Disclaimer: Any characters, plots or events recognised belong to Rick Riordan and the publishers. This is a work of fanfiction that does not profit in any way from anyone.

Summary: When Nico gets sold to a whorehouse where he is to be whored around, he tries his best to escape and ends up bumping into Perseus Jackson, the youngest CEO of the multi-millionaire Trident empire, who is kind (and deliciously sexy) and immediately makes it his goal to help Nico when he sets his eyes on him. Nico pleads for help and gets more than he bargained for when he gets auctioned as Percy's slave. {PERCICO} {AU} {dom!Percy and sub!Nico} {BDSM}

Warnings : Strong Lemons, extreme Smexyness, boyxboy, BDSM, dom!Percy and sub!Nico

Non-Demigod Universe.He felt warm. And very peaceful.

Chapter 9

"Percy, you need to calm down." Grover whispered. Percy was pacing in his bedroom, his hair a mess and wringing his hands nervously. "He didn't take his clothes right, may be he's gone for, I don't know, a morning walk or something?"

Percy stopped, trying to consider Grover's words as a palpable explanation for Nico's disappearance. Then he looked down at his watch. "It's nearly eleven in the morning, Grov. I think he'd have walked plenty by now." Percy was silently fuming. "His phone is switched off, too." Percy gave another groan as his phone started blaring the alarm tone. He had for the previous four times, forgotten to dismiss the alarm and had instead hit the snooze. He dismissed the alarm angrily. Funnily enough, he thought he hadn't set up an alarm for that day.

Percy knew he shouldn't be thinking like this. He should've hoped for the better, looked on to a positive side. But, there was no positive side. What could be the positive side to your lover disappearing sometime in the night?

He was thinking too many obnoxious thoughts. What if Nico had really gone out to clear his head, but was lost? Percy knew Nico didn't speak French except for the merci and bonjour greetings. What if something had happened? Nico might've sprained his ankle while walking and was maybe unable to locate a hospital.

Or what if...

Percy's spine prickled with shivers as he thought of the alternative. It was no secret that a lot of tourists, children, were kidnapped in the city. They were used for mauling drugs safely, sometimes. The other times they were trafficked.

Just as Grover was about to say something, Percy's cell phone ringed. Percy stood frozen in the spot for a total of two seconds before he ran the living room where the phone was in a speed so hasty, that Grover couldn't almost see him.

Percy looked at his phone. "Fuck you!" he yelled at the caller id. Then he composed himself and cleared his throat. He picked up the phone. "Hello, this is Jackson." He said in a professional voice. Percy's eyes went slightly wide before he muttered a quick, "Yes, thank you, I'll be there."

Grover was perched on the couch. "Was it-?"

"No." Percy snapped. He looked taken aback by the tone of his own voice. He rubbed at his eyes. "Sorry, it was my assistant. I nearly forgot. I have a lunch meeting with Juno and Jupiter Co." He avoided Grover's eyes. "I should go, get ready."

Grover sighed. "Can you arrange it at some other time?" he said, noticing the torn look on Percy's face. Grover knew he wouldn't ever neglect his business, but he also wanted to look for Nico.

Percy shook his head. "No, No. It was very difficult to secure this meeting with them in the first place. If this meeting goes well, there's going to be another one on the 19th. My father says I shouldn't miss out on any deal they're willing to offer."

"Percy, I know this meeting is not of minor importance, but Nico-"

"Will be fine. I just have to trust him on his. I just have to blindly trust the notion that he'll come back." Percy said with closed eyes. His voice carried an emotion that made him cleared his throat. "Anyway, I'll be getting ready now. The meeting is to be at 12 in the noon."

Grover just nodded. "I'll see what I can do till then, okay. You just take your mind off this for awhile." He placed a comforting hand on his shoulder. "It'll be alright, yeah. You go and snag that deal."

Percy half smiled at him.

"Thanks Grov." He turned and disappeared in the bedroom.

The meeting had gone exceptionally well.

Much to Percy's distress, he had actually been able to push Nico to the back of his mind, as if he hadn't gone off running amok somewhere.

As he stepped out of his car and into the hotel, Grover was right there by the reception waiting for him. He quickened his steps as Grover met him in the middle.

"Percy, Nico called." He said, his voice calm despite the gladdening news he had just given.

Percy opened his mouth in shock before promptly closing it. He loosened his tie. "When? I mean how?"

Grover smiled sheepishly at him. "Turns out, yesterday, he got my number from your phone but forgot to take yours. So, he called me, about an hour ago. He sounded embarrassed about something but he only wanted to talk with you about that."

Percy took out his phone. It was a quarter to three in the afternoon. "I should've tried calling him again. I am so stupid. I shouldn't have stopped calling him." He muttered to himself.

"He said he'd call back in an hour or so." Grover checked his watch. "In fact, he could be calling this very moment."

"Did you give him my number?" Percy asked Grover, already out with his phone and impatiently tapping on the blank screen.

Grover chuckled. "Percy, relax. Nico's fine. I was right; he went out to clear his head. He also said he'd left a note on the bathroom mirror."

Percy smacked his forehead so loudly, the entire lobby turned to look at him. "Let's just go to my room." He said.

Grover shook his head. "I think you should talk to him by yourself, man. I mean, he wanted to talk to you and not me."

Percy nodded, getting in the lift. "I'll do that. I'll wait in my room. Call you after?"

Grover simply smiled and nodded as the lift door closed.

Percy hadn't even unlocked the door to the suite, when his phone rang in his suit pocket. Fumbling for the phone instead of the key card, Percy pressed the receive button. The caller id showed Nico's name and displayed the photo of the two of them taken a week before in Percy's swimming pool.

"Hey, Percy."

"Nico." Percy exhaled. It was the feeling of air coming back to his lungs. The feeling of swimming in the sea for the first time. It was anxiety mixed with exhilaration. "Where did you go?"

"Percy, I've been shopping a bit. With the credit card you gave me back in New York." There was a brief pause. "I wanted to ask you something."

Percy didn't hesitate to dodge Nico's question and answer it with questions of his own. "Nico, please tell me where you are. Should I pick you up from somewhere? I was so worried. Nico. I-"

From the other side of the phone, Nico was smiling. He intercepted Percy's next words. "Black or blue?"

"I was so...what?" Nico could've laughed at the expression he knew Percy was wearing. But he didn't. He could sense Percy was worried and he didn't want to anger him.

"Percy, choose a colour. Black or blue?" Nico said.

"Black, but Nico, why?"

This time Nico laughed from the other side. "I am buying you a birthday present."

Percy felt all the pent up anger, worry and apprehension vanish as he heard that. He hadn't even thought that all this time when Percy was worrying about Nico, Nico was worrying about black or blue.

"Nico, I don't want anything from you. I just want you with me." Percy said with unbelievable emotion in his voice. He heard Nico exhale on the other side, as if his words had called out to him in more ways than one. "Come back to the hotel."

"I will, Percy. I'm almost done with your present." Maybe it was Percy's imagination, but he heard a shrill laugh coming from near Nico. "Give me another hour or so, okay?"

Percy found himself nodding, finding it hard to argue with Nico. "I'll be waiting, Nico." He said.

"Bye, Percy. Thanks for choosing black, you know, I kinda hadn't liked the blue one either."

Percy chuckled. "My pleasure, Nico. Bye."

"Bye, Percy."

"Bye, baby. You need to end the call. Or should I?"

"Fine. Bye!" Nico half yelled at him through the phone. The line went dead.

He unlocked the door. The first he did when he was inside was rush to the bathroom. Sure enough, a piece of paper from the hotel's notepad was tucked into the side of the mirror. It was placed in a way it was easily noticeable. But Percy's actions in the morning had been so robotic: he had robotically brushed his teeth, shaved and taken a bath, with only one thought in his mind- Nico.

Clutching the note in his hand he made his way to the living room. Untying his tie, he let it fall on the ottoman as he collapsed on the couch. He switched on the TV. Some News channel was showing the weather report for the week. Percy read the note. It was written in Nico's handwriting, a script so beautiful Percy could actually imagine Nico as he wrote it. The note read:

Percy,

I'm going to just walk around the city for a while. We'll talk when we get back. I'm taking my phone with me. I also have your credit card. I hope you wouldn't mind if I shopped a little.

P.s: Your assistant called when you were asleep. She said you have a meeting around lunch today. I set up the alarm on your phone; I hope you woke up in time.

-Nico

Percy could feel his eyes drooping. The entire's day's exertion was catching up to him. He blinked his eyes open forcefully. It was of very little use as his entire body started protesting against being awake for another minute. Before Percy knew it, he was falling asleep, head lolling back on the couch, Nico's little note clutched between his fingers.

It must've been his imagination. A hand was in his hair, stroking his scalp gently. Percy couldn't help but whine like a pup at the feeling. The hand in his hair froze for a second, only to resume back what it was doing.

Percy leaned into the touch and found himself snuggling to something warm. The warm thing hummed lightly and Percy felt the strings of slumber pull at his barely-there consciousness. He drifted off again.

When Percy opened his eyes slowly, he found his hands entangled with a shirt which was definitely not his. His head rested on something soft but too firm to have been a pillow. Percy thought he had imagined it, but he hadn't; the hand in his hair was still brushing his hair lightly, almost petting his head.

Percy knew that touch.

"Nico." He murmured, looking up. Sure enough, it was Nico's dark eyes staring down at him. A small smile, almost a smirk, curved his lips and his hair fell on his face, shadowing his features.

He hefted himself up from Nico's lap, and without even pausing pulled Nico in his arms, holding him so tightly that Nico couldn't even squirm if he wanted to.

But Nico didn't. His hands were encompassed around Percy already, his chin resting on Percy's shoulder. Percy's nose nuzzled his neck, breathing him in. Percy had missed him more than he let on.

Drawing back a little so that he could see Percy's face, Nico stroked Percy's chin with his thumb. "I see you finally found my note." He gestured to the little paper which was now crumpled on the floor.

"I did." Percy said, kissing the underside of Nico's wrist. "I thought you'd left."

Nico's expression changed. He looked hurt and his eyes glistened. "You still think I'd leave? And go where? There's nothing without you for me, Percy."

Percy's eyes softened immediately. "I didn't mean it like that. I thought that Piper's words had hurt you so much that you decided to distance yourself from me."

"They did hurt at first. But then I realized that they were just words. And completely untrue at that, because we are in a situation that most people wouldn't understand and I shouldn't hold that against them." Nico's hands found Percy's collar as their lips brushed against each other's in a faltering caress.

Percy's eyes were closed. His hands were on Nico's waist, moving up and down, stroking him gently. "I was so worried. I had every thought of evil that shouldn't have even crossed my mind. I was so panicked, I could barely have coffee." He came closer, pulling Nico so that he was almost in Percy's lap. "I couldn't imagine anything except how I was going to find you. For a moment, I really thought you'd run away."

The kissed again, except it was less hesitant than before. But it wasn't among the wild and untamed kinds they usually shared; it was as if they were embracing something that neither wanted to speak aloud.

"Don't ever think that I'll run away, Percy. Even if you tell me to go, I'll just hang on to your leg like a koala till you cuddle me again." Nico whispered against his lips, with a voice so serious that the honesty knocked out Percy's breath.

"I won't tell you to." Percy whispered back with as much sincerity in his voice. "Never ever."

And this time when they kissed, it was a mess of moans and panting chests. Percy leaned back against the couch, helping Nico straddle him properly, as they never once broke their lips apart. Percy's hands cupped the Nico's neck, bringing him closer as his mouth opened. Their tongues brushed against each other, leaving them both whimpering for more.

Percy tasted a bit of chocolate in Nico's mouth, already addicted to the taste combined with Nico's natural sweetness. Nico gave a loud moan as Percy's hands slipped inside his shirt, stroking his skin as their lips moulded together.

It was only when they drew back, that Percy realised that his shirt was now rumpled and his suit was lying on the other side of the couch.

"So, what's my gift?" Percy questioned, a little breathlessly.

"I'll show you on your birthday." Nico winked before laughing at the surprised expression on Percy's face.

Percy just nuzzled his neck in Nico's hair and peppered kisses all over his face. His hands pulled Nico so close that there was nothing separating them besides their clothes.

"I'm sorry." Percy whispered after a while of quiet. "I shouldn't have thought that you'd run away."

Nico hummed. "Annabeth had warned me that you've always been a bit of a seaweed brain."

Percy laughed. "People are going to call me seaweed brain instead of Percy Jackson in a few days."

Nico shrugged. "I doubt she's told this to anyone else." Then his eyes lit up. "I bought these really delicious chocolates from this little shop. Want to taste? Oh my gods, they are seriously the most incredible chocolates ever." He got up from Percy's lap and reached over the ottoman for a bag. Inside it Percy could see various boxes, from which one was pulled out by Nico. He opened the box.

Percy almost let out a moan at the smell. Almost greedily, he picked up a piece of chocolate and bit a large chunk. This time, Percy couldn't hold back the moan as it escaped hi mouth. "It's so good. Oh Nico, we need to buy more." he mumbled out, before feasting on the three more he had taken in his hand.

Nico handed Percy a caramel filled next, while he picked up a cherry flavoured. They only stopped devouring the chocolates when their fingers were sticky with caramel and chocolate.

Later when Nico kissed Percy, he found that there was really a dire need to buy those chocolates again, because the kiss was so sweet, as if they almost tasted the chocolate through each other's mouths.

"I need a favour." He whispered.

Grover raised an eyebrow. "What kind of favour?" he asked, taking a bite of the escargots.

Percy had received a call and had excuse himself to attend it. Grover and Nico sat in front of each other in the restaurant, helping themselves to the delicious meals served.

"I kinda need you to, um, stall Percy for a while tomorrow night." Nico whispered, swallowing a mouthful of mushrooms and chicken.

Grover looked at him suspiciously. "You're not going to run away again, are you?"

Nico huffed. "I didn't run away, I was merely out for a walk. It's not my mistake that Percy didn't see the note I left him." He looked behind to check whether Percy was coming. He wasn't. "I need to wrap Percy's present."

Grover sipped his wine. "Wrap it tonight while he's asleep."

Nico gave him a blank look. "I can't. Percy will find out. Besides, I have the present very safely hidden somewhere and I cannot take it out until tomorrow, or Percy would definitely notice."

Grover hummed. "How long?" he asked.

"Just half an hour. Not more. I'll even text you when I'm done." He pouted for extra effect. "Please, Grover."

Grover choked on his wine. He coughed, dabbing at his mouth with a napkin. "That look is very innocent and all, but don't try it on me. I don't want Percy grilling me because you were giving me a kissy face."

"So, you'll do it?" Nico asked, ignoring the part about Percy and a grilled Grover.

Grover pursed his lips. He didn't answer. His eyes were on someone behind Nico. Soon, Nico realized it must've been Percy approaching their table that made Grover not answer.

Percy slid in beside Nico, their arms almost brushing as he shared a quick smile with him. Nico was too distracted after that, as Percy's left hand kept stroking his thigh beneath the table. Nico was sure he was choking on his cherry coke when Grover noticed the subtle angle at which Percy's hand rested on Nico's thigh.

Grover pretended to sip his own glass of wine and pretended to not notice as Percy whispered something in Nico's ear that had Nico avoiding Percy's eyes while flushing a brilliant hue of red.

In a moment of relative silence, apart from the clacking of their forks and spoons, Grover sent a nod to Nico with a whispered "Fine."

This time Percy pretended to not notice the little exchange between them. Nico pretended to not notice the way Percy's eyes seemed questioning, when Percy's fingers, almost possessively, tilted Nico's chin to kiss him right there.

The next day was spent in a haze for Nico. He didn't want to admit it but he was pretty much anxious in the inside as the sun set. His stomach was filled with jelly and his heart was thumping as if it were an earthquake beneath his skin.

He must've concealed it well enough. Percy hadn't enquired about his jittery behaviour, except when Nico had almost sat down on Percy's laptop.

"Hey, you aren't mad about yesterday, are you?" Percy had asked a little timidly.

Nico had kissed him passionately as an answer to that, shutting Percy up and simultaneously calming his beating heart.

But as they'd sat back down for dinner in the restaurant, with Grover pretending to not acknowledge the fact that it was going to be Percy's birthday within three hours, Nico found digesting his dessert was a little hard as the uneasy feeling again bubbled up in his stomach.

What if Percy didn't like the present? What if he was actually put off by the present, because he had expected something else entirely? What if Percy laughed at him because he'd ventured all alone in a new city to find him a present like this?

Nico was starting to think whether sending an e-greeting on Percy's email would've been better.

Nico gave Grover the look when he was done with his dessert.

Grover, fortunately, took the hint. "Hey, Perce, want to join me for a drink after this?"

Percy looked at Nico. Nico gave him a smile. "Yeah, why not." Percy said, having taken Nico's smile as a sign that he wouldn't mind.

Nico kissed Percy on the cheek. "I'll head back to the room." He kissed him again on the lips.

Grover pretended to gag. He shooed Nico away, saying that the old men wanted to talk. Much to Percy's amusement, Nico kissed Grover good night on the cheek and chuckled very heartily when Grover pretended to not notice the flush on his cheeks.

Nico was debating whether he should text Grover again for the fifth time in the past hour. After he'd come back to the suite, Nico had very deliriously striped down only to get ready for the surprise. Percy's surprise.

The gift Nico had planned for Percy had a few things he knew for sure Percy liked. It included Nico, on the bed, with his hands linked to the bed posts with cuffs, a cock ring around his cock and a jewelled butt plug already stretching him. On the bedside table, kept intentionally were lube and a riding crop. Nico had to refraining from touching himself just by imagining the look Percy would give him after he'd see him like this.

Nico hadn't cuffed himself yet. He had been shown a simple trick by the shop owner from where Nico had bought the toys to cuff himself easily. The hand cuffs were made of metal, black in colour, but were light in weight and clinked shut with little effort on Nico's part.

He was about to text Grover once again, when he received a text.

Grover Underwood: He's just left.

Grover Underwood: You owe me one.

Nico sent him a thank you back before shutting off his phone and tossing it inside the drawer. He made himself comfortable on the bed before cuffing his both hands together to the head board.

It was only a minute longer before the door to their suite clicked open and Percy's voice rang through the unlit suite.

"Nico?" Percy voice called out to him. No answer. Maybe Nico had fallen asleep.

Percy removed his shoes, before removing his socks. With his footsteps muffled on the carpet, he walked towards the bedroom. He had almost unbuttoned his shirt completely before he realised that Nico was naked on the bed. It took him another second to take in the state in which Nico lay on the bed, with his hands cuffed above him and completely at his mercy.

A breathless fuck left his lips as he froze midway of unbuttoning his shirt. Nico could see, even in the darkness as Percy's expression changed brilliantly.

"Nico, what's this?" he asked, inching towards the bed. Nico's lips parted in a moan as he heard the deep and intense voice.

"I wanted to apologise for worrying you yesterday." He said, biting his lip.

Percy was on the edge of the bed now. Spreading Nico's legs, he let out a husky groan at the sight of the jewelled plug inside Nico. "And you think, presenting yourself to me in such a lewd way is going to make me forgive you?" He pressed the plug deeper inside Nico.

Nico arched a little as a whimper escaped his lips. "Yes, master." He replied, moaning as Percy stroked his opening with the plug still embedded inside him.

His master shook his head. "I might forgive you, little pet, but what lesson will you learn if you don't yearn for my forgiveness?" he stroked Nico's thighs, refusing to back down from consuming Nico wholly when he had offered himself in such a way. "How will you learn to behave, pet?"

Nico whimpered again. He didn't answer his master. His master didn't want an answer. He could feel the way Percy's eyes had seized up his entire body. It made him feel warm everywhere, making him want to close his thighs as Percy held them open. His master wanted him to submit to him.

"Punishment is only suitable to make you remember where you went wrong, pet." Percy said, withdrawing his hands from Nico's thighs. Nico whined at loss of touch. "Should I punish you, pet? Or maybe, I should leave you like this until you're begging."

Nico only whimpered.

"Hmm. I think I'll leave you like this, pet. You are too good just to look at, but I'll have to rein my need to teach you." Percy got up from the bed and began to leave.

The sound that Nico made was purely of need and made Percy stop. "Please, Master."

Percy slowly walked back to Nico, shrugging off his shirt and tossing it aside. "What do you want pet?"

"I want you to punish me, Master." He whimpered, straining against his restraints as Percy traced a finger from Nico's chin to his navel.

"Why should I punish you, pet?" he hummed against Nico's skin, pressing his tongue to Nico's nipple before sucking it.

"Because I, oh, oh my gods!" Nico moaned, arching into Percy's hands as he rolled both his nipples with his fingers.

"Because, what?" Percy said, teasing Nico's nipples further. He had known for awhile now that Nico was very sensitive in some places and his nipples were definitely his weakness.

"Because, I went away without properly telling you." He whispered his words only loud enough for Percy to hear.

"That's right, pet. Do you know how much you had me worried?" Percy said, pressing Nico's legs apart. He ground on Nico's bare skin, smirking when Nico shivered as his cock brushed against Percy's clothed hardness. "I should really punish you. Hard. So you'll never even think of doing it again."

Without warning he leaned back, his hands holding Nico's waist and turning him over. The abrupt movement cause Nico to gasp out aloud as his hands twisted in the cuffs. He now laid on his stomach, barely able to turn his head, hands straining above him.

"Master..." he whimpered. He needed Percy to touch him, in any way possible. His hard cock was pressed between him and the bed, and Nico had to try really hard to not just rut into the bed. "Master, please." Even Nico didn't know what he was begging for.

Percy hummed against his skin, tracing his tongue from Nico's hole to his spine. He loved the way the skin immediately erupted in shivers under his tongue. Beneath him, Nico was groaning, desperate for something.

Percy brought his hands to Nico's arse, spreading them apart roughly. The pained moan that Nico let out was melodious. Under Percy's lustful gaze, Nico's hole twitched around the plug. Percy chuckled darkly.

"Look at you. You pervert." He smacked Nico's left arse cheek. The slap was followed by another to his right, followed by a string of gasps and a wiggling Nico. The movement caused Nico's cock to brush against the sheets and he groaned. Percy held Nico's waist tightly, forcing him to still. "Look at you moaning even when you are being punished. Maybe I'm not being hard enough in your punishment."

Percy picked up the riding crop from the bedside table. "Why, I think I know just how to punish you further." The tip of the riding crop brushed Nico's rim. His cock twitched. Then as if by intuition, Nico braced himself just as the first hit landed on him.

Smack.

The sound echoed in the room with Nico half moan. His eyes were clenched shut and his hands were gripping the headboard. His hips jerked upwards in Percy's hands and Percy pushed him down on the bed, pinning him with a hand on his spine.

Percy gripped Nico's hair and pulled back, revealing Nico's pale neck with fading bruises. He sucked hard on one of the bruises, smirking when Nico's hands strained further against the cuffs. He leaned to whisper in Nico's ear, careful that except his hand on Nico's small of the waist, no other part of him touched Nico. His traced the outline of Nico's lobe, whispering lowly, "I'm going to punish you hard with this little gift you've left for me. And whenever I hit you, you are going to count aloud. If you forget to count or miscount," Percy's hand gripped Nico's hip and squeezed hard, making Nico wince. "I will make you start all over again." He bit Nico's ear lightly. "Do you understand, pet?"

Nico whimpered, trying to arch back into Percy's touch as he pinned him down. Nico was sure that had it not been for the cock ring around his cock, he'd have come just from Percy's dark whispers. "Y-Yes, Master." He whispered back, his voice submissive.

Pleased by the answer, Percy drew back from Nico. "Now, I'm going to start again, pet. Remember to count like a good pet."

Nico nodded. He couldn't believe how much his body was actually yearning for another mark on his pale skin, another bruise that Percy had created.

Percy tapped the riding crop on Nico skin lightly, as if contemplating where to whip Nico first.

When the first smack landed on Nico's skin, he wasn't even half ready for the sting that came. He gave a loud pained gasp at that, twitching in his place, gritting his teeth as he counted aloud. "One."

Three smacks followed next, seemingly random as they hit Percy's hips and thighs. Nico couldn't help the moan that escaped him when the stings grew in three places one after the other. His hands tightened against the head board, knuckles whitening in the pressure. "T-Two, Three and Four." He gasped out, turning his head painfully to look back.

Percy was silently marvelling as the red blossomed on Nico's skin. His hands acted without warning, kneading Nico's arse as another two whips landed on Nico's thighs.

Nico gasped aloud. "Master, oh!" Nico's legs twitched. His thighs were stinging, the pain of it so pleasurable that Nico stuttered his next words. "Five. S-Six." He gulped.

The next whips made Nico feel so disoriented with his mind that he almost lost count. The thought alone was enough to bring him back from the ecstasy that was beckoning him. His calves stung now, one leg pressed to the bed by Percy's strong hand. His toes were curled.

Percy waited. Nico's breaths were coming in short pants. As much as Percy loved seeing Nico fall apart, he was afraid of pushing him too hard.

But then Nico mumbled out- "Seven Eight Nine."

Another look at Nico and Percy immediately knew Nico could take more. His eyes were clenched shut, hands tightly griping the headboard and mouth agape from the small gasps that escaped his lips when Percy pressed against the fresh red marks.

Another smack came, this time in a place that had Nico crying out in pain and pleasure together with chants of his Master. "Oh yes, Oh! Master, please. Oh Master! Ten, oh fuck!" The exact spot between his two hips, just above his hole was stinging and turning crimson under the recent assault.

"Yes, pet?" Percy whispered against Nico's neck, kissing down his spine. Percy had been avoiding Nico's back purposefully. He didn't Nico to be overwhelmed with the pain. There was always the next time for that. "Does it hurt, little pet?"

Nico whimpered. Percy talking to him in the midst of the punishment was too much to handle. It made the situation seem far more intimate with Percy's gentle caress to his waist.

"A little." He moaned as Percy's fingers pressed his thighs. "But it feels so good. Master, oh! That feels..."

"Good?" Percy added, pausing to lightly trail his fingers at the marked skin.

Nico only arched back in Percy's hands as a response. He was almost silently begging for Percy to continue the sweet torture on his skin. He was a masochist in bed, a complete masochist and he wanted to embrace it in any way that Percy was willing to have him in.

"Can you take the rest of the punishment, pet? Percy's voice sounded calm, as if he wasn't half naked, gripping a riding crop and causing a boy beneath him to whimper restlessly in anticipation of his next move.

"Master, please. Punish me, Master. I want to be so good for you." Nico said, jumbling his words terribly as he fought to keep his legs from shaking.

A hand stroked Nico's hair. "But you are always so good for me, little pet." With that Percy brought his hand down on Nico's thighs again, just below his hips, eliciting surprised gasps from Nico's mouth. Before Nico could count further, another harder smack hit his hips, making them jiggle.

Nico was gripping his hands against the headboard so hard, Percy was half afraid that he'd break it. Nico however, seemed to be so lost in the feeling that he could only whimper and force the words out of his mouth. "Eleven. Twelve." He said.

As two more whips rained down on his thighs, Nico couldn't help but moan so loud that he was sure the entire Paris city heard it. His toes were curled to keep his legs from twitching and his neck hurt from all his attempts to turn back to look at his Master.

Yet, as his cock was unable to come, Nico found himself involuntarily grinding against the bed. Nico let out his counts in a strained voice. "Thirt- Thirteen. Fourteen. Ah!"

Percy was rubbing his own cock through his pants. He let out a groan as Nico's eyes followed the movement of his hand. Releasing his clothed cock, Percy pressed Nico's cheek on the sheets, making him wince as his hands strained.

The next two hit him out of nowhere, sending Nico closer to the darkness hat beckoned him still. His hips stung so hard, he couldn't feel them. Even so, his cock was painfully reminding him of his delayed orgasm. It was hard almost to the point it hurt and Nico couldn't do anything but whimper out "Fifteen, Sixteen."

Percy's hands, both of them were pressing Nico's hips apart, his warm palms flat against Nico's burning skin.

"Oh pet, you have no idea how beautiful you look like this." Percy muttered, spanking him all of a sudden. Nico's body lurched forward from its sheer force and he cried out as his cock brushed against the sheets. Nico clenched his eyes shut as two more followed in rapid succession, hitting his hard where it stung the most.

"Seventeen, Eighteen. Oh! Master, please!" he moaned. He needed to come. His body begged for it. His whole being was engulfed in an inferno of denial as Nico uselessly trashed against him cuffs. "Nineteen. T-Twenty!" he screamed.

"We're almost there, little one." Percy's whispered. The hand in his hair was back to soothing him, grounding him from going under. "Count the last ones perfectly for me. You're being so good, pet."

Nico preened at the praise, raising his hips as he felt Percy's hands levering them up. His lower body was covered in red and he was sure that it'd take some time to heal. But all he could think about at that moment was being good for his Master, for Percy, for whom he had done it in the first place.

When the next hits landed on his body, Nico winced and gasped and moaned while his mind could think of nothing except "Twenty one, Twenty two, Twenty three."

It was hard to speak them aloud without messing up the numbers because Nico was far too gone in pleasure to even care of what would happen if he did mistakenly count incorrect numbers. His arms ached from having been bent. His cock was aching as well, having being denied an orgasm for the entire ordeal.

"Good pet. So good." Percy said with an appreciative lilt in his voice. "Just two more, pet, can you count them, little one?" With that he brought down the riding crop hard on both of Nico's arse cheeks, loving the way his hips wiggled under the force and turned a brilliant pink.

"Master, Ah!" Nico cried out. They hurt more than all the previous ones combined and stung harder as well. Nico couldn't bring himself to even speak clearly after that. His speech was mumbled gibberish of "It stings so good, Master. Oh. Master. Please, ah!..."

Percy spoke huskily from above him. "Can you count the last ones aloud for you Master, pet? Can you be a good boy for one last time tonight?"

Nico whimpered once more. "Twenty four and twenty five, Master." He said quietly, still gasping to breathe properly.

Percy smiled. He ran a hand through Nico's hair as he threw the riding crop behind him. Gently he turned Nico so that he lay on his back. Nico arched with a scream as his tender skin made contact with the sheets.

Percy fumbled the bedside drawer for the keys to the handcuffs. He didn't know why he'd felt the need to check that place for the keys without even asking Nico beforehand. Intuition, probably.

He held Nico's wrists in one hand as he turned the key in the lock. The cuffs fell open at once and Nico's hands slumped to the bed as Nico gave a groan. Percy pushed the key and the handcuffs to the side as he climbed on the bed, gently rubbing the delicate bruised skin on Nico's wrists.

Nico's eyes were still closed though he let our little whimpers when Percy eased the cock ring off him.

Percy stroked Nico's cheeks as he spread his legs, placing himself between Nico's legs. With little warning Percy lifted Nico in his lap.

Surprised by the sudden motion, Nico's eyes flew wide open and he let out a breathy moan when his sore arse rubbed against Percy's pants. His hands gripped Percy's shoulders as he steadied himself, laying his head on Percy's chest.

"Are you still with me, pet?" Percy whispered in his ears.

Nico moaned a garbled "Yes, Master." as Percy's hands gripped his arse. He could feel his own erection rubbing against Percy's clothed one and a sigh escaped his lips at the thought of having that reaction on Percy.

"I think you've been punished enough, pet." Percy said, massaging his ass cheeks. Nico moaned against Percy's naked chest, making the skin on Percy's chest erupt in goose bumps. "Should I reward you for how well you've taken it?"

Nico shuddered against his Master as he felt a hand enclose around his cock. Percy brushed his fingers against Nico's tip, rubbing the head of his cock with his precome. The other hand was still on his ass, but it was slowly trailing downwards, towards his hole.

The stinging sensation had in his legs had dulled considerably, but when Nico moved even a little, his body protested completely. He could only respond with helpless moans and cries of pleasure as Percy stroked his cock with the lightest of touches. Nico was so close to coming, he could feel his orgasm grazing his skin and setting him alight.

"Do you want to come, pet?" Percy asked, his mouth latching on Nico's ear. Nico flinched as the plug inside him probed against his prostate and noticing the reaction, Percy pressed the plug exactly in the direction of Nico's sensitive spot.

"Yes, master." Nico moaned. He held onto Percy for dear life, grinding down on Percy's cock as even as pain shot through his body as he abused his tender skin by rubbing it against Percy. "Please, Master. I've been good, haven't I? Please, let me come." He begged Percy.

Percy's hands stilled on Nico's cock. He eased Nico on the bed so that he lay on his back. Impulsively, Nico's legs wrapped around Percy's waist and he whined when Percy pressed his legs down, spreading them apart.

Percy's hand rested on Nico's cheek, stroking him gently. Nico leaned in Percy's hands, arching his body despite the soreness. Percy bent down and licked a stripe from Nico's balls to his tip.

Nico's eyes rolled to the back of his head. He was so very close. His hands fisted the sheets as his hips bucked upwards.

Percy's warm breaths ghosted against his navel, bringing him closer to pleasure he craved. Percy's mouth engulfed his leaking head, his tongue swirling around his cock as Percy's mouth inched downwards. Nico couldn't stop his legs from shaking as his orgasm approached.

"Master, I'm close." He moaned, thrusting his hips in Percy's mouth. Percy swallowed him whole, his tongue pressing against his underside. Nico tensed, his fingers finding Percy's hair and winding them in his dark locks as Percy sucked on his cock.

Percy's tongue skilfully swirled around Nico, his teeth scraping lightly against the sensitive skin and Nico was gone. He came with a loud scream. "Master, Oh! Yes, oh my Gods! Oh yes yes..."

Percy gagged as he tried to take up all of Nico's spilt seed in his mouth. Nico was continuously moaning as Percy drank him up, his lips brushing the over sensitive skin till Nico started pulling Percy's hair.

Nico pulled Percy off him, bringing him for a kiss. Albeit a bit dazed from his recent orgasm, Nico's fingers found Percy's still clothed hardness and stroked it through the fabric causing Percy to groan in the kiss. Percy's head tilted back as Nico's fingers deftly unzipped his pants and pushed them down with his boxers.

Nico's fingers enclosed around Percy's cock as Percy pressed him back on the bed. Percy's fingers reached behind Nico to thumb at the plug and swiftly pulled it out, causing Nico to let out a sob from sensitivity. His hole was clenching at the nothingness, eager for something back in it.

"Master, please." Nico let out a broken sob.

"Shhh, let me take care of you now." Percy whispered. He leant up for a kiss as he stripped down his pants. Devoid of all forms of clothing, Percy shivered when Nico's fingers trailed on his bare chest, tracing his nails lightly and driving Percy wild. Percy picked up the lube from the bed side table as gracefully as he could while pushing Nico back so hat his head rested comfortably on the pillows. Grabbing the lube blindly as his vision was focussed on Nico, Percy let a loud moan when Nico shifted his legs so that Percy was directly aligned with his waiting ass.

"Need you..." Nico trailed off, reaching for Percy's face and bringing him down for another heated kiss. Tasting himself on Percy's tongue, Nico licked Percy's lips with surprising eagerness for someone who was barely able to make out his own hands travelling down to stroke Percy's hardness.

Percy lubed up his fingers, pressing two inside Nico at once. Nico's arsehole was loosened enough to allow his both fingers to slip inside without any effort. Nico's hands stilled on Percy's cock, his eyes falling close as his knees rose on the bed, engulfing Percy's body between them. Percy placed warm kisses on his forehead, whispering words of adoration for him as his fingers worked inside him.

"So good, baby. You're being so good for me. Just a little more, yeah?" Percy whispered, coaxing another finger inside Nico. Nico's face fell to one side, biting at the pillow as Percy's fingers twisted inside his sensitive opening, loosening him further and exciting him. Percy's mouth nibbled at his neck, gnawing at the already pink bruises, making Nico trash his legs. "So pretty, pet. Ready for your reward, little one?"

Nico just whimpered in response, arching when Percy rubbed inside him at his prostate. "Please, Master." He moaned, seeking Percy's eyes with his own. When his eyes locked with Percy's something inside him inflated and refused to let him breathe for a good portion of a minute. There was something in Percy's eyes, something beside the raw lust and evident adoration. Something that Nico didn't know what to call.

A tear escaped his eyes at how the atmosphere in the room had changed. Percy maybe felt the same; Percy bit his lip as he removed his fingers from Nico's hole. Nico looked down to see Percy's hand lining up his cock with Nico's entrance. Lubing up his cock, he pressed it against Nico's entrance, hardly giving any time to Nico to recollect his thoughts as he pushed inside.

Maybe it was the apparent surprise on his face or maybe it was the way his airway clogged up when he looked in Percy's eyes again. Maybe it was the way he cried out Percy's given name in the heat of the moment or maybe it was the way his nails left marks on Percy's back. Maybe it was just Nico, in his whole eternity of loneliness and closeted emotions, lying beneath Percy and looking up at him like he governed the universe, that made Percy let out a sob.

Percy's arms came beside Nico, encasing him in a house made of Percy, want and need. Nico's nails left scratches on Percy's back as Percy thrust inside him with another choked groan, looking down at Nico and finding himself staring at some deity instead of some mere human.

This time when their lips met, it was an experience unlike any other. Nico could see stars exploding behind his closed eyes as Percy thrust in him rapidly, depriving him of any other feeling that was not lust and want.

Percy was letting out moans and groans between their kisses, chanting Nico's name as if it were a divine sermon. Percy felt his hear beat racing ahead of time as panted, pushing and pulling out from Nico continually. He never once let their lips disconnect, holding Nico in place as he sought his own pleasure. He aimed at Nico's prostate, finding it easily through memory and had Nico moaning louder by the second.

Nico's one hand was now stroking his own cock in time with Percy's thrusts. The rubbing of his arse against the sheets caused just enough pain that it didn't let the pleasure consume him. His body was shaking from the mere effort of holding onto the orgasm until Percy told him to let go. His toes were curled and his ankles were digging in Percy's back as the sound of their sweaty limbs smacking filled the room.

His own cries were unrecognisable to his ear. Never before had he been driven so far away from his mind, to feel nothing but Percy inside him, over him. Percy, too, was whispering unintelligible things between his moans, the only distinguishable part being when he moaned Nico's name.

Nico couldn't even keep his eyes open as his orgasm ripped through him. He was coming in white hot spurts across his and Percy's chest, coating them both in his pleasure. He could feel Percy gasping above him as he came too, releasing inside Nico and collapsing on top of him in a mess of warm breaths and groans.

They both were sweaty and sticky, but neither of them was rational enough to care about hygiene at the moment. They made a heap of tangled bodies on the bed, lying entwined with one another in the aftermath.

They both lay in silence, catching their breaths and evening their heartbeats. Percy was quiet because he didn't know what to say. Nico's hand in his hair, slowly easing him to sleep was enough to distract him from the questioning Nico about this raunchy mess.

But then Nico spoke and Percy's eyes flew open, as if he was unable to believe that Nico had spoken and not just in his mind.

"Happy Birthday, Percy."Nico said sleepily. "I hope you like your present." Nico buried his nose in Percy's neck with a yawn.

Percy only stared at the mess they had made. All of this, had been for him? For his birthday?

"Percy, choose a colour. Black or blue?" Nico had said. He'd said Black.

The black butt plug, the black cock ring and the black riding crop with one Italian with dark hair and eyes. Nico's present to him.

Percy found something clogging up his throat. Something inside him was pulling his at his heart and making him feel heavy in the chest. At the same instant, his brain felt lighter, as if some unforeseen knot had loosened.

Percy kissed Nico's sleepy lips. "I love it, Nico. Thank you so much." Nico smiled up at him sleepily, brushing his nose against Percy's neck. Percy let him snuggle closer to him, pulling Nico closer by the waist and draping his left arm around his hips. Nico hissed lightly when Percy's palm rubbed circles on his sore butt. "Nico, why this?" Percy wondered aloud.

Nico looked in his eyes with a confused look dominating his face. "I thought you'd like it. You did, didn't you?" he asked, worrying his bottom lip.

"Nico, baby, oh don't look like that. I loved it, every second of it." Percy explained, cupping Nico's face in his."I just wanted to know why this. Why let me punish you and then devour you? Not that I mind, but you could've given me any present you wanted but you gave me this. Why, baby?"

"Because I wanted to give you something no one else could. Something, which no one besides me would know how much it'd mean in giving it up to you." Nico gazed at Percy with that look in his eyes again, the one which sent a sword through his heart. "I wanted to give myself to you, my body, my control, my pleasure. Something that I can still call mine."

"Oh, Nico." Percy whispered, kissing his forehead. "Your body will always be yours. Yet you're mine. Understand?"

Nico nodded. Percy brushed his hair off his eyes.

"Nico," Percy began, noticing how Nico's eyelids were drooping with fatigue. "I will forever treasure this gift that you've given me. You're right; it does mean a lot to me that you'd offer me something like that, uncaring of anything and without putting bounds on your own desire." He kissed Nico's lips again, brushing them with his. "You are the best present I'll ever have, Nico. And I want you to know that, baby."

Nico hummed against his lips. "You, Percy Jackson, are the best everything that is mine."

Percy ran his hand through Nico's hair, lulling him to sleep. "Likewise, Nico." They were the only words he whispered, before he promptly fell asleep, cuddling Nico close to him.

Nico sighed at the feel of Percy's hands gently massaging his thighs. The cool gel Percy was rubbing over him soothed his skin so much, Nico forgot why Percy was doing it.

"Stay still, Nico, it's going to get all over the sheets if you keep doing that." Percy reprimanded him, though there was nothing short of fondness in his eyes.

"Percy, it's so cold." Nico said arching his back up as Percy moved his hands to his arse. Lying on the bed on his stomach, Nico sighed when Percy incessantly rubbed at the tender skin, leaving no part bare as his warm hands pressed at all the fading purple bruises.

"Almost done, Nico." Percy whispered, placing a kiss at the small of his back.

Just then the bell rang. Nico groaned. These people seriously had the worst timing.

Percy, with a befuddled look, wrapped a bath robe around him. "It's 7 in the morning. What is someone doing, ringing our doorbell at his ungodly hour?"

Nico shrugged as Percy waded through the living room. Nico could hear him open the door and talk to the person outside it.

"Nico, did we order breakfast?" Percy voice floated through the rooms.

Nico's eyes widened. "Yes! I mean, I did."

There was a brief moment where Nico heard Percy saying, 'It's okay, I'll take it from here' and the sound of the food trolley being pushed inside the room, the door clicking shut and footsteps padding against the carpet as Percy emerged in the doorway pushing the trolley in front of him.

He stooped the trolley beside the bed. Making his way to Nico, who had already stood up on slightly shaky legs, he helped him in a fresh bath robe similar to his.

Kissing Nico on the cheek, he placed the cloche on the plate aside and laughed when he saw what was inside. Two blueberry muffins, freshly baked judging from their smell, covering in powdered sugar and with blueberries on top sat on a plate.

Nico hugged him from the behind. "Happy birthday, Percy."

Percy pouted. "You forgot the candles." Nico laughed and kissed the little pout. Percy took a bit of the muffin and moaned at the warm deliciousness. He offered a bite to Nico, who instead stole the entire remaining muffin. Shaking his head with a smile on his face, Percy reached for the thermos which he presumed was coffee and poured in the two cups beside it. He handed one cup to Nico. "But why did you order the breakfast so early? And when did you actually order it?"

Nico grinned, blowing at the hot coffee. "Well, I actually ordered the breakfast yesterday night. You know, just in case, if last night wouldn't have gone accordingly, I didn't want you to wake up feeling disappointed." Nico brushed his nose to Percy's. "Regarding the first question, it is because we're heading out in the city early."

Percy could only gape before Nico gave him a caramel toffee to bite on.

It was true that Percy had never seen the Eiffel Tower, even though he'd been to Paris before. He dint know when he'd told that to Nico or how Nico'd remembered it. But he was thankful that Nico had decided to make them visit early because the tourists were comparatively lesser and they could get a full shot of them both standing in front of the tower without anyone else in their photograph.

It wasn't even 10 am yet, and still, Percy and Nico had walked around the whole place, hands in each other's as they ate cotton candy.

"Here!" Percy pointed to a spot a few meters away from them. "Let's ask someone to take our photo there. The background is lovely." He dragged Nico to the spot and handed his phone to some tourist who smiled.

"Hey, Percy." Nico whispered just as the tourist with Percy's phone told them to smile. "Let's cheer with our cotton candy." He said, dizzily waving it in front.

Percy laughed and brought his cotton candy closer to Nico's as if they were two wine glasses about to make a toast. The two cotton candies tangled up in each other, however and refused to separate, but neither Percy nor Nico noticed for they were busy staring in each other's eyes, exchanging the softest of the smiles just as the camera lens captured the moment.

A/N: The support to this story is so amazing! I love reading the comments so much. Thank you!

p.s: I am so sorry that I forgot to publish this chapter, seeing as it had been in my docs for the past two months. I know, I hate myself too.