Will's POV

"So what do you want for Christmas?" I asked Nico.

We were sitting on the sofa, next to the fireplace, watching movies on Nico's laptop. It was a little past lunchtime so we were just relaxing.

After the war Nico keep coming over to my place because his cabin kept creeping him out so I had helped him redecorate the place and made it more cozy. We repainted the walls a nice shade of light gray and baby blue. We dusted the beds and replaced the sheets, then glossed the floor and added more window and lights. We made the whole place more homey. And since only him and Hazel use the place, we got rid of some beds and made a living room area.

Hence why there is a sofa and a fireplace.

"Hmm…" Nico looks up from the laptop. "Oh. I haven't really thought of it actually." Nico closes it and puts his feet up on the couch and faces me.

"Really?" I look over next to the fireplace. "You have a christmas tree already, some stockings and even lights up outside, but you have no idea what you want for christmas?" I laughed.

"Well," Nico laughed, "I was busy thinking of what to get you."

"Really? That's sweet." I leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. We've yet to have a real kiss yet. We've been together for a few months, maybe five.

"Eh. Christmas is right around the corner, and I still haven't gotten you a present." Nico gets up and walks over to his bed and grabs something under his pillow. "But I did get you some chocolate when I went shopping the other day."

He sat back down. "I wasn't leaving the city with nothing so I thought chocolate would be nice. But don't worry, I'll get you a better present."

"Thank you." I say as he hands me the box. It's shaped like a snowman, and filled with white chocolates. "It's so cute!"

"I know right!" He smiled. "It took forever to find a nice one. Others were over complicated." He scooted closer to me, laying his head on my shoulder. "I'm happy you like it."

"Yeah. It's really good." I say, hugging Nico closer to me. "So when are you going to decorate your tree? It looks sad."

We spent two hours decorating the tree. We first had to find the right box with the ornaments and lights in the closet. But since there were barely any ornaments, Nico quickly shadow traveled into the city to buy some.

He came back with tons of them. Some were just regular colors but some were themed like Nightmare before Christmas or Frozen which was pretty cool. But he decided to just have blue and white, with a few themed ones.

"I think it looks pretty cute." I said, packing the extra ornaments Nico bought.

"Yeah. It doesn't look half bad." Nico proudly said.

Nico helped me put the boxes back in the closet. "I have an idea." I tell him as we walk back to the couch.

"What is it?" Nico asks as he sits down.

"Let's invite everyone over here for Christmas and exchange gifts here." I say, grabbing his laptop from the table and bring it over.

"Hmmm… Well, sure." Nico smiles. "It'd be a shame if we were the only ones to see this awesome tree." He giggles.

"True."

We sit and decide to watch Nightmare before Christmas, before dinnertime comes.

As we walk towards a table to sit and eat, someone calls Nico over.

"Nico!"

We both look over. It's Piper and Annabeth. We walk over and sit down.

Piper has a plate of food in front of her and is dressed in her normal attire rather than Nico and I, as we are wearing pajamas. Annabeth is also in her pj's and had her head in a book.

"Whats up?" Nico asks Piper.

"Just wondering if you guys had any plans for guys and us were talking about plans but they were starting to get cold so they left." Piper said.

"Oh. We were just about to ask you about that. Do you guys wanna come over to my cabin on Christmas?" Nico asks.

"Sure!" Piper smiled. Nico continues to talk with Piper about presents and some other stuff.

"So Annabeth, how's it going?" I ask her.

She looks up from her book. "Pretty good. By the way, do you by any chance have any idea what Nico wants for Christmas?" She closes her book.

Nico and Piper are about a few feet away so I know they won't here us, so I scoot closer to Annabeth and slide her an apple.

"You should eat, and no. He won't tell me." I say, taking a bite of some rice.

She takes a bite of her apple. "Hm. I'm thinking about getting him some sweaters or something soft and fluffy." She smiles. "By the way, how are you and Nico doing?"

"Huh?" I smile back. "It's going good. We just decorated the tree today. It's very pretty." I take a few more bites.

"Really? Can't wait to see it." Annabeth returns to eating the apple and reading.

I'm almost finished eating when I feel Nico pulling on my shirt. "Can we go? It's getting pretty cold."

"Huh? Oh sure." I looked over at Nico. He was blushing so much; I haven't seen him blush this much since I told him I love him. "Bye Annie. Bye Piper." I say as I grab my plate and stand, with Nico still holding my sleeve.

"Piper said she is gonna stop by tonight with Jason to bring some presents over." Nico said. "I hope you don't mind. But they are gonna join in on movie night."

"Oh. Okay." I nodded. I didn't mind much if he invited them, it would just more people would be laughing with us. "Is that it?"

"You're not mad that I invited them?" Nico said.

We neared the trash and i threw the food away and placed the plate with the other dirty ones. "No. Not really. Why would I be mad?" I laughed.

"Well. I don't know. It's just that usually it's just us watching movies and having someone else over watching with us is something new."

We walked over to Nico's cabin. "Do realize it's your cabin." I laugh.

"I know!" Nico blushed, letting go of my sleeve, and then grabbing my hand. "But I just wanted to let you know."

"Hm… How about we invite some more people over?"

"Huh? Sure. I'll go invite Annabeth and Percy." Nico said, opening his door. "But first, I'm grabbing my blanket. It's way to cold."

"Coolio. I'll go grab Lou Ellen, Cecil and Leo."

I left to invite Loe Ellen and Cecil, if I remembered correctly, they said earlier today that they would be at stables practicing some new magic or something like that.

I finally arrive at the stables a few minutes later and right away I can see them. They are having a water balloon fight… I think.

"Lou Ellen! Cecil!" I call them as I walk closer.

They stop laughing and look over.

"Hey Will! Look at this! I made these really cool magic filled balloon things, or whatever that changes appearances and it's so funny!" She bends over laughing. "It turned Cecil into a clown!"

"Shut up! It turned you into a troll!" Cecil yelled back, bending over laughing, too.

"You guys!" I started laughing. "Why did you even?"

"Just because." Lou Ellen said. "So whats up?"

"Oh. I'm just wondering if you guys would like to watch some movies at Nico's tonight with some others." I asked, grabbing a balloon,

"Oh. Sure." Cecil said. "Let's get going."

"Yeah. It's starting to become night time." We started to walk.

"We need to go get Leo first though." I said.

As we were walking Lou Ellen pelted random people with her balloons. Soon, we arrived at Leo's cabin. We knocked and soon someone answered the door.

"Hey. Whats up?" The girl asked.

"Is Leo here?" I asked.

"Um. Yeah. Hold on a sec. He'll be right out." She closed the door.

Quickly after Leo opened the door. "Hey man, what's up?"

"Just wondering if you want to join us and watch some movies at Nico's." I asked.

Leo was fiddling with some metal in his hands. "Uh, sure." He placed the metal in his pouch. "Cool. Calypso isn't here so yeah, I'll go."

Leo and I walked ahead while Lou Ellen and Cecil walked behind us messing around with more of the balloons.

"So how's your week going so far?" Leo asks.

"Eh. Pretty good. I have pretty much everything ready for Christmas except for one thing." I tell him.

"Oh really? Lemme guess. A present for Nico?" Leo laughs. "Yeah. I think that's probably the most difficult thing about holidays."

"Finding presenting?" I ask.

"Yeah. But finding a certain present for a certain person." Leo laughed.

We knocked on the door and Nico opened it right away. "Yay! You're here!" He hugged me. "Come on in, guys." He motioned in the others. "Everyone else is here.

Lou Ellen, Cecil, and Leo passed me and joined the others. They hugged each other and started getting comfy.

"We were just about to start." Nico lead me over to the couch and we sat down.

"Were watching Mulan by the way."

"Okay." I looked under the tree. There were already so many presents. I saw many were from Piper, Jason, Annabeth, and Percy. It made me wonder if there was anything for Nico from Percy, and if I should be worried but I let it slip my mind.

Some of our friends sat on the ground but it didn't look like they cared. They were closer to the fire, have blankets under their butts, they still looked comfy. The t.v. was next to the fire place and the quality was amazing.

It was around eleven o'clock when the movie ended and we all said goodbye. Nico offered them to sleep over because of the furries and all but they said it was okay and that the furries were sorta nicer at this time of year, or at least less mean.

"Bye!" Nico and I yelled out the door before closing it.

"That was fun." Nico smiled. "It's been awhile since we all just hung out without any monster intruding." He giggled.

"Yeah. Last time we hung out, Piper had to leave for a quest." I smiled back at him. I walked over and sat on the couch. "May I spend the night?" I say, slowly.

Nico blushes. "Yeah. Please do."

We turned off the t.v. and sat down. "Is there anything you would like to do?" I smirked. "Like anything special?"

Nico smiled. "Maybe." Nico sat down next to me.

I leaned in. "Did I ever tell you your smile is pretty?"

"Only like a billion times."

Nico closed his eyes and leaned in ever so slowly. I closed my eyes also and leaned in. I pressed my lips against his. Nico moved his hands up into my hair and wrapped in around my neck. I wrapped both my hands around his waist. After three seconds, I deepened the kiss, pulling him closer. I could feel Nico smile against the kiss.

Soon, we were out of breath and we pulled away. Nico opened his eyes as I did as well.

"Was it nice?" I asked. I know it was his first kiss, especially with me.

Nico was silent before he broke into a grin and tried to cover up his face. "I really, really liked it!" He squealed.

I laughed. "That's good." I got up and grabbed a blanket. "Lets sleep over here tonight?"

"Where?" Nico looked up.

"On the couch. Next to the fireplace."

Nico smiled. "Yeah. Let's do that."