"Nico!" Estelle Blofis cheered as she hugged he son of Hades after the family arrived during Christmas break.

"Hi Stella," Nico said hugging her back.

"Will got chubby!" the little girl declared pointing at the blonde who was starting to show and was wearing festive sweatpants.

"Nnniiicccooo! I told you it was noticeable!" he said tearing up as Nico hurried over to comfort him.

"Nah-uh! Uncle Will has a baby in his tummy!" protested Jason in his grandmother's arms, "That was mean, Aunt Stella!"

Paul looked at his stepson's child, "Oh really?"

Jason nodded, "Yeah! And Aunt Piper and Aunt Reyna got a little girl name Rose so next year I'll have two cousins to help give Uncle Frank puppy dog eyes!"

"I thought you were going to stop doing that to him, his shape shifting powers are not a toy. They tire him out," Percy pointed out.

"What about Alex?" the little boy questioned.

"Who is this Alex?" asked Sally looking at her son.

"That one's all yours, Wise girl," Percy said going to set up a movie for the kids to watch once Rose arrived allowing the adults to go shopping while they were watched by him, Nico and maybe Will.

"S-she called me f-fat!" Will sobbed into Nico's shoulder as his dark-haired lover rubbed his back.

"She's a little girl with no filter, she meant no harm. And she said chubby not fat," Nico told him rubbing his back.

Percy saw this and winced, wondering if he had ever been that moody when he was pregnant. Then he remembered what he did to kids who called him fat that Halloween and realized that he may have been running on hormones at the time.

"They're the same thing!" Will sobbed.

"I might have to drop him off at home if he's going to be this emotional," Nico told Percy.

"I can get home on my own," Will protested, he honestly wanted to do some shopping with out his boyfriend hovering over him and saw a chance to do so.

"You sure?"

"I'll be fine, I have my phone with me," the blonde assured him getting his coat and kissing his cheek, "I'll see you later."

Once he was out of Percy's house, he turned off the waterworks, he loved Nico but honestly, he had become a bit too clingy lately. It was hard to do Christmas shopping when the one you were trying to shop for wouldn't leave you alone for more than five minutes! Nico even kept track of when he left the hospital to get lunch! It was driving his nuts! After while he arrived in the market and started to hunt around for a gift for his beloved. He started to look around thinking about what Nico would like, his lover could use a new sheath for his sword. After a bit of shopping he also picked up a pair of silver skull cuff links, and some new clothes for himself before he got both gifts wrapped and carried everything home. When he got home, he found an annoyed Nico waiting for him.

"I came to check on you and I found that you weren't here," the dark-haired teen told him with his arms crossed.

Will sighed, "Nico, I wanted to get you a gift for Christmas and new clothes without risking you finding out what your gift was."

"You could have told me that."

"You would have followed me."

"No I wouldn't…I would have asked Percy to…" Nico admitted, turning slightly pink

"Okay, lets propose this to him, see what he says. We can call him or go over," Will replied putting his things down.

Nico rolled his eyes before dialing Percy and putting him on speaker.

"Hello?" came the voice of the sea prince, who honestly sounded confused, "What's up?"

"Percy, answer a hypothetical question for us. If Will wanted to go shopping for Christmas and I asked you to go with him to keep an eye on him, would you?" Nico asked.

"You did not say he'd be accompanying me you said you would have him follow me around," Will snapped.

"Guys!" Percy shouted getting the two younger males' attention, "Look, I don't know what happened but Nico, you're being a bit too fretful, I know what happened last month scared you, but Will's fine now and as long as it was nothing too heavy, he and the baby should be fine."

"I bought some gifts and clothes for me, and I feel fine."

"He scared the living daylights out of me when I came home to find him gone!" protested Nico.

Will hugged the other boy, "I didn't mean to, Neeks."

"I'm going to hang up now," Percy told them before the line went dead and Will full out kissed Nico.

"Wow…" Nico panted after they had a crazy make out session, "What in Hades got into you?"

Will gave him another kiss and smiled, "Pregnancy hormones, I'm amazed you haven't woken up in the middle of the night when I got up to jerk off."

"I thought you were just constipated."

Will snorted, "Really? That's what you thought?"

Nico shrugged, "I only heard you once. If you were this horny you could have said something."

"We agreed not to do anything beyond kissing and cuddling until you're eighteen and I plan to keep it that way," Will told him tapping his nose.

Nico rubbed it, "I hate it when you do that."

"I love you too."

…

"Uncle Leo!" cheered Jason tackling Leo's legs nearly knocking him over.

"Hi buddy," replied the Latino as his girlfriend giggled, "I think you're getting a bit big to keep doing that."

"No!" the nearly four-year-old whined.

Rose hid behind her mommy, unsure of these new people.

"Jason, you're going to hurt your uncle Leo if you keep tackling him at full speed," Annabeth scolded.

Her words were apparently ignored as the child happily tackled an approaching blonde teen making his companion laugh since said blonde had the wind knocked out of him and he was knocked off his feet.

"Mangus!" Jason cheered, "You and Alex came!"

"Hi little guy, good to see you," the currently female teen said with a smile picking the little boy up off her boyfriend.

"Ow…" was all that came out of Annabeth's cousin's mouth.

"And what we just said went out the window," sighed the blonde female.

Calypso hid a smile, "Actually, you said he would hurt Leo if he kept doing that you didn't say anything about anyone else."

"I guess he's learnt to attack "Heathens"," Nico tried to joke since the two teens were related to a different pantheon of gods.

Alex responded to his accusation with a thumbs down and a fart noise with her mouth, "Can we come in now? Just because we're have Norse gods for parents doesn't mean we don't get cold."

Percy nodded ushering their guests in.

"Rose! You gotta meet Uncle Leo, Aunt Calypso, Alex and Magnus! They're really cool! Alex can turn into animals and Magnus has a talking sword! Uncle Leo can make fire and he has a metal dragon and Aunt Calypso makes lots of yummy things and pretty things!" Jason said taking his friend's hand, "They're all nice, I promise."

"So this is the little girl you adopted, Piper?" commented Leo, kneeling to her level.

"Do you work for Santa?" the child asked noticing his ears.

Leo grinned, "I applied for a job and he wrote back telling me that there were no openings."

The children's eyes went wide.

"Uncle Leo you never told me that!" said Jason in awe.

"You never asked kiddo," he replied with a wink.

Magnus shook his head before his girlfriend sometimes boyfriend elbowed him.

"What did I do?" asked the blonde male.

"Why don't your eyes match?" Rose asked Alex point at her face, distracting the child of Loki.

Alex grinned and winked, "They're a warning that there's more to me than meets the eye."

Magnus groaned earning him another elbow to the ribs.

"I like her! She's cool!" cheered Rose.

"Good thing you're a girl right now or that would have been weird," the blonde whispered to his girlfriend.

"It would be hard to explain it in a way that children this young would get," the green haired teen agreed.

Magnus smiled as he and Alex dropped their gifts off with the others under the tree.

"Can I get a piggy back ride?" Jason asked his cousin.

The son of Frey nodded helping the younger blonde onto his back and toting him around.

"You want one too?" Alex asked Rose who nodded.

Rose giggles as Alex loaded her up and bounced her as they walked around.

"Ride 'em cowboy and cowgirl!" cheered Nico smiling.

The kids laughed as the two toted the kids around.

"Alright, cowpokes, time to have some grub," Percy said trying to sound like an old timey cowboy cook.

Will shook his head, "That sounded horrible and was stereotypical."

"Party pooper," commented Percy taking his son off Magnus's back.

"Ride time's over," Reyna told Rose while she picked the little girl off Alex's back.

"Thank you for the ride!" the two children chirped.

Will found he had a hard time keeping his eyes open after lunch, more so then the children who were excited for what was only a few days away.

"I'll take Will home, his mother's coming in tonight and I don't think he wants to miss her because he's tired," Nico told the rest leading his lover out.

"That gives us time to break out the mead!" joked Alex with a grin.

"We don't have any," replied Percy.

Magnus sighed, knowing Alex brought some, "We do."

Nico shook his head, "Bad idea to get Percy drunk, he'll start singing off key."

Percy turned pink, "We were doing Karaoke!"

"You were still drunk," the son of Hades replied as he and Will left.

After a nice nap with his boyfriend the two of them got ready to pick up his mother from the airport.

"You drive like an old lady!" Will groaned.

Nico rolled his eyes, "Well excuse me for being cautious especially with precious Cargo."

"You better mean the baby and me or you're sleeping on the sofa."

"Of course," Nico told him giving his hand a quick squeeze at a red light, "You're my ball of sunshine and I'm not going to let you go anytime soon."

Naomi Solace was friendly enough to them in the airport…in the car, however.

"William Adrien Solace, how could you be so reckless?" she asked giving him a dirty look in the rearview mirror.

"Mama do not start, please! Stress is bad for me and the baby."

"I'm asking a question."

"I was trying to make Nico happy!"

"I was totally out of the loop about this until he was already pregnant," Nico stated causing Will to glare at him, "I'm just being honest."

"You're sleeping on the sofa," Will said sulking in his seat.

"What did I do?"

"You know what you did, di Angelo."

Naomi shook her head, "Oh, stop being a drama queen, Will. Nico was just stating a fact."

Will just pouted, then nodded off during the drive back to New Rome while reading on a tablet.

"Will, honey, wake up," Naomi cooed, gently shaking her sleeping son.

Will whined trying to shift in the seat before actually waking up.

"Hey sleepy head," she said kissing his cheek.

"Are you still sleepy? You had a nap before we picked her up and you feel asleep in the car on our way back," commented Nico who was holding Naomi's bags.

Will stretched, pondering his currant state before getting out of the car. He knew this exhaustion was part of the pregnancy, heck he could remember finding Percy snoozing away in his cabin when he was supposed to be doing other things.

"It's perfectly normal, when I was carrying Will I was tired a lot. When he was big enough to feel him move, he didn't like sleeping when it was bed time," Naomi assured them both grabbing her bags.

Nico nodded helping him to bed, hoping this was just a phase.

TBC