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Couldn't be bothered to think of anything Halloween themed for these two, so here's what I thought up instead. I'll post this on Just Another Day as well as the 'Christmas drabbles' story, since technically it's my Halloween update.
Enjoy!
"Oh, Nico!" Will sang out as he opened the door to Cabin 13.
He wished he could say that he was surprised to see that the Son of Hades was still asleep despite it being nearly noon, but alas, he would be lying.
"Nico!" he crooned (voice cracking slightly as he tried to make his voice go higher than he was really capable of), reaching over to shake his friend awake.
Not even an inch from the slightly younger boy's skin, the Son of Apollo found his wrist in a vice-like grip, and not a moment later Nico was sitting up, eyes already set in a wary glare and his other hand to the ground, ready to summon any number of things at a moment's notice.
Until, of course, he realized what had woken him.
"Ah." The black-haired boy grimaced, letting go. "…Sorry."
"You're good." Will shrugged, honestly far more interested in how their different skin tones had looked together than the completely understandable bad reaction. Honestly, he knew better than to wake ANY demigod that had seen war like that. "Good morning! Barely."
Nico grunted, surrendering to the sleepiness that became more visible as he let his muscles relax a little. "Whatever you say. Why are you here again?"
Will made a wounded sound, miming the action of stabbing himself in the heart. "That hurts, Nico, it really does. I'm here because it's time to decorate!"
"Decorate?" Nico blinked in confusion. "Halloween was yesterday."
Not that Nico hadn't put up a very big fight to get Will to agree not to turn Cabin 13 into a haunted house, or more so than it already was, anyway.
"Not Halloween, silly." Will rolled his eyes at his friend's obliviousness. "Christmas!"
It was silent for a long moment.
"Christmas." Nico deadpanned. "The holiday Christians use to celebrate the birth of Jesus."
Will nodded in agreement.
Nico waited a moment, to see if Will would acknowledge the obvious problem here, before sighing. "Will. None of us are Christian. We're polytheistic. That kind of goes against the whole Christianity thing, unless you take the whole trinity thing literally. Or whatever. I never bothered learning about it."
"Oh, Nico, you have so much to learn." Will sighed forlornly. "You don't have to be part of the religion to enjoy the holiday. Heck, in Japan the majority of people take part purely for the commercial part of it."
'Why would they do that to themselves?' Nico wondered to himself with a shudder. He had a hard enough time dealing with people normally, much less when everyone else was trying to spread cheer around.
Maybe his father would let him hide out in the Underworld until January…
Christmas in the mortal world…or spending a couple of months with no one but his father, Persephone, and maybe Demeter for company.
What plant would they turn him into next?
A horrible vision of Persephone transforming him into a mistletoe and then kissing his father broke him out of his thoughts, and he honestly had to fight not to throw up.
Aboveground, it was.
"Nico?" he heard Will say, and turned to the boy who he'd managed to forget was even in the room.
"Sorry." He forced out. "What?"
"Christmas. Decorate. Here. Now." Will said, sticking his tongue out at him.
Nico raised an eyebrow in contemplation, remembering hearing some random woman threaten to grab her kid's tongue when he did that to her.
Tempting…
As if sensing the direction of his thoughts, Will cleared his throat slightly with a blush, and stood up, going over to one of the empty beds where he had dropped the boxes.
Nico didn't realize that Will thought he was imagining Nico staring at his tongue, and his thoughts had taken a slightly different turn than the other boy's, which of course made blood rush to his face.
"So!" he said cheerfully, turning back towards his crush once he felt his face cool down a little, holding up a bundle of fairy lights. "Time to spread the holiday cheer!"
"It was Halloween yesterday!" Nico protested weakly, already having gone through this with the Son of Apollo about the Halloween decorating itself.
Will smirked at him.
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