Disclaimer- I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians or the Heroes of Olympus Series. (One can dream though) All rights go to the proper parties.

Note***- Will be boy x boy. (I promise, it is coming) Don't like? You don't have to read.

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December 31st

Percy POV

"On a scale of one to someone stole Zeus' master bolt again, how mad do you think Camp Jupiter would be if we smuggled in fireworks for tonight?"

The god of music turned to me and raised one eyebrow. "Let me put it this way, I think you will find its residents hoping you don't choose immortality."

I sighed and flopped down on the couch next to him. "Fine, but how can it be New Years Eve without fireworks?"

"I would be very surprised if New Rome didn't have a fireworks show. I'm just saying I doubt they would appreciate you trying to set them off. Knowing you, you'd probably burn down the city."

"Hey! They trust me. I'll have you know, they once voted me Praetor."

He just smirked, "They clearly didn't know you very well then."

I grabbed the pillow next to me and hit him in the head. The god of the sun laughed. I leaned further back into the couch with a sigh. "I guess it doesn't matter. There's no way Terminus would let me bring them inside the city anyway."

We lapsed into silence for a few minutes. When the boredom started to set in, I decided to break it.

I stretched my back and yawned. "So are you making any New Year's resolutions Apollo?"

The god of the sun shrugged, "Does 'regain my immortality' count? If not then, no, I wasn't planning on it."

"Me either. I guess my New Year's resolution will be 'decided whether or not to accept godhood'."

Apollo snorted, "You don't really have a choice about achieving that one. Whether you're ready to decide or not, you will have to give the council your answer."

I winced, "Don't remind me."

I tried my best not to think about it too much. I was already two months into the temporary godhood and I was no closer to an answer.

"I have an idea."

I looked at the god in confusion. "Okay... about what?"

"If you want to make New Year's resolutions, it's something me and Hermes always do."

"What is it?"

"The two of us always make a combined list of resolutions. We always pick ten things to do together. Though, three of them are pretty much the same every year."

Now I was intrigued, "What kinds of things?"

He shrugged. "Well, one item on the list is to find something new to try every year. Considering we're immortal it's not always as easy as it sounds, but there's always something new if you think hard enough. Last year we decided to go Zorbing."

"What in Hades is Zorbing?"

"It's pretty much where they put you in a giant hamster ball full of water and push you down a steep hill."

My eyes widened and I smiled, "I have to do that one day."

He laughed, "You should. It was actually a ton of fun."

"So what else is typically on the list?"

"Do something incredibly stupid so that we will have blackmail on each other... That one's never hard to fulfill, but it's always amusing the next day."

I raised one eyebrow and laughed. "I bet."

"And the other one that's always the same is, find a new fling. Though, truthfully I don't know why that one's always on our list... it's not like we wouldn't do it anyway." I flinched at that one. It was a little too casual of reminder about how gods tended to view mortals. It seemed Apollo caught onto what he said right away too. He winced and gave me a guilty look, "It's not like we... I mean... that didn't come out right."

An awkward silence descended. I tried very hard not to think about his kids, some of which were my friends. I couldn't help but wonder which of their moms were selected just for a New Year's resolution. He clearly looked remorseful though over his carless words, so I decided to cut him a break.

I coughed and brought the topic back to what we were originally talking about. "Okay, over all that sounds like a fun idea. Let's do it."

He looked at me in surprise, but accepted the topic change for what it was. "Alright, I'll go grab a piece of paper."

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It took us a few hours but we were eventually able to pick out 10 items to do. It wouldn't have taken so long if Apollo hadn't already done pretty much everything.

Our finished list looked like this...

New Year's Resolutions,

1) Try vegetarianism for 21 days

2) Learn to play chess

3) Visit Greece when not under attack by crazy goddess

4) Read a book on a topic you normally wouldn't

5) Teach Percy Archery

6) Teach Apollo to ride a Hippocampus

7) Learn to yodel

8) Go Trick or Treating

9) Go on a road trip that doesn't involve a quest

10) Be in a healthy relationship

I insisted that we add the last item instead of Apollo's usual resolution. The god of the sun had no complaints.

All in all, I was proud of our list. I was especially excited for number 8. We had come to the agreement that would be our embarrassing story and as such, we were going to allow the other to pick out our costume. I couldn't wait for October...

"You know, I am fairly excited for this list. It's going to be fun."

The god of music smiled, "That's the whole point."

I took our list and hung it on the fridge. The sun god came to stand beside me. I turned to him and smiled.

"Come on Apollo, let's head to the party."

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Apollo POV

Percy's friends had decided that they would host a New Years Eve party. Like every other get together, they had decided to host it at Jason's and Annabeth's house. It wasn't that hard of decision to make though. After all, their house was the only place big enough to hold twelve people comfortably.

It was already dark out by the time we got to the house. As soon as we came through the door, Annabeth came over and stole Percy for their game of Pictionary. I tried not to frown at the daughter of Athena.

The son of Poseidon glanced back at me as he was pulled away to make sure I was following. The action sent a warm feeling to my stomach. I smiled at him and made my way to the living room after them.

Wisdoms daughter seemed to be going out of her way the last few days to spend time with the youngest god. I was glad that Percy was getting to spend time with his girlfriend. If that meant that I got to spend less time with him, then I did my best to ignore it.

I took an empty seat on one of the couches to watch their game.

Their version of Pictionary was a four way contest. It seemed to be a couple's game, Frank and Hazel vs. Jason and Piper vs. Leo and Calypso vs. Percy and Annabeth. To be completely honest, it was rather clear that none of them were my decedents. The art was... fairly abstract to say the least. Calypso and Piper weren't terrible artists, but I couldn't tell what almost anyone else was drawing.

Hazel and Frank were decimating the other teams. Neither were great artists, but they simply seemed to know how the other one thought. I watched them play for 15 rounds and neither of them ever failed to get the answer before time ran out.

Considering Annabeth was an architect, I would have expected her to be fairly good at the game. However, her partner was Percy. They just didn't think the same way. When she had to draw out the words 'traffic jam', she drew what I think was supposed to be a road filled with boxes that were supposed to represent cars. Percy had no idea what it was. Though truthfully, until she said it, I didn't either. I would have drawn a car and a jar with a strawberry on it.

Eventually, the other teams admitted defeat and named Hazel and Frank the winners. After that, we decided to mix up teams so everyone could play. Before anyone else could pick their teammate, Percy claimed me as his partner. I smiled and went to join him as everyone else paired up.

The second round was a lot more fun. It was always more entertaining to join in a game then it is just to watch it. Percy and I made an awesome team. When he got 'sun burn', he drew a sun and fire. It took me about 3 seconds to figure it out.

We got almost all of ours right, but Leo and Reyna were the winning team. It was an interesting partnership but they worked well together. I would never have guessed that the daughter of Bellona was so good at Pictionary. The fact that she could figure out what the son of Hephaestus was drawing at all was rather impressive. No one else could.

We played a few more games, charades, who am I, Yahtzee, and, the funniest game of the night, honey if you love me.

I had never heard of honey if you love me before, but Piper told the group about it and it was nearly a unanimous vote that we should play it.

The whole point of the game was to pick another person in the room. You went up to that person and had to say, 'honey if you love me would you please, please, smile'. The other person had to keep a straight face and reply, 'honey I do love you but I just can't smile'. If they couldn't keep a straight face, then they had to pick someone to say it to, if they could, you had to try again on someone else.

At first I wasn't certain what to think of the game but when Jason went up to Frank and started stroking his face when he said it, I understood just how much fun it could be. It was harder to keep a straight face then I would have thought. I ended up being 'it' at least six times.

One of the best attempts though was when Leo, being Leo, decided that he wanted to get Nico to join in. The son of Hephaestus dropped down on one knee and took his hand like he was about to propose. The son of the death god's face was priceless. He looked like he was two seconds away from removing Leo's hand by force. Everyone else in the room was dying of laughter, but the son of Hades managed to keep from smiling.

It was Percy's turn again when he decided that I would be the perfect target. Before I could even make a joke, he walked up, sat in my lap, and wrapped his arms around my shoulders.

He leaned in closer and flashed me a blinding smile, "Honey if you love me would you please, please, smile?"

For a moment I froze. My heart was beating way too fast for just a game. I felt my fingers twitch with the desire to wrap my arms around him. It wasn't every day that I had such a stunning male climb into my lap. For a second I felt the inexplicable urge to close the distance between us. It took me a few moments before I remembered that this was a game and that I was supposed to respond.

I cleared my throat. "Honey I do love you, but I just can't smile."

The son of Poseidon pouted and stuck out his tongue. "Fine, be like that."

He laughed as he climbed out of my lap but I couldn't quite bring myself to do the same yet. I was still a little dizzy from my hearts Olympic race. That was definitely not the normal response of a friend.

I shook my head in an attempt to clear it when I felt a set of eyes on me. I turned and saw my son watching me. When he noticed I was looking, he raised an eyebrow at me and glanced towards Percy. I looked away before he could turn back to me.

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For a game that had started out so fun, I was quite glad when it ended. After Percy's turn, the game didn't seem as humorous anymore. Once everyone got bored, people just started splitting off into groups to talk.

I mostly withdrew myself from the conversations around me so that I could try and figure out what in Hades name had just happened. That was definitely the first time I had a reaction like that to Percy's playful nature. True he had never sat in my lap before, but he'd thrown his arm around my shoulders more times than I could remember.

It was the skating incident all over. Once again, I found myself taking my friends innocent acts and turning them into a romantic gesture. That was not normal. Not even for me. Hermes and I had a very tactile friendship too, but I had never felt the urge to pull him close. Whereas, it was all I could do to keep my hands still rather then pull the son of Poseidon towards me and not let him go.

I suddenly had a really bad feeling. I didn't have a lot of experience with friendship, but I had seen enough movies to know that when you were overcome with the urge to hold your best friend, schist was about to hit the fan. This was more than just falling in love with some mortal, this was...

I felt my eyes widen as I realized what I had just thought.

Love... Love..? I was beginning to fall in love with Percy!?

I felt the blood leave my face. I was so screwed.

If Percy didn't kill me, then Poseidon would. That was if Annabeth didn't figure it out before the other two. The daughter of Athena was scary when she wanted to be. I didn't even have my immortality to protect me. If I died because of a crush, I was going to file a complaint with Hades. That would be the worst death ever. To survive eons only too...

"Fred?"

My eyes snapped to the side and I felt my heart start to beat faster. "Percy! What are you...? Shouldn't you be with Annabeth?"

He frowned and tilted his head. The adorableness of the gesture was not lost on me. "Are you feeling okay? You look really pale."

I laughed, but I could hear the slight edge of hysteria in it. "I'm not sick. Don't worry about me."

The son of Poseidon looked even more worried than he had a few moments ago. "Are you sure?"

"Positive."

He gave me a disbelieving look but before he could say anything else, Annabeth called him. I had never been so happy for the daughter of Athena's interference. I was not ready to talk to him with my epiphany still so fresh in my mind. He gave me one final searching look before he walked away.

It was all I could do not to let out a groan.

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There was no way that I was really falling in love with Percy. It just wasn't possible. I would not, could not, fall in love with him. I outright refused.

I was Apollo. I had been in love exactly once, and that was only because I pissed off Eros. I didn't fall in love, period. Regardless of semantics though, I could no longer convince myself that I only felt attraction to the son of Poseidon.

As much as I didn't want to admit it even to myself, I did, maybe, have a small, tiny, insignificant, crush on Percy...

I felt like an idiot. Now that I knew what I was looking for, the signs were so painfully obvious that I liked him. I had always thought Percy was adorable. Then I realized just how stunning he really was. Obviously I was attracted to him. That was nothing new...

What was new, was wanting to spend so much time with the son of Poseidon. I thought that it was because he was my friend. Maybe some of it was, but friendship alone couldn't explain why it was more fun to spend time with him than it was without him. Then, there was the fact that he could actually make me do things I didn't want to. As a general rule, no one could change my mind once I had decided not to do something. It also explained why I never really warmed up to his girlfriend.

I groaned quietly to myself and rubbed my forehead.

This was a disaster.

I finally make a real friend, one who truly wants nothing from me other than my friendship, and I have to go fall in... a crush with him. I was clearly in denial for ever having believed that I didn't feel more than friendship for him.

It was one thing to crush on a mortal who doesn't know who you are, it was something completely different to develop feelings for your straight friend, who has a girlfriend, and who is considering immortality. There were so many ways that this could end badly...

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I was glad when 11:50 rolled around. I needed a break from my thoughts. We all went outside to watch the fireworks. They would start precisely at midnight.

Once we started counting down, everyone found their significant other. I made sure to focus on the clock rather than Percy's arms around Annabeth. I refused to look. It wasn't any of my business if they wanted to enter the New Year kissing...

The clock struck midnight and everyone shouted. The fireworks lit the sky enough that I could clearly see the son of Poseidon. If I felt any jealousy when Annabeth pulled his lips down to hers, then I would never admit it...

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Authors Note

What do you think of them apples! :-) It's about time at least one of our boys discovered their feelings...

I hope you all appreciate this one. I actually took time out of my vacation to work on it. I don't have a computer at the campsite so I had to do all the editing on my phone.

Next update will be July 26th

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There was something wrong, I just didn't know what.