PJO/HoO Around the Campfire

bottles of hell pt. III

Percy didn't realize the bottle had landed on him until Annabeth, who had moved onto his lap when Nico and Will were in the bathroom, nudged him.

He had his arms wrapped around her and she was clutching them across her body, he was kissing the back of her head but when she nudged him he rested his head on her shoulder.

"Percy, it landed on you." Annabeth told him.

"But I don't want to move, believe it or not this is quite comfortable." He looked over at Nico, shaking some of Annabeth's hair out of his face. "It would just be talking, right?" Nico nodded his head. "Then why can't we do that out here? It would be the same thing."

"It wouldn't be the exact same thing, we'd still be here."

"Same difference." Nico said. "You guys can join the conversation if you want, or it could just be us. Either way I agree with Percy, there's no point in going into the bathroom."

"Fine, but this is the only time this card gets used, can everyone agree on that?" Leo asked, looking around to catch everyone's nods and words of agreement.

"You guys start the conversation and we will only talk if you ask us, okay?" Katie said.

Nico and Percy agreed so Nico set the timer for seven minutes.

"So, Percy, you're planning to go to university in New Rome?"

"Yep, do you know what you want to do about school?"

"I don't think I'll go, I mean I haven't gone to school since you rescued me from that boarding school when I was, like, ten. I'll probably just take the classes here but I'll mostly just train I guess."

"I see. So, how's, uh, Will doing?" Percy completely ignored the other people in the room when they all leaned forward a bit and looked over at Nico.

Nico looked up at Will, he couldn't ignore Will. It would have been pretty difficult considering they were sitting with no room between them and Will had his hand on Nico's thigh.

"Um, Will's good, I think." He was still looking at Will. "Are you good, Will?" Will nodded.

"C'mon Neeks, that's not what I meant." Nico raised his eyebrows at Percy. "How's your relationship going?"

"Oh." Nico said, carrying it out longer than he needed to. "Why didn't you just say that in the first place? Our relationship is good, it's still really new but it feels good to have the secret out now."

"I bet."

"Yeah, and finally telling people I'm gay is such a relief. I mean, some people already knew or it was implied but I don't feel like I need to hide it anymore."

Annabeth opened her mouth to say something but realized she couldn't so she just deflated against Percy's chest, he laughed and hugged her tighter.

"So, Nico, did you know that there used to be only nine months?" Percy was trying to mess with Annabeth because he knew she couldn't say anything.

"Weren't there—" Nico stopped himself when he saw the look on Percy's face and got what he was trying to do. "Actually, I didn't know that."

"Yep, December, January and February were added in after."

"Really? That's so cool, who added them?" At this point Annabeth was only mildly irritated, everything that came out of Percy's mouth was a lie but she couldn't do anything about it.

"Aprodite added February, for Valentines day. A queen named Jannet got her husband to name a month after her and he added January. Then December was added by Melvil Dewey, who also created the Dewey Decimal System."