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It was voted that night for Coronis to stay in the Arts and Crafts, yet, she was constantly moved. A few demigods volunteered to be her babysitter, much to her dismay. So far, it’s been good, she hasn’t tried to kill her babysitters too many times.
With just one day, Nico had noticed Dave’s plan had worked. Now, as they involved her in their games, she seemed more at a lost than filled with anger.
Rachel had left the day after Dave and Karkat did. Since she had only come because Rose called her to, she went back to Rome in order to finish writing the Sibylline Books with Ella. Cecil and Lou were upset that such a legend had left them, but it was just another regular boring day now.
After Gaea, now it was finally quiet.
And what else would the son of Hades be doing other than helping out at the infirmary?
“Wait, what is the day today, Nico?” Will asked, tapping on his hardboard with his pen.
The son of Hades shrugged in the chair.
After Dave and Karkat left, most have returned to what it was like when they weren’t here. Mainly, Will still fussing over Nico and making him stay a few extra days to ‘sleep off all that crazy stuff that happened.’ For now, it was only a few hours and Nico couldn’t help but feel a little down. Yet, with Will’s presence, it certainly wasn’t too bad.
“Why are you asking me? There’s a calendar right there. You know, the thing that everyone here uses? Sometimes even cross out the days that have passed just so that literally anyone can look and know what day it is?” Nico responded.
Will pouted.
Gods, it is too easy to tease him.
“Well, you don’t have to be all sassy,” the son of Apollo muttered in a high pitched voice as he didn’t bother to get up, instead he rolled his chair all the way over to the calendar..
There was shuffling as he wrote down the date and then he suddenly stopped. And started to nervously laugh.
Uh… what? What is going on?
“Uh, hehe, this can’t be right, I mean,” Will said blushing suddenly, sounding a little hysterical, “I mean-”
The son of Apollo quickly stopped talking and he tried to cover his face with his hands.
Nico raised one of his eyebrows.
“What are you going on about?”
“That bet, oh gods, that bet... Lou and Cecil would have told you-”
Will didn’t even finish his sentence as his face turned beet red.
Wait-
Oh. oh. Oh my gods, how did I forget that?
Maybe from all of the chaos of the gods nearly killing the new friend that I made, or that I had to save my current crush from an enemy that we had no idea about, and then we had to deal with that enemy. And then all at once they suddenly left. Maybe that’s why.
And that Will basically had to hug me so I wouldn’t crumble into shadows. Yes, said crush being close and…
Okay, that might be how I forgot.
“Uh, yeah…” Nico said, feeling his cheeks heat up as well, “Before you finish that thought…”
The son of Hades got up to see Will absolutely frozen, blushing so furiously that it was making Nico feel even more nervous. Nico stopped walking over and he quickly started to fiddle with his silver ring, turning it over and over on his finger.
“Uh, do you… want to go out with me? As in a date?” Nico asked.
Will’s eyes widened. And not a second later he began to smile, more brightly than Nico had ever seen him.
Nico nearly backed up as Will suddenly jumped off the chair to grab his hands. The son of Hades felt the same jolt for when the other had grabbed his hands before… more skeletal butterflies flew around in his stomach, this time much faster and crazier.
“Yes,” Will said, still excited as ever.
Whoa.
He just did it.
Nico just asked Will out and he said yes.
He said yes.
Nico stood still, feeling the expanse of a sort of fuzzy feeling fly through him.
“Oh, uh, you don’t like it when other people touch you, do you?” Will asked, forcefully taking his hands to his side.
Nico blinked as just as the warmth in his hands faded.
“No, no. It’s okay. Let’s hold hands,” the son of Hades replied, smiling.
It didn’t take long for people to find out that they were dating. In fact, it took a total of three hours, which first consisted of Lou and Cecil finding out… And then Percy somehow, which ended in everyone knowing. Including Coach Hedge, who was willing to put a ‘beating’ if Will ‘pulls anything sketchy.’ Yet, that quickly stopped as he remember Will had delivered his own son.
Then there was an awkward moment as Coach Hedge said he’ll beat both of them up if they messed up.
It was three days after asking and Will was planning a second date. The first one… was a huge mess as the Aphrodite cabin tried to intervene to make it more romantic . That ended in Will and Nico running away as the Aphrodite cabin pelted red, thorned , roses at them. So romantic. Definitely a great idea.
Yep, this time, Will said he would take care of it and hopefully those meddlers won’t know about it.
For now, Nico was lounging in the infirmary, with his feet on a coffee table and himself slouched so far into a couch, as Will went to get another Hephaestus child from their cabin… apparently it’s has become a thing to try to use the alien technology that was left behind. That ended in a lot of burns and even murderous robots.
“Hey, Nico, something was found on the teleporter and it is a letter,” Will said as he came in.
Nico stopped all this thinking and frowned.
“Wait, what happened to the kid that was hurt? And a letter from who?” He asked.
Will sighed as he sat down to as desk and began to write. There was a letter in his hand, folded up and looked like it had red all over it.
“She was just messing around, nothing a bandage and some nector can’t solve. However, I told them to stay away from that weird alien stuff so that it won’t happen again… though I doubt they’d listen. And the letter is from Dave.”
“Dave?”
“Yeah, this is definitely a letter from Dave,” Will said, nodding.
“What? How do you know?” Nico said, finally getting his feet from the table to the ground.
Will looked at Nico with that all knowing look.
Nico groaned and got up from the chair and took the note out of the son of Apollo’s hands. Will playfully elbowed him as he looked at the front of the note. It was very scribbly handwriting, all in red pen.
don’t read if you aren’t Nico. first, that is hella not cool and second i will come back and destroy you like how a hose drowns tiny, panicking ants. except there will only be one ant and that ant will be you. drowning in my fury.
Nico snorted as he smiled at Will.
“Come on, I don’t want you reading something that was meant for me and me only,” the son of Hades teased.
Will rolled his eyes, but got up and began to look at the other patients. For a few moments, Nico’s attention followed him.
His boyfriend.
My gods, how am I ever going to get used to this?
Nico finally unfolded the note and began to read.
dear my home boy Nikoo Niko Kniko Nico,
i have never actually tried to spell your name, so that was a little hard. we never did get around to saying how our names are spelled. luckily, rose is a smirky asshole and after a couple tries she finally fucking told me.
shit is looking up now. i just meet my kid bro and he isn’t kid bro at all. i mean, he is genetically the same person, but he isn’t the same person. i guess i should’ve known this because that’s why twins aren’t the same too. what i mean is the kid bro’s great. you were right and guess what? he is a good kid. we get each other and shit, it’s noice.
he is also gay, surprisingly. i think the game might be trying to fuck with us because pretty much everyone is gay or slightly gay or pansexual as the trolls would say. he got a few pointers on how to come out… even if he has only met one other guy. he was actually from this time where the trolls took over earth and through stupidity killed the whole human race except him and this other girl that’s genetically my mom.
how ironic that they would be the only two people left on earth and he’s gay? just... so funny and sad.
well, things are good for now, but in a few moments we are going to off into different groups to finish some of the other bad guys before we get Lord English.
i am a bit worried because Karkat insisted he was fine, but i don’t know. i just hope he will be fine. be safe too, don’t wanna come back and have to break godly rules bringing you back.
see you on the other side, bro.
Dave Strider B)
P.S. don’t forget to live.
Nico smiled, he wasn’t going to forget as long as he had the option.
The stakes are definitely higher now, more to lose, but so much to gain. But, it's worth the struggle, isn’t it?