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Nico di Angelo-Solace glared at the sign of the restaurant he and his twenty-five-year-old husband were about to enter.

"Why are we at Olive Garden? It's an insult to my culture," Nico told him with a huff as Will rolled his eyes.

"The little girl we're looking into adopting likes this place," the blonde replied dragging him in, "It's healthier than McDonalds which was our other choice."

"I like McDonalds!"

After Apollo got back to Olympus the Demigods had to move on with their lives. Percy and Annabeth got married after collage, the blonde woman had started work on New Athens with her husband at her side which was where Nico and Will lived to this day. Piper and Reyna had hooked up after Jason's death, finding comfort in each other. Both couples had at least one child, Annabeth and Percy had a five-year-old son named Luke and a two-year-old daughter named Silena while the two girls had a little boy, they named Tom after Piper's grandpa who had recently turned four. Leo and Calypso still lived at the Waystation in Indianapolis, but they visited both coasts to see their friends and were engaged while Hazel and Frank were still dating.

Nico and Will had decided to investigate adopting a child, but not a mortal, a fellow Half-blood. Luckily for them Hermes found out and told them that he had a daughter who was going to sadly lose her mother to brain cancer in a matter of months they might be able to take in. They were heading to the restaurant to meet the pair for lunch and to see how they got along with the child. Once inside the Italian restaurant they found the pair waiting for them. Both had females had brown hair, the child's eyes were hazel while her mothers were green. Said child was hiding partly behind her mother looking nervous holding a white teddy bear from Build-a-bear workshop that was in a little pink dress with rainbow sequins on the chest part of the outfit.

"Hi, you must be Will and Nico, right?" the woman asked with a smile.

Will nodded, "Yes, you must be Amanda and Candace, right?"

"Candi," the little girl said softly.

"Excuse me?" asked Nico looking down as Will got them a table.

Amanda spoke up, "She likes to be called Candi, with an "I", it's her nickname."

"Are you the Boogie Man?" asked the child as they were seated pointing at Nico, referring to his dark aura.

"Be nice!" her mother told the toddler.

Will frowned, hoping his husband wasn't upset.

"No, I'm what the Boogie Man fears most," Nico told her as little girl tried to climb into her booster seat all by her herself, clearly more independent than most kids her age due to her mother's condition, "Let me help you."

She looked up at him in awe as he put her in her seat, "Cool!"

Amanda smiled as the child started to color her menu.

"Do you have any questions for us, Amanda?" asked Will.

"Who are your godly parents just out of curiosity?"

"Mine's Apollo, so no worries about her health," replied the blonde with a smile.

"The sun one?" guessed the child looking up from her crude drawings.

"That's right, you're a smart little girl."

Nico sighed, "Mine's Hades."

"The one with his head on fire?" asked Candi, "He's funny! Pegasus blew his hair out!"

"What?"

"Sorry, we recently watched Disney's Hercules so I'm guessing she's assuming that's what your father looks like," explained Amanda as Will snickered trying to picture his husband dressed as Meg.

"It's fine," Nico said pinching his husband under the table to shut him up, "I'm sorry to tell you he looks like a normal guy, just really pale."

"So you can't roast marshmallows on his head?" Candi asked innocently making Will full out crack up despite Nico pinching him again.

"No, but if I embarrass my husband enough you can do it over his," the Ghost king replied grinning at his lover.

"Hey!"

The three-year-old blinked before looking at her mother, "Can I have sketti, Mommy?"

"Yes you may," her mother told her before shifting her hair telling the boys it was indeed a wig as the suspected meaning that they had caught it at a point they thought it was still possible to cure her.

Neither said anything about Amanda's condition until Candi needed the bathroom and Will volunteered to take her giving Nico a chance to speak up.

"Does Candi know you're sick?"

Amanda nodded sipping her tea, "She's been there from the start, of course she knows I'm sick, no three-year-old is normally like that. Not that it's a bad thing, she's a good girl and I'm proud of her. She calls my tumor "the yucky thing in Mommy's head". She knows I'm dying and going into hospice soon and I want to take her to Disneyworld before I go in. I remember last Christmas she asked Santa if he could make me better."

"What did he say?"

"The mall Santa actually had a good response, he told her, "I'm sorry little girl, I would help if I could, but this kind of thing is out of my control. The doctors treating her are doing their best. All I can do is try to make the Christmases you have left with her as wonderful as I can." I thought it was sweet and thanked him before we left," she explained, "After that we went to build a bear and made her teddy, she never goes anywhere without it. Her birthday is December twenty-third, so it was close enough to her birthday."

"We'll make sure they're both well cared for if you entrust them to us," Nico told her patting her hand, having gotten more comfortable with physical contact over the years.

"Thank you," she told him as Will and the child came back.

"Mommy! They have weird potties in the boys' room!" Candi told her mother excited to share her discovery as she was put back into her booster seat.

Nico gave his husband a weird look, "You took her into the men's room?"

"I couldn't very well go into the ladies' room, Neeks, besides all she needed me for was help to reach the sink."

"Did you wipe up after you were done little lady?" Amanda asked.

Candi nodded as the waiter brought salad and a bowl of minestrone soup for Nico.

"What's that?" the child asked pointing at the bowl.

"It's minestrone soup, it's something that I find at least half way decent at this place," the Italian told her, "It has beans, veggies and pasta in it. Do you want to try some?"

The little girl shook her head making a face, "I don't like beans."

…

Over the next month the two males got to know Amanda and Candi better until they got some bad news.

"My insurance won't cover my hospice stay…I have to pay for it out of pocket, so I can't take Candi to Disneyworld…" Amanda admitted one day while she had coffee with Nico in her apartment while Will took the little girl to the park.

"Have you told Candi?"

Amanda shook her head, "I don't have the heart to. I mean last time we were at the mall bought her a Tiana costume and a Rapunzel outfit for her bear. She's so excited about it and I don't know what to do."

Nico frowned, he could tell how upset she was about having to break her promise to her little girl which was when he got an idea.

"What if Will and I paid for the trip?"

"You'd do that?!" Amanda cried her eyes widening before she grunted in pain holding her head.

"Sorry, yes we'd pay for the trip on the condition that we get to come along…Also is Tiana the princess from New Orleans?" Nico asked.

"Yes to both. Why were you asking about Tiana?"

"A friend of mine has called my half-sister that and I've been trying to figure out where the name comes from," Nico explained as Will came in with a sleepy Candi.

"She burned herself out, all ready for nap time."

"Kisses," the child demanded.

Amanda giggled as Will picked her up and kissed her head before carrying her over to the other two so they could do the same before she snuggled into the blonde for her nap.

"After you put her down, we need to talk," Nico told him smiling.

…

"Why are we taking a train to Disneyworld?" Candi asked as they boarded the Amtrak train bound for Florida.

"Nico can't fly," replied Will as they found their seats.

"Why?"

"Zeus is a jerk about his brothers' children being in his domain. My friend and cousin…I guess, Percy, who is the son of Poseidon, has only flown in a plane in a few times in his life and it honestly terrifies him. He doesn't mind flying on Pegasi, though. Zeus allows it since Poseidon created horses and had a hand in the creation of the first, and immortal Pegasus whom I've met once," explained Nico helping Will put their smaller bags overhead, the larger ones in the baggage car.

The son of Hades got the child's attention the moment he mentioned Pegasus since she didn't know that Pegasi was the term for multiple creatures.

"You met Pegasus?" the little girl asked her eyes wide.

Amanda giggled knowing that her daughter would be happy and safe with the boys, a curly red wig on her head for this trip. Her daughter had insisted since it reminded her of her mother's favorite Disney Princess; Merida.

"Yeah, he got to travel the world while I was stuck delivering a baby Satyr…" Will said with a shudder.

Nico rolled his eyes, "I can't believe you're still shaken up by that. It was years ago, get over it."

The blonde dramatically leaned on his husband, "I was traumatized, comfort me."

Nico took his seat letting the blonde fall, though he caught himself.

"You wound me!" he said, amusing Amanda and confusing Candi as he took his seat.

"Good thing you heal quick," Nico replied with a smirk.

"I don't get it," commented the child.

"You don't have to get it honey," her mother told her kissing her head, "They're being silly."

"Did they bring that fancy book I saw last time?" Candi asked having seen their wedding album on a shelf when she and her mother had visited their home and thought it was a story book.

"We brought a copy but it's not what you think," Nico told her pulling it out and opening it to the first page showing himself and Will in suits along with several people neither female knew.

"That's you!" she said happily pointing at Nico in the photo.

"Good eye, these are photos from my wedding to Will about four and a half years ago," Nico said letting her sit on his lap.

"Is that Naomi Solace the singer?" asked Amanda pointing at Will's mother.

Will grinned, "Yep, that's my mom."

"Wow, I thought it was a coincidence, I didn't think you were related to her!" squealed Amanda.

Candi pointed at Piper, "Who's that? She's fat."

"That wasn't nice, Candi. That's our friend Piper, she was pregnant when this was taken. She has a little boy now named Thomas, most of us call him Tom or Tommy. Let's see that's my half sister Hazel, that's Frank her boyfriend- "

"He's a giant!" the child squealed making Nico and Will laugh.

"He is a big guy but not an actual giant," Will commented, "He's a real sweetheart. Next to Piper is her wife Reyna. She warned me that if I ever hurt Nico, she'd beat me up. Frank and Hazel backed her up...so did Jason… Roman demigods are scary…then again Percy and Annabeth did it too."

"Who are they?" Amanda asked looking at the photo too deciding not to ask why his voice took a sad tone when he mentioned this Jason person.

"That's Annabeth right there, that's Percy her husband and that little boy is this son, Luke. They live in New Athens unlike everyone else," Nico told her pointing them out, "The Latino elf right there is Leo, boy was it hard to get him to stay still for the pictures. A lot of us Demigods have ADHD, but he has it in spades! Next to him is his fiancée; Calypso who was his girlfriend back then. Since I was the "Bride" the girls were my brides' maids though Hazel was my maid of honor since she's my sister. Will picked his brother Austin to be his best man, he's right there."

"Did they try to put you in a dress, Papa Nico?" the child asked.

"Hades, yes," Nico groaned, "I think Piper still has pictures of me in some they managed to get me into."

"Really?" asked a curious blonde, "You, never told me that."

"You never asked."

"I bet Papa Nico looked pretty!" chirped Candi smiling up at him.

Nico smiled back, "Thank you, sweetie."

TBC…