Nico knocked on Wills door softly with his free hand being carful not to drop what he was holding, he hadn't seen Will in almost a week. Lou and Travis had said something about a big test coming up which of course meant Will would be studying non stop. No one else seemed to be worried which confused Nico to no end, didn't they realise Will would need comfort or at least some help? They all said just to leave him alone until the test had been taken. Obviously Nico had ignored their advice and went to see Will.
Nico knocked again but there was still no answer, so instead of knocking again he decided just to open the door. When he walked in he wasn't surprised to see Will at his desk with numerous empty cups of coffee around him, stacks of books at his side and him leaned over a text book the size of twenty oxford dictionary's if they were all crammed into one book. He had his music in and Nico could faintly hear the beat of heavy drums and guitar from the headphones, Will looked ready to pass out, his hair was a mess like it hadn't been brushed in days, he had dark circles under his eyes and even though Wills forearms were hidden by his long tan sweater Nico could tell he had been scratching at his wrists, a nervous habit he had discovered Will had.
Nico sighed walking over to Wills bed putting down the movies and food he had brought for his overly stressed friend before walking over pulling an ear phone out of Wills ear. Will jumped in surprise his eyes going wide "shit Nico, you gave me a bloody heart attack" Nico rolled his eyes smiling softly "I'm no doctor sunshine but I'm pretty sure your not having a heart attack, your just tired and hungry and shit is not a nice word young man" Will of course forced a smile on to his face "I'm fine really, just a headache. Should go away no problem" Nico sighed his smile slipping off his face " don't put on that act Will. Your ready to collapse so just stop. That stupid fake smile might work for other people but don't think for one moment that it will work on me" Wills smile dropped as well leaving behind a tired and worn out frown on his face. It definitely didn't suit him.
Nico reached over grabbing Wills book putting the book mark in before closing it "Nico I need to study and the test is in a few days, if I don't read-" Nico cut him off "William Jay Solace you are going to stop, your are going to drink water and eat something because obviously you haven't been eating the past few days. You are going to have a shower and put some anti bacterial cream on your wrists and then you are going to relax and watch a movie with me until you go to sleep. No ifs or buts."
Will sighed taking the other ear phone from his ear looking at Nico tiredly "Nico I can't" "you don't have a say in the matter, I'm not going to let you run yourself down like this amour " Will raised a questioning brow "what does that mean?" Nico was confused for a moment before realising what he had said, he looked away from Will clearing his throat a little "it roughly translates to moron" he lied, why would he have said amour?love? Really? Maybe he had meant it in the friendly way. The way you love a friend? Yah with Nico's luck it probably wasn't anything friendly.
"Well that's not very nice" Will said chuckling tiredly "you might make me cry, I'm so sad by the hurtful things you say to me" Nico rolled his eyes walking to the bed picking up one of the boxes he had brought "Will pizza heal your pain?" He said sarcastically, Wills grin widened at the sight "all is forgiven" Nico rolled his eyes again passing Will the box before moving to sit on the bed grabbing Wills laptop. He opened it up and began typing out Wills ridiculously long password easily. Nico didn't blame Will for having a password that complicated, he would probably make a long password aswell if he lived with one of the stoll twins, Nico was just lucky to have Will trust him enough to tell him the password.
Nico immediately scowled when he saw Wills screensaver "seriously?" He looked over to see Will already two pieces into his hawiwn pizza "what? I like that picture of us, it's cute" Will said, though it was muffled because he decided that he didn't want to stop eating long enough to talk.
Nico looked back to the picture holding back his smile keeping his scowl intact. It was sort of cute, or at least the part with Will in it was. It was a picture that Connor had taken, some of the guys had came over to His and Cecil's dorm, Will and him had been on the bed, Wills arm casually draped over his shoulder, they were both looking at each other chuckling at some stupid pun Will had made. Connor had said he had taken it for black mail but the way he was smiling at both Will and him made Nico think otherwise. Nico decided to stop staring at the picture like an idiot and put the movie in so he could at least set it up.
"I have the Avengers set up now, all you have to do is finish the pizza and go have a shower then we'll watch it okay?" Will nodded taking a bite of his last piece "what will you do while I'm in the shower? Won't you be bored?" Will asked genuinely curious "no I'll just sit here going through your porn stash" Nico joked grinning "that and I have my pizza to eat too you know" Will smiled standing up brushing pizza crumbs off of his sweater "fine but if your going to go through my porn make sure you don't delete any, I'm very protective you know" Will joked back walking out with his fresh clothes and towel to go have his shower.
Nico laid back on Wills bed,the laptop resting on top of his legs. The bed was warm and it smelled like antiseptic gel and pine trees, it was oddly comforting for some reason. He looked around Wills half of the room smiling, it wasn't exactly the most organised room in the world but it wasn't messy either, it was just comfortable and warm. There was no other way to describe it. There were so many soft pillows and light pastel colours, there were photos of Will and his friends and family stuck neatly along his wall, no posters or anything. It was just so, well so Will. Even his desk which was covered in books, papers and coffee cups at the moment was personal, with little drawings of music notes sketched in the desk and sticky notes posted alone the sides with his to do lists so he wouldn't forget, some didn't even have words, they were just scribbles that would jog Wills memory. Nico sighed sitting up grabbing a piece of his pizza. He had to get a was his friend, he would have to be happy with that.
When Will got back he looked refreshed but still utterly exhausted. Nico immediately noticed his choice of a long sleeved white shirt. Of course he would notice the long selves, did Will really think he wouldn't?. "where's your anti bacterial cream, I'll put some on your wrists" Nico said getting up moving the laptop so it was sitting on the bed "neeks it's really not bad enough for that" Will said quietly "bull shit, is it still in your draw?" Nico asked even though he was already there and opening the draw. Luckily he was right and unscrewed the lid of the cream tube "roll up your sleeves Will" Nico said turning to see Wills nervous face. Nico stopped for a moment, the annoyed expression fell from his face. He wasn't annoyed at Will, quite the opposite actually. He was annoyed at himself for not being able to look after Will well enough. The look on a Wills face immediately remind Nico of Reyna. Will wasn't cutting but still, that same look of fear. Afraid that they would be judged or hurt. Nico had seen that look enough times to know what to do. God he hated that look.
"it's okay" Nico said smiling comfortingly, he walked closer slowly as if approaching a frightened animal before rolling up one of Wills sleeves for him gently. He had scratched himself up pretty bad, it was almost like a cat had attacked his wrist but it wasn't Wills fault, it was all the pressure put on him with the stupid medical course. Wills nerves always got the best of him, and the nerves made him scratch itches that weren't really there. It was the same way people would tap their fingers on tables or bite there lip or bounce their knee when stressed, except Wills habits actually physically hurt him. Nico held Wills hand in one of his own holding it still as he rubbed cream over his wrist gently making sure to get enough on there. When he looked up at Will he saw him smiling softly down at him "thank you" Will said softly, though it wasn't needed.
Nico was quite sure that it cause him more pain to see Will hurt that the actual pain hurt Will himself. Nico just smiled moving on to his other wrist being just as gentle as he did the first. When he was done he reluctantly moved away from Will over to the bed picking up a water bottle passing it to him "here, drink up and lay down. The sooner you sleep the better you'll feel" Will just smiled a little more taking the bottle before slipping in to the bed, not before stealing a piece of Nico's pepperoni pizza first of course. Nico just smiled taking his shoes off placing them neatly next to the bed before sitting behind Will who had by then laid down with the laptop next to him. It wasn't even ten minutes into the film that Nico could tell Will was falling to sleep, he was glad Will would be getting some rest. Just before Will did fall to sleep he turned his head to look at Nico smiling sleepily "thank you, I mean it. Your amazing neeks. I don't know what I'd do without you" Nico shrugged moving to brush some hair out of Wills face. It was hard not to notice Wills faint southern accent when he was like this. Any other time it was basically non existent but when he was half asleep Nico could definitely hear it in his voice. Instead of moving his hand away from Wills hair strait away he continued to comb his hand through it softly smiling down at Will "it's what I'm here for sunshine, to look after you" Will smiled leaning into Nico's touch before his eyes started fluttering closed. Nico couldn't help the blush that creeped up his face, he definitely didn't love Will the way you should a friend and it scared the hell out of him.
Hey guys, I'm sorry if there are too many mistakes in this one but hopefully it's alright. I'm actually so proud, it didn't take months to publish this one! Yayyyy. I wanted to update now because it's my 16th birthday in a few days and I don't know when I'll be able to have time to write. Hopefully the fluff will make up for the lack of updating I have done with this story. Love you guys, hugs kisses and cookies (::)