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Title: A Very Half-Blood Marriage – Chasing Happiness
Fandom: Percy Jackson and the Olympians / Heroes of Olympus; post both series
Disclaimer: All rights reserved to Rick Riordan for he created the awesomeness that is Nico di Angelo. And everything else related to Percy Jackson and the Olympians / Heroes of Olympus. Aside from the Gods, they belong to the old Greeks. This fanfiction and its OCs on the other hand are entirely mine. No money is made with this, though reviews are more than welcomed.
Warnings: shounen-ai, explicit intercourse, anal, oral, spanking, mpreg/pregnancy, marriage, bigamy, crossdressing, shoujo-ai, hetero, threesome
Main Pairing: Nico/Percy
Side Pairings: Frank/Hazel/Leo, Pipabeth, Jason/Reyna, Chris/Clarisse, Malcolm/Katie, Jake/Will, Lou/Miranda, Kayla/Nyssa, Shane/Lacy, Austin/Mitchell, Nathan/Gwen, Dakota/Leila, Grover/Juniper, Tyson/Ella, Paul/Sally, Hades/Persephone, Zeus/Hera
Percy Jackson Characters: Perseus Jackson, Nico di Angelo, Leo Valdez, Hazel Levesque, Frank Zhang, Annabeth Chase, Piper McLean, Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano, Jason Grace, Clarisse la Rue, Chris Rodriguez, Travis Stoll, Connor Stoll, Katie Gardner, Malcolm Cage, Will Solace, Jake Mason, Lou Ellen, Miranda Gardner, Nyssa Black, Kayla Hein, Austin Barton, Mitchell Logan, Lacy Hunnigan, Shane McNabb, Thalia Grace, Gwen Ryder, Nathan McIntosh, Dakota Elle, Leila Fisher, Octavian Simmons, Rachel Elizabeth Dare, Grover Underwood, Juniper, Tyson, Ella, Sally Blofis, Paul Blofis, Mrs. O'Leary, Small Bob, Blackjack, Tempest
Godly Characters: Zeus, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, Demeter, Hades, Persephone, Aphrodite, Chiron
Own Characters of the Next Generation: Sedanur Aykan, Esperanza Nicole Zhang, Theadora Tiphane McLean, Bianca Maria di Angelo, Hades Poseidon di Angelo, Calandra Rodriguez, Chrysander Rodriguez, Hercules Grace, Amarilla Cage
Summary: Percy and Nico are getting married in March 2014, on a double wedding with Frank, Hazel and Leo. Follow them through their wedding plans, wedding day, honeymoon, moving into their own house and starting their family. How Zeus freaks out about the firstborn child of Percy and Nico and how their family protects them. Watch the beginning of the di Angelo family unfold.
A Very Half-Blood Marriage
Chasing Happiness
Chapter 1: Arrangements (of Flowers and People)
Percy groaned and cracked his neck. Every bone in his body hurt. Not because the bed was uncomfortable, but because he just couldn't fall asleep, regardless of how hard he had tried to. It had confused him the first night and annoyed him the second, but by the third night he realized it. He couldn't sleep without Nico anymore. For the last seventeen months, Percy had spend basically every night laying in the safety of Nico's arms. It had been the first time since Tartarus that he had slept through a night again, that first night with Nico. Tartarus had been hard on Percy, harder than on any other demigod. Well, maybe Jason and Thalia would have had as hard a time. After all, Percy and Nico already jumped at a thunderstorm or the notion of flying and Nico and Jason preferred not to swim, then being stuck in the heart of the underworld was even harder for children of Zeus and Poseidon. It had changed Percy. Down there, he had been crueler than he would have ever thought he was capable of. Annabeth had told him, afterward, how she had actually been scared of him occasionally down there. Tartarus itself was already hard enough on any demigod, even Nico himself and he had ties to the underworld stronger than any other demigod. But it had really done a number on Percy and even though he was so good at covering it up because he didn't want to worry anyone, it had only started getting better when he had started dating Nico. With Nico, he felt safe, like Nico could keep Tartarus and its nightmares away from him. He felt complete.
Hazel's idea of staying apart for a week had sounded sweet for Percy, but right now, Percy regretted it. Nightmares had returned, mostly those of Nico's kidnapping. Nico stuck in Tartarus, taken away from Percy, locked into a jar by giants, slowly suffocated by them. That was the other reason why Percy needed Nico with him, because as much as he needed Nico to keep him safe, he also needed to be there to keep Nico safe. To sum it up, not having Nico with him sucked majorly.
Getting up, he took a look around. His room wasn't his room anymore, but then again, why should it be? Percy had moved out at home three years ago when he had started college in New Athens. At first, he had lived with Rachel, before he had gotten together with Nico. There was no reason for Sally and Paul to keep his room intact like a shrine. They had turned it into a guest room. It felt weirdly like living in a hotel, mused Percy as he got changed. But it was okay. He had moved on with his own life, so had his parents. And he was still welcomed here whenever he wished to visit. Not for long anymore, thought Percy amused, because Sally was already planning on turning the guest room into a nursery for soon to follow grandchildren. Not that Percy minded, because if his kids could get coddled by their grandma the same way as Percy had been by his mom, then he would be happy for them. He was already happy enough that his mortal parents were so accepting of his soon to be gay marriage and his not quite common ability of carrying children.
"Morning", called Percy out as he walked into the kitchen, yawning widely. "What's on the plan?"
When Percy had arrived in New York, he had been short of going crazy because of all the last-minute things that needed dealing with. So Sally had taken a pen and a paper and made a plan. What was most important and what to do on which day. Sally offered her son a smile from where she stood in front of the hearth making pancakes. Paul grunted in greeting, sipping his coffee.
"Flowers", replied Sally softly. "Juniper, Katie and Miranda have been fighting over them for days. Three days from now is the wedding, you have to settle this in time."
Three days was not exactly 'in time', but they were talking about a nymph and two daughters of Demeter here. They could just grow the plants within seconds, most beautiful blossoms of the rarest kind. Still, Percy got a headache just thinking about that discussion.
"Got to call Leo then", sighed Percy and grabbed a cup of coffee himself.
Leo was staying with Jake and Will in New Rome. He'd just take Mrs. O'Leary to pick up Leo and then travel to New Athens and meet their florists there. New Athens was forbidden territory for Percy though, so he needed Leo to keep him from the temptation known as Nico.
"And you should go over your seating arrangement one more time", added Sally.
"Mh?", grunted Percy confused while setting the table.
"I know that placing Lord Zeus far away from your father and your... future father-in-law is a wise decision, but you know the ego of your uncle. He'll take it as an insult, like you're calling Poseidon and Hades more worthy of your attention. I don't need World War III to start on my only son's wedding day", explained Sally with a kind smile. "Try and find a better solution."
"Urgh, you're right", groaned Percy, throwing his head back. "Maybe I should just grab Nico and run away to Las Vegas. It would save me from quite the horrible headache."
"That's what I've been telling you for months", pointed Paul out, taking another sip of coffee.
"Don't encourage him, Paul", chided Sally sternly. "If I get robbed off my mother-son dance on my only child's wedding, both of you will not be happy. Did I make myself clear?"
"Yes, ma'am", chuckled both men amused.
/break\
"Please? Just a tiny IM to Frank? Please, come on, Hazel's just two streets over. One short visit!"
"Leo, you made us promise to keep you apart from Frank and Hazel because you wanted to pull through with this too", chided Will annoyed while making scrambled eggs.
He felt like a mother talking to a four years old. Then again, turning to the dinner table where Jake sat and read the newspaper while the three younger children of Hephaestus – Nyssa, Leo and Shane – sat together and bickered like children... This really felt like family already. He knew one thing for sure, him and Jake were not going to adopt a child of Hephaestus. They were just too much work and his dear boyfriend already brought enough of them in in the form of his siblings from the old days at Camp Half-Blood. No, they were going to adopt a well-behaved, nice child of Apollo. Far, far in the future. As soon as he managed to pry all of those brats out of his home.
Nyssa and Shane had come over to New Rome when Leo had moved in with Jake and Will, as moral support so Leo would stay strong and not go over to see either Frank or Hazel. Also, Shane planned on staying after the wedding to help out in the shop since it belonged to Leo and Jake, but with Leo on his honeymoon for a month, Jake would need help around the shop. Shane had just finished school, so this was a good way to get into the job before he'd start his own shop in New Athens. Nyssa had own plans, so she couldn't help out, even though Jake had asked her first.
"Leo, you can do that. Just stay strong", encouraged Shane with a grin, nudging his big brother.
"But I want my Frazel", whined Leo with a pout. "This was a stupid idea."
As if on cue did Leo's mini-me start whining too. Esperanza Nicole Zhang was very in tune with her mommy and Will wanted to be annoyed about that, because he had a whining Leo and a whining Esperanza at his hands, but the tiny Latina was just too adorable. Their little miracle baby. Leo's control over the fire brought another blessing with it. Eight months ago, the daughter of Frank and Leo had joined their community. The two boys had never used protection since they had no idea that Leo could get pregnant, but apparently fire brought life, just like the phoenix who got reborn when his fire burned the brightest. Leo had burned the brightest on his climax.
"Make it stop", complained Nyssa, covering her ears.
Leo glared and gathered his baby girl in his arms. She looked so much like him, even with the pointy ears. As soon as she was in her mommy's arms did she calm down again, grabbing for Leo's curls to play with them. Leo grinned and tickled her stomach.
"Ma!", yelped Esperanza happily, trying to catch the finger and failing. "Pa? Mo?"
"Papa and mom aren't here, baby-girl", whispered Leo softly, kissing her nose.
"Uhm, Leo. I think you have a visitor. There's a giant hellhound with a Percy on top of it in our backyard", grunted Jake, looking over his newspaper. "If that dog ruins our lawn..."
Leo's eyes widened and he hastily handed Esperanza over to Nyssa, who was more than willing to cuddle her favorite niece. Grabbing a jacket, Leo ran out of the house, eyes sparkling.
"Percy! Did you come to free me from this prison?", asked Leo with a grin.
"No. We have to figure out a flower arrangement", stated Percy amused.
They had divided the last things that needed to be done for the wedding. Frank was responsible for the food and cake, Hazel was responsible for the invitations and that those reached everyone, Nico was taking care of their clothes, while Leo and Percy shared the location, which also meant flowers, decorations and seating-arrangements. Climbing onto the hellhound, Leo clung to Percy as they traveled through the shadows. They landed right in the Demeter Park, the largest park in New Athens. There was a second large park, the Persephone Park, as well as a wide-running flower garden named Antheia Gardens. The two sets of couples had discussed for a while where to celebrate this important day. The Antheia Gardens had all the natural, beautiful flowers of all colors, which would have been nice, but the hill above led to the Dionysus Vineyard and neither of them wanted to risk a big drinking orgy. Only the alcohol they'd provide, not too much. They wanted beautiful wedding pictures and none of anyone vomiting or dancing on a table. Persephone Park had the Hydros Falls to offer and Percy basically had begged them, because wedding pictures in front of the waterfalls would be so romantic and beautiful. The little fire-bender wasn't so keen on getting married in front of a waterfall. Besides, the water spraying everywhere would make the air moist and ruin their hair as well as probably also their clothes. So in the end, they had settled for Demeter Park. It was large, so they had been able to save a part of the park for them a week ago to begin with prepares. Leo was building a pavilion for the guests and an arch for the ceremony so they could stand beneath it. No one had objected when Leo had asked if he could decorate the arch with a miniature statue of Festus. It wasn't made of wood, but of Celestial bronze. The whole wedding had kind of a steampunk-theme. And Percy liked it so far, it looked awesome.
"Girls! Would you mind shutting up for a second?", called Percy out as they walked up to the scene.
Katie, Miranda and Juniper were already there, bickering. When New Athens had grown and Grover had moved there, they had re-planted Juniper's tree into the Demeter Park so she could be closer, they could actually live together since Grover's apartment was right at the verge of the park. They could live like a normal, regular couple. The nymph and the two demigods turned.
"What are you doing here?", asked Katie stunned.
"We know you guys are arguing about our flowers all the time", sighed Percy. "Why?"
"Because you need a blue theme, it would look so perfect for you, Percy", stated Miranda.
"But Leo and Frank both are more on the warm-colors-type. Red or orange", countered Katie.
"It should be natural. Wild flowers, decent, not to take away any attention", chided Juniper.
"How about you let us decide how we want the flowers?", huffed Leo and rolled his eyes.
Percy gulped as the three women suddenly turned toward them, arms crossed over their chest, equal challenging looks on their faces. Don't choose wrong, was the obvious message.
"Since Hazel and Nico are from the underworld, we actually wanted something akin to Persephone's garden in the underworld. Jewel flowers and metal, it fits far better to the steampunk-theme going on than real, organic flowers", replied Percy, shifting some. "But we wanted white roses around the premise. Could you do that, perhaps? Since it's all open space, we wanted the rose-bushes as a kind of separation for our wedding-place."
"White roses are beautiful", agreed Katie softly.
"Pure and innocent. Perfect for a wedding", nodded Miranda.
"Of course we can do this", declared Juniper with a brilliant smile.
"That's awesome of you, guys! Thanks!", exclaimed Leo with a grin and hugged them.
"If you'd excuse us then, because we have to do a last fitting of our robes?", grinned Percy.
Leo threw him a nasty glare as Percy pulled him along and out of the park. "No."
"What? Why?", asked Percy, feigning confusion.
"Because the clothes are Nico's job and you hope to run into him", teased Leo.
"You can IM Lacy beforehand if you don't trust me", huffed Percy with a pout.
Leo cocked one eyebrow and did just that. Lacy confirmed that Nico had been out with the Stolls all day, he'd only be checking in on the clothes the next day. Tomorrow was pick-up day. All five of them were supposed to drop by for a last fitting. Everything else had been made according to Nico's plans, done with the measures he had brought the shop. The Beauty Pearl Boutique was a pretty large shop and basically the only real place where the demigods could go shopping. Most preferred to roam New York for that anyway, or order online (the Amazons were giving the demigods a discount ever since the Giant War was over). It was owned by Drew, Lacy and Mitchell. The first had explicitly stated that she did not want to have anything to do with this wedding. Which was fine by them, because Lacy and Mitchell were way better company anyway.
"Hey, guys! Leo, come with me, Percy, you go with Mitchell", ordered Lacy with a smile.
"And get undressed", added Mitchell, grinning a little. "You may also pose a little and I'll get my camera before we started? No? Aw. Too bad. This would make me rich."
Percy and Leo chuckled softly as they walked to the back room and got undressed down to their boxers. Each came to stand on a chair and Mitchell and Lacy brought the clothes.
"Those are dresses", pointed Percy out, glaring a little.
"It's what Nico ordered", replied Mitchell and raised his eyebrows. "Don't tell me you guys didn't talk about this? Because there's no way we'll finish two new robes up for you."
Percy sighed softly as he got into the white dress with the sweetheart neckline. It was eggshell – and Percy hated himself for knowing that there were different shades of white, but his mom and Annabeth had basically force-fed him bride-magazines for months now. Sapphires and aquamarines lined the neckline and decorated his waistline in a V-shape. The torso was set tight, even decorated with white pearls, but the skirt was chiffon, folded. It was breathtaking. Percy so hated Nico right now. Sure, a dress for bedroom kinks, but not like this. But Leo looked pretty in his dress too.
"Okay, all done. Now to the real robes", declared Lacy.
"Huh?", grunted Leo surprised as he shed his dress.
"You two really would do everything for them", laughed Mitchell softly. "Nico ordered those dresses for the wedding nights. The wedding will be traditional Roman style, since Octavian is serving as your priest. So also traditional Roman robes. No dresses."
"I'm going to kill Nico for that scare", muttered Percy.
Mitchell used the moment of Percy's distraction and took a picture of Percy in his dress with his cellphone, sending it to Nico. The son of Hades had paid good for a 'preview'.
/break\
"Have you eaten the whole cake on your own? You're ridiculous."
"I miss my Hazeleo", complained Frank, stuffing his face with another piece of cake.
"He didn't eat it alone", stated Chris, poking his own piece of cake with a fork.
"To our defense", added Connor next to Chris.
"It's totally delicious", ended Travis and moaned. "I ate like five pieces."
Clarisse heaved a long-suffering sigh. She had agreed to take her Roman half-brother in when the threesome had come up with their funny, little idea of separating them a week before the wedding. If she would have known that she'd be taking a whiny, little girl in, she would have said no.
"I am not taking care of you brats if you get a stomach-ache!", warned Clarisse annoyed.
Frank had baked the wedding cake today to see if everything would be alright and if taste would be alright, just to repeat the process tomorrow again, so they'd have a cake for the wedding. Somehow Clarisse had thought she'd get a piece of the cake too. Obviously greedy tricksters and a moping praetor were... hungry, to say the least. She heaved a sigh.
"If your future brother-in-law is going to put me into a dress, I will kick you in the balls."
"I told you, it's a traditional, Roman wedding", sighed Frank, waving his fork around. "No embarrassing bridesmaid-dresses. Reyna, Lou, Annabeth and Piper would be kicking as many balls as you do. No embarrassing bridesmaid-dresses. Honestly."
"You better be, or you'll be sorry", warned Clarisse firmly. "Now get this mess cleaned up."
"She'll be a good mom", whispered Connor mischievously.
"And you're grounded!", called Clarisse as she left the living room. "For exactly that comment!"
Connor frowned and turned to his older brother Travis. "She can't ground us... right?"
"Do you really want to challenge her?", whispered Travis back, cocking one eyebrow.
/break\
Hazel was in New Rome, wandering the streets with some of their Roman friends. They hadn't adapted to all the friends of their Greek comrades from the Giant War, they used to have friends before the war went down too. Dakota, for example, who was currently dragging Hazel, Reyna, Gwen, Leila and Nathan through his bar. The Bacchus Bar. He had insisted to provide the perfect wine for the wedding. Hazel, Gwen and Leila were already a little tipsy, giggling. Gwen, the daughter of Venus, was in the middle of her college education, training to become a teacher. Leila was a daughter of Arcus and the girlfriend of Dakota. She was a chatter-mouth, then again she was the daughter of one of the two godly messengers. She was giggling and laughing as Gwen was depicting how exactly the honeymoon would be going down. Reyna rolled her eyes affectionately while conversing with Nathan, a son of Mercury and good friend of Frank's.
"Are you looking forward to New Athens?", prompted Reyna, sipping her wine.
"Never been to the Greek side of things", shrugged Nathan with a grin. "Curious to see what a child of Hermes is like. Not comparable in awesomeness to us Mercury kids, but oh well."
"If you start a prank-war on my wedding, I will kill you!", warned Hazel seriously.
Everyone at the table started laughing. Only Dakota rolled his eyes and opened a different bottle of wine. Those fools couldn't even take wine serious, just horrible.
/break\
That night, Percy had his old chessboard out. Annabeth had given it to him in hopes of teaching him. Right now, it was used for Percy's seating arrangements. He had come to the solution of putting other gods between each of the Big Three, all gods on a separate table. There were Zeus, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, Hades, Persephone, Demeter, Aphrodite and Chiron. Hades and Poseidon had to sit in the middle of the table, out of obvious reason. Ares and Hephaestus couldn't be bothered with this 'demigod nonsense' and 'if they'd attend every wedding of every demigod, what was next? Baptism and first days of school, or what?'. Truth was, Percy even agreed a little. Still, the family of Death had agreed to come, even including Demeter. Poseidon wouldn't miss it for the world. And with two of the Big Three there, Zeus wouldn't want to miss it either, even though he didn't want to go. Hera, as the goddess of marriage and Zeus' wife. And Hestia because, honestly, she was just the nicest goddess. Aphrodite had kind of invited herself. And Chiron had been a mentor for too long not to have him on their wedding.
But that was enough for today. Yawning widely, Percy changed into one of Nico's old shirts and curled together on the bed. Not that he would get any sleep, because there was no real Nico.
Author's note: The next chapter will reveal what kind of wedding-present Nico has for his fiance and how all their friends are helping to put it together! Also, a LOT of moping on all sides.
