Hi, I know it's been a while since I updated. But I have a genuine excuse. My laptop broke. I want to say thank you to my reviewers. And anyway. I kept you waiting long enough. Enjoy! Warning: This chapter has mentions of male pregnancy. And before I forget. If you like this story. Go and check out my two new Percy Jackson stories; A world to Raze or Save and The king of hearts. Both are on my profile.


-Earlier that night-

Nico moved through his room quickly as he stormed around gathering all the necessities; ambrosia, Nectar... he stopped as he turned towards his bed. The golden framing really was beautiful and it's double size was enough to hold both him and Sirena if needed...

He slowly stopped moving and stared at the bed. This is where Sirena belonged. Not with Octavian. Certainly not with Percy... but with him. With all his heart he knew it. His Sirena, his beautiful siren. He didn't belong with anyone else! Nico slowly reached under his side of the bed and ignored as his fingers tingled with a cold before his hand slowly gripped the smooth of a sword hilt.

It made a deep scratching sound as it dragged painfully across the carpet. Where ever the tip touched a thin line of color began to drain away. "Sirena. I'm going to bring you home and then-"
"Aw! You finally found your confidence in love!" A voice exclaimed excitedly and Nico turned pale. No... not that voice. Anyone but him. Please! He prayed silently to every god he could possibly think of.
"Praying isn't going to get rid of me." Nico slowly turned and regretted it immediately. As soon as he locked eyes on the owner of that voice he knew that he was blushing immensely.
"What the hell do you want Cupid?" Nico snarled as he looked at the teenage boy stood in his apartment. Every time Nico tried to look at his face, he frowned. The god's features kept constantly shifting. One minute having a light sea green gaze and strong toned features with pitch black hair... then... Nico's frown grew deeper.
"Actually, I'm Eros." He shrugged and lounged back onto the bed.
"That's Sirena's spot." Nico growled.

The god turned his head towards him and flashed a pearly white smile as his eyes became deep shades of emerald. His shoulder length black hair began to slowly shrink away as it spiked out uncontrollably. "Oh really? Is it now?" Eros grinned knowingly as Nico's face went bright red. "Nico you still have not taken my advice." Eros sighed and folded his arms like a child who had just been denied chocolate.
"I-... you-" He glared darkly as the shadows around the room began to grow. "I really hate you! Now why the Tartarus are you here!?"
"Because I'm being a bit of a fan girl." Eros said as though this was plainly obvious. Well Nico didn't care why he was here. No matter what he didn't like the guy. He had never liked him and... hang on... had he just said?
"What did you just say?" Nico's eyes widened as Eros' hair began to turn from Sirena's gold to pitch black and his eyes back to a changing and illuminating gold. He admired his hair in reflection as though he had only just realized that he had it spiked and smiled approvingly.
"I'm yours and Sirena's fan girl." Eros shrugged again and smiled as with a whisk of his hand, a laptop formed on his lap and he span it around to show Nico a page with a picture of him and Sirena in a massive heart.

If Nico's face had been red before, now it was burning bright as a tomato. The picture was of when they had kissed in the snow and... oh gods! "ARE YOU SERIOUS!" He shouted and Eros gave a grin. "What? There's a fan club and everything." The computer bleeped and Eros lit up with a smile. "Oh cool! Mom just posted a music video of you two!"
"WHAT?!" Nico snatched the computer away quickly and placed it on his desk as the volume turned up. The video was titled: When will they get together. Nico watched as the slide show of pictures of him and Sirena laughing pass by as the song behind them was: One republic- Counting Stars. It was a video of slide shows and memories of Nico when he was with Sirena. It started of with Sirena sat by himself watching the boy from afar when they were training and Nico would pass him a gentle smile.

The beat soon picked up. Even Nico smiled a little when he watched the next clip show with the music and it was both the boy's dancing together in a ballroom style. They were both laughing and smiling brightly at each other. "I see this life, like a swinging vine, swing my life across the line." Eros sung as Nico span Sirena out then pulled him back in for a kiss on the video.

Nico shook his head. Not once had he ever danced with Sirena... was this his future?

Then he stopped as it changed to Nico looked at Octavian and Sirena from outside the boy's house as he stood in the rain...

Nico just slowly turned his head away from the laptop and looked over at Eros who seemed hypnotized and fascinated with the screen. "Really?!" Nico hissed and Eros looked up with a shrug.
"What?"
"You gods have nothing better to do than fan girl about my life?!" He snapped but again Eros just shrugged as he pulled an arrow out of the air. Nico only just began to realize that the god's wings were fluttering like an amused bird. "There's something you're not telling me." He narrowed his eyes and folded his arms. Eros gave a grin like an excited child who had just been given a candy cane at Christmas.
"Okay so... Olympus might be split at the moment..." Nico groaned as he could guess why. But Eros just laid forward resting his head in his hands and looking at Nico as though he was some character on a T.V show about to do something interesting... or even like Nico was a character in a book about to do something important in a chapter... Ha, Nico as a character in a book? He almost grinned at that thought. "Olympus might be split because..."
"Because?" Nico frowned.
"Because you and Sirena may have just become the next Paris and Helen..."

A pause began to grow between them.

Eros just watched on a little longer. "Well you seem to have taken that-"
"ARE YOU GODS JUST STUPID?!" Nico screamed as he walked over to the god and glared darkly into his eyes.
"Well..." Eros finished but then rolled his eyes. Man this boy was going to take a lot of work to be able to win the fan girl war raging on Olympus. "Well everyone is split! Everyone is in different groups saying who Sirena should be with!"
"You can't manufacture love!" Nico stopped and Eros just raised an questioning eyebrow. Then he realized he was talking to someone who could manufacture love. "Oh you get my point!" Nico frowned.
"Don't you want to know who the groups are?" Eros said with a grin as he saw a slight burning curiosity in Nico's eyes.
"No-"
"It's between you, Octavian and..." Eros mumbled the last bit so quietly Nico narrowed his eyes.
"Me, Octavian and?"
"Percy." Eros muttered with a slight

Nico paused and Eros put his hands over his ears. "PERCY?! PERCY ALMOST KILLED HIM!" Nico shouted. "How can the Olympians think that Sirena and Percy will ever get together?" He snarled and Eros nodded in agreement.
"Well mainly because lord Poseidon has made it his wish for them to be together." Eros shrugged then looked at Nico's mouth which had dropped open. "Don't worry, your father is rooting for you to get Sirena, so is mother and me... Plus lord Ares... but I think that's more a 'screw Percy' thing than 'Pro you'."
"So uh... which one seems to be doing the best?" Nico asked casually.
"You and Sirena seem to have the most followers." Eros looked down at his phone. "The Facebook page seems to agree."
"You have Facebook?" He raised an eyebrow.
"And Twitter." Eros nodded and Nico couldn't do anything but face palm. "Mother is working her best to make this the best tale of love since Paris and Helen. You rescuing Sirena from Tartarus." Eros sighed dreamily. "It's such a beautiful story."

Nico's eye twitched slightly. "The person I love is in Tartarus... in Zeus knows-" Thunder boomed outside. "What kind of pain!" Nico shouted defiantly. "And you think it's romantic?" Eros just rolled his eyes before carrying on.
"Team Octina are close behind-"
"Octina?" Nico frowned but Eros still just shook his head exasperated. "You still haven't told me why you're here?" Nico sighed and took a seat on the bed. Eros' eyes began to sparkle excitedly as he stood and held out his palm. A small pile of gold dust was in his hands. "Uh... what is it?"
"It's a gift. I want you to see your future!" Eros smiled. "Well that is, your future if you save Sirena." Eros stated but Nico just stared at the dust in amazement. "Let this be my peace offering to you Nico." Eros smiled and gently blew into the dust which blew into Nico's eyes and clouded his vision. "Sweet dreams Nico." Eros whispered.

-Twelve years into the future-

Nico began to rub his eyes as they stung painfully. "Stupid love god." He snarled. He blinked a few times to try and get the golden dust out of his eyes but it seemed to be falling away quickly. "Why can't that moron ever do anything good for me?" He hissed and looked around to see himself in his room. The moon was high in the sky outside and the stars were gently sparkling as they seemed to dance.

It was strange though.

The metal frame of his bed seemed to be a bit faded. The fresh paint on the wall had been replaced by a rose red and around the room were pots of flowers, towers of book and long canvases. Nico recognized his signature on each canvas as he went and inspected the image. It was a man, about twenty nine from what Nico could tell. With deep green eyes and a bright pearly smile. There were long stretched scars over his face but it didn't matter. With lightly tanned skin, the guy was beyond handsome. "Enjoying your painting time amica mea?" Nico translated the Latin to be; My love. But his eyes were soon locked onto the figure in front of him. "I thought you went to put Lucy and Alex to sleep?"

It was the boy from the painting. "Sirena?" Nico stared at the scarred face slightly horrified. Then his eyes began to move lower as he took a look at the figure. He was still as beautiful as ever but something seemed... different. Nico stared wide eyed as he soon locked eyes onto the boy's bulging stomach. Sirena just smiled and walked over.
"I felt a kick earlier." He whispered softly and Nico placed his hand on the stomach to feel the kick under his hand and his face lit up with a smile. "H-How?" Nico whispered.
"How what?" Sirena frowned slightly. The cute crease in his eyebrow's made Nico's heart almost burst.
"How are you... pregnant?" He asked staring wide eyed into Sirena's emerald orbs.
"Well Nico... when two people love each other very much-"
"Sirena..." Nico said quietly looking serious and Sirena stepped back slightly as he finally began to realize.
"So it's you." He smiled and took a seat on the bed. "You were so cute when you were younger." Sirena laughed and gave that dazzling smile.
"Sirena what's going on? Why are you?" Nico indicated to his stomach and went wide eyed.
"That's a long story." Sirena smiled. "Sirens are supposed to be women." Sirena shrugged. "And extremely fertile since... well you can guess what they do with their victims and how they carry on having kids. I guess being a male siren gave me a few surprising things."
"Who's the father?" Nico whispered avoiding the gaze shot to him but Sirena just laughed and wrapped an arm around the boy before pulling him into a hug. "What?" Nico demanded.
"I forget sometimes just how much you have changed." Sirena laughed. "You are Pulchra umbram." Nico thought through his head till he found the translation; Handsome shadow? Sirena just kept smiling and Nico found it hard not to return it after a while. "So do you want to ask any questions?" Sirena wondered and Nico looked at the scars.
"Ah..." The older man nodded. "You haven't seen these yet."
"What happened?" Nico whispered as he ran his hand over the lines.
"Don't worry... they should fade eventually. You should have seen them when I was first-" He stopped himself and stared at the ground absentmindedly. But Sirena eventually shook his head and sighed softly. "Spoilers..."
"Are you really using a Doctor Who quote on me?" Nico raised an eyebrow but sighed.
"Where are you up to?"
"You've just been sent to Tartarus after your mind ripped you apart." He whispered and both fell into a silence.
"Ah...That." Sirena whispered as he ran his hand over his belly as though to comfort the unborn child which was within him. "Nico... you have to be prepared for this quest."
"Can't you tell me what happens?" Nico pleaded but Sirena just smiled knowingly.
"We both know I wouldn't even if I wanted to. Nothing good comes from messing with fate." He winced slightly and Nico frowned with worry. "It's okay, just a strong kick is all." Sirena's voice soothed him instantly and the boy nodded. He smiled down as his belly and Nico followed the gaze. "Nico... we both know that Tartarus is dangerous."
"Obviously." Nico nodded then frowned as he looked around and saw the room began to flicker.
"It seems our time together is drawing to an end." Sirena whispered. "Nico you have to be aware in Tartarus. There is so much more to it than we thought."
"What?" Nico frowned as Sirena's voice had become faint like a whisper.
"Be careful!" Sirena called but Nico faded out quickly after that.

Sirena sighed looked at the spot where Nico had vanished from then looked down at his ring to his finger where a golden ring and green emerald rested. It was his prized possession. "Did you say something?"

Sirena watched as his husband walked into the room and gaze a soft smile. His Nico was always so oblivious sometimes. "Nothing I was just talking to an old friend." Sirena smiled then watched as older Nico walked over and placed his hand on his belly feeling the kick beneath his hand. "Charles." Sirena smiled
"As in from X-men?" Nico frowned but Sirena just nodded.
"You want our son to be named after a bald professor?" He raised an eyebrow but Sirena just gave a smile.
"Okay smarty pants. If it's a boy. Charlie. If it's a girl." Sirena smiled softly. "I want it to be Bianca." Nico looked at him for a few seconds before leaning in and kissing him gently.
"I love you."
"I love you more." Sirena whispered. "Now and forever."


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