some jasico sleeping headcanons
- jason always starts off as the big spoon b/c he likes to tuck nico under his chin, but over the course of the night they’ll roll over and when jason wakes up it’s usually to nico clamped around his back, head buried in jason’s neck
- jason gets used to the stormy ceilings of the zeus cabin and finds it really hard to sleep without the white noise, so the oppressive silence and stillness of the hades cabin means he spends a lot of nights fidgeting and sleepless. he’ll calm if nico stirs, running gentle fingers through nico’s hair until he’s breathing easily, then go back to staring at the ceiling. it’s worth it if nico gets a good sleep.
- nico clues in to jason not sleeping when jason almost takes a nap while flying and crashes into a tree
- they compromise by spending a lot of nights on top of the zeus cabin under the stars. jason feels most comfortable close to the sky, and nico doesnt have much love for closed spaces, anyway
- they talk about clouds and constellations and nico points out the huntress and talks about bianca and jason smiles softly at how much nico lights up when he talks about his sister
- jason drinks a lot of water b/c #health so when he sleeps over with nico he keeps water bottles near the bed for easy access
- this backfires when he wakes up needing to pee in the middle of the night but nico is curled around him and he doesn’t want to disturb nico so he ends up spending a few hours being really uncomfortable
- if nico needs to use the washroom in the middle of the night he just shadow travels it’s so much easier poor jason
- jason usually sleeps in boxers but nico looks a little uncomfortable with that much skin on display so he switches to shorts and a tshirt; nico wears sweatpants and long sleeves until one summer day it’s just Too Hot and he wears shorts and a tshirt and won’t meet jason’s eyes b/c of all the scars criss-crossing his body
- jason points out his own scars, says he REALLY doesn’t care and isn’t that part of what makes them demigods? nico eventually gives him a small smile, cheeks tinged pink and shoves jason toward the bed ‘let’s go to sleep, grace’
- jason spends that night running gentle hands over nico’s skin until nico falls asleep, then lies awake staring at the ceiling trying to ignore the guilt weighing down his chest
- around three nico stirs and curls closer and mumbles softly into jason’s neck: ‘it’s not your fault. you can’t save everyone, jay’
