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Fez.

Will couldn't help a blush take over his cheeks as he held Nico's hands, even though it was the third time this evening, let alone the hundreds of times before where he's held onto Nico.

He swears he feels an electric shock pass through his fingers every time though, and he never understood what the Aphrodite kids had meant about fireworks and butterflies and jolts of electricity and now, now when he holds Nico close he does.

"Will?" Will focuses in on Nico's face and the scrunch between his two worried eyebrows and his narrowed eyes. "Hey, Will look we don't have to do this if you don't want to. Don't force yourself- "

Nico's going off on a little tangent and Will knows it's just because he doesn't want to be hurt- for something he loves to be mocked- but he doesn't want Will to hurt either. He's giving Will a way out of this dance lesson but if Will takes it he knows Nico will be upset. A well-hidden kind of upset but upset all the same.

"Hey, hey, of course I want to do this." He says gently, squeezing Nico's hands. "I wouldn't have asked if I didn't. Now again, slowly, where do my feet go?"

Nico's forehead smooths out and he moves his feet without even looking.

"Just step, step, step, slow then fast." He says patiently, and Will understands the footwork, he does, he just keeps getting distracted with how close Nico is to him, and how calloused his hands are against his own.

He manages to focus on the steps long enough to get them right and the grin that unfolds on Nico's face is worth it. It makes Will want to kiss it off him, it makes him want to do a lot more to the son of Hades.

"You did it!" Nico says with more surprise than Will is comfortable with. He ignores it however in favour of leaning in for a quick peck on the lips, one that has Nico smiling dazedly before he focuses again.

"Okay so I'm going to teach you the lady's role in the dance because I do the gentleman's part."

Will swooned into Nico's arms and totally wasn't attracted to how easily Nico can hold him up. "Oh, Nico my gentlemanly sir, guide my feeble female's feet in this fierce manly dance."

Nico snorts and sets him back on his feet, rearranging their hands again.

"Very funny." He says, and Will laughs again at the proper way he speaks.

Will's hand slides quickly from Nico's waist to grab his butt and the squeak Nico lets out makes him snort.

Nico squeezes his other hand harder in reproach but he's laughing.

"I can't believe you." He mutters, and Will laughs again, replacing his hands and stroking Nico's waist with his thumb.

"So, you move your feet as we were doing before." Nico said, and Will looked down at his feet to make sure they were going in the right places. Nico laughs softly and, untangling their hands, pulled Will's chin up.

Their faces were suddenly very close, and Will felt himself blush for the fourth time.

Nico smirked, and Will may've melted just a little inside.

"You're playing the lady's role perfectly. Blushing, stumbling, swooning." Nico listed off and Will nudged him, rolling his eyes.

"Any moment now you'll be tugging me off to some dark corner to have your way with me." Will retorted, tossing his head.

He wasn't going to lie, he wasn't opposed to that idea. They'd been dancing barely twenty minutes, but they could be doing something else for much longer than that.

It was Nico's turn to blush now.

"I'm not going to have my way with you." He argued, and Will fanned himself in a mockery of some 19th century woman.

Nico was just reaching the whole "I wasn't even born in the 19th century, you're just mean" part of his argument when Will batted his eyes.

"Oh Mr di Angelo, make an honest woman of me!"

Nico burst into laughter again.

"You're awful." He told Will and stood him up again, gripping his hands before Will could swoon again.

"At dancing or at seducing you?" Will asked, shuffling his feet until they were in the right place.

Nico smiled at him as gently as he could. "You're just new to dancing."

"But I'm good at seducing you right?" Will persisted and Nico started dancing, unwilling to continue this conversation. He didn't want to admit Will was right.

"That was a yes! You're totally seduced by me." Will said and Nico speeds the dance up so Will had to focus on something else.

Will almost stumbles again, and Nico keeps him upright. Despite Will's insist that he couldn't do the dance, he was doing okay. Nico blamed the Apollo-rhythm in his blood.

Soon enough they're dancing with only a few stumbles now that Will is concentrating again. Nico begins humming his favourite melody of the time and Will soon joins in after a few bars having learnt it quickly.

They managed a few rounds before Nico slows them down, staring into Will's eyes distractedly.

Will smirks at him like he knows exactly why they've slowed, and his hands slid from Nico's down to his waist. They stay like that for a few moments, just swaying gently and Nico dips his head to rest it on Will's shoulder, just enjoying the closeness. Will was warm as always, and for once Nico's fingers didn't feel like they had frostbite.

Will began humming again, rocking them back and forth. He turned his head, his face half-buried in Nico's hair and brushed his lips against Nico's temple.

Nico lifted his head, reaching up just on tiptoe to connect their lips and he felt safe and happy, in a way that he only felt around Will.

They stayed like that- bare footed in the darkened Hades cabin, with only Will's humming to break the comfortable silence—for a long time and Nico wouldn't have had it any other way.