Hello Guys!

This is my first fanfiction and the idea came about during a conversation in which me and my friend speculated over what life would be like if our HOO characters ended up living together, while skiving PE.

So here goes! This is the first in a series of drabbles, beginning wth how the arrangement came about.

Like I said before this is my first fan fic so don't expect anything worthy of a Nobel Prize for Literiture

All the characters belong to Rick Riordan (sobbing).

If you get the Blackadder rederence at the end, then you're awesome.

ROOMATES

Chapter 1: The Arrangement

As the autumn evening began to fade into night, the cool night air was flowing through Cabin Nine's forges, which were unusually quiet, the lights falling in an amber pool outside the open doors.

"Ow! Holy Hephaestus Nyssa, are you trying to give me brain damage?" Leo groaned as he extracted himself from the underside of the centaur automaton he had been trying to repair before his sister had nudged him.

Leo of course, with his usual poise and grace, had jumped straight up and almost banged his brains out on the wall of bronze his head had met. He guessed his older sibling had come to drag him to bed before he passed out in the forges and let "every mosquito in the freakin' country in" as he had allegedly done before.

"Don't freak flame boy." A decidedly male voice chimed in his ringing ears, "a) you will not damage anything in there and b) I am not your sister."

Leo pulled himself upright and squinted at the son of Poseidon, "So you aren't, good for you."

Percy smirked, "Nice overalls."

Leo raised his spanner and examined it, "Do you know where I could put this spanner Jackson?" he asked conversationally

"Ha-ha. Don't give up the job Leo, comedy isn't taking you anywhere quick." Percy retorted.

Leo rubbed his sore head, studying Percy, his green eyes seemed dull and his dark hair was messier than usual, dark circles under his eyes suggesting he wasn't sleeping soundly."After everything that's happened, be nice to him." Piper's voice reprimanded the demigod inwardly.

"So- uh, why are you here? Need something fixed?"

"Yes." Percy said wearily, "but that's not why I'm here." Leo rubbed his oily hands clean on his sexy,sexy overalls and gestured for Percy to go on, wandering around the forges that were empty of his siblings, he was doing the usual work overtime.

"Well I was talking to Jason earlier and he gave me an idea, so I was wondering, are you still looking for an apartment?"

"Yeah." Leo said, perking up. "Do you know a place?"

"Well yeah." The two guys stood side by side at Leo's bench which was scattered with his projects in celestial bronze.

"My place." At Leo's blank expression Percy pressed on. "You know, the apartment I got with-"he seemed to wince slightly at the name"-Annabeth, before well... you know." He ran his hand through his hair, Leo noticed, he did that alot when he was nervous. "Well, obviously, she's not going to be moving in with me and basically I can't pay the rent by myself. It's not the biggest or fanciest place but it's alright, affordable I mean." Percy caught his breath; "Would you at least consider it?" he pleaded turning those startling sea green eyes on the other boy. Leo frowned slightly.

"Wait a second, you," he pointed to Percy "are asking me to consider moving in with you."

"In a nutshell, yes."

"Are you completely, spectacularly out of you MIND?"

Percy jumped, surprised. "Well, probably."

"You are; you're crazy. Asking me to move in with you? Seriously Percy, I'll probably burn it down in the first hour."

Percy rolled his eyes, "Is that all? Gods Valdez I thought you were going to say you hated me."

"Hate you? Zeus no!"

"Are you sure? I mean you have been avoiding me recently." Leo winced. He couldn't deny it. "Yeah..." he began slowly, "But it wasn't personal, it was because - well you and Annabeth had just broken up and.."

"I was an emotional wreck?" Percy supplied.

"Yeah, and I don't deal with emoitional wrecks too well."

"Well I am no longer in pieces, but I will be requiring a roommate and, I'd rather it was someone I actually knew and liked, so when Jason suggested you I thought I'd pop the question."

"Pop the question?" Leo asked, taking particular interest in the choice of words.

For the first time since his girlfriend of three years had dumped him without warning and, as result had broken his heart spectacularly, Percy Jackson cracked a smile, "This is not a declaration of undying love Valdez, don't get ahead of yourself." he warned.

"Phew." Then it was Leo's turn to grin, "Why the Hades not? Yeah, I accept your offer."

The boys shook hands.

"Wait a second; doesn't your apartment only have one bedroom?"

Percy's expression deepened to a scowl, "Crap. I am not sharing a room with you." Leo's grin got even wider.

"Whatever you say roommate!"

"Don't call me that. Ever." The two turned and headed for the forge entrance as the conch horn for lights out sounded, echoing through the camp.

"Fine, but I'm still not sharing a bed with you."

"Like I'd try persuade you otherwise."

"Dude you just proposed to me." Leo couldn't resist stating as he turned to lock the heavy metal doors.

Percy groaned, "How the long winter evenings are going to fly by."

And there you have it!

Before you all go grabbing your pitchforks about me breaking up percabeth, let me make it very clear I ship percabeth more than is humanly possible; so don't worry too much.

If you think I am worthy, flick on to the next chapter.