So I am obsessed with Klance (Keith x Lance, from Voltron: The Legendary Defender) and on ao3 they had a klance week (here on wattpad too) and I have read so many Blue and Red fanfics that my eyes should bleed, but it gave me an idea. So here comes a red and blue Percico, there won't be a song though, sorry about that but I just couldn't find one that fitted the entire one shot.
   I based this story from on one shot I read at ao3, the link is:  http://archiveofourown.org/works/7688050

Nico was late for work, and honestly it wasn't the first nor last time. It wasn't his fault though, sure he had stayed up painting as usual, but it was that damn papers fault, ever since they started writing about his paintings the whole town had fallen in love with his stupid art. You could hardly call the paintings either, they were graffiti. All red graffiti that spread out over building walls, on park benches, on crowded streets asphalt. He painted wherever he wanted, in the dead of night, which was still rather hard since New York never fell asleep. A few drunken students here, business people who were working late, younger people who stayed up and went tagging and creating rebellion in the city.

Nico had to work quickly and silently, if someone saw him they would call the police, and he couldn't afford going back to prison again.

"Sorry I'm late." Nico yawned to his co-worker Percy.

"Did you go to a party or something, bring home a beautiful girl?" Percy teased leaning over the counter.

"Neither." Nico hadn't told Percy that he was gay, or that he had a crush on him, that would just be... awkward.

"Too bad, what are you going to blame now? Your cat got sick?" Percy asked with a smug smile.

"Spiderman is just fine, thank you." Nico retorted and went fix up the coffee machine, Nico seriously hated working at Starbucks but it was right next door to an art shop, and during his lunches he usually went in there to buy his graffiti.

"So what?"

"So what, what?" Nico yawned again.

"Why are you late, you know that Piper will skin your ass for being late again." Percy asked, his raven black hair was hidden under one of those stupid beanies that made him look like some sort of indie singer.

"Sleep problems" Nico shrugged and combed his own messy black hair with his fingers. "Why do you sound so concerned."

"Haven't you heard?" Percy asked, his sea green eyes lit up with excitement.

A girl walked in and ordered a cappuccino to go, Percy rung her up while Nico prepared her drink. Once she was gone Percy pulled up a paper that he had hid underneath the cash register. He flipped the pages until he landed on the article he wanted to show Nico. Which he then promptly showed up Nico's face.

The Heartbroken Crimson has finally met his mate

Was the headline. Nico's nickname on the street was the Heartbroken Crimson, since all of his art was in different shades of red, and all of his paintings were of lonely red men with broken hearted looks on their faces. All of them, all alone on a park bench, a man who walked down a street with a dead bouquet in his hands, a man that was skating with elegant moves but without a partner.

Until now.

Nico latest work, the one he had painted the night before, now had a partner. Nico had carefully painted a red boy who watched as his balloon flew away from him, dark red tears streamed down the boy's cheeks. Now, a blue boy handed the crying red one a new balloon, a blue one, the blue boy had a stupid wide blue grin, while the boy gave the red one his balloon he also reached out to take his hand.

A Blue partner, the paper called him Lovely Blue. All blue shades that matched Nico's all red painting.

Nico should have been angry that this Lovely Blue person had destroyed his graffiti but a part of him was glad. Finally, he had met someone who wanted to get to know him. As Nico looked through the other photos in the paper he saw that Lovely Blue had finished some other paintings of his. One of a teenager who leaned against the wall, a cigarette in his mouth and his hands talking instead of his closed mouth, now beside him stood another teenage boy, as vibrant blue as he was dull red. The blue teenager was laughing and holding a lighter in his hand as if he had just lit the red one's cigarette.

Nico was touched by this Lovely Blue, he had finished his heartbroken paintings and made them into regular scenes.

"You think Heartbroken Crimson is mad about this new guy?" Percy asked with a curious look.

"No, I think that he is intrigued to find out who this Lovely Blue is. Their combined works are beautiful; don't you think?" Nico gave Percy back his paper.

"Totally, it's too bad that the government scrub them of the walls, or painting the over in that disgust white color."

Nico didn't answer he just shrugged and got back to work. He wondered who this Lovely Blue person was. how he had found his paintings, especially the one he did last night. He had been finished with it around two am, after that he had rushed home to be able to get four hours of sleep so that he could work. The Lovely Blue would have had to work fast since it was so close to dawn.

Nico thought that if he could just talk to this Lovely Blue. Then a thought hit him, if he painted again tonight then Blue would surely see it, hopefully at least. If Nico could only write him a note or something to tell him to meet up with Nico.

Another yawn escaped him, okay not tonight he needed to sleep otherwise Piper would surely fire him. And he needed the job.

"Why do both of you look ready to fall down dead?" Jason asked stepping in to the Starbucks, he was working at the art store next door. It was usual that he came in during the morning to grab a cup of coffee and chat for a while.

"Nico had sleep problems, and I was up studying." Percy shrugged.

"Hey!" Nico protested while he made Jason's coffee, "maybe I didn't want Jason to know I have sleep problems."

"Well you don't have sleep problems, the only problem you have is making up a good enough excuse why you are late." Percy grinned.

Jason took his cup and sipped it while watching the two of them bicker. "Why are you even studying Percy?"

"He's trying to get into college but he is too stupid." Nico answered for Percy who scrounged his nose.

"Not true, I got in last year, I just couldn't go because my mother got sick, and then my girlfriend dumped me only to get together with my boss." Percy turned away and fiddled with something on the register.

"Sorry," Nico apologized.

"Nah it's cool, after all how could you know, you never asked." Percy shrugged, and his words cut a hole deep in Nico's stomach, it was true, between the two of them it was always Percy who tried to get to know Nico, sure Nico asked Percy a couple of question but it was hardly enough to get to know him.

"You sound like a married couple." Jason said taking another sip, grinning behind his cup when he noticed that both boys blushed furiously. Of course neither of them saw each other.

"Watch out so I don't pour that cup over your head Grace." Nico snarled.

"Oh hush." Jason laughed, "you'll come in later right?"

"Not today, I'll see you tomorrow though." Nico replied stretching his arms to wake up faster, even though he had woken up two hours ago sleep still lingered on him.

"Not working tomorrow, Frank is." Jason waved goodbye, Nico noticed the blue paint that covered Jason's hands.

Could Jason be the one?

"You look like you just saw a ghost." Percy commented.

"No... sorry... just tired."

"Go in a catch a quick nap, I'll wake you up when things get heated out here."

"Thanks." Nico smiled and went to the backroom where he laid down on the old sofa, he fell asleep while thinking of Jason's blue hands.

The next night Nico chose a wall that the paper and Lovely Blue would find easily. It was close to Nico's house too so it was a good thing. The bad thing was that it was really easy to see from the street, if anyone where to walk past then Nico would be seen. But he had to do it, he had to find out if Jason was the Lovely Blue.

He immediately started painting, the did the first that came to his mind, a barista at a café, leaning over the counter with a smile that for once was happy, one hand was out stretched-

"Hey you!" a woman screamed from the street, her long hair blew in the wind and her eyes were stern.

Nico ran, his legs hurt and his heart pounded, he couldn't be caught, not now, he hadn't even finished the graffiti, he hadn't even left his note for Blue. Nico wanted to turn around and scream to the woman that she had ruined everything, but he didn't dare, he could still hear her footsteps echo behind him.

"Stop I just want to talk!" the woman screamed, her voice muffled by her heavy breathing. "please Crimson."

That made him halt, her using his nickname as some kind of superhero name. Nico turned around and found himself eye to eye with a girl. A girl with golden eyes and brown curly hair to her waist.

"Hazel," he breathed out.

"Nico?" disbelief filled her face until she started laughing. "I should have known, now I can at least brag to Reyna that I found out first."

"Hazel go back home; I'll be there in just a few minutes."

"I can't, we both know that you can't go back and finish that graffiti." Hazel shook her head, "Nico, please, I wasn't kidding when I said I was needing help."

"Hazel, you're my little sister, I don't want to find you out here in the middle of the night looking for a... for a-"

"Criminal. That is what you are Nico and that's what I want to talk to you about." Hazel took his hand and started leading him home again, "Nico, I only have you and Reyna left. When our parents died, I thought that they would separate us, we had luck since Reyna was eighteen. But now. Nico I'm scared every night. I dream of you getting caught and going back to prison."

"You can't even remember why I went in the first time, and it wasn't prison, it was juvie." Nico sighed but didn't let go of her hand. "I promise I won't get caught Haz."

"You don't know that; Reyna is busting her ass off trying to get a new job."

"Did she get fired again?" another sigh escaped his lips, he was far too tired to have a conversation like this again.

"Well..." Hazel looked down to the ground, "don't be mad, but she had to come get me in school again and her boss said that she had to choose between me and work."

"I told you to call me the next time."

"You didn't answer, Percy did though, he said that he could come but I didn't want to bother your co-worker." Hazel explained. "But Reyna has found another job, she just has to get the call that she got it."

"What did you do in school this time?" Nico changed the subject.

"I punched Leo." Hazel didn't even sound sorry about it.

"Haz." He said sternly.

"He trashed talked you and Reyna! He said that mom and dad died because I was so ugly. He even said that... he said that they killed themselves because they had us for children."

"I'm proud of you," he pulled her in a tight hug and kissed her at the top of her head, "but don't do it again."

"Cross my heart and hope to die," she made and x over her heart with her finger. "Can we go home and make hot chocolate."

"You have school tomorrow you are going straight to bed."

"Sort of not... I got suspended for one week."

"You're fifteen!"

"So? I still hit another person, come on, let's make hot chocolate, with mini marshmallows?" Hazel did her puppy eyes to get Nico to do what she wished.

"Just this time." Nico rolled his eyes, cursing himself for always falling for his younger sister's tricks. "Where is Reyna?"

"Studying with Octavian and Rachel. They have a huge test on Friday."

"How are you even more tired today?" Percy laughed.

Nico threw a towel at him and ignored his question. He wasn't tired, just worried. He hadn't gotten any sleep but he was used to not sleeping. Reyna losing her job, Reyna having to study every free hour for her stupid school test, Hazel getting suspended, for heaven's sake Nico had to call in his ex Will to baby sit her. Which led to protests from both Will and Hazel. He hardly had any money to bribe them with. At least Will agreed to do it, today only.

"Is something up at home?" Percy continued.

"It's fine, and you?" Nico lied and looked at Percy, Percy with his sexy beanie, and large hands, and warm smile.

"Never better, you know my mom makes the best cookies, she gave me some for lunch today, you can taste if you want."

"Thanks Perce," Nico smiled.

"Have you seen the latest news about our graffiti lovers?" Percy asked holding the paper in front of Nico's nose.

"Why are you so obsessed with the two of them?" Nico snorted, "it's almost like you are in love with them."

On the front cover was the picture of Nico's crimson barista holding hands with a blue costumer that grinned so big that the crimson smile didn't even look sad anymore.

"It's amazing," Nico breathed, the Lovely Blue had finished the painting, making more details of the counter and shelves behind the crimson barista, he had even given the barista a tacky dark blue beanie.

"Guys I need an expresso stat!" Piper said walking in, the boss of the Starbucks and the hard headed girl that never let them slack off.

Nico gave her, her expresso while she went to the backroom, "thanks love," she said taking the small cup, blue fingertips could be seen before she walked on.

"Are you open?" a bewildered Frank looked into the small Starbucks.

"When aren't we?" Percy laughed. "The usual?"

"Sure," Frank said handing over a five, he too had blue fingers.

"Why do you have blue fingers?" Nico asked peering over the counter to get a better look at Frank's hands.

"We had someone break in last night, stealing some of the blue spray cans, I guess that Lovely Blue is more of a criminal than Heartbroken Crimson."

"Sucks." Percy muttered.

"Do you think they will team up soon?" Frank asked, "Blue and Red?"

Percy and Nico shrugged at the same time.

"Oh well, goodbye guys."

"Do you think that if they ganged up they would paint in purple?" Percy asked biting his bottom lip worriedly.

"Who knows," Nico answered and made himself a cup of coffee.

"I want to show you something during lunch." Percy said, "nothing kinky stop looking at me like that!"

"Fine but who will take the lunch shift?"

"I had Annabeth take over for me, and then I asked Katie to cover for you, best part is that they will take our afternoon shifts too." Percy shined up. "amazing right!"

"Sure," Nico actually died knowing that he would have an afternoon off, he had slaved in this god forsaken Starbucks since he was sixteen, he dropped out of school and worked full time, he hardly had any days off.

"Good." Percy gave him a last smile.

They stood on the inner court, Percy's hands were in his pockets, Nico had his arms crossed over his chest. Starbucks shared the inner courtyard with a few other shops but no one really used it.

Percy dragged Nico across the yard so that they could see the door to their work. There was the biggest blue graffiti painting that Nico had ever seen. A blue boy with closed eyes, angling his face so that it was turned up towards the sun. A painted breeze tore at the boy's clothes, showing of his stomach where you could see a scar. The boy seemed content standing there, so at peace with the world.

"Beautiful right?" Percy asked, finally showing of his hands that he had had covered with his sleeves, blue finger tips, the kind you got from spray cans.

"You're Lovely Blue!" Nico screamed but got hushed when Percy slapped his hand over Nico's mouth.

"Yeah, I have had this secret for a long time now and I wanted to share it with you. You usually never talk so I mean.." Percy turned towards his creation. "I just wish I knew who this Crimson person is, his paintings are filled with sadness, have you noticed? He is a lot like you, closed up but showing just enough."

"Some people are scared to open up" Nico said.

"Sure, but I want to help, I... honestly this will sound silly but I think I'm a little bit in love with Crimson. The way he tells stories from his paintings. You know his first one? The one with the car crash? A masterpiece."

Nico turned away, tears stinging his eyes.

"And the series after? The car crash, repeating, the boy with his siblings huddled in a corner of a room, the boy and girl fighting with grown-ups." Percy fiddled with the hem of his shirt. "When... when the boy-"

"Can you stop?" Nico asked, he wiped away his tears with the back of his hand, he hadn't known that someone had followed his works for so long. The first few paintings had been so close to his last home, so small that no one really cared about them.

"I'm sorry."

"How could you... how can you know that? The papers haven't written about those works."

"Well I lived in the building that Crimson painted on, but at the time he only painted in black and whites. Then he disappeared and when he reappeared he was coloring in red but I still knew it was him, the boy looked the same in the paintings."

"Impossible. I never saw you!"

"What do you mean never saw me?"

"At the building, the black and white, I... I stole that so that I could paint, Reyna hated me drawing at home, she said that Hazel would get sad if she saw my paintings. That's why I made them on the brick walls, I had to do them I had to get them out of my head. But I never saw you there."

"You're Crimson?"

"I would have noticed you, I had a crush on you since the first time I laid my eyes on you, even back then... I would have remembered you. Who could ignore that hair and those eyes!" Nico was mad now, so mad that he kept on talking, "you followed me right? You knew I was Crimson and this was just a set up to expose me?"

"No!" Percy said firmly, "I truly didn't know."

"I'm going to prison, oh god, you will turn me in, I knew it! You were too good to be true."

"Shut up Nico, you aren't going anywhere." Percy smiled.

"How can you know that?"

"Because I have one last painting I need to do, and I need you to work with me on it." Percy laughed, "and after that we are going to go on a proper date."

Heartbroken Crimson and Lovely Blue have teamed up; The Purple Lovers can be seen all over the city

You can see the graffiti everywhere. Crimson and Blue have finally teamed up to create the final masterpieces. Different purple couples can be found everywhere in New York. The two small boys sharing an ice cream near central park, the two teenagers smoking near Madison Square Garden, the two men having a romantic dinner near Olive Garden, the two teenagers who are playing cards on a hotel, or the biggest graffiti of them all. The purple graffiti of two young men who are making a graffiti of two teenage guys kissing with the words Goodbye New York written underneath it.

I guess we can say goodbye to the talented artists that made the masterpieces. I hope that The Purple Lovers have found peace with each other, and are living happily ever after.