AN:Hi guys! This is my first fanfic so please give constructive criticism on like every thing, especially grammar and spelling. This story does have plot that I think is pretty original. The POVs can switch but I will indicate it. This takes place about 3 years after BoO and in this story Will and Nico are the same age, almost 18. They started dating about a year after BoO. This is from Will's perspective. Read and Review please! Oh and updates will be weekly but maybe even three times a week once summer starts. Thank you!
We walked back into the Hades cabin, both Nico and I laughing hysterically about a bet that Piper won (again) against Jason and was charmspeaking him into doing unspeakable things. Well, speak able for blackmail only.
I plopped down on his bunk, noticing how the beds and linens were finally changed. Now, there were regular beds instead of coffins that were black with purple and green accents. Piper helped him design it of course. It took a while for it to be delivered for some reason. I think Hermes had a lot to do.
I had this weight in my chest that was only partially lifted by the laughter. It made me wonder if he'd miss it here, miss Jason and Piper and Leo. I really needed to ask him about moving to New Rome. But I didn't really know how to bring it up without being to sudden and ruining the light moment. Even 3 years after dating him, I was still nervous about these things. I really didn't know why, especially when our love has been proven to be infinite many times.
"Will, we're gonna be 18 soon. Can you believe that?" he asked as I noticed him laying down in bed, arms under his head, which was faced up at the ceiling.
"I actually can. Although it doesn't feel that long, I got used to Kronos' habits of allowing time to fly. But wow 18. We are gonna legally adults." I replied, trying to imply that we could have our own places or do things that 18 year olds could. Like college, you know maybe even in New Rome.
"I don't even think that matters, honestly. We've been living with more responsibility than adults do even after they have children, since we were sucked into the only world we know now. And we've probably broken so many laws at this point that being an adult with more responsibility may be a bad thing. Look at Percy for instance. How many schools did he destroy before he and Annabeth went to Goode? Those times, Chiron was always able to save him. What if, one day, he can't?" I thought about that for a moment. It was true, all of it. Put into a way I never would've thought of it as. Who knew the Son of Hades could be a Shakespeare in his own sense? He didn't like what I said. Oh no.
"Well Death Boy, I never thought of you as a Shakespeare but I sure as hell do now. But Death Boy, we can't have time wait on us. We will be adults, and we won't really be able to stay here much longer." I tried to more explicitly try to imply NEW ROME and I know he got it when he had sighed, his eyes closed, head shaking and lips slightly curved into a smile. Head shaking. Oh no.
"Sunshine," he started as he rolled over to face me, running his soft hand over my cheek, dark eyes peering into my soul, "I really see that you're worried right now. Very much so. You don't have to be." He sat up and kneeled in front of me. I covered his hand with mine and smiled. I didn't disguise my emotions at all. That's not surprising. He continued, "New Rome right? I know and I've been thinking. My oblivious self only now noticed your hints dropping everywhere like it's hot. You're going to want to go to med school, and I will study Literature."
"How can you even say that with a straight face? You are Shakespeare aren't you? Because you can act too. And good job with that pop culture reference. You probably host Shakespeare soul," we both laughed. "Oh you know me so well."
"Of course I do. I love you." He kissed my cheek, "In all seriousness, you looked so nervous. Always know, wherever you go, I go too." He kissed me full on the lips, his soft ones bending in the curves of mine as our lips moved on top of each other's. I deepened the kiss and went slowly, trying to taste the kiss, feel the kiss, smell the kiss.
I broke away. "For the record, I will as well. If you didn't want to move, I would've tried to weigh pros and cons with you, but in the end, I would've found another option for myself because I love you too. You're my Death Boy, even though you're like 80 something by now and would be old enough to be my Darth Vader." We both laughed again. It was an inside joke from one of my first attempts to introduce him and familiarize him with everything that he missed from the past 50 years, and one of the biggest, Star Wars.
"Will you miss them? Jason, Piper, Leo" I asked him. I knew he would at least a little bit, but for now he seemed to be covering pretty well and I wanted to know the truth.
"Of course I will," I knew it, "But I'm the one who can shadow travel. You can't, unless you use me or Ms. O' Leary. You will miss Lou Ellen, Miranda, Cecil, Butch and your siblings. You have siblings here too and mine, Hazel, is in New Rome. How will you see them?"
I hadn't really thought of that. I had been too busy thinking about Nico's wants and needs. A hundred thoughts ran through my head as I finally came up with an answer. "As you said, there's always Ms. O'Leary and Butch can always lend me some drachmas as can you, to Iris Message them. Don't worry I'll be fine."
"Okay. If you say so. But don't come crying to me that you miss your friends. Actually, we have lots of ways to solve the problem. Your Dad's chariot, Jules Albert, shadow travel, a whole bunch of stuff. We're good." I kissed his lips after he finished. "That focused look on your face as you think makes you look so adorkable." He scowled. "So does that" I grinned and kissed him again.
He smiled into the kiss, and it melted my heart. I licked his lower lip, and he invited me in. It was the usual make out session start that we always had, almost always in the Hades cabin. I ran my hand through his hair, the other on his shoulder, as his were on my hips. I slowed down the kisses, our tongues grazing. I pulled away and we both gasped for air.
"I love you." He said.
I grinned, and screamed "WE'RE GOING TO COLLEGE! WOOOOOOHOOOO!" and left Nico laughing hysterically, as I tackled him, and whispered, "Love you too". Kissing him again while he was still grinning.