Hey people sorry for the super long delay. Been busy with school and thank the gods a job! Now that I am reading Mark Of Athena I should be posting more often. Hope the people I had following this are still interested in it. Like always I do not own these characters sadly. Only Bobby the main one. Please oh please read and review. Thank you very much.

The next morning I was awoken by a huge splash of cold water. I woke up gasping and nearly tossed Mitchell out of my bed. Annabeth was standing there holding an empty bucket.

"It's time for the councilors' meeting." She stared at me with her piercing gray eyes. You could just tell she was judging me.

"Give me a minute." I stood up completely nude and she covered her eyes.

"Hurry up." She turned and stormed out of the house.

After dressing in pjs and a Camp Half Blood shirt and Mitchell in another pair of pjs, we walked out of the cabin, all eyes turned on us, including Nico's. I kissed Mitchell lewdly and sent him on his way as I walked past Nico doing my best to completely ignore him.

We were sat directly across from one another. I tried my best to keep my eyes off of him. Failing at this, I managed to see him staring at me. When he noticed I noticed he blushed and looked away.

We all filed out of the Big House and suddenly I was yanked down the long porch by Annabeth. Percy started to follow confusedly but quickly turned away when he saw the looks on our faces.

"What in Hades is wrong with you?" She shoved me down in a chair.

"What are you talking about?"

"What am I talking about? What am I talking about!" She started mumbling in ancient greek and began pacing. "I'm talking about you and Nico. One second you can't take your eyes off him, and you confess your feelings for him in the woods. Next you're fucking Mitchell."

"How in the name of Zeus do you know about that?"

"How do you think you dunce? He told me right afterwards. He was looking for you at the dinner."

"Did he also tell you how he teleported away right after I did that? How he left me out there like a fucking fool?" I was standing now. "That hurt. You know what didn't hurt me at all Mitchell." I walked away after that, storming off to the archery field. For hours I let arrows fly at the targets, making most of the dummies look like porcupines.

I stormed through camp leaving campers fighting in my wake. I slammed my door and hopped in the shower turning the water as hot as possible. The water burned me but helped slowly alleviate my anger. Stupid Annabeth thinking she knows everything. Gods. I slammed my fist into the tiles.

Nico was looking for me. Why so he could rub my face in how in love he was with that stupid blue-brained idiot? I turned the shower off and walked into my bedroom to see the second to last person I wanted to see, Percy Jackson, sitting on my bed.

"What did I do to earn your presence in my room?" I walked up close to him still dripping and nude. "You're sitting on my boxers." He jumped up and ran to the door. Looks like I make the invincible Percy Jackson uncomfortable. Oh well.

"You really hurt Nico. I thought you cared about him?"

"How in Hades am I the bad guy here? He teleported away. What am I supposed to do just sit there in the clearing, twiddle my thumbs and wank until he decides to come back?"

"You could have waited five fucking minutes. It's obvious he likes you."

"Look who's talking about obvious. He blushes and turns all mushy the second you show and you couldn't be more oblivious."

"What?" His face went to his normal confused looked. The only time he didn't look like a complete idiot was when he was fighting.

"Yea that's what I thought now could you please get out of my cabin before people start saying I fucked you." I walked over and shoved the son of Poseidon out of my cabin and collapsed on my bed. Great so Nico actually likes me and I fucked it up.

Thankfully for me I did not have a long time to think about it. I walked out of my cabin to the sight of the Hunters walking through camp towards Chiron. Yay, we get to play another game of capture the flag. How frigging fantastic.

At dinner Chiron announced another game to be played right after dinner, to welcome our guests. I pushed some food around on my plate, barely eating, finally I tossed all my food into the fire. I prayed to my father and to Artemis, hoping that her hunters wouldn't be as rough as usual.

Annabeth and Percy took the lead on this one. Once again I was put on the defensive side, but thankfully Nico was attacking with Percy. I was placed with all the Apollo campers in a ring around the flag, with Hecate's cabin working their magic behind us.

I sat there perched in my tree trying to let my battle instincts take over. I could hear the sounds of swords clashing and people yelling like always. The sounds grew louder and louder until the Hunters were in range. We let our arrows fly only for the Hunters to literally shoot them from the air.

One of their arrows slams into my chest and next thing I know I wrapped in ropes swinging upside from the tree. A small explosion of light and heat came from behind and Hunters were thrown backwards, they all seemed stunned which quickly turned to anger. Thank the gods I'm not a son of Hecate.

Suddenly a tall black haired blur ran past with our flag. The horn sounded and the game was over. We were all cut down and then went to sing at the camp fire. Percy, Thalia, and Annabeth were right in the middle laughing and singing along. Besides Thalia, the hunters kept mostly to themselves only talking to the girls. Only the Stoll brothers and a couple of Aphrodite's sons were stupid enough to hit on them, which led to them getting hit.

Nico was nowhere to be seen. The hunters were always a sore spot with him ever since his sister joined them. I left the fire and walked out to the lake. I could just barely hear the singing now.

I took off my shoes and waded into the water until I was waist deep. I always loved the water, so much so, that before I realized my powers I thought I was the son of a minor sea god or river god. Being in the water always soothed and relaxed me, whether it was in the shower or out here in the lake. I stood there soaking and thinking about what to do about Nico.

Bubbles erupted in front of me. I jumped back and reached for my necklace, only to see a naiad staring up at me. Her mouth was moving and she kept pointing toward the docks. Curiously I walked over to the dock and saw nothing, just the canoes bobbing softly in the wind. The naiad kept pointing and then, frustrated shot off towards the canoes and one began to shake and bob more than the others.

I walked over to see Nico curled up in the bottom of the boat. I climbed in sat on the seat.

"Go away, Percy." He said without looking up.

"I'm not Percy, and I'm not gonna leave you here like this." He looked up at me and wiped his eyes. He sat up and wrapped his arms around his knees.

"Why?"

"Because you're my friend and I care about you." I slid off the seat and sat on the floor next to him. "I can only imagine how much it hurts to see them here." I wrapped my arm around his shoulders. He opened his mouth to say something but the tears came back and he covered his face. His chest heaved and I held him. We both drifted off to sleep until the boat shook. I looked up to see the cleaning harpies circling overhead. I gently nudged him awake and he shadow traveled us to his cabin.

The next morning I woke up with Nico wrapped in my arms which is so much better then sleeping alone. I laid there holding onto the one person I've ever had feelings for. His body meshed perfectly with mine. My mind wandered while I listed to his breathing.

"Hey." Nico was looking up at me, his hair looking like a birds nest, his eyes all puffy and red from his late night cry session.

"Hey."

"Thanks for last night."

"Thanks for not letting us get eaten by the cleaning harpies." Nico slowly sat up and rubbed his sleepy eyes. I scooched up the bed resting my back against the cool obsidian wall. "So."

"So…" He trailed on and rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly.

"I'm sorry about Mitchell. It's just… when you left after I told you, I-I freaked. I thought you hated me or something. Other then anger and arousal I suck at reading emotions. Then I went out to the dock to be all angsty and bitter, and a bunch of campers jumped in the lake and ruined my self-loathing moment and Mitchell he came on to me and I was so angry that you just left and he is very sexy and my anger turned to lust which made him hornier and me hornier. And then the next morning I was a complete and utter asshole." I rushed my words knowing that if I stopped I would lose my nerve.

"I'm sorry I shadow traveled away. I was nervous, I'm always nervous around you."

"I thought you left because you liked Percy."

"I do." He rubbed the back of his neck again and blushed. "I just like you more."

I leaned over a planted a kiss on his lips. He smiled, even though I was more than a little peeved at the fact I had to share his affection with Magikarp I couldn't help but smile too. I leaned in to kiss him again when there was a knock on the door. He sleepily walked over and opened the door.

"Nico, you are supposed to be helping Percy teach a sword fighting class." Annabeth said leaning against the doorframe. Her blonde hair was in a ponytail draped over her left shoulder. She glanced over and saw me lounging on Nico's bed. "I see you're teaching a different type of sword fighting." Woah, Annabeth with the sexual innuendo. Did not see that coming.

"Very funny." Nico growled in agitation. "I'll be there in a couple minutes." He closed the door and turned toward me.

"I gotta run."

"No problem I should probably go shower anyway."