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~Sorta Maybe Kinda Cute~

"Do you like my gift little body?"

The smell of a snake slowly fills my nose.

"Just bond with me, make me whole, and I will condure all that you desire."

Sweet, sweet offers of a world without pain. Enticing me to give my consent.

"Do you not wish to avenge your father? I can help you, you know. Help you defeat the Fates."

The Fates. Ironic isn't it. That they're technically my half-sisters.

"You're still going to fight little body?"

Hell yeah, I will.

"Then I will break you. Break you 'till you're only pain and obedience."

I determinedly hold my ground, until...

"Break you like your father."

And then my head feels like it's being split.

"Alisa! Geez!"

I blink. "Er.. Huh?"

Nico sighs, "You've got to stop screaming int the middle of the night."

I feel something hot run down my face.

"W-w-wait, Alisa?" Nico sputters, "H-hey, don't cry!"

I keep blubbering. "D-d-daddy..."

Through blurring eyes, guilt and hurt pass through Nico's dark, dark, dark eyes.

He sighs, "I'm sorry, Ali, really sorry..."

"J-j-just stay..." I blubber thoughtlessly, "Don't g-g-go..."

My eyes are shut and I hear a rustle of of cloth, I feel the bed creak under the weight of another person.

I also feel a pair of strong arms, lean and muscled, wrap around my vulnerable little girl body.

"Shh..." he whispers, "I'm not going anywhere, not when I finally found you."

I found you.

Those three words give me so much warmth. I look up thinking, How does he do it?

Some thing warm and soft presses onto the skin right next to my eye, making me shut my eyes again.

He also presses his lips to my other eye, and I realize, he's kissing my tears away.

I feel too weak, too tired to protest or anything so I just grap a fistful of his shirt in my hand and mutter, "Stay.. please.."

"I ain't going anywhere, Lishie." he mutters into my hair as I breathe in his scent of death and... and... cinnamon. Sweet cinnamon.

"Lishie?" I ask, a small smile breaking through.

He lifts his head from my hair, "Unless you want saliva in your hair, deal with it, Lizzie." he says, I can almost hear him smirking.

"Whatever, Nickie." I say into his shirt before slowly falling asleep surrounded by a cinnamon scent.

~0~0~0~0~0~0~

"You think they're asleep?" a familiar voice says.

"No, Seaweed Brain, they're just really good at impersonating statues!" another, more intellectually accented, yet still familiar voice says.

"Shut up, I'm sleeping." I growl softly at them.

I hear laughter from obviously more than two people so I decide to cut my losses now and step away from Nico.

Apparently, I supported most of Nico's dead (sleeping) weight so the moment I get up from our position, he falls forward and face-plants right into a pile of infirmary-standardized pillows.

Still snoring.

I swear that boy might be able to sleep through a war given enough reason to.

I roll my eyes and smile slightly before getting a big tackle from a very heavy, very excited Ravenclaw.

"Awww! You two look so cute together!" squeals out the said Ravenclaw (who is Jiana, by the way for those a bit slow on the pick-up)

"Jia, I'm a demigod who faced a good many monsters," I gasp out, "but I swear, if you don't let go, you'll be the death of me!"

"Oooh, picking up on the Brit-Speak are we?" she says teasingly while she finally stops crushing my very, very precious pair of lungs.

"Whatev, I can still totally, like, kick your sorry ass." I say in a prep-school mean-girl accent.

We break out in twin grins as I turn to my (newer) magical friends.

"Hey Harry, Ginny, Hermione and Tactless Imbecile." I say smiling at them.

"Hi." said Harry and Hermione (I wasn't very close with them...)

While said Tactless Imbecile proceeds to complain, "I'm not a Imbecile! I may be, sorta tactless, but I ain't no imbecile!"

I raise an eyebrow, "Are you trying American Speak? 'Cause you do know that's a double negative."

"Alisa! Your friend's right you know." Ginny says, coming over to hug me, "You do look cute with the him."

"Save it, Gin." I say, rolling my eyes (I tend to do that a lot with this crowd), "I'm not going to be your matchmaker project. You too Jia." I tack on the last part after seeing Jia's infamous matchmaking thinking face.

"Awww!" she complains, "But-"

"Drop. It." I say.

"But-!" Now it was both Ginny and Jiana.

"I'm not letting you mess with me and Nico!" I say loudly, before dropping onto my infirmary bed.

A hand clamps over my mouth as a groggy voice says, "You guys are too loud."

I blush and push his hand away. "Well, you sleep like a dead man too much."

Apparently, Jiana's still hyper because she jumped and squealed, "Adorable!"

I roll my eyes and I feel Nico's hand go slack, so he's probably asleep already.

"Let's go." I say, "I already missed a month's worth of classes, I'm not gonna miss more because of Hellboy."

Jiana and Ginny hook arms with me as they start talking about how my hair was an absolute mess, and how I seriously need some concealer if I ever wanted a boy to look at me and not think "Zombie Girl".

Honestly, I was sorta maybe paying attention because, and I'm never, ever, ever going to say this out loud, but Nico did maybe sorta look kinda cute with his tousled black hair and weirdly sweet moments.

A/N: Okaay, so forgive me, forgive me, forgive me! I know it's stupidly late, but I have a good excuse. I already made the actual next chapter, but it seemed rushed so I added this here! Okay... not so good excuse... But anyway, don't you want Alico fluff? (Yes, I have now officialized their stupid couple name.)

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