Leico- I've Known You My Whole Life

The Latino male tackled Nico and hissed lightly. “No! I won't let you leave!” Leo was attempting to stop Nico from leaving the camp. When Leo saw the other roll his eyes, he let out a small whine of protest. “Please Nicy? Stay with me..”
Nico let out a small sigh and rubbed the side of his face slightly. “Leo..I don't want to stay here, I don't really belong here.”
Leo's nose scrunched up a bit as he probably thought of something unpleasant, then he shook his head slightly. “Nico..I, I really want you to stay..Please? For me?” The Latino's eyes seemed more pleading than asking at this moment.
The Italian covered his face for a moment, before shaking his head slightly. “Fine, I'll stay but only for you.” Leo's eyes lit up with excitement before he got up off of Nico and jumped up slightly in excitement. Nico chuckled. “I know you're excited but re-frame from jumping on my bed please.”
Leo laughed lightly and moved to sit beside the other with a small smile on his face. “Sorry, you know how I am.” The other rolled his eyes and gave the other a small curt nod.
Leo pressed his lips together for a moment.
Nico raised an eyebrow, slightly curious about what the Latino was thinking.
“Nico?”
The Italian hummed in question.
Leo continued. “Have you...ever thought about dating me, like when we were younger?”
Nico laughed softly. “Do you not remember that time your mom tried to marry you off to me?”
Leo chuckled lightly, and nodded. Oh yeah, he remembered that day. That was the day he wanted to experiment with Nico. Then his mom walked in, ruined the moment.
Nico shifted slightly and moved to wrap his arms around the others waist, the son of Hades wasn't usually the 'cuddly' type but he didn't care at this moment. He pressed his face into Leo's side and murmured something so soft the son of Hephaestus couldn't hear what was said.
Leo ran his hands through the others hair and let out and soft breath. He leaned his head back against the wall of the cabin and let his thoughts wonder. Would Nico have married me if they were older when my mom said that? How..did Nico feel about me? Were we just friends? If we were just friends how come he let me kiss hi-.
The son of Hephaestus' thoughts were interrupted by a small glow that appeared in the cabin. Nico sat up and looked at it, they learned those things were called IM's or Iris Messages. Leo looked at his companion for a moment as he moved to get a drachma, since that was the only way to answer the messages.
Once Nico located a drachma he glanced at the Latino male and then tossed it in. As soon as the gold coin hit the mist, there was a high pitched scream of agony.
Leo covered his ears, and Nico flinched lightly. The son of Hades looked at the mist for a moment and then moved over to the Latino, covering his eyes quickly. “Don't look Leo..”
The son of Hephaestus was a bit curious now, why would Nico tell him not to look? He moved and pushed the others hands away from his eyes. “Seriously Nico, what's so--...” He stopped his thought once he saw exactly was on the Iris Message.
Leo's mother, Esperanza, was tied to a chair with cuts and bruises all over her body. Who ever sent this IM wanted them, or at least Leo to see this. Esperanza had her eyes shut tight, until a hand from the mass of darkness emerged and grabbed a handful of her hair and yanked her head back quickly and hissed. “Afraid closing your eyes and pretending you're not here will work, Ms.” The voice had a slight thick accent to it, neither of the boys could figure it out. Maybe Swedish?
Esperanza eyes opened and she glared at the male that was holding her hair, but when she spoke it was that same sweet voice she always had. “I wasn't pretending I wasn't here, I was thinking about how I can get out of these bonds to kick your ass.”
Nico was slightly taken aback how Leo's mother just straight out just cussed this man out. Leo on the other hand sorta grinned, that said: 'Oh yeah that's my mom.'
The man who held Ms. Valdez captive moved away for a moment and then returned with a scalpel. “Now, now, no need for that language children are watching.” At first the mechanic was slightly confused until her eyes darted around the area where she was and saw the Iris Message, along with Leo and Nico staring at the scene that was unfolding before them.
Esperanza spat, “Is this your plan? To torture me and get my son to do something horribly stupid to get me back? Do you think he's that stupid?”
The man growled and moved to press the scalpel to her skin and drag the blade across her cheek.
The Latino woman made a hissing sound, shiny scarlet dripped down her dirty skin. She looked like she'd been thrown into dirt, mud, oil, every dirty substance probably known to man. “You think this hurts?” She began to taunt him. “I've had a car practically dropped on me! I've been almost run over with a motorcycle, I've slept on nuts and bolts.”
These words didn't please her captor at all, he moved and yanked her head up and screeched. “How about I decapitate you instead!?”
Once he word decapitate came out of the man's mouth Leo almost lurched off of Nico's bed, yelling in Spanish for the guy to leave his mother alone. Nico had to grab Leo's suspenders so he wouldn't call off the bed and land face first into the Iris Message then the floor.
This reaction from Leo made the male smirk, he moved away from Esperanza for a moment and then returned with gods know what, both the boys watched Esperanza's hands tighten on arm rests she was tied to.
It was all quiet until there was a noise that sounded like a knife coming down on a chopping board, and that, was followed by a high pitched scream of agony. Something dropped to the ground, followed by four other things.
When the man moved away Esperanza's face was going pale, and one hand was missing all of her fingers, and blood dripped from the stumps.
By this time Nico practically hold Leo back from what ever crazy thing he wanted to do, most likely rip this man torturing his mother apart.
The captor made a small 'tch' sound, “You scream too much, mortal woman.” With that he took a pair of scissors and cut out Esperanza's tongue. This man had a sick pleasure of torturing the demigod's mother.
When he was about to continue there was a bellow. “Stop playing with her! Kill her already!”
The captor made an annoyed mock face, and then moved to slug an ax over his shoulder. “Blah blah blah! One headless demigod mother coming up.” He seemed to look her over for a moment before taking the ax and swinging it. This cut the Latino woman's head off. He grinned.
Before he actually cut her head off Nico covered Leo's eyes and threw a pillow at the Iris Message. Leo turned to Nico, tears brimming his eyes. At that moment he looked like a broken child.
The son of Hades flinched when he felt Esperanza's soul go into the underworld, he couldn't help but embrace Leo, and soothe him the best he could. Leo was sobbing like a small child, murmuring things in Spanish, probably about how he was going to kill that guy.
The Latino tried to calm himself down a bit before speaking. “N..Nico it's my fault--”
Nico raised an eyebrow.”How is it your fault? You didn't hand her over to the guy.”
“I w-wasn't there...I didn't protect her..” Leo buried his face back into the slightly smaller boys chest and began to sob again. Nico sighed and ran his hand through the Latino's hair and began to hum a soft Italian lullaby his mother use to sing him.
Soon Leo ran tired of crying and just laid there against Nico, completely quiet. Nico talked to people once in a while when they entered the cabin, but besides that the Italian male didn't move a muscle.

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