DISCLAIMER: I don't own percy jackson or les miserables
Okay this is my first fanfiction so i hope its not to bad. BIt of background i was watching les miserables with a couple of friends and during on my own i kept thinking this would be a good song for nico to sing and i looked it up but there were no fanfictions already there so i decided to write it.
nico is now on the argo II and percy and annabeth have just gotten back and nico keeps seeing them be all coupley and is really sad and depressed about it so sitting in the crow's nest he starts singing on my own.
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It was cold and slightly raining. Everyone was in the dining hall, everyone but me. Me? I was sitting in the crows nest. I was there because I just couldn't take how he was looking at her. I had to get way before I did something I would regret.
Thinking no one could hear me, I started to sing. It was a sad song, one I heard back when I was still in italy in an opera. I can't remember what it was called, I'm surprised I still remembered the lyrics, but was a good song and it fit the situation.
"On my own
Pretending he's beside me
All alone
I walk with him till morning
Without him
I feel his arms around me
And when I lose my way I close my eyes
And he has found me
In the rain the pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
And all I see is him and me forever and forever
And I know it's only in my mind
That I'm talking to myself and not to him
And although I know that he is blind
Still I say, there's a way for us
I love him
But when the night is over
He is gone
The river's just a river
Without him
The world around me changes
The trees are bare and everywhere
The streets are full of strangers
I love him
But every day I'm learning
All my life
I've only been pretending
Without me
His world will go on turning
A world that's full of happiness
That I have never known
I love him
I love him
I love him
But only on my own"
I didn't realize how late it was though, and it became obvious that everyone had heard me last night when i walked into the dining hall for breakfast and an awkward silence fell over everyone (minus leo who was working on the ship).
No one spoke for a while until percy asked me about the song "What song were you singing last night Nico?"
I blushed and tried to give an answer "I don't really know I heard it when my mom took me to an opera when I still lived in Italy."
Piper jumped in because she apparently knew more about it, "He's right. It's from an opera called Les Miserables. It's about the June Rebellion in France. The song was sung by Eponine after the boy she loved, Marius, fell in love with a different girl."
"So, why were you singing it Nico," Annabeth questioned.
"No reason. I just kinda like the song. Plus I actually remember it," I lied through my teeth. The entire time I was thinking " Oh My Gods they are going to figure out that I'm gay and that I like Percy,"
They all look like they didn't believe me, but thank the gods for Jason who actually knows that I like Percy. "Well, I'm going to go see if Leo needs any help,"
"I'll come with you," Piper voiced.
Slowly everyone else began to leave until it was only Percy and I. "You know you have a really good voice Nico,"
"...you know that there was actually a reason for singing that song. I just didn't want to say it in front of everyone," I replied
"So what was the reason?" Percy asked
Nervously I answered, "I'm gay...and I really like someone but he's with someone already"
"Is it Jason?"
"No...it's you,"
"…"
"I'm sorry I shouldn't have said that," I tried to run away but Percy grabbed my arm and pulled me back.
"You don't have to apologize for feeling something Nico. You don't decide who you like, your heart does. It doesn't matter if you're gay either it's not the 40's anymore," he told me softly
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I hope you liked it!