NICO DI ANGELO FOLLOWED A ROUTINE. He would wake up early, eat breakfast, get ready, and bike all the way to his school from summer camp, which would take 2 hours and 47 mins. Nico was aware of how long that would take and how tiring it would be if he went that way, but he didn't mind. If he as lucky, he could catch a ride with Argus, which would then take an hour and 6 minutes. After arriving, he'd go straight for the library and enjoy the peace and quiet before other students would arrive and provide irritating noises.
He followed this routine as if it was his religion. Break the routine, and then his sanity follows its example not long after. And that was what Will Solace kept doing.
Nico didn't like how Will would appear at almost everywhere he went. It had been 3 months since the first day of school. Surely by now he'd stop trying to get on Nico's nerves, right? But no, apparently Nico did something that triggered the universe to hate him, and he was still clueless as to what he had done.
Maybe it was just by being born, maybe that's what he did to make the universe angry. But then again, he didn't ask to be brought into the world—into this specific world filled with destruction and chaos.
He didn't like how a lot of people are very ignorant to the world's current events aside from which two celebrities just had sex. There were people dying everyday, mothers losing their children, and children becoming orphans. There are wars ongoing on different countries, and what are the doing? Nothing. Nothing but ignoring.
He sighed, and took a bite from his apple as he sat down under the shade of a tree. If he wasn't in the library during lunch, he was found there, leaning on that same tree either reading or just staring around his surroundings, taking in the almost nonexistent noon breeze, pondering on everything that traveled its way into his mind.
"Hey Nico." an all too familiar voice greeted from behind.
Nico looked up to the heavens, trying to curse, but it was quite useless, because the sky was covered by leaves.
Will plopped down next to the dark-haired boy, munching on a sandwich. For a son of a multi-millionaire, he sure was quite simple. Nico half-expected French cuisine fresh from Paris or something like that to be Will's everyday lunch.
"How've you been?" Will asked.
"Crap, only because you're here."
Will let out a snort. "C'mon, you're always looking like crap, even if I wasn't around to bless you with my existence."
"Aaand that's my day officially ruined." Nico grumbled. "Besides, shouldn't you be hanging out with those kids from your wannabe doctors' club?"
"Well," Will started, "I wanted to hang out with you, not them."
Nico bit his thumb when he was going for his apple. He let out a surprised yelp and groaned, caressing his bleeding thumb. Will cursed and took his backpack, shuffling through his things looking for something.
"Jesus, how hard do you even bite?" Will asked before blushing a bit. "That came out wrong."
"Idiot, I was mad, I had to take my anger—Crap, fuck, crapcrapcrapcrapcrap—it hurts like hell." Nico didn't want to look at his thumb, fearing that he might faint.
"Hold on," Will instructed, "I have a first aid kit around here somewhere."
"And have my thumb suffer even more?" Nico grunted. "Not a chance."
Will took a white box and pulled out the things that were necessary. He reached out and took Nico's hand.
"Stay still, I know what I'm doing."
And with that, Nico let Will do his work. He watched as Will furrowed his eyebrows as he worked on first aid, and as he bit his lip in concentration. Nico looked away, he didn't want Will to know that he was staring.
Surely enough, Will did know what he was doing, and Nico wasn't going to argue with that.
"Thanks." Nico muttered.
Will gave him a toothy smile. He seemed to do that a lot, Nico noticed. "You're welcome. So do you still hate me?"
Nico rolled his eyes. "Will you leave it if I said that it decreased a little bit?"
"Knowing you, having your hatred decrease is already more than enough."
Will went home with a huge smile on his face. He didn't know what was about Nico di Angelo that made him try, but he couldn't help it but strive to earn at least a simple positive response from him.
He heard people talking about the person Nico used to be: the happy geeky boy who had been obsessed with those Greek cards. Will normally didn't pay attention to people's opinions about a certain person, because he knew that some of those words were either polished with positivity or negativity. Nothing is really accurate.
But if what people said were true, then where did that supposedly happy boy go? And what happened that drove him in that state?
Aside from that, Will truly believed that he would live to see the day when Nico di Angelo would genuinely smile. After three months of trying, Will was finally making progress, and he intends to keep going until he would meet his goal.
"What'chu smilin' at?" a voice said from the driver's seat.
Will looked up and locked eyes with Chis, his chauffeur, and also whom Will considered as his friend. In fact, Chris is his only friend. The students from his club didn't really count as friends, as they don't really talk to him outside of school.
"Nothing." He broke eye contact and looked out of the window.
"With that kind of face your making?" Chris scoffed. "Trust me boy, that ain't nothing."
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Please note that in this universe, there is no specific name for the place that they are all living in. This isn't New York, San Francisco, or any place at all. Camp Half-Blood is an hour away from the rest of the city, and that's all you should know about.
Besides, this is an au. Less hassle than other type of fanfictions.
And btw, AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT, a jiper fic is out now!!!
and here are the rest of my works, just so you know heheheh
DIGHS
Demigods in Goode High School (Cringeworthy Version) - PJO : DISCONTINUED
Demigods in Goode High School (Rewritten) - PJO : ONGOING
DEMIGOD AU's
Inarticulate (Percabeth) : ONGOING
As Luck Would Have It (Jiper) : ONGOING
Ashtray Heart (Frazel) : COMING SOON
Days Before You Came (Caleo) : COMING SOON
Pretty Girl. (Drew Tanaka) : COMING SOON
When The Day Met The Night (Solangelo) : ONGOING
OTHER FANFICTIONS
Half-Blood (PJO & HP Next Gen) : ONGOING
Somewhere in the Land of Never (Peter Pan OUAT) : ONGOING
ORIGINAL WORKS
Asexuals Aren't Aliens : ONGOING
One Bad Night : COMING SOON
From Nashville : COMING SOON
From Paris : COMING SOON
Intertwined : COMING SOON
Splitting Factors : COMING SOON
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When The Day Met The Night 「 Solangelo 」
Fanfiction(((inspired by p!atd's song bc im freaking trash))) Will Solace already has everything figured out. He could see his own future vividly, a future that was planned for him. He was to grow up and take over his mother's company, get married to another...
