Hey guys! I'm not dead! Yaay!

This was intended to be part of the flashback in my other fanfic – The Shadow's Sun, but it got too long, and it turned suuuuuper fluffy, so I made it a one-shot! Cheers!

Disclaimer: I do not own this. I am only borrowing them for a short period of time, before I give them back to Rick Riordan. Albeit, brainwashed and such, but who cares. Not me!

Will marched through the thick snow, the white flakes crunching underneath his boots. He took the stairs to the hades cabin two at a time, but stopped abruptly. He twisted the handle slowly, as to not make any noise, and burst through the entrance

"Surprise!"

This did not have the intended effect.

"Oh. Hey, Will" Nico said dully. He was sitting on his bed, staring at the wall.

"Nico?" Will asked, concerned. What happened? Sure, death breath was a little depressed all the time, but never… lifeless. "Nico!" Will exclaimed. "Nico, what's wrong? Nico!"

No response.

"Nico!" Will nearly screamed. He ran over to the bed, and proceeded to shake Nico violently. "Nico, you have to tell me right now! Do I have to beat someone up?"

"No."

Will let out a sigh of relief. "Nico" he said gentler. "Nico, you can tell me what's wrong. I'm here, you know. I'm always here." Nico drew his knees to his chest. In the green light of the cabin's torches Nico looked haunted, possessed.

"Will." he stated brokenly, and Will was taken aback. "Don't leave". His voice cracked at the end of the sentence.

"Of course, Nico." Will sat down softly on the bed next to his boyfriend, and wrapped his arms around the younger demigod. They sat like that, in comfortable silence for a few minutes. "Nico" Will whispered softly. "What's wrong" Nico slumped in Will's arms.

"Why do people leave?" asked Nico "I mean, why people have to leave so soon, Will? Bianca left, and my father left, and Percy left, and my mother left, and hazel left to go to camp Jupiter, and you're going to leave too!" Nico's voice rose hysterically, and he turned to face Will with a wild look in his eyes. "And you're going to hate me, because I'm a stupid son of hades and I'm broken! I'm broken Will! And no amount of glue can put me back together." Nico slumped in Will's arms, shoulders hunched, but Will sat there in shock. He didn't expect Nico to be so…open about it. And where the hades did Nico get the idea that he was going to leave?

"Nico" Will said. "I am never going to go. I promise you that much."

"but-"

"No! Don't! People love you, Nico, and I don't get how you don't realize that! I love you so much! Don't make yourself miserable, Nico." Will started in a softer voice. "That's in the past. Don't beat yourself up, or tell yourself you're not a good person, because I know for a fact that you are. You are the best thing that ever happened to me, and I am never going to leave. I swear to the River Styx." The younger boy looked up in shock, his eyes brimming with emotion.

"You-you're serious?" Nico stared at his boyfriend. His dark brown hair was concealing his eyes, and will reached up to brush it away and tuck it behind his ear.

"Of course sunshine. Why would I lie about this?" he pressed his forehead up against the son of nico's head, and looked him 'straight' in the eye. "Always." He kissed his boyfriend sweetly. Will had to strain his ears to hear what Nico said next.

"You know, I like blue cake." He looked up tentatively at Will.

"What?" Will couldn't believe what he was hearing, but he decided to hear his boyfriend out. Maybe had finally cracked.

Nico could obviously see the incredulous look Will was giving him, because he cracked a smile.

"When Percy was missing, I went to his moms house a lot to give her updates on…things. She gave me blue cake. She said it was Percy's favorite." Nico closed his eyes and licked his lips, but hem grew sad. "Blue cake. Hah." He gave a short, humorless laugh. It was more like a bark. "Probably one of the only things keeping me sane." He looked so wistful that Will wanted to wrap him in a hug and keep him there forever. He jumped up from where he was standing and sprinted down to the dining hall. He knew how to cheer Nico up.

Two minutes later, when Nico was just starting to wonder where his idiot boyfriend had gotten to, Will cam sauntering into the cabin.

In his hand was a slice of blue cake.

Nico's eyes lit up, and he raced over to where Will was eating the cake with a fork. "Mmm, gimme cake." Will had to use every fiber of his body to control the urge to hand the cake over to his adorable boyfriend, but he kept up the act. He turned away from Nico, protecting his cake.

"What? No! This is my cake." He put on an offended expression, and Nico gave him the puppy eyes. "But…" he started, with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes. "I suppose I could share. But you have to come get." To drive his point home, he took a big bite of his cake and chewed it slowly. Nico flushed scarlet before burying his face in his hands, and Will grinned. This was exactly what he had been hoping for. "Come on, death breath! You want some?"

Nico sighed and muttered "what I do for cake," before stalking over to Will and slamming his lips on the other boy's. Will was giddy from the taste of nico"s lips on his. Nico pushed his boyfriend up against the cabin wall, and shoved his tongue inside his mouth, capturing the cake taste. Will felt Nico wrap his tongue around the blue cake he had just eaten, and grab it for his own. All of the sudden, he pulled away from will, and he feared he'd done something wrong, but the ghost king just smirked. "mmm." He said. "Cake."

Will laughed. "Cake" he replied. "Now can we get back to what we were doing before?" he smiled mischievously. Now it was Nico's turn to laugh.

"fine." He said, and pressed his lips to will's once more.

They made out for an hour, blue cake slipping from will's grasp and landing on the floor, forgotten.

Later, when they went down to the dining pavilion, everybody seemed to notice the marks on their necks except for them. When will sat down and gave Nico a chaste kiss, Jason sent a death glare his way, and Percy gave him a look. Will gulped. He wasn't looking forward to the next few days.

End!

Oh my gods, that make-out scene was soooo hard to write. I literally stared at the computer keys in awkwardness for, like, fifteen minutes. Hope it was worth it.

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-DivergentWizard-Demigod