Title: Slow Beginnings – What Couldn't Be More Obvious
Fandom: Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Disclaimer: I do not own PJatO. Rick Riordan owns it all. I just borrow his characters.
Warnings: There will be sex later on.
Main Paring: Nico/Percy
Side Pairings: Frank/Hazel/Leo, Jason/Reyna, Annabeth/Piper, Reyna/Annabeth/Piper, Thalia/Annabeth, Clariesse/Chris, Malcolm/Katie, Grover/Juniper
Summary: Percy and Leo are brothers. They tell each other everything, even who they're pinning after. Sadly enough, their secret desires don't seem to even notice them…at least not as far as they can tell.
This is dedicated to Takara Phoenix. She's inspired me so much! Even the format of this thing is inspired by her! Thanks for being the best FanFic friend ever!
Slow Beginnings
What Couldn't Be More Obvious
Chapter 1:
Percy Jackson cocked his head to the side. "Mermaid, you say?" he asked curiously, watching the black eyes of Nico di Angelo. He saw the smirk there before it appeared on his face.
"Well, you spend so much time in the water," Nico answered with a shrug.
"Son of Poseidon and all." Percy rolled his eyes.
Nico lowered his eyes to look down at the dark navy water around. He couldn't see much except Percy's long, lean legs kicking back and forth as the Sea Prince- the beautiful Sea Prince. The water rolling off the sun kissed skin in small droplets that trailed down his neck and down his toned chest before disappearing into the lake. "Why do you like it so much?" the son of Hades asked.
Percy looked at him dumbfounded for a minute. "You're kidding right? My dad is the god of the seas. How can I not like water so much?"
Nico shrugged, eyes shrouded with insecurity. "It's not like that for me," he mumbled. "The Underworld feels like home to me and it is home, but I hate only being surrounded by the dead. At least under the sea there are living creatures. Fish…and uh…dolphins…"
Percy snorted and grabbed Nico's jacket, using it to haul him into the water. He laughed deviously as he waved his hand, focusing his mind on bending the water to his will.
Nico di Angelo looked down as his legs were bound together. He tugged at the invisible bonds around his name, but couldn't even get his hand to touch his legs.
Percy grabbed his hands and pulled them away from the Italian's thighs. "Relax, Neeks, okay?"
"Don't call me that," Nico said with a pout. "What did you do to my legs?" he demanded. He hated that he wasn't in control of this situation. His mind jumped to his worst fear that Percy was a villain out to kill him, but before he could voice his fears and try to defend himself Percy interrupted.
"I gave you a tail. I made it out of water so don't distract me or it goes away," Percy said sternly.
"I don't want a tail!" the Italian snapped. "I want to stay on land!"
Percy grossed his arms over his chest. "Well you don't have much say in that," he pointed out. "You can't control what the water does. If I want you to have a tail, it'll become a tail for you. Besides, I wanted to show you part of my world." He reached out and grabbed Nico's hand before diving into the dark water. He surrounded Nico's mouth with an air bubble so he could breath and pulled the dark prince along behind him. Nico freaked out as a big, grey fish with long pointy swam furiously towards them, before butting into Percy's side and rubbing his head against the son of Poseidon like cats would. This threw him for a loop. Fish acting like cats? It wasn't even a catfish for Tartarus' sake!
"Lord! Lord! Did you bring us a treat?" he asked. "Sons of Hades taste good!"
Percy laughed and petted the fishes head. "No. You can't eat this one. He's my friend."
The fish got a depressed look on its face. "Yes, lord." He swam off, gills drooping. He had really been looking forward to eating the child of Hades.
"Another time!" Percy called out after him. He looked down at the hands gripping tightly onto his arm. "Uh…Nico? Don't hold on so tight. You're cutting off the circulation in my arm."
Nico looked down sheepishly as he loosened his grip. "Sorry, Perce…that thing just scared me."
"He's called a fish," Percy retorted with a laugh. "Look over there, the naiads are waving to you," he said, pointing to the water spirits who were all different colors of blue and purple. He beckoned them over and the immediately surrounded Nico.
"A prince of the underworld!" a navy one said.
"Look at his strong arms!"
"And his handsome face!"
They all erupted into giggles as they could hear their prince's thoughts of jealousy. "Looks like he's single too!"
One of them pushed Nico's hair away from his face and pulled him close to kiss him. Another was busy trying to get him out of his jacket.
"Enough!" called the near angry voice of Percy Jackson.
"We were only having fun," a lavender one said.
A glare from the Sea Prince was enough to send them away. He turned back to Nico only to find his shirt half off. "Oh for my father's sake! Put your shirt back on!" he snapped. He was not happy with those naiads for kissing and touching HIS Nico di Angelo.
Nico hastily fixed his shirt. Could that be jealousy in Percy's voice? He didn't dare get his hopes up. It was probably nothing. He was just displeased with the naiads for…for what? For touching him. So maybe it was jealousy? A tiny smile worked at the corners of his mouth as he came to this realization.
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Reyna popped her head into the Athena cabin. "Piper? Annabeth?" she called. The two girls were laying in bed where she had left them earlier. A devious glint appeared in her eye as she noticed they had put on clothes since she had last been there. No doubt to keep others from seeing them if they accidentally walked in.
She gave them a smile as she sat down on the couch, spreading out, ret propped up. "What are the two prettiest greek girls doing?" she asked.
"Nothing, Rey," Annabeth replied.
"Oh good. I was hoping we could play a game," Reyna replied. "Truth or dare."
Piper grinned at this and jumped out of bed to sit next to Reyna on the couch. Annabeth quickly followed and instead grabbed a pillow before putting it on the floor to sit by Reyna's feet.
"You first, Annie," Piper started. "Truth or dare?"
"Truth."
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Percy smiled as a baby turtle bumped his tiny head against Nico's shoulder. The baby turtle (just like everything else in the under water world) had noticed the intriguing ghost prince and wanted to say hello.
'Hello!' the little voice chirped at him.
Nico jumped and the turtle swam quickly behind Percy, peaking over his shoulder, fins hiding his face.
Percy chuckled. "He was just saying hi," he conveyed.
Nico got a guilty look on his face as he saw how adorable the little turtle was. "Hello, little guy," he said softly, holding out his hand to the turtle.
The turtle swam straight to him and curled up against his chest.
'He likes me!' he exclaimed excitedly.
Percy smiled at the precious sight of Nico and the baby turtle. "He's excited you like him."
"Can we keep him?" Nico asked.
A dark look grew on Percy's face and the water's darkened. "Absolutely not! He has a family! His mother and father would miss him! You cannot take this darling little turtle away from his family!"
The turtle, in turn, hid behind Nico scared of his prince.
Nico held his hands up defensively. "I'm sorry, Perce. I didn't mean to. I didn't think about it."
"No you didn't," Percy said just as two big turtles swam over. He smiled as they nudged and nuzzled their son before waving fins and swimming off.
"Come on," the son of Poseidon said. "I want to show you something." He grabbed the Italian's hand and swam off.
They swam past all kinds of lake fish and at one point, Nico freaked out as a water snake appeared from a bed of lake kelp only to bow to his prince and then disappear again. The snake poked its head out of the lake kelp, bent in half, said, "Good day, my prince", and disappeared again. Nico's panic did not immediately subside. He was so sure that thing was going to eat him. He hated being completely defenseless. He couldn't kill Percy's subjects and fighting under water would be very difficult. He couldn't even summon proper skeleton warriors. Any skeletons he did summon were catfish skeletons and scary looking snake things so he decided against summoning anything dead and just decided to wing it and trust Percy.
"Man, these guys love you," Nico commented after that encounter.
Percy looked at him with an amused smirk. "What can I say? I'm a lovable prince."
'That you are,' Nico thought to himself.
"Come on. We're almost there," Percy said, tugging on Nico's arm as they swam deeper into the lake.
Nico was trying very hard not to panic as the water got darker and darker and darker until he couldn't see. It didn't even occur to him his lungs should have been crushed a hundred feet ago. He was more worried about the glowing lights appearing in the darkness. Anyone who had seen finding Nemo would know these lights belonged to big, terrifying, weird looking fish that wanted to eat you.
However, before Nico could even formulate a way to voice his fears, they died away. Percy put his feet down on the bottom of the lake. The lights stretched above them, bright, white lights making it look bright as day. There was a glass dome that Percy lead him towards. Nico could see everything inside it; a round bed with blue sheets and pillows, blue tiles on the floor, more lights, a big bath that looked look a small pool with a fountain in the middle that was a statue of Poseidon, pouring water out of the three prongs of his trident aimed down so that you could stand/sit/float beneath it and have water pour on you, a soft looking rug, a huge three pained mirror, and an alter. He looked at Percy curiously. The son of Poseidon's face showed his concentration as he opened the doors and used his power of controlling water to keep the water out of the dome.
Percy ushered Nico in and followed, closing the doors behind him.
"What is this place?" Nico asked, looking around in awe.
Percy looked around and smiled softly. "It's a sanctuary my father built for me whenever I needed to feel close to him. He had a tunnel dug that lead straight to the sea so that whenever I needed him I could come here." He approached the altar, said a prayer of thanks and then turned back to Nico. "Neither one of us ever told anyone else this existed. Triton doesn't even know so please, please, please don't tell anyone," he begged with big, pleading sea-green eyes.
Nico nodded solemnly. Like he could ever resist those eyes. "I won't share your secret with anyone."
"Dead or alive," Percy said stubbornly.
"Dead or alive," Nico repeated with a caring smile.
Percy's face broke out in a smile. "Well, what do you say about a bath and then a nap?" he asked. Keeping Nico alive had been exhausting. He stripped down until he was naked and, being sure to keep his back to Nico, stepped into the warm, soapy bath water.
Nico quickly followed suit although, the only thought in his head was, 'Damn. That ass!'
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Leo smiled innocently at Hazel and Frank as he took away the breakfast tray. "I'm going to go do the dishes and clean around the house," he said happily as he walked out of the room, caramel ass swaying with each step. "You just relax in bed and let me take care of you. If you need anything, call!" he finished.
He sighed and placed the tray on the kitchen counter. He unloaded it and began slowly washing the dishes by hand, getting lost in thought. He had been extremely pleased with himself earlier, but Frank and Hazel seemed to have very good self control. If not for a lustful glint in Frank's eye, Leo would have been too discouraged to do anything more and probably would have left.
The firebug quickly dried the dishes and put them away in their respective places in cabinets and drawers. He walked to the living room and shook his head. Hazel was amazing, but her cleaning could use improvement. He quickly reached for Frank's iPod and searched through it. Finding no suitable music, he pulled up Pandora, put on his favorite station (Shakira radio) and began cleaning.
He started by dusting every flat surface in the room and then moved onto vacuuming the carpets. With every step, his hips swayed, singing along to Objection. He looked around the room and then dove back into the cleaning closet.
Still pantless, the adorable Latino got down on his hands and knees to begin shining the floor, his behind moving around to the beat of Hips Don't Lie. He didn't hear anyone approach, but the sudden intake of breath told him that whoever it was liked what they saw. He turned his head, craning his neck, and smiled. "I thought I told you to call if you needed anything," he said, blinking his chocolate brown eyes at the muscular Asian standing behind him.
Anything Frank was going to say or ask for completely disappeared from his mind. The sight in front of him went straight down to his groins. He couldn't help it. Such a delicious looking firebug like that on his knees, looking at Frank, shaking his nice bottom…it was enough to drive even the most disciplined heroes crazy.
"Yes?" Leo said expectantly, not moving.
Frank blinked and then walked out of the room. This crushed Leo.
Frank hurried to his and Hazel's room and grabbed his girlfriend, pulling her out of bed. "You need to see Leo. He's shining the floor on his knees and he has on this Latino music, Shakira I think, and his ass is shaking and I can't think straight." He pulled her back to the living room, only to find Leo picking up the cleaning supplies and putting them back in the closet with the Shakira music turned off.
When Frank reappeared with Hazel, Leo's spirits rose. He turned to look at the two, closing the closet door behind him. "Can I help you with anything?" he asked sweetly, biting his lip.
Frank opened and closed his mouth. He knew what he wanted. He wanted to tie the firebug down, spank him for being such a bad firebug and then fuck him senseless. That however, would probably not be the best thing to do.
Hazel, however, had an idea. "Actually," she purred. "Yes, there is something you can do." She twirled Leo's charcoal curls around her finger and smiled. "Frank and I were just saying we were bored and needed some entertainment and I think you'd be perfect for just that job. So why don't you turn Shakira back on. Frank and I will sit here on the couch and you can dance for us. When you've satisfied us, we'll find something else for you to do, yeah?" Her hand slid down to caress his cheek before giving it a light smack. "Get going, firebug!" she snapped demandingly. She sank down onto the couch with Frank. He put his arm around her and she folded her hands over her pregnant stomach.
Leo blushed bright red, cheek stinging slightly from the slap. He nodded obediently and quickly turned the music back on, plugging it into the speakers. He took a shaky breath. He couldn't believe Hazel asked him to dance for them. He was so scared he wasn't going to satisfy her. He wanted nothing more than to make her happy. With that final thought, he closed his eyes and started to sway his hips, moving his hands and body in the most alluring ways.
Any and all plans I had for this fic went out the window. All of these characters just kind of took control of the story. I hope you guys love this chapter! It kind was supposed to be different, but I hope you love what I did with Percy and Nico. It'll lead to snuggling and fluff in the next chapter. And don't you Takara Phoenix love what I did with Leo? You'll love what I'm planning for him in the next chapter. Sorry it's been so long in between updates. Review! Thank you so much!