Solangelo One Shots

Happy Pi Day

Nico's POV

It was finally here. One of my favorite days of the year had finally come. March Fourteenth. Pi day. I had sprung out of bed to find the sun shining for the first time all winter. Instead of my usual variety of black skull tee shirts, I put on one that had the first thousand digits of pi on it, the one that I stuffed in the back of my closet all year, only to bring it out for this very special day. Call me a nerd, but I like math. 

I found Will in the infirmary where he usually was on a typical Tuesday morning, wrapping up Clarisse's bloody leg in a thick white bandage. how she managed to get a leg wound before ten a. m. would forever be a mystery.  

"Alright, alright, I'm fine," she spat at Will before heaving her leg off of the bed she had been on and limping out of the infirmary, muttering something about overattentive doctors. 

"Well, something has her bonnet in a bunch," Will muttered, watching as she walked out the door only to start yelling something about owing drachmas as soon as she was out of sight. Then, he spotted the grin on my face. "Why are you so happy today? And why are you wearing a shirt with a bunch of numbers on it?" 

"It's pi," I said. "Today's pi day." 

"Pi?" Will asked, wrinkling his eyebrows. "As in the number? I don't think anyone but you celebrates pi day, Neeks." 

"Sorry to disappoint you, but plenty of people wait all year for pi day. I bet Leo does. When you work with machines, you have to be good at math." 

"Oh, come on," Will chortled. "There is no way Leo celebrates pi day. Leo's to cool for that." 

"How about we make a bet," I suggested. "Loser has to make the other person a pie." 

"You're on," Will grinned. "Let's seal it with a kiss." 

I stood up on my tiptoes and gave Will a long, lingering kiss on the lips. I could already feel the pie melting in my mouth. And even if I didn't win, I still got a kiss out of the deal. 

Will's POV

When we got to Bunker 9, I saw that I couldn't have been more wrong. A huge white banner that read Happy Pi Day had been hung up on Festus, who was clanking to Leo happily as Leo pulled a huge blueberry pie in a perfect circle out of the oven. Leo and Festus weren't alone in the messy bunker, either. Annabeth was leaning casually on Festus, wearing the same pi shirt that Nico was and chatting happily to Leo. Percy was sitting at a small wooden table, digging into his own blueberry pie as Calypso stood behind him, braiding his thick black hair into tiny braids. Even though I would later have to bake Nico a pie, the sight made me happy. 

"Hey, guys, happy you could join us!" Leo called, waving at us from the oven. "Do you want some pie?" 

"Do you have apple?" I asked, walking over to where Leo and Annabeth were. 

"We have every kind of pie," Leo grinned, pulling a steaming hot apple pie out of the oven and handing it to me. I could almost feel the smooth crust and smooth filling melting  in my mouth already. It was no secret that Leo was one of the best cooks on camp. He rapped on Festus's closed mouth, and Festus opened wide to reveal gleaming silver trays overflowing with pies of all shape and size lining the golden inside of his mouth. Leo had done some amazing things in his fairly short time at Camp half Blood. Building the Argo II, being the only known demigod who could control fire, ect. But a hundred pies coating the inside of a living mechanical dragon was probably the most amazing feat yet. 

"I'm not really hungry-" Nico started to say before I shoved him inside the dragon. 

"Yes you are, Death Breath," I growled.  The day was already bad enough, considering baking a pie was not one of my strong suits. But if I could convince Nico to eat some good, semi- healthy food, it will have been worth it.