They were sitting in the strawberry fields and the sun was setting behind them. Will had his hands around Nico who was comfortably settled on Will's lap, with his head resting at the crook of the blonde's neck. Nico was content and humming to himself when Will shifted and set him down on the picnic blanket they were sitting on. Nico lazily opened his eyes and looked at Will accusingly.

"Be back soon." He pecked Nico on the lips and sprinted away towards a patch of ripe strawberries and started picking some berries.

"Katie's gonna kill you, you know." Nico called after his boyfriend matter-of-factly.

Will waved the comment away and kept picking berries. Suddenly the ground started rumbling underneath them. Will immediately shot up, his clear blue eyes searching Nico, and visibly relaxed when he spotted Nico sitting where he left the smaller boy sitting on the picnic blanket staring wide-eyed at him. Will exhaled in relief when he saw that it was not Nico making ground rumble.

"Looks like Percy finally learnt how to make earthquakes," Will called.

Nico couldn't make his vocal chords work. Ground was crumbling behind Will, opening a wide crate in the ground. And Will did not notice it; he was simply grinning goofily at Nico. DI IMMORTALS, THAT IDIOT. Nico took a deep breath and tried to calm his nerves. When he could be positive that he could speak steadily he called out to the oblivious blond.

"Will please DO NOT turn around, and walk to me as fast as possible. NOW."

Goofy grin slipped off Will's face as Nico's tone sank in. Will started moving forward as Nico slowly stood up and started walking towards the worried son of Apollo when suddenly ground crumbled beneath Will. A scream escaped from Nico's lips as Will fell. He sprinted forward desperate to get hold of the older teen as he held on to the ledge of the crack. But he was a few seconds late. Will's fingers slipped the ledge on the same second Nico reached the crate.

"No Will. No. Gods no." Nico screamed.

"I love you Death Boy. I always have."

"No."

Nico woke up screaming, drenched in sweat. Shadows were closing in on him fast. He took a deep breath and commanded the shadows to sink back.

"It's a dream. Just a nightmare. It's not real. Will's not even my boyfriend." Nico told himself.

Most of the time Nico was able to dream travel to escape his nightmares. When he couldn't dream travel he trained himself to keep quiet and wake up as soon as possible, yet this particular nightmare was an exception. It started the night Percy fell into Tartarus. Watching those beautiful sea green eyes disappear in the icy pitch black depths of Tartarus was the most excruciating thing he had ever done in his life, including going through Tartarus all alone. He relived it almost every night after that and it was the only nightmare he couldn't escape. At least until he fell head over the heels in love with a certain stubborn and aggravating son of Apollo. After that it was always Will who fell into Tartarus. The scenario changed from one nightmare to the other, but the end remained same. Every time he was too late and Will told him he loved Nico before he fell. And every time before Nico could do anything to save Will, he woke up.

Once his heart decided that the whole thing was not real and since the object of its affection is probably safe and asleep, Nico relaxed into his pillows. Instead of going back to sleep he picked up a book Annabeth lent him and started reading.

The morning was gloomy just like Nico's mood.

It was the beginning of winter but it was already very gloomy. Nico wondered if anything had gone wrong as he walked down to the pavilion for breakfast. Yes, Nico di Angelo, the Ghost King, the son of Hades woke up in the morning to have breakfast of whole meal toast, eggs, bacon, juice and milk; not just a few grapes. That was the only way he could keep his annoying big brothers and doctor off his hair about his health. Will had told Jason that they should persuade Nico to eat healthy, which Jason told Percy -once the son of Poseidon calmed enough and decided that Nico must be a different breed since Percy was everybody's type- he got on board the ship 'make Nico healthy.'

Once he got his food and offered some to the fire and muttered a prayer to his father he walked and sat at the Seven's Table. Soon after the war once the things settled down and Nico was released from the infirmary after his three days stay, Jason and Percy started sitting with Nico at Hades table. Every other meal Annabeth sat with them and eventually Piper had to sit with them too, to help Annabeth break the stupid bro fights the son of Poseidon and Zeus got into. When Leo arrived a month later with a Titan in a tow they immediately took it in and started sitting at Hades table. Then after a week of Leo's arrival the Romans, namely Reyna, Frank and Hazel, they too joined the Hades table. That's when Nico decided to call it the Seven's Table. Chiron gave in to Percy's baby zeal eyes and it seemed that the gods didn't mind since they are still alive. Hades confirmed this when he told Nico that the gods were surprised and happy that their children were really a family. Hera, according to Hades, is lecturing the Olympians asking them to learn from their children.

As he slid down between Piper and Annabeth he scanned the pavilion looking for a familiar mop of blond hair and sparkling blue eyes to no avail.

"Did anybody see Will?" he asked nobody in particular.

"Nico, now don't panic, okay." Piper spoke soothingly. "Will's mother has passed away and he left early morning. He didn't want to wake you up that early and only Chiron and I saw him before he left. He asked me to say you good bye."

"Oh"

"Don't worry baby," Annabeth murmured putting a hand around Nico. He got used to the touch of his friends who he considered family eventually and by now he didn't even flinch as Annabeth or Piper coddled him.

"Don't worry buddy. We got Chiron's permission to go to the funeral on behalf of the camp. We knew you would want to go and Will would want you there. We are leaving after breakfast. So eat up." Percy called from opposite of the table.

"And somebody should keep the idiot safe if monsters decide to show up." Jason teased.

Nico nodded and started picking on his food.

A/N reviews please. and tell me if you want me to continue.