The Couples

Nighttime Cuddling

Valgrace:

Leo groans as he's shaken awake. He mutters something in Spanish, likely a stereotypical, "five more minutes,"

Unfortunately for Leo, the person waking him up was persistent. With a defeated sigh, Leo finally opens his eyes, hissing Nyssa's name in annoyance. He couldn't think of anyone else who'd wake him up at this ungodly hour.

To his surprise, his chocolate eyes meet Jason's sky blue eyes. Leo quirks a confused eyebrow at his boyfriend, who's currently on top of him in the dead of night. Jason looked nervous and slightly scared, two emotions he didn't let just anybody see. Leo's face softens as he looks at his boyfriend, asking softly,

"What's wrong, Superman?"

Jason smiles nervously. He was losing confidence fast. Leo takes Jason's big hands into his smaller nimble ones and squeezes 'I love you' in Morse code. Jason murmurs quietly,

"I...I had a bad nightmare, and waking up alone only made it worse."

Leo was still confused, but he blamed his sleep-deprived brain. He spent the past two days in Bunker 9 and really only left when Piper came hunting for him.

"So, why did you wake me up?"

Jason blushes and squeezes his hand in the same pattern Leo seems to always squeeze into his hands.

"I... Can you please sleep with me? We can go into cabin 1 if it would be too awkward explaining to your siblings why I'm in your bed -"

Leo cuts his rambling off,

"Cabin 1 it is. Can I put on clothes first? If I'm to be Harpy food, I'd like to die presentable."

Jason chuckles as quietly as he can. Thankfully, Leo's siblings all sleep like the dead. Working in the forge is hard work, especially when they all are perfectionists with their projects and time gets away from them due to their ADHD.

Jason climbs off Leo and hands him a hoodie that looks suspiciously like the one he recently lost and a pair of sweatpants that was kicked under the bed. Leo yawns but puts on the clothes and reclaims his boyfriend's hand.

"Let's go before anyone wakes up."

Leo grumbled. The lovers leave for cabin 1 after carefully monitoring the Harpies.

Leo shivers as he enters cabin 1. Do the gods not believe in heaters? Jason, of course, noticed. He teased,

"Even in my hoodie, you're cold?"

Leo was quick to defend himself,

"I'm the son of the god of fire. Any colder and this cabin will start forming icicles."

Jason rolls his eyes playfully, but he doesn't deny how cold the cabin is. It's always freezing in the cabins with very little campers. Cabin 3 and 13 are no better.

"I'm going to have to make a thermostat for this cabin. That will be your Valentine's Day present."

Leo says before immediately getting distracted by the giant Zeus statue.

"No wonder you have nightmares with him staring at you all night. I'll put some sunglasses on him."

Before Jason can tell him how terrible of an idea that is, a giant pair of sunglasses are placed on the statue.

When nothing happened to Leo, Jason relaxed. He wraps his arm around his boyfriend's slender waist and gently steers him to a bed that has about a thousand blankets.

Leo sighs at the miserable sight.

"You should've told me you get cold easily. I'm a furnace and could use someone to cool me down."