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Breakfast Bedlam

Percy POV

"Leo Valdez, I swear if you don't put that bacon down you'll lose a finger!" Hazel shouted from across the kitchen, waving her knife threateningly.

Leo froze, bacon still halfway to his mouth, before glancing over to me.

"Pros and cons Perce?"

I crossed my arms, pretending to think hard.

"Hmm… Pro, you get the bacon."

"I like that pro."

"Con, you lose a finger."

"Not so crazy about that part."

"But then you could make yourself a robot finger. Heck, you could chop your whole arm off and have an awesome robot arm!" Leo's eyes lit up, an impish grin starting to form.

"I like where this is going! All right, let's brainstorm; should it be like an Ironman arm, or a Cyborg arm? I could totally have an arm like Optimus Prime or Megatron!"

Frank snatched the bacon away from his, turning to busily finish dicing up a bowlful of mushrooms behind us before walking up and smacking the back of my head.

"Don't give him any stupid ideas, he gets enough of those on his own."

"Uh, stupidly amazing!" Leo protested.

The kitchen staff broke into suppressed laughter and snorts while the Latino glowered around.

"You see this Percy? You and I, two big heroes of Olympus, the heroes who beat the biggest bads around, kicked butt and took names, and this is how they thank us."

"They're just jealous because they know they can't compare to our awesomeness." I assured with a smirk.

"Or our studliness." Leo shot back playfully, striking a hero pose.

Hazel smacked his butt as she walked past, winking mischievously as he yelped, face flushing.

"Hazel…" He whined, tone tight with want.

Hazel just smiled teasingly and tuned back to me.

"We're almost ready, why don't you go pick up the flowers?"

"I'm on it. And thanks for the help. But I still think Leo and I had everything handled."

I'm pretty sure you could have heard a pin drop, the whole kitchen was so quiet. Even the sound of popping and sizzling food seemed to have gone mute. Kids glanced around, dead panning as they saw the scorch marks, the giant hole in the ceiling, the burst pipe, and the large pile of scrap metal and broke appliances.

"Are you sure about that Jackson?" Frank asked with a raised eyebrow.

I glanced back and forth, from Frank's skeptical expression, to Hazel's glare, and finally to Leo's enthusiastic nods and thumbs up.

"Well…"

1 hour prior….

"Leo it's still on fire!"

"Do your water-bending thing I'm kind of busy!" Leo shrieked, dodging as a flock of miniaturized Festus' swooped over his head.

I threw a pan over, knocking a few of the metallic terrors out of the air as they came at him, before turning back to face my own problem. The fire had spread from the stove to the counters and walls, and was rapidly making its way outward.

A portion of the wall collapsed in on itself, and I leapt to the side, avoiding the fiery debris and trying to stomp it out. My eyes flashed to the new hole in the wall, where brightly colored water pipes sat just waiting for me. I reached out and tugged my hand back, the pipes bursting open at my call and engulfing the flames.

I heaved a sigh of relief as clouds of steam burst up, starting to relax before the flames suddenly sprang back to life, roaring happily as they kept devouring everything in their path. Leo why is it not going out?

"Leo why is it not going out!?"

"Oh yeah, about the fire, I almost forgot! It's kind of a funny story actually Percy." Leo shouted from across the room, taking cover as a blender exploded, its contents splattering across the room.

"And the story of how your knick-knacks burned down the kitchen and danced on our graves will be totally hilarious! How do we put it out?"

Leo made a mad dash, sliding down next to me and slapping me on the shoulder hollering "Tag in partner, deal with the kiddos!"

So this was what I had to look forward to on Valentine's Day from now on. Maybe asking Leo to be my wingman hadn't been the best of ideas. If I didn't die by these miniature horrors that Leo had sworn would be "the cutest, most awesome, and totally badass minions ever", then Nico would kill me for putting myself in unnecessary danger. And then Hazel would bring me back so she and Frank could kill me for letting Leo do something stupid. And then there would be Chiron killing me for blowing up the kitchen. And then all the Aphrodite kids would kill me for ruining their romantic Valentines breakfasts. Probably even more.

So basically the whole camp would want me dead, and all before seven in the morning. Man I love being a demigod.

The flock did another fly by, dive bombing what was left of our attempt at breakfast. I snatched up a pot while they ripped the food to shreds and slammed it down over them, slumping down over it to weight it down. Something inside slammed against the side, leaving a dragon shaped indent. More slams erupted from the pot, and I struggled to keep it down while the miniatures bucked and smashed around.

I looked around, desperately trying to find a more secure cage, and spotted an open dishwasher to my left. I moved fast, tossing the pot inside and slamming the door closed just as the mini Festus' started to emerge.

Okay, one problem taken care of, this all might still be salvageable. Leo collapsed on the floor next to me, skin and hair covered in ash and coughing up smoke. We made eye contact for a second, before surveying the carnage.

The Festus minis had attacked all the appliances, the pipes were sticking out of the wall, and the entire back half of the kitchen was either blackened and extra crispy, or smoking and cracked.

I frowned, turning from the mess to glance back at the special Valentine's breakfast Leo and I had been making. Maybe it wasn't that bad…

"I think that went well." Leo panted with a smile.

"If you think charcoal's edible, then yeah, it went really well." I muttered, sinking down beside him.

"I told you we should have ordered in."

"No, I told you that" I shot back, "You're the one who said that it had to be homemade or else it wouldn't be romantic."

"Hazel and Nico are ancient dude, they can tell the difference between homemade and ordered food, it'd ruin the atmosphere."

"And calling your girlfriend ancient wouldn't?"

"Touché Mr. Di Angelo."

"Stop fangirling!" You're supposed to be on my side and say Jackson!"

The name has started a while back when Jason had let out a snide remark after catching Nico and I in one of his dominant phases. Everything had gone downhill from there, ranging from bad nicknames, to the Aphrodite cabin christening it 'Nicercy' and constantly stalking us in hopes of a repeat show.

Clarisse of course had somehow managed to be at the head of everything, staring off calling me 'Mrs. Di Angelo'. I'd only had to try and drown her and Jason a few times before it moved up to Mr. Di Angelo.

"Sorry Perce. Nico Jackson just doesn't have that sexy ring to it, and Percy Jackson sounds good to, but when you add Di Angelo, it turns totally sexy."

I glared over at him while he gave an impish grin, winking as he said "Don't deny it Perce you like it."

"Shut up Valdez."

"Somebody's blushing." Leo sang, poking my cheek.

I slapped his hand away, the blush darkening.

"Just kidding" Leo chuckled "Don't worry, you still have one Pernico fan left. Even if his last name is sexier than yours."

"Granted." I muttered, pushing my hair out of my eyes. "You ready to get back to work? I don't want to have to explain this mess to Chiron."

"We could always blame Will."

"Tempting. Really, really, really tempting."

"I thought you'd like that plan."

I just laughed and helped Leo up, stretching out and heading towards fridge.

"Hey Percy do you smell gas?"

I took a whiff as I pulled out a few eggs and bacon strips.

"We must have busted a pipe earlier. You wanna look for it while I salvage our breakfast?"

Leo nodded, diligently sniffing the air, searching for the source.

"By the way, where'd you put the minions? I think I just need to calibrate them a few more times, then they'll stop glitching out on me."

"I threw 'em in the dishwasher over there."

"Uh Percy, this is Camp Half Blood. We use lava to wash the dishes here, remember?"

"Well yeah…" I admitted, scratching the back of my head "But I know I threw them in something."

Leo took a loud sniff, glancing down at something out of sight.

"Percy, I found where he gas is coming from."

"Oh good. Once you fix it you want to take care of the wall, then we can-"

"Percy, I want you to stay calm."

I stopped, slowly turned around to face him. Leo wasn't allowed to say those five words anymore, not after our last incident with the Santa animatronics.

"I found where you threw the minions." Leo said, voice cracking and an anxious smile twitching on his lips.

I walked over and followed his gaze down, realizing just how thick the gas was around here. My heart skipped a beat as I realized what I had mistaken as a dishwasher was actually an over.

"Not to alarm you or anything, but I'm pretty sure they blew open the gas line in there. And they may or may not be in self-destruct mode."

"You gave them a self-destruct mode?"

"It seemed like a good idea at the time!" Leo snapped, before flinching as a low whistle started to come out form the over, seconds later more joining in, harmonizing in a brain gratingly low not.

"Exactly how self-destructive are we talking here?"

We were both slowly backtracking, cringing as the note grew louder and a dull red glow started to appear inside.

"Like a pound or two of magical C4 explosives in each of them self-destructive."

The note suddenly got deep, and the glow brightened.

"Now might be a good time to run like hell!"

Smoke started to pour out of the sides of the oven, the smell of gas growing stronger and stronger.

"Scratch that, pray for a miracle!" Leo exclaimed, turning on his heel and dashing out the back door.

I started after him, only to slow down and turn back, running over to the oven.

"Percy! You are running the wrong way!" Leo shouted, sprinting back and trying to drag me away.

"There were thirteen of those little buggers in there, that's basically twenty six pounds of C4 about to go off in the middle of camp. Time to go to plan B!"

"What's plan B?"

"Improvise!" I felt around, reaching out with my powers and making more pipes around the kitchen burst, water gurgling and flowing over to me. It pooled around the stove, ripping it away from the counter and towards me.

"You better hope this works, if we die I will personally hunt you down and feed you to Cerberus!"

"Hey, if we're going to be pointing fingers, technically this is all your fault!"

"What? You're blaming me? How is this my fault?!"

"I'm crazy and irresponsible, I'm supposed to have a serious, mature adult figure making sure I don't do all the stupid things that pop into my head!"

"Since when have I ever been any of those? And what about-"

A loud, angry chirping cut me off, the glow becoming blinding.

"I vote we continue this later, maybe when the chances of mortality aren't so high, I don't feel like dying again. All in favor?"

"Aye."

"Motion carries, do your thing Aquaman!"

I stretched out my arm, the water suddenly rippling under the stove, and twisted away, miming a throwing motion. The water followed me, and the stove shot through the air, crashing through the ceiling and soaring higher and higher until it was out of sight.

Leo and I ran outside, smiling at our victory, before the stove suddenly decided to come back down.

"Uh oh." We said in unison, frozen as we watched it hurtle back down to earth.

The next second, everything vanished in a blinding flash of red light, an earsplitting boom ripped through the air, and a shockwave knocked us to the ground. When the light finally faded, Leo and I were flat on our backs, coughing up smoke. The fiery debris of the Festus' minis and stove were embedded in the singed grass around us and the kitchen, illuminating the new skylight I had just made in the roof.

I groaned, turning to Leo and helping him get up.

"Inventory." Leo murmured, turning around for me to see. I watched him carefully, checking to make sure he still had all his appendages before watching as tested his motion, and finally glanced at his eyes.

"Clear." I managed, doing a turn of my own and copying Leo's actions.

Leo watched carefully, before moving closer.

"Watch my finger." He muttered, moving it around, carefully scrutinizing me as I followed it.

"Dude, we're both good! No concussions, no bruises, no nothing! This has got to be a first!"

"No kidding."

"Hey, look on the bright side."

I waited patiently before asking "Well? What bright side?"

"That one." He said simply, pointing up. I had to smile a little as I did, finding what looked like a giant heart made up of red smoke high above us.

"Oh, I'll admit that's pretty cool."

"See, a little disaster here, a little bit of major brain via concussions there, and voila! Valentine's Day success! We're on fire!"

I jumped, patting myself down only for Leo to chuckle.

"Not literally, we're cool." I rolled my eyes, turning back to the kitchen.

"The giant heart in the sky is cool, the cleanup is definitely not cool. And I'd like to point out that we still don't have breakfast."

Details. You take care of breakfast, I'll take care of clean up. As long as nobody finds out what we did, we are-"

"In so much trouble!" A voice declared from behind us.

Leo and I stood stock still, staring straight ahead.

"Percy, I have a plan, just go with it." Leo whispered through the side of his mouth.

"Last time you said that you nearly blew us up!" I hissed back.

"Shut up they don't know that! Just follow my lead!"

"You know we can hear you right?" A familiar voice asked.

Leo and I spun around, adopting faces of shock and dismay.

Frank, Hazel, and Chiron stood behind us, arms crossed and angry faced. A few of the kitchen workers stood behind them, glancing around at the carnage.

"I know this looks bad, but it is definitely not our fault."

"Indeed?" Chiron questioned, raising a bushy eyebrow.

Leo nodded enthusiastically.

"Yeah! You see these Hellhounds-"

"Hellhounds? In Camp Half Blood?" Hazel did not look impressed so far.

"Hey it's happened before!"

"It happened when dad claimed me." I threw in, earning me a glare from Frank.

"No Hazel, let them finish their story. I am most eager to hear the tale of how two of our mightiest heroes combatted these… Hellhounds, and destroyed our kitchen in the process." Chiron offered us a smile, crossing his arms and leaning back, tail swishing lazily. "Please, go on."

Lego gulped nervously.

"Well sir, um… you see they got in somehow and broke into the kitchen where Percy and I were innocently trying to make a romantic breakfast, explosion free. And knowing that monsters in camp would be a big problem, we did our duty and fought them off. Which is definitely why we trashed the kitchen. No need to thanks us or anything, the fact that you guys are all right and safe is good enough for us. We'll just be going now."

We started to inch away, trying to ignore the unconvinced faces.

"Another moment of your time perhaps?" Chiron asked "I can't help but notice some remnants of what appears to be one of your knick-knacks."

Chiron motioned to one of the half melted Festus minis embedded in the ground with his hoof.

"And I'm pretty sure this is the kitchens new oven. The one we spent hours installing yesterday" Frank threw in "The same one that just exploded."

"Well how is it our fault that they malfun-" Leo slapped a hand over his mouth, before backtracking and smiling sheepishly. "I…. Um… Uh…."

"Are you sure this is the story you want to go with?" Hazel asked threateningly.

For being one of the shortest people I knew, she is easily one of the most terrifying individuals I've ever met when she's angry. It's like all that anger got concentrated into that tiny frame of hers.

"Um…"

"Can we have a sec?" I asked, grabbing Leo's arm and pulling him back.

"Your plan isn't working, what's plan B?"

"I don't know! I didn't really think this through!"

"Alright, alright, just give me a second I'm thinking."

"Think faster seaweed brain, we're on the clock here!"

Leo and I stopped for a moment, turning back and smiling comfortingly over at the others before leaning back in.

"Yeah I know! I just- wait, you remember that stunt we pulled back in Costa Rica last summer?"

"You mean the one with all the angry midgets?"

"That's the one."

"You think it'll work?"

"Hell no. But at least it'll get us away from here."

"Got it, follow my lead."

"Your lead?" I asked, putting my hands on my hips.

Leo sighed dramatically. "Fine, your lead."

We walked back over, screwing up our faces into serious expressions.

"We've talked it over. We know that what happened was wrong, and that we are in serious trouble." I began.

The others frowned, exchanging confused glances.

"Are they actually coming clean?" Frank whispered, looking unsure.

"I don't know. Maybe the explosion knocked some sense into them?" Hazel whispered back.

"Ahem!" I coughed, getting their attention back "And I am well aware that a punishment must be given for this heinous action, as there have to be consequences for blowing up the kitchen."

"Or the cabins." Leo added.

"Yes, the cabins too." I nodded.

"And the bathrooms."

"Those as well."

"Plus-"

"You've blown up a lot of things" Frank remarked "Believe me we remember. Get on with it."

"Right, sorry. But before anything else happens, I just want to say…" I had to pause for a second, struggling to keep a straight face, before whirling to face Leo, pointing at him and shouting "That it's all his fault!"

"My fault? It's all your fault!" Leo shouted.

"And they're back." Frank muttered with a sigh.

"You take that back!" I demanded, drawing Riptide.

The audience gasped, rushing forward to stop us only to stop as Leo pulled a war hammer from his tool bag and charged forward with a cry of "Liar!"

We spun and parried, making sure to put on a good show, all the while inching closer and closer to the lake.

"You dare insult my good name and honor sir?" Leo cried, bringing his hammered down where I had just stood.

"Oh please, you don't know the first thing about honor Valdez!"

"I do so Mrs. Di Angelo!"

We were almost to the lake now, Frank and Hazel anxiously trying to separate us only for jets of flame and icy spires to block them. Leo tripped as we reached the beach, desperately trying to block my attacks while mouthing "Not the face, not the face not the face!"

I discarded Riptide and pounced, sending us splashing into the water. A second later, we were being pulled under by an invisible current, racing across to the other side of the lake in an air bubble.

"Nice uppercut, where'd you learn that?" Leo asked breathless, wiping his brow.

"Annabeth taught me back when we were dating. We should have enough time run, as long as Hazel doesn't get Arion over here."

"Nah, she left him back in New Rome. Anyways, here's the plan; you and I flee the country and join the Bavarian circus under the names 'The Fantastic Phoenix and Water-Boy'. Once we earn enough cash, we hightail it to Britain, hunt down Matt Smith and David Tenant, and bask in their glory for a while. After that we'll hideout in a Russian gulag for a while, before finally tunneling out of our solitary confinements with rusty spoons, and live out the rest of our lives as lonely drag queen sheepherders in Romania. Questions?"

"I don't even… Water-Boy? Why… I don't even know where to start."

"Fine. Then we'll get a spaceship, fill it up with explosives, and go set fire to the sun."

"Leo, the sun's already on fire."

"What? Somebody stole out plans! I'll sue them so bad they won't know what hit them!"

I rolled my eyes. "How about we just go to the nearest bakery and pick up a peace offering. Then nobody has to get sued, we don't have to join the circus, and I don't have to wear heels."

"Well if you want to be boring." Leo muttered, sulking.

I just chuckled, ruffling his hair as we emerged on the other side of the lake.

"Alright, the nearest. Stores are just down the road, we could get then and back before noon."

Leo looked back at Camp Half Blood, safely protected from view on our side by the magical barrier.

"They are not going to be happy" Leo stated, tucking his hammer back into his belt.

"Really? What possibly gave you that impression?" Hazel asked from between us.

We jumped, turning to run only for her to grab us by the ears, pulling her down to her level.

"Ow, ow, ow, ow!" Leo whined while Hazel glares at us.

Cold darkness enveloped us, the light coming back to reveal the same hill that we had just escaped, where a smirking Chiron and Frank waited. Hazel released us, propelling us forward and crossing her arms.

"Shadow Travel. Right." I managed, rubbing my sore ear.

"Let's try this one more time." Hazel smiled, carefully pushing us forward until all chances of escape were cut off.

Frank pointed towards the kitchen, eyes boring into us.

"We want the truth, and nothing but the truth. So now… What. Did You. Two. Do?"

Leo and I exchanged a look, one single, pure moment of understanding passing between us and we both looked back to the waiting faces, exclaiming "It's all Will's fault!"

1 hour later…

"I guess we might have needed a little help."

Hazel was opening her mouth to respond when Leo suddenly rushed forward, propelling me towards the door.

"Percy pleads insanity! He can't be held responsible for what he says right now! You two finish up the breakfast and we'll go get the flowers, love ya!"

"Thanks again!" I called, smiling as they laughed, going back to work while Leo pulled me away towards the Demeter cabin.

"Dude I'm screwed! And not in the fun way!" Leo whined, ducking past the Hecate cabins.

"I'm sure it'll be fine. You always win them over somehow."

"Yeah, but I didn't blow things up beforehand! Especially the kitchen! I didn't get them anything for Valentine's Day, I'm going to fail, and they're going to dump me, and then I'll get depressed and fat, get my own gravitational pull and collapse in on myself!"

"Any chance you may be a tad overdramatic there?"

"Of course not!" Leo said, shoving me ahead.

"It'll be fine trust me. Why don't you get them some flowers to, I bet they'd love it."

"Well I can't. Katie might have kind of sort of banned me for life the last time I was over there."

"You did kind of sort of set their cabin on fire." I added, slowing to a gently pace as we neared the Demeter cabin.

"That was one time! And that was an accident!"

"Leo, when it comes to you, everything's an accident."

Katie turned as she heard us coming, starting to smile and wave before her eyes locked onto Leo.

"Get him away from here before I get the gardening shears!" She ordered, bending down to grab the Celestial Bronze tool.

"I'll just be over there where she can't castrate me." Leo said, quickly backtracking away.

"Catch you in a minute Leo!" I called after him before smiling at Katie.

"That boys a menace. Why do you have to hang out with him so much, I used to like hanging out with you." Katie lamented, walking over to where an elegant group of flowers had been wrapped into a blue and black bouquet.

"He's cool, he just is…"

"A klutz? Accident prone? Full of himself? A pyromaniac with a death wish?"

"Well yeah. But can't you at least try to get along?" I pleaded.

Wrong question. Katie glared over at me, before picking up the bouquet and walking back to me.

"Here's what you ordered. I tried to get the messages you wanted, but I wasn't happy about the colors so it got changed a bit."

"Okay, what's it say? Flower language isn't my specialty." I asked, accepting the gift.

"Well, sticking with what you asked for, we have some gardenias for joy, a couple hyacinths for sincerity, a few pansies for loving thoughts, a sunflower for adoration-"

"Lose the sunflower." I said instantly.

I might have become a little touchy when it came to Will as of late. The way he seemed to be putting the moves on Nico didn't do anything to help that, and I couldn't help but want to smack that blonde head of his every time I saw it.

"Okay…" Katie said, carefully removing the sunflower "Anyways, we also have some red tulips as a declaration of love, a touch of yellow ones for hopelessly in love, some crème for I will love you forever, a few white roses for pure love, and finally, as requested, a Lotus. Even though it doesn't' match the message in my opinion, and looks horrible with it as well."

I just smiled at the flower, happy that it stuck out so much. One Lotus flower to show where it all began. Even if we forgot for a while, the Lotus was where love first started and where our stories first came together.

"It's perfect, I owe you."

Katie waved it away with a simple "Don't mention it. Just keep the pyromaniac away and we're all good."

A sudden thought hit me and I bit my lip before asking "Listen, I know you don't like him, but could you let up just a little for today? His Valentine's gift for Frank and Hazel kind of exploded, he could really use some help."

Katie groaned, trying to glare only to feel the wrath of my baby seal eyes.

"Ungh, fine. But he's just getting the reject flowers!"

I beamed as she picked up some random flower with either missing petals or discolored patters, tying a crude knot around them and shoving them into my hand.

"Thanks!" I called, turning and running back to Leo.

Leo was busy sitting outside the Hephaestus cabin, tinkering away with what looked suspiciously like another Festus minion.

"That better not be what I think it is." I threatened, while he hurriedly shoved in into his tool bag.

"I have no idea what you're talking about." He tried to say, feigning innocence before glancing at my flowers.

"You got him two? Sheesh, I didn't know death breath was into that kinda thing."

"No" I said, handing him the makeshift bouquet "This is for Frank and Hazel."

Leo's eyes lit up and he snatched the flowers away, looking over them wildly before tackling me in a hug.

"Oh my gosh, thank you, thank you, thank you, this is perfect! I mean, it's definitely not perfect, I still have to find a way to make things up to them, but this is a perfect start! You're awesome man!"

"Tell me something I don't know." I said with a wink.

Leo and I turned to head back to the kitchens, only to almost run straight into Lou Ellen and Cecil.

"Whoa, sorry about that guys" I said, jumping back and smiling.

Nico's friends were pretty cool. They had earned some serious brownie points for helping him out so much and giving him a support group. The only problem, on my end of this at least, was that weren't exactly crazy about me, and although I didn't want to admit it, that really bother me. I mean I knew I didn't have to be friends with them, but it bugged me that they didn't trust me. However unintentional it was, the twisted game of feelings I had played with Nico hadn't gone over well with them, and I was always the odd man out whenever we were all together.

"Oh hey Percy." Cecil said, throwing on a fake smile.

Lou Ellen just smiled politely, while we fell into an awkward silence.

"Happy Valentine's day guys. You got any plans?" Leo asked, trying to break the tension.

"Yeah." Lou said.

After a few seconds of waiting, we realized she wasn't going to say anything else and the awkward mood returned.

"Cool. Well I hate to leave now, but I have to go finish up breakfast, Nico's going to wake up soon and I want to be there with these before he does."

That got their attention. They exchanged a glance for a second before Cecil said "Oh. Those are for… Nico?"

"Yep."

Another look.

Lou Ellen coughed politely before stepping forward.

"Are you, uh, sure you want to give him those? I mean have you talked to him about the whole Valentine's thing lately?"

My smile fell instantly, worry and suspicion starting to swell inside me.

"No, why? What's up?

Cecil was opening his mouth to reply when Hazel suddenly appeared out of the shadows, holding a steaming platter.

"Here you are Perce, fresh and ready for you." She said with a smile.

Our conversation momentarily forgotten I eagerly grabbed the platter, scanning the contents briefly before beaming up at Hazel.

"Perfect! He's going to love this, I can't wait to see the expression on his face!"

"No problem. Just, next time you need help in the kitchen, come find me or Piper, or anyone really. Okay?"

"Hey!" Leo complained, crossing his arms.

Hazel's eyes caught on the roses, gasping in delight.

"Leo, did you get those for Frank and I?"

Leo nodded proudly, holding them out to Hazel. Hazel threw her arms around Leo, their lips crashing together. Leo let out a muffled surprise, before sinking into the kiss, moaning happily.

I let out an awkward cough, looking away only to realize that Cecil and Lou Ellen were gone. Oh well, I had places to be.

"Thanks again, I'm just going to…. Yeah, bye!"

Leo made a vague waving gesture as the kiss deepened and I rolled my eyes, laughing as I headed back to my cabin. Nico had officially moved in almost full time now, only going back to his cabin when he was working or hanging out with his friends.

I quietly opened the door, carefully balancing the tray and making my way over to my sleeping angel. Nico was sprawled in my bed, hair a mess of ebony, toned olive limbs tangled up in the sheets. I smiled down at him for a few seconds before setting down the tray and flowers, sitting down beside him and gently nudging him.

"Neeks? Come on babe, it's time to wake up." I said softly, massaging circles into his back.

"Don't call babe." Nico moaned tiredly, shoving his head underneath a pillow.

"Neeks…" I shook him a little earning another moan while he tried to halfheartedly tried to swat me away.

"Nico, I've got a surprise for you." I tried, gently tickling his side, only getting another groan.

Time for a fun approach.

I leaned down, prying the pillow away from his ear and leaning in close, breath tickling the back of his neck as I whispered "I know you're awake. Last chance."

Nico shivered, a muffled "Do your worst" coming out from the mattress.

"You're choice." I whispered softly, before leaning in and gently biting his earlobe.

Nico's relaxed body went stiff as a board, staying frozen until I started nibbling and sucking, Nico groaning and shuddering at my ministrations.

"Percy…" Nico moaned, turning enough so I could see the bright hot flare running up his neck and cheeks.

I moved with him, biting harder and pulling, eliciting another groan, moving down from his ear to his jaw working towards his lips. A few more nips and nibbles later, and I was tugging at his lower lip. Nico moaned, his hands pulling at me and tangling in my hair before rushing in for a hungry kiss, tongue battling mine for dominance.

I grinned, fighting back just as hard, pulling him up into a sitting position before stepping away.

"Oh good you're up." I said with a smirk.

Nico glared at me with tired eyes, scratching his shaggy head and muttering "I hate it when you tease."

"Only because I'm good at it." I shot back with a wink, smile growing as the corners of his lips twitched up into a smile of their own.

"Maybe." He said teasingly, cocooning under a few blankets and poking his head up to watch up.

"Here love." I said, picking up the tray and gently setting it on his lap.

Nico's eyes widened, happily coming out of his makeshift cocoon to study the portions, before eagerly digging in.

"This is delicious!" He said through a mouthful of food, nuzzling my shoulder as I sat down beside him.

"I'm glad you like it, you wouldn't believe what I had to go through to make it."

Nico paused for a second, sobering up, and dark eyes locking up on mine.

"Anything you want to tell me?"

"Do you really want to hear about all that boring stuff, or do you want to enjoy our breakfast and all this lovely time together?"

"I'd like to do that, I really would. But the looming unknown of who you murdered, how many cops I'll have to take care of, and finding out where the bodies are buried are kind of distracting."

"We'll take care of that later." I said simply, stuffing a piece of bacon in his mouth before he could protest.

Nico rolled his eyes, munching away for a few more minutes before asking "So what's the occasion love? Breakfast isn't your forte, normally most of your surprises come at night, and they aren't the cute ones."

"Well, I just wanted to make sure that you" I grabbed the bouquet of flowers and handed them over to him "had the best Valentine's Day ever. I want to make this as special as possible."

Nico stilled, staring down at the flowers in his hand, unmoving for a while.

"Oh. Valentine's Day. I almost forgot." He said, almost too softly to hear.

I frowned, gently rubbing his back, getting nervous as the cool tension Nico brought whenever he felt unbalanced came out, the cold touch of the dead touching everything.

"What's wrong Neeks?"

"It's nothing. Just a second."

I watched worriedly as Nico shook his head, the cold vanishing as he set the tray aside and stood up, walking over to our dresser and pulling on some pants. For a second he looked like he was going to change his shirt, but then he glanced down to at the oversized Camp Half Blood shirt (one of my old ones. He loved sleeping with those, often being all he slept in nowadays) and hugged it close before walking to the door.

"Nico?"

Nico glanced back, door open, before trying to smile. It never reached his eyes, his emotions swirling away in a dark abyss.

"I just got to take care of something. I'll be back soon. Thanks Percy."

I stood up, walking over and catching his arm before he could leave.

"Nico, what's wrong? Did I do something wrong again, I know I keep screwing stuff up but-"

"It's nothing you did." Nico said, quickly turning around eyes wide "I promise. I just… I'll talk to you later. Thanks for these, can you put them in water l-l… love?"

I nodded slowly, taking the flowers as he vanished around the corner. This was not supposed to be how this morning was supposed to be going. I frowned at the smell of rotten food met my nose, and glanced back, worry growing as I saw that what was left of Nico's food had spoiled, turning green and brown. Another glance down at the bouquet showed nothing more than a few blackened stumps, the flowers all decayed and hardened. Only the lotus was untouched.

I glanced back at the door, worry bubbling up inside me.

"I'll fix whatever wrong, Nico. I promised that you'd always be happy, and I'm going to make sure that you are."

It looked like this was going to be another one of those perfect demigod holidays. I had to help Nico get happy and fast. Dad help me, because I am so screwed.

Okay, so this was supposed to just be one big oneshot, but the story got screwed up and deleted, so I'm scrambling to find the pieces. So here's the first part of what now is going to be a little Valentine Day mini series, it should be done by the end of the month. Should. If I get all the pieces together. Anyways, happy Valentines Day everybody, and if you're like me, have an awesome Single's Awareness Day! Love you guys, enjoy! Have a great morning/afternoon/night!