Disclaimer: I do not own Dea-opps, wrong one…where is it…here we go! I DO NOT OWN PERCY JACKSON OR THE OLYMPIANS!

A/N: I said I would update today, so it's kinda late but I cranked this out (I moved my bedroom today and we got two feet of snow…gah) Love all of you who faved/alerted! REVIEWERS YOU GUYS ARE FUDGING AMAZING!

Music: Find Your Way- Blood on the Dance Floor

Aphrodite's Garden 6

Regrets best left to the dead

Nico kicked at the ground in the silence left by the departing apparations, Percy looking at him expectantly. He took a deep breath, "It was a while back…can we just try to find something to cover ourselves with, please?"

Percy shook his head, "We already looked, and I'm pretty sure we won't be able to move on unless we talk, Nico I've had to do a lot of things I wish I didn't, it's part of life." He looked meaningful at the younger male who sighed and let his head fall forward, trying to hide his expression and realize a second to late where it would place his gaze.

"Okay! We can talk!" He half-yelled, jerking around with his face bright red again, not that he disliked what he'd seen but thinking of Percy that way was something he wouldn't allow himself to do.

Percy smiled a bit, blushing some himself as he realized why Nico was flustered, "I'll go first?" He offered, waiting for a nod from the other before beginning.

"Well, when I found out I was gay I couldn't lie to Annabeth so that's why we broke up and she was so understanding it was…weird. I already told you why I regret it but I guess I just wish I could find a way to make it up to her you know? She's such a good friend, she's even trying to help me find a boyfriend but I don't really like anyone at camp and really I think it's best if I stick to Demigod's…well, there is one person who I haven't decided how I feel about but my dad wouldn't like it because he's the son o-"

Percy cut off and his blush darkened, in his little ramble he had almost told Nico that he was thinking about him as a perspective partner, he knew it wasn't something he'd normally consider but lately he hadn't been able to get thoughts about the olive-toned male out of his head.

Nico waited a while and after accepting that Percy wasn't about to finish he sighed and sat down, thinking about how to start.

"Well, first of all you have to realize this was the first guy I'd ever dated….seriously. I think I 'went out' with a couple people before him, but nothing that really meant anything to either of us. He was different, his name was Luc and I loved him, or at least I cared for him a lot I'm starting to think that love is something…more."

Nico paused and looked at Percy with an odd little half smile, "but after a while of us being all…coupley, I started to notice things, there was no real warmth in his affection and it seemed like everything he did was an act, eventually I broke up with him, I thought he was cheating on me…imagine my shock when my father told me he had been targeting me to kill me."

Percy had sat by this point as well and unconsciously moved closer to Nico, touching their shoulders in a comforting motion and forgetting their nakedness in favor of listening to him speak.

"I regretted killing him when I had to but now…now I think I regret that I ever dated him more, it seems odd but I feel like I was supposed to be with…." He struggled for words and finally sighed, "I guess a demigod, someone more like me, but that's not exactly it either…I don't know how to say it."

Percy gave him a soft smile, "I know what you mean though." They looked at each other in silent understanding before Nico blushed again and looked away, standing up and then looking mortified he sat down again. "Sorry!"

Percy was looking down very focusedly, "It's fine…not having clothes on is becoming a real distraction." He meant that in more ways than one, pushing the images of what he'd automatically seen himself doing to Nico when he'd found his eye-level at waist height.

They looked around awkwardly trying to discover if there was a path for them to follow or if they were going to have to fight with more of the usual mist.

Without speaking they stood up at the same time and thinking the other had noticed the same thing they had tried to walk in opposite directions. This caused them to run into each other, Percy was already slightly off balance and Nico knocked him over easily.

Percy yelped as he hit the ground, Nico on top of him as the result of their collision, they both started to move to get away from each other when Percy felt Nico's knee slip between his legs, his body going rigid.

Nico felt Percy freeze underneath him and thinking something was wrong, stopped moving entirely, intensely aware of how naked they both were but not realizing where his knee was resting.

"what is it?" he asked, afraid he'd hurt Percy.

"Move your leg Nico, please." Percy's voice was strained and once Nico realized what he had done, he flushed red from the roots of his dark hair and the tips of his ears down to the middle of his chest.

"s-sorry Percy! I didn't mean to!" He stuttered out, hurriedly moving off of the older male, horrendously embarrassed as he tried not to make eye contact.

Percy, feeling awkward but somewhat braver than before tilted Nico's head to meet his gaze, "It's okay. I just would rather not make you uncomfortable…."

He wasn't sure if Nico understood what he was saying and blushing he forced himself to continue, "By um, getting, uh, turned on because of it."

Nico nodded, avoiding his gaze, "Okay." He found his eyes drawn to the other males body regardless of how embarrassed both of them were and stared at his chest as he spoke, "Well we need to pick a direction anyways."

Percy cleared his throat and agreed, "Let's go left, I've always liked to go left."

Nico didn't protest, simply started in that direction leaving Percy to try to focus on walking and not on the way Nico's butt looked when he walked.

A/N: Too much? I thought it was too much, but hey if I was naked with someone I was attracted too this is pretty much how it would go…yes I am that awkward.