So this story was created thanks to a conversation I had with my friend youseenothing and is therefore dedicated to her since she was the inspiration behind it, we have decided to have a competition to see who can write the better story so it is on! I hope you all enjoy this, please let me know what you think. It's on like Voltron!

For the sake of this story Nico is an only child so there is no mention of Bianca

Warning: major stalker alert! Octavian is completely crazy. Not sexual attraction to children I swear! Just really creepy obsession.

(God I'm creeping myself out just writing this… shivers)

Mentions of death.

Ch. 1 Stranger danger

Hades di Angelo was very protective of his only son Nico. He was a good child who trusted easily and was very kind but this made him an easy target for kidnappers. He was already a prime target because Hades was very wealthy and powerful and to hold his son for ransom would be very tempting for many cold hearted monsters that had no problems using an innocent child for their own greed.

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Many times over the years Nico had been approached by shady strangers offering to take him some place fun or to get him a gift if he went with them, but thanks to the vigilant security staff they were soon chased off.

One day Nico had wondered away into a nearby park as children would and was approached by a young man with a silver tongue who said nice things and offered Nico many good things if he went with him, he was kind and not at all scary like the other people who normally approached him when no one was around, and Nico was thinking of going with him when suddenly someone called out to them.

"Hey what are you doing there, come on already!"

It was a little boy about Nico's age around seven or eight, he had a mop of blond curls and bright blue eyes and a happy grin on his face. He ran up to Nico and grabbed his hand to pull him along with him.

"Sorry mister but we were supposed to play with our friends so we need to go now, bye!" he then dragged Nico with him towards the edge of the park where other people had gathered so that their kids could play safely.

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Octavian gritted his teeth, he was so close! Damn that brat for getting in the way!

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Meanwhile the boy had finally stopped running with Nico trying his best to keep up, he didn't let go of his hand though as he looked back to see if the stranger was still there, luckily he was gone the boy thought to himself.

"Who… are you?" Nico huffed out looking at the boy who had whisked him away claiming they were friends.

The boy turned and smiled widely at him.

"My name's Will!" then he turned back and frowned still looking for the stranger in the direction they had just come from. "Don't you know about stranger danger? You're not supposed to be somewhere a grown-up can't see you and you shouldn't talk to strangers, we learned about in in school along with the buddy system!"

Nico just looked at him blankly.

"I don't go to school."

Will seemed shocked to hear that.

"Are you home schooled then?"

Nico nodded.

"I have a tutor."

Will was smiling again.

"Cool, I've never met anyone who never went to school before!"

And Nico had never played with someone his own age before.

Will dragged him along to meet his group of friends that were all playing a game of tag.

"Hey guys we have one more player!" he turned to Nico, "Hey what's you name by the way?"

Nico was feeling kind of shy with the other kids looking at him.

"Nico." He said just loud enough to be heard.

"Well Nico welcome to the group! We're playing tag now, since you're the newest one you can be it!" Will said as he tapped Nico on the shoulder and ran and the other kids started laughing and running too, Nico was unsure what to do at first but he ran after Will and tapped him on the shoulder in return and ran in the other direction.

Soon they were all laughing and squealing as they ran and played. But all too soon it was time to stop playing because Nico's guards had finally found him.

"Nico!" he turned to see Thanatos the chief of security staff running up to him.

"Nico where were you? We were so worried about you!" he knelt down to inspect Nico to make sure that he was unharmed.

"I got bored and came to the park, then this man started talking to me, he was really nice," at this Thanatos seemed to grow a little paler, "but then Will-" Nico pointed to the blond boy, "came and pulled me away saying that I need to be careful around strangers and had me come play where it's safe. We were playing tag, it's really fun!" he had a big smile on his face and the blond boy, Will, was looking proud of himself for helping.

Thanatos let out a sigh of relief.

"Nico you can't go wondering off on your own like that. But I'm glad you made friends." he turned to Will, "Thank you for your help young man."

Will smiled at him.

"No problem I was just following the buddy system!"

Thanatos smiled in return.

"Indeed." He turned back to Nico, "Time to say goodbye to your new friends now, your father will be worried if we keep him waiting."

While they talked a man with a striking resemblance to Will walked over to them to see what was going on.

"Can I help you?" he asked Thanatos who noticed the obvious family ties between the two, he held out his hand to the man.

"Hello you must be the father of this young man here." He said motioning to Will.

The man nodded.

"I am." he said still not sure what was happening but shaking his hand anyway.

"My name is Thanatos and I'm in charge of watching young Nico here," he motioned to Nico, "we lost sight of him and it seems he was approached by someone but Will here was knowledgeable enough to step in and pull him over here where he'd be safe. You have a good boy here."

Will was beaming at the praise and his father smiled too.

"Well that is good! Too many shady characters around these days you can never be too safe."

Thanatos gave a wry grin.

"You're telling me." he looked at his watch and saw how late it was getting. "We should be going; his father worries if we are late."

Will's father nodded in understanding.

"You know the kids seem to get along well, how about we set up a play date or something?"

Thanatos thought it over for moment then seemed to accept it when seeing the hopeful looks on the boy's faces.

"I think that would be alright."

The boys looked at each other exchanging happy smiles.

"I'll give you my card and you can call to schedule a time and place, normally I'm always watching him with today being an exception," he gives Nico a stern look to let him know that he is not pleased with him for sneaking off like he did, "so you don't have to worry about supervision."

They shook hands again after he handed over his business card.

"It was nice meeting you; I'm Apollo by the way."

"Same to you, thank you for keeping an eye on Nico for me."

Apollo laughed.

"Anytime."

With that Thanatos takes Nico's hand and leads him to their car nearby.

"I'm glad that you made a new friend today, but you were lucky this time. If no one was around and had seen that man talking to you something bad could have happened."

Nico looked down as Thanatos scolded him, he didn't mean to make Thanatos upset with him, he just got bored waiting for the grown-ups to do their work and wanted to go to the park. That guy that was talking to him didn't seem too bad so what was wrong?

Thanatos sighed knowing what Nico was probably thinking about.

"You know how your new friend was saying something about stranger danger?"

Nico nodded.

"It means that you need to be careful around people you don't know. Even if they seem nice they could still be bad people, now I'm not saying all of them are, but if someone approaches you while you are alone and wants to take you somewhere where no one can see you, under no circumstances are you to follow them, okay?" he looked Nico right in the eye to make sure that he understood and waited for him to nod. "Good, remember this, people are always looking over their shoulders for the scary looking guys, but no one is looking for the nice looking sweet talking stranger and those are the ones you should be looking for."

Nico thought this over for a while as the car took them to his father's work.

When they arrived at Hades' office he asked how the day had gone. Nico was bouncing up and down with excitement to tell his father about his new friend. On the other hand Thanatos wasn't as eager to explain how Nico had come to meet this new friend so he reluctantly told Hades of Nico's little adventure today, allowing Nico to tell his part which he enjoyed especially the part about getting to play tag with all the other kids and the possibility of seeing Will again. After he heard what they had to say Hades sighed and looked apologetically at Thanatos.

"I really don't pay you enough for this do I?"

"I make do." Thanatos smiled, after so long he had grown used to every worry that came with the job and he wouldn't trade anything for what he was already doing, working for his good friend and protecting his loved ones.

Okay for any of you who read this before now I am soooo sorry for my apparent hatred of punctuation, I honestly have no idea why that is.

I work full-time at two jobs and have no days off so things will be slow but after I fix all of my errors I'm going to continue writing so that I have a clue as to where I was going with my stories so please bare with me, Christmas is coming up and it's going to be absolute hell for me at work so I'm going to be pretty much brain dead by the time I get home each day, I'll do my best to update though!

And thank you to everyone who leaves me reviews! I go back and read them whenever I'm feeling really depressed and they make me feel better! I love you guys!