For Every Life There is Death

Chapter 3

Leo POV

As we watch the movie I feel butterflies in my stomach. Why do I feel like this? I recognize the feeling well. I felt it when I was with Calypso, before she left me for Will Solace. After the war with Gaea I almost died but I still searched for Calypso. When I came back Will was Nico's boyfriend and they were happy together. Then about a week after I came back I found Nico looking for Will and I told him he was talking to Calypso about medical things. When we found them Calypso was on sitting on a bed kissing Will, he kissed back. When they saw us we broke up with them. Then Ali did what I normally did while Nico went back to his old self. We were on vacation, since we grown apart after the war.

As I think about all this while watching the scary movie I feel tears well up in my eyes. Nico notices and he turns the movie off and hugs me tightly. I hug back.

"What's wrong."

"I was just thinking about what happened before we went on this vacation." I smile sadly.

"Hey, don't think about that. That's in the past, stay in the present." I nod and burry my head in the crook of his neck. Nico lays down and I adjust my position so that my head is on his chest and our legs are tangled together. I feel butterflies in my stomach and I blush when I realize we're cuddling. I'm to tired to move away so I just close my eyes and I fall asleep. Unfortunately that means nightmares.

Nico is crying in his sleep and sweating. I shake him but he doesn't wake up, he starts to twitch uncontrollably. I straddle his hips to keep him from moving his legs and I shake his shoulders. He still won't wake up so I rack my brain for an idea. I think slapping him will work so I try, it doesn't work, I try everything I can think of, nothing works. Then I get two ideas that might work. I feel like kissing him so I do just that, he stops moving and I think I woke him up but then he moves more frantically. I go to my next idea, grinding against him. I roll my hips slowly and make sure to press our groins together. Nico sits up and we are inches from each others face.

"Did you just grind against me?"

"It was the only way you would wake up after me trying to wake you up for hours."

"So you resulted to something sexual. Why couldn't you hit me with a chair?"

"I did." This wasn't a lie.

"So the only way to get me up is to sexually harass me. Why didn't you just kiss me, it's not sexual?"

"I did." He blushes and I smile. I feel a lump against the inside of my thigh.

"Can you get off of me?" I feel myself go hard when he speaks in an Italian accent. 

"Why?" I say this as seductively as possible, he blushes fiercely. I feel his friend get larger. "It seems your little friend is a snitch."

"It seems yours is to." I lean up to him and brush my lips against his.

"I guess we'll have to do something about that." I kiss him fully and he moans in surprise, but he kisses back since I'm already on his lap there isn't any need to really reposition, but I do so anyways.

I pull away and get up. He looks confused so I pick him up bridal style and toss him on the bed. I crawl on top of him and kiss him needily. I'm glad the walls are soundproof or we would be caught already. I grind against him and he moans loudly, I smile and lick down his neck. He moans as I start to suck his sweet spot.

All of a sudden he stops and I pull away to ask why, but what I see is not Nico. It's Gaea.

I jump up and run to the door, but it's blocked by the couch and it seems to be stuck. I look back at Gaea but she's not there, instead I'm back to the first day she visited me. As everything plays out I try to scream for help, no sound comes out so I watch the events of how my mother died.

When the dream ends I wake up and bolt up to a sitting position. I look around and everything seems the same except that it's day. It was all a dream. I sigh in relief and fall back onto the couch, but there is a body there that helps and I scramble off the couch. I remember the events from last night and I sigh in relief.

"You have some weird dreams dude." I look at him from the floor and go to sit beside him on the couch.

"What do you mean?" He looks at me.

"You were moaning like you were having sex and then you stopped and started flailing around."

"Oh, yeah, I was having a wet dream at first but it changed into a nightmare and the person turned into Gaea."

"I had the same dream, but with someone else."

"Maybe the whole crew had the same dream."

"Maybe." My stomach growls and I grab the snack bag. I pull out goldfish and Doritos, Nico laughs at my choice of food.

"Don't judge me."

"I'm not. I just think it's funny that you grab food when we are supposed to confront the others about the dreams."

"Why do we have to tell them."

"Cause if we had a the same dream then the others probably had the dream too."

"That's logical. Okay I'll go. But I get to take my goldfish."

"Deal." He takes a handful of goldfish and starts to eat them. He walks out and I follow him.

"Dude you cant do that."

"Do what?"

"You just stole some of my food."

"You steal my food."

"That's different."

"How?"

"You don't want your food."

"Sometimes I do want it." We enter the kitchen and everyone is here.

"Since when?"

"I like food I just don't like eating a lot of food at once."

"Is that why I caught you in the kitchen eating tacos in your boxers." He gasps.

"How dare you." He playfully shoved me.

"What did I do?" He glared at me and I poke his nose.

"Boop." He stares at me in utter shock. Then he  turns to the crew.

"Did we all have the same dream last night?"

"Are you talking about the one with Gaea?" Percy.

"Yes."

"Well Anna and I had the dream but I'm not sure about the others."

"Jason and I had the dream too."

"So did Frank and I." I see Nico clench his fists and glare at Frank, then it seems Nico realizes something.

"Hazel, how do you even know about that stuff?" Hazel looks like a deer at headlights.

"Uh-we'll-uhm-uh." Nico turned to Frank and grabbed the front of his shirt.

"Is Hazel still a virgin?"

"Uh-uhm-well-I-uh." Nico looks really angry, he shoved Frank back into his chair. Then he turned to Hazel.

"Hazel, your not even 15 yet!"

"So! I bet you've gotten into bed with plenty of girls!"

"I haven't even had my first kiss yet!" Hazel looks completely shocked at this.

"What about your girlfriend at CJ?"

"I never had a crush on her!"

"Then why did you say yes?"

"Because I couldn't say no to her. I love her, but as a sister." Hazel looks confused.

"Nico, have you ever had a crush before?" Nico gets an anger in his eyes and the room darkens.

"Don't talk to me about that." The room lightens and Nicos anger is gone. Then he seems to think of something and his face goes pale. He exits the room and goes to the infirmary.