Leico- I've Known You My Whole Life

Leo’s hand was pressed against the other’s somewhat cold face, Nico closed his eyes quickly. All was quiet, the only thing that could be heard was the soft breaths that escaped their mouths once in a while.
Then Leo tilted the others head up slightly, and connected their lips in a small passionate kiss. Nico’s eyes flew open, and they widened, then they drifted closed some as his hand moved and gripped the other’s shirt. They were both pressing into the kiss, that is until the front door of Leo’s house opened, then slammed shut.
Both the boys jumped away from each other, both of their faces were flushed an unbelievable red. Everything was quiet until Esmeralda came into the room and smiled at the two boys.
“Are you two okay? You look as if you’re up to something.” Leo shook his head quickly and laughed a bit.
"Momma don't be silly!" He gave Nico a quick look before moving to hug her lightly, she chuckled lightly and petted his head. She hummed lightly and looked over at Nico for a moment.
She moved away from her son some then and went over to Nico, hugging him softly. "I swear you spend more time here than anything, might as well marry you off to Leo and call you a Valdez!"
Nico’s eyes widened and his face became a darker shade of red. “M-Mrs. Valdez..Leo’s like my best friend..ever.”
She stifled a bit, “I wonder about that sometimes but if you say so, I’m sure Leo would love to marry you,” her eyes flickered to her son who seemed to busy himself with his blankets. “And, you don’t have to call me Mrs. Valdez, call me Esmeralda or momma.”
Nico stared blankly for a moment then nodded slightly. “Alright..”
“Alright now, boys, I need you to finish your homework and then run to the store for me, can you handle that?”
They both nodded their heads and then Esmeralda walked out the room with a small smile on her face.
Leo and Nico sat down and begun the homework assignment, practically forgetting about the previous events. Well, at least that’s what they both thought, until Leo’s head burst into flames. Nico looked at the other with wide eyes.
“Leo! Your head! It’s on fire!” He moved to get off the bed, then he ran downstairs to grab a cup of water, on his return he threw it on Leo’s head; who began to smoke afterwards. Nico covered his face and tried to calm down his breathing.
That was probably that most terrifying thing Nico had ever witnessed in his life, Leo just stared at his friend blankly. He was use to it because it happened a few times while Nico was in New York.
Ten minutes later, Nico moved to lean against the wall with a small sigh, he shifted a bit and leaned on the corner. He only began to look confused when Leo’s eyes widened. Without him noticing, Nico’s whole body began to melt into the shadows, so within minutes he was now in the living room.
Now both of the boys were utterly confused, Nico stared at the couch for a moment, then looked at the stairs as he heard Leo running down them as quick as he could. Nico moved and greeted the other and then looked back at the couch that was occupied by Nico’s mother, and two men.
Esmeralda came in and sat next to the guy that looks like he spent his whole life in a forge, she smiled sweetly at him and handed him some tea, while she handed the guy that looked like he had never seen the sunlight a day in his life, some water.
Maria looked at the paler male and placed a fragile hand on his shoulder, the females seemed to smile much more than they usually did, and their faces were even flushed slightly. Nico and Leo looked at each other, then at their mothers. Both of the boys shifted awkwardly.
“Mama?” both the boys questioned their mothers at the same time, the mothers glanced back at them for a moment giving them soft smiles.
Nico and Leo narrowed their eyes at the men, who were so close to their mothers, they shifted awkwardly and moved over to the women and pulled them away, and practically clinging to them. They didn’t trust those men, it’d take a lot for them to trust them.
The two men stood up and looked at the boys and grinned, then their eyes drifted to Maria and Esmeralda. The more pale one spoke, “When I say this, I’m sure Hephaestus would agree, you’ve raised the children wonderfully, but now they have to go to camp.”
As they spoke, Leo and Nico tightened their grips on their mothers and let out a small breath, trying to think of something to say to intervene with this whole ‘camp’ conversation.
After a few moments, Leo moved and tugged on his mom’s shirt, interrupting the two men. Leo spoke quickly, “Momma! Nico and I kissed!” Maria and Esmeralda looked at Leo for a moment and then their eyes drifted to Nico.
Esmeralda was about to say something when Hephaestus held up his hand and looked at Leo seriously, then cracked a grin. “That’a boy! I’m proud of you.”
Unlike Hephaestus, Hades looked at his son for the longest time and then began laughing. Maria looked confused by his actions but she didn’t say anything.
After a few moments, everything calmed down. Leo shifted and looked at Nico, whose face had turned a dark red and his eyes were wide from complete shock. Finally, Nico moved. He walked over to Leo and hissed quietly, “You idiot! Why would you say that!?”
“They wouldn’t stop talking about that camp! You know, the one we put off a couple years back?”
Nico pursed his lips and glanced to the side for a moment, then let out a sigh. “Fine, but still, not cool!”
“I know, I know, but I’ve known you my whole life, so I figured you’d be okay with it.”
“I get it, I get it.” Nico huffed and ran a hand through his dark hair and looked back at the two older males, trying to figure out how they were even related to either of them.
After the two boys had finished their conversation, the gods moved to look them over for a moment.
A son of Hades and a son of Hephaestus. Amazing. Maria and Esmeralda shifted slightly, giving each other sideways glances, they knew the gods were unpredictable...very unpredictable. Hades moved and pulled out a sword, and held it out to Nico.
The pale boy didn’t move, he only stared at Hades blankly. A minute passed and Hades sat the sword down beside Nico and spoke. “Nico, my son this sword, Ephialtes, and this will be your sword when you go into camp half-blood.”
Nico frowned a bit and shook his head some, “I’m not going there..”
“And why not?”
“It’s stupid.”
Hades growled lightly, and then shook his head. “You have to, or you’ll die.“
Nico furrowed his brows and crossed his arms, “Oh, what a wonderful person you are!” After he said that, he stormed off with Leo trailing after him.
Hephaestus looked at Hades for a moment and shook his head quickly, “Telling him that he’s going to die if he doesn’t use the sword? Smart.” Hades frowned a bit and looked over at Maria for a moment. Maria blinked and laughed a bit, “Don’t worry, I’ll go talk to him.” She moved to follow after her son with a small smile on her face.
When Maria found Nico, he was sitting on Leo’s bed fuming about how Hades was being bossy. Leo was combing his fingers through the other’s dark hair, laughing once in a while. Maria moved and sat on the other side of Nico and took his hand. “Nico, darling your dad only means well, don’t down him.” She pressed a kiss into his cheek and let out a small breath.
“Momma, how is he my father?”
“Well, without going into… details, he helped make you.”
“Ew! Mom! No! That’s gross!” Nico quickly covered his ears, while Leo burst into a fit of laughter. Nico moved and shoved Leo to the side and huffed, neither of them were any help.
Leo let out a small breath, then moved to tackle Nico. Laughing some, he then poked the raven haired boy’s pale cheek and talked softly, “Nicy please? It’s not like he’d do anything bad, so trust him, for me? Please?” Leo gave him a small sweet smile, and shifted slightly.
Nico rolled his eyes and then nodded slightly, “Fine.”
“Thanks!” Leo chuckled lightly and then moved to run down the stairs to rejoin the older males to ‘investigate’ them. Nico sighed and then looked at his mother for a moment, then he shook his head a bit. “Mama, why?”
“Why what, Nico?”
“Why a god? You know you could get hurt!”
“I know, but he was so charming. I couldn’t help myself.”
A small smile spread across his lips as he moved to hug his mother lightly, brushing back her dark hair. Her old eyes were full of happiness, and that alone made Nico happy. He moved some and pressed a small kiss into her cheek. Her body was so warm it was amazing. He moved behind her and pulled her hair back, then he began brushing his fingers through strands of her hair.
After a few moments, she stopped him and looked at him, “We should go back to everyone, my son.” He nodded in agreement.
They both moved off the bed, and descended down the staircase to rejoin the rest of the group. Leo was sitting next to his mother, chattering on about everything, Hephaestus was laughing at a few things. It seemed like they were getting along well. Nico’s eyes drifted to his own father. He sat there with his head leaned against his fist.
Nico looked at his mother for a moment before moving to grab the sword, then sitting next to Hades. Fidgeting slightly, he gripped the sword in his hands. “A-ahmn...thank you..for the sword.” He swallowed then looked over at Leo who was grinning ear to ear.
Minutes past, as Leo kept talking and everyone listened to him, as soon as Leo mentioned that time they got into a fight and Nico screamed like a girl, Nico stood up quickly and hissed. “Leonardo Valdez! You stop all these stories! Oh gods! Augh...I didn’t scream like a girl.”
Leo snicked a bit and moved to pat Nico’s face softly, calming him down a bit. “Don’t call me Leonardo.”
“Fine but no more.”
“Alright.”
Once everything calmed down Hades and Hephaestus stood up and looked at their sons, and Hephaestus spoke. “You boys need to make a trip to camp half-blood, check it out, then if you don’t like it come back to your mothers.” The gods gave each other sad looks.
Nico and Leo nodded softly then moved to hug their mothers slightly. “We’ll go, but don’t expect us to stay.”
“That’s fine by us,” Hades spoke in a gruff voice.
Leo let out a soft breath, then moved to pull Nico into the kitchen, indicating that the Valdez was hungry, which wasn’t weird. The mothers gave soft chuckles and went to place soft kisses on the older males’ cheeks before thanking them and bidding them a farewell.
Hephaestus disappeared in a flame, while Hades disappeared into a black smoke and got sucked into the ground.
When the boys returned they blinked and looked around before Leo asked: “What happened to them?”
“They went home.”
“Oh..alright.” He stuck a cookie in his mouth, not caring anymore. Nico snickered slightly and took a cookie out of Leo’s bag and nibbled on it until he was pulled back upstairs.
The boys were always happy when they were together, so maybe this time they were going to take to get all the way up to camp half-blood would be good. When they got back into Leo’s room they sat down, and began talking about how they would get there and how long it’d take.
After talking it over for a few minutes they finally fell asleep on Leo’s bed, so when their mothers came to check on them they only stared at them and then left to let them be.

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