Sorry for the wait. Apparently, when you are on vacation you get even more busy than when you don't and then school started again and I just didn't have the energy to write anything. I might have to decide what I want to happen too. I didn't have a plan with this chapter really but I hope I will have figured it out in the next.

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Percy's eyelids fluttered open. He felt so warm and safe and he didn't want to wake up. The comforting movements of a hand carding through his hair made him want to go back to sleep again.

It also made him think of Annabeth and how she always would let him lie with his head in her lap and rest, otherwise terrified when he woke up and she wasn't there. Tartarus had left an evil shadow in his mind and sometimes when he woke up it felt like he was back. Darkness surrounding him. Monsters hunting him like prey. His powers forcing Misery to choke on her own spit. It was frightening.

That's why he and Annabeth had stayed together during those first months. To remind each other they were both safe. But when his eyes focused on his surroundings this time, his body tensed. Because the one who was petting his hair was not Annabeth. Instead of golden curls and stormy grey eyes, he was met with raven colored hair and malicious green eyes. Loki, his crazy, magic wielding kidnapper that also kept him under mind-control.

Instinctively he wanted to bolt away from the unwanted touch, but his body refused to move. It stayed in its place, almost leaning into the touch. Maybe it wasn't so weird. He hadn't really been touched in this way by anyone since he and Annabeth had broken up half a year ago.

It wasn't like he was the kind of guy to have one-night-stands and he hadn't wanted a new girlfriend so soon after Annabeth. Not a boyfriend either. But that might've been because of his insecurities about dating boys too. He had just recently figured out that maybe he wasn't as straight as he first thought and it had been a lot to take in.

Fortunately, both Annabeth and Jason had been vary supportive and helped him. He was so lucky to have them and he was glad that he and Annabeth had been able to remain friends.

"Finally awake, are we?" Percy immediately focused on Loki's voice which sounded a bit smug and Percy got suspicious instantly. To his dismay he found himself answering the god's rhetorical question with a nod.

"Well that's good. Because I want you to help with information of those friends of yours." Percy's body froze and dread filled his heart.

He didn't… Please say he didn't… Maybe he meant something else. Maybe I'm imagining thing. Please say that I didn't hear what I think I did.

But when Percy looked up at his captor, his heart sank. The evil glint in his eyes and the sneer that adorned his face told him his hopes was for nothing. He hadn't heard wrong and Loki hadn't meant anything else than what he had said.

"Let's see if we can find a way to reunite you with your friends, shall we?" The smile that followed couldn't be described as anything else than murderous.

Nico tiptoed out of his cabin at Camp Half-Blood, keeping an eye out for the people he knew would try to stop him. He was almost invisible in the twilight with his black clothes, something he was grateful for. If he had been wearing one of those colorful shirts Will used to force him to wear he would've been spotted already.

"And where do you think you are going!" Nico froze. That voice couldn't be mistaken. With the look of a doe in the headlights, he turned around to meet his boyfriends frowning and disappointed expression.

"Um… nowhere?" The son of Hades squeaked.

"Really?" Will didn't look impressed. "So you were not on your way to shadow travel to Germany just now, thinking you could find a lead on who kidnapped Percy?"

Nico's jaw dropped. Sometimes he wondered if Will was a mindreader with how good he was at reading him. It was kind of creepy actually. He shook his head to get himself together. There was no way he would let Will hold him here, not when Percy might be in danger.

They might not be best friends (mostly because of Nico's insecurities acting up again) but he still cared for the son of Poseidon and counted him as friend nonetheless. What kind of friend would he be if he left Percy to his own devices just because Nico didn't want to fight with his boyfriend?

"Listen, Will. I don't have time for this. Percy needs help and I can't just abandon him!" Will's expression didn't change, actually, his frown might've deepened.

"Don't you think I now that? Do you really think I don't want to help him? Nico, he is my friend too! I just think we could find a better way. And if this really is the best way, then I want to come with you!"

"You…?"

Will rolled his eyes. "Of course I want to! I can't with a good conscience let Percy get hurt and know that I haven't done anything. Also, someone has to keep you from killing yourself." He finished his sentence with a soft smile. "I love you, Nico. I'll follow you anywhere."

Warmth flooded his body. It didn't matter how many times he heard it, every time he wondered what he had done to deserve someone as kind and incredible as Will. He couldn't keep the answering smile from his lips, he never could.

"I love you too." With a blush he took Will's hand, still a bit uncomfortable about PDA, but he wanted Will to understand how much it meant for him to hear those words. To have Will's support in this. It was now too dark to see the son of Apollo's blue eyes, but Nico knew that they were smiling back at him.

"Come on, let's go talk to Chiron. Maybe he has heard something since the meeting. If he haven't, well, then we can consider to go looking for Percy ourselves. Sound alright?"

Nico nodded and squeezed his boyfriends hand. They would find Percy. Together.