#it's always 'unintentional' just falling asleep on each other while watching movies or smth

[tinybro]

I keep thinking about Jason and Nico getting an apartment together after Jason graduates from his boarding school (in an self-indulgent AU where ToA's not a thing and he's not dead, of course). Jason admitting he doesn't really know what to do with himself now beyond continuing his Pontifex Maximus work – at least the school had kinda let him kick this feeling of not belonging anywhere further down the road for a few years, but now that he doesn't have to live in a dorm anymore he's actually gotta make a decision. He confides in Nico that he's always hated the Zeus cabin (understandable), but just getting himself a place in New Rome feels like locking himself into the same old patterns when he knows that he's not quite Roman enough anymore.

Nico's the one to suggest it, why not just get yourself a place outside of the camps entirely? After all, Jason managed alright living in the mortal world for school even having been fully enmeshed in the demigod shit since he was two. If both camps feel wrong then just go somewhere else. It'd never really occurred to Jason as an option. He's been so resigned all along to all the demigod shit being his entire life forever. And then the cost is a whole other issue – the Pontifex shit doesn't really pay a living wage.

Nico shrugs it off. His dad's also the god of wealth, remember? He can help with money.

(He initially means it as just offering to help Jason out financially, but Jason interpreted it as them finding a place together, and then he looks so disappointed when Nico corrects him that Nico decides he might as well.)

Neither of then have ever done the regular mortal life apartment life thing, so there's a learning curve. They're stupidly pumped about finding a place and finalizing everything and don't even think about how little they have to actually put in the apartment until they move in and spend the first night camped out in the empty living room in sleeping bags. They go furniture shopping together the next day and for all that it's a weird new experience and neither of them know what they're doing, the domestic shit just comes naturally. Nico picks out kitchen stuff and Jason's boggled to see just how many different kind of pots and pans are apparently necessary in a normal kitchen (Not that Nico's had much experience with normal kitchens in recent years either, but he remembers some stuff from when he was a kid and it's more than Jason knows). Jason embarrasses Nico by laying down on every potential couch to test how nap-worthy they are (he likes the idea of friends being able to comfortably crash with them occasionally when needed and he wants to make sure they have a solid couch for them to do it on).