Daughter of Artimes (Nico di Angleo x reader)

Nine

Nico's pov

My eyes slowly open. I look over to see Y/N's sleeping form. Her H/C H/L hair spread on her face a little. Her head was resting on my chest. Not to mention bare chest. I look around not wanting to get up and risk waking her up too I waited, and waited, and waited some more. Finally, my demigod ADHD got the best of me and I tried to crawl from underneath you. I say 'tried' for a reason. As soon as I thought she was still asleep she started to stir. "W-what? Where am I?" I chuckle as she rubs her eyes and sits up. "You're in the Hades cabin. Must have fallen asleep last night." I lean over and move a piece of hair out of her face. Her cheeks get tinted pink. "I should get going, don't want anyone worrying," She says as she stands up looking away from my gaze. Is she still embarrassed by me staring at her? I grab her phone and hand it to her. She pecks my lips before she yells bye and leaves the cabin. I hear a cough and see Hazel, my sister, staring at me. "Don't get used to it," is all she says as she spins on her heel heading back to her room. What is that supposed to mean?

*Time skip*

Y/N and I have been sword fighting for the last hour and a half-hour. Going back and forth. She has gotten better at her powers. Yeah, she had since she was six but the power of every god and goddess takes a while to master. Back to reality

I held my sword at her throat before you could think of anything else to do I was pinned to the ground my sword in Y/N's hand with it at my throat same with her W/O/C. How is that possible? "Good luck next time, Ghost king," She says as she helps me up and hands me my sword. "I'm not agreeing to anything," I say as I turn to face her once we were out of the arena. She raises an eyebrow at me. "I can still end this relationship," She says as she walks away. She did have a point. Wait.... What did she say? "What!?!" I run towards her with a surprised face. "I was waiting to see how long you were going to catch that!" She says laughing. I on the other hand just looked at her and smirked. You see Y/N is one of the two only people who can get me to smile or laugh. The other person is Hazel, my sister. She grabs my hand and walks to the lake with me. We keep on glancing at each other but as soon as we see the other person we would pull away blushing. After a few minutes of that game, we reached the lake. Or how the Aphriodite cabin calls it 'Percabeth Lake' long story, don't ask. We were just looking at the water till you noticed something was off. You look next to you expecting to see Y/N but you don't see anyone. I start to panic. Did anything happen to her? Where is she?

   I hear laughing in the background I turn around to see her standing there with a box in her hand. The box was a dark gray almost black, really small. Nothing fancy. Till I remembered what was inside it. I patted my jacket pockets and nothing is there. Then that means you have it. I mentally cures myself. "What's inside here?" I say with a smirk that you would see on one of the Stolls after they pranked someone. "Give me that box," I tell her she just walks closer with the box still in her hand. "Don't worry, I know it's a ring. But marriage? This quickly?" She asks with a look of disapproval. I smile lightly at her. "it's not a marriage proposal ring, it's a promise ring and I was going to give it to you tonight" I say as I grab the box out of her loose grip hands. I walk backward as she tries progressing the information I just gave her. I smirk at her dazed face. She shakes her head and walks up to me. "Well, thank you, by the way, it's really pretty," She says as she holds up the ring:

I open the box quickly to see it empty. Dang, it cures Hermes for giving her his powers.

  "Hey, Nico! Earth to Death Breath!" Y/N is waving a hand in front of my face. I look over towards her and her eyebrows go up. "What? Oh sorry, I was thinking about something," I told her. We heard the dinner horn blow and I smirk at her. "Race you there?" I ask as I put the box in my jacket pocket. She smirks at me. "Sure," she says before she kisses my cheek leaving me alone as she took it as an opportunity to run. I just slipped into the closest shadow.

     I was waiting for Y/N. The dining pavilion wasn't far from the lake but shadow travel is fast. "How are you here?" I hear someone out of breath said. I just chuckle at her "Shadow Travel" I say as I grab her hand as we lace our fingers together. This can't end, right? But Hazel's words kept going through my head don't get used to it. I shake my head. Stop, you're better than this.

   We walk to the Hades table. Since Hazel is at Camp Half-blood Y/N said that we would sit at the Hades table for her. I sit down across from Hazel as Y/N sits beside me. Hazel was eating. I got some food with Y/N. Y/N, Hazel, and I walked up to the hearth to give our offerings to the gods.

  About eight solid minutes into dinner it was running by the one and only son of Zeus, Astor. "Hey, Y/N, can I talk to you?" He looks around "Alone?"  I glare at him. Hazel kicks me from underneath the table so I protectively wrap my arms around Y/N's waist. Only for her to get out of my arms. "Sure" and they left. I'm going to kill that guy.

Y/N's pov

  I'm wondering what Astor as to talk about. We stop at a clearing in the woods of the camp.  "This is going to sound so weird but," instead of him saying anything he just kissed me. Without hesitation, I pull away. "Wait, le-" "Save it. I don't care anymore. I will not tell anyone about this if you don't" I say, coldness and bitterness in my tone. He thinks about it then answers "Did you like it?" I mentally facepalmed. "Astor, you're my friend and that's how I see you. Plus you have Aqua." I don't know if my reply hurt him or not but he just nodded. After a few silent seconds, I left.

The whole time back I kept feeling like I was forgetting something. It wasn't the ring because you just saw it on my finger.

When I got back it was almost past curfew. As I was walking back to my cabin I saw someone who looked a lot like Nico. So I walked over. As I got closer it was definitely Nico. "Hey, Goast King," I say. "Hey, N/N," he doesn't look up. I sit next to him and put my head on his shoulder. He puts his head on mine and grabs my hand. "What's wrong?" I ask him. He pulls away but doesn't look at me, "How can I compeat? He's strong, powerful, good looking, while I'm not strong, not powerful, and not good looking." he still doesn't make eye contact. "Nico, what are you talking about? You're powerful, smart, and way more than 'good looking'." I walk over to him and grab his hand. "Who are you talking about?" "Astor," He doesn't look up but keeps his eyes on your hands. "I'm talking about Astor. You and him are so close and he knows a lot about, like a lot, while all I know is almost nothing." I just stare at him. Did he seriously think that? Astor only knows that much stuff about me because I was there when he was born. "Nico, if I did feel that way about Astor I would be with him not you. Also, Astor is not powerful." Before he can reply I smash my lips against his. I can feel him kiss back. "And I would never put my lips near Astor's," I say as soon as we break apart. "Maybe I got a little jealous," he chuckles. "Yep, a little," I tell him as I peck his lips again. I just can't stop thinking about what's up ahead, and that's not in a good way.