expecting; percico

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When Nico felt more grounded he looked over to look at Percy, anything to find him comfort. "Perce," He said, his breathing pattern becoming irregular. "I'm freaking out, what if -" Nico couldn't bring himself to finish the rest of the sentence.

Percy was at a loss for words. He didn't want to promise Nico anything because Percy didn't know. So, he just took Nico's hand. "We won't let them touch her, okay?" Was all he could say, because that was true.

It was now Nico's turn to be flabbergasted. (a/n: i love that word) He didn't know what else to do, so he walked, hermes already doing whatever he was doing inside the palace-thing.

The two boys walked hand in hand as he saw the gods sitting in their thrones. Even Hades was there, so Nico knew, at that sight, they had come to a decision, the one thing that would get in the way of Nico being able to try and give birth to his and Percy's daughter. It was this.

"Perseus Jackson, Nico di Angelo," Zeus greeted, his voice echoing against the walls. Nico was mad at this point. He knew this was one of the last fights he would have to win during the pregnancy. After, when he won, because there was no way he was losing, he would have so many fights, but this one, this one really fucking mattered.

"What?" Nico spat. "What could you honestly want?" He looked over to his father for support, but Hades showed none. And not only did he not have support, he had no emotion, looking away at his son's gaze, which made Nico feel even worse.

Percy squeezed Nico's hand, rather he meant to or not, Nico was glad he did because it calmed him slightly.

"I think we both know why you are here, Mr. di Angelo,"

Nico's jaw clenched and he held back any tears that were threatening to spill out at the thought.

"Please," Nico said as his voice broke. "Please just - don't," It was all Nico could think of to say, because his mind was blank. "Don't say it, please don't say it, don't tell me,"

There was a silence before Zeus spoke up again, coughing before to clear his throat. "I'm very sorry but -" he took a break in speaking as a loud, heart wrenching sob escaped Nico. He turned his face into Percy's chest, facing away from the Olympians. Percy pressed his lips against the top of Nico's head as he too, began to cry. Yet, even while Nico was emitting loud sobs, Zeus had just rose his voice a little higher. "- BUT," he repeated. "The fetus will be a possible threat as it grows, so we will have to eliminate it now before something unfortunate happens,"

Nico was sobbing, along with Percy. The thought of his daughter being taken away from him was too much, and then watching Nico break down like that, he couldn't stop from breaking down, wrapping his lover in his arms.

There was a silence before Apollo spoke up. "To begin extracting the fetus, we will inject a needle into your back, then once the injection has been placed, the idea is slowly the fetus' heart will stop beating, resulting in it dying,"

"Her," Percy spoke up, his voice sounded broken. "It's a girl," Percy said, his voice stabilizing, but it had dropped an octave. "O-Our daughter,"

At those two words, Nico broke down into loud sobs again. Yet, he didn't hide his face this time, he looked up at the gods. "You can't do this, you can't do this," Was the only thing he could say. "You can't do - please, you can't do this,"

At those words, he felt Zoella kick in his stomach. It was something he would usually smile at, but now it just made more tears roll down his face. "You can't do this! I won't! We can stop it! We can make sure it doesn't happen! Let her live!" Nico yelled.

She kicked again, but this time it was different, Nico felt himself sway, but Percy squeezed his hand and was able to ground himself.

"There isn't much we can do, it could be a threat-"