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••I WILL NOT ABANDON THIS STORY••

— BlueEyedOwl1

Will POV

Will woke up to the sun in his eyes. He normally would have welcomed it, since his dad is the sun god, but today he just wanted to sleep. He'd stayed up late, talking with Nico and strolling through the woods. Nico had told him about his nightmares and Will had comforted him. They did this almost every night since Nico shook Will awake. Nico seemed more open with Will and Will didn't know what to think. On one hand he wanted to comfort Nico (which he did) and on the other hand he just wanted to kiss him (which he didn't). But he knew that if he did, Nico would probably hate him.

"Get up, sleepy head!" One of Will's siblings called from the bunk below him.

"I'm up." Will grumbled before rolling out of bed and pulling on some clothes. Will stumbled into the bathroom, brushed his teeth and attempted to tame his hair but soon gave up.

He blearily wandered to the dining pavilion and sat at his table.

"Hey." Nico ran his fingers through Will's hair, not helping the tangles.

"You need to brush this mop of hair." Nico said, plopping down next to Will.

"I tried. It's not tameable." Will smiled before handing Nico the jam. "And aren't you supposed to be sitting at your own table? Mr. D will have your hide if he catches you here."

"I suppose so. Ah! Now his gaze shifts to me! Later Sunshine!" Nico smiled and shadow traveled to his table with his breakfast right as Mr. D noticed him at the Apollo table.

"You're not supposed to do that yet, Death Boy." Will muttered but he was secretly pleased Nico was playing around. Nico had been sleepless for as long as Will knew him but now he seemed to sleep the whole night.

They finished breakfast without much excitement until Chiron announced that they were going to play capture the flag tomorrow night.

Everyone quickly chose teams and of course Annabeth was team captain. She chose the Apollo, Demeter, Aphrodite cabins and Nico.

Nico met Will's gaze and grinned.

The next night Annabeth called for her team to huddle after dinner.

"Ok guys, so Nico, you're going to get the flag but only after the Demeter cabin has gone as a distraction and the Apollo cabin is positioned in the trees on our side of the creek. The Aphrodite cabin will guard Zeus' Fist with half of my cabin. The other half will go with the Demeter cabin. Ok good luck!" We all yelled loudly and finished strapping our armour on quickly.

"This is gonna be fun! And remember, no shadow traveling, Death Boy." Will said to Nico as they were walking in the woods.

"I know Sunshine." Nico waited at Zeus' Fist as everyone got into their positions. The horn sounded and the game began. Right as the distractions left, Nico silently walked across the creek and into enemy territory. He could hear kids fighting around him but didn't run into anyone.

Nico used his senses to feel out where people were, and avoided them. Living people put out a different kind of aura than the dead so it was pretty easy.

He heard the Ares' kids fighting the Demeter and some of the Athena kids. It sounded like his team was prevailing.

At long last he spotted the flag. It was on top of a big pine tree. The guards were standing in front of the tree, not suspecting an attack from behind. It looked like they were from the Hephaestus cabin.

Nico quietly snuck up behind and listened for a second.

"I swear, if that one Aphrodite girl doesn't stop flirting with me I'm gonna have one of the Apollo kids make her talk in rhymes for the rest of the week!"

Nico figured they were distracted enough and ignored them as he silently climbed the tree. He grabbed the flag and shadow traveled to Zeus' Fist.

"You aren't supposed to do that Nico!" Annabeth exclaimed. "Will is gonna think I told you to do that! I'm toast!" Annabeth immediately shut up when everyone came and carried Nico to the amphitheater, cheering.

Once everyone was seated and they started singing, Nico felt himself slipping out of consciousness. He grabbed Will's arm but then he was gone.

Nico and Bianca watched behind a bush as Nazis soldiers pulled a family out of their house and held them at gunpoint, marching them down the road towards a truck. The son and daughter were crying.

"What is happening, Bianca?" Nico whispered to his sister.

"They're taking the Jews, Neeks." Bianca looked a thousand years old when she said that. "Taking them to camps where they kill them."

Nico and Bianca watched silently as soldiers took more and more families and marched them down the Venician streets, loading them into trucks and driving away.

"Nico." Will's worried face was above Nico.

"Ugh." Nico sat up, looking around. He was in his bed and Will was laying next to him.

"You passed out." Will sat up.

"Yeah… Will, they took families away from their homes. They killed them. They killed them." Nico felt tears fall down his face but he didn't care, he was with Will.

"Who are you talking about?" Will asked gently, wrapping his arms around Nico's waist.

"The- the Nazis. In Venice." Nico buried his head in Will's chest.

"It's ok. It's ok." Will hugged Nico close. They sat there for a minute.

"You should probably go to bed, Will." Will nodded and Nico led him to the door. He wanted to kiss Will but something kept holding him back. But he wasn't sure what was and it was frustrating.

The butterflies in his stomach were very alive as he wished Will goodnight and went to bed, thinking about Will and how he had comforted Nico every time he needed it. Nico came to the conclusion as he was laying there, that he, Nico di Angelo, liked William Solace.