Getting to you (boyxboy)

Chapter 4

Nico's pov

Today all the campers are assigend a job that must be done for the construction.My job is helping building the cabins which are huge compared to the ones we used to have.The cabins have to expand given that,since both wars truck loads of campers are turning up,each cabin now has twenty-thirty campers.And seeing as there's not just the twelve Olmypians anymore but all the minors as well I'd say there's enough campers to fill a stadium.

I don't think anyone realised how busy the gods have been.Sometimes it seems like that's all they've done.Run around and falling in love with mortals,getting them knocked up then fleeing before the child is even born.

Then there's settling them in,since the moment they step over the boundary-which now has a constant guard given every kid coming over that line is a package deal with another monster-they get claimed.We've given up bowing down each time since we're all far too busy and it happens too often.

I don't want to admit to myself that I'm waiting for another kid of Hades to come stumbling wide eyed through the barrier but I know I am.And so does Will it seems since when another camper,a son of Hermes,tumbles down the hill with a saytr in tow and a mountain of a Cyclops banging hungerly on the barrier that doesn't give in,he drops down next to me,heaving up the other side of the plank of wood.

"Just because you don't have as many siblings as we do doesn't mean you're on your own.You still have Hazel,"He coaxes me.

Hazel,my sister from the Roman side.She was the one who actually died but I'm the one that people treat as if I'm a zombie.She still doesn't know of my feelings for Will,which I resent even if he did like someone else,but she's the only one I would ever talk about something like this with.Or maybe Will,but obvisiously that can't happen seeing as this is about him.

He gives me a lollipop.

I frown at him as campers on pegsai hoist the plank into the air and slam it down in its place."What's this for?"

He beams and I'm starstruck by the true beauty of him,"I figured that now that your powers are all fixed up that I need to start working on your insides.You look severally undernurished,so eat up cause there's plenty of where that came from."Then he's whisked away by some of his urgent siblings.

So he still wants to work on me,huh?The thought sends those cursed butterflies in a spiral.When he's gone I wade my way through the mass of campers to where there's a large pile of tree nymph approved planks.They make the planks out of strips of their trees that are magically made to just regrow every shred that gets used.

This time Jason helps me with the lifting."Hey Nico,"He says.I nod,more focused on not letting this plank crush me.We stop to let a nymph with a daughter of who I'm assuming is Peresphone pass,having a hurried conversation about the plants in the forest.Then we drop the plank near a flock of waiting Hephaestus kids."How's it going?"He asks casually.

His tone is light but I've dealt in enough liers to know he's hiding something.

I narrow my eyes at him,something Will told me to stop doing,"What's on your mind,Grace?"

He gives me a sheepish look,"I just wanted to know if you,you know,see if you changed your mind about,you know-"

I almost laugh at how awkward he is.I decide to put the poor guy out of his misery,"Yeah,I'm still staying."Without my permission my eyes stray to Will who's preping a team of Apollo's spawn to shoot nails into planks."There's just some things worth staying for."

I don't notice that Jason has followed my eyes as well,until I turn to him and see him grinning knowingly.I'm instantly on guard.

"What?"I snap at him.