Note: Posted with Permission

Warning: This is rated 'M' for a reason, I don't make light of the rating system, and it gets progressively more mature as these go on.

Summary: Nico never allowed himself to touch, only to be touched, it was better that way. Percy/Nico

Chapter Eleven: Nerves of Steel (or some other kind of metal…)

Nico woke up the next morning with a wince. Percy was sitting at the head of his bed mindlessly playing a game on the 360 and Nico wondered how the other boy's head wasn't throbbing like his was. One thing he was thankful for was that Percy still hadn't clothed himself, and instead sat there in naught but his boxers, but that fact was beset by the pain in both his head and his ass. "Percy," Nico groaned, falling back into the bed. Percy looked over his shoulder and paused the game.

"Good morning, sleepyhead," Percy said with a faint smile. "There's aspirin on the table beside you and some water." He looked over and grabbed the medicine, downing it quickly and the water as well, his throat was horribly dry.

"God, I feel horrible. Did we have sex?"

"Oh, gee, thanks," Percy said dryly and Nico rolled his eyes.

"You try getting something shoved inside you and see how good you feel in the morning," He returned. "Didn't mean to hurt your pride." Percy smiled and crawled over to Nico, pushing him down into the bed. The slimmer of the two noticed that he too was in almost just his boxers as well, a thin shirt around his arms. They kissed and Nico wrapped his arms around Percy's neck. "If I could remember it I'd tell you it was the best sex anyone's ever had."

"You're a horny little bastard when you're drunk," Percy smirked, kissing him again. Their legs were pressed against each other, Percy's much hairier than Nico's, and if he was feeling better the Italian might have started something, instead he just enjoyed the feeling of Percy on top of him. "You wouldn't believe it was you, taking your clothes off in hallways, climbing on top of me, singing on Rock Band at the top of your voice." Nico blushed furiously.

"I did not,"

"I swear you did, you were right though, had I gotten you drunk before all this you would have definitely been sticking your tongue down my throat, you begged me for sex." Nico blushed even further. "Do it again,"

"I'm in pain, you bastard. I won't be walking much today," Percy laughed, the way it shook them made it painfully clear just what kind of position they were in, and Percy's laugh turned into something deeper, more guttural.

"Maybe something else?" Percy asked, thrusting his hips forward.

"What do you have in mind?" Nico answered with a question, again Percy smirked and kissed his way to the boy's neck, then lifting his shirt and continuing on, dipping his tongue into the boy's navel, and stopping at Nico's waistband. "You're—Percy, you're not serious?"

"I'll do you if you do me," Then that mischievous look took over his face and Nico's heart beat in his chest, but he still wasn't feeling it.

"I'll do you," Nico said and half pulled, half yanked Percy back up to him. The older, more Grecian boy moaned when he was groped and he couldn't really argue with Nico's logic, if he was crazy enough to turn down a blowjob then there was no helping him. Nico still felt like crap, but he messily led a trail of saliva down to Percy's bellybutton, then he pulled down Percy's boxers and he was always amused to see the piece of meat just lying there, begging to be attended. "You're excited,"

"I have reason to be," Percy smirked. "Try it," Nodding Nico experimentally placed the semi-flaccid thing in his mouth and almost instantly it jumped, shooting forward and suddenly brimming with life. Percy moaned like Nico had never heard him moan before and it made his own member twinge with want for attention. "God, Nico…suck on it."

"You're so dirty about things," Nico said, trying to seem unamused but he couldn't help the smile on his lips before he went back to working. He got it halfway down his throat when he choked, and his stomach lurched. Swallowing hard he settled the contents of his stomach, then Percy thrust the slightest bit forward and again Nico gagged, he pulled Percy from his mouth and bounded to the door, across the hall, and into the bathroom. Loudly he emptied what lied in his stomach from the night before, and the two aspirin from this morning. He groaned and then heaved again. His head still ached and his ass still hurt. He flushed the toilet, and with a bit of resignation and trepidation he stood up and then he brushed his teeth, making sure to keep the toothbrush away from going down his throat too far.

He rinsed with mouthwash and made his way back into his room. Percy stood beside the bed, a look of concern on his face and his mouth half poised to ask a question. "I'm fine," Nico said. "My stomach was just upset."

Relief flooded into Percy's face, and Nico tried not to be surprised when Percy picked him up and put him back on the bed, covering him with his body. "Kind of killed the mood, Neeks." Percy smiled and he tried to kiss Nico again, but the darker brunet held up a finger to Percy's lips.

"I just threw up, that's disgusting." Nico said.

"Oh," Understanding flashed around Percy's features and then he smiled again. "Yeah, I guess you're right."

"Oh my," Persephone gasped as she walked by Nico's room with a basket of laundry in her hands. "I, uh, didn't know you were home, dear." Her cheeks tinged a bright red, she was clothed in a black nightgown, the shoulder straps made of fringe, as was the hem, and the thing was very thing, showing her white brassiere underneath. She turned her eyes away from the two boys. "Um, how was prom?"

Nico, too, was blushing suddenly. "It…was…good," He said.

"Persephone, my love what are you staring at—" Hades stopped at the door, then his eyes went with a mix of astonishment and shock. "Nico, you're home." He said in a very tight voice. "Hello, Percival."

"Hi, sir." Percy smiled awkwardly.

"You're on top of my son," Hades said decidedly. "Naked to boot,"

"He's wearing underwear, Dad." Nico sighed, even when everything was going his way nothing was going his way.

"Right. Well, you two look busy, there're condoms in your drawer, and, uh, keep it down, the game's on." Then with a definitive slam he closed the door, and Nico sighed heavily.

"If the moment weren't already dead I would say that we killed it again,"

"We didn't just kill the moment, it resurrected itself as a zombie, and we shot it on in the chest, and then again in the head, double-tap." Nico laughed once, wryly, and Percy snuck in a kiss. "You're so gross,"

"Sorry, I can't help it; your lips look like they need to be kissed. Minty though." Nico rolled his eyes, and again he found he was smiling, beside himself. "Thank you, for last night, by the way."

"You don't have to thank me for sex Percy, it's more a pleasure for me than I let on." Nico shrugged, Percy half smirked at that and shook his head.

"No you goober, I meant thanks for what you did after my Dad called me." Percy cuddled in closer beside Nico, who told him he couldn't remember it and so Percy told him the quick tale all over again, not sparing any details.

"You don't have to thank me for that either, Percy. I don't ever want you to hurt,"

"Still," Percy smiled. "I still owe you a dance, so how about tonight when you're feeling better?"

Here Nico smiled, "Yeah, okay." Percy's phone began ringing and reluctantly he let go of Nico and retrieved it from the counter.

"I bet you threw up your aspirin, go get some more," Percy said before he looked at his phone, Nico nodded and got up.

"Do you want anything?"

"In a minute," He said and flipped the phone open. "Hello?" Watching Nico leave he finally let emotion fill his throat. "Annabeth?"

"Percy, hi." The reply wasn't angry, it wasn't happy either. It was almost blasé by the sound of it. "Rachel keeps telling me to call you so we can talk, and I keep thinking you'll call me first, but then I forget that you're not the type to call first,"

"Sorry, about that." Percy said into the phone. "I'm so sorry about everything—"

"No, Percy. You're not sorry, you feel sorry for me, but you're happy the way things turned out." Annabeth said. "If I were you I guess I'd be happy too, after two years I guess I did know we were going in opposite directions, but I never thought you'd find what you were looking for in another guy." This time her voice had the slightest tinge of jealously.

"Annabeth—"

"But you said you loved me, and that you always would, and I believe that, and…I love you too Percy, and I'm realizing now that we just can't really be together, we don't want the same things, and I can't make you into someone else, someone who's interested in doing what I want them to do, besides a boyfriend would distract from my studies," Percy laughed here and he could almost feel Annabeth smile. "We'll be friends won't we?" She asked; her voice thick with emotion.

"Yeah, of course Annabeth, we'll always be friends. Best friends."

"Good. I won't see you, or anyone else, again till Summer time, I'm going out to the school and getting my new apartment set up, and making sure all my classes are right—" That was just like Annabeth, five months before the new semester started and she was already two steps ahead of everyone. "I suspect you'll get a job at least, don't just spend your Summer doing nothing if I can't get you in school."

Then Percy really did smile and told her about the deal he had with Paul. "So don't worry about me, alright? We'll hang out all Summer, I'll see if Mom will let us use Paul's beach shack down in Florida again."

"That thing isn't a shack Percy, it's a two story home, just because its on the beach doesn't mean you can rightly call it that," And that was when he knew they were going to be okay, Annabeth and him. "Look, I'm going to go, I do have tons of things to do."

"Busy, busy. Alright, good-bye Annabeth."

"See you later, Percy." Then they hung up and Percy set his phone aside, he decided he would go search out Nico instead of finishing his game, it wasn't like he didn't know the end to it already. So he went and found the boy in the kitchen, drinking a mug of coffee slowly.

"Did you know I had Premium Colombian Roast beans on my counter?" Nico asked.

"No, I didn't." Percy smiled and Nico handed him a note. It read, For Nico, because I know you'll need it. In loopy cursive handwriting and it was signed Rachel Elizabeth Dare, Percy chuckled absently at that and kissed Nico on the forehead. "Smells good."

"Get your own," Nico said pulling the cup to his chest. "I've been waiting my whole life for this cup of coffee."

"Ouch. Outranked by coffee, makes me feel like the world's most loved boyfriend." For a minute he wasn't sure what he had said, because the way Nico was looking at him curious. "What?" He asked.

"You said…boyfriend." Nico said, his lips twitching with a smile.

"Oh, yeah, guess I did." Percy laughed. "That's what I am, right? You're boyfriend?" Nico was nodding dumbly, as if his head was on a broken hinge and he set down his mug of coffee, then he made a sound Percy wasn't sure was possible, something between a squeak and a squeal and Percy soon found himself hold a very light weight. He smiled when Nico kissed him, and enjoyed the taste of the delicious coffee.

"Geez, you kids are doing it everywhere." Persephone came into the kitchen, dressed in a billowy white blouse and a smart pair of jeans, comfortable flats around her feet.

"Sorry," Nico said, but Percy didn't put him down.

"I don't mind sweetie, just, uh, when you're going at it like that try to keep your door closed, I could see...well everything." Nico ducked his head into Percy's neck and the standing of the two laughed.

"We will," Percy laughed.

"Good. Your Dad and I are going out, do you guys wanna come?"

"Uh…no, I think we'll find something to do." Nico said, finally getting Percy to set him back on the ground, though he put his arms around him. "Hey, um, Persephone?"

"Yes, dear?" Persephone asked.

"Thanks for, you know, making my Dad happy." The woman smiled warmly at that and Nico could see why his father was so fetched about her, she was an unrivaled beauty, a dark jewel that shone with such fey brilliance.

"I think you should thank him for making me happy as well," She said. "Promise me you two will come up for air and eat, keep hydrated. Hydration is key to staying healthy," Nico laughed and promised he would and then two slim but muscular arms wrapped themselves around the woman and she smiled.

"Hey there beautiful, someone like you must have a husband?" Hades asked, biting her ear.

"Well, I have a fiancé, but for a tall, dark stranger like you I think I can spare a kiss or two," She kissed him and Hades smirked into it. By the look of them they had been together for years, they fit together so perfectly. "You know, you have the sweetest son."

"I'd like it better if he stayed dressed, and out of bed with Percy Jackson," Hades said, casting his eyes up at his son who just sort of smiled at him. "But what can you do? He's alright."

"Love you too, Dad." Hades took Persephone by the hand and pulled her to the door.

"Stay out of trouble," He called over his shoulder and then they were gone.

"You would think they'd stop leaving us alone together," Percy smiled and Nico laughed.

"Still not in the mood," He said, but he leaned against Percy and picked up his cup again, drinking deeply. "But this is helping settle my stomach."

"Hangovers are hell," Percy laughed. "Let's go see what's on TV since I'm not getting any." Nico stuck his tongue out and Percy laughed, kissing his cheek and picking him up again. The shorter boy held tightly to his cup of coffee as if it was his life's blood and again Percy laughed. "You're addicted."

"Only slightly. How much do you think tickets to Columbia cost?"

"I'm sure if you ask Rachel sweetly enough she'll have some shipped to you," Percy smiled and sat them on the couch, turning on the television. Nico leaned against Percy, his fingers playing with the dusting of happy trail hair that the brunet had. Percy smiled, but he watched the game while Nico entertained himself.

"Have I ever told you that you should wear briefs?" Nico asked, fingering the material of Percy's boxers. "You've got nice legs." Percy chuckled to himself.

"I'll wear them if you want me to, I've never thought much about my underwear." He smirked. "I like your legs, you're never going to get hair on them." Percy smacked the back of Nico's leg hard enough to make the loud skin on skin sound, but not hard enough to actually hurt.

"It's not my fault," Nico glared.

"I was surprised you had any hair on your balls," Percy continued to tease. "And you don't have much under your arms either." Instantly the shorter boy's expression turned from a pout to anger, Percy couldn't help but laugh. "I'm just kidding," He smirked again, kissing Nico. "After this I guess we can go underwear shopping." When Nico blushed Percy chuckled and turned back to the game, so what if he and Hades watched reruns of games they'd already seen, it was still interesting to Percy.

"You're serious?" Nico asked.

"Well I don't have any tighty-whities and my baby wants to see me in them," And sometimes, Nico thought to himself, he could just smack that smile off of Percy's face.

"You're so dumb," He rolled his eyes, resisting the urge to crack a smile. They sat in a comfortable silence till the game was over, Nico resting on Percy and still lazily trailing his hand up and down the teen's chest and stomach, then, when the ballgame finished Percy stood up and said, "Ready?" And Nico looked up at him. "You're serious?" He asked and the taller young man nodded his head.

"If you ask me to do something I'll do it, Neeks," Percy said and he grabbed Nico's hand and pulled him up. "Besides, it's not anything big." He smirked and pressed their lips together.

"I mean, you don't have to if you don't want to," Nico shrugged, trying desperately to hide his blush. "I just thought they'd look nice."

"You think they'll look hot," Percy corrected. "Fetishist."

"Stop reading the dictionary to find out what things mean," Nico rolled his eyes. "I don't even want to know how you came across that one."

"Looking at porn," Percy laughed. "you know, apparently girl-on-girl is a fetish, and well, don't Google image search that word." Again Nico rolled his eyes. "It's not like I knew or anything,"

"Yeah, okay." Nico smiled. "Sure you didn't."

"Hey, you're the one with the underwear fetish, not me." Percy countered and Nico was suddenly silenced. "Point me." He smiled and kissed the younger boy again.

"Just because…I mean only sick people…we're not going." Was finally the definitive response and Nico crossed his arms and sat back down on the couch.

"What? Why not?" Percy laughed and positioned himself so he sat across Nico's lap at a strange angle, his body was much longer than the slim Italian's so he was sort of hanging off of him.

"Because people with fetishes are weirdos, and I'm not a weirdo." His face set in the grim look Percy knew to be a pout and he laughed again. They were laughing so much the two of them, and smiling and he wondered if they would be annoying to other people, then he wondered how long the laughing and smiling would last between them. It hadn't lasted too incredibly long in his relationship with Annabeth, and he didn't want another break-up. He wanted this to work and he would do whatever it took to make it work. Seeing the somber expression cross Percy's face not an instant after he had been smiling Nico dropped all pretense of being annoyed and lightly kissed his face. "Don't think so hard," He said.

"Come on, I really want to do this now," Percy replied. "You won't be a weirdo just for liking something, how about you wear them too, it'll be sort of like a secret between us, something we can both share. Everyone can see our relationship, but only you get to see my underwear." And as corny as it was Nico found himself smiling, not a lovey-dovey happy smile, but one of amusement and joy. "That's a yes,"

"It is," Nico said. "But only on the condition that you don't call me weird,"

"You are weird," Percy laughed. "But you're my kind of weird."

"I'm going to get you a job at Hallmark,"

"If it pays the bill," Then Percy grabbed Nico's hand again and pulled him up once more. "I'm serious though, let's go buy underwear!" Something about that word made Nico's cheeks burn again and Percy just shook his head, pulling the boy along beside him so they could actually put clothes on.

"You want to make a shopping day out of it? I can get us some new clothes and stuff for school." Percy sighed then.

"I hate shopping days, Annabeth just dragged me along behind her."

"Well I'm not Annabeth, we'll do whatever you want too."

"Whatever?" He grabbed a handful of Nico's ass and the younger teen nearly jumped.

"Not that. Not today you freaking horndog."

"You'd say yes if I got you another bitch beer." Percy grumbled and then they proceeded to dress, putting on deodorant, brush their teeth, and going as teenage boys don't generally spend large amounts of time on hygiene. Most anyway, at least Percy and Nico didn't. When they got outside Percy gasped. "Shit. I still have Paul's Rover." He said looking at the black SUV parked on the street.

"Is that a problem?" Nico asked.

"I don't know, he's never let me drive it before," He pulled his cell phone out of his pocket. "Hold on and I'll see if it is," He dialed Paul's number and his stepdad answered the phone on the third ring.

"Percy, hi." He said.

"Hey Paul, you don't care that I sort of stole the Range Rover last night do you?"

"Nah, keep it today too, I figured you would spend the night with Nico or maybe Grover, I'm driving your Mom's car and she's driving yours." Paul told him.

"Oh, okay. Thanks," Percy smiled.

"Hey, Perce, before you go any word from Nico about NYU? Does he want to come?"

"Yeah, he said that it would be a good experience for both of us," Percy laughed, misquoting Nico on purpose. What he'd actually said was that they had nothing better to do, but Paul might not feel so great about that.

"Good, I knew he had a good head on his shoulders," Paul laughed. "Well I'll get your paperwork filled out, and bring you what you need to look over and sign and a list of classes, semester starts in Fall, in August."

"Alright, we'll get all that done soon then," Percy said.

"Okay, I have to go son, I've got another class in a couple of minutes, stay out of trouble."

"We always do," Then they exchanged good-byes and the taller teen hung up the phone. "It's cool; also, we'll have some paperwork for school to do later on."

"Great." Nico said sarcastically.

"It won't be that bad," Percy laughed and they climbed into the car, driving to the mall. Nico decided that he liked Percy's driving a considerable amount more than he liked Rachel's, for one Percy kept his eyes on the road when he talked, and two he didn't keep his music quite as loud. Speaking of Rachel Nico sighed.

"She'll kill us if we have a shopping day without her," Nico said.

"So let her kill us, we haven't really had an official first date yet, this'll be our first date." That made Nico smile and Percy turned the car off. "Come on," So Nico got out of the car and was overjoyed when Percy took his hand and brought him into the mall, the older teen had never been shy about anything, except perhaps the previous night when Nico was practically mounting him in front of a house full of their friends, but that was understandable. He dove head first into things like relationships unabashed and he didn't care what anyone thought about the two of them holding hands, if he hadn't cared when he was sure he wasn't attracted to other guys then he damn sure didn't care now that he had Nico. They entered the mall and stopped first in JC Penny's simply because neither of them liked Aeropostale or American Eagle, those kinds of stores weren't really where Nico's thoughts of taste lied. "I don't think I've ever been underwear shopping," Percy laughed as they made their way towards the men's department. "Normally they're just there in my drawer."

"That's because your mom spoils you," Nico laughed.

"She'll spoil you too," Percy smiled. "I'll spoil you if you want me to."

"You're already starting to," Nico said.

"But I haven't even bought you anything yet." Then the shorter, darker brunet rolled his eyes.

"I don't mean with gifts, Percy." Understanding crossed Percy's face and he smiled from ear to ear while he wrapped his arms around Nico's waist.

"So you do enjoy it," He said. "It's always hard to tell if you like the sex or you just like me,"

"Both, except it always hurts afterwards."

"I don't mean for it to," Percy said and Nico shrugged as if he could care less.

"I can handle a little pain," Even though it wasn't exactly a little pain, it was debilitating enough to stop him from walking for a couple hours at least, comfortably anyway. On that note they flipped through a few pairs of boxer briefs and regular cut briefs and grabbed a few packs of them in both their sizes, piling them into a basket that had been lying around. Then they moved on to shirts.

"Plaid, Neeks?" Percy asked as Nico held it up against his body, the smaller teen smiled.

"I think it'll look good on you, everything looks good on you." Percy rolled his eyes.

"You would say if I just paraded around naked I would look good."

"It's true," Nico laughed. "But just to comply with, you know, the law I'll try to keep you clothed outside of the bedroom." It occurred to him how much they had been talking about or having sex, they had not had a rest from one another and being as how this was his first relationship he wondered if other people were so consummate. It would have been a funny enough question to voice aloud, 'Do you think we have too much sex?' But it was perhaps one that needed to be asked, so Nico did.

"What do you mean?" Percy asked.

"Well, I mean we've been together officially for what? Two days? And in that time we've just sort of been doing it like two—"

"Teenagers?" Percy laughed. "I hear those guys have sex a lot, more than us probably." Nico rolled his eyes; of course he was being sarcastic. "I'm sorry, you're serious." Percy said with a wide smile.

"I am." Nico said. "I don't want our relationship to be just solely based on sex."

"Are we having sex right now?" Percy asked.

"Well, no, but—"

"And you still like me right?" Percy continued.

"Yeah, but what if all we ever want to do is have sex?" Then Nico received the strangest look from Percy, as if the question in and of itself were practically comical.

"There's a problem with that?" Percy asked, grabbing a pair of jeans he liked and checking to see if they fit. "I think that we're both pretty mature enough to tell the other what's on his mind, right? If I do something that bothers you you'll tell me, and vice-versa, and if you ever wise up and stop liking me all I ask is that you let me know."

"As if I could ever stop loving you," Nico said. "But Percy, you don't love me, not yet anyway." The taller boy nodded his head and sighed.

"You know I will Nico, I really, really like you and that's all that matters, but you know I just got out of a relationship with Annabeth, and you and I were fooling around at the end of that. I'm just not ready to say that yet, I'm not afraid that this won't work out because it will I'll make sure of that, but even on the smallest of chances it doesn't at least neither one of us will be as hurt as we can be. Is it okay for now for me to say I will love you, and it'll come to me easily, I already can't stand to be away from you, and you've already taken over most of my thoughts, and if you don't sleep in the same bed as me but you're in the same house I'm sure I'll probably pick you up in your sleep and drag your ass into my room." He smiled. "So see, I'm well on my way, but it still hurts to think that it didn't work out with Annabeth, because she was my first love."

Nico understood. How could he not, so he leaned up and kissed Percy on the lips and said, "That's good enough for now then,"

"Your little mind is always thinking about the little things," Percy smiled, hands around Nico's hips holding their middles together tightly. "I'm glad I'm here to help you enjoy everything else."

"Me too," Nico smiled and they kissed again.

After a few more stores of shopping an idea crossed Percy's mind and he told Nico he was going to the bathroom and that he should keep shopping. So on his way off towards the bathroom he looked behind him to see that Nico had dropped into the gaming store to find a few more things to play now that he had a lot of extra cash and he turned into the party store. There he spotted who he was looking for. "Aaron," He said and the boy looked up from a magazine he was reading behind the counter, the store was mostly—as always—empty considering there weren't any big holidays coming up.

"Oh hey, uh, Percy right?" Aaron asked and Percy nodded. "What's up man? How are things with you and Nico?"

"They're good, we're dating now." Percy told him.

"Tres bien fait," Aaron smiled widely till he saw a look of confusion cross his face. "Sorry, I'm originally from France and sometimes French slips into my English. I meant to say good job, you enjoying life with a guy?"

"I gotta tell you, he's amazing." Percy smiled. "But I had a question, one of, you know, the sexual nature." Aaron laughed then, and leaned over the counter.

"Those are my favorite kinds of questions, if you're looking for a threeway though it's not going to happen." Percy looked askance at that and Aaron laughed again. "Okay…that's not what it was then, what's the question?"

It took him a few seconds to recover from that and he was beginning to think perhaps this was a bad idea, but he decided that he was already here now. "You're into dudes, right?"

"Really? Is that your question Percy?" The redhead asked with a look of disbelief.

"No. I'm sorry, geez that's not what I wanted to ask. But still, you've been with guys, like sexually right?"

"If you're asking me if you're a top or bottom—"

"No! I mean I get on top, and Nico's on bottom—"

Then Aaron's face cracked with a wide smile. "So you two have already done it. That kid was about to bust with sexual energy when he first came in here, I would have done the honors myself of taking his virginity if you hadn't come in with that blonde."

It occurred to Percy that he was slightly angered by that statement, but he pushed it aside and asked his question. "Well, yeah, I mean we're both not virgins anymore. But Nico gets hurt a lot, you know? Like he still bleeds and stuff, and I'm afraid he's not really enjoying it, he's loud and all but his face looks like it's all in pain and stuff."

"Ah, so you wanna know how to make it so it doesn't hurt." Percy nodded and Aaron laughed. "You are using lube right?" Again Percy nodded. "How much?"

"Like a handful," Percy said.

"No, no, no. You've got to use more than that since Nico's still pretty unused to it I'm sure."

The brunet sighed, "He's cool with it when I'm, like, fingering him and stuff, then when I stick it in is when the problems start happening."

Aaron smirked. "I'm glad you're comfortable enough about this to talk to me, most guys like you would clam up and not even admit that they were fucking another guy," Again that look of confusion passed over Percy's face.

"Guys like me?"

"Straight guys, or bi guys who don't admit they're bi anyway. Like I was saying, it sounds like you're just going too fast and too rough for him right now, you want to be more careful 'cause you can rip him inside and that's no fun, use more lube, go slower, and probably stretch him out some more. Also, give the sex a rest, you want him to keep that elasticity, if you pace yourselves it'll be just as good ten years from now as it was the first time."

"Wow. Maybe that's what he meant by we were having too much sex," Percy thought aloud.

"Could be, but then again for the guy on bottom a lot of time it's more an emotional thing than it is for the guy on top. I'm not saying it's like that all the time, but more often than not. He was crushing pretty bad when I met him, but now that you guys have gone all the way that's going to be multiplied by like fifty." Percy thought about that, Nico had been pretty enamored with him before, to the point of tears, he couldn't fathom that being multiplied by fifty, he wasn't good with crying people. "Just treat him right and he'll stay happy if you're happy."

"Yeah, I can do that." Percy smiled. "Thanks so much, dude."

"Hey, it's what I'm here for, and I'm sure you're using condoms,"

"Yeah, everyone's been saying that to us, it's been 'condoms, condoms, condoms' nonstop." Percy said.

"That's because even if you two are virgins condoms are what's best, when you get into a more meaningful relationship they can come off, but me, I never fuck without one, and it's really not a good idea to considering everything that's going around nowadays." Aaron told him. "Hey, you be safe, I hear Sal back there waking so unless you're going to buy something you gotta go." Percy did in fact hear what others might have thought was the braying of a large bear, he held his hand out and shook Aaron's.

"Thanks again,"

"No problem," Aaron smiled and then thought of something, quickly he scribbled his number down on a piece of paper. "Here, call me if you have any more questions, or text me or whatever, find me on Facebook or something."

"Alright, yeah," Percy pocketed the phone number and with one last thanks he was out of the store. He quickly located Nico in Gamestop and snuck up on him, wrapping his arms around him and making the boy jump. "Did I scare you?" He asked, kissing his cheek.

"Yes," Nico said unamusedly. "Where the hell did you go?"

"I had to ask a man about a horse," Percy said, hugging Nico closer to him.

"If that's some weird bathroom term you can just keep it to yourself," Nico rebutted. "What do you think about getting Borderlands?"

"Never played it," Percy said.

"Me neither, I think it looks pretty cool though," He was looking at the case of the game and Percy couldn't help but feel him up just a little bit with their backs turned from the rest of the store. Nico let him do it but refused to make any sounds. "Alright, enough! We're in public," He said when Percy's hands started flitting with the hem of his jeans.

"You don't care when you're drunk," Percy laughed and kissed him again.

"Stop bringing that up! God, I feel like I should be mortified about that, but I can't remember it for the life of me."

"Don't worry, I remember it." Percy smiled. "Can we be done soon so we can go back to your house?"

"I'm surprised, Percy Jackson, the outdoorsmen is asking to go back in."

"We can do it outside if you want to," Percy said and he bit Nico's ear, sending a shiver down the boy's spine. "I'm not a fan of that idea, but hey, I'm all for trying new things." Of course, this was facetious but Percy loved messing with Nico.

"I'll be done soon, you freaking nympho." Nico groaned out more than he meant to.

"It takes one to know one," Percy smiled. "Plus, I kind of want to see you in those briefs now that you got me all curious." Nico was blushing as they made their way to the counter, the clerk gave them a look but didn't say anything, it took all kinds of people to make New York New York right? They were rung up and soon heading out of the store halfway through their shopping trip. Percy didn't remind Nico once that that morning he'd said he hadn't planned on doing anything, but he smiled besides himself knowing that Nico liked the sex, even if it was painful, and he was going to remedy that pain situation now.