After the war (Solangelo)

Chapter 25: Walls

WARNING: FLUFFY

I wake up on something that's warm and. . . . breathing?! I look up, before realizing it's Will. I frown. What's he doing here? Then I remember last night, and my chest constricts. I look down, and freeze at my exposed arms. I slowly and carefully climb off of him, shivering at the cold air. I'm in my boxers. I flush, and scurry over to my dresser, where I grab my sweatshirt which I throw over my head, and grab my sweatpants. I have one foot in, and am about to put the other in. "Aw, I was enjoying the view." I spin, but only having one leg halfway through the pant leg, almost falling, my face burning. Will laughs, his voice gravely from sleep. My blush deepens as I finish pulling up the waistband. He makes grabby hands, and I slowly walk over, and stand awkwardly at the edge of the bed. His hands grasp my hips, yanking my on top of him on the bed. My breath catches as I gasp, before I'm securely in his arms. I make paws with the long sleeves of the sweatshirt, and bring my hands up to my still blushing face. Will laughs the sound resounding through my body, since I was on his chest. His arms were wrapped tightly around my waist. I closed my eyes, and remembered what I'd promised before opening the door to Percy, all those weeks ago. No more visible feelings. I closed my eyes and blocked out the feeling of Will's warm arms around my waist. I imagined all the most important feelings together; hurt, brokenness, horror, etc. all in the middle of an empty room. Then brick, by imaginary brick, I began to build three walls. All the way around. I take the less significant feelings, and put them around the exterior of the walls. And build 2 walls around them. I continue like this for many wall, and then imagined the back of my face, before building a single wall, so no emotions would be shown on my face. Lastly, I imagine the back of my eyes. And build a wall across the back of them, so no emotion would be given away through my eyes. I put the last couple emotions behind that all; love, happiness, sadness, all the usual. And built a wall behind them, so they too, were trapped. I was brought back to Earth, when Will's arms tightened around my waist. 

3rd Person POV

Nico opened his eyes, which were blank of any emotion. He smiled at Will, but it looked fake, and Will, who'd just finally managed to read Nico, could not do so anymore. Will grasped Nico's face, the plastic-like smile falling from it, and crashed his lips against the dark haired boy's, before pulling back, and searching Nico's face. There was a slight change. His eyes swirled with an indistinguishable emotion. So Will did it again. Pulling back, he searched Nico's face for a change, and he could see tiny fractures running crisscross in the walls behind his boyfriend's eyes. Nico tried to turn his head away, avoiding Will' eyes, but Will had a firm but gentle grasp on his chin, keeping him from turning. Nico's heart was pounding because he knew, one more kiss from Will, would crumble most, if not all his walls. Will brought Nico's face back down and kissed him more passionately still. The walls behind Nico's eyes shattered. The shards turning to dust and disappearing completely. The wall keeping Nico's facial expressions hidden exploded. When the two boys pulled away, their breathing was labored. Nico kept his eyes closed, and that gave Will enough time to take in all the details on the raven-haired boy's face. Eyelashes so long, that when his eyes were closed, they brushed his cheeks, even with the natural gentle upward slope they had. Nico's eyes fluttered open, and all the main/most used emotions flashed across his entire face, the wall that kept the facial expressions hidden, had shattered. But Will could see that there were many layers of walls left to go, before Nico opened up completely, but Will knew that it would take more than a few kisses to knock down those barriers. Finally, two emotions remained. Happiness on his face, and pure love in his eyes, as he looked at Will.