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Nico sat on the floor of the Big House. Basically the entirety of Camp Half-Blood was there including Frank and Hazel for a visit. It was nice to see his little sister and to not be the only child of Hades,well technically Pluto but basically the same but right now she was at Cabin Jupiter with her boyfriend Frank.
He joined the group of people playing Mario Kart and apologized to the other players after a few kids left after he sat next to him. The whole event with Gaea and using Shadow Travel to move the Athena Parthenos was a harsh difference from now where he befriended some kids and was playing some Mario Kart that he thinks are children of Apollo and a Hypnos kid named Clovis that he remembered someone on the Argo II mentioning him.
Earlier he had told Percy about his old crush on him,he looked shocked and confused. Now he was laying his head in Annabeth’s lap as he rested. They had been through a ton over there life and they deserved to be together.
If he saw this when he was younger he would have been jealous but he had got over it. At least they looked happy even though the stuff they had gone through. He still kinda wishes he was in Annabeth's place but now he liked someone else.
At Least he could relate to the many others who related to have a crush on the great Perseus Jackson. Reyna would talk to him about as well as Rachel which he had been talking with since the whole Gaea thing.
“HEY NEEKS, we are gonna play another game of Mario Kart are you in?” Will Solace,the head counselor of the Apollo cabin and his new crush yelled with his hand on Nico’s shoulder.
That made him stop paying attention to everyone else and shine some light on the good aspects of his life like the time before he realized how kids at Camp Half-Blood looked at him like he was a monster.
“...Sure” Nico mumbled
“Good,we are gonna watch the Star Wars trilogy after do you want to join”
Nico raised his eyebrows,he had never heard of a Star Wars before.
“Have you not watched Star Wars? No fucking way?!” shouted Will,shocked beyond belief.
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Will was cuddling with Nico di Angelo,Son of Hades,and one of the most antisocial of all demigods he knows. He didn’t know how this happened. Will had zoned out by the end of Clone Wars and was snapped back into attention when a certain child of Hades fell asleep on his shoulder.
He had tried to ask any other kid to take him for Nico’s own comfort but no one would because of the whole son of Hades thing that made everyone too afraid to talk to him
Will had attempted to pick him up and bring him back to the Hades cabin. There was one problem that got him into this situation. It was already midnight and the harpies were out. Will wasn’t going to try his luck with them. Especially after someone got sent to the infirmary by one for being out after hours.
This is how Will ended up cuddling with him in his own bed in the Apollo cabin after trying to lay the son of Hades on his bed and falling asleep on the ground but Nico wouldn’t let go of him.
Nico was unimaginably cold,good that Will Solace was pretty warm so that caused Nico to latch onto him like a koula.He hoped that Nico wouldn’t get mad at him for this whole thing because if he fumbled his friendship with him Nico would never want to go out with him.
“Will?” Kayla whispered very confused about the other body in his bed that was wrapped around him.
All the words to explain what was happening suddenly fell away from Will’s mind.
“What in Tartarus is the Nico di Angelo doing cuddling you in your bed like a koala!?” Kayla sccreached
“Shhh Kayla,he’s sleeping right now which he barely has after he came back from the fight with Gaea” He whispered trying his best to be quiet so that Nico could get the sleep Nico desperately needs.
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A bit later Will was getting tired during his conversation with his step-sister so he decided to finish of this conversation
“I gotta sleep now” Will's voice was a mere whisper, each word an effort to push out.
“Okay bro just tell me next time he comes around” Kayla says pointing at Nico like he was from her worst nightmares.
Kayla had walked away after a bit when Will decided to go to sleep as well so he pulled a blanket over both him and Nico and drifted into sleep.