Lukas opened his eyes to Will staring down at him, those blue eyes raging with emotion. "Lukas... I'm glad you're awake."
"Will..." Lukas sat up, pain scratching at his mind. "What are you doing here? Where even am I?"
"At Percy's place." Will explained. "Annabeth and him found you like this in an alley."
"Oh..." Lukas looked away. "Can you take me home?"
"Later." Will held Lukas' hand. "We're eating dinner here."
Lukas looked at their hands, frowning when he saw the state Will's were in. "What did you do?"
"Hm?" Will glanced down to where Lukas was looking. "Oh...yeah, about that... Nico and I went to Knox's place."
Lukas' eyes flashed dangerously. "You did what?"
Will held his hands up in surrender. "Lukas...we were angry...look what he did to you."
"It's none of your business!" Lukas argued. "Now he's going to be even angrier at me!"
"You aren't going to be alone with him ever again so it doesn't matter if he's mad at you or not." Will moved a piece of hair out of Lukas' face. "You're not being with him again."
"You don't have that choice," Lukas growled. "He's my boyfriend and I love him-"
"I thought you loved me." Will cut in. "I thought you loved me, not that piece of shit."
"Don't call him that." Lukas glared at him. "I did love you, back when you were Will. My Will. But now you're acting like Nico."
"Because I'm angry." Will glanced away. "And I'm still Will. But... Knox makes me so angry, Lukas. He makes me so damn angry."
"And why is that?" Lukas moved his face to Will's. "Why does he make you so damn angry? Huh? Are you going to tell me or are you going to just keep hating him?'
Will looked back to him, paling when he realized how close they were. "You want to know why he makes me so damn angry that I'm not even myself? You really want to know?"
Lukas nodded. "What? Are you jealous? Are you jealous of him?"
Will's eyes met Lukas'. "What if I am?"
"Then you're a cheating bastard." Lukas put his nose against Will's. "A cheating bastard that...that needs to leave this room before something happens."
Will didn't move away. He couldn't. "You almost died on me again, Lukas. I won't let that happen."
"I wasn't trying to." Lukas' top lip rubbed against Will's, the soft touch sending currents of electricity down his spine. "I was just trying to talk to Knox...just trying to talk to my love."
"But you shouldn't love him." Will muttered. "You shouldn't. You should love... You've always loved..."
"You..." Lukas melted against Will, melted into him until they started to kiss. Slowly, passionately, full of warmth and a burning sense of forbidden love. The type of love that sent your heart beating and your mind blank of thought. The type of love that could only ever be seen behind closed doors, shunned from society.
The type of love that ruined lives.
Days went by, then weeks. Nobody spoke about the kissing, nobody found out. Yet again and again, when nobody was around, Will found himself glued to Lukas. Guilt washed over him, he felt as if he was doing the worst thing possible, but he couldn't stop. Just couldn't.
It kept Lukas away from Knox and that was all that mattered.
Christmas break finally rolled around, and with it Nico's leave in hopes to get clean. Will dropped him off, made sure he got in safe, made sure all the paperwork was done, then went right back to Nico's house. He rang the doorbell in hopes Lukas was home, felt his heart do a small flip when Lukas answered the door.
"He's in." Will told him as he entered the house. "If he takes it seriously he'll get clean. I know he will."
Lukas nodded as he closed and locked the door. "Good."
Still, they didn't talk about what they had done. They never mentioned it to one another. Yet when the normal conversation died down, they found each other at their lips again, they found each other on the couch, in Lukas' bed. They found each other because they simply didn't want to think about anything else. Lukas didn't want to think about Knox, Will didn't want to think about Nico's drugs. They just simply didn't want to think.
So they immersed themselves in the love they still had for one another, immersed themselves in one another to escape the harsh reality they were stuck in.
Immersed themselves in one another without a thought of what harm it could do.
