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Fez.
Nico yawned for the third time from where he was leaning against Will. They propped up in Nico's bed, watching some cartoon on Netflix on Nico's computer.
Will was beginning to yawn too, and he finally reached out to pause the episode.
"Wait, what?" Nico asked, and Will sent him a disbelieving look as he shut the laptop and put it away safely.
"You weren't watching it." He said. He'd been the one who wanted to watch it and Nico had sat patiently with him for the better part of a season.
"I was!" Nico protested, but his eyes were glassy with exhaustion.
"You're falling asleep." Will told him softly, not blaming Nico for being tired. It had been a long day and they both needed to sleep.
"I would've pretended to pay attention." Nico said, but he was already yawning again.
He held the covers up so Nico could snuggle properly under them and he lay down to be with Nico. The smaller boy immediately wriggled into his arms and they both lay in the darkness.
Nico's eyes were closed already and Will watched him peacefully. Nico's skin was beginning to return to it's olive complexion and his eyes weren't sunken anymore. His long dark eyelashes lay against his cheeks and they fluttered as he opened his eyes.
Nico pawed at his face self-consciously as he realised Will was staring at him.
"What is it?" He asked and Will shook his head, leaning in to kiss Nico's nose.
"It's nothing. You're just really cute." Nico's cheeks flushed with colour and he buried his face in the pillow.
"Shuddup." He muttered, in the soft tone he always got when he was sleepy.
"It's true." Will persisted and Nico peered at him out of the corner of his eye.
"Really?" Nico murmured and now Will know he was exhausted if he wasn't even bothering to reign in the sappy part of himself.
Will shuffled closer to place tiny, soft kisses across Nico's face. "You're adorable." He said, his voice full of conviction and Nico's face softened into a smile. He fought his hands out from under the covers and cupped Will's face gently. He paused for a moment, just looking at his boyfriend with a rather awed look. Will's eyes were big and blue and full of light and love and it made Nico's own eyes almost fill with tears at the sight.
Will gazed back at Nico's dark eyes. He wasn't as musically-inclined as his siblings but he could sing sonnets (you're not even meant to sing a sonnet but Will would do it for Nico) about Nico's eyes- dark as night, the complete opposite of Will's heritage but they were still so beautiful Will couldn't stop staring. They devoured light in their obsidian depths, he could stare into his eyes for hours and still not be bored.
Nico blinked and curled closer into Will's chest before he could do something stupid without thinking.
His traitor brain had other ideas. "I love you." He murmured, tucking his head into the crook of Will's shoulder. He felt Will tense underneath him and he began to push backwards, to apologise, to jump off of the climbing wall into the lava, but suddenly Will's hand was there, guiding his head back into place and smoothing down his hair.
"I love you too Nico."