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[alice_pike]

The great thing about Percy, Nico thinks, is that he never has to say much around him. (The dead don't really talk much, you see, and Nico's learned more from them than just combat and warfare; when you have eternity ahead of you, they tell him, you learn to appreciate silence--the language of quiet company and the ability to read the atmosphere of a situation--and Nico's lucky enough that he doesn't have to die to learn death's lessons and that Percy understands that about him). Percy may be a little slow on the uptake sometimes, about some things, but he's good with emotions--he can intuit feelings like no one Nico's ever met, and even if he doesn't always understand someone's emotion, he knows what's there.

So he nearly goes crazy wondering how Percy's managing to keep himself together. Nico can't stop thinking about when Percy kissed him; besides that days-long (years long, Nico thinks it must have been, now) Mythomagic tournament at the Lotus Casino, it's the longest he's focused on anything, ever. He knows that Percy must sense his anxiety, but Percy's always been that inscrutable hero in Nico's eyes and he has no idea how Percy feels. Nico doesn't do anything like try to kiss Percy again, but silently gauges the situation, reading too much into Percy's every word, his every action. After almost a week, he figures Percy's either trying to ignore the subject and pretend it didn't happen, or he's trying to ignore the subject in the hopes that it'll happen again without his having to try. (This observation doesn't help him). He thinks about talking to Annabeth or Rachel, but he catches Rachel's smug gaze and immediately thinks better of it, and some lingering hesitation prevents him approaching Annabeth about it just yet. So he tries to let it rest, but it just keeps building.

They're at the fire one night; it's the end of July and it's still hot out so they take turns braving sitting close enough to the fire to toast their marshmallows. Nico's just toasted two to perfection, and as he makes his way up the stadium to their row, they start to melt off the stake. He panics and rushes up to Percy ('cause Hades if he's gonna sit by the fire for 10 minutes for the perfect marshmallow again) but trips when he's a row away. Percy manages to both catch him and save the marshmallows at the same time, which Nico can't help but think is pretty impressive.

He takes his seat next to Percy and starts preparing his s'more, but Percy just pops the marshmallow into his mouth. Nico looks affronted. "That would have made the best s'more ever, you know. I spent time on that," Nico informs him scathingly, but Percy just smiles back at him. Nico's mouth breaks into a reluctant grin, and he leans forward and kisses Percy, just like that. Percy's lips are sticky and he tastes too sweet, and almost immediately Nico seems to remember that they're sitting with practically the entire camp and pulls away. But no one's watching them and no one seems to have noticed, and although Percy isn't exactly smiling, he isn't freaking out like last time, either.

"It was perfect," Percy says, and Nico wonders if he's talking about the kiss, or the marshmallow.

[lettersandliars]

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