Island fever (percico/pernico/nercy)

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The next three days happened without much to do. Nico had refused to sleep in the bed thus Percy refused to as well and they had both woken up curled up close to each other on the floor next to the bed – which didn't seem to be what Nico had pictured, going by his shocked face. During the days they had went for walks, talked, carefully avoided topics like sex, sex, sex and Annabeth and found more fish flying to their feet wanting to be eaten for some reason. Right when they had started eating that had almost devoured the whole fish in one go, realizing they were starving just as Percy had predicted. They had also taken a swim in the small pond Percy had fallen into, which really tested Percys willpower to resist jumping at the half naked Nico and devour HIM instead of the fish. Not literally of course. But it had taken him quite a lot to leave Nico alone. Even though Nico looked like he was having trouble not looking towards Percy as well. Still it had been fun and all and they had even revisited the place where the bridge had been. Pronunciation lying on 'had been'. It was gone and there was no sign it ever existed either. That had creeped them out a bit but oh well. They were getting used to this sort of thing it seemed. Sure, put two people on a magical island that keeps leading you to other magical islands and you kinda get used to mysterious doors or bridges popping up and disappearing again. Just yesterday Percy had opened the bathroom door and looked into a giant jungle of trees and bushes that reminded him vaguely of the rain forest. Out of surprise he had slammed the door shut and when he had reopened it, the bathroom looked same as always. Not that that made him feel any better. Instead, Nico and him decided to never close ANY door again in their life. Seriously, you never knew what could happen. You might end up in China while trying to walk through your front door or something.

But now Nico was simply asking for it. It was pretty much their seventh day here and they were in the pond again, Percy trying to converse with the fish (didn't work, they only looked at him with pitiful expressions and two jumped out the water to be their next dinner) and casually looking up at Nico, just to gulp. Hard. Nico stood there at the side of the pond, stretching, the sun shining down on him, making his skin seem like porcelain. His muscles flexed and the green underwear looked so hot Percy didn't want to take his eyes off them anymore. The contrast was perfect and the color really suited him. Plus it showed a slight bulge at the front which made Percys mouth watery and his hands tingle with the urge to touch and take out whatever lay beneath. But to make matters worse, Nico was now staring right at him, his brown eyes fixed on Percys green ones. And then Percy could catch the faint hint of a mocking smile. Percy only now noticed he was gaping at the younger boy. He closed his mouth, trying to settle his insides down as he swam over to the boy. „Care to come in for a swim?" he asked casual enough and tried not to look at Nicos underwear. Nico shrugged. „Sure I guess." With that, the boy sat down and slipped into the water. In Percys territory. Percy could think of so many ways to take advantage of this but tried to push it down. Nico seemed to trust him a lot. Or maybe Nico simply didn't mind if Percy started making out with him. Maybe he was even waiting for it. Nah, probably not. Oh, Percy knew Nico had enjoyed it but he wasn't that stupid to think that Nico would keep wanting to do it with him just cause he couldn't control his own hormones. Seriously, since when had he become so...horny? Usually he didn't have much time to think about things like these because of monster attacks, quests to save the world or Annabeth trying to teach him some great myths he would keep forgetting. It wasn't like he never thought about it. But come to think of it, with Annabeth he had sometimes been ok for weeks without even as much as cuddling with her, and that without any monster attacks, quests to save the world or myth studying to interfere. But with Nico he couldn't even sleep properly at night if he didn't have the boy cuddling against him on the floor (yeah, they were still sleeping there because neither wanted to claim the bed). Was he getting...obsessed?

They swam side by side across the pond. After a challenging glance from Percy, it became a race to who was faster, which he obviously one. First of all he was son of Poseidon and always the best when it came to water sports or such. Second, Nico was kind of a slow swimmer. Though he seemed a pretty good loser. He just smiled and tried to keep his head above the water after getting out of breath when Percy decided to slow him down a bit further and making the water flow against Nico so the boy was pretty much swimming in place for a bit. Now he splashed water in Percys face jokingly, soaking him through because he had intentionally wanted to become wet when he had entered the pond. When he could see properly again and looked back at Nico he saw him swimming towards shore. „Never!" Percy called and made the water become a wave, getting Nico coming towards him instead of away from him. Too late did he stop it though and he was momentarily drowned under his own wave (though he could still breathe of course) and come up extremely close to Nico who instantly dried to move backwards which wasn't as easy in water as it was on land and made him kick against Percys leg. Percy was distracted for a moment, being so close to Nico made him realize all those enchanting details in his face again. Then he noticed that the boy seemed to really get out of breath and grabbed his arm. „Lemme show you something." Percy said, grinning and before Nico could say something, Percy pulled him under water, creating a bubble of air around the two of them and slowly moving downwards till they could stand on the bottom of the pond. „Whoa..." Nico looked around him astonished. Percy grinned wickedly. „Like it?" Nico nodded and watched a fish pass by extremely close. When he turned around, Percy was right in front of him, looking not at their surroundings, but straight into Nicos eyes. For a second, the younger boy forgot to breathe. Then Percy slowly took his chin into his hands and bent over, not kissing him but putting his mouth close to Nicos ear. „Green suits you very well, Nico." Percy purred in a low animalistic voice. Nico gulped and could feel himself blushing again – as he seemed to always do when he was around Percy. His insides churned and his heart beat so hard against his chest it almost hurt. Percy pulled back from his ear slowly, teasingly brushing across Nicos cheek with his nose as he did so. Nico couldn't resist and turned his face slightly, their lips almost touching. Percy stopped, waiting to see what Nico would do. He had his eyes half shut and was hovering an inch away from Percys lips, feeling his breath on his skin and slowly looking at Percys eyes, watching him. Nico understood what Percy was doing. Ever since he had sworn he wouldn't kiss him again, he really hadn't. And it seemed he was not going to go back on his word now except Nico really wanted him to. It was up to him. He was to make the decision. His heart instantly leaped and wanted him to go for it, but his brain stopped him, telling him he shouldn't. Then he could feel Percys hands touching his bare skin, slowly moving further up. For a second Nico closed his eyes, taking a deep breath – and then he put his arms around Percy, pulling him close and pressing his lips on the other boys.