POV: (Nico)-(bold)

(Leo)-(regular)

(Percy)-(italics)

Regular Third Person POV Unless I Tell You Otherwise Like Labeling It "Blah blah blah's POV"-(underlined)

AN: HEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! Sorry it's been so long but here ya go.

As Leo got up to leave, Nico's mind wandered back to the night before. Leo. The horror on his face. The terrifying and concerning panic attack. The masks. It was all too much. It was obviously more than "a bad dream".

As Leo got up to leave he made accidental eye contact with Nico. His mind wandered back to the night before. He dreamed about that day. Why? Why was he dreaming of death? He never died. Unless... was it one of those demigod dreams? Did this mean he was dead? No! It couldn't! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! He wasn't dead. He couldn't be. He.

Not.

Dead.

NOT DEAD!

HE WAS NOT DEAD! ...

Not him. Not him. Not him. He wasn't dead. No. No, he couldn't be. It was just Gea's minions trying to get to him. Or maybe it was a regular nightmare. The human mind is a wondrous thing. Yeah that's it. Just a regular nightmare. Just regular, twisted, harsh, terrifyingly scary, torturous nightmare. He was so caught up in thought, he almost didn't notice Nico sit down beside him. Almost.

Leo must've forgotten to lock the door because Nico easily opened and closed it quietly. Leo looked so lost in thought he almost turned away. But then he saw it. That small frown. Even smaller twitch, that both showed he was not okay. He also figures, he was so close to Leo, it was too late to turn back now. Just before he could rest a hand on Leo's shoulder, he turned and smiled.

"Oh. Hi, Nico."

There was that intoxicatingly fake smile again. He thought only a secon more about what he was about to do.

"Well here goes nothing." Leo could hardly hear Nico mumble incoherently under his breath.

"Leo..."

"Leo, I'm..."

"Gay." No answer.

"Leo I'm gay."

Still no answer. Just a blank... well not blank... hard to read face. It was happy? Not one of his masks, but truly... happy. Maybe... hopeful? Relived? But still blank. Like he didn't know what to think.

" Leo did you hear me? I said, I. Am. Gay. I like dudes. Other boys." Nico tried again.

" Y-yeah. I heard... Why tell me though?"

"Because I trust you."

Nico thought for a moment, " Because I like you Leo. I trust you and I want you to trust me too Leo."

Leo didn't understand where this was coming from. Maybe the night before? Well they had sort of begun to be friends at camp before he went missing. And they were friendly on the ship. He knew it was stupid but he did something he hadn't done since him. He wanted to see. It was so very stupid and could ruin their potential friendship but they already were friends right? They seemed to understand each other so well. Just by the looks they exchanged. So why not?

"Leo?"

He ignored him and stood. Then he leaned forward and kissed Nico on the lips. He immediately pulled away thousands of thoughts racing through his head. He collapsed back onto the bench.

Nico was completely unfased by Leo's kissing him. It was the expression that was currently on his face that concerned him. He looked... weird. Nico crouched down

Nico crouched down

Made Leo look him in the eyes

And said,

"Yeah... me too."

Then Nico kissed Leo. Slightly harder that Leo though he'd kissed him and they hugged.