If I'm updating twice in one day you know that I am in need of a life

And if you guys think this chapter's title is hilarious, wait until you see the one for Chapter 11. And the file name I saved it under is just as bad.

Also I can't stop watching "Mystery Skulls-Ghost" I'm in too much love I've watched it like five times already.

And I removed the author's note that is chapter 6! I realized that if I was doing the little chapter summary thing in the summary then it would look weird if I was describing chapter 6 when the story had seven chapters. Sorry for any confusion!

Also, I just wanted to say thanks for the support for the Will and Asperger's headcanon! I have Asperger's myself, and I would really like to see more representation of it in the media. So far the only representation I know of is in some film from Australia or something, and even then it's kinda old and obscure so yeah.

REVIEWS

DarthGranola: He's Nico. Why wouldn't he?

Maya-chan2007: I feel the love. Oh, yes, I would love suggestions on that! Haha, Zia-sexual. Everyone is a tiny bit Zia-sexual. Oh, man, Sadie would definitely agree. She'd do anything to get her brother to be cooler. They'd probably kidnap him in the night lol. Yes Carter being friends with Walt/Anubis is very important let us never forget that. And then Will would be like "who is this hot guy talking to Nico who is mY NICO." Carter would be terrified. I'll definitely add in your suggestions as best as I can! And thanks about my Will headcanon!

TheChasm: Thanks! Angela suggested Nico leave Jason on a mountain and it was impossible to resist. Yeah, I've been doing that to avoid repetitive names. It's a problem, sorry! I'll try to avoid that more in the future. I'm glad to make you laugh out loud!

Vaneria Potter: It's great to meet another Aspie! I'll try to bounce a few ideas off of you! Like I mentioned in the previous chapter, I'm not sure how extreme my Asperger's is. I have a lot of the signs though, so I'd have to say sorta extreme. I'll actually play more on the whole Asperger's Will thing in the bottom author note. And I'm glad that you love it!

Sabrina-Luna-potter: Oh, that sounds really pretty! What does it look like!

CheetosPotato: My friend is going as Amy this year, and I have another friend who's gonna be Eleven! Yeah, I sorta understood what you meant. Oh, really? It's really not too awkward, there's more awkward things we could discuss. I love it went characters sputter indignantly. It's hilarious.

Spiesareawesome: COME TO ME MY FELLOW NINJAGO FAN. She sounds really awesome!

Angela: I'm glad to have exceeded your expectations! You're welcome! Sounds sweet! I would be a PJO character, but I don't look enough like anyone to. The only brunettes that I know of in the series are all non-white.

Credit for this chapter goes to the awesome sauce Kifo Entiegon!

Disclaimer: I have homework. Rick Riordan doesn't.

Chapter 7: Blackjack's OTP?

Percy was very quick to blame Annabeth for this.

He was always blaming Annabeth. My cabin isn't clean because of Annabeth! I hit a tree instead of the target during archery because of Annabeth! I got distracted because of Annabeth! I didn't finish my homework because of Annabeth! The kitchen blew up because of Anna-

Wait, both Annabeth and Percy had blamed the kitchen blowing up on the Stolls. The only reason they didn't get KP was because there was no kitchen to have KP in.

Anyways, Percy was very fond of blaming things on his girlfriend. He'd call it a form of endearment, but it was just Percy being Percy. Although Annabeth did find it rather sweet that Percy would try to use her to solve all of his problems. Not that she'd ever tell him, of course, otherwise he would never owe up to anything.

However, this time was different. Percy was in the perfect position to blame Annabeth for this. He could pull out all the cards that he used when trying to blame Annabeth for something that he had done. He could use the "she's my girlfriend" card, the "I love her too much" card, the "I spend too much time with her" card, even the "she told me to" card that never worked so he rarely ever used it.

But Percy knew that would never work. Even though any card that he played would actually work for once in his life, and he would probably never get this chance ever again to play all of those cards like this and have them all work out, everyone knew this was his doing. Nobody had told him to, nobody convinced him, nobody even told him, "Hey, you should try this out" and told him about a thing. No, this was all Percy. He had done this of his own free will (Solace). No best Roman-turned-Greek friend lamenting over his OTP convinced him to do it. No girlfriend of said best friend using her charmspeak to convince Percy to do it to stop the Roman-turned-Greek best friend from whining. No girlfriend telling him to try it out. No wild summons from the dying Lord of the Wild via espresso lattes in New Mexico along with a crazy boar had convinced him to do it.

Percy had joined the Solangelo club of his own free will.

Because he was dating the co-president and founding father-Founding mother? Was that even a thing? Percy would have to look it up later-Percy was in the perfect position to play every single card that he used when trying to blame Annabeth for something. But he didn't attempt to. Mostly because Annabeth would brutally slaughter him, but also because he had a genuine interest in the Solangelo club, and not because so many of his friends had an interest in it, thus roping Percy in.

To tell the truth, Percy had always felt bad for Nico. He was not only the son of one of the most dreaded gods in all of Greek mythology, he wasn't even from this time period! How would Percy feel if he were suddenly yanked out of the age of the iPhone 6 and the Ebola crisis in Dallas to the age of the Samsung Phone 3000 and the world plagued by a disease brought to Earth by the inhabitants of the moon known as the Lunars? He'd be scared and confused, that was for sure. And then Percy had promised to bring Bianca back, alive, and he failed. He had utterly and completely failed. He still felt terrible whenever he even heard the name, be it the Bianca that he knew or an entirely different Bianca. Moving past Bianca, Nico was also gay. And he had a crush on Percy.

Percy didn't know much about sexual orientations at the time (He knew now, thanks to the walking encyclopedia that was his girlfriend), but he had known enough to know that Nico grew up in a time where his orientation was practically unheard of. In fact, admitting his feelings could've even killed him. And Percy knew it was hard to grow up different than other people, being an ADHD dyslexic.

So, mostly out of pity, and partially because Annabeth would love him even more if he did, Percy joined the Solangelo club. He wasn't expecting himself to get so swept up into it, actually. Who knew shipping was so infectious? Aphrodite kids, probably. They were experts. And people on the Internet. The Internet people were experts on ships that never got together, actually (especially if they were dead).

Anyways, the club was what had let to Percy doing this. He knew it was wrong to call in a favor like this, especially from them. But, hey, if it got his POT together, it was worth it.

Gods, this was actually pretty embarrassing. He hoped nobody ever saw him do this.

"Please, guys?"

Silence.

"C'mon! Just this once!"

A snort.

"Would you do it for a, uh…Scooby Snack?"

Boss, I prefer donuts to Scooby Snacks. You know that!

"You can't have donuts, Blackjack! And don't call me boss!"

He was trying to convince the pegasi to help out the Solangelo club.

For what purpose, he didn't know. He just thought, Hey! Maybe they would be able to help! Pegasi like shipping, right?

The only obstacle was that the winged horses felt skittish around Nico. Most animals did. He was the son of Hades, after all. Percy felt nervous around Nico, too, and he didn't have the level of sensitivity that animals were blessed/cursed with. Y'know, the one that helped them to sense earthquakes or whatever. Could Percy sense earthquakes? His father was called the Earth Shaker for a reason, after all. Percy had never thought to try sensing earthquakes. Then again, he lived in New York, which wasn't particularly famous for any earthquakes. But California was, though. Maybe that would come in handy if he could.

An indignant snorting jolted Percy out of his earthquake-related thoughts.

Boss, we're just fine helping out with the sunny kid, but you know how we feel about the di Angelo kid! He's nice 'n' all, but…

Percy sighed. "Yeah, yeah. I understand. He smells funny, he seems funny, he feels funny, all that jazz. But it would be nice to just help out, y'know?"

"Help out with what?"

"GODS OF-" Percy jumped about ten thousand feet in the air. He then turned to face the very person he was talking about. "Nico! You startled me!"

Nico looked disgruntled. Percy supposed that he must have been. He had just spent three days again in the infirmary, after his little jump to the mountain with Jason. As far as he knew, Jason still wasn't talking about it. After all, they had to call in some of Camp Jupiter's eagles to take him back to Camp Half-Blood, which had caused almost a big a fuss as Leo's return had. "Hey," Nico said.

Percy smiled. "I was just, um, trying to see if the pegasi would help with the chariot races!" Every pegasi turned to give him an offended look. He winced. He knew that the pegasi would never willingly perform in a chariot race, and even if forced to they still wouldn't. But hey, he had to come up with something!

"I see."

Percy smiled even harder. Oh gods this was so awkward he couldn't let Nico know what he was trying to do because Nico would kill him.

"Well, Annabeth was looking for you, just so you know. Do I tell her that you're in here…?"

"Oh! Yeah, Nico, that would help a lot! Thanks!"

Nico scoffed a little, but then exited the stables as silently as he had come in.

Percy waited until he was positive that Nico was out of earshot, then turned swiftly black to the pegasi. "See, guys? Nico can be nice! You shouldn't be judging people by their appearances! Didn't your horse mothers or whatever tell you that?"

I didn't know my mother, a Pegasus said.

"Oh." Percy felt bad. "Sorry."

It's okay.

"So, uh, will you guys consider it?"

A long pause.

"Right, right. Just think about it maybe?"

Maybe.

Percy grinned. "Alright! Thanks!"

What would we even help with?

Percy stopped. Hmm, that's right. What could the winged horses help with? Shipping them? Cheering them on? Locking them in a stable? Could the pegasi even lock their own stables?

"Percy!"

Annabeth jogged up to stand behind her boyfriend. "What's up?" he greeted.

Annabeth laughed. "Not much. What're you doing?"

"Annabeth, I may have recruited some more people to our cause. Or, in this case, pegasi."

What could the pegasi help out with romantically? I'm thinking the stable thing. I might actually write that. No, I will write that.

Anyways, like I said above, I'm gonna babble about Will having Asperger's Syndrome because there is a lack of characters with Asperger's Syndrome and that disturbs me. Be warned, I need to put more thought into it, so if anyone has any ideas I'll be willing to hear them!

Okay, so some people with Asperger's Syndrome tend to have bad motor skills. Since Will is bad with archery, this would fit in perfectly. Although some of you may argue that if he works in the clinic, that's sorta a bad thing. But it's not like he'll be dropping things everywhere.

Also, people with Asperger's tend to come off as impolite. Will is extremely straightforward from what I can tell, and from the looks of it looks like he doesn't give his actions much thought. I'm not sure about other Aspies, but I tend to do that a lot, and I've been told off by my parents many times for that.

Also, Aspies seem to have one area of focus that they discuss a lot. I don't see this happening in the books much, but Will comes back to the idea of being a healer many times, so medicine could be a focus area for him.

If people want me to write Will as having Asperger's, I'll try to incorporate what I've talked about above, and a few other things that are common in people with Asperger's syndrome, such as lack of eye contact, staring at people (Will sorta does this, I think? Idk), taking language very literally, and repetitive behaviors (hand-wringing or finger-twisting).

Ironically, I'm going off with symptoms that I found on WebMD, even though I myself am a valid source for symptoms. Well, I suppose it isn't that ironic. I mean, I didn't know what I did that constitutes as a symptom of Asperger's or not.

Also, people with Asperger's tend to have ADHD as well, and Will has ADHD and dyslexia, so that helps with the headcanon as well.

I don't know. Do you guys think I should?

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