What Time is It? Shipping Time!

Chapter 8: Nico

Update: Ghost_King_007 changed his relationship status to It's Complicated with Dr_Sexy

Nico leaned back in his chair and sighed, staring at his freshly updated Facebook status and wondering what the other's reactions to it would be. Jason would totally flip out and fangirl over it, most likely posting on Twitter "OMFG OTP YAAASSS" or something like that, spreading it like wildfire. Nico heard the door open behind him and rushed to close the page on his laptop. He turned around to see Will, laughing and shaking his head.

"Not reading smut again, are we di Angelo?"

Nico blushed and let out a nervous laugh. "I was just on Facebook."

"You know Facebook's like, super old now right?" said Will.

"Yeah, well so am I, technically speaking."

"Blech, don't make things weird for me, Grandpa," Will replied jokingly, wrapping his arms around Nico. "You've been in this room forever di Angelo, come outside and get some fresh air.

Nico groaned dramatically. "But the outside world scares me!"

Will laughed and pulled Nico out of his chair with barely any effort and stood him upright. He was at least half a foot taller than Nico, and could easily pick him up and carry him if he felt like it.

"Gods Solace, why do you have to be so tall?"

Will leaned over and put his elbow on Nico's head. "I dunno, why do you have to be so short?"

Nico pushed the elbow off of his head and lightly punched Will in the arm. "C'mon, dinner's starting and I'm famished."

In the past week excitement had been in the air at Camp Half Blood, starting with Leo's unexpected arrival with a new girlfriend and Jason's adventure with Piper. Also the inevitable fireworks event that night, with all of the camp's couples there, which frankly made Nico sick to his stomach. Cheesy lovey-dovey stuff was not his thing, although the fireworks themselves were pretty epic. He maybe, just possibly, wanted to ask Will to go see them with him. That made him more nauseous than thinking about the lovebirds there.

The sun was just beginning to set as all of the campers finished dinner and made their offerings to the gods, and the demigods as well as a few satyrs started making their way down to the lake for the fireworks show.

Nico stayed where he was and gazed at the few budding stars in the sky, shivering in the slight chill. Will had started to walk down to the lake with everyone else but stopped when he noticed Nico lagged behind.

"Is something wrong Nico?"

Nico started at the sudden sound of someone talking to him and turned to look at Will.

"No, everything's fine. I just don't like being surrounded by a bunch of people holding hands and trash talking each other."

Will batted his eyelashes and said in a high-pitched voice "Oh my sweet ray of darkness, come and whisper sweet nothings into my ear!"

Nico made a fake retching noise and laughed. Will stopped prancing around like a love-drunk fairy and extended his hand towards Nico.

"Since you obviously don't like people, how about we go somewhere else where there aren't any," said Will, smirking.

Nico cautiously put his pale hand in Will's as he led him to the strawberry patches with a perfect view of the sky (haha I bet you thought it was gonna end in something dirty). As usual, the Hephaestus kids had done a spectacular job of recreating old Greek tales with sparks and fire against the starry background. Nico couldn't take his eyes off of them, just as much as Will couldn't take his eyes off Nico.

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Finally I finished! I think this and the Percabeth chapters are my favorite. I'll be updating my other fanfiction and art book, and possibly starting a new one!

Thanks so much for reading!

-Bee