Chapter 2

Growing Up

Percy

Percy was lying down in his bed with Nico snuggled into his chest asleep. It has been three weeks since Nico's encounter with Hebe and Nico's been growing by the week just as Will said. Percy was about to drift back off to sleep when he heard someone's footsteps.

"Hello?" he said as he reached for his pen. He uncapped riptide and used the light that reflected off to see who had came in.

"Don't swing!" a girls voice said from the darkness.

"Hazel?" Percy said. "Good gods you scared me."

"Sorry Perce." Hazel said as she walked closer to him. "Just wanted to tell you that breakfast is in thirty minutes so don't be late today."

"That was one time!" Percy said with a smile.

"Yeah, one time to many." Hazel said playfully as she shadow traveled out of the Poseidon cabin.

Percy shook his head and looked down at Nico. Still asleep. Percy thought. You're so cute when your so calm. You're like a lit- Percy lost his train of thought when he heard Nico yawn. Nico rub the sleep out of his eyes with his little fist and then yawned again. His eyes fluttered open and when he looked up he saw Percy.

"Hewo Pewcy!" Nico said happily.

"Hewo Nico." Percy said back in his best baby voice. Percy began poking Nico's sides as he talked. "We need to go take a bath and get ready because your sister's gonna have a cow if we're late for breakfast again."

Nico giggled as Percy poked his sides.

"Okay Pewcy." He said as he jumped off the bed and ran towards the bathroom. Percy followed him into the bathroom and when he got in he saw that Nico was already running the bath.

"Good job Nico." Percy said proudly.

Nico smiled at Percy as he took in the praise and then he began to undress. Percy turned on the shower and he began to undress as well. Nico added bubbles to his bath as he got in.

"Pewcy I need help." Nico said as he splashed around in the water.

Percy took a quick shower and then went to help Nico. Percy got a rag and put some soap on it then used it to bathe Nico. Nico laughed when Percy began to clean his tickle spots. When Percy finished with the soap, he used his water powers to rinse Nico off and dry him once he got out of the bath. Percy carried Nico back to the bed and set him down.

"Okay buddy what color do you want to wear today?" Percy asked Nico as he went over to the drawer filled with Nico's clothes.

"Hmm." Nico said as he rubbed his chin. "I wanna wear bue like Pewcy."

"Blue it is little guy." Percy grabbed Nico a light blue shirt and some dark blue jean shorts out of his drawer then went back to Nico and began dressing him. Nico held up his arms so Percy could pull the shirt on over his head. And then he sat down so Percy can put on his underwear and shorts. Percy then slid on Nico's socks and shoes.

"There you go Nico." Percy said with a smile. "All ready for the day. Give my a minute so I can change my clothes then we can go down to breakfast."

Nico nodded his head and sat on the bed patiently. Percy got dressed then went to get Nico who was still sitting on the bed.

"Ready to go?" Percy asked.

Nico nodded his head again then jumped off the bed. "Lets go."

Percy and Nico walked up to the dining pavilion and they saw Hazel sitting down at the Hades table. They went over to join her, but were stopped when a group of girls crowded around them as if they were famous.

"Um exuse me." Nico said as he tried to get pass. "Peas move."

"Aww he's so cute." a child of Demeter said.

"How old is he now?" a daughter of Aphrodite asked Percy.

"Ask him he's a big boy." Percy said as he looked down at Nico. Nico shot him one of his signature death glares and Percy laughed.

"How old are you Nico?" she asked him as she bent down to his level.

"I'm this many." Nico said as he held up five fingers. "Now if you exuse me I would ike beakfast."

Nobody seemed to listen to Nico they just kept standing there staring at Nico as if he was the cutest thing in the world. (Which he was.) Nico was clearly getting irritated so he began to cry. All the girls immediately stopped cooing over him and started to speak reassuringly to him.

"It's okay Nico." one said to him but that made him cry louder. Everyone who was eating was now staring at Nico and the group of girls.

"Pewcy!" Nico said as he made grabbing motions towards Percy. Percy picked him up and Nico's head found the crook of Percy's neck. He held on tightly to Percy's shirt and sobbed on Percy's shoulder.

"Alright out of the way." Percy said as he pushed back some of the girls. Once Percy got to the Hades table he whispered in Nico's ear.

"They're gone." Percy said.

Nico's head flew off of Percy's shoulder and all of his tears were gone. "Thank the gods." he said. "I was getting hungy."

Percy just smiled and gave Nico a high five as Hazel just stared at them dumbfounded.

"Huh?" she said as Nico laughed.

"He faked it." Percy said gleefully.

"What?" Hazel said still confused.

"I fake it Hazel." Nico said still laughing. "If I cwy peepo weave me awone."

Hazel just stared at the two boys for a while and then a smile broke out on her face. "Nico when'd you get so smart?"

"Pewcy taught me." Nico said as he looked at Percy.

Percy smiled and nodded. "And why did I teach you?"

"Becwause girls wove babies and eveyting we do." Nico said matter of factly.

"Great job Nico." Percy said proudly.

Nico smiled and took in the praise. "Pewcy can we go swimming today?" Nico asked.

"Of course." he said with a smile.

Nico and Percy quickly ate then they went down to the beach together. As soon as they got there, Nico jumped into the water and began splashing around. Percy began to make animals made of water appear in the air for Nico.

After what felt like minutes but was really hours, Percy and Nico decided to head in. Little did they know that Nico's next growth spurt would change him drastically.

Gonna leave it here. I don't really feel like making this story really long so the next chapter might be the last. If it ends with a cliffhanger there will be a sequel because I hate it when authors leave you on a cliffhanger and then never write a sequel. Anyway... please read and review!