Will ran up to Nico with a huge grin on his face
"GUESS WHO GOT HIS DRIVER'S LICENSE!"
"Uh i give up. Who?" Nico replied with almost no noticeable emotion
"ME!"
"Thats great. Where are you planing on useing this licence? You can't go anywhere other than camp."
"You're just jealous because you can't get you licence for another year!"
"Can I even get a license?"
"What?"
"Well I'm not sure I'm even a citizen of this country. Also, according to my record, I should be 80 something. And dead."
"I don't know how how to respond to that. Anyway, DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS?!"
"That the good people of the road will soon be subjected to the horror that is will solace driving a car?"
"Uh, no. ROAD TRIP!"
Nico rolled his eyes, "and how are you planning on doing this? Chiron would never let you go on a road trip!"
"First of all, not me, we, were going together, and I already asked Chiron- he said yes!"
Nico froze
We're going together?
'Calm down' Nico told himself 'It's not like will said we were going to be alone, right? Nothing to get worked up about'
"We? Are you suggesting that I'm coming too? With you at the wheel?" Nico asked sarcastically
"If you want. Lou Ellen's coming too"
Nico snorted "I'm only coming if she's driving!"
"Part of the way, yeah"
An hour later, they were piled into Will's minivan ("All Apollo kids get cars for graduation on the year they learn to drive" "and you chose a minivan?") With a suitcase each and an allotted 2 weeks for the road trip. Will was driving, with Nico in the passenger side and Lou Ellen in the back seat. Even with so few people, it was starting to feel crowded. Not to mention that they were now in the middle of nowhere and the only radio station that came in halfway well was an awful oldies country station with music too old for Will and too young for nico, yet that Lou Ellen, for some reason, seemed to really enjoy.
"Why did I agree to this?" Nico mumbled
"Because you loooooovvvveeee meeee" Will laughed
Nico huffed "you got me there"
"You two are adorable. Where are the potato chips?"
Will laughed as Nico blushed tomato red and sunk into the seat
"No, really, I'm starving. I need me some salt and vinegar chips!"
Will laughed "Wayback seat, right on top"
So for the first time I'm actually planning on making a full, multi-chapter story. I saw a post on tumblr about a "road trip au" and got really into the idea. then I rpd it. and then I rpd it again for some reason? And then I finally got around to writing it. So this is the first chapter, and I'll continue to update it, though for how long depends on the response I get. also, if you don't know what Lou Ellen was referring to: you know those little tiny bags of chips that come in the big giant bags that have like all different kinds of little chips in them? She's talking about those. In my experience with road trips, those little chip bags become about 90% of your diet. That and gas station coffee and vending machine soda and candy.
-demigod-from-gallifrey