The Next Few Days
Will felt useless. He wasn't naturally gifted with a sword like Percy, and he wasn't tactically intuitive like Annabeth. He also didn't possess his siblings gift of archery which sucked. A lot. Even Drew, the daughter of Aphrodite was more of a difference– maker in battle as she could charmspeak. All Will had was his healing hands.
Will must have been thinking out loud because Nico managed to overhear him from his ward bed in the infirmary; he had agreed to stay there for a few days until his wounds fully healed.
"I don't think you're useless Will.", Nico said with a faint smile on his face as he was sitting up. Hearing the son of the underworld say this to him cheered him up a little and he decided to go and check up on his patient. Will strode up to Nico and ruffled his hair which severely displeased him but made Will give out a small chuckle. "Watch it Solace, I know we're friends now but don't push it." mumbled Nico unhappily. Will had to admit, hearing Nico refer to him as a friend made him quite happy because it meant he had broken through to him in the last few days, but also saddened him because Will wanted them to be more than that. He understood Nico might not feel the same way towards him and he had to prepare himself for that but as far as Will could see it, he was going to do everything he could to make him fall in love with him. Only problem was there wasn't anything special about him.
The plan was that now the majority of people had been fixed up and taken care of, Will could take advantage of Nico's injuries to spend some time with him and get to know him better, and hopefully show Nico the real Will. Of course he did have real concern for him as well; he'd seen him fading first hand on the battlefield and it scared the s**t out of him.
So far it was all fine, Nico even seemed enthusiastic about them spending time together and they were both enjoying each others company. All was well, almost too well. And that's when Reyna, praetor of the 12th Legion and leader of New Rome walked in and came to stay...