So my friends and I often now cosplay as characters from our own stories, or others like Percy Jackson. Today, I was Nico. The three of us were required to write a romance fanfiction and bring it into school, and this is what I came up with. I couldn't resist sharing it here. Hope you enjoy, and please review!

After dinner, the eight demigods each headed back to their own rooms. Percy noticed that Nico had seemed even more pensive than usual, and so he decided that this would be the perfect opportunity to ask him a question that had been bugging Percy for a while now.

As Nico strode next to the wall, Percy sneaked up behind him and held his left hand out, bracing it on the wall, to keep Nico from escaping. Wide-eyed, Nico tried to turn and go the other way, but Percy would have none of that. His right arm completed the cage. Nico swallowed his desire and turned back to the older demigod, eyes fixated on the ground. "So I hear you like someone..." Percy began with his trademark troublemaker grin.

Nico tensed. "...Maybe, why?" he asked in a carefully controlled voice.

"Well obviously, I wanna know who it is!" Percy saw that the question made his friend blush. 'Nico, blushing!?' his mind asked. But it also told him something, something he had to think of Annabeth to quench. "Come on, tell me! It's not fair that Jason knows and I don't! You still owe me one for pretending you didn't know me when I lost my memory, since I decided not to beat you up because..." his grin slipped a little. "the place had hurt you."

Nico shut his eyes, terrified to let the demigod who was mentally and physically trapping him see inside. "Then go ahead and beat me up," he whispered painfully. "I'd rather that."

The grin fully slipped off his face now. He decided to switch tactics. "Please? I could help you with her. I mean unless she's on this ship, but even then, I wouldn't judge!" He leaned in a little with his plea.

Nico shrank away from the intoxicating smell of saltwater. "You're lying!" he rasped, almost in tears. "You would judge me. Everyone would!" He trembled, focusing all of his attention on not crying.

This tugged at Percy's heart-strings. "Never," he promised, with all the comfort and conviction he could muster. "I promMMPH!"

Quick as lightning, Nico snatched the collar of Percy' shirt and pulled the older boy down, while he stood on tiptoes, crushing their lips together. He couldn't help his tears anymore, so he let them fall down both of their cheeks. After two seconds, Nico shoved him backward and sprinted to his room, eyes down in shame.

In shock, Percy held a hand to his lips. He blinked in realization then, following an instinct he didn't even know he had, gave chase. Being faster, he caught up and captured Nico's left arm in his right hand to stop him. Captured his right arm in his left hand. Captured Nico's lips in his lips. "Never," he murmured against Nico before resuming.

'Even better than Annabeth's,' his mind thought.

Percy replied, 'Shut up or you're going to make this awkward!'

'That's never stopped me before.'

'Well there's a first time for everything!' This silenced his mind until all that was left was his body and Nico's. Percy decided he liked this.

No, he loved it.