Chapter 3
"Hold on a minute. You're telling me that this cat is actually Nico!?" Will asked.
Annabeth, Piper, and Nico/Gorgeous the cat all nodded at the same time.
"Oh great… I've been sleeping with a cat form of Nico, calling him 'Gorgeous', and… oh gods…" Will asked to no one. "Hey wait a minute! That means that Nico licked my face!"
Nico the cat dropped his head.
"Technically, no. This means, you've been sleeping with Nico, but in a less dignified, moody sort of way. My siblings, especially Drew, like to mess with people. She turned Nico into a cat with the help of my mom and Hecate. As a cat, Nico knows only a few things. Survival instincts, mating, etc." Piper told him.
"MATING!?" Will exclaimed, blushing but glaring at Nico.
"Also, he lost inhibitions. Cats don't have any inhibitions, or many worries." Piper continued. "But, Nico won't remember what happened during this time for a little while. If you're lucky, a month. If not, a few minutes."
"Haha!" Jason said, and Piper kicked him in the shin.
"See, this is why I'm always careful of who I'm around when I make fun of people, Jason!" Percy said.
Annabeth judo flipped him. "Anyways, there's only one way to fix this and get Nico to be a normal person."
"Great, you guys can handle it, I can't, bye, nice seeing you, and Nico, pay no attention to anything that happened over the last few days." Will said quickly, hurrying the group out of the door.
"Um, Will?" Thalia said. "We can't. It has to be you."
Will let them in. "What?" He asked.
"As much as I hate it, Nico has to spend more time with you." Hazel said.
Nico the cat looked defiantly at Hazel. "First of all, he has to experience a loving relationship until he turns back, and second of all, Drew told us it had to be you." Frank summed up.
"Why does the Aphrodite cabin hate me?" Will asked Piper.
"We don't hate you. At least, I don't. Drew might." She replied.
"Meow." Nico the cat said, looking at Will expectantly.
"Nuh-uh. I am not going to carry you anymore." Will told him.
"Mew?" Nico said, but it came out like a question.
"No! If I'd known it was you, I would have given you to Hazel or Reyna!"
"Mrow." Nico sounded disappointed this time.
"Oh, fine! But expect nothing when you're human again!" Will said, scooping Nico up again, but holding him by his sides instead of hugging him close like usual.
"Mew."
"No, this is as good as it gets for you! I am not hugging you again! And you will not be sleeping on my pillow tonight!"
"Will? Hate to interrupt, but Nico can barely understand you. He can understand emotions and body language, and if it's something really important, or something you wouldn't tell anyone, then he can hear you." Piper said.
Will groaned. "Great. Just great. Well, it's been a wonderful talk, but now I have to lie on my bed for the next year."
"Meow!" Nico protested once the others were gone.
"No. You're not sleeping with me again."
"Mrow?"
"Dude, no!"
"Mew."
"Fine. But you can sleep by my feet, that's the closest you're getting to my pillow!"
"Meow." Nico crawled slowly towards Will's pillow, and then pounced onto the pillow and wouldn't budge.
Nico licked Will. "Ugh. Was that supposed to mean you're sorry, or you want to kiss me?"
"MEOW!"
"I'll take that as a 'neither', because I'm not kissing a cat, or anyone who didn't tell me they were a cat, nor will I forgive you!"
"MEOW!"
"Gods, I'm having a conversation with a cat."
"Mew."
"Shut up, Death Cat."
Will and Nico fell asleep, Will turned away from Nico, Nico with his paws on Nico's head.
~The Morning After~
"MEOW!" Nico startled Will awake.
"Will!" An Apollo camper yelled.
"Turn that thing off!" Kayla shouted.
"Stupid cat!" Austin exclaimed.
"Hey!" Will said. "It's dawn, shouldn't we be waking up anyways for breakfast?"
"Still hate the cat." Another camper muttered.
"He heard that." Will got up, and then led his cabin to breakfast.
Nico followed at Will's heels, whimpering, trying to get Will to pick him up.
"Nico, I absolutely refuse to pick you up. I do believe that you can still walk."
"Mew."
Wil sat down, and Nico whimpered again, to get on the table. Instead, Will got a fish for Nico, put it on a plate, and then set it down under him.
"I swear, this schist better not be on Hephaestus TV, because if it is, it's not funny." Will murmured.
Then, Nico leaped up onto the bench, still up onto the table, and then onto Will's shoulder's, where he tried to climb up to his head. Will picked him up, and set him on the ground. Nico leaped up once more, but stopped at the table. He crept over to Will's hand, and began licking it.
"Stop." Will pulled his hand away. "Stupid cat."
Nico sunk away. He slowly leapt down onto the floor, and sat down. Will ignored him. Nico walked to the infirmary, and laid down there. He stayed there until Will found him, and grabbed him.
One Aphrodite girl saw him, and walked over.
"You're literally holding one of the cutest male demigods ever, and you're angry at him? That's just like, wrong."
Will ignored her, and went back to his cabin. He skipped his activities, except for the campfire, which he left Nico at the cabin. When he came back, Nico was still a cat, lying on his bed, fast asleep. Will glared daggers at Nico. Then, he fell asleep.
~Dream~
Will saw Nico as a cat, and walked over. Nico looked up, and became a regular Nico.
"Will, it wasn't my choice to be turned into a cat! I'm sorry if it's inconvenient, but I can understand what you're saying! One day you tell me I'm a brave, heroic, gorgeous demigod, and the next you're calling me a stupid cat. Make up your mind!" Nico said.
"I'm sorry, but it was you who was acting like a regular cat!" Will countered.
"I thought I was just a normal cat! It was only after a little bit that I regained some sense!"
"You still made no effort to tell me that it was you!"
"Look, I'm just sorry. I didn't mean to make you hate me."
"Nico-"
"WILL! WAKE UP! Another infirmary disaster!" Austin's voice was heard.
"What did you do now?" Will asked Nico.
"Nothing!" Nico replied.
~Reality~
"MEOW!" Nico yelped, as he was plucked suddenly from where he slept.
"Let's go, Death Breath!"
"Mew."