Nico has nightmares. Sometimes they affected his everyday life. Once he had a nightmare about Percy that was pretty much the plot of Dipper Goes to Taco Bell, and couldn't talk to him for a week. He had nightmares about everything. Nightmares that put the slasher movie plots to shame. Eventually though the feeling of disgusted fear ebbed away and he was set off onto another night of terror. He was having trouble using his underworld magic and traveling in his dreams so he was stuck in his own asleep mind.
Nico always checked everything around him when he woke up, just to be sure it was a dream. It always helped when he woke up next to Will and he could breath out a sigh of relief. The sunlight that filtered through the cabin a struck Nicos face. He would bury his face in Wills neck and lay awake for a little while. Nico never wanted to go back to sleep when he woke up so he only drank coffee as a show. He hadn't told Will they ever got very bad. He hadn't told Will much of anything.
One morning he woke up to Will shaking him. It wasn't because he had been mumbling or screaming in his sleep or anything. He had just overslept. He didn't oversleep anymore. He was shaken up, and excused himself to go to the bathroom. He splashed water on his face and brushed his teeth.
He was just about to start getting dressed when Will spoke. "Aren't you going to have any coffee?" He turned to look at Will while pulling his shirt over his head.
"No." He couldn't remember what last nights dream was about and he wasn't sure if that was good or not. Maybe they got so bad he's repressing them now...
"You know that I know you have nightmares right? It's not exactly a secret, or well kept. Or a secret." He said.
"You said it's not a secret twice."
"Emphasis."
"Oh. How is so not a secret? I never even said it was." Nico replied with grim look. How long had Will known?
"You get cold when you're scared." He shrugged. "Happens every night. At first I though maybe you were just like that! Then there was that week you couldn't even look at Percy, and unless he did something really bad, it was nightmares. Why didn't you ever say anything?"
"Didn't think it was all that important. There's not really anything anyone can do, except the hypnos cabin, but they waste my time with sleep powders that don't work. They test them on themselves." Nico walked out the door with a kiss for Will and his sword strapped to his side.
Will was now determined to find a cure for Nicos nightmares.