J/N: Now that last one was lovely, don't you all think? The poll was reset for who would be Nico's lover, but the answer still came out the same. Reyna has been chosen, so Reynico shall survive! Anyways, this will be the next morning and so on, so review and enjoy!

Reyna

Reyna woke on something warm, her palms running down hard muscle. Her head rested on the warmth, steadily rising and lowering as if it were breathing. Reyna stiffened. Since when did her pillow have hard muscle, and when did it start to breathe? She lifted her head to find that indeed she was on top of a man. His chest rose and fell, one hand in her long hair, her braid destroyed from the person running his hand through it, and the other on her side, the arm wrapped around her waist tightly.

She looked higher than the toned muscular chest to find the face of Nico Di-Angelo, son of the Lord of the Underworld, calmly sleeping underneath her. Reyna panicked. She didn't remember much from last night, but if she invited another person into the praetor house...

Reyna blushed at the thought. She would never, much less to disgrace the tradition of only Praetors allowed in each other's praetor houses. She was the stoic and strong woman leader, rejecting advances flat out at the beginning and always being alone. Just like the son of Hades did...

No, Nico has Will. He wouldn't like me in that way. And yet hadn't he kissed her good night before leaving her speechless in her doorway? She remembered how he had said he needed time away from the chaos and tension. Maybe he and the son of Apollo parted ways?

Nico stirred and tightened his grip on her waist, pressing her closer to him. They couldn't have done anything intimate, for she was fully clothed and he was only shirtless, his jacket half on, his arm fully exposed to display his light olive colored skin not bulging but still showing his muscles and a few scars, possibly earned from the two wars. Well, Reyna didn't want to awaken him, because it might become awkward very quickly, so she laid her head back down on his chest, watching his skin rise and fall in unison with his breathing. She heard his heartbeat, each thump relaxing her with its tempo.

Minutes later the demigod shifted, breathing in deeply and moving his head. Reyna kept her eyes closed as she heard his head tilt to the side, maybe looking at her. Again he shifted, slowly loosening his grip around her waist as he slid out from underneath her, pressing his lips on her forehead in a gentle kiss before he disappeared.

Reyna opened her eyes to find herself alone in her bed, Nico nowhere in sight. She quickly got out of bed and left the room, trying to find him again. She found him in the kitchen, his aviator jacket slid on correctly, while she heard sizzling from the stove. She felt mildly disappointed because she couldn't see his chest, but she waved the emotion away as she tried to keep a stoic face.

Before she could make a sound, Nico greeted her without looking at her. "Morning."

She stiffened before asking, "How did you get in here?"

He answered with a smile in his voice. "If your asking what brought me to your house in the middle of the night, I'll say you prayed my name urgently and I shadow travelled in, already having your permission." She doubted his explanation. Why would she ask him, much less pray, in the middle of the night? "I can hear your doubt, Rey."

"What happened?" She was a bit unnerved that he gave her a nickname but she tried to wave it off with a different question.

"I'll explain in detail once I finish making your breakfast." She was about to ask him about that when he turned with the pan still in his hand. He grabbed a plate and dropped the scrambled eggs onto it. He slid it in front of her on the counter and she sat down, finding it very odd that he made anything for her to eat for breakfast. She waited for him to serve himself a plate but he leaned back against the kitchen sink.

"What?" Was all she could think of to ask.

"Do I have permission to eat something?" Nico raised an eyebrow at her clueless question and then her questioning gaze. "I can't eat anything here unless you give me permission. Praetor house, remember? Plus its a Hades thing: No doing anything without permission from the owner of the home you shadow-travel to."

She hesitated before saying, "Permission granted." As soon as her words were spoken Nico took an apple from the fruit bowl, taking a bite out of the ripe fruit.

He noticed her watching him and he asked her, "What are you waiting for? I'm not poisoning you with scrambled eggs. I only know how to make those and toast. Also just learned how to use a coffee machine, so enjoy it."

She took a bite of eggs and actually enjoyed them, wiping her plate clean in seconds. She took a sip of the coffee and found it as she liked it, a cinnamon roast with light cream. "Why are you doing this for me?" She asked him after taking a few more sips of her coffee.

He shrugged, taking his fifth bite of the apple before swallowing after a few seconds of chewing. "Hospitality. I knew you were already awake but didn't want to startle you or anything. I know you might've found it weird to be sleeping on top of me."

"What's your explanation for that?"

He leaned back on the counter top. "I was laying in bed when I heard your voice call for me, but you seemed scared." His eyes clouded, in thought. "I threw on my jacket and jeans before shadow travelling to your location. I found you sitting on your bed, body wrapped in a small ball. You tried to crawl away from me at first, not being able to see my face in the shadows much, and you almost fell off of your bed with your feet tangled in the sheets before I wrapped you in my arms, trying to calm you down." At the explanation of him wrapping his arms to calm her down, Reyna's memory resurfaced.

"Then I pressed myself against you, fear and panic all I could feel until I heard your voice soothing me." Nico's eyes widened at her side of the next part, but said nothing. "I wanted you to stay, and so you did, even when I fell asleep." She locked her eyes with his, brown eyes against black. "I felt fear again in my mind, but then shadows chased it away and I slept without dreams. You used your shadows to keep the demigod visions and nightmares away to let me sleep."

He rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly. "Well, I couldn't just let them scare you. You scared me when I saw you afraid and it just wasn't like you." She heard the concern in his voice, but tried to push the emotions away before remembering her realization the night before. She covered her face from his view, the stoic facade crumbling into different emotions. He broke down her walls, walls that took her years to build. Now she'd be an open book to him, not being able to hide behind her walls now that they had been destroyed.

A hand pulled hers away from her face, startling her out of her thoughts. "What's wrong?" His open voice again made her crumble. He registered her many warring emotions and came to a conclusion. "Your walls broke." Tears from the visions threatened to fall, and Nico noticed it all. "Gods, what did I do?" He muttered to himself low enough where she had to struggle to hear him. He wrapped her in his arms again, shocking Reyna enough that she relaxed in his embrace, head against his bare chest. "You're safe, Rey. I won't say a word." With his promise came the release of her tears, all of the fear and frustration breaking her already broken reserve to nothing.

He murmured something in Italian, it sounded like a nursery rhyme, as Reyna's knees buckled. Nico held her in his arms, slowly lowering himself to the ground with her. Her tears rained down his warm chest, no one caring about where her tears run.

Warning Lemon

Why did he make her feel this way? Ever since he appeared in her office that one faithful day she had seen him so differently than before, emotions running wild whenever he appeared. She felt so weak with her visions, and he gave her a relaxed easiness she never felt with anyone else. He even went up the steps and kissed her, causing her to fall from up above where she had held herself high and strong before the change in him.

She pushed away from his chest only to pull him down by his jacket and lean up, pressing her trembling lips against his. His eyes widened for a split second before he kiss her softly, even as she kissed him hard and heatedly in stark contrast.

She needed to be sure of his presence, sure he was actually with her, sure that he felt the same for her as she did for him. She needed... a distraction.

She pulled him as close as she could, pressing herself against him to feel his body against hers. He gasped into her lips at the feeling of her against him before returning her hard kisses as she deepened it, their tongues fighting for dominance. She pressed him down onto the hard wooden floor, not caring about their surroundings or such and only on her great need.

She straddled his hips as she fought for dominance and control, already having the boy underneath her. Her hands pushed the jacket off of his arms and he pushed it to the side, her hands roaming the scars and muscle of his upper body's skin. His hands went to her hair, pulling the hair band out of her hair to unbraid the long strands. Reyna pulled back from the kiss only to pull her shirt above her head, flinging it across the room with her arm before locking her lips back onto Nico's open mouth. He ran his hands down her back, causing her to shiver when his fingers slid over the bra clasp for the gray material.

Reyna pulled away quickly when realization hit her. "Praetor House..." Only two words escaped her before the son of the Underworld smirked and snapped his fingers, rolling above her and pressing her against a soft and comfortable cushion. She only had time to notice the slight change in her surroundings, surrounded by darkness and on a black bed, before Nico caught her mouth in his, effectively pulling her mind away from anything else but him.

Third Person Pov

Nico pressed his body against hers, causing her to gasp at the feeling of him on top of her. He pressed her into the bed as his lips left hers to roam from her chin down her neck, trailing hard kisses down her throat. A sudden urge caused him to bite down on the skin where her neck and body meet, the sensitivity causing Reyna to inhale sharply as her nails dug into his sides, drawing blood. The pain gave him more adrenaline as he felt a dominance of her, now having marked her as his own. With his new superiority he kissed her exposed skin, leaving a few marks as he maneuvered around her clothing. When he bit down on the skin right next to her bra and near the bottom of her left breast, a gasp escaped her.

Reyna raised her arms to push him away but he caught her hands with his and pressed them on either side of her head, her body in between him and the mattress and pillows. He looked up at her with black eyes, lust filling his against the surprised and desire filled eyes of the praetor underneath him. She easily submitted to him, his teeth lips and tongue causing her to gasp and breathe sharply or raggedly, the sensations causing her to want more. She hated being submissive and obeying anyone besides the gods, but she felt inferior to the son of Hades, felt like he was the leader and could command her, even if he didn't see her the same way as she felt see seemed. She felt shadows near her and all around them, extension of the boy above her, if she could think of him as a boy.

One clawed shadow did as Nico wanted, tearing Reyna's bra into pieces before they fell to the floor instead of the bed. His teeth and tongue roamed freely over her exposed chest, causing her to shiver and gasp beneath him. He bit down on her right breast right below her nipple which made Reyna bite down on her lip, pushing back a scream of pain and pleasure mixed with the need and desire already growing inside of her. She struggled against his strong grip, trying to take back control as the son of Hades drank her in wildly.

He wrapped a strong shadow around her left wrist to allow him to slide his hand down her arm and to her chest, his fingers pinching one of her nipples that caused her to gasp in shock before he squeezed the breast on his right, the sensation on her left breast causing a moan to escape her, louder ones following as he attacked her chest hungrily, leaving Reyna to fall under his rough touches.

He needed more of her. He needed her whole.

She needed more of him. She needed him whole.

He let the shadows fall away from her wrists, giving her the chance to slide and push him under her, again straddling him before she ran her teeth over his neck, biting down hard enough to draw blood from the sensitive skin. She also left marks over him as he had, her own blood coming from his bites from before. She pulled out a dagger she always carried sheathed and his eyes widened, his grip on her waist tightening enough to draw blood from her hips. She pressed the blade against the cloth of his pants, pulling it off to show a thin red line from where her blade ran when he growled in pain. She did the same to the other leg and then to the waistline of the clothing, pulling it off to show him in only black boxers underneath her. She pulled off her shorts before pressing herself against him, a gasp and growl escaping Nico from the teasing pleasure.

He again pulled her under him, this time not caring of restraining the daughter of Bellona as he pressed his palm to between her legs, against her clothed sensitive area. She gasped and moaned, wanting more. Their eyes met, desire and need following the growing lust between both sets of eyes. It was enough confirmation for Nico, as he pulled off the last of their clothing, his member pressed against her now naked point. She growled wolfishly, not happy with his teasing. He positioned his head to her entrance, and stared straight into her eyes, looking for any doubt or fear. She trusted him with her. She trusted him with her all.

He drove inside of her entirely, cutting Reyna's scream of pain with a deep kiss, a lone tear falling from her left eye as he felt her blood trickle from her lower lips. Nico waited with fire in the kiss until she stopped whimpering, kissing him heatedly as she moaned and growled from pleasure. He started slow before his thrusts became quick and deep, slipping out of her entirely before slamming back into her, his entire length deep inside of her.

The praetor grew impatient and bucked underneath him, meeting his thrusts with her own. They tore at each other as they felt their climax growing near. Reyna held hers in as much as she could before they released together, the son of Hades filling her womb as she felt release, howling in pleasure and ecstasy. He pulled her above him, his hands sliding down her sides and back up, twirling her brown hair in between his fingers.

Reyna stayed on top of him, slowly pulling him out of her and a trail of white leaked out of her filled womb. Nico pulled her into a deep and passionate kiss before they pulled apart, their foreheads together as they looked at each other in their eyes. Neither of them denied their emotions, letting go of their doubts as they held each other close. "Thank you..." Exhaustion overwhelmed Reyna, her words soft and slurred.

As she drifted into slumber, Nico kept the nightmares away from her, shadows protecting her mind as he pulled the covers over them both, not caring about anything else than the one he felt for. He kissed her forehead softly, pressing his mouth against her ear. He said softly, "I'll keep you safe, protect you. I will always be yours. I swear it on the River Styx." The oath was sealed with the thunder, calming him and bringing him to the realm of Morpheus.

J/N: Sorry about the later update, but I do have summer school and also was working on the second chapter for Champion that we published yesterday. I hope you enjoy! And please review!