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—BlueEyedOwl1
The first day out of the infirmary Nico went to his cabin and changed clothes. He put on black jeans and a bright purple tee shirt.
Nico grabbed his sword and headed down to the arena to meet Will. He noticed people were talking a second look at him.
"Hey Sunshine." Nico sat on the stands next to Will.
"Hey! You're not wearing black!" Will smiled.
"Is that why people are looking at me?"
"Probably. It looks good on you though."
"Thanks. Should we practice?" Nico stood up. Will nodded and they went down to the middle of the arena. Nico wasn't in good shape maybe, but he still knew his stuff so he taught Will and they practiced each move together.
Soon they were both drenched in sweat.
"Ice cream?"
"Definitely." They walked to the camp store, hand in hand. It was still uncomfortable for Nico but since it was Will's hand he was holding it was much better. And nobody looked twice at them. The gods have had many male lovers so Nico and Will were normal.
"This is so good!" Will wrapped one arm around Nico's shoulders. Nico had strawberry and Will had chocolate.
They walked around camp enjoying the sun. Well, not totally.
"Do we really have to stay in the sun?" Nico complained.
"Yup! If you don't get your vitamin d you'll feel tired and get depressed. So we're soaking up the sun."
"Ugh." Nico was secretly pleased that Will was giving up his shift to spend time with him, even if that meant he had to sit in the sun.
"You wanna see a late night movie? My siblings can cover for us." Will grinned and licked his cone.
"Sure. I'm in. What movie?"
"I was thinking Enola Holmes maybe?"
"I've heard it's gory but that's coming from the Aphrodite kids." Nico chuckled. He finished his cone and wiped his hands on his jeans.
"We might be able to handle it. Just maybe." Will deadpanned. Nico laughed.
"Dude. Nothing in the movies could scare me. I could watch any movie rated R for violence and not flinch."
"Isn't kinda crazy how we don't go insane? All the mortal medical books say that we should be in a mental hospital by now."
"I'm guessing because we have some godly blood. Makes us suffer more." Nico sighed.
"You ready, Death Boy?" Nico heard Will enter his cabin. He quickly finished brushing his teeth.
"You look nice." Will had a clean orange sweatshirt and jeans on. The jeans had little suns embroidered on the back pockets.
"Thanks! You like the suns?"
"Yeah."
"You have your nice aviator jacket on! I love it!" Will pecked Nico on the cheek making him turn pink.
Turns out the Apollo cabin had made camouflage ponchos for Will and Nico so they could sneak out, unseen by the harpies.
"Phew! I thought we were gonna die! Peleus almost crushed me!" Will clung to Nico.
"Haha. We're fine now though. Except for the fact we're outside of the camp borders." Nico drew his Stygian iron sword and peered into the night.
"Yeah." Will got out his bow. "Let's make this quick." They ran to a camp car and jumped in, Nico starting the engine. Will opened the sunroof and popped his head up.
"No monsters will get close now."
Nico punched the gas and they sped away from camp and towards the city with Will as a human turret.
"That was really good!" Will wrapped his arm around Nico's waist. Nico smiled.
"They could've made the fight scenes a little more realistic in my opinion. And clues are much more convoluted than that."
"I agree." They walked down the Manhattan streets in silence for a bit. Once they reached their car, Nico froze.
"What is-" Nico put a finger to Will's lips. He drew his sword as Will knocked an arrow.
Nico walked to the other side of the car and a harpy jumped out. He slashed and she dissolved into dust.
"Get in the car Sunshine." Nico sheathed his sword and jumped in and pulled the car into the street.
"What'd you kill?" Will asked casually as he knocked off a couple more harpies.
"Harpy." Nico glanced at the mirror. "Dang it! There's like twenty following us."
"I don't see-" Will ducked so fast he landed on Nico's lap.
"Roll the window down!" Will screamed as he closed the sunroof. Nico kept his eyes on the road as he punched the gas and rolled his window down. Night vision was great.
Will hit a few more harpies. "Faster!"
"We're going as fast as we can! There's too much traffic!" Nico weaved in and out with skill.
"They're gaining, Nico!"
"I know! We're almost to the main highway." Nico swerved around a semi truck and shot down the ramp, merging on the highway. He pushed the pedal farther and the speedometer hit eighty mph.
"If we crash at this speed we're dead." Will commented, his hair whipping in the wind.
"Yep. We're holding steady at ninety five right now."
They barely made it to camp with their lives. Will and Nico had been on foot for the last hundred yards since a harpy popped two of their tires.
Will crashed on Nico's bed.
"We just about died." Will muttered, staring at the ceiling.
"That was the best part." Nico giggled. He was laying next to Will.
"Yeah." They started laughing hysterically.
"You want something to eat?" Nico sat up, his stomach hurting from laughing.
"Definitely." Will followed Nico into the kitchen. Nico pulled out a tub of pineapple. He held it out to Will but he shook his head and grabbed the mint chocolate chip ice cream.
They stretched out on the couch and ate in silence.
"Do you have more?" Will held out his empty carton of ice cream.
Nico shook his head.
"I have lots of pineapple though. My lips are dying from it!"
"Lemme help you with that. I've got a great cure!" Will proceeded to lean over and kiss Nico on the lips.
"Solace!" Nico set his pineapple container down on the floor. He pulled Will to his chest.
"Hey sweetheart." Will whispered. His face was inches from Nico's.
Nico closed the space and Will's arms curled around his neck. He tasted like mint and smelled like buttered popcorn. Nico loved it. Will pressed him down and placed a hand under Nico's shirt on his waist.
Fireworks.
Nico pulled his and Will's shirts off. Will's skin touching his felt indescribable. He pulled his lips away from Will's just to breathe for a moment.
Will's eyes opened and Nico smiled.
"I love you." Will started kissing Nico's neck. Nico pulled Will closer, terrified of his own feelings, but so, so, content.
Will sat up abruptly.
"You okay?" Nico studied Will's glowing face.
"I'm grand." Will grinned and pulled Nico into his bedroom.
"Can I kiss you?" Will wrapped an arm around Nico's waist.
"You just did." Nico smiled and pecked Will on the nose.
"We should sleep or people will think we snuck out."
"Yeah." Nico took off his jeans and crawled under his fluffy blankets. "Why are you still here?"
"Can I sleep here?" Will blushed.
"Always." Nico moved over and let Will climb in.
"Goodnight Nico."
"Goodnight Sunshine."