Nico frowned as he brushed back his hair and straightened his skull top. Anxious jitters made his fingers fumble with the brush and his stomach roll.

It had been a month since his last heat had ended and the two had had their talk.

Today was the day Will would get their results back. So they'd know once and for all if it was possible for Nico to get pregnant.

Despite everything, he still hoped. He hoped that just maybe the results would come back and say it was possible for them to conceive. Even if it meant they had to do it in a way other than the more natural method. He didn't care how Will got him pregnant, as long as it happened.

"Please." He begged the universe in general; too afraid to ask any specific god for aid. "Don't let me always be the one with issues in this relationship."

Even as he said it he felt bad. Will got his own nightmares about lives he couldn't save; his own worries about campers under his care.

Nico just hated being another one of his worries.

The raven was so wrapped up in his thoughts that he didn't hear his mate enter their cabin; he didn't even notice Will was there until he found the blonde sitting on their bed with his face in his hands.

His stomach dropped as his mind immediately went to the worse case scenario. Will had gotten their results. He'd seen proof of Nico's defectiveness in print. He'd come to the same realization Nico had a month ago. That Nico was too broken to be anyone's mate. Tears were falling from his eyes before he even fully stepped into the room. Will looked up at the sound of the floor creaking beneath Nico's feet and met his watery gaze.

His face looked like perfect reflection of the agony Nico felt. His eyes were red and his skin was flushed and even his hair looked limp and faded; like someone had stripped the sun god's child of his glow.

Half of Nico wanted to run; to get away before Will could say anything.

But the weaker half caved the moment Will opened his arms and beckoned him forward.

He fell into the blonde's arms like a weight into water.

He wanted to apologize, but Will beat him to it.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." He sobbed into Nico's hair.

The raven didn't understand. What did Will have to be sorry about?

The blonde pulled back enough to look at Nico's face with watery blue eyes.

"I shouldn't have assumed. I should have checked before I ever even asked you to be my mate." He admitted through tears.

When the raven only looked up at him in confusion Will just cried harder.

"It's my fault. I'm the one that's broken Nico. I'm the reason we can't have kids." He admitted in an agonized rush.

All Nico could do was stare at him.

That didn't make any sense. Alphas couldn't be infertile. When a child couldn't be conceived it was always the Omega's fault. Never the Alpha's.

"Will, that isn't possible." He tried to assure the blonde.

Will shook his head so hard it looked painful.

"It is. It never made sense for you to be the infertile one between us. You're a child of the big three, your heats last a week at a time, and you have the strongest heat scent I've ever smelled. Those are signs of peak fertility. Any other Alpha would only have had to look at you side ways to get you pregnant."

Will's voice got lower as he continued.

"My ruts last two days at most and even then my scent barely changes. I talked to my mom after I got the results. She had a mate before Apollo, but she couldn't get pregnant no matter what they tried. Her mate died two years into the relationship and then my mom met Apollo and had me. But until then, she didn't think it was possible for her to have children."

Will's eyes were so dim despite their wetness.

"I swear to you I didn't know infertility ran in my family. I didn't even know Alphas could be infertile."

Nico's disbelieve must have been evident on his face because Will forced himself to continue.

"There's speculation in the medical field that it might be possible, but that any Alpha's with the condition force their Omegas to get pregnant through others and then hide away during their pregnancy rather than admit publicly that they have fertility issues, but I always assumed it was a just a rumor or a theory." Will admitted. "Or it might just be because I'm a demigod conceived from the womb of infertile mortal. Nature making sure my line stops after me no matter what my designation is."

Will looked calmer now, though still just as sad.

"I'm the broken one Angel. You're just as perfect an Omega as I always knew you were."

Nico didn't know what to say. He'd been so sure he was the damaged one, that he was the cause of all their grief. It had never even occurred to him that Will's contribution to their unions was the cause of their inability to conceive.

For a moment warmth sparked deep in Nico's chest.

He could get pregnant. He could carry a child.

The spark flickered and died as he continued that train of thought.

He could have a child; but it wouldn't be Will's child.

It could never be Will's.

And if it couldn't be Will's he never wanted it to be anyone else's.

His hope for children had finally been smothered; but his love for Will had only grown.

"I love you." Nico reminded him as gently as he could as he reached out and cupped the blonde's face between his palms.

Tears dripped onto his hands as Will continued to look at him like he was unworthy to even sit in Nico's presence, let alone be his mate.

The sight made the raven's heart ache. Slowly enough to keep him from startling Nico pulled his face down until they were less than a breath apart.

"You are perfect."

A kiss to his forehead

"And whole."

A kiss to his cheek.

"And hands down the best Alpha I have ever known."

He promised with a final kiss to Will's pale lips.

Will's eyes widened at the echoing of his own words of reassurance to Nico not so long ago.

"This doesn't change anything between us." Nico assured him gently.

From his expression the blonde clearly didn't believe him.

"But Nico….you could have children." Will reminded him just as quietly.

A part of the Italian still ached at the thought, but he'd made his decision the moment he knew it.

He shook his head surely.

"No Will, if I can't have your children than I don't want them."

Will's expression was pained.

"You haven't even given yourself time to think about it Angel. We could get a sperm donor and they'd still be half you and I'd love them as my own."

Nico just shook his head.

"You don't want that anymore than I do. Anymore than I'd have been able to handle using a surrogate."

Will looked down shamefully, unable to deny the claim. The scent of Nico pregnant by another Alpha would have disgusted Will for the entire pregnancy; he wouldn't even be able to get close to his mate without being affected by flare ups of anger and aggression.

It happened on rare occasion that mated Omegas still got raped despite their mating mark making them unappealing to most Alphas. Such attacks also happened to result in pregnancy on an even rarer occasion.

Every time it did though, the Alpha never stayed. It was too much for their instincts to handle. They either left or ended up hurting their Omega. Few, if any, ever came back.

Nico couldn't imagine Will doing either, but he'd also shared half a dozen ruts with the blonde. As gentle and loving as Will was, his hormones still drove him to decorate the Italian in bruises no matter how careful he was during his ruts.

"We have the camp." Nico reminded him. "The campers will be like our own. We'll stay here like we planned and help them become the heroes they were born to be."

Nico slipped onto Will's lap and laid his head onto the blonde's shoulder.

"I only need you Will. I don't need anything else to be happy."

The blonde carefully wrapped his arms around his mate and pulled him closer.

"I want to give you everything you want Nico. Everything you deserve. You can't tell me you don't want a family."

Nico nuzzled against his neck with closed eyes.

"When we thought it was because of my body that we couldn't be have kids you said you didn't need them. Did you mean that?"

"Of course." Will assured him.

"Then trust that I mean it now." He urged the blonde. "We'll be uncles, babysitters, and camp leaders. We'll be around more children than most people encounter in a lifetime." Nico promised. "They won't be ours the way we wanted, but they'll still be a part of our lives."

"Okay." Will breathed in response; sounding more tired than when he'd had 18 hour shifts in the infirmary during emergencies.

Nico shifted until the pair was lying together on their sides looking at each other with lidded eyes.

"I was afraid." Will admitted in a whisper. "I was so scared you'd hate me. That you'd leave."

Leftover tears trickled down his face and onto Nico's fingertips as he caught them.

"I was afraid before too, but I'm not anymore. I love you Will and that's enough. It'll always be enough."

Will leaned closer and kissed him; pouring every ounce of love and thankfulness he could into it.

"I love you my Omega." He whispered when they parted.

The raven looked at him with an exhaustedly endearing smile.

"I love you too my Alpha."

They fell asleep entangled with each other and when Nico awoke in the night to find Will's hand upon his stomach he didn't flinch. He just intertwined their fingers and fell back to sleep; knowing that he and Will would face whatever the future brought them together.


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Jessica499499/Lacy Fairgold