Disclaimer: I do not own anything besides the basic plot.
Pairing: Nico/Percy
Summary: AU: Percy likes comic books and when one shows him how to summon a demon he tries it. It was supposed to be a fake ritual but when it works and summons not only a real demon but the prince of demons dubbed the Ghost King he's not sure whether to cry or check himself into the loony bin. Little does he know of the full consequences of summoning this demon is and it's way more than he bargained for.
Chapter 2: Honey I'm home!
NICO
He waited in the shadows until the house was quiet and all that could be heard were the soft snores from the boy in the bed covered up in a warm blue blanket. The summoner did not know he was there and that is the way he was going to keep it for now.
This gave him the opportunity to observe the one who summoned him from the pits of hell. Whose blood was now running through his veins and had chains around his heart. It gave him a chance to find a weakness and us it to utterly destroy this stupid boy.
It did not matter that the boy had kissable, dangerously plush lips or that his hair was nearly as black as night and his eyes as green as the jade that adorned the handle of his blade. No not even the fact that the boy was sun-kissed with a swimmers body. None of it mattered, it was all outward appearance. Nico had seen the inside of outwardly beautiful people and sometimes they were the most hideous on the inside.
Nico did not choose to bind his heart to this boy so he would have none of it. He wanted to be able to have the freedom to choose for himself. His father already tried to push him into all kinds of dates with demoness's until he found his favourite son liked a different persuasion. Still that did not deter his father from trying and failing to pick his perfect mate for the future.
Just because this pompous, adorable, sleeping brat thought that summoning and effectively marrying him was no big deal he would show him it was and hopefully get that divorce.
Nico peered over the bed again to gaze down at the sleeping boy. He looked like he was going to be out for several hours so why not explore, the more dirt he can find on this boy the better. But damn, he sure did have long eyelashes.
He spotted the bag with a strange fish man on it and quietly opened it. His eyesight was perfect in the dark, after all he was a demon. He fished out (pun totally intended) a day planner, a few notebooks, wallet, and pencil case. Perfect.
Everything but the wallet went back into the bag. The wallet contained a school photo ID, some cash, debit card and some bus tokens, looks like this one didn't drive. Not that he cared either. So, his name was Perseus Jackson and he was studying Marine Biology, first year.
Now he had his summoners name, Perseus, not a name you here often these days. Though on the ID Perseus was crossed out with marker and underneath in a messy scrawl 'Percy' was written.
"Perseus," the name rolled of Nico's tongue like silk. It made the occupant in the bed shift and mumble. Not that he would admit it right now but he liked the name, no way he was Percy for the time being.
The strange little picture on the ID gave no real justice to the actual person not that Nico was handing out compliments right now. If this was his idea that photographer would be tortured a million times over for making him look ugly. He may be the prince of demons but he was hot as Hell (again pun intended.).
This Percy shared this space with a girl, the blond one who had 'married' Reyna. He felt her presence in this house and no doubt she felt his.
Looming over Perseus one last time to take in the boy he almost looked as beautiful as an angel but this is where it would end. He had to try killing the boy before he woke up it would be a small mercy killing nothing more.
Nico's hand grasped the jade and onyx imbedded handle of his black blade and pulled it out of its sheath without a sound. Slowly he pulled the blue blanket away from Perseus's body and held the point above the slow-beating heart and just as he began to apply pressure red electricity crackled and the shock reverberated through his body and left his heart beating and ears ringing.
Recoiling Nico sheathed his sword and held his hand over his mouth to keep himself from yelling out in pain. What… What is this? The blood of this Perseus which flowed through his veins seized and tightened around his heart.
Dropping to his knees Nico scrabbled at his shirt and his sharp nails ripped through the fabric and sliced his skin allowing his blood to slowly drip out of the self-made wounds. The constricting didn't stop for a full three minutes then it just vanished along with his wounds.
He hissed and growled low in his throat. This was the worst he couldn't hurt him, his blade didn't even get the chance to touch the boys skin. His hate was growing for his summoner, his captor.
The great Ghost King, Prince of Hell couldn't even make even the smallest of pin pricks to this Perseus. He had severely underestimated how calm he had acted after the summoning. This Perseus clearly had some power.
SUMMON
It was morning and he and Reyna were sitting out in the little kitchen at the table sipping from coffee mugs. A horribly domestic picture but there wasn't much either of them could do as they both could not venture more than a hundred feet away from their respective summoner. It was a bitch. The humans were yet to stir.
"You didn't wake yours? I woke mine she insisted I was illogical and succeeded in making herself pass out when I showed her a bit of my true form." Reyna took a long sip making sure it was noisy. The cup his most of her sadistic smile.
"Nope I just tried to stab him, didn't work little bastard is truly a force to be reckoned with. I can't even really leave him, it's annoying. You know I can hear his stupid heartbeat in my head? It just started when the sun came up." He knew he sounded like a whiney brat but he didn't care, this was unfair.
"Sometimes I think your mom dropped you on hear head a child. Well we know she did so probably your education went in one ear and out the other. When someone uses this kind of blood magic we are bound to whoever summoned us. We cannot hurt them our lives are literally tied to theirs. If we try to hurt them then it hurts us." She threw glare as she swirled the now cold coffee in her cup. It went untouched.
"That explains a lot." He sourly huffed out. "I'll be more careful next time." That earned him an eye roll.
His sensitive ears picked up movement down the hall where the bedrooms were. One of the little humans was finally stirring. A door opened and then shut followed by shuffling feet and long drawn out yawn.
The boy, Nico's 'husband' if you will, walked into the little kitchen rubbing his eyes. His hair was sticking up in every possible direction and one cheek was reddened with the pattern of little fishes from his pillow firmly imprinted on his cheek. Huh he was kind of cute.
"Morning honey, do you want coffee or me?" Nico pulled the sleepy boy over by the back of his neck and languidly licked his cheek. That got Perseus's attention.
"Wh-what!?" His eyes went comically wide suddenly awake as he pushed at Nico's chest, his cheeks darkened. "Who the hell are you? How did you get in here?" The boy as furiously wiping at his cheek while he sputtered he took a moment to look Nico up and down. Nico had no doubt he liked what he saw.
"I'm the Ghost King, Prince of Hell, Nico. As to how I got here you can thank your little ritual you did last night Perseus." For a moment it looked like the other might fall over from shock.
Reyna broke the serious moment by slurping at her cold coffee. The little interruption brought Perseus back to earth and to a devilishly smirking Nico. He never moved his hand from Perseus's sleep-warmed skin.
The green-eyed boy started laughing his face lighting up so beautifully, not that Nico noticed. "Ok, I got it, who put you up to this?"
Reyna and Nico shared a look and then he turned back to the boy. "No one but you and you're stuck with me until we can reverse the blood magic you did, we're pretty much married." To prove his point he let a bit of the human disguise he was wearing slip away to reveal the brutal Prince of Hell behind it. At least Nico liked to think of himself as brutal.
The reaction Nico was expecting wasn't the one he got. "OH MY GODS you're real?" The boys hands came up to his face and pinched and stretched his cheeks painfully.
"H-hands off you peasant." He was totally ignored as Perseus leaned passed him to stare at Reyna.
"Oh did I summon you too? Who are you are with him? What do you really look like?" They both blinked at the boys odd enthusiasm.
"Uhh, " before Reyna could answer a blond girl came down the hall.
"Percy, you would never guess what kind of dre-" Her large gray eyes landed on the two extra house guests in the kitchen. "There she is, the girl from my dreams!" She stomped the rest of the way into the kitchen and flicked Nico's hands away from Perseus. "Don't touch him you creep."
Reyna could barely contain her laughter while Nico stood there scandalized. These humans were not giving him is due respect nor reacting in fear to his presence. What the Hell is going on here?
"You will show me respect little girl." His eyes narrowed at the other human in the room but before he could think of doing anything Reyna was in front of him.
"Sorry Nico I can't allow you to touch her." They both her a disgruntled sound escape the girl being barricaded by Reyna.
"I can take care of myself thank you." The blond girl pushed aside Reyna.
"Annie, so was your dream about a demoness that you summoned from the pits of Hell?" The girl carefully nodded to what Perseus said.
"Well meet Nico apparently he's the Prince of Hell and I summoned him here." Nico got a cold stare from her after his little intro from the green-eyed boy.
"I don't care where you're from or who you are if you so much as touch one hair on his head and he doesn't like it I. Will. End. You. Got that champ?" For some reason Nico though he felt something clench around his heart but it couldn't be fear.
"Annabeth calm down it's alright I can handle myself you know nothing a swift kick to the balls won't handle." These humans were a force to be reckoned with.
"Wow, I think I really like her." Reyna breathed out as she looked this Annabeth girl up and down. "A lot."
"Yeah, yeah I got it." Nico crossed his arms like a petulant child. (Right now he was, he wasn't getting his way.)
PERCY
Well this certainly wasn't the morning he was expecting. All in the span of about 15 minutes he had met a demon, the Prince of Hell and the Ghost kind who all happened to be the same person and got licked on the cheek. He was wide awake.
Percy really wasn't expecting the demon to know his name but he guessed that went with the territory. He was trying not to let on the he was scared out of his mind and when Annabeth came in it really helped to bolster his outward emotions.
But damn it all the demon, Nico, was fucking hot. Probably hotter than the flames of hell if you'll excuse the lame pun and to make matter worse he started spewing things about honey and marriage and blood.
Yesterday he had just read a stupid comic and decided to do a fake ritual, emphasis on fake! He didn't even believe in other-worldly things and now he had one standing in his kitchen being slapped like a little girl by his best friend who he was afraid was going to lose a limb, or worse.
He was glad when the other demon got up to block the angry Prince of Hell.
"So, " he started carefully. "Prince of Hell, is that like cool?" Way to sound slightly intelligent.
Dark eyes zeroed in on him and his safety blanket, Annabeth, was gone along with the other one, Reyna. Great he was alone with this tall, dark and handsome demon.
"No, it's a lot of work. You just made it harder now we have to reverse this ritual and to do that I need to know everything that you used, Perseus." Percy swallowed.
"Ok well first off you can call me Percy since we're like married and all, " the joke fell way flat. He cleared his throat and continued, "umm well here's the thing your Nico-ness. We kind of improvised so…" Oh he was in for it.
"I-Improvised!? Oh for the love of SATAN! I can't believe I am stuck with you of all things, you!" His voice was shrill and harsh as he stomped the ground once with his army-boot clad food. Percy thought it childish but who was he to judge?
"Yup, afraid so." He looked at the ground and scuffed his shoe on the floor. "So, like, can I eat breakfast now or do I need permission for that?"
Dark eyes narrowed further. "Eat your damn breakfast you little cretin and while you're at it you can make me something to eat and not the excuse for food cereal something befitting royalty." He plopped down in the kitchen chair and left Percy to stare at him and his childish behaviour.
SUMMON
It had been two very long days with his royal pain in the ass, Nico. If he didn't have to lift a finger he didn't and Percy was nearly up to his breaking point and ready to beat that handsome demon up with a broom.
To make matters worse he was never very far away from him either and it made doing anything outside of the house challenging. Nico was always over his shoulder checking to see what he was doing or invading his space he had even kicked him out of his own room and was now resigned to the couch.
Why, he didn't understand, couldn't they be like Reyna and Annabeth. The two seemed to be pretty civil if not flirty at times and generally didn't get on each other's nerves so much.
Now Percy was just as adamant as Nico on finding a way to reverse this thing. Really his desperation for reversing this hadn't come from Nico's tyrannical ways but from a frantic call from Leo two days back. The poor boy had been sobbing on the other end Percy couldn't understand what he was saying. Turned out his favourite little imp had two demons to deal with.
Leo had come over yesterday and had set up camp in the living-room with Percy and the other two demons, the Princess of Hell, Hazel and the Guard of Hell Frank (which Percy thought he would have a more demon-y sounding name like Nargoz the Terrible or something) slept in the kitchen.
Percy and Annabeth's apartment could barely handle the two of them and now there were seven people living inside of it. Something had to change or Percy might kill something, preferably Nico.
"My Hell isn't this place fucking cramped. I can't believe something such as you summoned me to this tiny little shack. I am a Prince I need better accommodations than this." That voice which Percy had thought was pretty nice at first was now grating and made him shiver (totally a lie, that voice was the most glorious thing he had ever heard).
Before he answered he threw a disgusted look toward Nico. "If you don't like it you can leave. I can't afford anything else. It's a miracle we even got two bedrooms in this city so shut your face I'm trying to study." Percy irritably turned back to his textbook.
"Geez, roger that princess." His royal haughtiness strut his into the kitchen and plunked himself at the table.
Great it was a prime view for Percy which meant he spent more time staring at that piece of eye-candy than studying. Just fantastic.
"Can you not be in the same room as me?" It was childish yes but it was hard not to be when a giant spoiled baby was sitting across from him.
"Shut it Jackson or I'll shut it for you and you won't like my methods." A glare was sent his way and the Prince of Hell's eyes flared red for a moment. It sent shivers down Percy's spine, just not from fear.
"I swear to any deity listening if you don't get over yourselves I'm going to murder the both of you in your sleep. Now shut up because Hazel thinks she can solve our little house arrangement for us." Annabeth had the 'I'm not taking your shit anymore' ton as she stalked out of her bedroom.
"Oh?" Percy loved how shifty Nico got when his spitfire of a best friend came into the room.
"Ugh, boys. If you guys had been listening at supper last night and not trying to rip each other a new one then you would have known where Leo, Frank, and Hazel went today. She said she could conjure up some major cash and get us a new crib." She glares, mostly, at Nico while she spoke.
"We were not fighting all supper." Nico crossed his arms and turned his face away from her.
"You were too and pipe down out here I'm also trying to study and Reyna's taking a nap." Since when did she get all buddy-buddy with her demon?
Once she disappeared down the hall Percy whispered "I hate you," to Nico and the demon sent him a glare fit to kill.
Percy put his textbook down and grabbed the note paper they had written the ritual down on and added a few things that he could remember, the sooner this was reversed the better.
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A/N: It's been a long time but I was kind of waiting to see which of the two stories I posted would be most popular and thus be updated more. I also never said when I'd update this story because I've re-written this what feels like a dozen times. I just wasn't happy with it so I put it away for a while.
If you're wondering why they're at each other's throats it's because I want it to be realistic. They're not going to be suddenly happy about the situation because "oh my gods he so hot" I want them to like each other in a less shallow way. So I guess it'll be a slow burn.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this and let me know what you think.
Bye-bye