Will is a Disaster Gay TM.

It was coming to the end of Nico's mandatory three days in the infirmary and Will was getting desperate.

With the end of Will's shift today- just 23 minutes away- Nico would be free to go and then Will would probably never get the courage to speak to the Son of Hades again. He couldn't help glancing at the door, scared that one of siblings would come in early for their shift and Nico would disappear.

He had assumed that the perfect moment to ask Nico on a date would just… appear and allow him to take it. Even as he tried to brainstorm ideas of how to ask Nico out he wondered if it was even worth it. All Nico had done for the past few days was try and get away from the infirmary and Will. Maybe he had misunderstood their conversations during the battles.

At the moment Nico was sitting on a visiting chair with his feet thrown up on an empty bed (Will had told him to stop that so many times that he had eventually given up) rolling sections of gauze up to be used in their first-aid bags. They had run out of a lot of supplies during the battle and were trying to restock everything.

"Do you need some more bandages?" Will asked, trying to catch Nico in conversation. The infirmary was quiet, meaning Will had time to talk to Nico.

Nico looked up with mild surprise like he had forgotten where he was. Glancing at his small pile of to-be-wrapped bandage he nodded.

"Yeah that would be cool." He flashed a grin at Will that made him lose his breath for a moment.

He walked to the supplies closet quickly, hoping Nico hadn't noticed the obvious way he had frozen on the spot. Leaning against the shelves he took a moment to breathe. He was almost glad that Nico was going tomorrow if only so he could get on with his work without being constantly distracted by him. He stood in the closet for a few more moments, still trying to brainstorm how to ask Nico out.

"Uh Will?" Will froze at the voice behind him and turned around, plastering a smile on his face.

"Hey Nico, what are you doing?" He asked like meeting his crush in what was basically a broom cupboard was normal.

"You took forever getting bandages." Nico rolled his eyes, and leaned past Will to reach the box of bandages on the back wall. The cupboard was barely a meter square, just off the main infirmary and full of shelves. Coincidentally there was just enough room for two fifteen-year-old boys to stand, pressed up against each other.

Will looked down at Nico, realising just how close they were. He just had to lean in a little and he could be kissing Nico.

"Will?" Nico asked in a hushed voice, his eyes fixed on Will's lips.

Will wasn't quite sure who leaned in first but all of a sudden he was kissing Nico's slightly chapped lips in the darkness of the medicine cupboard.

Suddenly his eyes shot open and he pulled back quickly, hitting his head on one of the shelves as he did so.

"Will?" Nico asked and Will could hear the hurt in his voice.

He'd overstepped so many boundaries, Nico was his patient and he needed a friend not a boyfriend, he was probably straight anyway wasn't he?

"I'm sorry." He managed, eyes casting around for the door so he could escape and probably go to his cabin to cry it out for a bit with his siblings.

"What for?" Nico asked, stepping even closer, pressing Will against the shelves. Will had officially stopped working, staring at Nico's wide dark eyes.

"You're, you're straight?" Will tried and Nico laughed, making Will's insides melt.

"Not quite." He told him and pulled him down and closer with the collar of his shirt pressed their lips together one more time. Will couldn't stop a tiny gasp from passing his lips and he could feel Nico's grin.

After a few moments of mostly innocent kissing, Will pushed against Nico's lips just a touch harder. He had a feeling he had more experience than the other boy with the sloppiness of the kiss but it was still the best kiss Will had ever had. Nico relaxed against his lips, his arms looped around Will's neck. He'd dropped the bandages at some point and had both hands free to touch Will.

One of Will's hands reached for Nico's messy hair, tangling in the longer hair at the nape of his neck. Nico let out the sweetest groan and Will answered it with his own, his free hand cupping Nico's hips and pressing them even closer together.

They probably would've gone even further if the cupboard door hadn't been opened by Austin.

"Hey Will are you in here? James said you'd disappeared in here and hadn't come out, I thought we'd fixed that dodgy lock but oh my gods what the Hades-" The door slammed shut again, as Austin had gotten an eyeful of his half-brother snogging the son of death in a closet. Will looked at Nico in horror.

"You have five minutes to get out and give me 10 drachmas or I'm yelling what I just saw from the top of the climbing wall." Austin called through the door and Nico ran his hands through his hair, feeling how messy it was and already missing the feeling of Will's hands running through it.

"Meet me in my cabin in ten minutes." He told Will, leaning up to place a kiss on his jaw.

"Wait, don't leave me here-" Will tried to grab him but the Son of Hades had already shadow-travelled away.

Will sheepishly opened the door and handed over the money. James, an Ares boy sitting on one of the beds with a broken leg gave him a smirk and Will had to fork out another ten drachmas to him too. He wasn't even sure if the Ares boy would keep his mouth shut even after the bribe. Finally he got away from Austin's teasing and headed to the Hades cabin.

He'd barely knocked on the door when Nico was yanking him in and pressing him up against the door, mouth attached to his neck immediately.

"I've been waiting so long to do this." Nico muttered between tiny nips of Will's most sensitive spots. Will grabbed Nico's waist again and pulled him in to kiss him fiercely.

"You have no fucking idea."