*ducks pitchforks being thrown at me because of the sneak peek from last chapter*

I PROMISE THEY WILL START SPEAKING AGAIN LEXI WILL RETURN TO FIX THEIR BROKEN RELATIONSHIP

MY REPORT CARD CAME IN AND MY LOWEST GRADE IS AN 80 WOOP WOOP

Anyways, have you seen the animated video for the song "Ghost" by the Mystery Skulls? I love it to death (how ironic)! I actually showed it to my class since we were having a Halloween party and the entire time everyone was comparing it to Scooby-Doo and somebody even yelled out "WHERE'S DAPHNE" at the end. It was great!

Then I showed them the video for "Alice of Human Sacrifice" by Vocaloid. Long story short, I'm not exactly allowed to suggest songs to play anymore. It wasn't even the original version, it was the one with the English lyrics at the bottom. It wasn't that bad, honestly. I've seen worse.

And RavynAshes2 wrote her own version of the first chapter of this fanfiction! It's Chapter 11 of her story, "Just Another Day." Check it out, I absolutely love it!

REVIEWS

BalletBookworm: LEO IS THE BEST ALWAYS. Caleo is so cute eee. I love all of those too! December will bring many things, my dear... There already will be a campwide Halloween party, but thanks for suggesting anyways!

Sabrina-Luna-potter: They'll be speaking again, don't worry! Mostly with their mouths, but still speaking!

GhostWriter1864: Technically, it's more of Eros's and Flauvonius's (Idk whatever his name is) faults, they pushed the boys over the edge. It would be, and that actually happens in "Just Another Day!" I died laughing.

CheetosPotato: Dude I could write them making out if you want me to. It's both unacceptable and progress.

DoomgirlForever: Thanks! I probably won't focus as much on Caleo again as I did here. I'm not really sure how many times Leo will appear again like this. And I still ship Leyna, because I am a multishipping nerd.

Spiesareawesome: Leo is always the funniest to write. So are the Stolls.

Readeatcook: Thanks! Wait, was "Bear in the Big Blue House" not part of your childhood?! *loud gasp and faints* Haha, who doesn't? At least I'm not leaving you hanging over the pit of Tartarus like Percy and Annabeth.

Percy: THAT WAS UNCALLED FOR

Me: It's true though.

They'll stop picking on him soon enough, it's mostly Will because he's frustrated with the entire business. And if Percy sang our ears would bleed *covers Percy's mouth as he protests*. Yes Jason's girly voice please. I want an entire book series devoted to Jason's girly voice. And you saw my freak-out from the author's note last chapter, so you do have permission to! Yes, everyone is obsessed. *"Everyone Loves 'How Not to Get Your OTP Together" appears in big sparkly letters*

Nico: Is that a reference, because I don't get it.

Me: I don't get your face.

Stolls and Leo: Ohhhhhhh!

Nico: Well I don't get your mom.

Stolls and Leo: OHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Moonshroom420: Chapter order response again:

It was only a chapter

How did it end up like this

It was only a chapter

It was only a chapter

And thanks!

FlamingGinger06: The only other problem is the actually canon ships. Same here.

MidnightEeve: The joke was impossible to resist. Thanks! Bring Leo Valdez back 2k14! Aw, thanks again! The drama probably won't be happening until further down the line, before Mockingjay comes out at least (I have a short chapter planned for that, actually). I'll try!

Vile'sApprentice: Would an "I'm sorry" suffice? Well, here's sorta what I have planned so far. If you guys don't want spoilers for the plot, you don't have to read:

The boys are becoming increasingly uncomfortable with all this attention being focused on them, and they feel like they shouldn't be near each other as much if it's just gonna draw some attention. They both like each other, but being the dorky dorks they are they have yet to confess. Anyways, there's a bit of flirting going on to make Nico/Will jealous (Someone requested Drew flirting with Will and Carter Kane flirting with someone and I am a huge Kane Chronicles dork). And it's working, but not in the way it was intended to work. The person being made jealous is sorta angry and mad at the other person. There's also Will being visited by Apollo. Will doesn't tell anyone, even though the encounter left him moody for days, so Nico feels like Will stopped trusting him. Also, at some point Will's gonna find out Nico used to like Percy. But he's gonna mishear it and think that Nico currently has a crush on Percy. So Will's gonna be jealous and also a little mad at Nico. Then the whole Eros thing Ippiki Ookami no Fuyu suggested. That's when it all goes down. Each boy leaves his encounter mad and confused but refuse to talk about it. That's when they have their first major fight. They end up getting so mad that they refuse to speak to each other for a while, and everyone realizes that maybe the club was a bad idea.

There are several attempts made to fix their relationship, but it's really Lexi the asexual aromantic who comes to the rescue. She calmly gets the boys together and forces them to talk about what's been bothering them. The air is cleared and she manages to fix their relationship. They end up accompanying each other to the winter party, and then they finally confess. Not sure how they confess just yet, knowing me it might be mistletoe. I and mistletoe have a weird relationship when it comes to romantic things. It gets couples together and I worship it.

Then there's the wedding/engaygement chapters (As long as I discuss this story I will always say engaygement because it is too good of a joke to pass up). As of now, my heart is fixated on having them up around New Year's. I've been thinking of Valentine's Day, but if Solangelo gets together around Christmas then that's a bit far off.

So, yeah, that's the timeline and plot. So if Solangelo has their argument before Mockingjay comes out and they get together around Christmas, that's an entire month of torture, both for you guys and the campers. I am definitely Andrew Hussie.

TheChasm: Thanks! Essays are pretty cool, to me at least. I like writing. And one of them got moved back so ye. Thanks, I'm glad that you loved them! Oh, man, I have like twenty at least. I'll try to update weekly, though when it comes Thanksgiving I'm not sure. My family is coming over for Thanksgiving this year, and all of my cousins are younger than me (on both sides of the family, although on one side I only have one and another one on the way, but the other side I have like six now. And I already have three little brothers. Three of my cousins aren't coming, though, so that's only six little screaming children I'll have to watch).

CHBcamper52: Thank you! I'll try to update whenever possible!

Random: Hi! That is actually one of the best lines I have ever written. (I am a math nerd despite being bad at math so don't worry haha.) Thanks! Oh, man, you used to read Apollo? I am so sorry. Oh, it is? Well, I'm glad to make you happy! And I'm glad to finally figure out my sexuality, and it's also great to see it in real and fictional life! Also that is my favorite headcanon haha. And it's okay, I didn't realize she was Japanese at first. You didn't sound pissy at all! And thanks for saying that my writing is great!

Credit for this chapter goes to the fairylike Angela!

Yes I will assign random positive adjectives for people okay

Disclaimer: I am smoking hot!

Me: *smacks Leo's head on keyboard*

Chapter 6: Mountains Need Love Too

Will slammed the door to the Apollo cabin shut, causing everyone in the cabin to jump and instantly fall silent. They weren't expecting him back so early. He should've been doing the reenactment of the spaghetti scene from Lady and the Tramp, and then making out with Nico (Kayla was sorta miffed that her fantasy confession scene had yet to come true, even though it was pretty weird).

"You guys," Will declared, usually playful blue eyes going steely, "need to stop."

"Stop what? If it's the quivers being left all over the field, that's Ares." Austin told him.

"I know that."

"Stealing the lollipops from the bowl in the infirmary?" Alex asked.

"That was you?" Laura said in disbelief.

"No comment," was the nonbinary's reply, as zhey blushed.

"We'll discuss that later, but not that."

"Drinking all the orange juice at breakfast?" Kayla suggested, her almond eyes trying to follow the curious expression the rest of her face was pulling. She knew fully well what Will was talking about.

"No, Kayla." Will sighed.

"What then?" Laurel asked. The Brazilian second-grader stared up expectantly at Will. His gaze softened for a moment, but then his attention returned to the rest of the cabin, and it became stony once more.

"I've scolded you guys for last week's incident already, but we haven't been able to have the proper talk we needed about it." The blonde boy moved to sit down at the chair that came with his bed, courtesy of being the head counselor.

"It's Frank's fault!" someone else yelled.

"No, it isn't. I'm not talking about the fact that he ruined your little performance, but about the fact that you guys decided to do it at all."

Everyone gulped. They had all known that this was eventually coming, but they were hoping Will wouldn't have been in such a foul mood.

"First off-That is such a ridiculously cliché song. I've seen many cliché things in life, but that took the cake. Honestly, if you had sung 'I See the Light' or 'A Whole New World,' there was no way that it could've gotten any more cliché," Will said.

"We nearly sung those," Austin muttered. Kayla elbowed him.

"Second off-" Will sighed, and then just crossed his arms and stared silently at them. "A fan club. There was a fan club formed for me and Nico. I don't know whether that's a new high or a new low. And, judging from the things I've seen helping around camp for the past few days, I'll have to go with a new low."

Everyone froze. Will knew. Will knew about the fan club. And if Will knew about the fan club, and he was in a bad mood, things did not look so well for almost the entirety of the Apollo cabin.

"We didn't form it!" Someone else defended. "That was all Jason Grace's and Annabeth Chase's doing!"

"I know," Will answered. "But, seriously, guys? Don't you think that that's going a little too far? For starters, what goes on in my personal life should remain private unless if I and I alone specifically tell someone, and even then I would very much enjoy it if they didn't tell anyone else. Also, I don't want details about me being spread all across both camps, thank you very much. Again, the whole privacy thing. And don't you think trying to get so involved in my personal life like this is just a tad bit, I don't know…Creepy?"

"It is," someone else called out.

"Thank you, Person-who-probably-sang-the-song-from-last-week-and-is-attempting-to-redeem-yourself-when-he-asks-about-it."

The person snorted.

"Anyways, I don't want my private life being public information. That's just wrong, you guys. That's just wrong." Will shook his head.

"Any other reasons?" Laurel asked.

"Yeah. Can you guys please stop with the attempts? The Aphrodite cabin prepared a scene a la 'Lady and the Tramp,' which me and Nico did not fall for, and then we got shoved in a closet by the Stolls. So yeah, kinda have a hectic life right now."

"The Stolls did what?!" Alex squawked.

"Shoved. Us. In. A. Closet. So Nico had to shadow-travel us out-and if he does that again anytime soon, I might actually kill him-and we landed in the Ping-Pong room of all places. And guess who should have returned while we were gone but none other than Leo Valdez!" Will sighed and massaged his temples. "And he joined the club as well."

"I'm scared now," someone whispered, and nervous giggles filled the air.

Will dropped his hands back into his lap and opened his eyes. "So, yeah. Do not try anything else, for the love of Apollo. I am frustrated enough with everyone else as it is. I don't even think I like him like that!"

The entire cabin was silent, until Austin asked, "So, what happened in the closet?"

Will froze. "Umm…"

"Is it appropriate to hear?"

Will yelped. "What-Yes! We did not do anything bad! All that happened was, um…we came out?"

Everyone mentally high-fived in their heads, and some money was passed between a few campers.

"Okay, so, let me get this straight." A few people laughed at her word choice, but Kayla ignored them. "You came out of the closet. In a closet."

"I guess you could say that."

"That is either the greatest or worst closet joke of all times."

"I…guess you could say that."

"You could've made it greater by kissing him~" someone cooed.

"I-WILL YOU JUST SHUT UP?! I AM GOING TO TAKE A QUICK SHOWER BEFORE DINNER, AND IF I DO NOT ARRIVE IN TIME FOR THE CONCH SHELL, KAYLA, YOU ARE TAKING THEM TO DINNER!"

And with that, Will rose abruptly out of his chair, stomped over to the door, and slammed it shut behind him. The room was silent, until someone said, "Don't you mean, 'let me get this gay,' Kayla?"

The entire cabin exploded in laughter. Kayla just sighed, but started to laugh along with them.

Outside, Will fumed silently as he stomped to the showers. Thankfully, nobody tried to bother him. What was wrong with his cabin?! They should've just left him alone over the whole matter! He didn't even really have a crush on Nico!

And yet…Will did enjoy time with Nico, more than he did with other friends. He felt like Nico understood him better, somehow, and that he understood Nico. Sometimes thoughts about the boy appeared randomly in his head, with no reason to. And he did think Nico was rather cute…

Okay, so maybe he did have a bit of a crush on Nico…

*As William sorts out his feelings, this linebreak brings us to an abrupt POV change.*

"Nico!"

The aforementioned son of Hades stifled a groan as Jason jogged up to his side. Shortly after Will's leaving and his proper introduction to Calypso, Nico had also vacated the Big House, leaving the other demigods behind. He just wanted to lie down in his cabin and question the decisions he made that had led to his friendships, and that had led to this weird little club thing.

"Listen, I, uh, just wanted to say sorry. We would have never let the Stolls lock you in a closet, we specifically said that was a bad idea-"

"Oh, yeah? What about the dinner?"

"That wasn't a closet."

"The serenading?"

"Also not a closet?"

"Jason, just because it isn't a closet doesn't mean it's okay. Can you just…" Nico sighed, massaging his temples. "Can you not?!"

"What?!" the blonde boy cried. "C'mon, Nico, wouldn't it make you happy to be with someone? I just want to make sure you're happy!"

Nico looked back up at Jason. The Roman demigod's electric blue eyes blinked uncertainly as they stared back at Nico. Jason wasn't trying to cause any harm, he realized. He just wanted to make sure that Nico really was happy. He knew that Nico wasn't entirely over Percy, and he was trying to help him get over him. Nico was just about over him, it was just that when you've crushed on someone for so hard and so long, letting go of them would never-and could never-be easy. And that was what Nico was experiencing.

Jason did mean well, but he just had to realize that sometimes he needed to back off a little.

"Look, Jason, I know that you're trying to help me-really, I do-but can you just back off for a while? I'm not really ready to enter a romantic relationship right now, and my feelings for Will are mostly undecided."

"Oh!" Jason looked embarrassed. "Jeez, man, I'm sorry. Just trying to help, y'know? I'll try to hold the club back for a bit."

Nico actually wanted him to stop entirely with the club, but maybe some other time. He actually appreciated that people would try to put in such effort, especially for someone like him.

Then Jason frowned. "What does 'undecided' mean?"

Nico stared. "What."

"You said your feelings were undecided. So what do you mean by that?" Jason smirked a little.

Nico was about ready to skewer him on a sword. "You know what I meant."

"So you do have a bit of a crush on him then?" Jason's grin seemed to stretch even wider, if possible.

"Jason-"

"Aww, Nico has a crush!" He laughed a little.

"Jason, I'm warning you-"

"When's the wedding?"

Nico snapped.

Subconsciously, he grabbed Jason by the front of his shirt, and before he knew it they had both slipped into the realm of shadows.

Nico knew he was being crazy. He had shadow-traveled barely ten minutes ago, how could he expect himself to shadow-travel again? But he had done it anyways. There was no stopping it now.

When the shadows had cleared, Nico was surprised to find that he was feeling okay. A bit off, probably from not shadow-traveling in a few months, but okay nonetheless.

He realized that he and Jason were standing on top of a mountain. It was green, with a forest near its base and tall blades of grass as far as he could see. It was more of a hill, really, but sometimes people wanted the smallest things to matter more.

Jason stumbled back, totally shocked. "Whoa-that was-what-"

Nico whirled around to face him. "You are not leaving this mountain until I come to get you. I don't want you treating me like that right now. I'm going back, and when I return I better find you ready to apologize."

"But-"

But in a flash of darkness, the Ghost king was gone, and the sentence died on Jason's lips.

*Is this linebreak really needed? Eh. You tell me.*

The sickness hit the moment Nico landed back in camp.

He had arrived next to a wall of the building that hosted the boy's showers, thankfully, so he was able to rest his shoulder against the wall when the fatigue hit. A wave of nausea passed over him, and he groaned quietly.

This was a terrible idea. He had a terrible idea, which he followed terribly, because the terrible idea had turned into a terrible plan, and now he was feeling just plain terrible, to say the least. Nico really needed some form of common sense, actually. He couldn't just go rushing blindly on every idea that he had had. It was bound to get him killed someday.

"Nico?"

Nico groaned again, but not from the pain. The last person that he wanted to see in his current state was right behind him. He turned around to face Will. "Hey."

Will just stared at him in disbelief. "Did you just-no-did you-DID YOU SERIOUSLY SHADOW TRAVEL WHEN I TOLD YOU NOT TO?!"

"Um," was Nico's brilliant, carefully-thought-out, well-written response.

Will made a strangled noise. "You. Me. Infirmary. Now." Avoiding Nico's eye contact, he reached out his hand for Nico's hand. (Come to think of it, Nico had rarely seen Will look any person in the eyes for longer than two seconds. He would have to ask about that.

Nico swung out his arm, and his hand landed into Will's. Will grunted approvingly. "I will actually kill you someday, Nico," Will grumbled.

Nico tried to make a joke based off of that, but he was too exhausted to try. Son the son of Hades just let the son of Apollo drag him over to the infirmary, where he was beginning to spend more and more time. Ugh. Infirmaries. So clean and sterile. He didn't really like them.

He also didn't like the way his heart started pounding when Will had taken his hand, and it hadn't stopped pounding since.

*While Will checks over Nico, use this linebreak to be transported magically to the mountain peak that Jason is currently staying on, either until Nico feels like coming back or the Seven arrive.*

"Well then. That was interesting."

There was no sound, other than the wind and wildlife.

"He can't just leave me here!"

Pause.

"Well, if he wanted to, he could. But I already promised to help keep the club down!"

Nobody answered him.

"…I guess I did step over the line somewhere with my teasing. When he gets back, I'll apologize."

Nothing.

"Okay, he's brooding right now. But he'll come back. I know it!"

The hum of insects filled the air.

"He'll come back!"

Silence.

"…Screw this. Time to start an Iris message."

I had the strangest headcanon come into my head that Will had Asperger's Syndrome, and I'm not sure why. Just that him grabbing Nico's hands after delivering a baby satyr, I guess. Along with many other things. I guess I'll just write him with a minor case of it? I don't know, I'm trying to write him based a little off me with the whole Asperger's thing, and I'm not too sure where I fall on the Asperger's spectrum.

Also, I had an "I-AM-A-BETTER-WRITER-THAN-RICK-RIORDAN" moment and wrote Nico not entirely over Percy. I love Solangelo, don't get me wrong, but the way Rick Riordan handled it seemed off to me. I feel like he could've gone into more detail with Nico's character. In fact, the entire last POV of Nico felt off to me which helped inspire a new fanfiction that I am currently planning and will not put up for a while. There's going to be meaty slabs of Solangelo in it, don't worry!

Ugh, my period started, so life is automatically terrible. If labor pain is really ten times that of period pain, I'll just adopt all my kids. I was already planning to adopt most of them anyways, I just wanted at least one from me biologically.

Don't listen to me complain about fictional characters that could've had so much more or the process of losing blood monthly. It's weird.

Then again, I am weird, after all.

Also, I called my friend on Saturday and he picked up saying that he was at the top of a Ferris wheel and that he'd have to call me back. I texted him yesterday and apparently he was at the top of the Ferris wheel with some girl and he was about to kiss her right when I called. I actually couldn't stop laughing when I found out.

Yay, Halloween tomorrow! What will you guys be? I'm going as Pixal from Ninjago, but if something comes up I can just fall back on my TARDIS dress.

Stay safe when trick-or-treating, guys!

Deranged Shadow Fangirl

P.S. I am sexually attracted to how Nico interacted with Jason on the hill/mountain. The grumpy Nico in that scene is one of my favorite Nico personality's lol.