Disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson and the Olympians or Heroes of Olympus.
Warning: enchanted mistletoe, slightly paranoid Nico, devious Will, pre-slash and slash
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Those damned Hecate kids.
Nico knew that this was all their doing, of course. They might be in cahoots with the Aphrodite and Hermes cabins, but the Hecate cabin would be the one who made this all possible.
It all started a week ago.
When the Son of Hades woke up, he left his cabin only to see a few people standing in random places, banging on some invisible barrier as they tried to get out. Upon further inspection, there was a sliver of mistletoe above every single one of them.
Seeing that, the Son of Hades gave all of the trapped campers a wide birth, and was careful not to get trapped beneath one himself.
As the day went on, stories started spreading about how these little traps worked. Once a person was underneath it, a barrier would spring up and trap them in a circle about 8 feet wide. They couldn't get out, but people could get trapped with them.
Once that had happened, the two people needed to kiss for ten seconds before the barrier fell and they were allowed to leave.
There was also the fact that the longer the two people stayed inside the barrier, it would get smaller and smaller until they were forced together…
Now, a week later, Nico had started to get paranoid, eyes darting around to assess his surroundings every time he took a step.
Granted, he wasn't the only one to avoid the damn things so carefully. Jason and Piper also avoided them, since Drew kept trying to get the Son of Jupiter trapped with her and Piper wasn't about to kiss anyone else anyway. Hazel and Frank, too, who preferred to avoid PDA. And anyone who tried to get a kiss from Reyna quickly found themselves in the infirmary.
Others, like Percy and Annabeth, didn't particularly care if they were caught under the irritating plants; they just kissed and went on their merry way.
There were also a few people who had tried to catch Nico under the mistletoe, most of them girls even though it was no longer a secret that he was gay. Unfortunately, none of those campers were Will.
Nico flushed as he thought of his crush, ducking his head so that no one saw it (mostly Jason, who was way too concerned about Nico's 'love life').
Later that day, just as the sun was starting to go down, Nico was walking back to his cabin with Will, who was still worried about Nico fading if he took his eyes off of him for one second.
The two were talking about random things like what they would do if they could do anything without the gods interfering (or killing them) for doing it. The son of Apollo walked into the cabin with Nico, not paying attention, and suddenly the two hit a wall.
Both of the boys groaned, having hit the 'wall' face first. Nico's eyes widened as he didn't see what he had hit, and he automatically glanced up to see a mistletoe hanging from the roof.
"Oh gods…" Nico mumbled in disbelief as Will glanced up too. "Someone actually came in here to put that up, and my father didn't kill them?"
"That goes against pretty much everything we're told from the time we arrive at camp." Will agreed, smiling inwardly. He'd been praying to Hades during meals for the last three weeks, asking the Lord of the Dead not to kill him when he put it up.
Thank Olympus it had worked…
Nico froze as he realized what this meant. On one hand, he would have the opportunity to kiss the guy he'd been crushing on for months. There was no way around that. On the other, this might end up being so awkward that Will didn't want to be around him anymore. Not that Nico understood why he wanted to in the first place.
"So…" Will said awkwardly. He'd had this whole thing planned out, but the mini-speech he'd thought out had flown out of his mind the moment he looked into Nico's gorgeous dark brown (Will thought that were black until recently) eyes.
"So…" Nico repeated, still trying to determine if this was a good thing or a bad thing.
'Here goes nothing.' Will thought, suddenly leaning forward with his eyes closed and brushing his lips against Nico's.
Nico gasped slightly as Will initiated the kiss, before he also closed his eyes and responded. This was his first kiss, so he didn't really know what to do, but Will didn't seem to mind as he reached up to cup Nico's cheek and pull him even closer.
The two of them didn't even notice the barrier fall.
When the two ran out of oxygen, they parted just long enough to take in more, before going right back to what they were doing.
They had both lost count at this point. First kiss…second…third…fourth…fifth…
Eventually they managed to stop kissing (mostly because the lack of sufficient oxygen was making them dizzy), and the two boys leaned against the wall, with Nico in Will's arms, both of them too content to move.
"Please tell me that wasn't because of the mistletoe." Nico said after a moment. He didn't actually think that it was, considering Will hadn't pulled away and ran when the barrier fell, but he had to make sure.
"It wasn't." Will answered, trying to calm down the kittens bouncing around in his stomach. They'd been bothering him for months. He'd even started naming them: Nico Jr. Mini-Nico. Ghostie. Boo. After all, they only ever showed up when he was with Nico, or thinking about him.
Yeah, he wasn't very creative.
Oh well.
"Good." Nico responded, smiling a bit with skeletal butterflies flying around in his own stomach. He leaned farther back into Will, appreciating the warmth radiating off of the Son of Apollo.
The next day, people were surprised that when Nico and Will were trapped together, Will just shrugged before leaning down and giving the Son of Hades a passionate kiss. That Nico didn't freak out on him and have the ground swallow the Son of Apollo was testament to the fact that this had happened before…
Of course, the two boys' intertwined hands as they walked away once the barrier fell was a pretty good indication of that, too.
From the Underworld, Hades smirked. It was about damn time that sunny brat finally found the courage to act on his desperate longing for Nico. He was certainly a better option than Poseidon's brat…the kid even had the brains to beg to him ahead of time not to kill him for what he was planning.
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By the way, I've started yet another Solangelo story. I'm about to post the first chapter, so go ahead and check it out! This one, unlike most of my other Solangelo stories, will actually be multi-chapter. No bouncing around and whatnot.
