Six Days til Christmas

Nico's POV

I open my eyes slowly and I can feel right away Will's arms around me. I smile widely as I remember last night, and I snuggle closer to Will.

"You awake?" Will pets my head.

"Huh? Yeah." I let go of his hand.

"I'm heading into the city with Piper and Leo all day today. I need to get ready soon, love." Will said.

"Hmmm… Okay." I got up slowly. "That gives me time to wrap your present." I smile.

"What? You already have my present?" Will laughed. "I still need to get yours." He smiled and got up. "Anyways, I'll stop by tonight with the present but I have the graveyard shift tonight, so I can't stay the night."

I walked over to the fireplace and started a fire. "Okay. Hazel, Reyna, and Frank are coming by today, by the way. I also invited them for Christmas. So they are bringing their presents also."

"Okay. Well let's go get some food. I'm hungry."

Breakfast pasted by fast. Percy and Jason were playing around with Will. Lou Ellen, Cecil and Leo were talking about her magic balloon stuff and ways to improve it or whatever. Piper, Annabeth and I were taking up on Christmas things to do.

"Did you hear about the camp plans for Christmas?" Piper asks me. She's sitting across from me, already dressed ready to leave with Will and Leo when finished eating. And Annabeth was sitting next to me.

"No. Were not having unicorns over again are we?" I laughed.

"No way. On Christmas eve and Christmas day, they're planning to have the Hecate kids put on some magic snow." Annabeth tells me.

"Really? That means I can build a snowman." I giggle.

"Oh, yeah, Nico, you've never seen snow, haven't you?" Piper asks me.

"No. I've never seen snow." I smile. "This is going to be my first time playing in the snow."

"That's awesome, we need to take some pictures then." Annabeth laughed. "Oh. You doing anything today?"

"Nah. Why? What's up?" I ask her.

"Wanna hang out with me? Percy and Jason are having a boys day and I feel like relaxing today." She tells me.

"Oh. Sure." I respond. "Lets meet up at the stables then." I take the last bite of my food and stand.

"Coolio. See you then, Nico." She smiles.

I throw my plate away and walk to Percy, Jason and Will.

Ever since I confessed to Percy, we gotten closer and were better friends. Very often we hang out or practice sword fighting, our favorite thing to do at camp other than laze around. And Jason is really cool. Once him and I hung out by ourselves, it wasn't that awkwards at all, we had tons of fun, and he's as good as a fighter as people say he is.

"Hey Nico!" Will calls me.

"Hey guys!" I stand at the table next to him. "Just wanted to say bye. I'm going to hang out with Annie today."

"Okay. Well, I'm going to leave soon." Will smiled and took my hand.

"Ok. You guys have fun. Oh, yeah, Nico, is it okay if I stop by after lunch with some presents for Christmas?" Percy asked.

"Oh, um. Sure." I nodded my head. "I'll see you then, bye Percy. Bye Jason." They stand and wave bye to Will and I.

"So, you never told me what you want for Christmas." He started to walk to my cabin. "Is there anything in particular?"

I giggle. "Not really." I smile.

It's not that I don't want anything. It's just that if I have everything I need, so why would I want anything?

"Hmmm… That just makes this much more difficult." Will laughed

Soon, we stopped in front of my cabin. "You should go and get ready, so you can have a whole fun day with Annabeth."

"Okay." We were standing in front of the door. "See you tomorrow then."

"Eh. Maybe by dinner time I'll be here." He kisses me on the cheek. "Bye, love."

"Bye." My smile fades as he walks away.

I'm with Annabeth now. She's wearing a dark red hoodie, light grey ripped jeans, and boots. And instead of wearing just a t-shirt and jeans, I'm now wearing one of Will's hoodie's that has a narwal on it.

Were sitting on the rocks next to the lake playing cards.

"How's your day been so far?" I ask Annabeth, being polite.

Annabeth smiled. "Pretty good. It's pretty cold. I maybe threw some apples at Percy this morning for taking my blanket during the night." She laughed.

"Really?" I laughed.

"Yeah… Anyways, how about you?" She asks.

"Pretty good." I said, "Me and Will kissed yesterday." I blushed hard and smiled wide.

Annabeth threw her cards at me. "No way!" She giggled. "Sorry. It's just, that," she sat closer to me and wrapped her arm around me, "you're like my little brother and seeing you happy makes me happy."

I grabbed one of her cards. "Thank you very much."

"No worries. I think Will might be the best thing to happen to you since I've known you." She smiles. "Are you ready for Christmas?"

"No, I'm not." I say.

"What?" She stands up. "I saw your place just yesterday. You're prepared all the way. Youre tree in very pretty. And, do you have mistletoe yet?"

"Nope." I stand.

"You should." She laughed and started to walk up the rocks.

"Why?" I followed after her.

"It would lead to some cool things for you and Will."

I blushed. "Stop that!"

"Yeah, yeah. I will. Let's go over to the volleyball court for a quick game before lunch, then let's go back inside before it gets any colder."

"Okay. Percy said he was gonna drop by with some presents after lunch."

"He in? Dang, I need to bring mine soon. I'm pretty sure I got you the greatest present ever." She laughed. "At least I hope I did."

"I'm pretty sure you did." I giggle.

We walk over to the volleyball court and play a few rounds with some of the younger kids. When were done playing some two on two, us winning the most of the matches.

When we were done, we decided to go get some lunch, and eat right next to the fire. "So, what did you get?" Annabeth asks me.

"Huh?"

"For lunch?" She asks." And for me for Christmas?" She laughs.

"I can't tell you that!" I giggle. "Just a sandwich, a salad and an apple."

"Will would be mad if he saw what you were eating." Annabeth said.

"Hmm… It's okay. I'm not that hungry that much right now." I say.

"Okay. Can we go inside after this?" She asks. "It's really cold."

"Sure. Let's go to my cabin. I just remembered that Percy in gonna stop by with some presents." I told her.

"Oh yeah. Some of those are mine." She says. "I gave him some of my presents the other day to put under his tree since the Athena cabin tree in full."

"Seriously?"

"Yeah."

"Wow." I laugh. "That must me a ton of gifts."

"It is." She laughs and takes a bite of her apple. "When does Will, Piper and Leo return?"

"I think before dinner time?"

"Okay." She eats some more before throwing her plate over into the trash, basketball style. "Score."

"Done. Let's go."

As we were walking over to my cabin we were talking about new skills we've learned. Annabeth was talking about new fighting moves she learned. As I told her about this new move I just taught myself, she asked me to teach her sometime soon. Which I said yes too as soon as I learned it better myself.

When we reached my cabin I opened the door for her and she went inside. After taking our shoes off, we went to the couch. "Wanna watch some Big Bang Theory?" I ask her.

"Yeah." We plop on the couch. "It's like my favorite show."

"Really?" I ask her. "I actually never seen it. Will showed it to me the other day. He said it was pretty popular."

"Yeah. It really is." She grabbed the remote and turned it on.

We got through two episodes before I heard a knock on the door and Percy and Jason came in with about twenty more presents for my tree.

"Wow." I looked over at them. "Thats a lot."

"Oh hey." Percy said to Annabeth. "You guys are watching?"

"Yeah. We got cold." Annabeth said getting up to kiss Percy.

"Dang Nico. Your tree has a ton of gifts under it." Jason says as he also puts some under it. "This is definitely gonna be one fun Christmas!" He says laughing.

"Yeah it is!" I smiled.

"Okay. Well, we are done here. Well get out of the way, and I'll see you guys at dinner. Bye Annie. Bye Nico." Percy hugged me bye.

"Goodbye." Jason and Percy left while Annabeth and I sat back down and continued to watch.

"Woah. There are so many presents now. I'm not even sure who's coming anymore and which present is for who now." I laugh.

Annabeth laughs. "Yeah. That's true. I think everyone we know is coming over."

"That in a lot of people and presents." I laugh.

We continue to watch along as laugh loudly and yell at the stupid mistakes that Annabeth says that aren't true. When commercials came on, we would talk about new years since we decided a lot of Christmas stuff was going on.

"I feel like skipping dinner. You?" Annabeth tells me.

I look at the clock. It's about five minutes til dinner. "Me either, but Will should back soon. If I don't, he'll get mad." Even so I say that, I don't get up.

"Let's just eat some some popcorn, and hope he doesnt notice."

"Yeah, right. He'll notice I'm not there." I tell her. "But it wouldn't hurt to tell him I forgot." I wink at her.

She laughs. "That's so true though!" She got up to go to the microwave and heat up some popcorn.

"So what did you get Percy?" I ask Annabeth. "Didn't he bring his own present?" I get up, get on my knees next to the tree, and look at the presents Percy brought, which were all wrapped is blue with silver ribbons.

"Yeah. I got him some of those fluffy fleece blankets and pajamas." She brought the popcorn bowl over to me.

"Ah. I got him a cool blue galaxy hoodie I saw at the mall." I say. "I thought he would like it, since it's blue and it's cold outside and stuff."

"Oh, that seems cool." She says. "Oh, what did you get Will by the way?" She asks me.

I reach for my present for Will. It's a small box, with shiny gold wrapping with matte gold snowflakes with a a small gold ribbon on top. "It's small, but I remember he said he liked this necklace when we went walking at the mall. When we passed Pandora he pointed to this certain one, and it said he liked it quite alot so I thought I would save up for it."

I placed it is her hands. "Oh my gosh. He's going to love it so much."

"I know right."

Suddenly, we were silent as we heard some knocking over the sound of the tv. "I think that might be you lovely boyfriend. I'll go put this at the back." She put the present back as I got up.

"Okay." I walked over to the door. Sure enough, it was Will. He was wearing a light up ugly sweater of santa being a dj, with a red flannel underneath, and some skinny jeans. He had about seven presents wrapped in yellow and orange with gold ribbons. He also had a scarf, a black hat and a huge smile on his face.

"Hello Will." I smiled and hugged him.

"Hi love." Will kissed my cheek. "I brought some presents and I finally got you the perfect present. Can I come in?" He asks.

"Yeah, you're always welcome is. Annabeth and I were just watching some Big Bang Theory." I tell him.

"Okay. I have a present for you Annie!" Will calls out, as he walks is.

"Oh?" She stand up to help Will out. "Good. Cuz I have a present for you too!" Annabeth laughed.

"Okay. Well, I have a question: how come you guys weren't at dinner?" Will asked, leaning down to place the presents.

I sat down next to Annabeth and ate some popcorn. "It's dinner time?" She asked.

"Woah. I didn't know it was this late." I lie to Will.

"Haha." Will sarcastically laughs. He gets up from off his knees and sits right next to me. "Really? Did you not really not see your clock which is literally right above your fireplace."

"Nope." I almost broke into laughter.

"Really? Okay. I'll only believe you since it's almost Christmas then." Will kissed me on the cheek.

"Aww…" Annabeth said. "You guys are so cute. Oh my gosh, I almost forgot," she got out a camera from her pocket, "I need to take a photo with you guys."

She leaned over next to me, and snapped a photo. "Thanks. I realized the other day, that you guys don't have many photos together, so I thought it would be nice to take some. I don't even have many photos of the others also."

"Really?" Will laughed.

"Yeah. You'd be surprised at how many photos there are of everyone together." She smiled. "I think at Christmas I'll take some more photos and hope I get one with all of us."

"Awesome." I say, knowing full well that I got her a nice dark purple polaroid camera with tons of refills.

She looked over at the clock. "It's getting pretty late. I should get going." She stood up. "Bye Will. Bye Nico."

She leaves, and we hear the door close softly.

"So what did you get me?" I ask him as I snuggle closer to him.

"I can't tell you that." He laughs and hold me closer. "You'll find out on Christmas. But I know for sure you will love it. Piper and Leo even said so."

"Okay. Can you give me a hint?" I ask him.

"Nope. Cause if I give you a hint, you're going to guess it right away and then it's not going to be a surprise anymore."

"Eh. Fine then." He tells me. "I should go soon. I have a late shift at the infirmary."

"Why?" I ask him. "It's almost Christmas though."

"Don't worry. It won't be a long shift. It shouldn't be anything serious unless anyone gets hurt or someone returns from a quest." Will tells me.

"That good. I don't like it when you're super tired." I lean my head on his shoulder.

"Yeah. me either." He laughs.

He grabs the remote and turns of the tv. "You should go sleep now and I should leave." He stands up and walks to the door and I follow him.

"Okay." I open the door for him and he steps outside.

"I'll see you tomorrow?" He asks.

"Yeah." I say as he walks out the front door and I head for my bed to cuddle up.