author note: this chapter was written by @Dark_Ghostie Warning: minor swearing

"Nico!" Ben yelled as he ran inside the Hades cabin.

"What!" Nico shouted from the toilet where he was having a nice hot shower after a long day.

"Can we have a slumber party with the whole camp?"

"No," Nico said shortly, emerging from the bathroom.

Ben's excited smile morphed into a disappointed frown. "Why not?" he whined. "We had so much fun last time so why not have even more fun with the whole camp?"

Nico just rolled his eyes. "Fine, but have it in the Dionysus cabin. After all, he's the expert at this sort of thing."

"Yay!" Ben shouted happily, running out of the cabin to announce the news to the whole camp.

"Why am I here?" Nico groaned as he desperately tried to leave, but Will wasn't letting him. When he told Ben to use the Dionysus cabin, he didn't expect Dionysus to really allow them to host a slumber party in there.

"Come on, Nico, you need to socialize more. And Ben's slumber party is a genius one," Will reasoned, coaxing his boyfriend to one of the sleeping bags on the floor. "Speaking of which, I think it's time to go to bed. It's almost midnight."

Nico tuned out as Will screamed for everyone to go to bed. Of course, he was met with many protests that were calmed down once Will offered Nico up to tell them a story, much to Nico's displeasure.

"Now I have to tell them a story?" Nico cried out in exasperation.

"Yup!" everyone chorused, popping the 'p'.

"Ugh fine! Once upon a time, Hades saw Persephone and fell in love with her. He kidnapped her and made her his queen. Together they lived happily ever after. The end."

"That wasn't even a story!" Ben yelled. "That's just a bunch of bullshit!"

"Watch your language, young man," Will reprimanded as Nico sighed.

"So Hades saw Persephone in a field of flowers. He was probably thinking about how romantic it was and how beautiful she looked blah blah blah, but nobody knew the real story. Everyone thought he kidnapped her when he actually took her out on a date in the Underworld. She found out she liked it there and they decided to get married after being together for three years. So they did and continue to live happily ever after down there."

"Awww," the daughters of Aphrodite cooed.

"Is that what really happened?" Ben asked.

Nico rolled his eyes. Were these kids for real? "No, I was just bullshitting now off to bed."