Note: Here's chapter two

******Please read carefully when Nicole and Leo go to play a prank on the Gods******

Hours passed by and the rain was still pouring down. Being demigods, both Nicole and Leo got bored...and ended up falling asleep. Well, at least Nicole did.

After she fell asleep, she had ended up snuggling up to Leo, which honestly surprised him because who knew the daughter of Hades would even cuddle, let alone fall asleep with someone there. Leo laid there and looked at the girl, with a small breath. Nicole looked so fragile, young, and weak it amazed him how much she looked like a regular mortal girl.

Pursing his lips some, the son of Hephaestus took his hand and ran it through her dark mass of hair, when she let out a small shuddery breath, he paused. His breath hitched some when her hand moved and gripped his shirt, her hands were so much smaller compared to his, but her hands were also covered in scars and band-aids. It was weird, how could a daughter of Hades survive out in the world with no one but herself and not get killed by a monster?

The rain still fell down, beating against the Argo II, no one was probably near by. Most people probably thought Nicole left and Leo was still working.

Rain was rare in the camp and when it did come, it was because the strawberries needed watering, or when the gods wanted to play some cruel, wet, prank on the demis. Rain was nice though, the children of Poseidon...well, Percy always enjoyed rain because he'd make it into a ball and pretend he was part of Dragon Ball Z, then the children of Iris always loved the rain too because afterwards they'd make rainbows. The only people who didn't like the rain were probably the Hephaestus kids because then they had to stop all their projects, and there fires would be put out. Aphrodite's kids would be upset when it rained too, only because 'it messed up their hair.'

Leo let out a small sigh and leaned his head against hers while he thought, after awhile Nicole woke up, but she didn't say anything, she just stayed there. Then Leo spoke, even though she knew he thought she was asleep, "I swear..on the river Styx I'm going to save you.."

Nicole was completely confused at what he meant but her face flushed a bit at the thought of Leo really coming to her rescue. She moved and sat up, yawning lightly as she began glaring at him.

"And what does that mean? Just because I'm a girl, I'm not strong enough to protect myself?"

Leo's eyes widened as he quickly shook his head as he sat up some. "No, no you have me all wrong!" he paused, then smirked lightly. "I'm just saying every princess needs a hero, and I'd gladly be yours."

Nicole hissed a bit and moved to tackle him, they rolled around for a moment, until he finally landed on top of her. He had her arms pinned to the bed. Pouting a bit she stared at him, waiting for him to release her from his grasp. The cocky grin on his face told her he wasn't going to let her go.

Twisting her wrists a bit, Nicole whined. Being trapped wasn't her favorite thing in the world...Unless it was that other way..Her body shuddered a bit at that thought, then her face flushed darkly.

"Leo! Let me go!"

"Never! Not until you admit you're on team Leo."

A small smile crept on Nicole's face, there was only one way out of this.
Well can you let go to of my right arm? It's starting to cramp."

Leo blinked and pondered this for a moment before letting go of her right arm, he didn't want to hurt her.

Once her arm was release,a small grin crept on her face, she moved her free hand up and entangled it into his hair, pulling him down a bit. Once he was mere inches from her face she hissed, "Let go!"

Leo seemed to squeal a bit, he was honestly half expecting her to kiss him. But she didn't. After he regained himself, he shook his head a bit and backed up some, releasing her.

When she was free, she sat up with a small sigh. Glancing at him, she glared her eyes at him.

Moving away from him, Nicole decided to go see if it was raining still, since she was wearing a skirt at the moment, she moved her hands down her backside to press the skirt down some. Leo sat there, dumbfounded...and somewhat lovestruck. He always had a thing for girls who were out of his league. He finally scrambled up and went to follow her.

When he found her she was sitting near a window, looking out into the rain, a small glower on her face. Shifting slightly, the son of Hephaestus moved and sat down beside her, he quirked an eyebrow. "You alright?"

She growled some and looked at him for a moment. "Perfectly fine."

"Princesses don't growl when they're perfectly fine."

"Would you stop that!? Don't even try! Just don't even try! You'll become like everyone else sooner or later.." She swallowed lightly and brought her knees up to her chest, then she buried her face within them. "You'll become like everyone else...Potrai odiare... e lasciare, tutti."

He stared at her for a moment and tried to figure out what she meant and then it hit him. Hard. Leo was quiet for a moment, then he moved to place a hand on the back of her head. "So, you're saying everyone's left you? That's wrong. You have Percy, Annabeth, Me, and the others too! I don't think we'll be leaving anytime soon."

Nicole let out a small whine, and moved away from him some, she didn't believe him. Why would she? She knew everyone was going to leave her, she's the daughter of Hades for gods sake, she was doomed to be alone for ever. Every ounce of English fell from her mouth, and now it was only pure Italian. "Non sai che! IO sono il figlio di Ade! Sono stati condannati ad essere soli per sempre!"

Leo placed a hand on his head and shook his head rapidly, "Woah woah woah, calm down, I may speak Spanish and I may understand like most of that but I have no idea what you just said."

Nicole frowned a bit, and pursed her lips as she looked at him for a moment. She had no idea what she was supposed to tell him at this point. He was so irritating, but so far he's the only one that's completely put up with her in the few days she had been at camp.

After a few moments of silence, she leaned against him some, and let out a small sigh. "Sorry..I just can't stand camp...most of the time I'm here, bad memories flood back.." Her teeth clenched together in frustration. Right near the pavilion is where Percy told her that her brother was dead. She let her eyes flutter close when Leo placed a hand on her head and said something, she wasn't sure why she kept letting him touch her but...for some reason, Nicole didn't care.

Leo moved away from her some, and smiled lightly. "You know what? We should do something! Like super fun, like um.."

Nicole quirked an eyebrow "Wanna piss off a god?"

"Yes! That's perfect!" Leo was now grinning ear to ear, and it was absolutely adorable. Nicole giggled softly and stood up, straightening out her skirt again. The Hispanic boy tilted his head to the side some. "So which god should we piss off?"

Nicole smirked lightly and held out her hand, "My dad of course." Now Leo looked like he was about to burst, just by looking at his facial expression she could tell his mind was running with ideas of how to go about this, but finally he asked:

"How are we going to piss off your dad?"

"How else? I'm a girl, how do we piss off dads?"

Leo quirked an eyebrow and laughed a bit. "You're going to tell Hades you're pregnant?"

Nicole's face flushed a bit, and she shrugged slightly. "M-Maybe… Do you think that will work? But who got me pregnant?" She pursed her lips slightly, and tapped her chin in thought.

"Maybe me? Since only we're trying to piss him off."

She stared at Leo for the longest time before nodding her head slightly. "Okay, let's do this Leo."

Even though she couldn't tell, Leo's face flushed lightly when she said his name, he liked that sound...it was nice. After a moment of him being off in la-la land, he took her hand.

Gripping his hand lightly she pulled him over to some shadows, then paused. "You're not afraid of the dark or the feeling of your skin ripping off are you?"

Leo shook his head and chuckled lightly, then spoke in the most sarcastic tone possible. "Nooo, everyone loves getting their skin ripped off!"

"I'm serious!" She pouted lightly, and shifted from foot to foot.

"Okay, I'm a bit afraid of my skin being ripped off but I'll be fine." He gave a reassuring smile before pointing to the shadows. "So we're taking the shadow express?"

Nicole rolled her eyes slightly, then pulled him into the shadows. As they went through the shadows, Leo felt weird. It really did feel like his skin was ripping off.

Once they arrived in the underworld, Leo moved and touched his face frantically to make sure his skin was still there. Nicole giggled a bit and pushed his face some. "Relax, we weren't traveling long enough." His eyes widened a bit, which was sort of adorable, but after his little freak out, he regained himself.

Nicole rolled her eyes slightly, and looked at him for a moment. "Ready to go piss off my dad?"

"Ye-yeah, woah that was scary though!" She rolled her eyes and nodded her head to the side some, they headed towards the large castle in the distance, even though it didn't take them that long to get there, there was a lot of things that were so new to Leo.

They passed furies, Cerberus, a few lingering souls who were moaning for Nicole to come back and save them (she waved them off though), and once or twice, Leo stopped to watch a few people complete their punishment. The one he found most amusing was watching Tantalus attempt to eat and drink. He even tried to run over there and grab fruit and eat it in front of him but Nicole stopped him.

After they looked at a few things, they decided to get back on track, so they entered Hades's castle, immediately, two hellhounds bounded out of nowhere and growled. Nicole rolled her eyes and growled back, "Scat!"

The hellhounds whined a bit and then disappeared back into the shadows of the castle. Leo blinked slightly, and then looked at her with a wicked grin, "That was badass."

"Of course, the littlest things impress you." She shook her head a bit and began walking down the hall to the throne room. Peeking inside the room, she watched her dad sit there boredly, then she looked back at Leo and snickered. "You sure you want to do this?"

"Oh yeah."

Nicole rolled her eyes and then waltzed into the throne room with Leo trailing after her. She stopped at the foot of the throne, nodding her head lightly, she smiled. "Father."

Hades quirked an eyebrow and looked at her for a moment, "Nicole, why are you here?"

She looked at him for a moment, then began fidgeting some, her eyes drifted back to Leo. Her heart rate sped up some, she had no idea why she suddenly felt this was a horrid idea. She shook her head a bit, "Father, I'm pregnant!" Her face flushed a dark shade of red and she quickly looked away from Hades.

It was quiet in the throne room for a moment, then Hades stood up. "Whose child is it?"

Now it was time for Leo to speak up, "Mine! Yep, it's mine..."

Hades's eyes narrowed at Leo for a moment, then his nose scrunched up a bit, "And who's your father, boy?"

The Hispanic boy shifted his feet a bit before speaking, "Hephaestus."