Requested by Bunny again and two other Guests on Fanfiction: Nico yelling at Hazel, Jason and Percy for accusing Toby

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Request by anon Bunny again: Can Aphrodite visit them?


"Why did you do that?" Nico asked Hazel, Percy, and Jason coldly. He had been trying to track them down for nearly two hours. He supposed that at some point word had gotten to them that he was looking for them and they had hidden. When he had found them they were very conspicuously looking inconspicuous between the Zeus cabin.

"Oh hey, Nico." Jason said starting guiltily. "What are you talking about?"

"You know perfectly well what I'm talking about, Grace." Nico snapped at Jason, who winced.

"Uh oh last names." Percy mumbled. Nico turned his glare on Percy.

"Shut up, Jackson." Nico snapped back and Percy winced. "And you Hazel." Nico snarled, rounding on her. "Do you have so little faith in me that you think I would let a human abuse me?" Hazel to her credit didn't flinch.

"We just worry about you because we care, Nico." Hazel said staring at him levelly.

"Well it's a funny way of carrying making the person that makes me happiest cry." Nico growled out, and this time Hazel did flinch looking hurt. Nico felt a hand on his shoulder from behind.

"Nico, don't fight your sister over me." Toby murmured in Nico's ear. "It's okay, I'm fine."

"No." Nico growled out not bothering to "They need to, trust me!"

"We do trust you Nico." Jason protested. "Just."

"Just not enough to choose my own boyfriend without your interference?!" Toby interrupted angrily. "I can look after myself. Honestly none of you have paid much attention to what I do before now. Isn't it a bit late to start now. Especially you, Jackson, as far as I remember you've never paid attention to my life before, why now? Are you jealous now that you're not my type." Percy turned red. Nico's lip curled in satisfaction.

"Don't push us away Nico." Hazel snapped back pulling herself to her full high as Jason and Percy hunched slightly.

"I'm not pushing you away, Hazel. I want you in my life, you're my sister of course I do I just don't want your role to be harassing my boyfriend!"

"Why not? You've harassed mine." Hazel snapped back a angry blush rising to his cheeks.

"Never on purpose!" Nico contradicted. "It is not my fault he's afraid of death and I always feel like death."

"Honestly, Nico, he's a killer and crazy, how on earth can he be good for you?" Hazel asked pointing an accusing finger at Toby, over Nico's head. Nico heard the sharp intake of breath behind him from Toby who had probably flinched back.

"Don't you dare. The way he acts around other people has nothing to do with how he acts around me, Hazel, he is good to me. He reached out to me before any of you did and we've agreed to look after each other, he would never hurt me on purpose." Nico said stepping closer to Hazel. There combined anger rolled down into the earth making it growl and shift. "Besides you have no idea what his life has been like, what he's been through. Maybe there's a reason he is the way he is."

"How well do you know him, Nico?' Hazel demanded almost screaming now as the shifts in the ground made Jason and Percy stumble. "How much does he not tell you about so that you'll feel safe around him? We've all seen those fits he has how can you be sure he wouldn't hurt you during one of those?"

"Hazel don't make this harder than it needs to be." Nico said his voice cold and smooth, his eyes black and hard as obsidian. "Just apologize and promise you won't accuse Toby of something like that ever again." Small cracks began to form in the ground spirally out from Nico. Jason's eyes were wide. He opened his mouth immediately presumably to apologize just as Nico asked, but Hazel didn't give him the chance.

"No! Nico I'm your sister and you're my only family. I'll make sure you stay safe any way I think I can!" now she was shouting. Precious stones began to surface in the ground around her, Percy had to duck to avoid one that flew out of the ground like a bullet. Nico was almost certain that they would have caused an earthquake if they had continued. However, at that moment they were all distracted by a beautiful woman who ran up to them chased closely by Piper.

"Mother where are you going?" Piper half shouted looking confused and a little afraid.

"Honestly, I was only planning a quiet visit to my children but it seems my timing is perfect." Aphrodite said stopping gracefully between Nico and Hazel. "Now calm down both of you. I'm sure those stones will make beautiful jewelry but not if they're being used as weapons." Aphrodite fixing her hair unnecessarily since it was always.

"Venus." Hazel greeted Aphrodite politely doing something that was half a curtsy half a nod. Aphrodite smiled.

"Well hello again, Hazel." She greeted warmly. "I have to say I'm disappointed at the situation I find you in. But I suppose you're not one of my children so I can't expect you to recognize. Now Toby, do you want to tell Hazel why she never needs to worry that Nico will be abused at your hands."

Nico turned to see Toby getting up shakily. The tremors in the earth must have knocked him over at some point. Nico gave him an apologetic and encouraging look when Toby glanced at him uncertainly. Carefully Toby stepped forward putting his arm around Nico, Nico knew it was more for his own comfort than Nico's.

"D-do you mean my father?" He asked Aphrodite nervously. She nodded, giving him a warm and encouraging smile. "Okay." Toby breathed unhappily and turned his attention back to Hazel. "I know perfectly well what an abusive relationship looks like. I don't get my violence from nowhere but my father's violence was directed inwardly at his family. I will never be like him. Never."

"I will never hurt the people I love like he did. I know the warning signs from watching him and I won't let that. He was the first person I killed because I couldn't watch him hurting the people I love anymore. I would kill anyone before I let them hurt Nico, that includes myself." Toby trailed off almost awkwardly. Nico wrapped both of his arms around Toby's waist hiding his face in Toby's chest.

"No." Nico mumbled softly enough that only Toby would be able to hear. "Don't you dare ever leave me." Toby smiled gently down at Nico.

"What?" Toby asked gently. "I know perfectly well I'm a bad person. You're probably the closest to Elysian I'll ever get and my life would be less than worthless without you."

"Now do you understand?" Aphrodite asked smiling happily. "There are almost no better hands that you could leave your brother in. Their love is one of the most unassumingly true ones I have seen in a very long time. Nico has found his other half, you should be happy for him." Hazel stared at Aphrodite in shock for a moment and then hung her head in shame.

"I'm sorry Nico, Toby. I just didn't understand and I do now." She mumbled barely loud enough for Nico and Toby to hear.

"It's alright Hazel I don't really trust me either." Toby said smiling at her over Nico's head at her. "Just please, please you two, never fight again? I live with monsters and that was the most terrifying things I have ever seen." Nico laughed when Percy and Jason nodded their enthusiastic agreement, Hazel joined in uncertainly.

"I'm sorry to Hazel." Nico said softly once they were done laughing. "I know you were just trying to look after me but someone needs to look after Toby to and he certainly won't do it." Nico and Toby exchanged a loving smile and Aphrodite clapped softly.

"My work here is done." She exclaimed and swept away dramatically with Piper in tow.

"Honestly mother did you have to.." her voice reseated out of earshot and after glancing nervously at Nico. Hazel, and Jason followed them. Once Percy noticed that Jason was leaving he chased after him shouting something like;

"Bro don't leave me!" Which made the three left laugh again and forget about their anger.