Hello everyone! I hope everyone is having a great day/night/week!

So I have decided that I am going to be writing Corpse Bride as a Percico ficlet for Halloween!

And now here's the new chapter I hope you guys like it! Sorry for any misspellings and grammatical errors.

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Two weeks later

"House meeting!" Hazel called throughout the hall, loud enough to wake up the other occupants. "Come on guys! House meeting, wake up!"

"House meeting in fifteen minutes, get ready!" Jason called out, joining Hazel in waking up their roommates.

"They are gonna be so mad," Hazel giggled.

"Eh, it's mostly Marina and Leo who are gonna be mad, Nico's gotta work. I'll make coffee." Jason headed for the kitchen, knowing that his roommates would definitely be mad at them for having to wake up so early. It was the day off for Marina and Leo, so they would be the only ones actually mad, Nico had already been up.

Jason thought back to a week ago when Nico had told Jason that Percy and him were trying to work things out, and Jason was not happy to say the least. He told Nico that he would watch Percy like a hawk, and if it looked like he was up to no good, Jason would make sure that Percy never came near Nico again. He would make good on that promise. Jason did not want to see Nico get hurt again, and he definitely did not trust Percy.

He set to making coffee before any of his roommates woke up and started to berate him for making them get up so early.

...

"Why are they so loud?" Henry complained, he had gotten out of the hospital a week ago and was now resting up at Leo's place. Why? Because the chief caught wind that Henry and Leo were now married, and the chief did not look so convinced when he confronted Leo about it. So to make it seem plausible, Leo had Henry move in with him. Jason, Nico, Hazel and Marina were surprised by the news, and had lectured both of them on how dumb and impulsive this had been. That didn't mean that they didn't understand and would try everything they could to help out and make it seem real.

"Sorry about that," Leo yawned as he turned around in bed, not wanting to get up so early on his day off. Henry turned to face the clock on the bedside table and saw that it was seven thirty in the morning.

"Leo!" They heard the voice of Marina behind the door call after Leo, "get up. If I have to get up, so do you."

"Ugh," Leo tossed around in bed until letting out a sigh and getting up.

"I'll be back, you just keep on sleeping," Leo told Henry as he made his way out.

At first, living with Henry and making it easy for him to adjust to everyone had been incredibly awkward in the beginning. Nico and Jason were convinced that Leo had done an incredibly stupid thing without thinking it through. Fortunately Leo managed to convince Nico to let Henry live with them for the time being until he got a place of his own. Since Henry hadn't planned to stay that long in New York after the surgery, he didn't have anywhere else to go and so was offered a place to stay with Leo after he came out of surgery. It had been two weeks that Henry had lived in the house and tried to adjust to the many people around him. So far, it was going good, and of course that had a lot to do with Leo making sure he was okay almost all of the time.

Since they began living together, Leo and Henry talked more often and got to know each other better. Leo told Henry about his mom, Esperanza Valdez and how she owned a mechanic shop with her husband. He told Henry more about Apollo and how he still had feelings for the other male, Leo talked to Henry more about his VHL, and when it started, which was when he was 20. And in return, Henry told Leo about his own parents, who had died because of a plane crash, and drew Leo a few pictures. He did make Leo a promise to show him his artwork.

After the surgery and resting up as much as he could, Henry felt better and thought that he could get a normal job now. Maybe try to help out Leo in a way since Leo had already done so much for him.

...

"Morning everyone!" Jason greeted once Leo came into the kitchen and everyone was gathered around the kitchen island.

"Ugh, you're dreadfully cheery, that needs to stop," Marina scowled as she sipped her morning coffee that Jason had kindly poured in her sugar skull mug.

"Wow, really? And after I poured you coffee in your favorite mug? You can go back to sleep after this," Jason drawled out.

"Fine, I won't say anything, thanks by the way," Marina said and continued drinking coffee.

"Okay, as you all know, Hazel and I have sent out invitations to almost everyone we work with for the Halloween Bash we're throwing in five days. We need to know if you guys are gonna be able to help and if you're gonna dress up, so Nico? What are you doing?"

"I'll get the food with Hazel and we'll cook some good filling food."

"It's gonna be so delicious!" Hazel chimed in.

"Okay, and is Percy coming?" Jason asked Nico, to which he received a nod. "Okay and what are you gonna be dressing up as?"

"Sorry Grace, not telling. It's gonna be a surprise," Nico smiled contentedly.

"Fine," Jason huffed, "Leo what are you doing?"

"Well I know how to fiddle a bit with electronics and mechanics so I'm definitely gonna be doing the all of the wiring for some spooky effects," Leo told them, "and I have no idea as to what my costume is gonna be..."

"We'll figure it out, I work a short shift today so if you want, we can go shopping for a costume for you and Henry?" Hazel asked Leo.

"Hazel, you're too sweet and kind, yeah sounds good," Leo told her.

"Okay, me and Hazel are in charge of decorations, and I'm dressing up as Captain America," Jason told them.

"And I'm dressing up as a maiden warrior with Frank!"

"Frank's gonna be a maiden? I think he already broke his oath," Leo teased.

"Shut up Leo!" Hazel told him while laughing.

"What are you gonna do Marina?" Jason asked her.

"I'm gonna do music, drinks; because we obviously need alcohol, and sweets. We need sweets, it's Halloween. And my costume is gonna be something with sugar skulls," Marina smiled to herself.

"Awesome! Halloween's in five days, let's get to work!" Jason whooped loudly.

"Yeah, literally. We better leave or we'll be late, see ya Leo, Marina," Nico told them, and then said as loud as he could, "bye Henry!"


"Did you hear about that Halloween Bash that Dare's residents are throwing?" Percy asked Luke as they walked down the hallway together.

"Yeah, what about it?" Luke asked.

"Are you going?"

"Yeah..."

"Are you going to dress up?"

"Yeah..." Luke answered slowly.

"What as?" Percy pestered on.

"Why do you wanna know?"

"I'm curious because... are you gonna do that couple thing that couples do for Halloweeen with Marina?" Percy asked innocently as Luke's face flushed momentarily.

A week ago, Luke told Percy that he and Marina were trying to go steady. Percy had been pestering Luke and Nico as to why she had shown up one day at work with her face beat up. And so he was told by Marina that her ex had done that to her, to which Percy angrily responded with, 'let me beat his ass! Luke, get your brass knuckles ready!' Luke, Jason, Nico, Leo and especially Marshall were livid that Marina hadn't gone to the police, they had even started plotting to go over his place and teach him a lesson, with Percy and Will in tow, but Marina put a stop to that.

And so after the whole fiasco was put to rest, Luke and Marina went out on small dates, which was why that question was brought up.

"No, I'm not too big on dressing up for Halloween so when I did go and buy one, it was last minute and she had her costume picked out long before. So no, maybe next year, who knows," Luke honestly told Percy.

"Are you gonna do that with Nico?" Luke asked as they made their way inside of Percy's office and sat down.

"No, Nico picked out his outfit without me, said he wanted to surprise me and stand out."

"What are you going as?" Luke asked Percy.

"I'm going as a pirate, you?"

"Mad hatter."

"Do you know what everyone is dressing up as?" Percy asked curiously.

"Why do you care?" Luke drawled out.

"Because they're gonna be doing this thing where they vote on which costume is the best, I mean like half of the hospital staff is going. Nurses, residents, fellows, attendings and even interns are going to this thing. Thank God Nico's house is huge."

"What's the prize?"

"Hm?" Percy asked, seemingly lost in thought about the bash.

"What's the prize of winning best costume?" Luke asked again.

"Oh, a trip getaway to this bed and breakfast thing that includes a spa, and if you win and you're with someone that person gets to go with you. I thought, ya know, I could try to win and take Nico..." Percy blushed momentarily.

Two weeks ago, Nico and Percy had slowly eased into a relationship together, and of course that made Annabeth furious. But Nico was still hesitant about having sex with Percy, mostly due to his insecurity that Percy would leave him for Annabeth. Percy just wanted to prove to Nico once and for all that Percy was completely his. To Percy, the relationship felt a bit off, and he wanted to make things go back to normal.

"Well," Luke broke through his thoughts, "I know Will and Marshall are doing that couple thing, Marshall is going as Marshall-Lee from that kid's show-"

"Adventure Time is not a kid's show!" Percy cut in.

"Whatever, aimed for kids, and Will 's going as Prince Gumball," Luke and Percy shared a laugh.

"Oh God, is Will going to dye his hair pink like Apollo once did?" Percy asked laughing hard, remembering how Apollo looked when he dyed his hair pink with a spray can. It had washed off in a couple of days but that didn't stop Apollo from looking like a pink poodle because of his curly hair.

"No, he's wearing a wig, after the whole thing with Apollo, he said he didn't want a repeat," Luke told him, chuckling slightly.

"Okay, well I know Piper is going as Pocahontas and Jason is going as Captain America," Percy shared.

"Thalia is going as Cat Woman and Rachel's going as Black Widow. I heard Frank is going as a Roman Gladiator and Hazel is going as a maiden warrior... whatever that is," Luke said.

"I hear Apollo is going too, and he's dressing up as Connor from Assassin's Creed."

"I wonder how Leo's gonna react..." Luke absently asked.

"I wonder what Leo is gonna dress up as and then there's Henry too, you heard about that right?" Percy asked Luke, to which he received a nod, "I wonder how Apollo's doing. He may have been in denial but he obviously liked Leo more than he let on and he still does."

"Lucy is going as Black Canary and Octavian is going as a caveman. And Reyna is going as a steampunk girl, whatever that is." Luke added, trying to figure out how to break the news to Percy.

"Oh that's cool, it suits Reyna. A lot of people are doing the superhero theme now..."

"Yeah, Perce, you do know that... Annabeth is going to this party too right?" Luke paused and looked to see Percy's reaction.

Percy let out a heavy sigh, "well, it can't be helped. She does work there and the chief gonna be there. He's already frowned down upon my situation with her and Nico." Percy said, looking drained.

"Yeah, she's going and I hear she's going as Tinkerbell..." Luke slowly told Percy.

Percy groaned in frustration. Tinkerbell had always been his favorite costume on any girl, it just looked so adorable, especially if the girl was an actual blonde. Annabeth had dressed up as Tinkerbell once for Halloween their junior year in high school, and that's what got them to start dating. Now, Annabeth was bringing back the old costume, hoping it would tease Percy into coming back to her.

"Why? Why does she have to do this?"

"Well, I mean, let's just see what Nico is going dressed as..." Luke offered the small advice hoping it would help.

"Yeah, you're right. I don't need to focus on Annabeth or her possibly great Tinkerbell outfit."

"You're not having second thoughts are you?"

"Hell no!"

"Good," Luke said, smiling.

Suddenly both of their pagers went off.

"Code black?" Percy asked, "why is it code black?"

"Who knows, but let's go." Luke got up with Percy in tow.

They made their way to where they saw a lot of doctors gathered together. In the mix, Luke saw Jason and Hazel with tears in her eyes. Percy saw patients getting evacuated and saw police men telling visitors to leave the area immediately. He looked around for Nico, but couldn't find him anywhere. Something was going on and Percy just hoped that Nico was safe and by the looks of things, out of the hospital.

Percy saw Luke making his way towards Jason and Hazel and followed after. If anyone knew where Nico was, it would be those two.

"Have you seen Nico?" Percy asked.

The only response he got was from Hazel as more tears streamed down her face. Jason looked pale and scared, that set a bad feeling in Percy's stomach.

"Where is Nico?" Percy asked again, but with more force.

"T-this guy came in, and it was n-normal, the whole thing seemed normal. H-he was just a stupid guy that had something stuck in his gut..." Jason stuttered, which wasn't like him.

"What? What are you talking about? That doesn't make any sense. Where is Nico?"

"Percy calm down, people are starting to look," Luke said, trying to ease the tension.

"I don't care, I just wanna know where Nico is!"

"Percy, relax," Will spoke as he made his way over with Apollo and Marshall.

"What is going on?" Percy asked getting panicked by the minute. Where was Nico? Why was Hazel crying? Why wouldn't anyone answer his questions? What was going on? Why were people getting evacuated and why was there a code black?

"N-Nico was prepping him, and it was a normal surgery..." Jason kept on talking, as if he were in a trance.

"I was there, Jason shut up," Will spoke up. "Some guy came in with something lodged in his gut, and one the paramedics was holding onto the thing. It was a bomb that was created at home because the guy was gong to be reenacting a war. Nico examined him first and then together we scrubbed in for surgery to remove it. The paramedic had started to cry and panic about her hand being inside a man's gut and how it was going to blow up. We didn't think it'd be serious until I opened him up and had to tell the bomb diffusers what type of bomb it was. They said that everyone needed to clear the room except for the person holding onto the bomb because it could blow at any second if they took their hands out. With that the paramedic started panicking even more, until she took her hand out and left running. The rest of the nurses and I all ducked for cover half expecting for the bomb to go off until..."

"Until what?!" Percy shouted.

"Until I looked over and saw that Nico had taken hold of the bomb. The bomb diffusers came and we were all forced to leave except him. Percy I'm sorry, I really tried to stay there with him but they wouldn't let me." Will looked guilty for having to leave Nico all alone. Before he left, Nico told Will to tell Percy that he loved him, in case he didn't make it.

"He... he told me, to tell you-"

"Shut up," Percy interrupted in an eerily calm voice.

"That he loves you, in case he doesn't make it."

"Shut the fuck up!"

"Percy calm down!" Luke shouted.

"You're telling me that my boyfriend, the person I care about, the person I love, is stuck inside an OR with his hand inside of a bomb that would go off at any second!"

"Now, then, if I could have your attention please," Chief Brunner announced, "we will be evacuating the building. As some of you may have heard, there is a bomb inside the building and it could go off, so we must evacuate and do what is asked of us by the experts. Please exit this building immediately."

"No, I can't go. I can't leave. Not without Nico."

"Percy! Stop being difficult, please let's go..." Luke told Percy.

"I'm not moving!"

Luke, Apollo and Will looked at each other and nodded. If Percy wasn't going to move, then they would move him. They each grabbed onto Percy and forced him out of the building.

"No! Nico! Stop! Put me down! What if that was the person you loved in there? What would you do?" Percy shouted as he was carried out of the hospital.


Two hours ago

It had been a normal day. It had started out normally for Nico. How did it get this messed up? How did Nico end up with his hand stuck inside of a man's gut and a bomb that could go off at any minute? All Nico had been thinking of the whole day, was Percy, the Halloween Bash, and hoping for things to go back to normal between him and Percy. How in the world did he have such horrible luck?

"Dr. Di Angelo, this man here needs your attention," a nurse had called to Nico.

"What's the problem?" Nico asked as he took in the scene before him.

He saw a young paramedic, on the verge of panicking with her hand inside of the man's gut.

"Andy Matthews, forty five, has something lodged in his gut-"

"It's a bomb!" The young paramedic interrupted. Once she said that, everyone in the room stepped back.

"It's a bomb, a home made bomb. When he w-was still conscious, he told me he made this bomb because he was going to reenact a war scene. H-he thought it'd be cool to make an actual bomb that would explode when it got shot out of a cannon, but it somehow got stuck inside of his gut. And to make sure it didn't go off, I had to put my hand inside of it to keep it steady..." tears started to fall down her face as she explained to the nurses and Nico what had happened.

"Okay, page Dr. Solace, from general and let's get the chief notified of this problem. Come one people let's move and get this man some fluids, he's losing blood." Nico gave out orders as he and other nurses start to plug Mr. Matthews to some fluids and tried to stop him from bleeding out.

"What blood type is he?" Nico asked a nurse.

"AB," he responded.

"Let's get some AB blood type in here!" Nico shouted.

"Okay, what's going on? Di Angelo, fill me in," Will asked as he made his way in the already crowded room.

"Andy Matthews, forty five years old, blood type is AB and I had someone go get blood from the blood bank since he's losing a lot of it, he's got a bomb lodged in his gut with the paramedic keeping it place so it doesn't blow, I've had the chief notified of the situation," Nico quickly told Will what was happening.

"What's the chief's response? Someone, go get me the chief!" Will shouted.

It took two minutes for the chief to get there, by that time, Nico and Will had Mr. Matthews plugged in and had blood pumping into his system.

"I have called the police and they're sending in reinforcements, for now they need you two to go into the OR, and open him up so that the bomb diffusers can know what type of bomb they're going to be dealing with. We're gonna need people to scrub in and when you do open him up, they said to be careful, it could go off at any minute." Chief Brunner told Nico and Will.

The chief looked around the room before asking, "who volunteers to go in the OR and open up this man?"

"I'm sorry chief, I can't do this. It could go off at any minute, I've got a wife and a kid. I can't..." a nurse told the chief.

Once that was said, more people backed off of the surgery, not wanting to risk their lives. Until it was only just Will, Nico, and two nurses and one anesthesiologist.

The nurses went to go prepare the OR for the surgery that was about to be done as Will and Nico moved Mr. Matthews as carefully as possible into an elevator and up to the OR. The young paramedic started to hyperventilate, and Nico tried his best to calm her down, lest they risk a bomb going off.

"Hey, what's your name? I never got your name," Nico asked her, trying to distract her from the situation.

"C-Christie, and you?"

"I'm Nico, are you new? I don't think I've seen you before."

"Yeah, I started six months ago, I never t-thought that I'd..." Christie began to whimper softly.

"Hey, it's okay Christie, me and Dr. Solace here are going to do everything we can to make sure you and Andy get out in one piece okay?"

"How can you be sure?" Christie let out a small sob, her heart was racing and her muscles were getting tired from holding onto the bomb for so long.

"I'm not sure, and I don't even know if we are going to make it out alive. But you've gotta have hope, and trust me on this, okay?" Nico asked her, in a gentle, soothing tone that made even Will believe Nico's words.

They made it out of the elevator and Nico told Christie that she would have to wait inside the OR, by herself for a few minutes while he scrubbed in.

Now that Nico was no longer trying to distract Christie, he felt the weight of the situation fall heavily on his shoulders. There was a bomb, stuck inside a man's gut, and Will and him needed to take it out before it explodes. Nico realized for the first time, that he could die here. Will could die here, everyone inside that OR could die if that bomb were to go off. He felt scared for a moment, but Nico couldn't afford to feel that way now, he had to be concentrated on saving that idiot's life.

Yes, that man was a complete moron to have a bomb stuck inside his gut, and Nico felt no remorse calling the guy an idiot.

"Okay," Will said, breaking through Nico's thoughts, "are you ready?"

Nico gave a curt nod before following Will into the room and getting gowned up.

Will carefully opened the man up slowly, and was the first to one to see the bomb. It didn't look like anything, but if it had enough power to blow you to bits, you had to be careful. Christie let out a small whimper as Will, per instructions by the chief told the man in charge of the bomb diffuser crew what kind of bomb it looked like. After that Will was told to clear the room, that everyone had to leave except for the paramedic holding the bomb in place because if she let go, the bomb would go off.

Once Christie heard that she was going to be left alone in the OR with the bomb, she started to have a full blown panic attack.

"No! Please don't leave me here alone! Please don't! I don't think I can do this, I can't!" Christie began to stumble and sob out loud.

"Christie," Nico called out to the paramedic in a firm tone, "calm down. We need you to calm down-"

"No! I'm not- I can't- I'm not doing this!"

"Christie wait!" Will shouted, but he was too late. Christie had already taken her hand out of the man's gut and fled from the OR.

Will and the people left behind threw themselves on the floor and ducked. When nothing happened, Will looked up and saw that the reason of why the bomb didn't go off was because Nico had taken hold of it.

"Nico..." Will breathed out.

"Just go. They told you guys to leave right?" Nico said in a tight voice, "so just go."

"I'm not leaving you here alone," Will protested.

"We were going to leave a young paramedic alone here, and you won't leave me alone because we work together? That doesn't seem fair."

"You're right, it's not fair, but you're more than a co-worker. You're a friend and I can't just leave you here," Will told Nico, and just then men in navy blue outfits came in and told everyone to leave the room.

"Tell Percy I love him, please, in case I don't make it..." Nico said in a strangely small voice.

"You are going to make it, but don't worry I will tell him," Will promised Nico.

"Okay, Dr. Solace explain to me the situation. I was told a young paramedic would be the one holding the bomb in place, not a doctor." A man that seemed to be the leader or chief of the unit asked Will the question.

"Yes, she was, until she was told that she was going to be here alone and panicked and took her hand out. Luckily for us, Dr. Di Angelo had fast reflexes and kept the bomb in place," Will informed the man.

"Okay then, well you're going to need to exit the room and leave us to do our work."

With that Will was ushered out of the OR, and Nico was left alone with a bunch of people he didn't know.

The reality of the situation he was in dawned on Nico. Here he was, with his hand inside a man's gut to keep in the homemade bomb he built steady so that it wouldn't explode. Nico could die right now if the bomb diffuser made even a small mistake. Nico felt his pulse quicken and that's when it struck him, he was a afraid. Now he knew and felt what the paramedic must have been feeling the whole time since encountering this guy. He felt fear run up his spine and cloud his mind. Telling Nico to run because if he didn't he would die.

"Okay," the bomb diffuser guy interrupted his thoughts, "my name is chief Daniels and here's what we're gonna do. We are gonna slowly take the bomb out of that man's body and you're gonna close him up. I can't exactly diffuse the bomb with it still being inside the poor guy. After you close him up, you make your way out of the building as fast as possible, do you hear me?"

Nico's voice caught in his throat and he found that he couldn't speak, so he instead gave a nod to Chief Daniels.

"Okay good, now then, I want you to keep your hands as steady as possible and do not move them at all. If you do, we blow to bits."

With that being said, chief Daniels concentrated on lifting he bomb out of the cavity as slowly as possible. It felt like eternity until it was actually out of the guys body. Then very carefully, Nico lifted his hand off of the bomb.

It felt like hours but in reality it was just a minute, a very long minute until Nico was completely free of the bomb. Once he had his hands free, Nico set to work on closing up the patient who had already lost a lot of blood being out in the open for such a long time. It took three minutes tops for Nico to make sure the patient was receiving blood from the bag hanging overhead and for him to close the guy up.

Then the guys in the navy blue outfits helped Nico move the patient to a different location.

On his way out of the OR, Nico looked back at chief Daniels carrying the bomb carefully in his hands as he walked very slowly to two men at the end of the hallway. When all of a sudden, the bomb exploded and Nico flew backward because of the impact. Debris had gathered because there was a hole in the side of the wall, and where chief Daniels had once stood, there was an arm and leg lying around.

Nico felt sick to his stomach just looking at the scattered body parts of chief Daniels, knowing he had talked to the guy. He felt his stomach churn and felt the vomit rise up throat, he had never seen anything so gory in his life and he was a surgeon. But Nico didn't have time to go to a bathroom and throw up, he was picked up by police men and carried out of the building quickly.

...

Percy and the others had heard the explosion go off just a minute ago and the worst thoughts entered Percy's mind. Nico was dead. He was gone. Nico had died. Percy felt panic start to rise within him and grip his throat, he couldn't breathe, couldn't think straight, could barely even stand. Percy wobbled on his feet slightly, until Luke put his arm around Percy's shoulder. Nico was dead. That was the only thing going through his mind.

He heard Jason talking, Hazel crying, Will and Luke trying to reassure Percy and trying to talk to him, Apollo was trying to tell Percy to sit down, but all Percy heard were muffled sounds. His Nico was gone. He couldn't be, Nico just couldn't be dead. Percy felt his heart being ripped into a million pieces.

"NICO!" An agonizing scream was ripped out of Percy's mouth before he even knew what he was doing. Percy tried to run through doctors and nurses alike who were shocked by his sudden outburst, trying anything he could to get back into the building.

"Percy!" Luke yelled after him.

"Stop!" Apollo called as he, Luke, Will and Jason all ran after Percy.

"N-Nico! No Nico! Don't be dead! Please don't be gone! Don't leave me!" Percy zig zagged his way around the hordes of people blocking his way towards Nico.

Percy had just made it to the front of the doors when he was pulled back by Luke.

"Percy stop! Calm down!" Luke shouted.

"Nico!" Percy kept on yelling, turning his head every which way, trying to find the shaggy midnight black head of hair he'd become so familiar with.

And then Percy saw him. He saw Nico being carried out by police men, hauling him out of the building.

"Nico," Percy whispered and detached himself from Luke's hold to run towards his love.

"Nico, Nico!" Percy called out to the shorter male who turned just in time to see Percy barreling towards and sweeping him off his feet.

Of course that didn't help his already upset stomach. And so when he was put back down to the ground, Nico ripped himself away from Percy's hold to go over to the side and puke. He had held it in for as long as he could. When Nico turned around he saw Percy with a look of confusion on his face and Jason running towards him.

Once again he was pulled into another hug by Jason, and then another by Hazel as tears ran down her face. Soon he was enveloped in hug from Luke, Will, Marshall and Apollo. Before Nico could get a word in edge wise, he was pulled into Percy's arms again and heard Percy's erratic heartbeat.

"Nico, Nico, oh God Nico," Percy kept repeating Nico's name, running his hands through Nico's hair.
Percy pulled back and looked down on Nico's level and caressed Nico's cheek before kissing Nico's forehead. Percy closed his eyes tightly and then opened them and saw Nico's dark orbs looking at him in confusion. Nico had no idea why Percy was acting this way. Finally Percy kissed Nico and Nico was swallowed whole in the passionate display, he didn't care who was staring. To Nico, there was only him and Percy.

Percy pulled back from the kiss and locked gazes with Nico. He could not for the life of him believe that Nico was standing there, in the flesh, completely unharmed. He ran his hands through Nico's hair again and touched his face.

"Nico, oh God Nico, you're safe. You're alive. Oh God I thought-" Percy's voice caught in his throat. He couldn't bring himself to say those words.

"Hey, it's okay," Nico found himself comforting Percy. Even though Nico had been the one with his hand on a bomb.

"No Nico it's not, I thought I had lost you, I thought you were gone, I thought-" Percy rambled on until Nico pressed his lips onto Percy.

That had done the trick to silencing Percy. Nico swiped his tongue along the bottom of Percy's lips, asking for entrance and Percy granted it. Nico slipped his tongue inside Percy's mouth as he wrapped his arms on Percy's neck. Percy wound his arms around Nico's waist, and pressed Nico closer to his body. The kiss was hungry, with Percy ravishing Nico's lips, not wanting to let go.

That is until someone cleared their throat and Percy and Nico were forced to pull apart.

"Nico!" Hazel said as she pulled Nico into another hug.

"Unf, Hazel, you're crushing me," Nico told her in a strained voice.

"What happened in there? Why did you puke?" Jason asked Nico, looking at him in concern.

Nico pulled a face, remembering what had happened to Chief Daniels.

"Well the bomb did go off, but it was already out of the guy's body when it did. Will, remember that guy who told you to leave?" Will nodded his head.

"Well," Nico continued with the story, "he took out the bomb and asked me to close up Andy Matthews while he walked out of the OR with the bomb in his hands as carefully as he could. I closed up Andy and then the guys in navy blue outfits took him and me out of the OR as quickly as possible."

No one noticed as Chief Brunner, Annabeth and Reyna made their ways towards them, listening to the story Nico was telling. "I looked back at Chief Daniels who was walking towards these two men at the other end of the hallway When the bomb exploded. I flew back and landed on the floor on my back because of the impact, and there was a hole in the wall that was made," soon everyone was listening on, "and when I looked back, I saw... I saw Chief Daniels... his-his arm and leg were on the floor... and I don't know where the rest of his body parts landed because by then the police men dragged me out of the hall. It was so... I couldn't keep it in I-I..."

Nico was pulled into another hug by Percy. After hearing Nico recount the story, Percy couldn't let him go. To think he had been so close to death was the scariest thing Percy had ever thought. Nico was ingrained into Percy's life. He had left a mark on Percy, and there was no way Percy could ever live without Nico by his side.

Nico was soon ushered by chief Brunner to get himself checked out. Percy had to stay back and he watched on as Nico was checked by an attending, they draped a blanket around Nico's shoulders and the police men asked Will, Nico and other nurses that had contact with Andy Matthews to see if what he did was an act of terrorism.

"You should've seen your face," Annabeth startled Percy out of his thoughts. Percy glanced her way, but decided to stay quiet.

"The look on your face when you thought you had lost him,and then when he came out of the building alive. You've should seen your face... you looked like someone who had lost their soul mate. But I'm supposed to be your soul mate..." Annabeth said the last part in a sad tone.

Percy didn't know what to say to that. He didn't know how to respond, he looked back at Nico and saw him looking at Percy and Annabeth, but when Nico caught Percy looking at him, he looked away.

"Its like... he's your Achilles heel Percy, he's your weakness. And without him, you'd lose your purpose in life. I see now..." and with that she walked away from the man who used to love her.


Nico went home early that day, but the rest of the staff went back to work. It was a hospital and they couldn't close it down. Percy had told Nico that he'd come to pick Nico up after work.

Nico made his way home and when he came through the front door of his house, he was tackled by Marina.

"Nico! Oh my God Nico! I thought you died!" Marina let out a sob as she detached herself from Nico and he saw her face streaked with tears.

"Nico! You're alive!" Leo squeezed the life out of Nico next.

"What happened? Are you okay?" Henry asked, concern lacing his voice.

"You guys, I'm fine, a little shaken up but fine. It was just a very scary experience that I hope I never have go through again," Nico shuddered.

"What happened?" Marina asked as she wiped away at her face.

Nico went to the living room and sat down, the others following his example. This was going go be a long story and Nico decided he wasn't going to tell it anymore.


Nico received a text from Percy, telling Nico that he was outside. Nico had received a call from Chief Brunner telling Nico that he was to take a three day vacation starting now because of the whole bomb situation. And so Nico was going to be spending those three days at Percy's place.

After he had recounted the story to Leo, Henry and Marina, Leo and Henry made their way to their bedroom, Henry didn't seem to be feeling well at the moment and so Leo went to make sure Henry would get some rest. Were they getting closer? Marina stayed back and made Nico some hot chocolate and brought it up to Nico's room. He didn't feel like sleeping, so Marina and Nico stayed up and watched movies together.

Around eight pm, Percy had driven to Nico's house and texted him to come outside. Nico made his way to Percy and got in his car.

"Hey," Percy said in a gentle tone as Nico got in.

"Hey," Nico said in a small voice.

Percy leaned forward and placed a kiss on Nico's lips. It had been chaste but it was sweet.

"How are you feeling?" Percy asked Nico as he drove away from Nico's house and to his apartment.

Nico let out a puff of air, "fine I guess..."

Percy glanced over at Nico quickly and then focused on the road. They didn't talk until they reached Percy's apartment. Percy parked the car in his parking space and got out, taking Nico's bag with him.

Once inside, Nico made his way to Percy's bedroom and laid down on the bed. Percy came in a few minutes later with Nico's bag in hand. Percy put the bag down and went to lay down next to Nico. They didn't speak for two whole minutes until Percy turned his head and stared at Nico, forcing Nico to look his way.

"What?" Nico asked softly.

"Something's bothering you... is it the bomb? Looking at the guy's body parts laying around after it exploded? Was it the fact that you could've lost your life?" Percy asked Nico.

"All of that... and the fact that Annabeth came up to you earlier. Plus the fact that now I might be traumatized and have nightmares about me being blown to bits..."

"Annabeth came up to me to tell me that you, Nico di Angelo, are my weakness. My Achilles heel, as she so kindly put it. Without you, I'm nothing," Percy turned his body to the side as Nico stared at him in disbelief.

"Yeah, right," Nico breathed out.

Percy ran his hand through Nico's dark locks and looked deep in his eyes.

The stare Percy gave him was piercing. It transfixed him and Nico felt like his body had become frozen. Percy's eyes could convey such raw emotion if he wanted to let people know what he was feeling. And right now, Nico could tell that Percy was not joking around.

"Why?" Nico asked in a small tone as he found his voice and willed it to speak his thoughts, "why would I be your weakness Percy?"

Percy let out a heavy sigh, "Nico, how many times do I need to get it through your thick skull. I. Love. You. I love you with all of my heart. You cloud my senses and my brain whenever I'm around you. I need you like I need air. You, Nico di Angelo, are in fact my everything. You are my weakness and if you had died back there, I would've been lost. I love you so much, I can't picture myself with anyone else. If I had lost you, it's like I would've lost a part of myself. A big part of myself. I am going to do whatever it takes so that you can never doubt my love for you. I'm going to get that divorce Nico, and when I do I swear, I'm gonna marry you. So get ready to spend the rest of your life with me." Percy gave Nico a cocky grin as he kissed Nico passionately.

Nico was beyond shocked, and at a loss for words. To think Percy felt such things for him made Nico feel warm inside. And to think Percy wanted to take it as far as marriage...

Soon Nico's thoughts flew out the window as Percy started to place kisses on Nico's neck. Percy started to suck in between the collar bone and neck. And Nico found himself thrusting upwards into Percy. When had he gotten on top of Nico?

Percy looked at Nico in a hungry way and Nico felt his member begin to rise. Percy ravished Nico's lips as he pulled Nico out of his pants. Soon Nico was free of clothing and Percy started to undress himself. Ever so slowly, Percy took off his shirt and unbuckled his pants, as if he were giving Nico a show. Soon Pery was naked and to Nico, it was like the first time he truly laid eyes on Percy. He was an Adonis who seemed to be way out of Nico's league.

Percy made his way back up to Nico, trailing kisses that sent fire through Nico's body as Percy made his way upwards. He stopped above Nico's nipple and gave it a small flick of the tongue, making Nico moan lowly. Percy then took the whole nipple in his mouth, swirling his tongue around the bud as his other hand flew to the other nipple and tweaked it. He worked at both nipples until Percy moved down. Trailng his tongue along the middle of Nico's chest and stomach. Percy pulled Nico's legs apart and started to suck on the inside of his thighs.

"Oooh," Nico moaned a little bit louder, as Percy worked on sucking both of Nico's thighs, leaving two dark purplish marks. Soon Percy made his way towards Nico's member and hovered above it for a minute, teasing Nico. And very slowly, licked Nico's member. Percy ran his tongue on the underside of Nico's length, until he reached the tip. He swirled his tongue three times around Nico's tip, before giving it a quick flick of the tongue. He teased Nico some more as he ran his tongue under the mushroom head, before swallowing Nico whole. Nico let out a strangled moan as he felt Percy's warm mouth envelope him.

Nico ran his hands in Percy's hair, and started to fist it as Percy bobbed his head up and down. Percy sucked harshly, and every time he went up, he ran his tongue all over the head, slicking Nico's shaft with more saliva as Percy pumped his own length.

"P-Percy, I'm g-gonna come..." Nico moaned loudly.

Then Percy stopped abruptly, leaving a very frustrated Nico to cry out. Nico looked at him and Percy only gave him a smirk.

"Sorry Nico, but I can't have you coming so quickly now, can I?" Percy said in a husky tone that sent shivers running up Nico's spine.

Percy reached over his bedside table and pulled out a tube of lube but no condoms.

"You're not going to use a condom?" Nico asked him.

"No," Percy answers simply.

"Why not?" Nico breathed out heavily, he had been so close to coming until Percy stopped.

"Because you've been the only person I've had sex with for the past year and two months. And you're the only person I plan to have sex with for the rest of my life." Percy bent down and gave Nico a bruising kiss as he popped the cap hope and applied a generous amount on his fingers.

Percy inserted his index finger in first and started to pump it in and out of Nico's entrance. Soon Percy added a second finger and started to scissor Nico, stretching him out which felt a bit uncomfortable to Nico. Very slowly, Percy added his third finger in and started to finger Nico, curling his fingers in a way that would make Nico feel good enough to distract him from some of the pain he must be feeling at being stretched out. Once Nico was prepared, Percy poured lube down his shaft and lined himself up with Nico's entrance. He looked down on Nico, who was lying on his back, and thought he had never loved anyone as much as he loved Nico now. Percy slowly made his way inside and waited for Nico to give the go.

Nico saw Percy looking at him from above. He never thought anyone could look so sexy and yet, Percy's eyes conveyed such love and yearning for Nico. He felt Percy slide inside his entrance and he didn't move, waiting for Nico to get adjusted. Nico looked up at Percy, who had his black hair starting to stick near his forehead as beads of sweat formed. He was biting his lips to keep from moaning, because it felt so good to be back inside of Nico. His eyes were closed for now, but damn were those sea-green eyes of his hypnotic. Percy was so beautiful to Nico. He loved Percy with his entire being. Nico bucked his hips, signaling to Percy that he was ready.

Percy slid almost all the way out until only the head was still inside, and roughly slammed back into Nico, making I'm cry out.

"Ah!" Nico moaned as Percy went into a steady rhythm.

Percy would go in and out of Nico, roughly slamming into him on the way back in. Soon the pace picked up speed and Percy was thrusting into Nico rapidly. Percy kept trying to angle his length so that he could hit Nico's prostate. He kept trying to find it as Nico let out a slur of moans, some in Italian and some in English. Until Percy rammed Nico in a certain way that made Nico let out a particularly loud moan. Percy positioned his cock in the same way, hitting Nico's sweet spot dead on as he thrust back in.

Percy was nearing sweet release but he wanted Nico to come first. So Percy took hold of Nico's length and started to pump him in time with his thrusts.

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!" Nico moaned as soon as he felt Percy wrap his hand around Nico's member.

"Oh God Nico!" Percy moans as he slammed into Nico. He looked down at Nico and couldn't help but think that Nico resembled an angel.

The way that pale skin seemed to glow, his dark hair that curled at the ends were so soft, his cheeks flushed a deep scarlet red as Percy started to increase his speed. It became erratic and Percy could no longer pump Nico. Percy gripped Nico's hips so hard, it was sure to leave bruises.

"D-don't stop! Oh God!" Nico cried out, absolutely consumed by pleasure.

"Ahhhhh!" Percy moaned loudly, blissfully thrusting in and out of Nico. He was so close, so close.

He gave one final thrust before sending Nico over the edge. Nico can hard, and he clenched down on Percy until it was hard for Percy to move in and out. Soon Percy came inside of Nico, leaving him to feel boneless and raw as his vision turned white and a loud moan left his mouth.

Percy panted as he slowly slid out his softening member out of Nico's ass and landed next to Nico, who was still seeing stars. He pulled Nico close to his chest, waiting for his heart beat to return to normal. Nico snuggled into Percy's embrace and was about to fall asleep when Percy spoke up.

"Nico di Angelo, I swear I am going to marry you. So please, don't lose faith in me, don't doubt me, don't leave me."


And so that's a wrap! I hope you guys liked the chapter! Sorry if the bomb scene didn't really go like it did on Grey's but it's been so long since I've seen that episode and I've kinda forgotten how it went. Anyways thank you for reading!