Prompt: Seeing yourself as a hallucination
"You know, you should really choose Zeus. I know Apollo has like, changed, but come on, the king's always going to give you more power points."
Will jumped out onto the floor of Nico's cabin, smudges of tears still on his cheek. The Mythomagic cards slipped out of his hands, and they spreaded out all over the ground.
He groaned in frustration, then looked up to see nothing, just Hades cabin door.
Must have been dreaming, he thought.
He cleaned up the cards, went over to Nico's cabinet drawer, and grabbed the Hestia action figure. Even if she didn't have as many powerpoints, she was one of the nicer gods. Much better than Hera, the bi-
"Yello! Can you hear me? I'm to your right!"
This time, Will turned quickly to the voice, to find himself, with a large smirk on his face.
Well, technically my face, but that isn't me, but that looks me, and we have the same face, but that isn't me-
"Hello! Can you hear me? You can't? Well then, we better fix that, shouldn't we."
He put a fake disapproving expression, walked towards Will, like the real Will, not the fake one, and leaned down to Will's ear. Before will could say anything-
"HELLO! CAN YOU HEAR ME? IF YOU WANT, I CAN SCREAM LOUD-"
Real Will screamed back. "I CAN HEAR YOU! NOW SHUT UP!"
Chesire cat Will grinned before whispering,"of course."
Will 2.0 walked over to Nico's bed, and relaxingly sat down, as if nothing was going on, and Will looked on, in disbelief.
"Who are you?"
"Well, I'm you, of course. Just better."
Will would probably be more angry, if his confusion didn't take over.
"What do you mean, you're me? I'm me, and you're not me. I'm the only version of myself, so you're not me, and you can never be me. So who are you, look-a-like of me?"
"I'm obviously, you, Will. I know everything about you. I know about your crushes, Bailey and Jack in 2nd grade. I know how you once pooped in a cat's litter box. I know how you face-planted into someone's barf in 5th grade. Let me just say, it was a disgusting experience. And most of all, I know how you feel about Nico's death."
Will's anger took over this time.
"YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO TALK ABOUT NICO! You don't know him! He was the sweetest, most misunderstood, perfect, handsome, patient person in the world, and everyone thought he was this dark, shady person, but he was my sunshine-"
Will's voice cracked. He couldn't talk about Nico without breaking down.
He felt a hand on his back, and he thought he was going to get some consoling advice. He was wrong.
"Haha, loser! Still not over your little boyfriend's death, are you? Such a loser. I mean, you should blame yourself, if anything. It's all your fault."
This random egotistic look-a-like of Nico dares to insult him about his feelings, and then blames him for Nico's death.
"Loser," he heard in his ear.
Will's frustration rose, then went down. He knew it wasn't his fault, and he wasn't allow some stupid little idiot get his satisfaction.
It had been over 4 hours, the annoying little voice(even though it was his), kept on remarking at him, and Will was ready to cut it open if he could.
He tried.
He failed.
It swept through the body, like a ghost, and Will's clone started cackling.
"You really thought that could hurt me? I'm impenetrable, Will. I'm in your mind. You can't defeat me."
He screamed at the ceiling, letting out his frustration, and his replica started dancing around, laughing evilly.
Kayla and Austin burst into the cabin, looking alert, searching for danger. Once they realized there wasn't a situation, they looked at Will for an explanation, no words needed.
"Nothing's up. Just felt the need to scream. You know what I mean," lied Will.
One fact: Will is the worst at lying.
Kayla and Austin both raised an eyebrow, but Will knew they wouldn't bother again if he lied. Will only lied in desperate situations.
"Well, then Austin and I will just leave-"
"They don't want you, Will! They think you cause danger to everyone around you! See, everyone wants to stay away from you!"
"But call us if you need anything-"
"They don't mean it! They just want to leave you alone-"
"SHUT UP! SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP!"
Will's voice echoed through the cabin, and Kayla's voice immediately came to a halt. Kayla and Austin looked hurt, and Will immediately felt guilty.
"Look, I wasn't talking to you, I'm talking to-"
He pointed to his left.
"Not you. You didn't do anything wrong. I'm just so confused and annoyed, but it's not your fault, and I'd prefer if you left, not because you hurt me, but just, because…"
Kayla and Austin slowly backed out, probably wondering if a ghost corrupted him. He decided it was a close guess, compared to the situation now.
For a moment, he completely forgot about the replica, and went back to working, before he was spun around in his chair.
Will 2.0 was facing him, with a pout. Was he a poltergeist, or what?
"You know, I was trying to make an impression on you, but seeming you forgot about me, I think I'll stay a little longer."
Will groaned in frustration.
"What do I have to do to get rid of you?"
The look-a-like randomly appeared to his right, and bopped his nose.
"Well, Will. You have to, one, don't forget about me. Two, that's for you to find out."
"You're such an annoying imbecile."
"Yeah? Well, this annoying imbecile is staying here as long as he wants to."
Cue the groan.
"You know, you weren't there to save him. Nico was all alone, and you were busy roasting marshmallows with your siblings. Nico trusted you, and you let him die, all alone."
The words were constantly seeping into his brain. Nico. Dead. Your fault. All alone. You're just a danger. No one wants you.
Suddenly, Will felt woozy, and he passed out.
He was at Long Island Sound, near the dock. The ocean was glistening, birds were chirping, the trees were shaking. No, like literally. The dryads were shaking them around.
He turned to his left, and immediately recognized the boys. Himself and Nico. This was an old memory, and Will felt nauseous almost immediately.
Past Will asked," Nico, why don't you go in the water as often?"
Nico had a small smile on his face, that Will now saw often.
"Well Will, you know how Percy avoids the sky. It's the same for me. Makes me quite nauseous."
Will felt the same way.
Past Will shrugged. "Ok."
The scene was important to Will. It was actually before they were a couple, but their friendship grew stronger.
The sight switched, and Will was now in Nico's cabin again. Except, it looked more clean and lively.
When he turned towards Nico's bed, his guesses were correct.
Nico and Past Will were together, tickling each other.
Will was on top, and stimulated Nico's hips. Nico was holding in laughter, before bursting out in smiles and maniacal chuckles.
This made Past Will laugh just as hard, and he stopped tickling Nico, and planted onto the bed.
Once they were both calmed down, Will spoke up in the comfortable silence.
"I'm going to call you sunshine."
Nico looked genuinely confused.
"Why?"
"Cause your smile is just as bright."
This was a romantic moment, before becoming a couple. Will can accurately remember what happened after. Nico had just pouted, before tickling Will. Nico lost horribly, and Will just made Nico into a bunch giggles.
It all turned black, and again, the scene changed.
"Hey Will?"
"Yeah, sunshine?"
Nico rolled his eyes, but ignored the nickname.
"If I die-"
"Don't talk about that."
Nico gently smiled, putting his right hand on Will's thighs.
"Hypothetically, if I died, don't blame yourself. Just promise me you won't."
Will was hesitant, before saying," Promise."
They sat at the hill for a while, enjoying each other's embrace.
If only Will knew this would be one of the last moments with Nico
Will was crying at this point, enjoying the times he was free and happy.
Randomly, he woke up.
It was slightly blurry, but eventually his vision cleared up.
"How long was I out?"
A voice came from behind him.
"3 minutes, drama queen."
Will twisted around, and ugh.
The facsimile was still there.
"You know, I wonder what Nico would think of his weak boyfriend passing out-"
He had enough.
"That's it! It's not my fault, it never has been my fault! Nico would not want me to take the blame!"
He thought back to his memories.
"You don't need to be here!"
Will thought the replica would just respond with a witty remark, but he just smiled, almost secretive.
"Of course. I think it's time to leave. Hopefully we don't meet again."
And with that, the body disappeared, and it was like nothing happened.
Kayla and Austin both came running in, again, looking alert, just like last time.
"What happened?"
Will just looked around in bewilderment. "I... don't know."
a/n: as you can tell, this was a sad/happy/humor fic. um...oh, yeah! the prompt!
so if you watch the arrow tv show, you might know where i got this from, but this plot is used twice in the show. one, for felicity after she breaks her back or leg, i think? and oliver also has an encounter with a hallucination some reason i don't remember for.
and if you noticed, i wrote "3 minutes, drama queen." like when artemis wakes apollo up in the tyrant's tomb, but with 3 seconds(i think), and it's in a completely different situation.
i'm actually proud of myself for thinking of the idea, like wow, this was weird.
again, like i said, i still plan on doing percabeth one-shots, in fact, one FFN reader gave me idea, which i love, and i do plan on writing with it.
extra details:
-will's at the stage where he's pretty much recovered nico's death
-facsimile means replica, or clone, etc.
-will goes into nico's cabin every month to play a game of mythomagic for nico
-the clone was not like a ghost, and you could see through it. it looks like a normal person, except it can transport, and no one else could see it, since obviously, it's in will's mind, not in person.
-italics means flashbacks; in case you didn't know
-will is bisexual, as i said, he has crushes on bailey and jack(girl and boy)
-i'm officially a beta-reader, and i'd love to beta your story!
-if you hated this, i'd prefer you not tell me, but constructed criticism is always allowed :)
-prompts, prompts, and prompts! i love prompts! please give me any ideas you have.
-and this is the longest author's note i've wrote XD