Last chapter! Love you all and your reviews so much. May have a sequel, may not. I'm playing with some ideas. If I do, I'll post another chapter here telling you all. Have a good year despite all the shit going down around us

Once Nico pulled the two apart, Lukas went stumbling back with wide eyes and a guilty conscious. He began to sprout apologizes, but all Nico could do was focus his attention on Will. Will..."Why did you do that?"

"I'm sorry..." Will wiped at his mouth as if could wipe Lukas away. "I'm so so sorry. He kissed me and I...I don't know. I'm insane or something. My dead boyfriend is back and I love my alive one more and I feel horrible for the dead one but I love the alive one and-"

"Will, go brush your teeth," Nico instructed. "I can't kiss you until you do." He kissed Will's cheek. "Stop freaking out for a second and go do that. I'm going to talk to Lukas privately. We already have, but apparently, that wasn't enough."

"Nico, don't hurt him..." Will leaned his head on Nico's, taking in the smell of his boyfriend's shampoo. "Okay? No homicide."

Nico cracked a smile. "I'll see what I can do. Now go wash those disgusting lips."

Will nodded, keeping Nico close to him for a minute more before disappearing upstairs. Once he was gone, Nico turned to Lukas with fire in his eyes. "Don't. Do. That. Again."

Lukas held his hands up in surrender. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Nico. I wasn't thinking. I'm sorry."

"You said just friends."

"And I meant it." Lukas promised. "I just...seeing him after so long...I acted on my heart. I'm sorry."

"You better be," Nico mumbled. "Because I need to trust you two."

"You can, I promise." Lukas took a step closer to him. "I promise. We can work on getting me a boyfriend or something, huh?"

Nico gave him a half smile. "Yeah, sure. But stay away from mine."

"He said it himself. He loves you more." Lukas shrugged his shoulders. "I want him to be happy. And you make him happy. So we'll just be friends. And me and you will be brothers."

"Oh god," Nico mumbled. "That won't end well."

Lukas laughed as Will came back downstairs. "Only you, Nico."

Nico gave him another smile before looking to Will, his arms crossed. "You washed those lips?"

Will smiled. "I smell like mints have been in my mouth since I was born. That mouthwash of yours is powerful."

"I used to use it so I didn't smell like...like...you know." Nico waved his hand, dissolving the topic he never wanted to get into again. "Lukas and I talked. You two are going to be...only friends...right?"

Will kissed his forehead. "Course, Nico. I love you. Lukas and I...will love each other as friends. It'll take some getting used to. Like...he's alive...I'm still in the 'holy shit' phase."

"Then hug him or something." Nico gestured to Lukas. "I don't care if you hug or talk. Friends do that. But all the boyfriend stuff is for me only."

Will hugged Nico before moving to Lukas, buring himself in the awaiting boy's chest. They hugged it out for awhile before Will finally pulled away, his face covered in tears. "I thought you were dead because of me."

"If I could have changed what happened, I would." Lukas smiled sadly. "It was all my father...I...I wanted to stay with you and my mom, but my father was also in the equation."

"He's an ass." Will grumbled. "A real ass."

"Yeah, but can you imagine the awesome trip I took?" Lukas' eyes lit up, the eyes of someone that the world could never stop offering an adventure to. "I climbed mountains, I swam in the Great Lakes. And I snuck on boats and snuck on trains and I'm wanted in a couple states."

Will laughed softly as he wiped tears from his pink face. "Only you, Lukas."

Lukas ruffled Will's hair. "Best friends, now. You have to help me find a boyfriend."

Will smiled. "Challenge accepted."

School started with cup holders of coffee and rock music blaring from the radio. Percy drove, Nico and Will were in the backseat doing last minute summer homework, and Lukas had shotgun. His blue hair had been redyed the night before, the roots not dark anymore. He hung his head out the window and let the wind blow his hair away, let his pale face belong to the air again.

There was something about that moment that Nico would never forget, something about Lukas that he'd never forget. His happiness, his struggles, everything life wore him down with all tied up in what Nico could only describe as a sky blue. Lukas was blue, but not the dark blue that he associated himself with.

They got there thirty minutes before classes started, knowing very well that they'd take forever at their new lockers. The new codes, the new rules. The school had gotten more...strict, you could say...as the threats kept on. They didn't want their kids to die, but the government seemed to think otherwise.

The schedules had been out, their classes were assigned. Everything seemed fine to Nico besides his fifth period, which would involve gym class with Lukas, Percy, Will, and Leo. It was a disaster waiting to happen.

When he finally got to the locker rooms to change, Lukas and Leo were in deep discussion about something Nico never wanted to find out. He stepped into a bathroom stall, changed into sweatpants, came out to find that everyone else had finished. He gave Lukas a look before gesturing to Leo, which was met with only a shrug and a 'we'll see' look.

His gym teacher took the fact that they were twins as meaning that they liked each other, put them on the same team so they would like him. It instead caused a fight every two minutes. They were civilized, but they could never stop bickering. They were complete opposites, with only Will and genetics to unite them.

The baseball field was at the back of the school, a thin fence separating them from the dangerous neighborhoods around them. There was one bat and only two baseball mitts, but they made do. Percy and Leo were on the opposing team, their gym clothes already covered with the white dust.

"Leo, we're not professionals!" Percy called out as Leo swiped his foot over home plate, cleaning off the dust.

"I am!" Lukas called back, a laugh escaping his lips.

"Not even when pigs fly." Nico shook his head. "Not even a thousand years after pigs fly, at that. Not even when all the pigs die."

Lukas' laughed made Will look up from the bench where he waited to bat. Made him smile as bright as the sun. Nico didn't say anything, knowing not to. He knew who Will chose, and Will had chosen Nico. He knew Will would never be unfaithful, but it'd take a while before the love for Lukas died out. He'd give them that.

In the meantime, he'd use that guilt to make sure Will would never leave his side.

The roof was the same as the year before, but the smell of heroin had drifted away. The fresh air filled their lungs and the sun beat down on them with the urgency to warm up its already sweating victims. They sat with cold drinks and fingerfoods, sat together again for the first time in months. But for the first time since they ever began to sit on that roof, Nico didn't use it to get high during the school day.

Will sat by him the whole time, just in case he went to go relapse. Will knew it was hard, he understood. And Nico could never be more thankful. Having support was one thing, but having the one close to your side, actually caring, was what truly mattered.

Lukas and Leo never stopped talking, never stopped coming up with another prank they could pull on somebody. They sat with their lunches against the far wall, a paper between them that they drew a plan out on. Will watched them every now and again, but he mostly stayed focused on Nico and their conversation. It was good, light. Everything was good.

Everything was so good.