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  Rating:
      Explicit
  Archive Warning:
      Underage
  Category:
      M/M
  Fandom:
      Percy_Jackson_and_the_Olympians_-_Rick_Riordan, Percy_Jackson_and_the
      Olympians_&_Related_Fandoms_-_All_Media_Types, The_Heroes_of_Olympus_-
      Rick_Riordan
  Relationship:
      Nico_di_Angelo/Percy_Jackson, Annabeth_Chase/Percy_Jackson
  Character:
      Nico_di_Angelo, Percy_Jackson, Annabeth_Chase, Reyna_Avila_Ramírez-
      Arellano, Jason_Grace, Piper_McLean, Leo_Valdez, Hazel_Levesque, Frank
      Zhang
  Additional Tags:
      Set_after_BoO'S_events, Smut, Angst_with_a_Happy_Ending, Drinking, Spin
      the_Bottle
  Stats:
      Published: 2018-02-08 Words: 9019
****** Don't Play Spin the Bottle if you're Sober ******
by Fede_Green
Summary
     Percy is facing some problems with his sexuality, fact that puts his
     and Annabeth's relationship at risk.
     Percy's birthday approaches anyway, and Leo decides it could be a
     good idea to get drunk and play Spin the Bottle at his birthday
     party.
     Except it isn't a good idea. And Nico agrees.
Notes
     Hellooooooooooooooooooooooooo[...]ooo everybody! Long time no see,
     uh?
     I'm cheating, btw: this story is not new. I deleted it some time ago
     (it was first published back in 2016), but someone actually liked it
     and ???? wow??? ok??? I am posting it again for them!
     Warnings:
     - English is not my first language. Yada yada.
     - Smut in da house. I'm not even sorry.
     - Originally made of two chapters; made more sense to post as one.
     Enjoy! :)
See the end of the work for more notes
“That's the worst idea I've ever had so far.”
Jason laughed at Leo's words. The boys were carrying cases of beer around camp,
under the exasperated gazes that Chiron and other older campers were giving
them.
Some rules had changed after the last war against the Giants and Gaea at Camp
Half-Blood. Demigods could hang wherever they wanted in cabins which weren't
theirs and, with a special permission from Chiron, they could even violate
curfew - to celebrate a birthday, for example. Campers felt like they didn't
want to waste anymore time with stupid antic rules. They were demigods after
all, and they had to enjoy every single moment the fate offered them. In just a
second they could have been gloriously dead on the ground. It was pretty
paradoxical that a war had to remind them that fact.
“It wasn't necessary to buy all this beer, Leo. Seriously.”
Leo glanced at Jason, an offended expression on his face. He stopped walking in
the middle of the pathway to put a hand on his chest, letting go of his barrow.
Jason stopped as well, a raised eyebrow.
“What now? Did you forget to order some new livers for everyone?”
“You're hurting me. And you're hurting the beers' feelings. Shut the fuck up.”
Jason rolled his eyes and sighed fondly at his over-dramatical friend. They
resumed their walking in hush. The blond guy cleared his throat after a couple
of minutes.
“How's Calypso? Is she still having troubles for, like, violating her eternal
godly punishment?”
Leo snorted and nodded slowly, feeling sad about it. “Yeah... I'm sorry to say
that, especially to you, but your dad is being a complete asshole. She's on
Olympus right now. There's a trial going on.”
“I'll be careful saying that. He could strike you to death on the spot.”
“Whatever, I'm depressed Jay. Without her... I don't know. That's why we have
to get drunk tomorrow, you see?”
Leo winked at him. He was trying his best to look humorous and happy as usual.
The truth was that it had passed a year now since the war had ended, and he
couldn't help but feeling worried for basically everything. Finding out he was
a demigod - and being part of a terrific Great Prophecy that had predicted his
death - had stressed him out just a little.
Jason smiled with sympathy and nodded. He didn't want to rub salt into a wound,
so he decided to avoid any other question about Calypso. When they both walked
next to the strawberries field and the sweet smell reached their noses, Leo
regained a bit of hope. He grinned openly.
“It's gonna be the greatest party ever. Better than the one we threw for your
birthday last month.”
“Impossible.”
“You'll see with your own eyes.”
“I feel jealous.”
The Latino laughed and turned to look at his friend, who was faking a sad
expression and shaking his head in disbelief. “Percy needs it more than you.
He's basically breaking up with his girlfriend. And tomorrow it's his birthday.
Show some pity, Sparky.”
Jason rolled his eyes in exasperation. “He's not. Stop saying that!”
Leo murmured something that sounded like a sceptical “whatever”, and they
reached Percy's cabin. The boys were finally free to let their borrows on the
ground to climb Poseidon's Cabin patio stairs. Jason knocked on the door three
times. They heard a few weird noises coming for the inside and a clashing sound
of a sword falling on the floor. Leo gazed at Jason with a raised eyebrow.
“Is he sword fighting with himself?”
Jason shrugged. “Maybe it's a fetish.”
Leo smirked. After some instants, the door slammed open. A dishevelled Percy
appeared in front of them. His eyes were red and swollen. He looked like shit.
“You look like shit, Perce.” Leo frowned.
“Thank you very much. What do you want?”
Jason cleared his throat in embarrassment. He was feeling amiss. “Are you
fine?”
“The sky is blue, sun is shining bright in the sky, the lake is beautiful and
grass is green. I'm perfectly fine. The fuck do you want?!”
The blond boy frowned, a concerned expression on his face. Percy was so far
from being perfectly fine. He never adopted that kind of behaviour with them.
It was unusual for him to be so aggressive. Leo limited himself to raise an
eyebrow, letting his friend speak.
“Did you argue with Annabeth?”
At the girl's name Percy winced almost imperceptibly. He coughed to hide his
reaction, though he sniffed seconds later, revealing his actual crappy mood.
“Ehm... yeah, probably, I don't know. I'm not sure anymore. It's daily routine.
Guys, what do you want?”
Leo took charge of the situation and tried to make things look normal. It was
obvious that their friend didn't want to talk about it. “Since tomorrow is your
birthday and, as you know, we're gonna throw the greatest party ever existed-”
“Ah, it's good you're mentioning that. Cancel it. I don't want any party.”
“- the greatest party ever existed, as I was saying. We brought you the beers.
Keep them fresh, all right?”
“Leo, are you deaf?”
“You could preserve them in the sea, like people do when they go to the beach.
You know, with you being Poseidon's son and all that stuff. Must be easy. But
please feel free to use a refrigerator if you want.”
“Leo.”
“They're over there, near the stairs. Don't forget them.”
Percy was ready to rebut, but Leo was quicker than him and waved goodbye to the
boys. He disappeared from the patio, literally running in the opposite
direction. Jason smiled when Percy looked at him like he was going to explode.
“Ah... you know how's Leo. Okay. The party starts at 9 pm. Reyna is coming too,
we convinced her. Frank convinced her, anyway. There's Rachel, the seven of us
and Nico. All right?”
Percy suddenly seemed to be a little worried without any reason. Jason wondered
what his argument with Annabeth had been about. Since they kept fighting
basically for everything, it was difficult to say. The sea-green eyed boy took
a deep – shaky - breath, distracting Jason from his thoughts.
“Reyna's coming?” There was the ghost of a smile on his face. “Good. And... and
Nico?”
Jason didn't answer immediately, frowning for instinct. Percy's tone of voice
had become... careful. He inhaled calmly and decided to keep his impression for
himself. Something was weird with the way Percy had asked him. He wanted to
talk about it with Piper in a second moment.
“Yeah, of course. It was essential to have Reyna coming in order to have Nico
as well.” He chuckled a little, trying to dissipate his uneasiness.
Percy mirrored the gesture, smiling back at him and nodding. “Yeah I know... we
all know Nico. He's...” The boy made a pause, making Jason frowning a second
time. “He's restrained.”
Jason cleared his throat. He was feeling unreasonably confused. There was
something he was missing about the way Percy kept embarrassing himself in front
of him. He wouldn't have bet on it, but the son of Poseidon was slightly
blushing. The blond decided to give up and stop thinking about it in that
moment.
“Okay then, Perce. See you around. I'm... I'm sorry for Ann, you know. It's
gonna be fine.”
Jason gave him a quick squeeze on a shoulder and left Percy at the door, the
beers staring at him from the distance. He sighed to himself.
“Great...”
** **
The next day the son of Jupiter was obviously staring at Nico di Angelo at the
other side of the dining area. The scrawny boy was listening to Hazel and Reyna
talking about the Gods knew what. And Piper noticed it, while she was eating
her salad with carrots next to him - another enjoyable change in the rules
being the fact that now campers could eat wherever they wanted. The girl
snorted loudly.
“I could start wearing all black and look murderous myself if you find it sexy,
Sparky.”
Jason gasped in surprise hearing his girlfriend's voice on his right side. He
had completely forgotten he was sitting at the table and having lunch with her.
His meal was probably cold now. The blond boy turned around to look at Piper
who was mockingly staring at him with a raised eyebrow.
“So? What's so interesting about Nico?”
The boy cleared his throat with guilt. “Sorry, Pip. I was brooding over a thing
and I got distracted.”
Piper's eyebrow raised even higher. “A thing? Spit it out, c'mon. Maybe I can
help. You look like you're in the clouds.”
Jason sighed a little and rubbed his eyes. “Please. You're recycling this ass
old joke since forever.”
The girl grinned mischievously. “I have no idea what you're talking about.”
“Sure.”
“Anyway. Tell me, pleeease! I'll kiss you if you do.” Piper smiled, charm
speaking to Jason not with her demigoddess power, but with her natural woman
weapons. She fluttered her eyelashes over-dramatically.
Jason chuckled and wrapped her shoulders with his muscular arm, leaning down
for a quick kiss. “I wanted to tell you anyway. Don't worry.” His girlfriend
smiled at him with affection at the revelation. “Leo and I brought the beers to
Percy's cabin yesterday. We found him devastated. He had his eyes red and... it
was so obvious, really. The fact is that the situation looked a bit weird, if
you want my opinion.”
Piper frowned in a pensive way. “What do you mean?”
“I told him Reyna and Nico were coming to his birthday party tonight, as well
as Rachel and the seven of us. Normal, isn't it? Well, he turned all blushing
and embarrassed. I said something that triggered him.”
The girl grinned for an instant. “Gods, you love gossiping so much Jay.”
“Can you please pay attention?”
“Yup. Go on.”
“Right. As I said, something triggered him. He looked anxious. And do you want
to know what I personally think about it?”
Piper chuckled even more. “Sure as shit I do.”
“Percy hates Nico.”
Jason gave her a quick nod with his head, genuinely convinced he had just
dropped the hugest truth-bomb ever. The girl held her breath for a few instants
with her eyebrow raised. Jason was a complete dork. Of course, she knew what
Percy and Annabeth had argued about – Annabeth trusted Piper enough to consider
her one of her closest friends -, but her boyfriend was an absolute
idiot. Percy hated Nico. She wanted to ask her Mother to personally slap him in
the face.
“You're not being serious, Sparky.”
Jason grinned with satisfaction. “I am extra serious.”
“Well, I'm not surprised. I'm sorry to tell you this, but you didn't get a
shit.”
The boy changed his facial expression immediately, turning from deeply proud to
deeply confused. “What?!”
Piper leaned closer. The last thing she wanted was someone to eavesdrop their
conversation. Annabeth had been deadly serious about shutting her mouth on the
subject. And with deadly, she meant deadly. But there was Jason in front of her
and she knew he wasn't going to tell anything to anyone if she asked him not
to. Her boyfriend was a loyal person as everybody knew.
“Promise you'll keep the secret, it's super important. Jay?”
Jason nodded in agreement, still looking disconcerted and lost. “Of course.”
“Percy didn't tell you anything about this? I thought you were in great
confidence.”
“We are, but...” the boy didn't know how to explain himself in the best way
possible. “But... lately he's been sad, and depressed, and a lot of other
stuff. I asked him a million times if he wanted to talk about it. He doesn't
want to.”
Piper sighed in resignation. She had to tell him herself. “Okay... It's
understandable. Well, Annabeth told me that Percy doesn't love her anymore. I
mean, not romantically. He didn't confess yet, but she's convinced he's in love
with someone else. Deeply in love, if you know what I mean. She's just
basically waiting for the day he's gonna dump her.”
Jason widened his mouth. “Shit.”
“Yeah, shit. They haven't had sex in four months.”
“... Shit!”
“And here comes the rest. Annabeth thinks Percy's actually gay. Or bisexual,
who knows?”
The son of Jupiter was beyond shattered. He looked like he had seen a ghost.
“Gay? How can she tell it completely out of the blue?! It makes no sense!”
“Jason, she's his girlfriend. And a daughter of Athena. And she's Annabeth. Why
do you ask how? She just knows.”
Jason nodded pensively. “Right. Damn. Is he cheating?!”
Piper shrugged and sighed at the same time. “She's not sure. Maybe. She accused
him many times but Percy always denied it.”
“I don't think he's a liar. It's unlike him.” Jason frowned. He was wondering
why Percy never told him.
“I believe that, too. He's not the type.”
Jason had still his mouth widened in complete surprise. He wasn't expecting
such a thing. If Percy was gay – or bisexual -, why in the name of Zeus was he
waiting to break up with Annabeth? The son of Poseidon was certainly not the
kind of person who made someone suffer just for fun. Jason expressed his doubts
to his girlfriend, who just shook his head.
“I have no idea, Jay. Plus...”
“Wasn't that everything? Oh Gods.”
The girl raised an eyebrow. “Nope. Do you remember that I thought
Percy hating Nico was stupid, just some minutes ago?”
“Yes. So what?”
Piper stared at him for a few seconds without saying a word. She then crossed
her arms on her chest and bended her head with a knowing look, like she was
waiting for realisation to hit Jason. Thing that happened exactly five seconds
later.
The boy paled. “No way.”
Piper just nodded, closing her eyes with exasperation at Jason's mental
retardation.
“No way...”
The girl leaned even forward, almost touching her boyfriend's cheek with her
nose. “You seriously didn't get it until now?” she whispered. Jason nodded.
Piper leaned against her chair's backrest again. “Oh well, you got it now.
Plus, it's not a secret that Nico has a crush on Percy. You were there, for
fuck's sake.”
Jason frowned. “It has been over a year ago now! Nico told him he didn't like
him anymore. Percy, Leo and I laughed for months about it!”
Piper raised both her eyebrows with scepticism. “And now we know why Percy
didn't tell you anything.”
“... Oh. Shit.”
Jason felt extremely stupid.
** **
“He's staring at me.”
Reyna gasped and let go of her spear, which fell on the grass without any
noise. It was mid-afternoon and the temperature at Camp was insanely high. The
girl had to concentrate to her maximum if she wanted to train properly, and
that meant shutting the real world around her off. So Nico's voice got her
completely by surprise, making her startle.
“What?” she asked in order to know what Nico was talking about.
“Percy. He keeps doing it and I want to kill him so bad.”
The boy had his arms crossed on his chest, pretending to hang with the praetor
and casually staring at the grass under his feet and then at Percy every twenty
seconds. Very casually. Reyna sighed and bended down to grab her spear.
“Oh. You're talking about Percy. Again.” She twirled the spear, filling the
gesture with her whole exasperation for the boy, and then she threw it against
the target a few metres from where she stood. The spear hit it in the exact
centre and Reyna smirked dryly like she did expect that to happen. Well, as
always. “What is he doing exactly?”
Nico didn't even notice his friend could have hypothetically killed everyone
within 20 metres on the spot with her weapon. He was used to it. He just
limited himself to reduce his eyes to a thin line, a murderous look on his
face. There were reasons if the two were best friends, after all.
“Staring.”
Reyna followed Nico's gaze to Percy's direction, a few metres from where they
were standing, and she looked at the boy while he was laughing and giggling
with some Hermes' kid. The two hugged and then Percy waved him goodbye. Since
it was his birthday, Reyna assumed the kid had given him his best wishes.
“... Yeah, he's obviously staring.”
Nico snorted loudly. “I know.”
The girl studied her friend's facial expression, pondering whether asking him
what she wanted to ask or not. They had a lot of things in common, one of them
being “treading carefully” types. Eventually she opted for a yes. The boy
needed to talk to someone and she knew he didn't. Never. To anyone.
“Did you talk about what happened between you? Two days ago, or something?”
Nico sighed heavily again, playing with the grass with his foot. “No.”
“He almost kissed you, Nico. In the stables. You two have to talk. Do you
realise that?”
“Precisely. Almost. And now he's staring.”
Reyna looked at Percy again. He was sword playing against Jason with intense
concentration, on the opposite side of the arena. The blond boy was giving him
a hard time and she couldn't help but feeling proud of it. Over half the moves
Jason was using were techniques she had taught him personally. The girl turned
her gaze to Nico again, a raised eyebrow.
“Nico, he is not staring. And you know it.”
The boy began beating his foot on the ground, being over exasperated. “Okay. I
know. Gods, I have no idea what am I supposed to do. Miseria*.”
“Don't you dare swearing in Italian. You know it's incomprehensible to me.”
The scrawny boy shrugged. “Sorry. But tonight we have to go to his fucking
birthday party 'cause you said yes, and now I'm trapped into this fucking
situation that is driving me fucking crazy.”
Reyna popped her tongue with amusement. Or it could have been amusement, Nico
couldn't tell properly. “First of all, you're not five years old. I'm not your
mom. You can do whatever you want. Second of all, maybe it was better when you
were swearing in Italian. At least I wasn't able to get it.”
“Maybe we could blow off.”
“Did you understand what I said?! We don't do things in pair.” Reyna put her
hands on her hips with a disappointed frown on her face.
Nico scratched his head and sighed. “Va bene*. But tonight you better remember
that I didn't want to come.”
“... That's how you understood what I said. Great. Listen, do me a favour. Go
get my spear so I can relax thirty seconds without listening to you whining all
the time.”
The boy showed her his middle finger. “No. I've got things to do. I'm leaving
the arena now.”
“Even better.”
“And don't forget the damn present we bought.”
Reyna rolled her eyes and grinned fondly, watching her best friend leave the
field. “That I bought...”
** **
Percy opened his cabin's door and found Jason and Piper, hand in hand, smiling
at him. The girl immediately handed him a tiny blue bag: a present.
“Happy Birthdaaaay! For you!”
The boy took it and blushed a little. “Thanks... guys, I said no presents.”
“Screw that. A birthday party without presents sucks.” Jason said. The girl
nodded in agreement and widely smiled.
“I know we're a bit late. That's Jason's fault.”
Percy chuckled and let them in. Jason noticed that everyone was already there,
except for Rachel, and suddenly he remembered what he had to tell to Percy.
“Oh, right. Rachel is not coming. She's feeling sick. But she sends you her
best wishes.”
The son of Poseidon just nodded and closed the door. “Okay... ehm, help
yourself. Leo robbed a grocery shop, I think. We have thirteen different types
of chips. Thirteen. So please, eat.”
Piper laughed and then reached for Annabeth and Hazel, who were chatting on the
couch with a drink in their hands. Leo was modelling some weird kind of beer
machine, nobody could tell exactly. Reyna and Frank were seriously talking
about some serious shit and Nico was just standing against a wall behind them,
listening to their conversation and seeming a bit out of context.
Everything was as usual.
Jason cleared his throat in embarrassment. “So, nice party. Just wait for Leo
to announce we're going to play some dumb drinking game and it'll become even
nicer.”
Percy nodded with a smile which faded some instants later. It was his birthday,
but it didn't seem like it. The son of Jupiter frowned in concern. He didn't
want Percy to feel sad and out of place during his own birthday party. Putting
a hand on his shoulder, he leaned closer, gaining his friend's attention.
“Percy, are you fine? You can talk to me. Please” he whispered.
The sea-green eyed boy stared at him for a while, his mouth half-opened as if
he wanted to talk but some kind of external force wasn't letting him. His eyes
were wandering from Jason's face to a non-defined spot behind him. Probably
Annabeth. He shook his head softly after a moment, almost imperceptibly, and
the blond boy was sure he saw his eyes getting wet. Percy sniffed a bit and
tried to pull himself together. “I'm not fine. But that's not the place nor the
time. I'll... I'll talk to you, okay? Just not now.”
Jason rubbed his shoulder fondly and nodded. He didn't felt relieved, but at
least Percy had grown the balls to tell him he wasn't feeling good. That was
progress after all. “All right. I won't forget it, okay? If you don't talk to
me I'm killing you.”
Percy chuckled to try and dissipate his uneasiness. “Thanks.”
Jason limited himself to give him a long stare that said 'you're not alone'.
** **
“Spiiiin the bottle!”
“Leo, for the millionth time, no.”
“C'mooooon Pipes! You're boring!”
Piper rolled her eyes with exasperation. “You're drunk off your ass, we're not
playing that stupid game. We're almost all couples here. Stop this.” The girl
looked around the room looking for someone's support.
“It's not that bad as an idea. Truth or dare is worse anyway.” Hazel raised her
glass to highlight her point. A gesture that was completely useless since it
made no sense. Tipsiness was getting over her.
Leo clapped his hands with happiness and stood up from the couch, asking for
the attention of everyone. “All right. We'll sit in a circle and that's the
only rule. Oh wait, another rule is tongue. A lot of tongue. Every time. Clear?
Anyone can kiss anyone, no cheats or no fun. Okay?! Sit down on the carpet!”
Almost everyone sighed, but they did as they were told anyway. Nico was the
only one looking slightly concerned. In fact, he was really close to panicking.
“I'm out, so you're four girls and four boys.”
Jason frowned with disappointment and pointed at the floor with his index
finger. “Lean your scrawny ass on the damn carpet or I'll stab you to death.
We're all in this together. C'mon.”
“But-”
“Now.”
Nico was about to protest, but Reyna grabbed his wrist and pulled him down. The
boy had no other choice but to agree to that stupid social torture that Spin
the bottle represented for him. He was sure the one who invented it was burning
in hell. Nico took a mental note to go and check. If the bastard wasn't burning
for the eternity, the son of Hades was going to make sure he would have from
now on. Reyna gave him a reassuring look as he sat down on the carpet with
uneasiness, bringing his legs against his stomach and wrapping his arms around
his ankles.
Leo was over the top happy. The beers he drank were contently running in his
nervous system, making him more annoying than usual. And since it was Leo they
had to deal with, it was a big problem for everyone. In fact, he began
literally screaming.
“I staaart! Who is drawn by me spins the bottle afterwards.”
Piper chuckled at Leo's amusement, but the majority of the people just tensed
with anticipation. The Latino boy grabbed the empty glass bottle and made it
spin. The object slowly began decelerating until the cork came face to face
with Frank.
The Asian-Canadian stiffened on the spot. “Hell no.”
Hazel laughed her ass off, followed by almost everyone, and then she patted
heavily on her boyfriend's shoulder. “C'mon big praetor, show us some balls!”
Reyna frowned at the nickname. She felt being summonsed for an instant, then
she realised she wasn't and chuckled a bit. Frank limited himself to sigh and
he spun the bottle, fearing the consequences of the gesture. In fact, after
some seconds the devil object was pointing directly at Jason.
Frank stiffened again. “Hell fucking no.”
Everyone burst out laughing, ignoring Frank and Jason's worried expressions.
Leo was basically dying from laughter. “I love this game, you have no idea!”
Jason cleared his throat. “All right then. The quickest, the easiest.”
The boys approached and after some seconds they had their faces a few
millilitres from each other. None of them seemed to want to lean forward in the
first place.
Leo snorted. “Sooo?”
After a few instants Frank and Jason reluctantly kissed, much to everyone's
amusement. When they parted with a wet noise, Piper was laying on the floor and
winked at the Canadian. “See you later, babe.”
Some chuckled, some others just smiled. Jason grabbed the bottle and cleared
his throat again with embarrassment. “Okay, let's go on.”
The game kept going for almost half an hour. Basically everyone had the
opportunity to kiss someone else. It had been definitely not okay when Hazel
had been drawn after Nico, but Leo agreed on a little rule-change for them.
Jason had to kiss Frank another time, making Piper almost pass out from
giggling. When it came to Leo and Annabeth, the mood was insanely over the top.
Everyone was laughing at that point.
“Okay, okay! Shut the fuck up everyone. My turn.”
Leo grabbed the bottle and made it spin. The object pointed at Percy, who had
kissed Hazel just three turns earlier.
“Oh please, not again.” He made the bottle spin, anyway. The son of Poseidon
had a feeling it wasn't going to be okay. It was something that happened to
demigods: they could smell fear and danger within kilometres.
Nico, on the other side of the circle, was feeling the same way. He began cold
sweating and praying in his head like students do before an oral test they
haven't studied for. Please, no. No no no. No. Don't look, don't look.
Leo screamed with joy. “Niiiiiiiiico!”
The scrawny boy closed his eyes and held his breath. He felt Hazel giggling
next to him. When he opened his eyes he quickly gazed at Reyna, who had the
creepiest neutral expression he had ever seen on her.
Percy tried to chuckle – and failed miserably. There were people certainly
oblivious to the situation in the room, but Piper and Jason were glancing at
each other with deep worry. The girl briefly turned to look at Annabeth. The
daughter of Athena looked sick, like she was going to throw up.
“C'mon, c'mon c'mon! Now kiss, I'm getting old!” Leo incited them.
“Ehm, Leo... I think I'll go to bed, I don't know. I'm a bit-” Nico began.
He got interrupted by Leo's killing stare. “No way. I broke the rules for you
once, I'll never do it again. You can leave after you kiss our Seaweed Brain
over there.” He pointed at Percy, who was staring at the floor like a frozen
statue.
“But it was for Hazel! She's my sister, for fuck's sake!”
“I don't give a shit.”
Piper tried to get in the conversation and laughed forcefully. “Leo don't be so
strict, he's-”
“I. Don't. Give. A. Shit.”
The girl frowned and leaned forward to teasingly push Leo on a shoulder. “C'mon
Herr Kommandant, stop this Third Reich going on there!”
“It's all right.”
Everyone turned towards Nico who had just spoken. He coughed quickly. “Okay,
I'll do it. Don't argue for this.”
The son of Hades glanced at Percy. The boy was staring at him, a question in
his eyes. He then nodded at Nico's direction, trying to make things look
normal, and smiled. “Right! It's just a kiss.”
Leo nodded solemnly and raised his bottle of beer towards him. “Words of
wisdom!”
The boys approached in the middle of the circle on their knees. All eyes where
on them, some were amused, others were worried. Percy felt Nico's breath on his
skin and began panting imperceptibly. Only the scrawny boy noticed it. He
swallowed hard and put a hand behind Nico's neck, who licked his lips with
anxiety. The older boy leaned forward and after a long, heavy and stressful
instant he closed his eyes, pressing their lips together. Nico closed his eyes
too. The feeling of Percy's soft lips against his own was overwhelming. When
the son of Poseidon sneaked his tongue inside of his mouth, Nico instinctively
grabbed his waist with both hands. Percy leaned closer until their chests were
rubbing against each other.
In exactly two seconds, the kiss turned into something passionate and needy.
The older boy was heatedly licking inside Nico's mouth everywhere he could
reach. Nico on the other side grabbed the t-shirt tighter around Percy's waist,
who was using his hands to turn the boy's face in a different angle in order to
kiss him deeper. They were provoking unequivocal wet noises in what soon
transformed into an obvious making out session.
Leo began chuckling and took a sip of his beer, too much drunk to understand
the situation was getting out of hand. Jason stared at them with his mouth
widened in disbelief until he felt Piper poking his arm with urgent need. He
suddenly turned around and followed her gaze towards Annabeth. The girl was
a ghost. For a moment, Jason genuinely thought her soul had left her body. She
was pale and with a vacuous expression that was scaring him. The son of Jupiter
wondered if she was drunk or just livid.
Suddenly everyone went silent and serious. Even Leo seemed to have finally
noticed something was going horribly wrong with that kiss. Was it almost an
entire minute now? Could have it been possible? Jason shook his shoulder and
the Latino boy confusedly looked at him.
“Do something!” he whispered with urgency, pointing at Percy and Nico with his
head. “Leo! That's your stupid game!”
Leo immediately nodded and raised his hands in the air. “Okay!” he shouted.
“Now I think we can play at something else, everyone agrees?”
Percy froze on the spot and opened his eyes when he realised what he was doing.
Nico seemed to be in the same condition because he pushed the boy away with
both his hands. They looked at each other for an instant in which nobody knew
what to do. The situation was slightly difficult.
Annabeth thought it was the right moment to stand up and rapidly leave the
room, opening Percy's cabin ingress without any grace. The door slammed against
the wall, bouncing against it a couple of times before resting half-opened.
Piper gasped at the loud noise and stood up for instinct, just to glance at
Percy quickly following her outside the cabin. The boy grabbed the door's
handle and slammed the door closed again. He didn't want to put on a show for
his friends.
Nico was still standing in the middle of the circle on his knees, the shock on
his face clearly visible. Reyna grabbed his wrist a second time that night and
pushed him down on the carpet until the boy sat next to her. The low sound of
music coming from Percy's stereo was the only audible noise in the room.
“I think we have to leave.”
Everyone turned around to look at Frank who had just spoken. They were all
ready to stand up, but Annabeth's voice from the outside made them froze again.
She was literally screaming.
“Of course you don't know, Percy! You're an asshole, fuck you! And please don't
you dare ever tell me you didn't know! Oh Gods, we're fucking done. Done!”
“Annabeth, I'm telling you the truth! I didn't-”
“You're a piece of shit!”
At Annabeth's sob, Nico stood up with panic. Without any warning he shadow
travelled to the Gods knew where. Reyna and Piper looked at each other with
worry, but their friends' voices from the outside distracted them again.
“You could at least try to look sorry, Percy!”
“I am sorry! I didn't want to hurt you, Wise Girl, I'm serious. I don't-”
“You owe me honesty, Percy! You owe me that! Did you cheat on me?!”
Leo silently gasped and met Jason's gaze.
“For fuck's sake, NO!”
Suddenly everything went silent again. The only audible noises, a part from the
music, were Annabeth's sobs. Piper was sure she had heard Percy crying, too.
The two had stopped screaming at each other, because now from inside the cabin
they could only hear a muffled talk.
The gang on Percy's carpet silently waited for an incalculable amount of
minutes. The son of Poseidon reappeared after what seemed to have been hours.
His eyes were red and swollen like Jason had found them the morning before.
Everyone stood up awkwardly, having absolutely no idea of what to do. Percy
gazed at all of them and sighed heavily and shakily.
“We broke up. So...” he sniffed.
Jason approached him and just hugged him. Everyone went to the door, murmuring
they were sorry. It seemed something extremely out of place in that moment, but
the only thing they could have said. Piper stroked Jason's back and quickly
smiled at him with compassion, closing the door behind her. Percy was in good
hands.
The son of Poseidon began openly crying and grabbed Jason's t-shirt on his
friend's back. His head was hidden between Jason's neck and collarbone.
The blond boy sighed heavily. It was going to be a long night.
** **
A couple of weeks passed with no one having any kind of idea of where Nico di
Angelo was. Reyna had received an Iris Message a few days earlier from the boy
in which he announced that he was alive and not to worry. The praetor didn't
insist on asking how he was and where he was. She knew it was a useless
attempt.
So, when the son of Hades reappeared in the dining area one random morning at
breakfast, Hazel almost jumped on her seat to reach him.
“Nico! Where the hell have you been?! I was sick worried!”
The boy sighed and gazed around him, checking who was attending breakfast and
who wasn't, with the fear to find Annabeth. He looked at his sister again
eventually. “You just said it. In Hell.”
Hazel rolled her eyes with exasperation. “Obviously. How's dad?”
“Same old. Cold and creepy.”
The girl grinned knowingly. “Sounds familiar.”
The two looked at each other for a few instants. They both didn't know what to
say. When Hazel cleared her throat, her brother went serious. He knew what she
was going to talk about.
“Nico... there's Percy looking for you. He's going insane. We prohibited him to
leave camp in order to find you. Jason wanted to tie him on a chair.”
Nico gasped in surprise and put both his hands on his head. He wasn't being
over dramatic. He was just Italian. “He wanted to leave camp for me?! Is
he crazy?”
Hazel frowned to herself staring at the ground, momentarily forgetting that she
was talking to her brother. “Got me looking so crazy in love... oh oh, oh oh.*”
“HAZEL!”
The girl winced and turned again to look at Nico. “Sorry! You know, my
flashbacks. It happens.”
The son of Hades sceptically raised an eyebrow at her, but he chuckled
eventually. He couldn't help but madly loving his sister. “Sure. Flashbacks.”
He rubbed his eyes with tiredness. “Can you tell me where Percy is?”
“Right next you.”
The siblings suddenly gasped and both turned around to face the son of
Poseidon, who was standing a couple of metres from where they stood with his
arms crossed on his chest. He looked dangerous and powerful, like an invisible
aura of greatness was all around him. The spitting image of his father. Hazel
limited herself to wave goodbye at him and she disappeared at the Ares' table,
a bit frightened. Nico opened his mouth to speak but Percy interrupted him
before he could have even begun.
“Do you have any fucking idea of how worried I was? Do you think I screwed my
whole relationship with Annabeth just for fun? I wanted to talk to you. But I
couldn't find you. I thought you were dead, or wounded, or whatever else. Don't
you fucking dare disappearing like that ever again. I can become extremely
dangerous when people I love are involved. You know that.”
Nico looked away from the grass at his feet to seriously stare at Percy in
front of him. He began getting angry. The frustration he had accumulated during
the past weeks – and months, and years – was struggling to finally explode from
his chest. He took a deep breath.
“Are we asking the big questions, then?! Great. Perché cazzo- I mean, why the
fuck have you tip-toed around the subject for weeks? Why didn't you tell
Annabeth in the first place?! If we're discussing about assholes who
don't talk, you're involved too. It's been months since Ann noticed something
was wrong with you and me. Do you think she's stupid, or-”
“You know nothing about my relationship with Annabeth!”
“I'm all ears! I'm not fine just because I was “the other one”, the third wheel
between the two of you. I have feelings anyway! You drove me crazy!”
Percy was ready to protest, but he suddenly held his breath without saying a
word. He frowned, still panting a little for the argument they had started. The
boy ironically smiled and grabbed an empty chair in order to sit down. He took
a deep breath, calming himself down.
“... There's nothing I did right, this time. Isn't it?”
Nico looked at him for a moment. He was sorry he had shouted at him, but he had
genuinely thought it was the only way to make Percy listen. He grabbed a chair
himself, sitting next to the older boy after some seconds of hesitation. He
sighed. “Let's start this again.”
The son of Poseidon rubbed his forehead. “Yeah. I was too aggressive. I'm
sorry.” The younger boy just nodded, letting him understand he could have kept
talking. “Annabeth is still mad at me... well, at least she doesn't act like I
don't exist. But she said... she said she'll get over it. That me and you
can.... we can... you know.”
“No, I don't know.”
Percy snorted exasperatedly. “Damn Nico, you could help me in this!”
The younger boy limited himself to smile at him knowingly. His eyes were darker
than usual and the son of Poseidon felt like he was looking directly at his
soul. He couldn't help but find him extremely beautiful and scary at the same
time.
“She said... we can be together without her killing us. Not that she gave us
permission. Let me be clear. We can do whatever the hell we want, but... well
all right, she gave us permission.”
Nico slightly chuckled while he leaned forward. “This makes me feel better.
Annabeth could kill us.”
Percy stared at Nico's lips for a moment before looking at him in the eyes
again. “Oh. I know that” he whispered. He leaned forward until he felt the son
of Hades' breath on his lips as an exact replica of what had happened just a
couple of weeks earlier at his birthday party. Nico closed his eyes in
anticipation and finally Percy kissed him softly, putting both his hands around
the boy's neck. They made out for some incalculable minutes, the world around
them disappearing. Nico was moaning between the wet kisses and the son of
Poseidon didn't look like he wanted to give him rest. In fact, he was devouring
his mouth like his life depended on it, sucking his tongue sinfully and making
Nico moan even louder. They didn't notice that someone was staring at them with
a raised eyebrow and arms crossed on the chest. Said someone cleared her throat
loudly.
The boys gasped, breaking the kiss with a wet noise and looking at the girl
behind them. It was Reyna in all her glory. Her spear was stuck in the ground
and it was shining bright under the light of the sun. Her purple toga looked
like the sun itself with its filaments of Imperial Gold running through it. If
there was someone that looked scarier than Annabeth Chase, that person was
Reyna Avila Ramìrez -Arellano. The look she had on her face wasn't announcing
anything good.
“Di Angelo. You've honoured us with your presence.”
Percy opened his mouth to talk to her and defend Nico, but Reyna interrupted
him by raising a hand at his face. She didn't even took her eyes off the son of
Hades in the process.
“You piece of shit. You know the Legion is leaving today, right?”
Nico grinned mischievously. “I kinda forgot about it.”
The two intensely stared at each other for some instants and the son of Hades
suddenly got up from his chair. Reyna's facial expression went from deadly
serious to openly happy. She welcomed Nico in her arms, giving him a tight and
fond hug. Everything happened under Percy's disconcerted gaze.
Those two were weird.
** **
“I think I'll take a gap year.”
“Percy. Drop it. You're going to college on Monday.”
“I'm just in time! I don't give a shit about Marine Biology.”
Nico glanced at him sarcastically from where he was standing. The two had been
together for almost two months now. “Deeply believable coming from you.”
The son of Poseidon snorted loudly and leaned against his chair in the small
library of the Big House. The table in front of him was covered in sheets of
paper. “But you won't be there.”
“You do remember who I am, right? Nico di Angelo, son of Hades. Ambassador of
Pluto and King of Ghosts. Able to shadow travel wherever I want, whenever I
want to.”
Percy frowned and turned his face to look at him. “Woah. I'm dating a hotshot
and I didn't know it.”
Nico chuckled slightly while he was putting some books on a shelf in
alphabetical order. He then turned around to look at the other boy, his hands
on both his hips. “I know, right?”
The son of Poseidon wiggled two of his fingers and made him sign to come and
sit next to him. The younger boy did better: he approached Percy and sat
directly on his lap on the chair, straddling him. He wrapped the boy's neck
with his arms and smiled at him. Percy was mockingly grinning.
“What are you planning to do exactly? In front of the books. Bad boy.”
Nico laughed loudly and then he leaned down to kiss him softly and sweetly.
Percy began stroking his thighs around his waist and he moaned low in his
throat. He broke the kiss to speak. “We better stop doing this or we'll end up
being in big troubles.”
The younger boy leaned even closer. “Coherent, since you're a well known
troublemaker. Am I right?”
Percy mischievously smirked and sneaked one of his hands under Nico's t-shirt.
“You're damn right.”
They kissed again, but there was nothing chaste about it anymore.
FINE 1st part


* Miseria = misery. In this context, it makes no sense. As usual when you
translate from Italian to English. It means something like "fuck" or "shit".
* Va bene = all right.
* Got me looking so crazy in love... oh oh, oh oh = I shouldn't tell you what
it is because HOW DARE YOU not knowing it, but it's Crazy in Love by Beyoncé. I
embraced my stupidity for a moment. It felt like a crime not doing it.


2nd PART
“Percy, stop this immediately!”
Nico bumped his head against the wall behind him and hissed in pain. Percy had
literally grabbed his wrist, dragging him between two shelves in the library of
the Big House. He was now devouring his neck and licking everywhere he could
reach on his collarbone. His hands were squeezing his ass possessively, making
Nico wince silently every time.
“No way. I don't want to waste any more time. Plus, it was you who straddled me
on that chair.” Percy huffed directly in the son of Hades' ear.
“This is not the New York Public Library, dumbass. This room is barely thirty
square metres, we're gonna get caught!”
In response the son of Poseidon began undoing his belt, smirking mischievously.
Nico raised an eyebrow at him sarcastically. “Percy. No.” At the sound of the
zip coming down, the younger boy rolled his eyes with exasperation. “For Hades'
sake, have you heard me?!”
Percy attached his lips to Nico's neck again, stroking his half-hardened dick
against his thigh. He began moaning, his hands grabbing the scrawny hips of the
boy with lust and need. “C'mon Neeks, just a quickie.”
Nico blushed furiously and leaned his hands against Percy's chest, having no
idea if pushing him away or pulling him closer. “No damn sex in this library!”
Percy raised his head from his neck to grin at him. He was still rubbing his
dick against him in a sinful way, slowly but with intense friction. In fact, in
a couple of minutes he had managed to get fully hard. “I know you're a bad
boy...” he whispered on Nico's lips.
The son of Hades was flustered and embarrassed. He didn't absolutely want to
let his boyfriend fuck him in a damn library. In a small damn library. If
someone had entered the room, they would have had a lot of things to explain.
He closed his eyes when he felt Percy kissing him with transport, always
thrusting against his thigh. The situation was getting out of hand.
“Percy! I'll shadow travel the both of us to my cabin without any warning if
you don't stop.”
“Don't you dare. I'm gonna fuck you right here.”
Nico sighed and kindly pushed his boyfriend away, without any result. The
bastard was stronger than him. Percy had his troublemaker grin always printed
on his face and his left hand sneaked inside his own briefs. He began
shamelessly jerking off in front of him.
The younger boy sighed again. “There's no way you're dropping it, right?”
Percy only licked his lips as an answer. He kept moving his hand in his boxer,
smiling mockingly at his boyfriend. When he leaned closer, the son of Poseidon
caressed Nico's head fondly with his free hand. His grip on the younger boy's
hair suddenly tightened and he began pushing him down on his knees. He wasn't
certainly being aggressive, but the look he was giving him had darkened with
lust.
Nico obediently leaned down and began feeling aroused. He secretly liked when
Percy was a bit rough with him, and he knew that his boyfriend always made sure
he was all right with what they were doing. In fact, to confirm it, Percy
quietly asked him if he was fine. Nico just nodded, slightly panting with
anticipation.
The older boy pulled his dick out from his boxers and kept slowly stroking it
from base to tip. The son of Hades kindly took it in his hands, making Percy
let go of it and leaning his palms on the wall behind them. Nico began jerking
him off and raised his look until he met his boyfriend's gaze, who was licking
in lips and observing every gesture Nico did. The older boy was growling low in
his throat, obviously enjoying the great hand job Nico was giving him. He then
put a hand on his head and grabbed his hair, making sure his boyfriend was
looking at him directly in the eyes. Percy went serious.
“Suck it.”
Nico shivered at Percy's tone of voice. It was low and warm, but firm. It meant
he wasn't going to accept any protest. So, without any objection, Nico closed
his eyes and sucked the tip of Percy's dick in his mouth. He felt the grip on
his hair tightening, followed by a long moan. The son of Poseidon took his hand
off from the wall to grab the base of his cock. He guided it deeper inside of
Nico's mouth, giving him the rhythm. The younger boy let him do what he wanted
and leaned his hands on Percy's hip.
The older boy began thrusting inside his mouth sinfully and moaning obscenely.
Nico felt his dick stroking almost in his throat, but he managed not to choke.
Percy was face fucking him with transport and had his mouth opened in a
constant silent moan.
“You suck it so good.”
Nico hummed around his cock, sending vibrations along Percy's shaft and making
him moan even louder. Percy threw his head back and screamed, letting go of the
base of his dick to put both his hands on Nico's cheeks. He used his thumbs to
tighten the passage inside the boy mouth's, so that he could feel them sliding
against his dick through the skin.
“It's so wet. I love it, babe.”
Percy thrust inside Nico's mouth for a few minutes. His pace had quickened and
the younger boy was struggling hard not to give up. He knew Percy was a slut
for receiving blow jobs, being his favourite sexual practice, so he wanted to
do it good for him. With the help of all his willpower, Nico began
deepthroating Percy's dick in the best way he could, massaging his balls in the
process. In fact, Percy completely lost his mind and made the tip of his cock
repeatedly rub directly into Nico's throat.
“How the fuck do you do this? Oh Gods... So damn good, so perfect...”
Percy moaned loudly while he stroked Nico's hair fondly. The son of Hades
really wanted to smile or thank him, but he was a little occupied at the
moment. He knew his boyfriend was about to cum. The bitter taste of his pre-cum
on his tongue was a good indication of it. Since he was feeling his jaw going
sore, he decided it could have been a good thing to made Percy finally come. He
sucked his dick all the way up from the base to the head, letting go of it with
a wet noise that made him blush. Nico swirled his tongue around the tip, while
pumping his dick in his fist. Percy groaned low and made his hands travel from
Nico's head to his shoulders in order to give him more room for his movements.
The son of Hades smirked. Percy was on a completely different planet at the
moment.
“On my face or in my throat?”
The older boy moaned at Nico's words. “Shit, in your throat.”
Nico nodded and swallowed Percy's dick again, sucking insanely hard. One of his
hands was caressing his balls, while the other was jerking him off at the base.
The older boy's hands urgently flew again at Nico's head, making him understand
he was about to come. In fact his moans and pleas were growing louder and
graceless.
“I'll cum, babe... I'm- for fuck's sake!”
Percy came deep inside Nico's throat with a scream. The younger boy didn't stop
sucking and swallowed his cum with practice. When he was sure the majority of
his boyfriend's hot seed was already down his throat, he slid his dick out from
his mouth and began licking the cum off it. With a satisfied smirk, Nico stood
up again. He used his thumb and index finger to clean the angles of his mouth
and winked at the other boy teasingly. Percy smirked back at the sight.
When the son of Poseidon managed to look presentable – meaning that he had his
dick back in his pants again -, he kissed Nico fondly, caressing his waist with
love. “Do you... you know, do you need a hand yourself?”
Nico chuckled against his lips, but then he shook his head. “No, I'm fine. I
don't feel all right doing it here.”
Percy just nodded and took the younger boy's hand in his. They went back to the
table where the son of Poseidon was just a few minutes before. The boys froze
on the spot.
Jason Grace was sitting on Percy's chair, an eyebrow dangerously raised and a
knowing smile on his face.
“Nice weather today, for being October. Isn't it?”
The son of Poseidon rolled his eyes and grabbed the chair in front of him to
sit down. Nico limited himself to blush and resumed his previous work with the
books, organising them on the shelves.
“Yeah, not bad. Seems like Zeus is in a good mood.” Percy said, wiggling his
eyebrows in a teasing way towards the son of Jupiter.
Jason smirked. “You completely forgot about the fact that we had sword practice
exactly twenty minutes ago, right?”
Percy's grin faded immediately at the realisation and he got up with urgency.
“Shit!”
“I supposed so.”
“Okay, let's go. I'm so sorry.”
Jason laughed, shaking his head mockingly. “Bro, it's fine. But now we have to
go.” He then turned around and winked at Nico. “He'll be yours again in a
couple of hours, Ghost King.”
The son of Hades blushed, but managed to smile. “Keep an eye on him. He's a
public danger.”
Percy raised his middle finger at his boyfriend and before he could have said
anything, Jason grabbed his wrist and dragged him outside the library.
Nico blew the dust off a book and then smiled, thinking about Percy.
FINE
 
End Notes
     PS. I like to think my English got a lot better than this, but I'm
     lying to myself.
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