Uh yeet, have this I guess.

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Fez.

"Cool. Mostly okay work everyone." Nico gave his class of first-years a farewell thumbs up, before sheathing his own sword and walking off.

"When's the next class?" One sweating boy asked, holding his side. An overenthusiastic Hermes kid had smacked him in the side with a blunt pole and he seemed to still be struggling with it.

Nico shrugged, not turning around. "When I give a fuck about it." He told him. He caught sight of Will standing at the entrance to the arena, hands on his hips and sighed.

"This time next week. We might try actual swords if you guys can act like adults."

He jogged towards Will before one of them could ask him another question and gave him a small grin, wiping the sweat off of his forehead.

"Why are you wearing that jacket when it's so hot?" Will asked, lacing their hands together.

"Because I look cool in it." He noticed they weren't heading towards the Dining Pavilion or the Hades Cabin, but rather heading up towards the Big House.

"What's going on?" He asked, and Will flashed him a wide smile.

"We're on a very important visit to the town to conduct important business." Will told him in a grand voice before cracking a secretive smile. "Or at least that's what I'm telling Chiron. We're going on a date."

"Oh really, Master Solace?" Came Chiron's voice and Nico saw how Will winced before he turned around.

"We have very important business Chiron." He tried to salvage the situation and the centaur only laughed.

"Well as you are both senior campers, and head counsellors…" Chiron continued and Nico had a feeling it was a bit generous to call him a head counsellor when he was the only camper in his cabin but he wasn't going to argue.

"And we can defend ourselves." Will pressed.

"But you did also almost destroy the last ice cream shop you went to." Chiron raised his eyebrows and Nico winced. Will shrugged, a 'what can you do?' look on his face.

Chiron rolled his eyes good-naturedly and handed Will a demigod-friendly walkie-talkie prototype. "Get out and go have fun. But take this and take care."

XXX

"Where are we going again?" Nico asked, somewhat grumpily as they walked through the town. Nico had his new boots on, and they were beginning to chafe. His old boots were moulded to his feet after years of wearing them on the run, but these were brand new. They wouldn't take long to break in.

Will offered him a smile which he grudgingly returned.

"You'll find out when we get there." He told him. "We're not too far away." He promised and Nico continued following him.

Finally they got to a glass-fronted shop, tucked in the back of a mall.

"Here we are!" Will said grandly and gestured at the sign over the door.

"Bounce." Nico said flatly, reading the brightly-coloured sign.

"It's a new trampolining place that's just opened up." Will explained, swinging the door open for Nico and heading up to the counter.

While Will paid for the two of them, Nico signed a waiver sheet with more nonchalance than he thought he would feel when reading 'In case of death, grievous injury, broken limbs, maiming, blood loss, or other emergency situations Bounce is not to be held responsible!"

"Did you check this place for monsters too?" He asked Will, who was balancing against Nico to take off his yellow Converse. The sudden fear on Will's face told him that it had not been checked.

Nico sighed, and began unlacing his own boots. He was sure he could fight off a monster without a sword and with trampolines.

He handed his boots to the attendant with a glare and a warning to keep them safe, in return for a hot-pink pair of socks.

"I like your nails." The attendant said kindly, with a mildly scared expression on her face and Nico, awkward with compliments, just nodded.

He knew Will was laughing at him when he turned back around and nudged him with a glare.

"I think your nails look nice too." Will added, leaning in close. "And your fingers. And your hands especially when they're wrap-"

Nico nudged him again, harder, his face flaming red. "There are mortals! Mortal children!" He whispered frantically and Will sniggered, pulling him towards the big room of trampolines set into the floor and even on the walls.

Will leapt onto one and Nico followed him hesitantly. "How old are you?" He asked mockingly as Will did a sit-drop. He had to admit it looked fun but he was a mature adult.

"Come on Neeks, let yourself have fun!" Will called, now bouncing away from Nico on a line of trampolines. Nico let himself smile, just the tiniest bit, and began to follow him, not bouncing quite as high but he had to admit that it was fun.

XXX

Half an hour later, Nico had beaten Will three times in a row on the basketball game. Will tried to bounce and shoot the ball in the hoop, but fell just a bit short. Nico took his place and ball and shot the ball in with one jump.

"How are you doing that? You're smaller than me." Will asked, his cheeks red with exertion. Nico shrugged, bouncing gently on the spot.

"I'm cooler than you." He told him, before bouncing off to try out the other games.

There was a massive trampoline dodgeball area but two-person dodgeball just wasn't as fun as a big group.

"Imagine Percy and the Seven here." Will said, as they made their way past it. Nice snorted.

"We would get thrown out in five minutes." Nico rolled his eyes with a fond grin.

"But it would be a great five minutes." Nico couldn't deny it, but he still winced at the destruction that would be caused. Maybe one day they could all get together and give it a try.

XXX

"Hey Nico I bet you can't do a flip." Will called. Nico was a few trampolines over, trying to copy Will as he did sit-drops.

Nico stumbled as he got up, but bounced to one side of his trampoline so he had space.

He managed to pull one off well, landing perfectly with his arms spread. Will's mouth fell open.

"You can do a flip but not a sit-drop?" He asked, and Nico shrugged.

"Sit drops are complicated." Will didn't even try to understand that comment.

"Teach me!"

XXX

Another half an hour later had them trying to cross a foam pit on monkey bars. Nico just about managed but he could feel a pull in his shoulder that would hurt tomorrow. Will had the noodle arms of a healer not a fighter and managed a few, before faceplanting the foam cubes.

"Nico I don't think I can get out." Will said as he rolled around in the pit, slowly sinking down. Nico shrugged from the safety of solid ground.

"Bye Will." He said simply and Will writhed even more, reaching out for Nico's hand.

"C'mon Neeks, you wouldn't leave your favourite boyfriend here would you? Your best bro? Your bestie?" Will whined and Nico sighed heavily and crouched by the edge of the pit, reaching out a hand for Will to grab.

Around the point where Will grabbed on, Nico realised he'd made a fatal mistake.

Will tugged Nico into the pit on top and to the side of him before scrambling to the side as fast as he could to avoid Nico's wrath.

"What the fuck Will?" Nico yelled, as he found himself being dragged down by the sinister cubes.

"Take him as a sacrifice!" Will was saying to… the cubes, as he hauled himself over the edge. Nico managed to grab hold of his foot and dragged him back in.

"You are such a little shit." Nico told Will, his face dipping close to kiss his cheek subtly enough that any mortal children would think it was a headbutt or an accident, before trying to get to the side before he suffocated. "I can't believe you just did that to your favourite boyfriend."

When he had pulled himself out of the cubes, he helped Will and flopped back, panting hard.

"Why doesn't Camp have a trampoline park?" He asked, and Will lay alongside him, also breathing heavily.

"We should make one. But did you see the waiver form? I can't cope with trampoline and monster related injuries." Will said, his hands waving in front of them.

Nico laughed and stood up finally, trying to decide what else to do.

"There's an obstacle course." Will pointed it out and immediately groaned as Nico bounced over to it.

"Can we slow down?" He asked, and Nico looked back at him with raised eyebrows.

"This was your idea, Will." He called, and Will groaned back but Nico could hear him slowly jumping from trampoline to trampoline behind him.

The obstacle course was a series of swings, a suspended swaying log, ropes, a small angled ladder and a tightrope over another foam pit. Nico started on the swings, going from one to the other easy enough.

When he was halfway over the log, it began to shake alarmingly. Nico turned around to see Will wobbling onto it.

"One at a time!" He called, trying to reach the ropes at the other side before he fell over. Will waved a hand, his arms splayed out and legs shaking hard.

"It just makes it more fun. Think of it as the extreme version." Nico took the biggest step he could manage before jumping to one of the ropes, his socked feet trying not to slip off of the knot.

"Will," he whined, from the safety of the rope and Will gave him a blinding smile that had Nico forgiving him almost immediately.

They managed the swinging ropes easily enough but ,of course, Will had to distract Nico again.

As Nico made his way up the ladder, set at a 45-degree slope, Will waited behind him. "At least the view's good." He teased, and Nico stopped to turn and stare at Will in shock.

"Will! Stop!"

Will did not, in fact, stop and barely restrained himself from touching Nico's choice ass.

Nico turned around when he was at the top of the ladder and stuck his tongue out at Will.

"You're awful." He told his boyfriend, glad the area around them was mostly empty.

Will winked as he scaled the last few rungs.

"You're attractive."

Nico could only glare at Will as he turned around again to try the tightrope. He could feel Will's eyes still fixed on him and tried to ignore it so he could get across the suspended cord.

"Hey Neeks." Will called, and Nico didn't even bother turning his head. He tottered one step further on the rope, his legs shaking as he tried to stay balanced. "You're really cute."

That was the furthest thing from what Nico had been expecting. In his second of shock, he toppled off the rope. He landed on his back, with his feet tangled in the rope above him and he started to glare at Will for knocking him off-balance, but it faded when he saw Will. He was stretched across the whole ladder, with his arms folded over the top, and he was mid-laugh, his stupid, dumb snorting laughter awfully endearing.

Nico watched as Will laughed so hard he fell off the ladder and landed in the cube pit. He dragged himself over to Nico, almost crying. It was too risky to kiss properly but he kissed his cheek, still sniggering. Nico couldn't help a smile break across his face at how pleased with himself Will looked.

"I can't believe you." Nico sighed, resigned to his fate. "I was almost across too."

Will shrugged, his limbs somehow already coiled around Nico like an octopus. Nico pushed him away and started for the edge.

"I'm going to do it this time I swear." Will stayed, neck deep in cubes as he watched Nico wobble over the tightrope, a fond grin on his face.

When Nico managed it, Will clapped loudly, until Nico hushed him with a grin on his face.

XXX

"Hey. Hey guys? Yeah you two?" An attendant was picking his way across the trampolines towards Nico and Will who were practising flips. Nico immediately thought of his sword in the locker he and Will had shared and wondered why he had entered the trampoline park when he knew it wasn't fully monster check.

"How long have you two been here?" He asked and Nico let himself relax just a little.

"A couple of hours?" Will said, looking at Nico who just shrugged back.

"What colour bands do you have?" The man asked and they both held up matching green bands. The attendant looked confused.

"Green bands were asked to leave two hours ago."

Nico couldn't help but laugh. They had been joking about the Seven getting thrown out and now they were.

"We're so sorry, we'll go right away." Will said, looking mildly mortified.

They stumbled off the trampolines, Will starting to laugh when they were out of earshot.

"We've been here four hours Nico." He muttered as he opened the locker and failed to stop another snorting laugh form coming out.

"This is going to hurt so bad tomorrow."