Shining Through the Darkness (Solangelo AU)

Come on Will, It Was Only a Game - 12

After almost three hours straight of crazy truth or dares, we finally got up and left Percy's cabin, the Poseidon cabin. We had to hurry back to our cabins before nightfall. My cabin was closer than Will's, so as I turned to walk it to my cabin he followed me.

"There's no way I'm gonna make it back to my cabin before they start patrolling." he says

"Fine." I whisper and leave the door open for him.

As we walk inside, Will closes the cabin door and looks at me. He pushes me against a wall and starts to kiss me.

I push him away. "Will?" I say obviously confused.

"Oh shit." Will mutters "I thought, oh shit."

"Come on Will, it was only a game" I say, doubting the words as they fall from my lips.

Will looked at me, his face red. From embarrassment or anger, I couldn't tell. "I should go." he says

"But, you'll get caught." I tell him

"I have time. I run fast." With that, he sprinted off into the dusk.

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I wake up to a loud banging on the door.

"Yo! Dead head!" I hear Percy's voice yell "Open up!"

I groggily get up and rub the sleep from my eyes. I then start to open the door for Percy.

Percy busts in the door, quickly shutting it behind him.

"What did you do to Will?" He asks angrily.

"I don't.. I don't know what you're talking about, Perc" I say, still half asleep

"Will is the happiest person I know! Why is he crying alone in his cabin?" Percy yells at me "I know it was you! You did this to him!"

"What?" I gasp, "Get out of my way Percy." I don't know if I love Will. I don't know if I can think of him in the way he thinks of me. I don't know what I'm going to say to make things right. I don't know if I can make things right. I don't know if I want Will, but I will sure as hell try.

"You can't fix this Nico! I've never seen Will cry like that ever."

"Watch me." I say and storm out of my cabin.

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I open the door to the Apollo cabin without bothering to knock.

"Get out Percy," a lump on one of the beds says "I don't want to talk to anyone. I fucked up the one chance I had with Nico. Let me mourn in peace."

I don't know what to do, but soon enough the lump on the bed, which I can now officially identify as Will, sits up.

"Shit. Was that you this whole time?" Will asks.

"Uh, yeah." I say awkwardly "Perc came to yell at me this morning. Said you were crying. That he /knew/ it had something to do with me. Did I... did I do this to you?" I ask him.

"I did it to myself," he says sadly, "I should've known that you're not into me. That you're not gay."

"Woah. Will, why must you label everything? I don't see why I have to be gay. Couldn't I just like you?" I say, the words slipping out before I knew what was happening.

"You could. But, you don't. You made that pretty clear last night." Will says, collapsing, yet again, dramatically onto his bed.

"I was tired." I say awkwardly

"Yeah, well now I'm tired," he replies without moving from his lump under his blankets

"So am I," I tell him.

"Well, great. Go be tired in your cabin," he says.

"I can't."

"Why not?"

"Percy is gonna rip my head off if I don't make things right with you."

"Don't do anything you don't want to do." Will says, "you don't need to feel bad about me. I'm the son of Apollo. I'll get over it. Happiness is my strength."

"You don't need to be strong with me." I tell him.

"Why not?" He asks

"Because I see you. The real you. I see a really strong guy, but I also see a closed off guy, who struggles with himself. All the time. You used to like someone who was straight didn't you?" I say, "you don't want to go through that again. I wouldn't want to either."

"What would you know about it?" He asks, whining

"Sometimes, I wished I'd like anyone. People didn't like me, so I didn't like them. A waste of my time, the whole lot of them. But you, you're different. You're not a waste at all. You're exactly what I needed as a friend." I tell him

"Well, I needed you as more than that. Last night, I didn't want a friend. I wanted you. To be mine. And after that kiss, I thought you wanted it too. I get it. It was into a game to you. But, it wasn't for me. Percy thought you felt the same way. He'd been planning that the whole time. It's the whole reason he chose that dare straight away," Will tells me.

"Well then, I'm yours." I tell him and start to move closer to where he is.

"What?" He asks, sitting up.

"If you still want me, I'm yours." I say staring him straight in the eyes.

He nods slowly. I crash my lips onto his.

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Published 07/07/15

Edited 12/27/16