Nico:

My mom doesn't me accept as her kid.

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Bianca:

Mom has gone to check out an apartment. It was about 7. Hazel just got up.

"Where's Nico?" She asked me.

"Sleeping, I assume." I told her.

"Odd." She said. "He's usually up by 6. Whatever. Breakfast isn't for an hour anyway."

I got dressed. Grey almost kind of a crop top, with a black skull, some black jeans, green combat boots, my green hat, skull ring, and arrow bracelet.

45 minutes go by. Nico hasn't stepped out of his room.

"Should we?" I asked Hazel.

"If breakfast is in 15 minutes, yeah." She told me and we silently open the door and to our surprise, Nico had been awake. Laying in bed. Fully dressed and everything.

But he was silently crying.

Being he hasn't seen us, we close the door again. Me, worried as fuck. You don't cry like that if you had a nightmare. Something had to of happened before we woke up.

"What would do that, though?" Hazel asked me. "It's not like he's sensitive. Because he's anything but most of the time."

"I have no idea." I said. "They wouldve woken everyone up if Percy asked. He's the leader of Camp. So nobody close died. Stress?"

"No." Hazel said. "If anything, he shouldn't be stressed. Maybe a little. Nothing bad, though. Just the typical day to day stuff. Not at risk of death... Did your mom talk to him before she left?"

"I think." I told her. "I think she just told him she was leaving, though. That's what she usually does. But I mean, Nico... He doesn't have a lot of fears. Doesn't cry over nightmares or anything like that. And that looked like a depressed crying. Not a scared kind of thing, or stress or anything. Maybe somebody said something they shouldn't have?"

So we call Dad. He was awake, happy to see us. Didn't ask how I was here. Just went with it.

"What's up?" Dad asked us. "Usually Nico the one to call if anyone."

"Did you talk with him this morning?" I asked Dad. "He's not exactly okay at the moment."

"No." He told me. "I haven't for a few days. What's wrong?"

"We dont know." Hazel explained. "We didn't know he was awake until we peeked in and saw him crying. We don't know what would do that. Because nobody died in the last 9 hours. It's not stress. Somebody had to say or do something to him. Thought maybe you'd know."

"I have no idea." He told us. "Sorry. Wish I could help."

Then it hit me.

"The outfit Nico was wearing..." I said. "It's classified as a girls outfit, isn't it?"

"Yeah." Hazel told me. "It is. Why?"

"If Mom saw that..." I said. "Assuming he was wearing that when she told him she was leaving, she'd ask what the fuck he's wearing, why he's wearing such a thing, and probably do everything but take it off for him."

"Why?" Hazel asked.

"Very straight mind." I explained. "Girls are girls. They do girl thing. They like guys. Guys are guys. They do guy things. They like girls. End of story. No overlap. I'm surprised she didn't freak out when she found out he was with Percy."

"When did that happen?" Dad asked. "And did he ever find that demon? Zeus is gonna wanna know today. And is it gone?"

"Found it, yeah." I said.

"Gone, well..." Hazel said. "You know..."

"Who is it?"

"Percy.' I said. " and its not possession. I guess he born like that."

He just nodded his head. Letting it sink in that Nico was with a demon.

Frank, Jason, Leo, Piper, Reyna, Percy, and Grover walk in. Breakfast was in 2 minutes. We're usually 5 minutes early apparently.

"What's going on?" They just knew.

"Hades?" Was Jason's question. "Okay, what happened serious enough to call your dad?"

"And I thought Nico was the first one up usually." Frank said.

"He's up." Hazel assured them, and pointed to his room. "But he's not coming out."

"Why?" Percy questioned.

"We're not 100%." I tell them. "I'm guessing our mom said something to him that he didn't take nicely or wasn't nice in the first place. If its about his outfit or I have no idea. We went to get him out a little over 10 minutes ago and he was up."

They all thought for a hot second and mentally agreed on Percy walking in.

"Are..." Hazel said. "Is be a dumbass? Did I miss that?"

"No, he's onto something." Grover said.

"Like what?" I asked.

"When was the last time that dude cried over something?" Piper asked.

"I've never seen him cry..." Frank answered.

"I don't think any of us have." Leo commented. "Bianca?"

"When he was little and we were moving to a different country." I said. "He hasnt as far as know ever since our mom died when he was like 8."

"No, he cried like 4 years ago." Grover told us. "Then again, you were dead, so... And he was really stressed out. But never since then."

We looked into the room. Percy was kneeled down, at the bed height, where Nicos head was. Talking to him. Communicating with him.

I took a video, fuck yeah. Not because they're dating. But to show my mom that he was a demon. And he cared. And he cared about Nico.

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Percy:

There's this thing. It's called talking. Why they didn't try, I have no idea.

But I walked into his room, knocking as I opened the door and walked over to his bed. He wasn't crying anymore. But you could tell he had been pretty bad.

"Hey." I said, kneeling down to his height being he was laying down on the bed. "I hear something happened."

He nodded his head.

"Yeah." Nico told me. "Little bit."

I was aware of what he was wearing. Honestly, I didn't care. He can wear whatever the fuck he pleases. It's his choice, his life.

He sat up, me sitting down next to him.

"What happened?" I asked, taking his hand. If Bianca and Hazel seriously don't know by now. They'll find out pretty dam soon.

"My mom." The son of Hades told me, letting out a breathing. "She's looking at apartments and I was already up. Dressed and what not. She knocked and opened the door, telling me she was going to head out. She's leaving a note and she saw my outfit and it started out calm. Asked about it and I told her I liked it when I tried it on. She asked why I wore it. Why I'd wear such a thing. I explained to her what I am. That I'm trans. That I'm gay. And it's not a phase. It's not a stage. And she flipped out. She yelled at me, lectured me. Hit me once. I knew telling her wouldn't be easy. But... Not that.'

Another tear fell from his eye and I gave him a hug and a kiss on the forehead.

"Don't worry." I told Nico. "Something tells me Hazel and Bianca wont be the same way."

"Hazel already knows." He told me. I knew about it. He told me that first night in the bunker. Flat out he told me I'd have to deal with it if we would be together and I mean for him to be able to tell me that so soon, and I mean right after I had asked him to stay and he did stay he said if he did and I made a small list, too. One, I'm a demon. Two, pansexual, not bi or gay. And so on. If you can't be honest what can you be, right?

I stayed with him for the next half hour as he calmed down. I missed breakfast, but I have food. So no big deal.

By the way it was the 15th of August. Mid-summer inspection was bullshit. That was the end of summer one. Minus last day.

I walked out to get a bottle of water from the fridge and I got one. But as soon as I closed the door.

"I have a caretaker for you."

Jumped a little bit.

"Gods, Crowley." I said, turning around. "We've discussed this. Don't do that."

"Well you're not answering my calls." He told me.

"Because an angel nearly put me down." I told him. "What do you call them... Moose and Squirrel and their angel, Castiel attacked. Or more Castiel and Sam did and Dean stopped them and then Cas fucking stabbed me."

Nico stepped out of his room.

"Who here...?" He said. "Crowley?"

"Shorty?"