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Camp-Half Blood
Thursday
7:12 am
There was loud knocking on the front door of the Hades Cabin. Nico put his pillow on his head while thinking ‘Who in my father's name is knocking at my door at…’ Nico moved the pillow slightly to glance at the clock that was by his bed. ‘7 in the morning’ Nico growled out loud.
“Nico! I know you are in there open the door or I’ll come in forcefully!”
‘Will Solace’ Nico thought ‘Of course its Will, how careless of him to forget.’ They only started dating a few weeks ago, and every morning since Will always comes to pick Nico up for breakfast.
“Nicos not here come back later.”
“Nico open the door!”
“No, I'm sleeping!” Nico pulled the cover over his head.
“Fine, you leave me no choice!”
Nico heard Wills footsteps leave his front door. He started to feel slightly guilty, Will was just looking out for his health. Nico would have thought Will would have been more persistent.
Nico then heard the window on the side of his cabin be jolted. Nico took off his the pillow from his head and stood up to see what was going on. As he sat up the blanket fell down to expose his naked top half to sudden cold air.
In the now open window was Will with one leg in the cabin and the other outside.
“See I told you I’ll come in one way or ANOTHer...” Will said as he fell on the floor.
“Your an idiot,” Nico quickly pulled the blanket over his head. “But I’m your idiot.” Will tried sweat taking and started to get on top of Nico's bed. “Correction a corny idiot,” Nico said from under his blanket. Will moved to the top of the bed and tried to get under the covers, “Will!” Nico shouted as he pushed Will from trying to get under the blanket, “Stop”
“Come on it cold” Will wined.
“If you close the window it wouldn’t be so cold.”
“But I wanna cuddle. It's not like we haven’t done this before.”
“NO you can't, stop.”
“Why nottttt?” Will started to pout.
“Be-because...”
“Because of whyyyyyy”
“Because I-I don't have any clothes on,” Nico said, his ears burned red.
“YOUR NAKED!!” Will blushed as he got off. (He actually fell off the bed)
“NO, I have underwear on just not… a shirt or pants” Nicos came out from under the covers but covered his body with the blanket.
“Well just go put on some clothes I’ll um…. Just stand over here not looking.” Will moved closer to the door and face the wall. His face is redder than a firetruck.
“Fine”
They were still haven’t seen each other without any clothes since they started dating. Even in the very few makeout, they had (only 2) they never took off any clothes. The closes fiscal under close body contact they had was when Will barely even put his hand under Nico's shirt for a few seconds during there 2nd make out in the woods. Wills' face continues to burn red at the thought.
Nico grumbled as he got out of bed and started to move over to a door on the other side of the cabin. While keeping an eye on Will to make sure he wasn't peaking. Nico opens the door and went in.
Will could hear footsteps in the back room and then there was a sudden bang on the wall. It sounds like someone was hitting something agents the wall over and over. “Nico, you okay in there?” No response the banging continued, Will went to the door and tried again louder this time.
“Nico? Are you okay?”
Suddenly the banking stop.
“Nico? I'm coming in!” Will was starting to get worried.
“NO, just wait….” Some movement could be heard from inside the room. Nico then shouted, “There you can come in.” Will then open the door to find Nico standing next to his washing machine and dryer wearing in a short purple robe with a flower on it, that definitely didn’t belong to him.
“What was that sound? Why are you wearing that? I thought you were going to get some clothes.”
“They're stuck,” Nico said as he moved behind the washing machine to hide his lower half.
“What’s stuck? ” Will ask in confusion as he got closer.
“My clothes there stuck in the stupid machine.”
“The washing machine?”
“No the drier,” Nico then kicked the dryer. “I put my clothes to dry last night and now it won’t open.” Will came closer, “Maybe you're opening it wrong,” Will tried to open the dryer, “How am I opening it wrong, you pull. It's the dumb thing that's broken.” Will keep trying.
“Maybe...you…have it… on lock… or something ” Will keep trying to pull it open. He then stopped and looked over the controls. Will never looked more lost. “Umm Nico I think your gonna need to call someone.”
“You mean someone who actually knows what there's doing.”
Will glared “Well sorry Nico if I study in medicine and not mechanics.”
“You don't study,”
“You know what I meannnnnnn,” Will tried one last time, but he ended up stumbling back. ”Maybe Leo and his siblings can help there’s good at this type of stuff.”
“No offense Will the last thing I want is Leo going through my clothes.”
“Well I could lend you a shirt if you want but it would be a bit big. And as for pants, there is no way you fit into any of mine…. I could ask one of my sisters if- ” Will was rambling ideas with his hands rubbing his neck but then cut off by Nico.
“No. I'm not wearing girl pants and I'm not going to wear your bright oversize shirts,” Nico said crossing his arms.
“Well, I don’t know any other guy whos your size, Nico. Most of us here are not as small waist as you. Which reminds me you need to keep eating more. Still, how are ALL your clothes in the dryer, did you wait till they were all dirty to final wash them?” No answer, “Typical, Di Angelo.” Will signed ad he rubbed his neck trying to think of a way to getting the closeout of the dryer.
“Shut up Will,” Nico shoved him (Playfully), “And even if I did wash my clothes more regularly I would be barely be washing anything.”
“What do you…. Wait, Nico, how many closes do you have?”
“Why do you want to know?”
“Just answer.”
Nico rolled his eyes “I don't know, like 3 shirts and maybe 4 pants.” Will looked horrified. Then quickly asked “How about underwear,” Nico glared “You don't need to know that.” It was Wills turn to roll his eyes, “Just answer.” Nico tried to think, “I got a packet of them that came with 8”
Will look straight at Nico, was he kidding, Who has more underwear than all your clothes combine. More socks than clothe fine. That's most people but more underwear than clothes...
Sure the Kids at Half-Blood might not have the most/ best clothes. But they did have a good amount of clothes.
You see every few weeks, well almost like every month each Cabin gets to go to the mall to get clothing. Chiron likes to say it help sibling bonded.
Now that Will thinks about it he's never seen Nico go. Which is strange because
One: he can go whenever he wants. (Shadow Travel)
Two: If Nico didn't want to use the money from the camp, he could have still used the Unlimited credit card his dad gave him.
So there should be no reason for Nico not having clothes. Right? Or maybe he just didn't have anyone to go with.
Lightbulb, Will had an idea.
"I have a plan," Will said out loud, "Oh gods," Nico mumbled, "Tell me your amazing plan," ( he said trying to leave the sarcasm out)
'That's probably going to backfire.' Nico didn't say that out loud but thought it.
"Were going SHOPPING!!!" Will exclaim happily.
Nico slapped his face with his hand. He couldn't stop himself.
"Will... you.. your-" Nicd had no words. Well other than-" You are so gay."
"Nico your gay" Will shot back.
"Yeah, but your gayer-" Nico crossed his arms, " Anyway I can't go Shopping because I don't have any clothes to wear. Remember their stuck."
"Oh yeah, your right. Well, I have another plan so we can do that plan. But after we will go shopping. And we'll discuss shopping and you're unique... fashion sense later-" Will said the last part in a rush as he was in the doorway, half in the cabin and half outside getting ready to run.
"Excuse me, what wrong with my fashion sense?"
" But for now we'll try to get your clothes out of the dryer. By calling Leo and his siblings." Will started to close the door. It was every Will was trying to get out before Nico told him no.
" Wait, what, Will I... where are you going?"
"To go call Leo," Will started to close the door, " Oh and you should find something more covering, I'll bring you an extra shirt of mine just find something to cover your (Will blushes a light pink up to his ears) lower... half."
Will then closed the door. Nico was left with an open mouth and a confused face.
The door was then open again, “Oh and babe, nothing is wrong with your fashion sense. You're perfect.”
“Will… I...I...I don’t have a fashion style, I wear whatever I want and I don’t care what people think of it!” Nico felt like his head was going on overboard.
“Okey Dokey, see you in a bit.”
Nico was left there standing a deep red blush still on his pale face, Nico scoff and went to his closet trying to ignore Will, he has to have something he could wear.
(15 minutes later)
Nico was sitting down on his bed blanket wrapped around himself. He was waiting for Will to come with help. He looked everywhere but could not find a single shirt or pair of pants. How could he not find anything?
A knock on the door stopped his train of thoughts. Nico wrapped the blanket around himself tighter as he got up and went to open the door slightly. Outside the door was Will and some of the Hephaestus Cabin, (Leo, Christopher, Harley) all with toolboxes.
“I see you didn’t find any clothes,” Will said as he held out one brightest colored shirt he owned. Nico took it with a glare. “I’m going to go change go ahead and see what you can do,” Nico growled as walk to the bathroom.
‘I swear Will chose the biggest brightest shirt he owns on purpose’ Nico thought as he looked in the mirror eye still narrowed. He wrapped the blanket loosely around himself and walk out the small bathroom. Still didn’t have any pants.
He walks over next to Will who was standing near the guys who were trying to fix the washing machine. The second he got there Leo chuckled as he said, “Hey, Neeks you look-”
“Don’t even go there, Leo.” Nico declared, it was too early in the morning to hear any of Leos jokes.
“Okay, so what is wrong with you?” Christopher asked the machine as he rubs the sides.
“The lid doesn't want to open,” Nico told him
“You guys think you can fix it” Will interrupted as he wrapped an arm around Nico.
“Oh, yea this is gonna be easy,” Christopher said as he got up, “We can finish this up in a jiffy.” Harley finished.
“All we have to do is pop the top open then we can reattach it and wallah done,” Leo explain as he was looking through one of the toolboxes. “How are you going to remove the top.” Will ask.
“This is how,” Leo pulled out a crowbar out of a small bag.”It going to be like opening a soda cap.
“Here we go.” Leo put the crowbar under the “On the count of 3 were going to pull towards me.” Leo told Christopher and Harley “You ready”
“1,2, 3!” The three boys pushed with all their might but the door wouldn’t budge. “Push harder,” Harley screamed. But nothing happens, they stopped. “Wow, this has never happened before. What did you do to it, Nico? ” Leo asks astonished.
“I didn’t do anything.”
“I'm just saying-”
“Why don’t we try again but you and Will try helping.” Christopher interrupted not wanting to hear there ‘discussion’, Leo and Nico have a thing of getting into petty arguments for no reason, they can last hours at a time and that not something he in the mood for.
“Okay, sure,” Will agreed also knowing what would happen if no one interfered with the two.
“On the count of 3,” They all got a hold of the crowbar, “1, 2, 3!”
They all pushed as hard as they could.
“Hey, Leo” Nico ask as they keep pushing, ”Why are we using a crowbar? Isn’t this going to break the door?”
It started to move “That the plan.”
“What!” Nico stopped pushing.
Then the door flung open with the 4 boys falling to the side of the dryer where the washer was at, they ended up pushing the washing machine. Lucky it wasn’t enough to knock it over just move it a few feet away from where it originally was. But it did unplug it from the wall.
Grunts started to fill the room. “Ow, my leg” Christopher sat up and cradled his leg.
“Are you guys okay!?!?” Nico asks, just as he was going to help, the wall that is not connected to the washing machine any more started to shake. The large dark pipe that was sticking out of the wall, you know the one that transfers all the water toward the machine to wet the clothes, well it started to shake violently.
Before any of the boys were able to get up Woosh water started to squirt out of the pipe. It was like a broken fire hydrant, it started shooting from the wall. Wetting all the boys.
The floor started to flood. All the boys were screaming. Some of the line where-
“Are you okay?!? Where the exit?!? Help?!? Shut it off?!? Someone?!? Nico?!? Will?!?! Leo?! Christopher?!? Harley??!! Can someone shut it off!?!?!??!”
“Christopher, how's your leg?” Will came closer to Christopher to check him. “I think it's a sprain.”
“Leo help me out.” Will and Leo help Christopher stand up they dragged him out of the room.
As everyone ran out the door and fell on the floor, Will and Leo helped, Christopher, sit on the grass. Nico was next to them he helped Harley out of the situation.
Then Will looked up at Nico. His eyes widen Nico was in his black underwear. When the water started to shoot out of the wall Nico drop the blanket that was covering his lower bottom. Will saw this ran back inside the cabin to get the blanket from Hazel's bed and ran out the door.
As he got out of the flooded cabin he spotted Nico and in an almost tackling way, Will wrapped the blanket around Nico.
Nico seemed to only notice he was basically half naked when Will was wrapping the blanket around him.
All the boy were soaking wet and were starting to get surrounded by other campers. The curious campers started to ask what was happening and why was their water coming from under the door of the Hades cabin.
“I'm going to go try to turn off the water,” Leo said as he ran off.
“Christopher how your leg, ” Will asked as he quickly started to examine it. “Someone go get a stretcher”
Chiron came “What's happening here.”
“Well...” the boys started.
(2 Minutes later)
“And Leo went to turn off the water.” Nico finished. Leaving out the part where he half naked and don't have any clothes. By the time they finished explaining some of Will sibling from the Apollo cabin brought a stretcher to help take Christopher to the Medical Bay.
As they took him, Will stayed behind with Nico. As he was about to pull Nico aside to talk to him, Leo came running back “Okay I got the water to stop.”
Everyone signed in relief “Good,” Chiron said, “but the water is still there. I'm going to have to put this cabin under quarantine until all the water is gone. Does anyone know if Percy is here?”
“He went to visit his mom. He not going to be back until Saturday.” A random camper said.
“Okay. Everyone the commotion is over, everyone back to the dining hall.” Chiron announced as all the campers started to walk off. “Boys go change before you get a cold” Leo and Harley did as they were told.
“Nico can I talk to you.” Will grabbed Nico arm and they walk to the side of the Hades cabin for privacy. “I’m going to go change into dry clothes, but then I have to go to the med bay, and I probably won’t get out in time for us to go to the mall.”
“It’s fine Will.”
“But,”
“I don’t even have close so it not like I was able to go with you anyway.”
Then it hit Will “Wait then what can wear? You can’t stay in wet clothes all day you’ll get sick. And you can’t keep skipping breakfast. I'm needed in the med bay right now. I can’t go get you food, well I can but you have to wait and where would you wait? ”
“Will! ” Nico tried to stop Wills rambling. “I am going to be fine,” He tried to sound convincing, “I’ll just go to my dad's place until my cabin opens up or something.”
“Do you have any clothes in the underworld?” Will ask hopefully. “No, I just brought the pair I had here to wash them and well you know, but I’m sure I'll find something or my dad will have something for me, okay, so don’t worry.”
“I'm your boyfriend it's my job to worry.” Will came closer to Nico, there forehead touching.
“Still corny.” They both smiled at each other, Will smirked as he said “Yeah, but you love it,” Nico rolled his eyes “Hey, I should be free for lunch why don’t we grab a bite, since our breakfast ended up… scrambled (Egg pun).”
“Oh gods, you didn’t”
“I did”
“Your terrible”
“I am, so lunch?” He said with a small giggle, “Yeah lunch sounds good, I should have found something to wear by then” Nico smiled their eyes were staring at each other, “Cool” Will leaned wanting to kiss Nico. Who then shift, making Will stopped, “Right sorry, no PDA.” (public demonstration of affection) Nico bit his lip as he looked around, “Screw it” He whispered as he moved his arm around his neck and brought him closer. Will kissed back, it was a light kiss but still good.
“Wil!l” A voiced belonging to one of Wills sibling came from not that far. The two boys pulled away. “I should go,” Nico said rapping the wet blanket tighter around himself. “Call me?”
“Of course, the underworlds number is 666-6666 right?” Will joke. Nico let out a small laugh “I’ll see you later.” Nico disappears into the shadows.