Before I start this chapter I'd like to say that these aren't my opinions, just how I would excpect Nico to react to everything. And sorry for being so harsh about the Supernatural scene. It just came out. No offense intended to anybody or any fandoms. Now then...
Hello again I'm back with another chapter. Woo. Get the confetti. Also, happy late Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza/New Year/Other. Sorry. You get a short AN today. But I would like to apologize for how bad this chapter is. Sorry. Or not. Maybe you don't like author's notes. I don't know. Anyway, I might (read most likely) do another chapter like this. And one for YouTube, but in a seperate fic. You can leave more suggestions or whatever and I will try to do the best I can.
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Rose stepped into the apartment and shouted, "I'm home!"
Two younger boys ran into the front room yelling, "Rose! Rose!"
"Hey guys! But guess what? I have a friend over, so you need to be super extra good, okay?"
A chorus of "okay"s rang from the boys' mouths. One of the two, the seemingly older one, asked Rose, "Is he your boyfriend?"
Rose gave them an exasperated look, like, "Why do you always ask me this?"
But instead she said, "Nope. Just a friend."
The shorter one eyed Nico. "He gay too?"
The silence was enough of an answer. Both of the younger boys sighed. "Of course," they said in perfect unison, sounding like the Stoll brothers. Then they ran off to do who knows what.
"Sorry about that. They can be annoying, but their intentions are harmless."
"It's fine," Nico said, and it was. "They remind me of some kids at camp. Two brothers."
"Cool. But seriously, they can be super annoying. I like never date."
"Really?"
"Yup. I'm single as a pringle."
Nico winced. He hadn't meant to, but it just happened.
Rose had noticed. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, it's just that I knew a guy at camp who used to say that a lot."
"Oh." Suddenly Rose's eyes widened. "Oh. Knew. Right. Sorry."
"It's okay."
"If you don't mind, may I ask how?"
"Um, yeah, sure. Workshop explosion. He was always building things and one day... Boom."
Nico made an explosion noise. "Gone."
Rose raised her eyebrows, trying to change the subject. "Well. You mention this camp place a lot. Would you mind telling me about it a bit?"
Nico paused. "...Sure," was what he finally said. Trying to find the words he needed to describe Camp without giving away its big secret, he began, "Well, it's kind of like a camp with activities and such, but it also doubles as a school. We learn things as well as practice archery and stuff like that. We even have sort-of cliques like the bullies, the nerds, the preps, etcetera. But it also kind of is an orphanage. A lot of people there have only one parent, no parents, or have been disowned, like I have. So it's sort of a boarding school of misfits and delinquents. Except better," Nico finished.
He glanced at Rose and saw her looking on with a horrified expression. "That's... Nice," she responded.
"On that cheery note, you wanted to show me some "television shows"?"
Rose blinked. "Right. Well, let's start off with some you just need to know about. Please do sit down."
Nico glanced around at the entry hall/living room. "Uhh, where?"
"On the couch, in a chair, on the floor, or just stand."
Nico chose to perch on the edge of a couch so blue, Percy would be proud of.
Rose pressed a button on a stick and the TV turned on. She clicked a few more buttons, and a program called Netflix opened.
"Have you ever used Netflix before?" Rose inquired.
"I think a friend at camp showed it to me before."
"Cool. Oh look, it's loaded." The girl pressed a bunch more buttons and selected something covered in neon colors and rainbows. Nico had a bad feeling about this.
"So I warn you ahead of time. I don't particularly like this show, but it is such a big part of modern day life that your need to know about it."
Uh oh. That couldn't be good.
The screen turned black for a second, and then came alive with color and sound. Horses flew into the screen as rainbows framed the show. A song started playing after a few minutes of introduction and Nico gaped in shock at the screen. About five minutes into the show he finally said, "No, no, please just turn it off!"
Rose grinned and exited the show. "And that," she said between giggles at his reaction, "is My Little Pony."
Nico finally replied, "It's like angels flew down from the sky and barfed all over everyone and this is what happened."
"No." Rose firmly said. "Angels are evil. Especially sad ones."
Nico looked at her and said, "Is that a reference I don't get?"
"Yup. And now for what started this whole thing. Phineas and Ferb!"
"Cool," Nico said.
TIMESKIP
After about two episodes, Nico finally spoke. "Cool. I like it reminds me of..."
"Someone at camp," Rose finished. "Yeah. Pringle dude, cousin, or doctor?"
"Pringle dude."
And with that, Nico's phone started to ring. Well, not as much ring as yell. It was screaming something like "RING RING RING RING. RING RING RING RING. RINNGGGG!"
He mouthed sorry to Rose and answered. But he had barely even said hello when he was greeted by more, if not louder, screaming.
"NICO DI ANGELO! Where the fuck are you?!"
Nico grimaced and held the monster-proof phone away from his ear until the screaming and swearing calmed down. Then he brought the phone back up to his head and calmly answered. "Hi Will."
"Hi? HI?! Where are you? I thought that you had been killed by a monster. We were about to send out a search party!"
"Did I forget to mention that I was going over to a friend's house? Say hi Rose."
"Hello," Rose whispered meekly.
"Hi Rose. Vert nice to meet you. Now, if you excuse me, I have some chewing out to do."
"Oh sorry, can't talk, I'm in a tunnel. Okay bye." Nico quickly turned his phone off.
"He's gonna kill you," Rose chuckled.
"You don't know the half of it."
"Alright, now for... Random short shows! Yay!"
Rose clicked a button and started playing some show about little block people with yellow skin.
"What are those?" Nico asked.
"Legos," Rose replied.
"I don't get it moving on to random sit coms about friend had family life!"
Some show started, revealing some adults sitting around in an apartment, and shortly moved on to another woman in a wedding dress walking in. Drama pursued, and then the episode ended. Then Rose played another show that had a really complicated family relations thing. Then the camera moved on to show two guys on a plane. Nico gasped.
"Oh my gods, it's me and Will in 20 years."
"Yup."
"And I'm rude. And a ginger."
"Better than being rude and not a ginger."
"What?"
"Nothing." Rose smiled. "Another reference."
The show ended, soon replaced with one about a girl killing vampires. In high school. In California. She kinda reminded Nico of Annabeth with the non-stereotypical California girl look.
"There's some monsters for you," Rose said, when asked why she picked that one show.
"And another of my favorites, with a lot of inside jokes."
The screen showed a young woman with blonde hair talking to her mom, and then going to work, soon meeting a man and some strangely animated manikins. Then the building exploded, and the girl, also called Rose, escaped. The rest of the episode was as strange.
"Thanks," Nico said once the episode ended.
"Why?" asked Rose.
"Now I'm going to go home/camp/whatever and watch the rest of these episodes in a week and have really sore eyes.
Rose giggled. "Here's another one for you."
Just a few minutes in Nico flinched. "So... She confronted a demon, and is now defying gravity while on fire."
"Yeah."
"Cool."
They sat in silence watching the episode until it finished. "Well, that was my favorite so far," Nico said.
"Yeah, it's pretty cool. But as much as I would love to spend forever watching Supernatural with you, we have more to watch. So let's go!"
After a few minutes, Nico stopped Rose. "Okay, I'm missing something here. All I grasp is that there are zombies and cowboys."
Rose grimaced. "Not a walking dead fan. Let's move on."
After another show, Nico sat stunned. "Well, whad'ya think?"
"I think that I actually enjoyed that one as well. People controlling elements and stuff. What was it called?"
"Avatar."
Nico crinkled his eyebrows. "Isn't that what that blue people movie is called."
"Yeah. Not the smurfs, I assume though. But this came first."
"I like it better," Nico said.
Rose smiled. "Me too. But here, I'll show you some movies now."
The first one was about a ghost that was too friendly for Nico's liking, and that Rose turned off after 20 minutes, as she could obviously tell that Nico wasn't enjoying it.
The second one started with some ladies singing about Zeus and his awesome powers, politely grazing over the fact of how big of a drama queen he was. Nico was snickering at the screen, trying to hold it in because Rose, sitting next to him, was giving him odd looks, like "Are you okay?"
But by the time the women came back and started singing about how Hades ruled the Underworld, Nico was on the floor, shaking with laughter.
Rose looked at him strangely. "Are you okay?" she asked him.
"Yeah, I'm fine," he said, wiping away tears of laughter. "It's just late. I should probably go."
"Okay. I'll see you at school on Monday."
"See you then,"Nico agreed. "Bye."
"Bye." Rose opened the door and let him out.
She closed the door behind him and gazed in to the living room where a black iPhone with a skull case sat on the sofa. She silently cursed and grabbed opening the door and preparing to run the phone to him, but as she stared into the street where the light was fading, she couldn't spot the teen.
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