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03. insomnia - music au

a/n: mentions of character death, nothing bloody or gory, just a mention that they have passes away, if it makes you uncomfortable, please skip the last few paragraphs

will blamed it on his soulmate.

at the budding age of 12, he had already developed insomnia, having to repeatedly stay up due to the songs that his soulmate played.

whatever songs his soulmate listened to, will could hear it.

hence staying up till 4:00am, listening to the disney movie sound track.

—

sleeping didn't come as easily as it used to.

nico knew that. that's why he had always occupied his wandering mind with music.

he liked to explore different genres, picking up on a few songs he liked from a few genres.

there was barely anything to do in the hospital room.

it was difficult to just lay there, and expect his mind to not wander to dark places.

like how his mum and sister had died.

and how he was now diagnosed with severe (and untreatable) insomnia.

nico sighed.

he hadn't minded.

until he found he had 9 days left to live.

—

he should have never taken up on the internship at the local hospital, will mused.

sure, his dad was a well known doctor, and will had always dreamt of becoming a doctor.

but, he hadn't expected to be thrown right into the job, because he applied for an internship. not a career.

that was the doctor's job.

because as soon as he heard about the patient in room 13, he wanted to run.

run away as far away as he could.

he couldn't deal with the pain.

of befriending someone just to lose them. of making memories that only seemed to fade over time.

"nico? im will. i'll be your personal assistant from now on," will announced. "if you need anything, please ring the bell besides your bed."

will knew. he didn't always see his patients as patients.

it was will's job to make nico's last days the best it could be.

—

will couldn't help but ask nico what he liked listening to.

"i dabble in a few different genres. last week was kpop. i liked stray kids." nico kept his answers short and simple.

"well. maybe i could listen to it to sometime?" nico nodded.

—

it seemed like his soulmate changed genres every few days.

it was classical music today.

will went about his day as mozart repeatedly played in his head.

he tried to keep the mood up.
for him.

for nico.

today was nico's second to last day left.

will hadn't slept in days. it really messed with him.

especially when he entered nico's room.

nico had started losing his memory over the past few days.

he got thinner.

paler.

weaker.

and yet he continued to listen to music. he had dark circles under his eyes, making him look more frail than he really was.

"hey nico. what're we listening to today?"

".. class.. classical. m..mus..ic." nico took a while to get his words out.

will imagined he could still communicate with nico without words.

they'd gotten to know each other these past few days. will could tell the difference between "im tired" and "im hungry", so there were progress.

"mozart?" will joked. nico nodded.

will gulped.

"can.. can i see?" will prompted.

nico handed over the phone.

it was the same song that was playing in will's head.

"i think. you're my soulmate, nico."

—

"will?" nico muttered. will's eyes fluttered, and he groaned, shifting from the stiff position he was in, beside nico.

"yes, angel? need anything?"

"do you regret meeting me? you wouldn't have had.. you wouldn't have had to have face the inevitable pain."

"no." will's only answer.

and both knew exactly. nico drifted to sleep.

he deemed it was the best sleep hes had in a while.

and will wakes up to an empty head, free of any music playing.

free of the melody that was nico's heart.

will smiled sombrely. nico must be happy. he could finally sleep.