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Title: Pride Art – Writer's Month 2022
Fandom: Percy Jackson and the Olympians / Heroes of Olympus
Disclaimer: All rights reserved to Rick Riordan. Aside from the Gods, they belong to the old Greeks. This fanfiction and its OCs on the other hand are entirely mine. No money is made with this, though reviews are more than welcomed.
Tags: m/m, m/f, polyamory, pining, nudity, mortal AU
Main Pairing: Nico/Percy & Rachel/Percy
Percy Jackson Characters: Perseus Jackson, Nico di Angelo, Rachel Elizabeth Dare
Summary: Writer's Month Prompts: rainbow + artist & model. For pride month, Nico lets himself be dragged to an art class by Rachel. With the most stunning nude model imaginable.
Pride Art
Writer's Month 2022
Nico wasn't much of an artist. Not in the sense his roommate was. Rachel, she sketched and painted and she had a real talent for it. The most artistic thing Nico did was photography, but he always thought that was different, he just captured what was already given. Rachel created.
"This will be fun either wa—ay," Rachel tugged on his arm. "C'mon. You'll love this class."
"I doubt it," Nico heaved a sigh as he allowed himself to be pulled along.
Rachel loved taking random art classes, to keep herself on her toes. This one, she was weirdly enthusiastic about, to the point of dragging Nico along. Since she had never asked him to attend a class with her, he didn't find himself able to argue with her. It'd be nice bonding, she'd said.
"I don't like drawing," Nico sighed as he set up next to Rachel in the classroom. "I really don't know why you think that this will be for me. I am capable of... stick-figures."
"Well, you will model this stick-figure after..." Rachel smiled impishly. "...Percy."
"Who's Percy and why are you saying that name so ominously?"
"I'm Percy. Hi. I'm your model today. And you're new, you weren't here last week."
Nico turned toward the voice and found a young man, about his and Rachel's age, wearing... a bathrobe? Blue, with cartoon seals printed all over. That was weird attire. But he didn't get to think on it for long because then he looked into the stunning blue-green eyes of this Percy. Beautiful.
"...Pretty," Nico whispered beneath his breath.
"Oh, wait for it," Rachel smirked mischievously. "It's gonna get even better."
Before Nico had the chance to ask, he got to watch the robes come off. A strangled noise escaped Nico as he saw that smooth waxed chest and chiseled six-pack, the sun-kissed skin. Gorgeous. Gorgeous naked guy. What was Nico supposed to do with that.
"You could have warned me, bastard," Nico hissed.
"Why? Your slack-jawed expression is so much more fun," Rachel snickered. "And yes, this is the reason you're here. Look at all that goodness. Mh. And wait for it. Ah, there it is."
Percy turned his back on them and Nico nearly snapped the pencil in his hand in half. Wow. That ass. That ass was like it had been sculpted by Michelangelo himself. Nico was pretty sure that he could bounce a quarter off that. Nico licked his lips slowly, drinking in the sight.
Rachel leaned in, her voice a teasing whisper. "You're welcome."
Damn her for knowing him so well. This Percy was his taste to a T. So gorgeous.
/break\
It had all started out because Percy needed some quick additional money when his car broke down. Leo had suggested that the local art college always looked for models for their classes. That was how he had started modeling for art classes. At first clothed, and when he realized there was more money in less clothes, then also naked. Though his car shop bills had long been paid, the additional cash was nice and went to other, more fun things. Percy'd always been secure in his body, he didn't find it embarrassing to be naked in front of others.
Until Rachel Dare. Rachel, with her piercing glance and cute freckles and wild red hair and the shirts that were always stained with some kind of paint, a brush behind her ear. She was so pretty and also so passionate and how talented she was. Percy loved her paintings of him and everything else she did, he'd gotten to go through her sketchbook multiple times now.
So for the first time, Percy started feeling more self-conscious when being naked, because he was being naked around someone he had a crush on. And it got worse when Rachel started bringing along her gorgeous Italian friend or maybe boyfriend or whatever. Nico di Angelo. With the Italian accent and the cheekbones and the deep, dark eyes. And the lack of artistic talent. His pictures of Percy barely ever resembled Percy, but there was still a lot of fun in Nico's work with colors.
Here Percy was, a pansexual disaster with a crush on Rachel and Nico and regularly getting naked in front of both of them, which was making everything all the more complicated.
/break\
Rachel smiled as she finished her last portrait of Percy Jackson's glorious ass, in cyan this time. Her Pride Month art project, one portrait in each color of the rainbow flag. Now it was finished. What a shame. Alas, this class was ending, today was the last session. How she was going to miss seeing that ass every week, no clothes between her and these two globes of inspiration.
"I'm going to miss you, Percy. You're very... inspirational," Rachel sighed longingly.
"Well," Percy smiled coyly as he slipped his robes on. "I do model for private artists too. Only the ones I know aren't just creeps. And I know you. So... if you have the spare change..."
"Oh we do," Nico snorted softly beneath his breath, looking up when he felt Percy's inquisitive eyes on him. "You could say we're both trustfund kids. We got the money. That's not the problem."
"You say that is not the problem. So—o, what is?"
"Well," Rachel exchanged a look with Nico. "Maybe we don't want to pay for your company. Maybe we would like to get you... naked in your free time. For... fun. You know what I mean?"
It was delightful to see Percy blush at her words. Pretty. Smiling, she rested a hand on his knee. Nico rolled his eyes at her, but oh she knew he wanted to do that himself. The two of them, part of why they got along so well was because they had a similar taste and humor. After a moment, Nico also reached out and rested a hand on Percy's other knee, to confirm that he was on the same page. Percy turned an even darker shade of red, which looked even prettier.
"So—o," despite his blush, Percy was now spotting a cheeky grin. "You would want to get me naked not just for artistic reasons then? There'd be fun involved for me too, yeah?"
"We would make it very fun for you," promised Nico with a charming look.
"Though there would also be artistic reasons," added Rachel after a moment. "You are very nice to draw and I would like to draw you draped over every surface in our apartment."
"Take a guy out for dinner before you talk about putting him on every flat surface in your place."
"Okay," Nico leaned in to whisper into Percy's ear, brushing a kiss against his cheek. "Dinner?"
The blush returned and Rachel smiled pleased as Percy nodded. "Okay. Dinner. Sounds good."
Perfect. Rachel got to keep her muse even after Pride Month ended.
~*~ The End ~*~
Author's note: Artist and model HAD to feature Rachel and Percy ;D Aaand this wraps up Writer's Month!
