WARNING: Before you read the story, I must warn you that this has dark themes. There will be some racial and homophobic comments in this chapter. I have not done this because I am racist or homophobic (God if I ever turn to someone like that kill me guys (I mean it))but I wanted show you guys that despite all the gay marriage and civil rights stuff, still a lot of people are against gay people and often are racist to different looking people. Looking at that it really makes me sad what the world has become. We are improving but there are still way too many narrow minded people outside and as society we must fight against it.

"Tell me again, how you convinced me?"

"Because you love this hot boy." Will said wriggling with his eyebrows as he laughed. He was holding hands with Nico as they strolled through the town of New York. Together with their friends they wanted to go on a small shopping tour just so they could have some party tonight.

Behind them were Piper and Hazel who were chatting happily with each other, Frank and Jason who seemed to have some conversation over Roman stuff and Leo and Calypso who were kinda in their own world. Percy and Annabeth decided to spent some time alone.

"Ohh I am excited. I never really went to a shooping tour with you guys before." Hazel said from the back excited.

Nico turned around to see Piper grinning. "It is good trust me. As long you don't exaggerate it like Drew and make a huge deal about your appearance, then it is fun to shop with your friends."

"But only if it is not about clothes Beauty Queen!" Leo shouted from the back grinning while Calypso rolled her eyes.

"Well, it is better than go shopping for some strange tools." Piper countered back grinning.

"What?!" Leo cried putting his hand on his chest. "How dare you...you...you...mechanical hater." he said pretended to be offended.

Piper also fake gasped at that. "Awww did I hurt little Leo's feelings?"

Leo pretended to wipe some tears away. "Yes you did."

Piper laughed at that, put Leo under her headlock and ruffled his hair.

"Hey!" Leo cried fighting back. Soon they both were in an sibling fight with each other with both of them trying to ruffle each other's hair.

Nico shook his head. "I swear, those two are like long lost twins."

Jason laughed at this. "You don't even know the whole story Nico."

Calypso chuckled. "At first I didn't knew you can even have such a close platonic relationship with the opposite gender, but those two proofed me wrong."

Will grinned. "I find it's cute. Did you ever had such a fight with Hazel?" he asked his boyfriend.

Nico and Hazel then looked at each other. "Um, no, not that I know of it." he said.

Hazel nodded. "Nico and I always get along and we are not as hyperactive as the two of them." she said smiling.

Frank kissed her. "It's a good thing. I don't think we need two more of them in our group." he said chuckling.

That made everyone laugh and Piper and Leo cried out at this. "Hey!"

Nico laughed as the two of them protested. He was glad to be able to enjoy some time with his friends.

"Are you two holding hands?" suddenly a new voice asked from behind. The voice was deep and it sounded like it was disgusted.

Nico turned around to a see a tall white man with brown hair and brown eyes looking at them with a disturbed face. He looked like he was about 35 years old.

Nico frowned at this. "Yeah, got a problem with this?" Behind him his friends looked like to defend Nico and Will immediately if the man tried to make some comments.

"This is disgusting! This is wrong, two guys shouldn't be holding hands with each other." he said wrinkling his nose in disgust.

"How in the world is that wrong?!" Hazel cried in the defense for her brother. "If two people are happy with each other, then let them be! It's none of your business!" she cried in anger.

"You shut up and go back to your hood where you came from!" the man spat.

The others gasped at this and Nico wanted to punch the man in the face for this sentence.

"What did you just said?!" Piper cried outraged.

"What is wrong with you?! Apologize to my girlfriend now!" Frank cried in anger. He looked like he wanted to jump on the man immediately. Hazel now had some tears in her eyes and Nico feared the worse.

The man just sneered at him. "Oh, first some disgusting gay faggot and now some chink with a nigger girl. What has the world become?"

The group gasped. How can one man be so cruel? After he said those words Nico had enough of this man. He took a step forward and punched the man straight in the face.

The man was surprised by the attack but just laughed. "Oh the truth hurts doesn't it? Your kind shouldn't even exist. A relationship is between a man and a woman and not something like that." he said disgusted by their sight.

"You shut the hell up!" Leo cried from behind furiously. His eyes were pure of rage. Calypso and Jason had to held him behind but they were both on the edge of attacking the man.

"And looking by your group all of you seem to be in a relationship with a different race." he sneered. He looked at Jason and Calypso. "Why do you have to betray your kind to be with those people." he spat pointing at the rest of the group. "Foreigners." he said in pure disgust.

"You aren't even a native American! Your people invaded America and took it from the Native Americans so don't you dare speak bad about others!" Piper screeched.

Nico was breathing uncontrollably. All the words...all the bad memories they came back.

"But it's true isn't it, it's..." the man started to say, but Will cut him of.

"Will you just shut up?!" he cried furiously making everyone turn around to him. The man just looked at him in pure disgust.

"Who are you to have the right to judge over us? You don't even know us! You know nothing about us and never will, so just shut up okay before I call the police for intruding our privacy." Will shouted at him.

The man just laughed. "Privacy? We are in the public here."

Jason stared at the man coldly. "But this is America. We live in a democracy and don't tolerate racial slurs and bigots like you." he said coldly. "For those statements, the police can arrest you."

"You should just go and leave us alone." Calypso said coldly.

The man just simply laughed. "Oh please, I am just saying my opinion."

Suddenly a voice came from behind shocking them all. "Oh great goodness, are you deaf or something? Leave those poor children alone! What have they done to you?!" a elderly woman cried. She had a bit of Grey hair and wore glasses.

"Those two are gay and the others have betrayed our kind." the man sneered.

"Are you serious?! So what if they are gay? If they are happy then it's okay. And this is just racist!" the woman cried outraged.

The man just laughed. "Oh so you are one of them."

"Oh just shut the fuck up okay." an African American from the background shouted at the man. "Not them are the one who are disgusting, but you!"

Suddenly more and more people came to their aid to defend them. Most of them still just passed them through which angered Nico. Why were they just ignoring the scene?

Despite all the defense the man didn't looked like he regretted anything. "You two are a disgrace for all human. Go burn in hell." he told them with pure contempt.

That was the last straw for Nico. Tears welled in his eyes as he ran away. He heard some people shouting his name, but he ignored them. He just wanted to get away from the place.

He didn't knew where he was running but it didn't mattered. All his fears came back as the words of the man haunted him. Disgrace...disgusting…

He found a bench and sat on there trying to blink the tears away. Even through Nico hated that man he couldn't help but think that he may be true.

For what felt like an eternity he just sat there thinking about the mans words. Was that what he was? Some...disgrace? Someone that shouldn't exist? But didn't that mean that Will was that too? He shook his head. He was maybe a disgrace, but never Will. The man was wrong.

Suddenly he felt a pair of arms wrapping around him. He blinked to see Hazel hugging him tightly. Too his surprise there was also Leo standing behind them showing comfort to Nico.

"Nico what that man said...it's all not true." Hazel said softly.

Nico felt how the tears fell down his cheek. "But...what...what if it was true. After all evolution designed woman and man to be together...not people like us."

At this Hazel hit Nico on the arm. "Nico di Angelo! Don't you dare think like this! I swear I am going to kill the man and torture him if I ever see him again." she said dangerously.

Leo nodded furiously. "Don't listen to the jerk Neeks. He knows nothing. If it comforts you, you and Will are not the only one sitting in this boat."

Nico stared at him confused. "What are you..." he asked then stared at Leo in shock. Hazel also turned around to look at Leo in surprise.

"Wait, you mean, you are gay?!" Nico cried.

Leo laughed. "Well, bisexual, but yeah, I am not hetero either." he said.

Hazel blinked. "Wow, how did I never noticed that? Who did you had a crush on?" she asked. Now Nico was also curious.

Leo blushed. "Um remember the whole Sammy thing and how well it was kinda awkward around us because I had a slight crush on you Hazel?"

Hazel nodded. "Yeah, what about it?"

"Well...turns around I liked Frank too." Leo said looking nervously.

Nico stared at Leo. This was definitely something he didn't expect. "Wait, what?" Hazel asked in shock. "You...you had a crush on both of us?!" she cried.

Leo flinched and nodded. "I...I hope you don't see me differently."

Hazel stared at him with her mouth open, but after a short while she smiled at him. "Of course not Leo, I...I am just surprised."

Nico then did something what surprised himself. "Thanks." he said hugging Leo.

Leo was surprised by the hug. "I thought no touching." Leo said laughing.

"Oh shut it." Nico mumbled as her leaned into Leo. Hazel who smiled at them went to them and gave them both a hug.

"Don't you dare think that you are not as worthy as the others, same for you Leo." Hazel said softly.

Nico smiled at his sisters words and Leo grinned. "Don't worry Miss Metal Detector and same for you. Don't you dare think less of you just because this monkey, even through this is an insult of the monkeys, called you some racist names."

Hazel had some tears in her eyes, but blinked them away. "I know." she said softly. "Does Calypso know about your preferences?"

Leo nodded. "She was the first I ever told about this. She...she helped me through a lot." he said.

Hazel smiled glad that her friend has found such a nice girl. Nico smiled too. He finally felt accepted and not like a dirtbag. His whole life he was running away from his fears. And when he was confronted with one of them today, he realized that it didn't matter if he had all his friends and family who supported him.

"Let's get back. The others must be worried." Nico said softly, while Leo and Hazel nodded.

"Yeah, let's go." he said punching Nico's arm. All three of them went back trying not to think about the words from the man. Nico still thought about them, but he couldn't help but laugh at them. The man was just as Kronos or Gaia, he would never know what true love is. And he would never destroy his relationship with Will.

As Nico saw Will he immediately ran to Will hugging him surprising Will at this. He noticed that now some officers were standing in front of the man talking to him. It didn't looked good for him. He grinned at that. He smirked and shortly made some skeletons men coming out of the ground, so only the man could see them. He saw how the man shrieked and pointed back at where the skeletons was, but it already vanished. The officers only looked at the man as if he had lost it.

Will laughed. "That was epic Nico!"

Nico grinned. "Told you I can be funny."

Will smiled at that, but then rubbed his neck. "So...um if you don't want to be with me together, then I...I understand."

Nico gasped at him in shock. "Why would you think that?!"

Will blushed at that embarrassed. "Doesn't matter."

At this Nico hit him in the chest angrily. "Will Solace, I love you okay? And nothing will change this. Not some douchebag, not Gaia, not our parents, not even you." he said glaring at him.

Will just laughed at that and kissed him. "God, I love you. Have I ever told you how cute you are when you are angry?"

Nico smirked at that. "You could tell me a bit more." he said.

Will laughed. "Will do Death Boy."

Nico smiled. He looked around to see the others talking to each other. Hazel and Frank were hugging each other with Frank whispering comforting words to her. Calypso was holding Leo's hand as he told Piper and Jason something. Jason looked surprised and Piper gasped. Nico figured that Leo told them about his secret. Piper immediately hugged him seeming to tell him that everything is okay and Jason clapped him on the shoulders.

Nico smiled. It didn't matter what the man said. It didn't matter what other people said. The only thing that mattered was the love he had with his friends, his sister and Will. And in the end love conquers everything.

Well, I hope you liked this chapter. I really struggled writing this, because I hate to write racist or homophobic comments. It makes me feel bad and it's just a really strange feeling. Till now in the story everyone seemed to accept Nico and Will's relationship, but I wanted to show you guys that a lot of people are still against it and they are showing it. It's a really sad fact, that we can't ignore. In the fic you guys have read how many people sometimes in such situations just ignore all the insults, simply they don't want to get involved. In the end it doesn't matter if you didn't stepped in if you were afraid, thinking that it was not you place to say something or if you agreed with the insults: Through your ignoring you made yourself guilty in not stepping in and helping those in needed. So I hope in the future I can hope more people start to get more open minded and step in in such conflicts. It's our choices that make the world that how it is and we can make the world beautiful with our choices. Please sent me a review if you liked this chapter. I really hope I didn't offended anyone with my chapter. I simply wanted to show you guys another side.

We are all one human race. It doesn't matter if you are black, white, chinese, latino, gay, bi, trans, pan, hetero, religious or atheistic: we are all one human race and we should all respect each other. There are no borders between colors, preferences and religious activities. If you are nice to me, then I am nice to you and other way around. It's your personality that is important and it's the diversity that makes this world beautiful.

P.S.: I am soooooo sorry for not updating sooner! University is a pain in the ass and I have got way tooo many ideas for new stories. Seriously sometimes I wish my mind would shut up :p