from there we came outside and saw the stars [solangeloweek2023]
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candlelight by thegoldenappleofdiscord
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
18 Jun 2023
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Will rarely wept in those dreams. He rarely wept when he was awake. There wasn’t a moment of reprieve. Still, muted happiness was happiness. He could laugh with his family, could chastise them playfully over dishes of food. He could still find delight in life, much more than he had before, now that he knew how fragile it was. He cradled these excuses like a child in his arms, afraid that if he let go of them, he would be admitting failure.
I can still be useful. That was the pinnacle of his hopes.
The humiliating glow that had sprung from his skin when he’d first laid eyes on Nico di Angelo was far from useful.
day one: night light (will solace)
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paradox by thegoldenappleofdiscord
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
20 Jun 2023
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He wondered if the cocoa puffs were aware of what happened when he touched them, but he thought not. As a child, he’d never noticed the pain he caused others. His mother had never let him catch her crying. If she had been scared for their waning futures, he never would have known. All he’d seen was her love, innocent and endless.
And he did love the cocoa puffs, endlessly.
day three: river achreon (hurt/comfort)
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dumb, dumb love by thegoldenappleofdiscord
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
21 Jun 2023
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Will stretched, a yawn tumbling from his open mouth. He made to rub at his eyelids, but Nico rose from his lap to do it for him with the corner of his wide, fluffy sleeves. “Morning,” he murmured.
“You didn’t have to,” said Will, reaching for Nico’s hand.
“You’re supposed to say, ‘morning’ back. Didn’t anyone teach you proper manners?”
“For this early in the morning?” Will chuckled, though his smile broke into a groan as he popped his back. “Gods, that hurt.”
“Scoliosis at seventeen.” Nico’s tone was droll. “How’s it feel?”
“Wonderful. Me and my boyfriend match now.”
or: five times nico and will are dumb and in love, and the one time they are totally 100% dead serious.
day four: river phlegeton (free day)
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pearls by thegoldenappleofdiscord
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
23 Jun 2023
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The pearls of memory did not fall in Will’s hands. They were trapped, in oysters with steel clamps, and he had to pry them apart with his fingers. He fit his nails in the sliver of space between the oyster’s lips and pulled, pulled until his thumbs turned red and his nails had broken and they were bleeding scarlet. In the end, he would have something clear in his hands, a white pearl among the blood, a memory in which he could treasure.
Some of these memories were brief. Pillow-fighting with Kayla, listening to Austin play the saxophone. Others were spools of life spun into the tiny crevices of his head, and they throbbed, hurt like nothing else before. Oftentimes he struggled to reach memories that he wished he never had. But pearls were pearls, and they fit into the empty strings of the necklace Fate had strung for him.
Each morning he woke up, he felt closer to knowing himself.
or: will loses (and finds) his memories.
day six: river lethe (memory)
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