"Nico I'm bored." Toby whined, kneeling down to the couch where Nico was laying and jostled his shoulder trying to get Nico's attention.
"And I'm reading." Nico huffed without looking up from the big leather bound book that was resting on his stomach. Slenderman had lent it to him, Nico had no idea where he had got but it was amazing. It was written in ancient Greek which made it so much easier for him to read and Nico did not want to put it down.
"Well stop reading and pay attention to me!" Toby said leaning his head against Nico's arm and half blocking the book, forcing Nico to look into Toby's pleading brown eyes.
"Is there no one else you can go bother?" Nico grumbled half closing the book and marking his place with his finger. "I want to finish this so I can give it back to Slenderman."
"No! Masky and Hoody are out, so is Slenderman. Jeff's visiting his brother for the week, BEN won't come out, Sally and L.J. got in a fight so now they're both sulking and E.J. won't talk to me!" Toby said ticking them off on his fingers and then throwing his hands in the air exasperatedly. "Slenderman won't mind if you keep the book a bit longer, time doesn't bother him very much as long as it's not damaged." Toby turned nuzzling Nico's shoulder and leaning in to kiss his neck gently.
Nico sighed and leaned his head to the side, ignoring Toby and opening the book again. Finding the place he had left off he continued reading, it was a book on forms of old magic. Some of them even had to do with Necromancy, Slenderman had thought they might help Nico expand his powers. Nico doubted that, these were the sort of things better suited to children of Hecate but they were still interesting. Nico was sure he would end up trying them, just somewhere where no one could see him so he wouldn't have to own up to it if they failed. The book didn't seem to have any known author so Nico couldn't be sure of anything really besides that these were fascinating, complex and old. Even if they didn't work and were only what people had once thought would work they were still amazing.
Nico jumped and yelped when he felt Toby's teeth on his throat, nipping to try and get Nico's attention.
"What the heck Toby?" Nico said, Toby tilted his head in confusion. "Oh that came out in Greek didn't it?" Nico said switching back to English half way through his sentence. "What the heck Toby."
"If you're going to read at least read aloud so I can hear too." Toby mumbled into Nico's neck.
"But it's in ancient Greek." Nico pointed out raising an eyebrow. "You won't be able to understand it."
"I don't care." Toby mumbled softly, "I like the sound of your voice, It makes the voices… not so loud." Nico softened immediately lifting one hand to rest in Toby's hair, combing through the bouncy brown threads.
"Is that what this is about?" Nico asked softly, "They're being too loud?" Toby nodded.
"I can't hear myself think and they're not being nice." Toby whimpered nuzzling into Nico's neck so the tickle of Toby's breath made Nico shiver.
"Alright." Nico agreed easily now. Continuously running his fingers through Toby's hair as he turned his attention back to the book and started reading again. Out loud this time. The ancient language slipped easily off of his tongue as he became engrossed in the book again. Toby leaned away from Nico to twitch and then nuzzled up to him again staying quiet as he listened. Nico read until his voice started to feel a bit horse then bookmarked his page and put it down again.
"What is he book about?" Toby asked after a second.
"Old spells, I don't know if any of them work or anything. Slenderman though I should have a look at it because some of them are about necromancy."
"Are you going to try some of them?"
"Maybe but magic isn't really something I'm good at. My sister's really good at Magic though, maybe I should copy down some of these for her. She usually just shapes the mist without spells but maybe spells help? I don't know"
"Sounds cool!" Toby said enthusiastically making Nico laugh.
"It is she's really something, a daughter of the Roman god Pluto and blessed by the goddess of magic Hecate? Now that's a powerful combination." Toby whistled softly, after the Gaian war he had learned more about the roman and Greek gods.
"So why don't you ever bring her around here to meet us?" Toby asked. Nico grimaced.
"She's a very gentle spirit, she wouldn't do well here, better for her to stay with the other demigods. Since she has power over the earth rather than the dead she's more easily accepted with them."
"Makes sense. If you're done reading can we do something now?" Nico chuckled at the hopeful stare Toby was giving him. He looked like a Mrs. O'Leary did when she was waiting for Nico to throw a stick.
"Okay yes we can do something." Nico laughed when Toby jumped to his feet and pulled Nico to his feet as well. "What do you want to do?"
"The fair is in town, let's go go on some rides!" Toby suggested enthusiastically. Oh gods Nico hated roller-coaster, but Toby looked so existed…
"Okay." Nico said smiling slightly at his enthusiastic boyfriend bounced around getting his bag and talking about how much he loved the fair and cotton candy.
Nico couldn't help but chuckle, he had a feeling that by the end of this day Toby would have had so much sugar he wouldn't sleep for days.
A/N This is the first on hopefully many. Any suggestions will help greatly, there will be another one of these posted tomorrow or later tonight. I hope you like it.