Written with hibafshaukat (Also you should go read their story the outcast bc it's pretty good so far).

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Reluctantly, Nico pulled himself out of bed that morning. It was one of the glorious nights that he had not had a single nightmare and he was trying to savour that night. But atlas, all good things must come to an end.

After pulling himself out of bed, he pulled back the covers to notice the blood. Okay, now he regrets not tracking his period like Will had suggested. Grabbing some fresh clothes( and a pad) he pulled himself to the bathroom.

Even though he was the only one in his cabin he felt his cheeks growing warm when he looked at the spoiled covers. He stripped the bed, throwing the sheets in a corner, and grabbing new ones.

Once he had finished that task, he went to the bathroom, he tried to turn on the water, nothing. He forgot that the cabin showers water only turned on after dinner. He couldn't use the camp bathroom, what if some new kid noticed the blood? Moaning in despair, he threw on his clothes and dragged himself to the dining pavilion.

He pouted slightly when he saw Percy, Jason, and Will sitting at his table, but walked over anyway, plopping into the seat next to Will.

After a few moments of just kind of staring off into space, Will nudged his shoulder with his own.

"You okay?" He asked, and Nico nodded. Will frowned, "Are you hungry? I can go get you something if you want me to."

Nico made a face, shaking his head. His stomach was hurting to much to eat, the thought of eating made him feel sick.

"No thanks, I'm not really hungry" he replied, edging closer to Will and breathing in his sweet, clean sent.

"Is it your period?" He asked putting an arm around Nico

Nico nodded, he was hoping to spend the day with Will, lying in his cabin.His face fell when he checked his schedule, sword fighting, and with a new Aphrodite camper as well. Great. He thought, now he gets to spend the day with some stuck up new kid trying to teach him to fight.

What about when he has to change his pad ? What excuse should he have to make up?He was snapped out of his thoughts when he saw Will staring at him.

"Everything okay love?"He asked concern lacing his tone.

"Yeah, training a new Aphrodite kid today" was his rather blunt reply.

"Don't worry, once your done I'll come to your cabin, I'll bring chocolate and ice ream" Will said, smirking when he saw Nico's face light up at the sound of ice cream.

"Got to go now though, see you later" he got up, leaving Nico to sit in silence, trying, and failing, to drown out Percy and Jason's voices. They were having some silly argument about flip flops, Nico had no idea what that was about.

Sighing, Nico stands up. He has about half and hour until he has to go to the arena, he figures he could catch a quick nap before, despite the fact that he woke up not even an hour ago.

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After his quick nap, he feels slightly panicked as he tries to think of ways to bring pads to the arena, because there is no way in hell he's bringing a purse.

Biting his lip, he looks around his cabin, stopping when he sees his jacket. Humming, he walks over and picks it up, examining the pockets.

When he deems it good, he quickly shoved a few pads in before putting it on, grabbing his sword, and walking out of his cabin.

He walks into the arena, but to find a 14 year oldish boy leaning against a wall and looking at himself in a mirror. Nico knew that not all Aphrodite kids weren't like this, rude and selfish, he was just unlucky.

Let's get this over with, Nico thought

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This was terrible. Not only was the new kid useless at fighting, but he was snobby as well. Stopping every two seconds to see if his hair was messed up, or complaining that Nico was 'to weak for him' even though he couldn't get a scratch on him

Then it got to the moment when he had to change his pad.

"Just wait a second,I'm just gonna go out for a moment" Nico said grabbing his jacket and about to make a dash for it.

"Why? And what is sticking out of your pocket?" the boy, whose name is Jace, asked pointing to the corner of a pad that was sticking out his pocket.

"Um..... nothing, I'm just going to the bathroom" he said, shoving the corner of the pad back in his pocket, he can't know about his period.

"You can just use the one here,"Jace said, gesturing to the toilet outside the arena

"Well... I'm just going to use the other ones, okay?" the one outside the arena was to close, and unlike the other ones, did not have a bin in it.

"But why?" He asked, "it'd be so much easier to use those, it's so much closer. Your just wasting your own time." Nico glares at him, his hand tightly gripping his sword and his jaw clenched.

"Can you just drop it?" He asked angrily. Jase rolled his eyes, dropping his sword and bowing sarcastically.

"Of course, your majesty."

Nico's jaw clenched, why is this dude so thick? Just drop the subject and let him leave!

Jace cooled down a bit, letting Nico go to the bathroom outside the arena. When he got back he was leaning against the wall without a care in the world.

"Come on, lets just get this over with," Nico grumbled, pulling his sword out again.

"No need to tell me that," Was Jace's unenthusiastic reply

Joining Nico with his sword dragging beside him. The rest of the session seemed pretty uneventful. Jace was still being moody and useless, but no major arguments sprung up.

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Nico flopped onto his bed, that kid is horrible! He hopes that he's never paired with Jace again.

He closes his eyes with a sigh. Not to long after, there is a knock on his door, and he groans, pouting as he rolls over and buried his face in his pillows.

The door opens anyway, and he hears soft footsteps making their way towards him, but the cramps in his stomach keep him from really caring.

He hears something crinkling, like a bag, then a hand runs through his hair, and he sighs, his tense shoulders falling.

"Ice cream and chocolate as promised," he hears, and smiles, rolling over and looking up at Will, who smiles back down at him.

He pulls himself up, grabbing the bag and opening a tub of ice cream immediately. Will chuckles an Nico grabs a spoon an starts to take massive bites.

"You know, your gonna get a brain freeze if you eat that so quickly" he sits down on the bed too, slipping a hand under Nico's shirt and rubs comforting circles on his back.

"I can make the dead bow at my feet, I'm not going to get a brain freeze Will," he says, cuddling closer to the gorgeous demigod that sat next to him

He hears another chuckle once Nico had finished the one ice cream and lay on the bed, groaning once again into his pillow.

Will lay next to him, pulling Nico into his arms. Nico cuddled against him, laying his head on Will and burying his face in his chest.

He felt a pair of warm hands run through his hair and soft lips kiss his hair. Nico shuffles under the covers even more, so the top of his head stuck out of the sheets.

"Your adorable, Neeks"

"No I'm not" he replied sleepily pouting

"Yes you are"

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Knock knock

Will slipped out of bed, trying not to wake up the younger boy, and opened the door to a very angry looking Kayla

"Didn't you remember that you had an extra shift?" Will groans, he forgot about that

Kayla's anger melted away when she saw Nico- who was still sleeping- and smirked at Will

"Fine, I'll let you of with this one, I'll go now ," she said, but before she could leave, "just remember to use protection"

"Kayla!" But she had gone.

Slipping back into bed, the fluff ball of darkness finally gets up. But only for a moment as he falls back to sleep. Will notices the soiled sheets in the corner, sighing and remembering that to remind Nico about them, he falls asleep.
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