Summary: This is an AU Leico. :) Leo is living by himself in an apartment four years after the war with Gaea. He hasn't seen any of the seven since their last annual meeting and he hasn't seen Nico since the end of the war when they all went their separate ways. He wakes up one morning to a rummaging noise coming from his kitchen and is surprised to see a 19 year old Nico. This is boyXboy with some smut and LOTS of fluff! :) There might be a plot line... and there might not... :)

Ch.1:

Leo's POV

I screwed my eyes shut in a futile attempt to get a few more seconds of sleep. I knew that once I was awake, that was it, no more sleep. I gave up and opened my eyes blinking the blurry sleep away. The clock read 3:27. Great... I had work tomorrow and I had gone to bed late. I rubbed my eyes before jerking towards the sounds in the kitchen; that must have been what woke me up. My experience in the world of demigods and monsters told me that checking out this sound without a weapon of some kind was like being the dumb blond in a cheesy horror movie. I grabbed the hammer I kept by my bed and tip-toed to the kitchen.

My first thought as I made my way up the hall was ' why was this monster able to turn on the lights?' My second ' why the hell is this monster in the fridge?' I finally rounded the corner coming into full view of the kitchen to see a pair of black skinny jeans and muddy converse rummaging in my fridge. I glanced at the door and noticed a majorly beat up aviator jacket and black hoodie flung across the counter. It had to be him. I lowered my hammer;

" d'Angelo... How the fuck did you get in here...?"

He stood, an apple hanging from his mouth;

" Ah musfd ghaaaad foraaaar" He took the apple from his mouth and tried again. "I used the door."

I didn't think anyone could make that sound any more monontanus. He turned back to his rummaging while chomping on the apple. I was clueless on what to say so for a bit I just stood and watched him. He had changed so much in four years. His hair was still long in the front but shorter in the back, His clothes were still generally the same, I thought he might have been taller than me now and by the looks of it more fit. I took another moment to study his face, it still carried that haunted look that scared most people but I had come to know as just Nico, his skin was maybe a little darker but also still really pale. He stopped his rummaging and looked at me again.

"Do you have any real food in here?"

"It's near the end of the month, so not really... There are some Pop Tarts in the cupboard."

He turned to the exact cupboard like he had a food sensor and pulled out the pop tarts." Split one with me?" He look at me and gave me a half-ass smile. There it was, all of those feelings I had felt and destroyed after the war came back like a punch in the face. I knew that the gorgeous face of Nico d'Angelo was all I ever thought about before but I had been hoping that it was a faze, yup, not a faze. This was bad.

I set the hammer on the counter as I walked over to him. He held the Pop Tart out for me and I leaned in to take a bite before he jerked away from my face seconds before my teeth hit home. The shock caused me to lose my balance and tumbled into him knocking us both to the floor, Pop Tarts flying. As we hit the floor my face smacked into his chest, "What ever happened to sharing is caring?" I gave him my best glare. For a moment he glared back before breaking into giggles he was obviously trying to cover. I smiled up at him.

"I missed you to, Valdez" He smiled at me as he said it, a real smile that would have made any girl melt. I only saw that smile every once and a while but when it came around My heart skipped a beat,... or several. Not only did I get a smile but afterward he reached his arms around my middle and leaned his head on mine, pulling me into a warm hug. At first I was so shocked it took me a few seconds to realize that he wouldn't let go till I hugged back. I wrapped my arms around his neck leaning more into the hug.

"Where the hell have you been!? I looked every where for you after we were done fighting. Why did you just leave?" I knew my voice was wavering as I spoke but I hoped he didn't hear it.

"Gods, you miss me that much Valdez? I'm flattered!" I was being totally serious and he pulled a stupid joke! I trained him well! But I really wish he would just answer me. I think he felt my vibe because he returned to serious mode and changed his response.

"I had to go see my dad for a while and recuperate, and then stuff just happened and I just need space."

"Four years of space?"

"Yea I know, thats a lot of time just to sort stuff out but I had a lot of shit to fix. And by a lot I mean like tons."

I sighed "I forgive you." Wait, since when was I in a place to need to forgive him? Shoot, I knew this was going to be bad.

"Leo" My breath caught as he said my name and hugged me just a little tighter. "I really missed you"

This was soooo bad, my only defense was to revert back to jokes,

"No one can stay away from this face for too long." I realized this might not have been the reaction he had been looking for so I hurried to fix it,

"I missed you a shit ton too, Nickey." Shit, another slip up. I sooo should not have called him that, shit. Wait, was he laughing? Yea, he was full out laughing.

"Did you just call me Nicky? Thats great!" He could barely get the words out he was laughing so hard.

"Um, sorry?"

"No, no don't be I, I actually kinda liked it… no one has ever given me a nickname that wasn't well, bad before. Don't stop."

This kid was gonna kill me with surprises! I was drowning in confusion, I had no clue what-so-ever as to what I should do or say. So I just buried my face a little deeper in his chest and hoped he couldn't see the bright red blush creeping its way across my face. To that he laughed some more and pulled me closer still. We just laid there on the kitchen floor like that for like five more minutes before it occurred to me that we were on the floor and it was cold.

"Um we should get off the floor…. wanna go watch a movie or something?"

It was the worst feeling ever having him pull away and help me off of him.

"Yea a movie sounds great. What do you wanna watch?"

We were cleaning up the Pop Tart mess we made early before we went and got comfortable in the living room.

"I don't know what's your favorite?"

"This is gonna sound super lame… but I am a huge Batman fan."

He was staring at his feet with an embarrassed smile and pink cheeks. Oh my gods he was adorable! Wait, no I can't think like that, shit! I needed to say something before this got awkward.

"No way? Batman, Spiderman, and Superman are where I got the bases for my life." We both laughed at that. He clambered on to the couch stealing my favorite corner.

"Hey would you like to borrow some more comfortable clothes and like a blanket and stuff?" He looked a little embarrassed but nodded his head in agreement.

"Yea, I could go for that."

I dashed back to my room and pulled a pair of heather gray sweats and a white shirt from my closet along with an extra blanket and pillow from the hall closet.

I set the pillow and blanket on the arm of the couch and held the clothes out to him.

"Bathrooms at the very end of the hall to the left or my room is the first to the right."

He seemed almost hesitant to take the clothes from me but he did.

" Th- t- thanks."

Did he just stutter?

I put the movie in and was popping popcorn when he walked back out. I almost dropped the bowl when I saw him.

"Oh wow"