September…

Percy sighed, he was stuck wearing lager and larger camp shirts and the only pants he had that fit were sweatpants! At the rate his belly was growing he'd have no pants by next month and it wasn't like he could leave the camp to go shopping or even shop online! His mom had ordered him clothes online, which he was grateful for, but they had yet to arrive. He honestly hopped they included pajamas because he had honestly started to sleep in just his underpants carefully worn under his belly.

"The books say I should be able to feel you kick soon, buddy. We need something happier around here…" he told his bump.

Ever since the potion incident Nico had been in a bad mood. He would go out of his way to avoid Will by being a go between for the two camps and it was honestly upsetting Hazel and Percy. She had IM'ed him about what was going on and what he told her was clearly worrying.

"I think he feels betrayed by Will's actions. He's his first boyfriend and he's shoving potions in his mouth when he doesn't want them. My brother has a lot of issues," she had told him, "I'm worried he might wear himself out with all the shadow traveling he's been doing."

Will hadn't really tried to talk to his ex, since he felt that since he had done nothing wrong due to acting as a doctor and was just taking care of his former boyfriend. It seemed like most of the camp was split between the two on who they felt was right and it was driving Percy nuts!

"I wish I knew what to do…" he told Annabeth during one of their weekly IM.

The blonde girl had started fiddling with a pencil during their talk and looked at her boyfriend, "I honestly am not sure what to do. This is their problem…though you are right about Nico, he needs to stop Shadow traveling so much. Last time I saw him he looked horrible."

Percy's frown deepened, "I'm going to go check on him talk to you later."

"Alright, bye Percy, bye baby," Annabeth said with a wave and a blown kiss to him and the child inside him.

"He says bye too," Percy told her after a fluttering movement before cutting off the call and heading to the Hades' cabin.

He knocked on the door expecting Nico's usual shout of "go away", since Will used to walk in or Nico would go to him, this was not a good sign.

"I'm coming in!" he warned younger demigod before entering, nothing happened.

He looked around, finding Nico's bed that had a large lump in it.

"Nico? Is that you?" he asked slowly approaching the bed.

His only response was a whimper as he got closer. In the bed was indeed the only Hades camper and he looked awful! His face was flushed with a fever, he was sweating and shaking at the same time! Percy hurried out of the cabin, his panic reaching Grover via their empathy link.

"Percy!" called the satyr running over on his goat legs looking worried, "What happened!?"

"It's Nico! He's sick! Really sick! Go get Chiron! I'll get someone from the Apollo cabin!" Percy power walking to said cabin as his friend ran off to find the centaur.

This time when he banged on the door of the cabin he was visiting he got an answer…a very annoyed looking Will Solace.

"Percy… I was up late last night working and just because my dad is the sun god does not mean I don't like to at least try to sleep in every so often, especially when I didn't get much sleep!"

"Like it ever works," Percy muttered knowing that many Apollo children hated the fact they got up with the sun rise or at least not fully awake until it was up, the only time they could even attempt sleeping in was during fall and winter due to the longer nights it was a running gag in the camp that they were solar powered.

"What do you want?" the blonde asked fighting a yawn.

"It's Nico, he's sick, he's shaking and sweating, and he doesn't seem responsive!" he told the child of the sun god making him go pale, his freckles standing out more than usual as he dropped his coffee.

"Oh gods…" Will breathed out before shouting orders to his half siblings to get a stretcher and prep a bed in the infirmary, before running to grab the other end of said stretcher as Percy hurried out of the way, watching as they moved the sick demi god.

He went to eat but still couldn't help but worry about Nico, they had been through a lot together and Percy cared about him like did Tyson or Stella, as a younger sibling. Heck, he had talked to Annabeth about Nico being one of the baby's Godparents while she wanted Hazel or Piper. They had agreed that either way the rest of the seven, Grover, Juniper, Thalia, Reyna, Nico, and Will would be honorary aunts and uncles. Though Reyna had been in the room at the time and heard this had declared that she would train the child right which started a bit of a fight between her and said mother to be. He sighed as he dug into his lunch knowing there was nothing more he could do. He sighed again as he walked back to his cabin after making his offering and praying that he baby was born safely to whoever would listen as well as Nico's speedy recovery. A few other campers said hello to him or waved as he walked, there weren't that many people here. He stopped by the infirmary to ask about Nico but one of the other Apollo campers told him that all the shadow traveling he had done had weakened his immune system and he had luckily only caught a bad cold.

"You really should stay away in your condition; your immune system isn't at its peak either at the moment."

Percy pouted, he was worried about his friend and he couldn't even check up on him, he started to stomp to his cabin when the felt it…some sort of movement…like a summersault in his stomach.

He glanced down at the bump, "Are you trying to cheer me up or scare me? Because moving around like that is a good way to make me worry."

October…

Percy was reading a book on child care, that was luckily in ancient Greek, pair of headphones over his bump as music played, when there was a knock at his door.

"It's open," he called.

"You better be decent!" came a voice that got Percy's attention, "We do not want to see you in your underpants!"

"Nico? Wait what do you mean we?" he asked as he managed to roll onto his side after pulling off the headphones as a pink Nico and a grinning Will walked in holding hands, "You two back together now?"

Nico nodded, "Yeah…guess I'm still getting used to being cared for."

"And I apologized for forcing the potion on him, but I explained why I did it. You were practically a skeleton and it scared me," admitted Will, pulling his now healthy boyfriend close, "Anyways, there's going to be a Halloween event and all the present cabin heads have to help plan it."

Nico grinned, "This will be fun!"

Will and Percy grinned too, this holiday was right up the son of Hades' alley and he knew it. After much debate it was decided that for the younger year-round campers the older ones would be stationed at each cabin and hand out candy to give them a sense of trick-or-treating. Small groups would leave the camp to pick up decorations, costumes and candy. Since Percy couldn't leave the camp he helped keep things organized which turned out to be tricky since the younger kids kept trying to feel his stomach or calling him fat. Eventually he gave up dealing with the bratty kids and went to work on his list off things for someone to pick up in his place.

"If you kids keep calling me fat you're going to get something not so nice," he had warned them.

One of said brats pulled a face and called him fat again making the son of Poseidon add toothbrushes to his list. Halloween came, and Percy excitedly slipped into his pirate costume, with an extra roomy shirt for his belly before IM'ing his family.

"Shiver me timbers!" he greeted his mom and sister who were both mermaids, "I found me some mermaids!"

"Per see!" squealed Stella reaching for the image of her big brother.

"Wow! She's really getting good at talking!" he told his mom, breaking character.

"She is, how have you been?" Sally asked as her husband came into view…dressed as a merman with one of those tops that give you fake bulging muscles with a fake beard and trident.

"Behold!" he declared as his wife tried to smother her laughter, "I am Poseidon!"

"Really Paul? Dressing up as my dad?" Percy asked amused.

"Dada!"

"Sally wanted us to have a theme going," Paul said grinning with a shrug, "I couldn't resist."

"Well, you haven't been smitten or what ever the past tense of smite is, so I guess Dad's ok with it," Percy told him with a smile.

"Percy have you seen my hat?" Nico asked coming in with full skull make up on, going as a dapper looking skeleton.

"Ni! Ni!" Stella said clapping, having met the son of Hades a few times when Percy dragged him along to help babysit her, mostly to get him out of his cabin for a few hours.

"Hi Stella…Mr. Blofis…are you supposed to be Percy's dad?" asked Nico as Percy got the Italian's hat off the bed.

"It's a theme. You're looking well," said Sally having heard from Percy that the younger boy had been sick last month.

"Yeah I'm-Ack! Percy!" he cried as the hat was shoved on his head by his overzealous friend and former crush.

"First trick of the night!"

Nico rolled his eyes as he adjusted it, "I'm doing fine as I was saying."

"That's good, are you still free to babysit if we need you?" asked Paul knowing that Stella loved Nico just as much as Percy and since her big brother couldn't watch her he was the next best option.

Nico nodded before walking off bowing to them making Stella giggle.

"We're doing a kind of cabin to cabin trick or treating thing for the younger kids which is why we're dressed up, I'm going to call Annabeth after this but I want to show you guys something," he told his family as he stood, lifting his shirt to show his tummy just as the baby moved enough for it to be seen.

"The baby's moving!" Sally squealed, "Does Annabeth know?"

"Told her after the first time he summersaulted in my stomach…then he hit me in the stomach making me burp, rotten kid," the father to be said gently poking his bump, "No manners."

"And yet you thought it was a riot when Stella made me burp while I was talking," Sally told her son with a flat look making him turn pink.

"Uh…no comment!" Percy said, "I'm gonna call Annabeth now, bye."

Sally and Paul smiled and wished him well as Stella pouted but waved.

He put another drachma in to call his girlfriend's apartment to find she wasn't alone she was helping Frank with face paint to make him look like, what Percy guessed was a type of Chinese ghost, Hazel was there too dressed as a gyspy.

It was the Nico's sister that noticed him, "Hey Percy!"

"Hi Hazel, what's Frank supposed to be?"

"He's what's called a Jangshi or jumping ghost," Annabeth said as Frank waved, "And…done."

"Thanks for helping me," the praetor putting on a hat with a tag attached for his costume, "Happy Halloween, Percy."

"Thanks Frank," the pregnant male said smiling finally getting a good look at his girlfriend's costume, "I have a pair of mermaids for a mom and sister and a Ravenclaw for a girlfriend."

Annabeth giggled as she sat closer to the flow of water that was creating the rainbow, "So what are you dressed up for?"

"We're doing a trick-or-treat cabin circit for the little ones, you?"

"We're going to a costume party, I really wish you could join us," Annabeth told him blowing him a kiss.

Percy smiled, "I know, I wish I could be there too but, on the upside, here I can get revenge on any brats who call me fat."

"What?!" Annabeth cried, half surprised that Percy could be so petty, though she chalked that up to hormones, and the rest of her surprised from the idea of anyone calling him fat, the only part of his body that big in a non-muscular way was his stomach.

"Yeah, if anyone calls me fat they get a toothbrush instead of candy," Percy told her with a grin.

"Because they need to wash the mean words out of their mouths?" she guessed causing him to blink.

"Yeah, I just asked Grover to pick up something that would be good revenge for being bratty," he said with a grin as his girlfriend laughed, "I learnt from the best."

"You Seaweed Brain," Annabeth said shaking her head, having missed his goofiness.

"You know you love me, Wise Girl, Sparky and I will see you at Christmas, right?"

Annabeth nodded, "Yes, and I'll be staying until the baby comes."

"Annabeth! The baby's due in January, you'll miss classes!" Percy protested.

"Don't start with that, I want to be there for you when the baby comes, especially if you're having a C-section, you'll need time to recover. I will be using my laptop to attend classes," Annabeth told him putting her hands on her hips.

Percy held up his hands in surrender, "Okay! Okay! Ow!"

"Percy?" the others asked hearing him cry out in pain.

"He kicked me in the kidney," Percy explained rubbing his side, "I think he's on your side. A mama's boy already."

The others smiled and Hazel giggled.

"I need to go, it's almost time to start," Percy told them blowing his girlfriend a kiss, "Love you Wise Girl."

"Love you too, Seaweed brain."

Percy cut off the call before going back to his dinner; a bagel and cream cheese with flaming hot Cheetos in it.

"You are evil, you know that? Why does this taste so good?" he said to his bump as he waited to for the first bunch of kids, careful to clean his hands and face before the first group arrived.

"Trick or treat!" cheered a bunch of kids lead by Clarisse.

"Argh, let's see what I have for you little land lubbers!" Percy declared putting candy in each bucket as the daughter of Ares shook her head at his act.

"Thank you!"

For the most part the toothbrushes were untouched but there were a few rude punks who dared to call him fat who, despite the children's protests were given the items instead of candy unlike their group members.

"You should think before you speak," he told them before they had to move on.

November…

"I know what I'm thankful for this year," said Grover as he and Percy walked to the pavilion for Thanksgiving dinner.

"Not having to play football?" Percy teased making Juniper giggle on the other side of the Satyr.

"Oh, ha-ha, very funny preggy boy," Grover said gently poking at Percy's bump.

"Please don't wake him, I only just got him to calm down so I could take a nap…not that it did me much good, I still feel crappy."

This caused both satyr and dryad to look at each other, everyone had been asked to keep an eye on Percy now that he was in the finally leg of his pregnancy.

"Crappy how?" asked Juniper worriedly.

Percy rolled his eyes, "Just some heartburn. That and I'm having trouble sleeping because he like to kick me at night."

"Oh," the now relieve dryad said, her boyfriend relaxing too.

"Did I scare you two?" Percy asked with a small grin.

Grover pouted, "Not funny, Percy."

"I'm sorry, but it is kind of funny. I know to see Will if things are really bad," Percy told his best friend putting an arm around him, "Already a good honorary uncle."

"Are you just calling me that to get a free babysitter?"

"No, I get paid to watch Stella and you're my best friend, why wouldn't I want you as a figure in my child's life?"

This made Grover preen himself making Juniper giggle harder, "You're so goofy!"

Percy shook his head as he started to fill his plate, throwing a drumstick in for the offering, praying for his baby's safe birth.

TBC…