A/N: Sorry it's been so long and sorry for how short that last one was! I've been busy but I've been trying to write every chance I get. It's now ten days before my birthday and so in keeping with the annual tradition of the passing of my age I am sick. I got to stay home today because of the rule my family came up with specifically for me because of how often I get sick. (I'd maybe go to a total of a month and a half worth of nonconsecutive days with how often I'm sick if it weren't for the double puke rule). As it is i learned I'm an even better actor than I had thought I was back when I learned I could cry on command. Not to say I'm not sick because I very much am, but you see I have a goal of getting an A in English this semester and that can't happen if I once again have missing work. Anyways I'm babbling so on to the story! Let me know if you like it or any questions, comments, concerns, or suggestions you have!
Warnings: All canonical pairings in the seven were broken up; homosexuality is a big part of this story, so I'm sorry to the homophobes out there but I don't want to hear it. M/M, F/F, Threesome, I don't know what else to put as a warning so let me know if you see something I should add
Main Pairings: Frank/Leo, Jason/Nico/Percy
Side Pairings: Nico/Percy, Annabeth/Reyna, Hazel/Piper, Tyson/Ella
PJatO/HoO Characters: Annabeth Chase, Ella the Harpy, Frank Zhang, Hazel Levesque, Jason Grace, Leo Valdez, Nico di Angelo, Octavian Simmons, Perseus Jackson, Rachel Elizabeth Dare, Reyna Avila Ramirez-Arellano, Thalia Grace, Tyson
Disclaimer: I am not 50 some odd years old. I am only a high school/college student with a love for mythology. All rights to the series and the characters belong to the amazing Rick Riordan.
Wait, What?
Chapter 5: The Best Remedy For Confusion is Cocoa and Conversation
Nico's POV:
Things had gone dead silent. The two boys in the stall were frozen, though to be fair Jason seemed to have been in that state for longer than they had been discovered. Jason was staring at me with fear-it wasn't a look I wanted to remain on his face, but what should I do? I knew what everyone else was looking for, what they were expecting. They saw Jason over my boyfriend, trapping him and taking advantage of him. Or they also saw my boyfriend cheating on me. Neither of which was true because 1) me and Percy were both interested in him and 2) I could see how precariously off balance Jason was and that it was in fact Percy trapping him, not the other way around. Besides, Jason was too "virtuous" to go after a taken man, even more so when said man is taken by his best friend.
Everyone was still waiting, like time had frozen. Then, Jason opened his mouth, probably with an explanation or apology or something. He didn't get the chance as a brick suddenly hit him in the head. He crumpled and his momentum continued causing him to slide off of Percy onto the floor. It seemed Leo chose that moment to come out of his stall.
"How's this one? It's not too bad in my opinion, but of course you gals probably think differently huh?" Leo said, stepping out of his stall still looking down at his clothes. He looked and saw everyone tensed and asked, "Wait, what's going on? What did I miss?"
At this everyone seemed to unfreeze and turned towards Leo. Taking my chance I slipped into the changing stall and grabbed the unconscious Jason, throwing him over my shoulder, and wrapped my other arm around Percy before shadow traveling away.
~break~
I watched Jason for a long while afore he began to slowly move, though still not quite awake yet. After we had landed in mine and Percy's guest room, Percy had gone down to the kitchen to prepare some cocoa. I had set Jason down on the bed because there was no way in Hades that I'd be able to just keep carrying that heavy mass of muscles and I was not about to let him sleep on the floor even temporarily. After that I checked his head for any signs of swelling, bruising, or open cuts, though thankfully there were none.
Percy came back just when Jason was starting to stir. He took a deep breath through his nose and I watched as his face relaxed and he let out a small moan before slowly cracking one eye open. I quickly check for dilation and seeing none I let out a relieved sigh that he didn't seem to have any of the signs I had witnessed Will checking for in a lot of his patients, during my time demanded of me to spend in the infirmary, that might indicate a concussion.
When Jason saw us he sat up quickly in bed with wide eyes staring at us and the hint of a blush. He opened his mouth to speak but before he could, Percy shoved a mug of cocoa into his hands with an order to drink.
Silence rang around the room, and I started to feel the tension building. Then without warning Jason and Percy started speaking at the same time.
"I'm sorry!-" they both said before looks of bewilderment crossed each of their faces.
"Why are you sorry, I'm the one that kissed you!" Percy said.
"Well- because- uh, well yo-you're dating Nico a-and w-we uh, we uh kissed.. a-and-" Jason stuttered out. Finally I decided to jump in.
"Did you like it?" I asked calm and with an unreadable expression, though internally I was smirking gleefully, especially as the expressions crossing his face progressed.
"We-well u-uh-h uh..." Jason stuttered as his face seemed to be warring between doing an impression of a tomato or that of a ghost. Finally I leaned forward and captured his lips with my own.
"And what about that?" I asked, finally letting my smirk slip through the mask to sit firmly upon my face, especially as the tomato finally seemed to win the battle.
Several long moments passed before Jason finally managed to stutter out part of a question. "Wh-wha-at-... ?"
"While was not quite how I imagined you to find out about our feelings for you, I suppose now is as good a time as any," I start.
"Jason we've been interested in you for a while. Don't get us wrong we love each other greatly, but we haven't ever really felt complete. We figured out what we were missing together actually… with the help of some of our more observant friends," Percy continues where I left off.
"Namely Reyna as she seems to know the three of us the best apparently," I add before we are both cut short.
"Wait hold on, you two LIKE me? Like THAT?" Jason splutters. "So I moved away trying to just forget about my feelings for the both of you-so that YOU TWO could finally be happy since you were together-and now you tell me that you BOTH wanted me just as much as I wanted you?" he exclaims indignantly all the while still blushing brilliantly.
Percy and I blink at him then turn and look at each other then back him and say simultaneously "Yes."
Suddenly we find ourselves with our laps full of the not quite so Roman ex-praetor, as he wraps his arms behind both our necks and pulling us both close as he first kisses me on the lips and then Percy straight after.
After that we all settled onto the bed, our limbs all tangled up together, cuddling with me and Jason on either side of our exceptionally cuddly puppy, Percy, and all of us were holding hands with each other resulting in a rather confusing mass of limbs.
I'm not sure how much time passed, but eventually I heard the others arrive back at the house so I nudged my two boyfriends to get up and we all went down stairs together, though this time without holding hands as that would no doubt result in us tumbling down instead of walking. At the bottom everyone was looking at us with a mixture of emotions. My sister and her girlfriend along with Reyna seemed to be giving us knowing looks, Leo was looking at us especially Jason with a hopeful look, Annabeth wore an expression that almost showed how the gears were turnin in her head, while Octavian and Rachel and Tyson and Ella were each in their own seperate worlds together.
Leo was the first to speak. "So please tell me this means my bro gets his fairy tale come true?"
Jason blushed brilliantly again and grunted at the fire bender. "Leo! And...ya...yes we are together," trails off with a smile at the end.
Annabeth nods and smiles, showing et encouragement. Leo grins brilliantly but after a bit it started turning sad. Apparently I wasn't the only one to notice, and Piper is the first to pipe up.
"Don't worry, we're gonna get you your fairy tale prince next!" she exclaims.
"Why don't we try IMing him? I don't know why, but I have a feeling he'll pick up if it's you calling, Leo," Percy says. Annabeth nods in agreement to her best friend's statement.
"Let's get the dragon rider his dragon!" Hazel exclaims in excitement.
Yes this means Frank finally makes his appearance in the next chapter! Be ready for a big surprise though ;) (this is the moment I've been looking forward to since I first wrote down this idea in my notebook last year!) Also I'm currently working on a Nicercy story for Takara Phoenix's Valentine's Day contest with the help of a super awesome very distant cousin of mine that I never would've known I was related to if our mentors hadn't gotten fed up with both of our silent anti-social/social awkwardness and shoved us together on the first day of our "ice breaker" week in the summer before the start of our lives as high schoolers before walking away with their other mentees. She also has far better concentration for English than I do, so hopefully that story will turn out well. Anyways, let me know if you like it or any questions, comments, concerns, or suggestions you have!
