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Part One: Chapter Seven: Decisions

=Nico=

There are several things I've learned today about the Prince of the Seas. First, he's the most insane man I've ever met. Second, it's nearly impossible not to hate him. Third, it is impossible to hate him. Fourth, he can encase the ship we're on in a pocket of air surrounded by water. And last, he looks like a god when sleeping. I'm serious, after the whole bubble fiasco, where something exploded and sent the ship flying, he passed out, the water receding from the bubble around us and the night crew returned to it's post.

Leo had me bring Percy back to the room, considering I was staying there with him and the boy was terrified of his Captain. I don't blame him. After finally getting Percy on his bed I kinda collapsed on top of him from exhaustion. After a minute or two I pushed myself up and stopped, just looking at my kidnapper and thinking, he reminds me of a god. I couldn't help but to admire him.

The psychopathic idiot that I felt attracted too. Gods help me, I'm not falling for this guy am I? He's a Pirate for heavens sake and I'm a Lord, I watch over a port and I've always been stuck there. The pirate under me just shows up and steals me away from what I've always known and he gives me a trapped sort of freedom. I'm his prisoner, and yet, I'm not.

Somewhere in the back of my mind, a stupid thought arises and floods my thoughts. What would his lips feel like against mine? It only takes my subconscious mind about half a second to make the decision. I find myself kissing the Pirate. I don't get a reaction, he's unconscious after all, but my heart's racing. When I start to pull away I feel a hand on my side. "Don't stop," he breathes, I'm not sure if he's conscious until his green eyes open and suck me in. I lean down to kiss him again, not thinking about our social differences or how I'd punish myself tomorrow for this, or worse, how Hazel will punish me. I feel one of his arms slip around my waist while his other hand tangles through my hair, and as we embrace, I think. Why the hell not?

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I don't know what wakes me. My eyes just flutter open and I feel alone. The sunlight shining through the multicolored glass lit my skin up blue and green and I notice the lack of warmth that should be next to me. Turning, I see the door closing, not making a sound and I notice the folded close resting no to far away from me. I slowly realize that he must need time to think about what happened last night, I did, in a sense force myself on him. I need time to think about it. I uncover myself and quickly dress. It felt like last night was a dream, and the only proof of it's reality were the red marks on my skin.

I wait a few minutes, sitting on the edge of the bed and debating on what I should do. I know I should talk about it with Percy, I mean we had just slept together. But should I talk it out with anyone else first? Of course, and the only person I trust enough to mention this to is my sister. I got up, making my way over to the door and finding myself face to face with Clarisse. She raised an eyebrow at me, then looked over my shoulder.

"So I missed him." She glared at the empty room before letting me out. "Where did he run off too?" She asked me.

"I woke up and he was gone." I responded, she huffed. "I'm going to get breakfast." I mumbled before slipping away. I got a bowl of whatever was being served before going to find my sister's room. She was one of the few to get a private room, lucky for her one of the other girls offered. I knocked on the door, and entered without waiting for a response. What I found was defiantly not what I expected. She, Frank and oddball Leo sitting on the floor talking. Just talking.

"Nico!" Hazel smiled up at me, "what brings you down here so early?"

"I wanted to talk to you." I responded. I glanced at Frank and Leo. "But it seems like you're busy..."

"Not really." Leo said standing up and stretching. "We were just talking about the all mighty and powerful Prince of the Sea. He scared the shit out of Hazel this morning." I raised my eyebrow.

"Frank and I were against one of the railings and he came out of his room and sat on it next to us," she explains. "He jumps into our conversation and makes a few comments on the best way to kill someone." She had a faint blush on her cheeks. "Then he stops in the middle of a word and falls backwards into the water. It scared the crap out of me, and he pops out of the water laughing."

"It got almost everyone laughing, how she reacted." Leo said with a big grin on his face. "Everyone but these two," he points at Frank and Hazel. "What makes it better is that Hazel tried to kill Percy last night, the shock really got to her." That's what she was doing when I woke up. "It'd be the type of prank I'd pull, but not with water. I can't breathe in water."

"So he's a prankster?" I wondered.

"Nah, Percy's the serious type. But we have these friends back in our home town, they travel with us once in a blue moon." He responded. "There children of Hermes and big on pranking, when Percy pairs up with them we're all doomed. He's good with plans and things children of Athena are good at, maybe because he spent most of his childhood with one? I don't know, but the three of them pull off big time stunts." He paused. "Actually it was because of one of those stunts that we're heading out here. I know you've seen it, the pendent he's set on finding. They pranked Thanatos and the paper slipped from his pocket."

"...Pranked Thanatos?" Hazel and I repeated.

"You didn't hear about that?" Leo laughed. "It was all we heard for months no matter where we went. The Stoll brothers trapped the god much to everyone's surprise, they used one of the plans Percy created and set it up, none of them expected a god to fall into it. By the time he stumbled out of that trap he was dressed in a huge frilly dress, like one of the ones that Silena has, it was pink and white, and he had his makeup done and his hair was styled. And he was stuck like that for about a week before the Stoll's and him came up with an agreement. In the end Percy got the paper with the pendent he's set on finding."

"He knows about the pendent, it's legend, why does he still want to go after it?" I asked and Leo's expression turned serious.

"Hades if I know," he paused. "No offense," he added quickly. "The guy's a walking contradiction. A Pirate, better yet, the worlds most wanted Pirate -who saves lives.- A child of Poseidon, who respects Athena most out of the gods. Every time a life or death situation comes up for him it's like he wants to be killed." An uneasy feeling set in my stomach. "Ever since I joined his crew all his missions have been suicide ones, maybe even before I joined it's been like that. But we always pull through. It's bad enough that this specific quest was given to him through the Oracle of Delphi, meaning that the gods gave it to him."

"The Oracle of Delphi?" Frank repeated.

"Yeah she travels with us, the whole 'owing Percy her life thing' most of us have it." Leo shrugged, then yawned. "Well, I'm off to bed. Try to slip in a few hours before Clarisse uses me for target practice again." He walked passed me and out of the room. There was a thick silence, where no one knew what to say next. I broke it.

"Frank may I speak with my sister?" I asked him, he got up.

"Sure." He responded, turning to give her a smile. "See you in a bit." He said and left the room. I closed the door behind him and went to sit on her bed.

"What do you want to talk about?" She asked me, joining me on the bed.

"I..." now that I have a million other thoughts of the boy in question running through my head, it was hard to speak. "Last night, after we entered the Sea of Monsters." Because there honestly was no getting around that. We were in the Sea of Monsters. "I said that I'd come back when I checked out what was going on."

"You didn't, I assumed you went to bed." She commented.

"Sort of." I agreed. "It was amazing to watch how he protected the ship." I bit my lip for a moment. "A mass of water surrounded us like a cradle, and after the explosion that hit us passed, he blacked out."

"So you took him back to the room?" She wondered.

"Leo had me do it," I nodded. "He's heavier than he looks, and being tired I just kind of, dropped him on the bed and collapsed on top of him." She was watching me with skeptical eyes. "I don't know what was running through my head as I moved off of him but..." I pinched the bridge of my nose.

"You kissed him." She finished, I nodded.

"And he woke up." I continued, "I don't know what was going on in my head," I covered my face, frustrated.

"You had sex with him." She concluded. I nodded again and waited for her to say something else. "So, you had sex with the man that kidnapped us, and is taking us to one of the most dangerous places on earth, and it's quite likely that he'll never let us go."

"Yes," I sighed out.

"And you're talking to me about it." She stated.

"Should I talk to Frank or Jason about it?" I asked sarcastically.

"How about the boy you had sex with." She offered, I dropped my arm away from my face and looked at her. "I'm just saying it's better to talk to them. I can't do much to help you sort out your emotions, and it's quite common for people to fall for their kidnappers." She made a face. "He doesn't seem like that bad of a guy, he's just from a different life than us."

"You're telling me to go for it?" I wondered.

"I'm telling you that you make the decision's in your life." She smiled at me. "Not your baby sister."