A/N: Swoggity swiss, be prepared for the kiss
~S&K
Will's POV
It seems like the meeting's sole purpose was to exploite Nico and I's budding relationship. How exciting. After we left and Drew made her last snotty comment, Nico headed straight for his cabin. After I let him pace around for a minute, I stepped in the door frame. "Are you okay?"
"Close the door." He said harshly.
"Okay..." A female and a male cannot be in the same cabin alone since its against the rules, and Chiron's afraid someone's going to end up pregnant. How would he feel if two gay boys shared a cabin at the moment- alone.
"Why do you look like that?" Nico asked. I shrugged. What did I look like? He started pacing around again putting his hands in his hair like he was going to rip it out.
"Wha-"
"She was just pissing me off, okay?! I'm sorry I did that and I know I'm the one who didn't want to expose us-" he stopped himself.
"Nico, I'm okay!" I chuckled. "You're taking this to a whole other level-"
"Why, do you think I'm overreacting?" He laughed un-humorously. "Will, I probably just ruined our whole future here."
"You used our. We're going to be fine." I put my arms around his shoulders. "Chiron will understand... You can't control the way you fall for people." I lightly brushed my hand onto his cheek without noticing. I pulled back, suddenly hot.
That didn't stop him.
He grabbed me by my shirt and pressed me against the wall. I had no clue what he tasted like but it was addictive. My breathing was shallow and I kissed him harder.
Someone cleared their throat loudly in the door frame.
We stopped instantly and Nico pushed me away, as usual.
"Not what I expected." Clarrisse's voice said from behind. "While you two were enjoying each others' company," She coughed, "Chiron started setting up a quest and no one volunteered yet. AKA, stop making out and come see."
I sighed and stepped out the door with Clarrisse behind me, and Nico behind her. "I knew it!" Drew screeched from Chiron's side, like fifty yards away. "We can't let them be in a cabin by themselves!... I don't care if they're both boys!"
Reluctantly I stood next to the crowd of people wanting to join a quest. And, without anyone noticing (I hoped), slipped my hand into my boyfriend's.
"This quest requires all the training we have given. Great sword work, getting out of situation, and might require a medic." Few eyes turned to me. "We sent satrys to retrieve the girl. Only one came back and didn't get her."
"What are we going to do if the people we send don't come back?" Grover asked.
"Then..." Chiron looked at his hooves. "We'll have to have lost her too." After a too long silence Nico said something.
"I'll go."
I let go of his hand.
"Are you kidding me?!" Drew said. "Are you really going to send him."
"I'm going too." I said. I see why she pissed off Nico so much. "You said they might need a medic. I'm the head medic."
"Have you even been on a quest before?" Drew said.
"Have you? Because I remember the time I saved hundreds of demigods during the war with Kronos." She looked taken aback; just what I hoped for.
"Well anyway you can't leave those two alone. Clarrisse saw what they were doing." Drew turned bright red.
"How about you come with us." Nico said.
"Really? You're inviting her to come?" Piper asked.
"Sure. She doesn't trust us, so she can chaperone."
"Fine. Tomorrow morning we'll go and get the stubborn girl." Drew snarled.
"You shouldn't have volunteered." Nico said as we laid on the Hades cabin roof. I looked up at the star filled sky. "Not to sound anything like Drew, but have you ever been on a quest?"
"That's not the point." I sat up slightly holding myself up with my elbows. "If I didn't go how would we teach Drew a lesson. And you're going..."
"So you want to protect me."
"No I wanna heal you if necessary. Nico, if I lost you this early in our... Whatever this is... I couldn't live with myself knowing I had the chance to do something and didn't."
"You... You don't have to worry." His voice exceedingly small. "I've been to much harder places."
"I know you have, but... It took two satrys. Wherever this kid is, monsters really don't want us to have her."
"She's probably got days to live."
"Hey!" Someone's voice yelled from far away. I groggily opened up my eyes to see my arms wrapped around Nico on the Hades roof with a blanket on us. I looked to my left to see backpacks with a sticky note stuck to the top. "Will Solace! Nico Di Angelo! GET DOWN HERE!"
I shot up and shook Nico's shoulders. "Wake up. We have a quest!" He groaned and pulled the blanket up to his head. "We gotta save the kid!"
"I don't wanna get up." Nico grumbled.
"You're an adorable sleeping fool." I grabbed the bags and started towards the ladder that we climbed up last night. I looked at the note that was plastered on Nico's bag. 'Left these for you two love birds. All the necessary things for a quest- even if it meant I had to rummage through your clothes.- Hazel.' Aw.
"Nico. Di. Angelo. Get up." I ordered.
"Fine, mom. Ah!-" We disappeared. And when I finally opened my eyes we appeared at the front of Camp Half-Blood.
"Well gosh, I was about to leave without you." Drew said with her hands on her hips.
"How'd you do that?" I asked shocked.
"I have no idea. I'm wondering how you came along with me. I was just sitting and it happened."
"You took everything within ten feet with you."
"Cool." Drew mumbled unenthusiastically. "Well we should get moving."
"We're off to save the kid." I said as Hazel kissed Nico's cheek and we locked arms. Nico being reluctant of course. I had forced my arm in Drew's also, so they staggered aside me instead of walking.
Thirty minutes later Drew moaned as we reached the city and heaps of people walked in and out of the buildings. "I'm hungry!" She whined.
"We've been out of Camp Half- Blood's limits for only thirty minutes. You can not possibly be hungry." Nico said.
"I forgot to eat breakfast. Duh."
"You're like a five year old." I mumbled.
Nico sighed. "How much money do we have?"
"Two hundred."
"Where'd you get two hundred dollars?" Drew asked, one of her millions of questions.
"Travis Stoll?" Nico asked. I nodded.
"We're going to have to grab something from McDonald's, because anywhere else will cost us a lot more money."
"Ha, you guys didn't eat breakfast either."
"You are five." Nico grumbled.
"Am not."
"Oh gods." Drew averted her eyes and hid behind me.
"Uh..." I started.
"That's Jessica." Drew pointed to a girl drinking a coffee at a table. "She went to middle school with me and is always attached to me when I'm near."
"And..." Nico started.
"And, if she sees us what tells you anything bad won't happen?"
"She doesn't seem like a monster, Drew." I said. "Besides if she was she would've noticed-"
"Oh my god- is that DREW?!" Jessica had a squealy voice and bouncing dark hair. She resembled Drew a little. Her acquaintance joined her walking towards us. Nico squinted his eyes looking at the ground, he looked like he was going to throw up. "Uh, is he okay?"
"Yeah, are you okay?" Drew asked looking at him.
"Nico..." I started.
"I'm fine." Nico said putting a hand on my shoulder for support.
"Are one of you Drew's boyfriend? Or does she have lots of variety and dating you both?" She giggled.
I didn't like her already.
"We're gay." I gestured in between me and Nico.
"I know. You guys practically scream it." That's funny since no one else figured it out.
"So, what brings you here?" Jessica asked.
"Just... Exploring." I said grimacing. Drew did also. I understood why someone like Drew wouldn't like another one of herself. Even though they have the same intentions, Drew knew when to hold back. I heard someone's stomach growl. I think it was my own.
"Somebody's hungry..." Jessica said. "I'll buy lunch!"
"Why?" Nico asked.
"Because I was reunited with my friend from middle school! And her gay friends!" She looked at the other smaller girl. She reminded me of a mouse with her red hair tied in a curly bun and two ears from a headband sat on her head. She had glasses and whiskers drawn on her face. "This is my pet, Megan. She likes Japanese culture and cosplay. We couldn't paint her hair purple today or get black and white striped buckets to finish her outfit. Though she's not dressed up like Crona, or Ryuzaki, she does enjoy it."
"Who-" Nico asked and dropped the subject.
"Those are dudes." Drew pointed out.
"Yeah, cute dudes."
"Anywho. I'm hungry."
"On me! Everyone but Megan."
"Okay." Her voice was small. She was a little too obedient for my taste.
We walked into a crowded pizza place and sat down at a six person table. Megan and Jessica piled their bags on the extra chair. "So, what really brings you here?"
"Adventure. Outdoors. The smell of merchants and homeless people on the streets." Nico answered drinking out of the water placed in front of him. We looked at him. "What?"
"Nothing." I smiled and put my hand on his.
"You two make the cutest couple when you're not having this weird flare of evil." Jessica said. She turned to Drew. Megan's eyes followed also. "So, when was the last time you made someone do something you wanted them to?"
Nico and I's eyes turned sharply towards her. "Can we speak to you for a moment?" Before she could say anything I grabbed her wrist and led her into the storage room. "You told Jessica?!" Nico started.
"No!" Drew said. "She over heard me talking to one of the teachers over a grade. Afterward she must've thought I was being provocative or something and I had to explain. She was going to tell the super attendant that I changed the grade and me and my dad would have to move- again. It's hard enough being a demigod. And having to worry about moving another time was not one of my prioritys." She sighed. "She doesn't know about demigods. Just about charmspeak."
"I don't understand why you didn't erase her memory of it-" I started.
"I tried- It didn't work."
"Doesn't charmspeak work with everyone?" Nico asked.
"Yeah... Chiron says their are some rare cases where daughters or sons of Aphrodite aren't affected. But... Jessica has a mom, she lives in Colorado that's why Jessica lives with her dad. I've met her... Wait she said, 'I'll always treat you as if you are my daughter', to me once."
"There's no way." I said.
"That sounds possible." Nico answered.
"Are you guys saying Jessica's my sister?"
"Its a high possibility."
"Aphrodite would've told me, right?"
"The gods are shady, Drew. My dad never told me about Hazel until I found her."
"How are we suppose to know if she's a demigod. Unless we hurt her and feed her ambrosia." I said.
"That's dark. If it doesn't work, she's gonna burn to death." Nico said.
"I was just kidding-"
We stepped out the closet with few people looking at us. Jessica and Megan sat at the table flailing their arms and talking. "They're back." Megan said.
"I wonder what dirty little things you were doing in there." She looked to Drew. "Needed a referee?"
"How sick could you possibly be?" Nico remarked.
"She couldn't be my sister!" Drew said suddenly.
"You might actually be right. This girl is way to messed up." I said.
"Then how about you pay for everyone's lunch? Everyone and Megan." She said. Something tugged at the back of mind.
"Can I have the money?" Nico asked.
"Are you crazy?" Drew pinched him.
"What?!" Nico asked.
"Is everything okay over here?" Two completely in sync high pitched voices asked.
"Everything is fine," Drew snapped at the voices.
"Uh, Drew, you might want to look..." I'm pretty sure my voice wavered a bit as two identical twins, both female, stared me back in the face. Their smiles seemed threatening and their eyes seemed to flicker between perky blue and a demonic red.
"May we help you?" They said in unison.
"Should we fight these two?" Nico whispered to me.
"Why would we do that, they're just a couple of deranged twins." Jessica said.
"Deranged twins aren't exactly innocent half of the time." Megan said.
"Are you sure you're alright?" One twin said.
"We could clean the blood off you." The other said.
"There's no blood..." Drew said poking Nico in the spot where she pinched him on to check.
"Not yet."
Our eyes widened as the twins' teeth sharpened into flesh ripping fangs. "Drew, get Jessica and Megan out of here." I ordered.
"No way, I'm fighting too." She brought out a lipstick container.
"Is this the time for cosmetics?!" Nico asked.
She popped it open anyway and a spear transformed from it. "How about you get them out of here."
The twins skin seemed to melt away and their blood red eyes gleamed. Jessica screamed and Megan pushed herself up against a wall. Nico brought out his Stygian sword. "Tiffany! We're gonna pounce now!" One twin said.
"Okay!" Yelled the other. The only problem with their tactic is that they accidentally ran into each other. "Sophia I told you to run the other way!"
"No you didn't!"
"Ladies, can we stop talking now so I can kill you silently?" Nico said calmly.
"The son of Hades is a fiesty one isn't he?" Tiffany said.
"Don't call him fiesty." Sophia said.
"He's taken." I retaliated.
"Let's not fight over Nico right now, okay." Drew said. She looked to Nico's direction. "And you need to stop smiling."
The empousa eventually gathered themself and jumped on Drew and Nico. "We have this- just run!" Drew yelled. I disobeyed and stood their thinking of things to hit the empousa with.
"Will!" A voice said from behind me. I whipped around to see a iris message from Hazel. "Is everything okay?"
"Not really."
"Should I call later?"
"Just say what you have to say, please."
"Well, Chiron forgot to mention one thing before you guys left. The girls in Wyoming. Apparently she's not even old enough to understand what's going on and the monsters don't want us to get her."
"Wyoming... Okay. Thanks Hazel, I'll tell Nico you said hi." I waved the iris message away.
Tiffany jumped at me biting my shoulder- hard. Megan seemed to do a battle cry as she hurld a clock at her. "Oh my gosh... Vampires." Megan apparently noticed what she just did and ran into the storage closet.
"Ouch... That stupid Apollo kid threw a clock at me sis."
Megan is my sister? I don't need to worry about that right now.
The pain in my left shoulder deepened and I got the ambrosia and nectar from the backpack. I glanced at Drew who stabbed her spear into Tiffany's heart. Nico sliced his sword through Sophia's head. "Will! Are you okay?!" Nico asked to my aid.
"Bet you he's willing to rip off your shirt." Jessica said loosening. If only the empousa bit her.
"What is wrong with you?!" Drew asked. "We saved you and you still make insults towards these two. And Megan, she doesn't even do anything. The only reason she still hangs out with you is because you force her!"
Jessica got up. "Well I'm not the only one, am I?"
A/N: Hope you enjoyed the chapter, review if there were any problems
~S&K
