The First Times

First Dinner

After lunch, Will insisted that Ana took a nap.

She didn't like it much, but she went to bed and changed on her new pajamas and cuddled against the pillow before falling asleep in less than five minutes. Will smirked when he saw that, but refrained to make any comment about it. Nico stared a few seconds more before closing the door behind him.

"Things will change, will they?" It was the first thing out of his mouth when they were sat on the living room. Will gave him a look that said 'you for real!?'. "I know things were about to change when we decided to adopt, but it just crashed me how much things are going to change..."

"Yes. Things will are going to change." Will saw no good into beating around the bush. "It will be different having to look after someone else, specially someone as Ana-"

"What do you mean 'someone as Ana'?" Nico interrupted him, trying not to raise his voice.

"Nico, Ana is not a demigod, even if your theory of she being your sister's soul-"

"She is!"

"The point I'm trying to make-" Will gave him a pointed look, so he wouldn't interrupt him again. "-is that Ana is a normal girl, who will want things to be as normal as possible... She will want things as a cellphone or a computer or even a TV in her room! Plus, we cannot train her to fight monsters she will never see..."

"I guess you have a point..." Nico agreed, thoughtful. "If we explain her that?" Seeing Will's confused look, he elaborated. "Eventually, we have to explain to her about our lives, our friends and stuff..."

"I think we should do so after we adopt her... officially, of course." Will emphasized at the end, to calm Nico down. "Nico, if we drop the bomb now, what do you think her reaction will be?"

"Very different from mine when I discovered I was a son of Hades..." Nico remembered, sighing. "I can see how difficult it was for Percy back then, I'm dreading that conversation now and she's not even like us!"

"Exactly." Will nodded, wrapping an arm around his shoulders. "Now, go take a nap you too, as it was as exciting day as it was for her..." He kissed his forehead and pushed him towards their room, following. Nico knew that Will would not give up on it, so he did as asked, watching as Will laid next to him for the same.

Nico ignored how long did he slept. He guessed that he slept like two hours, according to the clock next to his bed. Rolling on it, he noticed that Will was not in bed and there were voices coming from the living room, just like in the morning. Sighing, he got up and saw Will and Ana talking in whispers. They were reading something with their brows frowned in concentration.

"It's not realistic." Ana finally declared, crossing her arms on her chest, sounding proud of it. Will chuckled and shrugged, before glancing at Nico.

"Ana here doesn't like the fairy tale endings." He explained to him. Nico gasped and nodded, sitting on Ana's other side. "And I can't say I blame her... I mean, whoever came up with these either had a twisted mind or things were that twisted in real life..."

"Well, since we cannot ask the authors of this stories those questions yet, I guess we will leave them unanswered." Nico winked at Will, who chuckled and nodded. Ana, missing half the information, was looking at both grown ups as if they were crazy, but held her judgement. "Now, I can only guess you're a bit hungry..."

"Uh- uh..." Just in that moment, along with Ana's reply, her stomach made some noises and she blushed red. Neither Will nor Nico made any comment about it.

"Sorry, that was me!" Will covered for her, earning a smile. "Nature calls!" While Will rushed to the bathroom, Nico glanced at the book Ana was holding on her hands.

"Is that the book you were reading when we arrived yesterday at the orphanage?" He asked, gently at her. Ana nodded, moving a hand over the leather cover. That allowed Nico to read part of the title. It simply said 'Grimm'. "Those stories are pretty dark for you... Have you seen any Disney movies or anything?"

"Ms. Grutiner never had money for books and we couldn't afford to go to the movies..." Ana said, somehow looking embarrassed and sad. Nico sighed and refrained of making any hurtful comment.

"Well, I think you're very young for this..." Nico grabbed the book from her, carefully. "You'll be able to read it when you get older, but for now let's fill that empty stomach of yours with some Chinese food-"

"I've never had Chinese food..." She mumbled softly. Will's gasp was heard from far. In his rush to come back into the living room, he was just simply wearing his T-shirt and his white boxers. Evidently, he was in the bathroom.

"Sacrilege!" Will began dramatizing, earning a roll eye from Nico. "I'm calling the restaurant myself!" He then marched to the kitchen to find the number of the place.

"You will have to excuse Will..." Nico apologized in his behalf, earning a smiling girl. "He goes nuts for his Chinese food, but you'll get use to it... It gets bored after a while, but he won'r force you to eat it if you don't like it..."

"Uh, OK." Ana shrugged. She spent the rest of the time until the food arrived hearing the marvelous properties of the Chinese food from Will, who was acting as if he was in the Royal Theater. Not that he was a bad actor, but it was just too dramatic for it. Finally, the doorbell rang. "I'll get it!" Ana jumped from her seat, eager for the show to end. Nico followed her, chuckling.

"Nice escape, but remember I have to pay." He praised her, making her blush for forgetting that step, meanwhile, Will was forgotten behind with a smile.

Yep, things were about to change.

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Good morning/afternoon/night, everyone!

I come back to my regular schedule after a week that was highly irregular, you see... But, those things are left in the past and I get to share with you all this new update!

So! Onto the updates!

The First Times: 1 chapter! I'm so excited everyone is liking this story so far, I have soooooo many first times planned...

Quest: Matchmade (former collab with the lovely ReeReeWithAngst): 1 chapter! We're getting closer to the end of the story...

PJO - HoO Requests: 1 chapter! This is a new book were you can ask me unique chapters about practically anything (that's why it's rated M)... First request by @FancyCallisto !

I hope you enjoy this World Cup final weekend!
xoxo, SilverHuntresses