It was a while later when Nico woke, his eyes brighter. Will was glad he'd managed to sleep for a couple hours and stretched out along the bed.

"Feel better?" he asked with a smile and Nico gave a lazy grin back, his hair sleep-tousled.

"I guess." He allowed, unwilling to let on that Will had been right.

"So what now, fancy a movie, some Netflix?" Will watched as Nico stood up, going over to the TV screen he had set up. After a moment of sifting through DVD cases, he threw a Wii remote at Will, who caught it and stared at it in mild confusion.

"Where did you get this?" He asked and Nico sent him a smirk over his shoulder as he slid a game into the console and returned to the bed, setting the Wii up with his own remote. The start screen for Mario Kart lit up on the screen.

"Leo wanted me to test it out. He said he only had one, and figured as I'd never tried it, I could have a go."

"You've never played Mario Kart?" Will asked, glancing at Nico in disbelief before choosing Princess Peach from the character screen.

Nico clicked Mario and Will gave him an amused look.

"What? Mario's better than Peach!" Nico protested and Will laughed.

"Sure, I'll still beat you with her. I just thought that you would've chosen Dry Bones." Will seemed amused with his joke and Nico bumped him with his shoulder.

"My personality doesn't revolve around death and skeletons, Solace." Nico said pointedly, ignoring the skull ring and T-shirt he wore and the whole interior décor of his room. Will laughed again and Nico elbowed him, picking a race at random to get him to focus on something else.

XXX

The first race went well for both of them, with Nico finished 3rd and Will in 1st. However it all went downhill when Will glanced over at Nico to see his scrunched up face and tongue sticking ever so slightly out of his mouth in concentration. Will drove into a wall on accident and Nico's face lit up in a massive grin as he overtook Will to be in first place.

"Suck it Solace!" He crowed and Will looked back at the screen in surprise as Yoshi, Luigi and Wario over took him. "Try winning now, loser!" Nico's cheeks were flushed with excitement as he flickered his eyes between the screen and his boyfriend. Will felt his heart stutter just a little as he looked at his boyfriend. He should probably get that looked at.

"You distracted me!" He complained, still rather dazed and Nico elbowed his side as he turned a corner.

"I didn't do anything, you can't blame me!" They were on their last lap and Will knew he couldn't catch up with Nico without playing a little dirty.

"You looked cute and it distracted me!" Will was willing to admit he lost because of Nico's little pout but also because he knew the compliment would distract him even more. Will saw Nico's face go red and smirked as he tried to regain a few more places so he could mess with Nico's character.

Just as Nico turned a corner, Will elbowed his side and Nico yelped, almost driving Mario straight off a cliff.

"You can't do that!" Nico's voice was raising with the tension of the race.

Will tried to race with only one hand so he reach around Nico to poke his side again. "What's that Nico? Are you ticklish?" He asked in a teasing voice.

Nico all but howled with laughter as he tried to steer his character towards the finish line, but was far too distracted when Will began tickling under his arm.

Nico leaped off the bed and away from Will to try to win the race in 1st, a wide grin stretched across his face.

"Will I swear to god if you don't leave me alone I'll leave you." He was still breathless when he finally crossed the finish line, and Will dropped his controller when Nico did, unwilling to finish in 7th place. Nico fell back onto Will in a dramatic way, trusting Will to catch him and lightly punching his cheek.

"I can't believe you tried to sabotage me because you can't play Mario Kart." He declared, his eyes shining and Will couldn't help but lean down to kiss him.

Nico was even redder when Will pulled away and sat up by himself, a rather dazed look in his eyes. Will smirked at his boyfriend's reaction, about to pull him down another kiss when his Wii controller was thrust in his hands again.

"We're going to play again, and I'm going to beat you fairly. No tickling, no poking, no distracting." Nico said firmly and Will gave him a raised eyebrow at his bossy tone as he sat.

"Whatever you say, Neeks." he winked at him and leaned in for just one more kiss before the race started.