Afterword's-Chapter
As he walked to Will he felt like a weight had been lifted off his solders. He smiled, just a plain causal smile. Thinking of how flustered fish face had been when Nico explained his past feelings for him. He just couldn't help it. Walking closer to the son of the sun he noticed Will wasn't grinning ear to ear and for some reason wasn't looking him in the eyes or even in his direction. He seemed to be looking anywhere but at Nico. Before he could say anything He covered his mouth with his hand and squeezed his eyes shut. He looked like he was holding back laughter.
He felt his own smile widening, "so…what exactly did I miss?"
Will chuckles, "Oh well…I just…I…" suddenly his smile fades and Will looks at his shoes. Nico could feel his own smile withering away with his.
"Um…Will" Nico asks nervously.
"W-well" Will stutters, his eyes fixed on his shoes.
"Look…I-I'm sorry, I didn't think" Will says remorse evident on his face.
"Will" he said as sternly as possible "What-happened?"
"Nico you know how I did that whistle thing to the dog headed dudes" Will
"Yeah" I say suspicious of what in the Hades he was talking about.
"Well sometimes it's the other way around and I can hear things from far away without even realizing it and I sort of heard what you said to Percy about…"
Suddenly I have a rush of emotions, anger, panic, and for a moment he felt like he was dissolving, into the shadows, incinerating under the sun, again, but for some odd reason all I could do was smiling. For the first time I finally felt like I didn't like Percy; the way, I used to. The new person invading my thoughts at night had just figured out about his secret gay but he had also figured out he liked Percy at the same time. Suddenly the crew of the Argo II's story's about the fates beating Thoon with baseball bats a little more believable. They really were cruel, but I thought. I'll just let this slide and pray for the best
"I-It's okay" I reply trying to dial down the anger and turn up his nonchalant side that seemed to be nonexistence.
"Uh…really?" Will says surprised.
"Yeah, just try not to spread it around too much" I reply reluctantly
"Uh, yeah course, Soooooo… Percy, eh?" replies Will a smile reclaiming his lips.
"Shut up, sun spot" I say resisting a smile myself.
"Sun spot? Never heard that one before." Will says
"Wow really? That's gotta be like the best nickname for a spawn of Apollo ever and no one ever thought of it before" I say truly bewildered by Will's reply.
"Nope" Will replies
"Geesh and I thought I don't get out much" I say
"Whatever, c'mon, into the infirmary with you" Will replies
"Fine" I grumble
As Will walks towards the infirmary, I couldn't help stare at him a little longer than I should have; His bright blond hair, his strong lean arms swaying back and forth against his sides and attaching to large strong shoulders. Will turned around their eyes met momentarily then he slowly turned his head to look at the much better looking strawberry fields.
"You Coming Nico" Will asks
"Yeah, yeah hold on" I say in reply
I walk with Will to the infirmary for his three day nap time. I couldn't stop myself from thinking Will Solace was definitely better looking than the strawberry fields, nothing can compare to Will. Nothing. Not even Percy.