bout this, Wisegirl," After that he ran straight to cabin 13 where he found Nico.

"N-Nico, Annabeth just b-roke u-up with me-e!" he said as tears began to fall down his tanned face. Nico stood from his bed and walked over to Percy.

"C'mon, Perce... Shhh it's okay" the smaller boy said, approaching his older friend. He had turned 14 and Percy was now 17. They had started hanging out more after Percy had rescued him from the bronze jar in Rome. They actually got along great despite their rocky start when Nico was 10. Nico was always so constant and steady that he seemed to balance Percy just by always having those same dark blue skinny jeans and dark-colored shirts.

Nico reached a steady, soft hand up to Percy's face and gently dabbed his eyes with the sleeve of his black cardigan which he wore over a semi-tight t-shirt that said 'bark at the moon' the name of some Ozzy Osbourne album.

"Perce?" he asked uncertainly when the taller boy grabbed his wrist in order to hold his hand where it was and pushed his cheek more firmly against it. All of the sudden Percy couldn't control himself. He grabbed Nico's thin waist and pulled him closer. He smiled a little when the younger demigod let his head fall to his chest.

"It'll be okay. She's a bitch anyway and you deserve better than someone who will make you cry like this." Nico said quietly. "You deserve the world" he continued.

"I know you used to like her Nico. You don't have to be mad at her just because we broke up. Actually maybe this is your big chance with her. You should go for it Neeks" replied the older male, pulling away enough to look in Nico's big, innocent, obsidian orbs.

"Not any more. I like someone else now. Annabeth's super hot and all but she's not really my type as of late." said the Ghost King with a faint blush.

"She's a hot girl, you said it yourself Neeks. So how is she not your type?" Percy asked.

"Well she's a girl for starters..." trailed Nico.

"Oh" was all percy could muster.

"You mad Perce?" asked Nico, lifting a knuckle to his lower lip which was slightly separated from the upper one and turning his head to the side. Cute

"No way" replied the older one, "I'm happy if you're happy man."

"Thanks"

Nico

"Hey Percy? Perce. Dude you've been staring at me for the past 5 minutes straight. DUDE!" Nico said in order to pull Percy from his trance.

"Huh?" replied the older demigod.

"You were staring...?" Nico said, obviously a bit annoyed.

"Oh sorry. I was just thinking about the whole thing with Annabeth and you coming out of the closet." Percy said wistfully.

"Hmmm... I like thinking about that. Not Annabeth breaking up with you and getting your heart broken but the me coming out part. I think it really strengthened our friendship and showed how much I trust you."

"Yeah..." was percy's dreamy reply. After that the boys didn't speak for a long time.

"Hey Perce? Uhm..." the young son of death wanted to ask the older demigods feelings about him but he was losing courage by the second.

"Mhmm?" the older of the two said in a breathy, barely there, tone.

"What would you like to do today? Hehe!" damn that nervous laugh!, Nico thought.

"I dunno. Maybe we could go back to my place and... oh!" he said with a sudden realisation, "we could bake some cookies. Oh yeah I think you'd look great in my mom's little blue apron...wifey." Percy's smooth tenor voice broke in laughter at the end.

"Hehe yeah..." Nico said breathily, his face heating uncomfortably. Damnit that laugh again!, he thought.

Percy

Damnit that laugh again... It gets me every time, Percy thought. He's so cute. He has no idea what that voice, that laugh does to me...