Chapter 8
"I choose you. And I'll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I'll keep choosing you."-unknown
"What'd you do?!" Hazel slammed the door behind them, not helping him onto his bed. "You idiot! You couldn't have done what I'm thinking!"
Nico frowned sadly at her. "Haz, calm down."
"The doctor has no idea what happened! They're gonna start wondering, Nico. And what are you going to tell them? That you made a deal with plain Evil? Are you kidding me? You idiot!" Hazel started to cry silently.
"Just relax for a second so I can talk." Nico pulled himself onto his bed. "You've always been way too protective."
"I don't care." she wiped the tears off her cheeks.
"Look," Nico played with his fingers nervously. "M-Maybe I did make a deal with 'Evil'. But it's okay. I can dance with Will now."
"Oh my god, you're so stupid." she stared at him in disbelief. "You sold...you sold your soul...your literal soul...just to dance with Will?"
"Yeah, kinda." he scratched the back of his neck. "Don't be mad."
"Too late, Nico." she went and sat by him, hitting his arm lightly. "Idiot! You know what this means?"
"Yes, yes. I thought about it and decided. It was my decision, not yours." he moved away from her a little. "I can't go back so how about you leave me alone."
She shook her head furiously. "I'm taking you to church."
Nico laughed out loud. "Are you kidding me?"
"No, I'm not kidding you." Hazel crossed her arms. "We're getting you blessed and hopefully the priest can help."
"Hazel." he held up his hands. "Slow down. I probably can't even step foot into a church, now. I'd probably burst into flames."
She started crying harder. "Stop talking. Do you know how much I hate this? Thinking about you going to...to…."
"To Hell? Yeah, I've accepted that." he reached over and wiped her tears. "Why are you crying?"
"Because you're going to Hell." she leaned her head on his shoulder. "You're an idiot, Nico. That place...it's going to be really bad."
"I know, I know. But it's okay. I'm happy as long as I give Will what he wants. If he's happy, I'm happy." Nico moved some hair out of her face. "Okay?"
"He isn't going to be happy when he finds out how you made it so you can dance, you know." she commented.
Nico frowned almost immediately. "He isn't going to find out. I swear, Hazel, if you tell him, I'm never talking to you again."
"I won't tell him. I wasn't going to." she sniffled. "But he'll find out, one day."
He handed her a tissue. "I doubt he will, Hazel. That's not something you can easily find out."
"Nico, you don't understand. It should be impossible for you to walk. The doctors can't even begin to think of how this happened. Will is going to ask you about it and he's going to realize. He's smarter than you think." Hazel sat up.
"Just leave me alone, please." he turned away, hating to hear this. Yes, it may be reality, but it wasn't if he didn't think about it. "Go to your own room and stop ruining this for me."
"Whatever, Nico. I'm done." she got up, heading to the door. She stopped at the threshold, her arms wrapped around herself. "I think one day you're going to regret this, and you're going to realize that love shouldn't hurt you this much."
In a couple days, Nico could wiggle his feet and start to feel his knees. It was ecstatic to him and his parents, and all he wanted to do was tell Will. But he didn't know how. How do you tell someone that a miracle happened? What if Will didn't believe him when he said it was something that just happened, with no cause?
But it started eating away at his insides that Will didn't know such a great thing. He wanted to see Will's face, the joy that would come with the possibility of dancing. Just that could keep Nico going for years.
Nico called him in the late afternoon, using his toes to use the TV remote. He had no idea when this deal would be over, so he'd so he'd use it as much as possible.
"Hey, Will." Nico leaned his head back against the couch. "Can you come over?"
"Yeah, course." Will's happy voice didn't falter for a second. "May I ask why?"
Nico smiled. "It's a surprise. So hurry up and get here, okay?"
"See you in a few minutes, Sunshine." Will hung up, concluding the shortest phone call Nico had ever had. He didn't mind because in about ten minutes, Will was coming in his front door.
"Will, come here!" Nico dropped the TV remote and reached for the blond. "You won't believe this!"
"Believe what?" Will came and sat by him, kissing his cheek. "What's going on?"
"Okay, watch." Nico rubbed his face before moving his foot back to the TV remote.
Will froze completely, going pale. "There's no way…."
"I just keep getting more and more feeling." Nico stopped the demonstration and pulled himself closer to Will.
"Nico!" Will hugged the smaller boy tightly. "Oh my god!"
Nico smiled, relaxing in the arms of his love. This was all he had ever wanted, to make Will happy. "Do you see what this means?"
Will glanced down at him. "What?"
"When it gets better, we can dance. We can dance, together, Will."
He had never seen Will smile so much in his life.