"Nico, sit down!" Will almost yelled, ash and soot in his hair and blood that wasn't his streaked across his hands. He had black rings under his eyes and he was pale, from the lack of sleep.

Nico bit his lip, trying to sit up again.

He didn't want to upset Will, who was high-strung after the recent battle and the flow of patients that followed. He had barely been getting three hours of sleep a night, for the past two days, trying to make sure everyone was okay.

Nico had been helping the infirmary for them two days, making sure Will was eating, and helping to take the strain off Will. He had had to drag Will to his cabin last night, at 2am, when the boy refused to leave.

"Will, I'm fine," Nico had been stabbed in the battle, and had dealt with it with a large gauze plaster. Unfortunately, Will had noticed he'd bled through and was demanding he lay down and let himself be checked over.

"You're not fine. C'mon just let me check you over, in case you have an infection-" Nico swung his legs off of the bed, still protesting that he was fine.

"I'll just take it easy, Will, it's fine." Will ran both hands through his hair, looking like he was going to burst into tears.

Nico really hated doing this as he stood next to Will, wrapping his arms around his boyfriend.

"C'mon Will, just relax," Will clung to Nico burying his face in Nico's hair. Nico could feel wetness start to seep down as Will shook.

"Hey, hey, hey Will. I'm sorry, it's just that I can deal with this, there are other people who need your help more than me. You haven't had a break for hours, I'm worried about you."

Will sobbed and Nico mentally kicked himself for upsetting Will. He tried to walk backwards in a weird crab scuttle towards the bed and managed to sit him down.

Will wiped his cheeks and Nico felt his heart break a little bit. Nico hugged Will again, tucking his head into his shoulder and rocking gently.

"I-I'm sorry," Will hiccupped and Nico pulled back so Will could see him and shook his head hard.

"There's nothing to be sorry about," He replied, slowly stroking Will's back as the blonde boy cried.

Will seemed to be calming down when another child of Apollo walked through the door and froze when she saw Nico and Will.

"Oh, er, I'll go-" she stammered but Will lifted his head from Nico's shoulder, and Nico tightened his arms in case the boy tried to work anymore.

He was going to take Will back to the Apollo cabin and keep him there until he'd had at least twelve hours of sleep and a big meal.

"Wait Cecily." Will said, stopping the girl in her tracks. "Can you just change Nico's dressing? I'm going to go back to the cabin."

Cecily nodded and Nico got up, pulling Will with him. "Go straight to your cabin, or I will drag you there by your collar."

Will nodded, then cracked a tired smile. "I don't think I can go straight there,"

Nico was confused until he saw Will looking pointedly at their joined hands and sighed, gently pushing the son of Apollo, despite being glad that Will seemed back to his normal self.

"I will," Will promised and headed for the door while Nico followed Cecily.

He sat down on a bed, pulling his shirt up as Cecily pulled the plaster off and readied a new one.

"You and Will are cute together," Cecily said, matter-of-factly, and Nico blushed the smallest bit.

"If you upset him, I will make sure that you do not live long enough to get to the infirmary to be healed." She carried on, in the same voice. Nico looked up at the girl, eyes wide and saw she was not joking. He felt vaguely threatened.

"I will not hurt him." He promised and Cecily stepped back, wound covered again, and smiled widely.

"Well, that should be okay now. Make sure he gets some rest." She reminded him and gave him a cup of nectar, before shooing him out of the door to find Will.

He found Will on his bunk in the Apollo cabin, curled up under his blankets, blinking sleepily. Nico felt his heart twinge as he realised Will had stayed awake long enough to see him.

Nico climbed up beside Will, but not under the covers. He had a feeling that if someone found them sleeping together then Chiron may reconsider the 'One boy and girl must not be in the same cabin together alone' to 'One boy and girl, or Nico and Will must not be in the same cabin together alone'

Will fought to get one of his arms out of the covers and slung it over Nico as he burrowed closer, his eyes flickering closed despite it being the middle of the day.

"Thank you for being there," Will said, sleepily and Nico smiled, shifting up on the bed to place a kiss on his forehead.

"Anytime, Will. Anytime."

Whelp, more angst. I wrote a less angsty version of this out, and it's on the story Warriors (you should totally check that out *wink wink nudge nudge*)

But look! The promised Solangelo!

Have a great day (I'm going on a date, help help help help)

Fez