EDIT: oh my godd, this had so many issues, I've tried to fix it up the best I could, sorry everyone who expected Solangelo stories and got a lot of code. I don't even know. It SHOULD be okay now, thanks everyone!

3200 words wowie. This was one of my favourites to write to be honest and it's nice to think that they both grow up and don't like... die.

This was going to be the last chapter to end the story on a high note but I had another idea which is more in line with the actual order of prompts.

After writing this my web history was: 'greek god of marriage' 'basic wedding vows' 'emo pick up lines' 'my chemical romance pick up lines' 'wedding tux' and some other shit that my brother saw and just... sighed real loud.

Anyway, there's minor Apollo: Burning Maze spoilers, so go and read that if you haven't already and don't blame me if you're spoiled on it.

More chapters will be up tonight!

Thanks for reading and please comment or favourite!

Fez.

They had grown up in a middle of war, and had almost lost each other several times. Like many demigods, they realised life was brief and many didn't survive to adulthood.

Nico and Will decided to marry after five years of dating and of being completely head-over-heels in love with each other.

Nico had never imagined he would ever get married, but he knew that if he ever did, it would be to Will.

Percy was walking him down the aisle. There was almost no question about it, and even less when Jason… When Jason passed.

In fact the only argument was that Will should be walked down the aisle by his mother, but eventually they decided on Nico and Percy.

They had briefly argued about if Nico should wear a dress or not("Oh gods, is it too late to cancel this whole thing?") then if Will should wear a dress ("Will, I'm divorcing you.") and then the flowers, and the venue and the streamers and almost every little thing but now? Now it was perfect.

The entire camp was done up in balloons and streamers, with the green between the dining pavilion being set up with several large marquees, rows of white chairs and

"Oh gods. Oh gods I don't think I can do this." Nico had matured somewhat in the past few years but he still got anxious. It had improved especially with Will at his side but now as he sat with his head in between his legs outside of the marquee his wedding was being held in.

Percy was shifting from foot to foot before him and he really wasn't helping him.

"You're backing out? You don't want to marry him?" he asked with a fair amount of panic in his voice.

Nico shook his head and sat up. He couldn't imagine leaving Will at the altar and even the thought made his anxiety rise again.

"I can't walk down there, not with everyone staring at me." Percy knelt in front of him, nudging his knee affectionately.

"Hey Nico, I'll be with you, we all know they'll be staring at me, not you." Percy told him with a smirk and Nico laughed, trying to take deep breaths.

"In an hour, you'll be married to him and this panic will be forgotten. Now c'mon you can't make him wait too long." Percy stood up and Nico followed, taking his arm. "And Nico? Don't shadowtravel out in panic."

Nico hadn't even considered that he might lose control on his shadowtravel powers and end up in the Underworld or suddenly at the front or something worse.

Before he could begin to panic, a daughter of Apollo poked her head around the marquee wall.

"C'mon, we're ready for you." She whispered and Nico swallowed, steeling his nerve.

"You better not be backing out." The girl hissed, and Nico knew her- Sammy, one of the Apollo kids who had threatened him within an inch of his life when he first began dating Will. "He's nervous too." She softened and held the flap of the tent back for him and Percy to duck through.

They walked up the aisle to the sound of satyrs playing their pipes. Nico had begged for some My Chemical Romance song but Will had firmly put his foot down on that one.

Nico immediately searched for Will and found him easily enough at the end of the aisle, dressed in a white suit and a black rose on his lapel (Nico had not backed down on that decision) Nico knew he had small silver sun cufflinks-he'd given them to him- and he had his own pair on his cuffs, but tiny skulls. Will had given those to him.

Will's face lit up like a sunrise when he saw Nico in his own white suit and Nico had to concentrate on placing his feet firmly on the ground and not shadow-travelling straight into Will's arms.

After a painfully long walk down the aisle, he was finally staring into Will's big blue eyes, reaching out for his hands as Chiron started.

"You look so handsome." He murmured, just for Will's ears and Will's cheeks flushed.

"You look better." Will whispered and Nico wondered why they were wasting so much time in a ceremony when all he wanted to do was sweep Will up in his arms and call him his husband.

Nico almost dropped his cue-cards when he drew them out of his pocket, but managed to save the situation. Will gave him a supportive but amused look and Nico was sure there were tears in his eyes.

"Will Solace, for the past five years you have been my sunshine. Throughout every battle and every step you've been here for me, and I hope I can be here for you for the rest of our lives. Love may just be a shout into the void and oblivion may be inevitable but no matter how temporary this life is, I want to spend it with you For as long as you are my sun and stars, I'll be your moon." Nico couldn't bring himself to look at Will while he spoke, but he could hear Will's breath hitching at every quote form their favourite movies and smiled at his cards.

"I would choose you over everything and anything and I will spend whatever time I have with you making sure you're happy and safe and alive. I love you more than Gerard Way-"

Will snorted at that last sentence and Nico smirked to himself.

"And I will always love you."

"I also want to take a moment to say fuck you to Cupid." Nico wanted to add a similar message to Hera and Aphrodite but he supposed that he was here. He didn't want to be cursed. "What an asshole."

He knew somewhere in Elysium Jason would be laughing at that, and he heard distinct whoops from the audience- it seemed the Seven, who had found out about his experience with Cupid one was or another, found that funny. He'd found it pretty funny himself and he dared for Cupid to take Will away from him.

Nico swallowed, shuffling his cards back into his pocket and gave Will a shy smile. "That was pretty lame." He muttered and was shocked to see the tears streaming down Will's face.

Will sniffled and rubbed at his eyes and tried to reach his own cue-cards. "I swear I have something planned." He told the audience who chuckled and he wiped at his cheeks again. "Maybe not anything to top that but.." He had found his own cue cards and pulled them out, clearing his throat and making an effort not to cry again.

"Nico, you keep me grounded and sane, and I've never been happier than when I'm at your side and that's where I want to stay for as long as you'll have me. Until death do us part, I promise to love and cherish and support you throughout our lives. You're my best friend, the best I could've ever hoped for, and every day with you is absolutely perfect, just like you."

Nico could feel tears prickling at his own eyes and his breath was coming rather hitched.

"I'll be the sun to your moon for as long as you need me to be."

Will was crying again and Nico was blinking hard. He reached out for Will again, squeezing his hand and longing to gather him up and drown him in kisses.

"Do you, Nico di Angelo, take William Solace to be your lawfully wedded husband?" Chiron asked and Nico wasn't even going to ask how a centaur had the power to legally wed them. He gazed at Will, squeezing his hands gently. He thought of the boy he had been, stealing glances at Will from across the dining pavilion, watching the sun glint off of his hair, his wide smile. He remembered thinking Will would never like, then that he never really liked him, that the relationship would be sharp and short.

"I do." He said clearly and Nico had never been more confident of anything in his life.

Will smiled at him and Nico fell in love all over again.

"And do you ,William Solace, take Nico di Angelo as your lawfully wedded husband?" Chiron continued and Will's eyes lit up.

"I do."

Chiron smiled at the two of them. He was glad two of his campers had survived and found love in each other.

"Then I pronounce you husband and husband. You may kiss your husband."

Nico stepped forward to kiss Will, but Will had other ideas.

Before Nico could even register anything, he was being grabbed, spun and dipped, being held in place by Will's strong arms and finally his lips were on his.

He distantly heard the whooping and screaming of their friends and families but all of Nico's world narrowed to Will, Will, Will. His strong arms holding him, cupping him as gently as possible and his mouth moving against him with the rasp of his hair against his cheek, and the heat of his lips as they kissed.

And as he clutched at Will's arm and lapel, trusting him to keep him up, Nico didn't think he'd ever been happier or more content in his life.

"Nico!" Reyna was threading her way through the crowd and Nico let one of Will's sisters spin off by herself to hold his hands out to her.

She took them with a smile and they spun across the dancefloor, among the other dancers.

"I'm so proud." She said, squeezing his hands earnestly.

Nico grinned breathlessly at her. "We made it." He told her, and she smiled back like she could hardly believe it either. He remembered himself, lost and scared, in some great amphitheatre and Reyna on a couch lying back. Her eyes were hard and cold and merciless but Nico knew all about facades. Reyna was a scared child, caught up in the god's whims, just like him. He remembered all the meetings they had sat through together, the times they stared at the stars on the Argo II, trusted each other to keep themselves afloat in the harsh world and he couldn't believe that they had made it to adulthood.

"He's good for you." Reyna was saying, and they spun in sync, him twirling her with barely a second thought. "If anyone deserves this," she gestured around them, at the great white marquees and fairy lights and streamers and the campers and the camp. "It's you."

Nico smiled at her, and that was something he'd found himself doing a lot more nowadays. He had no need to hide and bury his feelings when he was surrounded by people who loved and cared for him, no matter how he felt. Hiding his smiles and scowling at the world was for a small boy who just didn't want to be hurt.

"Thank you." Nico told her, and she laughed, her cape and toga brushing her legs as their feet stepped neatly in and out of each other. "Thank you for getting me through."

Reyna had saved him, all those years ago, when she allowed him to stay in Camp Jupiter in her safety and warmth even if the Romans were not always friendly. Had she not, he would've died on the streets at the hands of monsters.

It was Reyna's turn to twirl him now and she did so deftly, and they continued on, set apart from the dancers alongside them.

"You got me through a lot too Nico, and I wish you the best for the future." She pulled him in to hug him and he squeezed her tight.

"Now, be sure to visit poor old me in Rome when you're all old and domestic and married." She told him, holding him out at arm's length.

"We're not going to domest-" But Reyna carried on.

"And I want to be a godmother when you end up with brats."

Nico laughed. "Sure, Reyna. And of course I'll visit you, brats in tow."

Reyna laughed and kissed his cheek affectionately.

"Now, go on, dance with your husband." There was still a flash of surprise everytime Nico remembered that he was properly married to Will now. "Stay safe and don't forget about me."

He winked and before Nico could protest anymore, she had whirled back into the crowd. He saw her later, dancing with Percy and he was glad she was okay.

He didn't find Will right away after that, and was pulled into dancing with Hazel when one of their old swing songs came on over the speakers. They had given Leo the job of DJ and a playlist of songs he had to play and Nico knew for sure that 'All Star' by Smashmouth had not been on the playlist.

They spun with each other, breathless and laughing, until the song ended.

"I'm so happy for you, Nico." Hazel said softly as he bowed to her and she curtsied.

He smiled at her and kissed her cheek. "It still doesn't feel real." He told her, as the next song swelled.

"It will. You deserve to be happy with him. Now, I think you have a new ance partner." Her eyes slid over his shoulder with a smile and he turned. Will was standing there with a hand held out for Nico. He glanced at Hazel and nodded, promising to catch up with her later before he took Will's hands.

Will waved at Leo who clicked some buttons and the current song cut out halfway through to a new one. It was another old-timey song and one of Nico's favourites.

Will placed his hands on his waist, taking the woman's role in the steps, which was difficult as he was taller than Nico.

Nico had taught Will how to dance years ago and he grinned. He still loved dancing, and it was fun with Will, even if he did trip himself up over his own feet.

They spun gracefully- never as quick as him and Hazel though- and Will leaned in to kiss him, Nico giggling as they lost track of their footwork and almost toppled over.

"How are you feeling, husband?" Will asked and that little thrill shock ran through Nico again.

"Even better now you're here again." He said softly and Will grinned, spinning and dipping him again in line with the crescendo of the song.

"Well, I think you managed to pick a good one." Nico turned to see his father, and gave him a brief smile. He had a moment of quiet in between talking to everyone but he guessed he could manage to talk his father for a bit.

"He's really great." Nico murmured, staring at Will who was showing off his ring to his younger siblings. He was sure that they had already all seen it before several times but Will liked showing it off. While Nico watched him, he looked up and searched the crowd until he found Nico's eyes. His face lit up and he waved and Nico tried to keep the sappy smile from his face. Then he remembered that he could be as sappy as he wanted at his own wedding and waved back.

Will blew a kiss at him, and Nico decided he wasn't being that sappy.

"Well, when he saw him outside the palace I knew he was good enough for you." Nico nodded before processing what his father had said.

"When was he outside of the palace?" He asked, turning back to Will in a panic to check that he was okay, despite knowing he was.

"About two months ago, when he came to ask me for your hand in marriage." Nico closed his eyes in embarrassment and agony, even though a grin was spreading across his face. Of course Will was dumb enough to travel the Underworld for his supposed hand in marriage.

"He's good for you." Hades stated and Nico turned his head away from Will, knowing his father had more to say.

"I won't take him. Not until he and you are truly ready. I wish I could have protected those before him, but I will do everything in my power to stave the Fates off of him."

Nico's eyes widened, and he opened his mouth to say something but the God of the Dead waved him off. They were never very good with emotional scenes.

"That doesn't mean he can just charge into battle and expect to live. He'll be safe until old age takes him."

"Thank you." Nico said and he was choking down tears.

Hades simply nodded at him. "I'm sorry I couldn't have done it before." He said solemnly and Nico knew he was talking about Bianca and his mother.

"They would be proud of you." Hades continued, and Nico swallowed hard. Suddenly he was a child again, his mother long gone and his sister leaving him behind. "I'm proud of you."

Nico glanced away to blink tears out of his eyes and when he felt he was in control of his emotions again, his father had gone.

But in his absence was an arm being wrapped around his waist and lips pressed to his forehead.

"You okay, sweetheart?" Will asked him and he turned to hug him tightly, reaching up to kiss him.

"I'm glad we made it." He said into his shoulder and Will hummed under his lips, squeezing Nico just as tight.

"I love you." Nico looked up at him and Will grinned at him, the lopsided smirk that he hadn't lost from when he was a kid.

"I love you too. I always will."