Nico

As soon as Will said "I'm gay, too", Nico felt a wave of relief splashing over him. All the time spent waiting and hoping, all the prayers to his father and all the sacrifices of his meal to Apollo, finally put themselves to use. It felt like he was in heaven, everything got slower and blurry, just like he was drugged... -again. Please not Cupid again, Nico thought. But it wasn't Cupid, it was just Will's confession and the hug. Yes, the hug was amazing. Nico didn't even notice that he haven't hugged this amazing human being before. But it was definitely worth waiting, the smell of flowery shampoo and just Will's typical, indescribable smell in his golden, wavy hair, the muscular arms wrapped around him and the scruff rubbing his shoulder. Completely safe and humble, Nico thought about his life, about his first encounter with Percy, then travelling alone in the shadows, the quest and how his life was now. Full of people, which he called his friends. Never before he felt so wanted and belonging to somewhere and he was happy that he could experience it.

Suddenly Will lay down, pulling Nico with him. The son of Hades found his head laying sideways on Will's chest and listened to his boyfriends steady but fast heartbeat, probably because of the excitement of the past couple minutes. Realizing he just thought about Will being his boyfriend, he was unsure if he could call him that yet. Should he wait until they were officially together? Or were they together anyway? With his stomach full from the delicious meal, the rhythmic beats of Will's heart and the warmth of the other boy's body, Nico snuggled himself into Will's arm and soon drifted into a deep sleep.

A knock on the door woke Nico up. He opened his eyes and found himself looking at a light beige ceiling. Confused since when the ceioling of the Hades cabin had this color and also why he couldn't feel his arm, he turned his head around only to realize that he was still laying on Will who also just woke up. Nico blushed but also felt a wave of excitement coming up. He will go on a date with his favorite person in the world pretty soon!

His thoughts were interrupted by Annabeth stepping in the room while saying, "Hey Will, are you in here? We wanted to do the planning for tomorrow's…". She stopped in the middle of her sentence and stared at the two boys laying on top of each other, looking tired and really embarrassed. Nico's face was, in fact, the color of a tomato but also Will had a pretty red face. If Annabeth hadn't known better, she would have thought that they were in a blushing contest but evidently it was just her seeing them in a position like that.

"H-Hey Annabeth", Nico stammered, sitting up on Will's legs.

"Hey Nico", Annabeth replied with a wink, "I didn't expect you being in here."

"Oh, umm, we were just… talking about… stuff. Tomorrow and, uhhh, the- the… game! Of course, the game!", Will managed to say, also sitting up now, using his arms as support.

"Uh, yeah I can totally see that!", Annabeth teasingly responded, "Looks like an interesting talking position."

Even more embarrassed, Will said, "Uhh… We…"

"It's alright, Will.", Annabeth stated, "Just try to lie to the daughter of wisdom. And I'm totally fine with it. in fact, Nico asked about you anyway."

"Annabeth!", Nico stared at her and blushed even more as Will turned around to give him a questioning look.

"Did you really?", Apollo's son asked Nico. His expression was curious and excited.

"Not really, I mean… maybe?", Nico's voice went up and quiet, "But just once"

"Aww, how sweet.", Will smiled, "Anyway, sorry Annabeth, I forgot the meeting. Wasn't it supposed to be at two? What's the time now?"

"Three thirty", Annabeth checked her watch,"But it's fine, I was just worried that something happened. And it did", she added, winking again. "And we came up with a solid plan for tomorrow evening, I'll explain it later. Oh, and, is Nico playing with us?", she asked.

"We haven't talked about that yet", Will replied, turning around to face Nico again, "Are you?"

"Well I guess. ...I can't let you fight there without protection I mean", Hades' son grinned.

"Without protection?", Will picked up the joke and built it up even more, "I'll have to carry around my entire medic set to just keep you alive down there!"

"Oh we'll see that, Solace", Nico laughed.

"So this is settled then", Annabeth said, interrupting the love birds, as she already called them in her head.

"Apparently", Nico ended the conversation and quickly added as Annabeth was attempting to leave the two alone, "I was about to go anyway, you wanna wait for me?"

"Uhh, sure?", she replied confused but also with a warm smile. She expected him wanting to talk about the situation.

Will too, gave Nico a weird look as the boy stood up and ran his fingers through his hair. "See you tonight then?", Apollo's son asked with hope in his eyes.

"Of course!", Nico smiled, turning around to his crush and smirking teasingly.

Will blushed, still sitting on his bed on one leg, the other one hanging down. He played with the bed sheets, not knowing what to say next, and both could see how inexperienced he was in a situation like that. Nico turned around, smiling about the embarrassed Will and pulling Annabeth's arm to get out of the room. He didn't want to make the boy with the golden hair uncomfortable any second longer than necessary. Annabeth managed to shout "Bye, Will", before she stumbled into Nico, waiting for her outside. Both were eager to talk about what happened but none of them wanted to start the conversation so they ended up walking around aimlessly until Annabeth finally broke the silence.
"So?", she asked eagerly clearly happy and excited about Nico and Will.

"So?", Nico replied sarcastically, "What's up?"

"Oh come on!", Annabeth bursted out, "You know what I mean! What happened? Since when are you guys so close? And why didn't you tell me earlier?!", she added angrily.

With a sigh Nico started to tell her the story. He went all the way back way back in time to his days in the infirmary, Will's morning-visits, his search for Leo and finally the lunch. Hades' son didn't leave any detail out and he felt great to trust somebody with his deepest emotions,

his old self would never have done that.

Hey Guys!

First of all, sorry for letting you wait. I had some school stuff to do and was on a festival, besides that were some tests this week and I had to turn in a project. Anyway, I just wanted to talk to you guys a little bit and tell you about me!

I am Tobi, a wannabe actor and singer but I spread my wings and try out new stuff like writing or drawing (though I'm not really good at either) but I keep trying to learn new things and make myself a better human being.

I really enjoy your reviews, some of them are helpful, some are confusing but I still enjoy all of them. If you do have any problems, concernes, questions or suggestions, just let me know by Personal Message or Review!

To my writing: I am not from America, Great Britain or any other English speaking country! English is my second language, I've been learning it for 6 years now so please excuse my grammar and spelling (and any Typo's, I try to eliminate them as good as I can by reading it through over and over). I am trying my best to get the correct sayings and way of spelling words but evidently I don't always get it right.

The story in general is supposed to be similar but not identical to the Percy Jackson characters. I added my own little touch to them and made them live in my own little world, where I am the author and can change their directions. Yet, I often visit "Camp Half Blood Wiki" to get the correct spelling and names of things, as I said, I try my best. Of course it's not as good as good old Rick did it, but hey, I try (:

As I said: Please let me know of any mistakes or misspellings (I really want to get my English going without any mistakes in it, it would mean so much to me!) and also your suggestions, questions and even if you just want to tell me how you are feeling or doing, I'd love to hear it.

Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoy the story so far! Chapter 7 is almost done, I'll edit and post it soon!

Love y'all,

Tobi