Hi there guys!

It´s thegoddesskym who finally decided to post her first english fanfic and with that I mean not translated.

This story starts in April/May after the Giant War. It is going to have a lot of Solangelo Fluff, stupid/annoying mortals, monster fighting, school drama, maybe some drama and angst later on, cameos of the rest of the crew and nosy classmates. Oh and Jules-Albert. Scaring other parents.

I don´t really know that much about the school breaks in the US (when they are and how much), so I´m going with mine.

But that is enough talk. Now I just wish you fun with the story!

The Safe House

Chapter 1

When Nico di Angelo stepped into the Big House the other counselors were already there. Chiron had called a meeting this morning during breakfast, but Nico had overslept, so had only learned of it about five minutes ago.

The moment he pushed open the door to the rec-room all eyes were on him and they stopped what they were doing. Pollux had paused in mid-sentence, Clarisse held Connor by his shirt and her fist was hovering over his face and Katie and Travis were pulling on either side of something that looked like a deformed spear.

"Nico!" Percy jumped up from where he sat at the head of the pingpong table. He walked around the table and grabbed the Son of Hades by the wrist.

"Come on, I saved a seat for you"

Nico rolled his eyes and freed his wrist from Percy´s grip. The silence started to become uncomfortable, so Nico sat down next to Percy.

Once Nico sat, the tension left the room and the chaos started again. Nico let his gaze wander over the room. Most of the other counselors were talking to each other, except for Katie and Travis who were now yelling. Connor fled from Clarisse and was now at the other side of the table and the counselor of the Nike cabin, whose name Nico had forgotten, was making dolphin noises, which already got on Nico´s nerves. Some other kids started joining in and soon a concert of animal noises filled the air. With a frown he noticed, that Chiron wasn't there yet. So maybe he was actually on time.

As he learned about two seconds later, he wasn´t. The door opened again and Chiron trotted into the room. In his arms was a plastic bag full of round objects.

"Here they are. As I said before, these balls will help conceal the safe houses" He put the bag on the table, when his eyes fell on Nico."So you finally decided to join us", he asked with a hint of amusement in his voice. "Anyway, these concealer balls will put a damper on demigod scent. It should make it safe enough to live in the mortal world and help out demigods on the run."

Chiron kept talking about some stuff Nico didn't understand. He leaned over to Percy, who wasn't really listening.

"What is he talking about?", he whispered.

"Huh, what?" Percy turned to face Nico, confusion on his face.

"What did I miss?", Nico asked again.

Percy looked back at Chiron and shrugged. "Something about safe houses and helping demigods." He looked sheepish. "I didn't really listen" He looked over at Annabeth, who sat at the other side of the table, a dreamy look on his face. "I mean, have you seen her? She looks perfect today" He sighed. Nico glanced over at Annabeth. He couldn't detect anything that was different then normally.

He decided to leave Percy to daydreaming over his girlfriend and turned the other way. On his other side sat Jason, who was listening with a frown on his face. Nico opened his mouth to ask his question, when Jason asked something himself: "But what about our duties as head-counselors?"

"These will be taken over by your second-in-commands. And you wouldn't really count as full campers anymore, seeing as you woulnd't be living here."

Now Nico was completely confused. What did Chiron mean by that?

"Do we have to do this, or is it voluntarily?", asked Lou Ellen.

"It is, of course, voluntarily, but I would be glad if some of my most trusted campers could do this, seeing as you're more than capable of defending yourself."

Defending? Safe houses? What was going on? Nico had enough of not knowing anything. He poked Jason in the ribs, who nearly jumped out of his seat at that. Nico raised an eyebrow. Someone was deep in thought.

"What is it?", Jason asked a bit distracted.

"What are they talking about?"

Jason had to stifle a laugh. "You sure came late. I don't know if it is too interesting for you, though"

Nico send him a look that clearly said 'Shut up and get on with it'. This time Jason actually laughed and Nico hit him against the arm.

"Wait, you're serious? You don't know what we're talking about?"

"I wouldn't ask, if I did!", this came out louder than he wanted and a few glances were send in their direction. Nico ignored them, he was good at that.

Jason dropped back down to a whisper. "Chiron and Reyna agreed, that it woud be good for us to build up safe houses all over northern America and maybe even the whole world. So we could help demigods on the run or on their way to camp, make their journey safer."

"And how do they plan on doing that? We will be monster lunch as soon as anyone of us is send out there"

Jason chuckled. "You give Reyna too less credit"

Nico clearly did not, but he still didn't understand how that should work.

Jason nodded to the plastic bag on the pingpong table. "That's were these balls come in. They can hide demigod scent ... partly, which makes it a lot safer"

Nico noticed the 'partly' which was probably the reason Chiron wanted them to do it. Even if most of the scent was hidden, there would still be monsters coming after them, so they needed demigods who could defend themselves and others.

Nico turned back to Chiron, who was now in the middle of rolling out a map of North-America. Seven red and seven green spots were all over the map. One near Mexico City, in the Dominican Republic, in southern Colorado, Vancouver, Chicago, northern Ontario, Montreal, Tennessee and even Hawaii.

"The red spots mark safe houses with greek demigods, the green ones with Romans. You will be moving in a few days prior to the Romans"

"Have these balls ever been tested before?", asked Katie.

Chiron nodded. "They have, but we haven't had safe houses before"

Katie nodded and looked a lot more relaxed.

"So if that is all you have on questions, everybody who is interested can stay here, the rest is allowed to go."

No one moved, not even Clovis (who was, wonder over wonder, awake), but that was expected. The offer of staying in the mortal world and leading a somewhat normal life was to good to be turned down. Chiron smiled, as if he anticipated it.

Five minutes later Nico regretted staying.

Chiron had just said that there would be teams of two moving into each safe house. Now everybody was yelling and picking partners and some were complaining that their best friends weren't counselors. Chiron was desperatly trying to get them to calm down.

Suddenly a shrill whistle pierced through the chatter.

The sound send chills down Nico's spine and his eyes snapped to the source of the sound. Will Solace stood next to Chiron, his arms crossed before his chest and sending glares at everyone who dared complain about the sound. Nico's heart fluttered at the sight of his boyfriend.

"How about everybody raises their hand before they speak?"

After most of the present demigods nodded he sat down and blushed. Will wasn't used to people actually listen to him outside of the infirmary.

Leo was the first to raise his hand and promptly started speaking. "What about people who aren't counselors. Can we take them with us?"

Everybody knew who he was speaking about. Leo and Calypso returned to Camp about three months ago, roughly the same time Will and Nico started dating. And Nico said 'roughly' because neither of them knew for sure when they started. They kissed three months and two weeks ago (not that Nico was counting), but first agreed on liking each other about a week later and then finally spoke about who they were for each other another week later. It was all really confusing.

But back to the topic.

Chiron just explained to Leo that, if the other person agreed and was able to fight good enough, this person could join him. Leo burst in flames at this and sprinted out the door. Some other campers stood up and followed, either searching for team members or deciding, that they didn't really want to go out there and just realized it.

Annabeth had joined Percy on their side of the table and they were now talking in hushed voices. Jason was looking at Piper, across the table, who seemed not to notice, as she was trying to convince Connor to give her dagger back. Clovis went back to sleep and muttered something about McDonald's and a farm. The animal noises earlier seemingly left a lasting impression.

"So", said Jason, trying to start a conversation with the son of Hades.

Nico looked at him.

"Who are you gonna partner up with?"

Well, he didn't think about that.

The moment was saved by Will, who sat in the seat next to Jason that earlier was occupied by Clarisse, who probably left in search for her boyfriend.

"So, Nico, you wanna be my partner?"

Nico looked at him startled. Was he serious? He seriously wanted to spend gods know how long with Nico instead of his friends?

"Umm..."

Will's face fell. "Oh, you already got someone"

"No! I mean yes, I mean, I would like to be your partner"

Will's face lit up again and Nico had the feeling he was staring right into the sun, so bright was Will's smile.

"That's awesome!"

Nico blushed in response. "But you do know, this is a bit more than a school project"

Will rolled his eyes, still smiling. "Course I do"

Nico couldn't help but smile too. A bit.

"This. Is. Adorable!"

Nico glared at Jason, who was looking at them with a expression Nico has only ever seen on children of Aphrodite while talking about their OTP. Will was bright red and stammered something about going back to his own seat. Not a second later Will was around the table furiously trying to get rid of the blush.

Nico scowled at the son of Jupiter. "Great, now you scared him of"

Jason just grinned stupidly and focused on Piper, who finally had her dagger back.

"Chiron?", Annabeth spoke up.

"Yes?"

"What about school? I wanted to go to college next summer and we don't know how long this will take."

"Ah. Yes, everyone of you in High School age, which is the majority, will be enrolled in school. Annabeth, Percy if you want, you could skip out or have a city with a college"

Annabeth nodded and went back to discussing things with Percy.

"Wait, we have to go to school?", came a voice from the door.

Leo stood there, Calypso behind him, with a horrified expression on his face. Nico rolled his eyes at Leo's antics.

Chrion sighed.

"Yes, Leo, you have to go to school. Because of the constant treat of monster attacks a lot of the campers have to skip out on a good education. This Safe House Program will offer you an opportunity to have a good education and maybe later even a good job. You should appreciate it", explained Annabeth before Chiron could say anything.

Chiron send her a grateful look. Everybody knew that Leo listened to Annabeth.

Leo still looked disgruntled but sat down, pulling Calypso in his lap. Leo followed a handful of other campers, Clarisse and Chris, Lou Ellen, but at the same time some of the counselors stood up and left the room.

"As much as that just made sense..."

"we are not going to school..."

"So, bye!"

Travis and Connor fled the room, Katie trailing behind them.

In the end it was only Percy, Annabeth, Jason, Piper, Chris, Clarisse, Pollux, Clovis, Leo, Calypso, Lou Ellen, Cecil, Will and Nico himself left. Surprisingly just enough for every safe house.

"I knew it would be like this as soon as we mentioned the school."

"I'm surprised you actually want to go to high school. I mean, I only have three months of senior year left, but you guys have at least one year", Percy said.

Nico just shrugged. High School was part of a normal life, so he would do that voluntarily if that meant that he didn´t have to fight monsters every wake moment.

That exact thought was spoken aloud by Clarisse, which was surprising and a bit scary.

"Do you know, who of the roman camp is going?", asked Jason.

Chiron shook his head. "Are these all the questions you have?"

All fourteen of them nodded.

"Good, then lets take a look at the locations"

Percy, being Percy, was the first one to yell "Hawaii", even though the spot there was green.

"Seaweed Brain", muttered Annabeth und shook her head amused.

Percy, noticing his mistake, declared want of the Dominican Republic next. Everybody burst out laughing at that.

"You can´t just say, you want it. That is a country not a toy" Annabeth sighed. "What will I ever do with you?"

Percy looked sheepish and sat down on his chair.

"Can we have the house there? I speak Spanish after all. And it is in the Caribbean and only awesome Captains of flaming hot warships are allowed to go there. Then I will be 'Leo Valdez, the flaming hot pirate of the Caribbean'!"

Everybody rolled their eyes at this because it was so typical Leo.

"Can we have a workshop there?", asked Calypso.

"Of course! We can even have it on our pirate ship"

"Then I am fine with it"

Chiron took a pen and scribbled their names next to the island. Percy was protesting all the time.

"Okay, next!"

It took a while, but finally everyone had their locations.

A lot of protesting, shouting, threatening and fighting later, every location had two names next to it.

Clarisse and Chris had gotten Mexico City, because of Chris's Hispanic heritage, Jason and Piper would be going to Ontario, because Piper understood french. Jason wasn't as happy about it, mainly because it would be colder than in Camp. Percy wasn't happy about his location either. He was stuck in Virgina. Annabeth on the other hand said, the college there had a good architecture program. Clovis and Pollux would be going to a small town in Colorado, where, according to Clovis, the best pillows in the whole world came from. Lou Ellen and Cecil had won the fight over Vancouver which left Nico and Will with Chicago. Neither of them had a problem with that, seeing as Chicago was relatively monster free since the Giant War.

"So, now that we have everything, I will let you go to dinner"

Nico was surprised how fast time has gone by. And that none of them noticed that they missed lunch.

"We meet tomorrow again for detailed information regarding your locations. Then, in the morning of the day after you will leave for your safe house. Now, go"

That´s it. I hope you liked the first chapter :)

The next one will propably be up by the end of the week, hopefully earlier.

see you, thegoddesskym