Will turned the card stock paper on its side and began running his eyes over the card. It slid from his hands and cascaded on to the floor.
xx
Dear Will Solace,
Your stepfather told me this was the appropriate place to reach you.
I have no words to express how deeply sorry I am to hear about your mother. I'm in shock to here this news. My prayers and thoughts are with you during this horrible time. I would love to drive down and take care of you while you're in mourning. If you
need me to. Just say the word.
all our hugs and good energy,
Elizabeth & Isaac Sanders.
xx
"I don't understand" Nico protested. "Will and I got a letter INVITING us to her house a week ago. If the body was found after three weeks of decay, how can that be possible?"
"And, how did we not hear about it before Will's aunt and uncle sent a sympathy letter" Hazel added, shifting from under Frank's arm.
"That's what we're trying to figure out" Detective Weaver replied, his teeth clanking against the gum in his mouth
"Are you fucking chewing gum while my friend's mom has been murdered?" Percy took a step forward and stared at the detective. Percy and the Detective were roughly the same height, though the son of Poseidon was much stronger.
Detective weaver spit out the gum.
"Look, guys. I can't tell you how her request to meet Will was sent almost two weeks after her killing but the statistics are spot on. They don't lie. I suspect that the letter was just delayed. Nothing more than that. As for why the Sanders' letter was
the first to reach you, it seems like the area's address is hard to find. I wouldn't be surprised if a mail man or a citizen could not figure out how to reach you"
"His step dad knows!" Nico replied, flustered.
"His step dad, clearly didn't send a letter." Detective Weaver opened another package of gum."
"Don't you dare" Percy snarled at the package.
Detective weaver put the package back in his pocket. "We're doing all we can, Nico. But the letter would be valuable evidence. Can I see it?"
Nico shook his head. "Will ripped it up, yesterday. He may have done more to it after I left."
"Go see if it's still salvageable" the detective ordered
Percy murmured "please"
"Go see if it's still salvageable, please"
xx
Nico took a taxi from the coffee shop in which he had met the detective. Will had neglected to go and the two were not in the best of sorts as Will had screamed at Nico upon reading the letter. Will's emotions were so overloaded that he didn't know what
to do or say and he'd yelled at Nico to leave. Nico obliged.
The Apollo campers had all cleared out of their cabin, leaving Will to himself. Nico knocked on the door and was met by the blonde's frantic screaming of "go away"
Nico pushed through the door anyways and walked in upon half naked Will covered in a blanket of tissues.
"Have you been crying? Nico asked tentatively as he sat beside the blond. Will made a move to push the boy off the bed but upon seeing Nico's face, he decided against it.
"Hi." Will sighed. "No. I can't. I can scream. Really loud" He half smiled. "But I can't cry. The tissues are precautions." He made a snow angel in the bed of Kleenex.
Even covered in tissues, the camp leader was beautiful. His blond hair swung over his face just enough so that you could see his face shape. His nose, c major lips and blue eyes were clear but the blonde strands were painted across his forehead. His face
was clear except for a few lines of snot drizzling from his nose like mock tear drops. He had one (Nico thought) adorable pimple at the start of his eyebrow that resembled a freckle. Nico loved the spot just above the the top of Will's nose, right
between his eyebrows. It was Nico's favorite part of Will's face (besides his eyes and cheekbones and little ears and of course his c major lips)
Will looked at Nico tentatively. "I'm sorry." He put his arms around his boy so that chest was against chest. Will was training to be a doctor and knew that if you looked into someone's eyes long enough, your heartbeats will sink with theirs. The son
of Apollo felt Nico's heartbeat against him almost instinctively.
Nico had always hated the sound of a heartbeat. He would lay in bed and listen to the thump against the mattress. He was scared it was going to stop any moment and when it started to beat faster as a result of his worry he'd cry to Bianca and she'd tell
him it was all all right.
In this moment, Will put his hand against Nico's chest. Nico didn't do the same for fear that any small movement could result in Will's heart stopping.
Will continued "I'm sorry. I yelled at you. I'm confused and I hate myself. I never told her. About me being gay. She wouldn't accept it. But she's not the kind of person to disown me. No, she didn't disown me. I disowned her. I stopped talking to her.
I haven't seen her in forever and now the next time I get to see her"
he was talking too fast, choking on his words with that acidic build up you get when your trying to to cry and your nose and mouth and entire face get hot. "Is at a funeral" Will finished.
Nico pressed the warmth of his cheek against Will's shoulder. Swaying their bodies, rocking him like Bianca used to do to him. " I'm in love with you" Nico kissed the underside of Will's jawline. "And your mother is too and you didn't disown her.
"She could have called you any time, Will." Will disagreed but he didn't have the strength to argue with his boyfriend. They kissed. Softly, not hard like they usually did. Nico loved the feeling of Will's skin as he planted kisses along Will's collar
and neck and stomach, and the kisses grew into flowers of feeling. Nico repeated "I love you. I love you. I love you" into Will's skin and will would always answer "I love you too."
Aaaaaand that was chapter 2! I'm thinking of making this sort of a mystery eh? I don't know? Like finding the killer but also a bunch of fluff.I might do a smutchapter at the end.
-haley