This one's set the day that Nico's released from the infirmary.

Nico did genuinely want to get out of the infirmary. The feel of death was suffocating and more importantly the food was disgusting. He was so ready to be back in his cabin and to eat some real unhealthy food. What he needed was a burger.

Unfortunately, the small problem with leaving was that Will was in the infirmary and Nico was now not going to be. This did not make Nico happy. He had been suffering with the very large affliction of something called 'feelings'. This was something he had not experienced often in the past. So incredibly inconvenient.

In conclusion, Nico wanted to leave, but he did not want to leave Will. Something he made very clear when Will announced that Nico was free and he proceeded to run all the way to his cabin without a moments hesitation. He was now laying face down on his bed, half regretting his actions and half just happy to be in his own bed. His regret/celebration session was interrupted by a nock at the door.

"Come in" He yelled, hoping his voice wasn't too muffled by the pillow.

"Woah" said the voice that entered the cabin. "I always forget how dark this place is."

"What do you want Jason?" Replied Nico, barely even annoyed but needing to maintain his reputation.

"I just wanted to talk about your time in the infirmary. Your three days with Will." Jason stretched out the 'Will' part like a three year old.

"Shut up" Said Nico, starting to blush a little.

"Come on," Prompted Jason, lowering his voice and leaning in a little. "Did you get the Sunny D?"

Jason then fell on the floor laughing. Nico took longer than he would care to admit to get the joke, blushed an unbelievable shade of red and started to bash Jason with a pillow. Nico may be skinny but he's strong and that pillow connected directly with Jason's face.

He sat up, still laughing but also clutching his jaw.

"Come on Nico, you know I'm just kidding. But based on your reaction I'm guessing that something actually did happen. So as your self appointed adoptive brother slash bff slash replacement parental figure, it's my job to tell you to always be safe." Jason was only half joking, which made Nico even more angry.

"Get out!" He yelled, continuing his pillow assault on Jason's head.

"Okay, okay, geez. I'm going." Jason told him as he slunk out the door, a grin still on his face.

Nico returned to his bed and lay down, staring at the ceiling this time. He still wasn't completely comfortable with the whole 'openly gay' thing. He certainly wasn't okay with Jason's teasing, but he supposed he would have felt the same about the teasing if he had been straight.

He had told Jason about the small crush on Will when he came to visit him in the infirmary. It had kinda been forced out of him. Obviously Jason already knew he was gay, but it hadn't stopped the anxiousness that Nico felt.

His thoughts were yet again interrupted by a knock at the door.

"I swear to gods, if that is Percy or Jason again I will not hesitate to call on some skeletons to deal with you."

The door swung open violently and an uncharacteristically unhappy Will stormed in.

"Nico Di Angelo if you dare do any underwordly stuff without my permission I swear on Zeus' beard I will lock you in the brightest room I can find and have you placed under supervision for a month!"

Nico practically jumped out of his bed. He had striped down to a t-shirt and boxers, so he immediately blushed and grabbed a blanket to wrap around himself. He could see Will blushing a little as well but his more tanned skin didn't show it so obviously. It took him a few moments to register what had just happened, and when he finally did the ability to speak left him for a few moments.

"Hhhhh. Hhi. W. W. Wwwillll." He finally managed. "Hhow are you?"

When Nico realized that what he'd said wasn't really an appropriate response, he tried again.

"I wasn't really going to summon skeletons, but they didn't need to know that."

"Oh. Okay." Will said, seeming a little embarrassed by his outburst. "Well, that's not really why I came here anyway."

Nico waited for a continuation of that statement but when none came he decided to just ask.

"Oh, right." Will stammered, pulled back to reality. " Well since you clearly cannot be trusted not to do any underworldly things, I was thinking of suggesting to Chiron that you be temporarily moved to the Apollo table for mealtimes."

Nico began to protest but Will stopped him.

"I'm asking you to come to lunch to with me, will you just say yes?"

"Oh. Okay, sure." Nico said, blushing yet again.

So there goes the third chapter! I hope you enjoyed. Jason is Nico's adoptive mother, all of you can fight me on that. Also sorry for the Sunny D joke, I hate it as much as you do. Thanks to everyone reading and leaving comments, I never imagined that anyone would actually read these, let alone want to keep reading them.