Chapter 4

Will's POV

After watching Ouran High School Host Club all day with Nico, Will really wanted to be anime. But he wasn't. Instead he was human and going on a… date with a daughter of Demeter. Was it a date? Will didn't know what it was when she asked him out, but something in the back of Will's mind whispered that this was a date to him.

"Are you okay, Will?" Camille asked him. "You look really out of it." Will looked at her green eyes and nodded. Then he looked at her plump lips. They looked softer than, say… Nico's, for example. They looked nice.

"I was wondering," Will began awkwardly. "If I could kiss you." Camille nodded with a smile before leaning in towards the son of Apollo. Their lips connected awkwardly. Everything seemed wrong to the son of Apollo. He didn't know how Camille felt, but it was awful. Their nosed bent awkwardly, and their lips seemed to want to separate like two magnets facing the same pole. When they finally broke off they avoided each others eyes.

"That was… awful." Camille admitted. "I'm sorry, Will. I only came out tonight to do some experimenting and now I have decided that I don't like men or women. I am attracted to both physically but not sexually. My sexuality is nope!"

"Thanks the gods." Will sighed. "I felt awful because I didn't know if I liked girls and I only came here tonight to find out. That kiss was awful." They bother looked at each other and began to laugh.

"Are you questioning because of Nico?" Camille asked. Will looked a her, confused.

"What makes you think that?" Will asked. Camille shrugged, looking at the beautiful view.

"Nothing," She answered. "Sorry. I thought I was picking up on something there." Will started laughing, which caused Camille to laugh. They shared a few sandwiches and weird fizzy liquid which tasted like elderflower while talking about which guys were the hottest.

After what felt like hours of banging on the Hades cabin door it was finally slammed open. The tired, annoyed figure of a particular son of Hades glared daggers at Will.

"Why the Hades are you knocking on my door at three in the morning, Solace?" Nico demanded. He looked like he just woke up, He wore baggy dark grey pyjama bottoms and an old tattered black vest top. His feet were bare and pale. His hair was up in a small… pony tail? Oh gods it was cute.

"Are you ignoring me?" Will asked, smushing his face against the doorframe. "I haven't spoken to you in almost a week and a half. Are you ignoring me?"

"Yes, I am." Nico answered. He leaned towards Will and sniffed his breath. "Are you drunk, Solace?"

"Absolutely not!" Will exclaimed, darting up from the doorframe. "All I have had to drink is some warm liquid that Travis and Conner gave me. Katie told them not to, but they did and it was nice! It makes me feel good!"

"You're drunk…" Nico muttered to himself. "Come on in, Will." Will stood up 'straight' and walked in. Once in the dark cabin Will watched Nico sit down on the sofa. "Sit, Solace." Will flopped down and stared at the son of Hades.

"Why are you ignoring me, Nico?" He asked. Nico rolled his eyes and walked to his coffee machine, turning it on. Will looked up at him like a puppy. "Is it because I'm drunk?"

"So you are drunk?" Nico asked. Will shook his head quickly, which made it hurt.

"Owie," He complained, holding his head still. "The Stoll's told me to deny it if anyone asked me if I was drunk."

"Of course." Nico muttered. He poured a cup of coffee and handed it to Will. "To sober you up. If Chiron finds you you're screwed, Will."

"Why are you ignoring me?" Will whispered again. He might've been drunk, but if any part of him was sober, it wanted to know.

"I don't want to talk about it." Nico answered quietly, taking a sip of his coffee. Will took a sip of his own coffee, ignoring the pain that ran through his lips and throat due to the heat.

"Please, Nico…" He pleaded. Nico looked up at him. His eyes looked black in the dark, but it still made Will want to melt and sigh.

"Y-you helped me when I was panicking," Nico said so quietly it was almost a whisper. "you stayed with me in the night and got me food. We hung out all day and then you just went off with some whore." Will looked at Nico carefully, trying to look past the drunkenness. He looked as if he were about to cry, but he remained strong.

"Nico," Will smiled. "I don't know how to tell you this, but here goes. I do not like the V." Nico looked confused. "I bat for the other team." Nope. "I am hella homo." Nada. "I am gay. Are you?" Bingo!

"W-where's this c-coming from, Solace?" Nico asked. Nico sat down on the coffee table. Will stood up and walked to him. He placed his hands on the other boys shoulders and smiled.

"Aren't you?" Will asked. "Gay, I mean." Nico nodded ashamed. Will smiled before leaning into the son of Hades. Warmth spread through Will's body as they're lips touched. Will placed his hands either side of Nico, deepening the kiss once he realised Nico wasn't objecting. The son of Hades got over his initial shock, he deepened into the kiss, cupping Will's face and the kiss was over as quickly as it had begun.

"That strikes me as hella homo." Will chuckled before pressing his lips to Nico's once more.

Will woke up with a massive headache. He couldn't remember what had happened yesterday, but if he got kicked in the head by a horse he wouldn't be surprised. He suspected he was in the Apollo cabin or the infirmary, but he never thought he'd wake in the Hades cabin. He was laying on the floor with a pillow under his head and a large blanket over him.

"Morning, Solace." Said the familiar voice of Nico di Angelo. Will looked up the son of Hades sitting in his bed, lounging while taking a bite of an apple.

"Why are you shouting?" Will complained, holding his head. "And why is it so bright?" Nico laughed, sending pain shouting through the son of Apollo's head again.

"I am speaking no louder than I usually do and this is the darkest cabin in the whole camp." He said. "Imagine if you woke up in your sunny cabin, or even the infirmary." Will groaned.

"Why am I laying in a makeshift bed on your floor at around eleven in the morning?" He asked.

"You were banging on my door at three this morning." Nico shrugged. "Apparently you wanted to know why I was ignoring you. You were as drunk of Mr D so you crashed on my floor."

"So w-why were you ignoring me?" Will shuttered. He really needed one of his siblings right now. Usually he could heal himself, but alcohol seemed to have evil powers which stopped him healing himself.

"You don't remember anything about last night?" Nico asked, sounding a little bit disappointed. Will shook his head and watched as Nico looked crestfallen. "I was just busy. I wasn't ignoring you."

"But you said-" Will began, but Nico interrupted him.

"I wasn't ignoring you!" Nico yelled, causing Will to clutch his head again.

"Dude!" Will complained. "Hungover with painful headache right here. Keep voice down. Please, Nico."

"I think its time to leave." Nico said quietly, not meeting Will's eyes. "I have a bunch of stuff to do. Some sort of animal got into Persephone's garden so I told her I'll help out."

"Nico…" Will looked up at the son of Hades, feeling guilty for some reason.

"See you later, Solace." Nico said, getting up from his bed, opening his cabin door. Will nodded, leaving Nico to himself. Will had never seen the son of Hades looking so… upset. He looked as if he were going to cry.

"William Solace!" Will grabbed his head again. The sun hurt it enough, but why was everyone yelling at him?

"Why is everyone on this god forsaken earth so loud today?" Will asked as his sister, Kayla, joined his side.

"Where were you last night?" She asked. "We were going to send out a search party, but then the harpies chilled outside our cabin and we were nervous to try and sneak past."

"I, erm," Will began to tell the truth of how he fell asleep drunk in the Hades cabin, but he remembered how his siblings would react to that.

*In Will's mind…*

"Oh my gods! You fell asleep in Nico's cabin?"

"What the Hades?! You were drunk?"

"WILLIAM SOLACE!"

*Daydream over…*

"…I, erm, must have fallen asleep in the infirmary." Will answered, rubbing the back of his neck. "I was taking stock and must have crashed out on one of the beds. I have a massive headache, so mind fixing it?"

"Why don't you?" Kayla asked as they walked back to their cabin. Will tried his hardest not to look at the cabin, which seemed to radiate sunlight, but it was easier said than done.

"It's not working so please." Will pleaded. Kayla rolled her eyes, stopped Will, put her hands on his head and sung a random song in ancient Greek. Will felt the pain ease away. It wasn't completely gone, but it was good enough. "Thank you so much, Kayla. I owe you one."

"You can start by telling me the truth." They walked into the Apollo cabin. A few people asked Will where he was, but Kayla shook her head and everyone continued on with their daily activities. Kayla sat Will down on his bed and stared at him.

"I might've been slightly drunk and crashed in the Hades cabin." Will muttered. Kayla's eyes widened as she slapped Will's arms in shock. "I slept on the floor because he didn't want Chiron to find me drunk."

"Will, I love you so much so what I ask next is out of love." Kayla said. Will looked at her, confused. "Are you gay?" Will looked at his hands and nodded slightly. "I thought so. I'll make you a deal. If you stay sober for a week, I'll get you together with Nico."

"I don't drink problem, Kayla." Will reminded her, slightly offended.

"Do we have a deal?"

"Okay…"