A/N:I have to admit, I thought I was done with his one, and I have multiple drafts for other stories, but my fingers itched for this particular fic. So her enjoy a few more chapters.

Swimming and Sparring:

PoV: Jason Grace

It was the kind of sky that promised something more. It was blue, sure, but covered with clouds of various shades of white and gray. The sun was just a bright little circle waiting for the clouds to break and let him pass through.

Jason sat in the sparring Arena, watching Leo and Percy fight, well mostly Percy teaching Leo.
"Leo, keep your feet more grounded, I could just knock you over."

"Okay Aqua-man,"

"Don't call me aqua-man, dude." Instead of responding Leo raised his sword again, Percy did the same and the two went again, Percy obviously taking it easy on Leo. Hephaestus' son looked at Percy, irritated. "Dude could you try a little harder? I'm not a baby." Percy sighed, looked over at Jason, back at Leo and nodded.

"Okay, fine."

This time Percy lifted his sword, Leo doing the same, and within ten seconds Percy had Leo disarmed. Leo threw down his sword and muttered something about fire and 'fucking aqua-man'. He plopped down next to Jason. "Don't say a thing Sparky, I swear it, I'll roast you."

"What way?" Jason chuckled.

"All ways."

Percy had walked over to the side of the Arena where his water bottle stood. He drank once. Twice. Before putting it back down and looked behind him. To his great surprise Nico di Angelo stood there. The usual bags under his eyes were lighter, almost gone, his unruly hair still messy. But there was something else, there was a gleam in Nico's eyes. A light, that good only symbolize satisfaction. Or hope. Either way, it was surprising. The raven haired boy had his Stygian Iron sword in hand. Percy quirked an eyebrow in question. He hadn't seen the son of Hades since Annabeth's birthday. "Care to spar?" Nico asked hopefully, as if he thought Percy would turn him down.

"Ugh, yeah, yeah, of course." Dumbfounded Percy grabbed Riptide from his pocket and uncapped his loyal sword, walking to the center of the arena.

Three hours later the clouds had split, letting the sun shine triumphantly and bright. The arena stood right in the line of sun cast upon Camp Half-Blood. It was that and the fact that Nico and Percy had been sparring together for circa two and a half hours. At first Nico and Percy had been prodding each other playfully, not being too harsh or too serious. After about an hour an of this NIco requested that they 'pick up the pace'. From then on Percy and Nico had only rendered defenceless twice.

It was now that Leo got up and wiped his hands on his trousers. Jason looked up at his best friend questioningly. "Where are you going?" Jason asked. Leo looked down at Jason and shrugged, "This is getting really embarrassing, and hot, I'm sweating like a horse, so I'm gonna go to bunker 9 or something."

Jason cast a look upon Percy and Nico, he'd thought that maybe he'd g a chance at sparring too, but, he could also go spend some time with his best friend. Pushing his glasses further up his nose Jason made up his mind. "Alright, I'm coming, but I'm not going to bunker 9."
"What do you wanna do then? Because I got this little thing I'm working on-"
"-let's go swimming."

The idea had come so sudden and randomly to Jason, that he momentarily was surprised too. bu now he couldn't think of anything better, the day was hot and it wasn't like here was anything better to do.

"Swimming? Where and why would we go swimming?" Leo quirked an eyebrow a Jason.
"Because, it's hot out and it'll be fun. Besides when was the last time you went swimming?"
Leo seemed to consider, then a shrug, "Alright, I suppose."
Happy as a child Jason got up, and brightly walked down the steps of the Arena.

"Where are you guys going?" Nico called out. To Jason's great surprise, he turned to find Nico, Percy's water bottle in hand his Stygian Iron sword in the other. A lopsided smile, that Jason had never seen before, on his face. He seemed genuinely interested, not at all suspicious. "We're going swimming."Jason answered, "Care to come with?"

Nico raised his eyebrows, taken aback by the question. When was the last time he had been invited to anything? Jason wondered. Nico looked at Percy who had come to stand beside the son of Hades. "They're going swimming, I think I'm going to join them, would you like to too?" Nico asked Percy.

Now Percy was baffled. He probably wondered, like Jason, why was Nico asking? The raven haired boy, hadn't left his cabin in weeks. Weeks. Why was he out now? Why had he come to them? What he was he playing at?

Percy looked at Jason with a questioning look. Jason just nodded. Percy cast Leo the same look. "Come on, Aqua-man."
And for once Percy didn't tell Leo off for calling him that. "Alright, sure, I'll go."

Jason, Leo, Percy and Nico made their way down the rows of cabins. The sun still bright, the grass green and rich.

Jason stopped at cabin 1, where he quickly changed into his swimwear. As he looked for a suitable towel, one that wasn't wet from showering, he caught sight of someone leaning against the door post. He looked up to see Piper, in a beautiful pink sundress, it was decorated with little white daisies that looked so fair compared to Piper's tan skin, that before Jason knew what he was doing he'd walked over to Piper and pressed a kiss to her lips, with a small sigh, Piper's lips parted, and she bit his bottom lip like she often did.

He pulled apart then and looked her. "What was that for?" she asked, with a mischievous glint in her eyes. Her kaleidoscope eyes, which Piper claimed were just plain brown. How wrong she was. "And way are you in your swimming gear?" She asked, stalking over to Jason's bunk and bowed to open the drawer underneath it, she pulled out a fuzzy, orange towel with the camps symbolic black pegasus on it.

Rolling her yes she gave it Jason. "I'm coming too," she said without even waiting for an explanation. She jogged to her cabin and within minutes came back with her sundress gone.
She now wore an emerald green bikini. The color made her eyes look even more iridescent.

She beckoned to Jason to come over, so that they could walk to the beach. He pulled himself together, blinked a couple of times and strolled over to Piper, opened his towel and put it over her shoulders. It sounded foolish even to him, but he didn't want to many people looking at Piper in her sheer amount of clothing, she wasn't even wearing any shoes.

She merely rolled her eyes yet again at Jason and kissed his jaw. They walked to cabin three, where Piper walked up to the door and knocked thrice. After a few minutes, and some thundering sounds from inside Poseidon's cabin, Annabeth opened the door, pink faced, and adjusting her bikini strap, she smiled brightly at her dear friend. "Wait a second," she said, she returned, her arm linked with Percy's and a too, orange towel over her other arm. However, as soon as she stood outside, she dropped Percy's arm for Piper's and the two girl's strolled ahead of the two boys.

"Ouch," Jason said with a mock pitying look, "Being dropped like that for another girl…" He trailed off. Percy bumped his shoulder and said, "That's your girlfriend over there, bro."
"Touché."

The girls walked over to Hades' cabin, and knocked there too. A small someone with a grand cinnamon afro opened the door, nodding and smiling at whatever Annabeth and Piper said she closed the door. Moments later she reappeared in the door in a navy bikini, with Nico trailing behind her, also in navy swimming trunks.

The now six teens, walked and passed several other campers, including Travis Stoll and Katie Gardner who said they might be joining them too. Happily they stalked to Demeter's cabin. They also passed Will Solace.

Will looked happy to be invited. But Will looked happy about a lot things, after quickly glancing at Nico, he nodded and ran, ran, to the Apollo cabin. They saw Frank too, who looked fairly tired but said he would join his friends nevertheless. "We should go get Leo," Hazel pointed out. No one further commented on that, so no one went to get Leo, he was probably somewhere of snogging Calypso anyway. He did that a lot. Though he didn't admit it. They all knew it.

When they finally got to the beach, the teens all arranged their towels in neat lines. No one bothered to point out that they'd probably all end up covered in sand anyway. No one really seemed to care.

PoV: Nico di Angelo

Nico sat on his towel. He put his towel down and as soon as he had everyone had put their towels all around his, he knew he was feeling better and he felt better but this was still a lot of pressure. He wasn't like everyone, he was weird. Nico was a weirdo. That's what he thought and now Will supposed to come along too, this whole swimming thing was a grand mistake.

In the distance he saw people approaching, in the front of the small crowd walked Leo Valdez hand in hand with Calypso. They were engrossed in a conversation, she was laughing furiously, her cheeks red. She wore a yellow floral bathing suit. Her fudge coloured hair was pulled back in a sloppy braid, and now that they came closer, he could see Leo's curls were also braided? Behind them were Travis Stoll and Katie Gardner, they were also hand in hand, Katie's red bathing suit with a backless back. They were both smiling at nothing in particular it seemed.

And finally behind them walked Will Solace talking to Frank. The person Nico least and most wanted to see, her smile aloof as he smiled at Nico, the glint in his eyes ever present. Nico wanted to put to break Will's nose, and then kiss at back whole. It was Will who had destroyed Nico. It was Will who made Nico be. God, Nico was such a mess.

Will was almost three metres away from Nico when, Nico abruptly got up and stormed into the waves together with the crew of the Argo II. He wasn't really thinking as he dived into wave Percy had just conjured. Piper, Jason and Hazel whooped loudly. "Go Nico!"
Slightly liking the positive attention for a change, he dove into another wave. He resurfaced and saw Piper and Annabeth pushing under their boyfriends. Annabeth, however, was pulled under by Percy and stayed there for quite some time. Piper was looking at her best friend lovingly, as only best friends can and then flung her arms around Jason and jumped on his back.

Surprised and taken aback Jason stumbled a little, steadied himself and stormed forward, out of the waves, past Nico, onto shore. There Jason finally stumbled and fell over, almost dropping Piper, who was still hollering words like, "Yeah!" and "Woo!" and "Jason! Slower! Slower!"
He caught her however, and fell on his back in the process, collapsing Piper on top of him. The two stayed there for a little, until Jason reached forward and put a strand of her hair behind her ear and kept his hand there. She smiled at her, and Nico couldn't see put her eyes shone with mischief once again, she bowed forward as did Jason and they kissed, once again.

Nico quickly looked away and as he did, Percy's goofy grin came in view over the water, and as his eyes locked with Nico's that grin spread into a big smirk. He lifted his left hand a little bit and then as Nico glanced sideways he saw the wave forming, "No, Percy, don't-" too late, the wave had engulfed Nico wholly.

As he gasped for when he resurfaced he heard the bright rich laughter of Perseus Jackson, and he couldn't help but sneer at the boy as he charged ahead, briefly locking eyes with Hazel who had swam closer to Percy and no stood behind. The children of Hades tackled the son of the sea god, and made him gasp for air. Percy resurfaced gasping for breath and choking on salt water. Hazel and Nico stumbled back onto the shore laughing.

Nico however stumbled back, onto someone. The person shrieked and fell over too. Will Solace lay belly first on the sand, underneath Nico. Nico hastily got up, outstretching the hand for blonde boy, muttering and stuttering apologies but Will was laughing hard and loud, "Watch where you're going Death Boy." He got out at last.

"Don't call me that." Nico mumbled, avoiding his eyes.

Nico, with his hands in his pockets, turned his back to Apollo's son and walked back into the water, he couldn't stand looking at Will. It seemed to drain him of all his energy. All his confidence. He felt the pressure of Will Solace too much. It was too much. He should've just stayed away from the sparring ring that day. Should've stayed in bed.

With a surge of adrenaline he leaped forward into another wave. Being enveloped and swallowed whole by the water. The salt burned his eyes and tongue. The water made everything above surface seem unimportant. Perhaps it was.

Suddenly Nico felt a hand clamp around his forearm and yank him up, out of the water. Will Solace's face shone down on him. His blonde curls highlighted and accentuated by the sun and droplets of water in them. Will's tall, muscular body towered over Nico. Nico wanted to slap Will for making him feel so vulnerable.

"I'm done Nico." Will stated. Nico looked up questioningly. "I'm sick and tired of these almosts, of these maybes."
"Maybes?" Nico asked, dumbfounded about the blonde's sudden anger. "It's been weeks Nico! Weeks! And were still playing the same tedious game, well I'm done. Done. So what is it?"

Nico looked at the water around them and his friends around him. He was beginning to catch on to what Will meant. He was getting a bit tired too. He then did something impulsive, something absolutely insane: he slapped Will Solace.
Pulling back his stinging palm he looked at the redness of his palm. Then Will's cheek. Will looked down with a shocked expression, he was starting to back away, when Nico outstretched his hand again and cupped Will's cheek this time. Will's eyebrows shot up into his hairline.

Nico had no idea what he was doing, but it felt right so he started stroking Will's cheek with his thumb in soft, soothing strokes. Will's eyes were bulging now. "Nico?-what?-" Will stuttered, flabbergasted at Nico's actions. Nico just shook his head in reply and drew out a long breath.

Whatever he was doing appeared to make Apollo's son near him and it was that seemed like something good. Something worth. So, Nico rose onto his toes, bringing his eyes mere centimetres away from Will's. So blue. So unfairly blue. Someone had probably took the sky's color and painted it Will's eyes.

That was when Nico realized what he was doing. What was he doing? Nico fell back onto his feet making the water around splash and spatter the boy's skin, this lured Nico out of his slumber? And made him step away putting metres between him and Will.

Will rolled his eyes, he appeared to have snapped out of it too and now looked way more like Will not like whatever had been swimming in those beautiful blue eyes-where had that come from?

"Nico," Will began and because Nico felt jittery and weird he met those blue, blue eyes. "I-ugh-damn it all to hell." Apollo's son said before stepping forward leaning down to meet the raven haired boy's lips. And they kissed. And they kissed. And Nico had never kissed before but something told him to put his hand in Will's hair and the other on Will's shoulder. Nico pulled away then, when the smell and taste of Will became too real, and he realized that they were being watched. He slowly put a few centimetres between himself and Will, he turned a sluggish circle, taking in Frank and Leo and Percy and Travis's stunned expressions. Annabeth, Piper, Hazel, Jason, Katie and Calypso however stood passing smug and satisfied glances amongst each other.

Will tucked at Nico's hair waiting for Nico to turn and face him again, when he did, Will smiled, sheepishly, at Hades's son. Nico just looked and stared and Will, with not any real expression, he just looked. And suddenly color rose to Nico's cheeks; Nico was blushing furiously.

Will smiled down at him, because Nico had decided and chosen to end their arguments-with a kiss. Will leant down and kissed the tip of Nico's nose. Then his jaw, then the corner of his mouth. He felt Nico smile, a little then. Which made Will smirk. Nico found that-disturbingly-Will's smirk tasted pretty good.

Gods, he felt like a petty schoolgirl, and perhaps it was because of that or the fact that Nico stilled felt jittery and electric, but Nico rose to his toes again and kissed Will. Again. And again.

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