Life after (Solangelo Story)

In which children are considered (Prologue)

                                                                                               2 years later...
   "Neeks, lets get outside! It'll be fun! The camp Jupiter people are visiting!" Will pleaded with his husband of two years. Nico wanted to stay inside and watch Stranger Things until he died, which wouldn't be far away if that's what he did. Nico made a sound like a garbage disposal and rolled off the couch with a thump.

   "Is this what you wanted, Will?" Will sighed and pulled his one true love out of the fetal position."We're going into camp!" He used his doctors voice, the one he used to demonstrate to his students an important procedure they must understand to pass the class. Nico grumbled but allowed himself to be pulled out of their apartment by the blond haired child of Apollo.

   As they pulled into camp they could see a lot of purple t-shirts."Holy Hades that's a lot of Romans!" Nico exclaimed. Will sighed and put the car in park."Yeah, it's the yearly reunion you wishbone!" Nico rolled his eyes and got out of the car, enjoying the breeze."You love this wishbone." Will nodded.

   They walked into camp hand in hand to be bombarded by the Romans, meaning well but a little overbearing. They forged their way forward until they saw all of the people they actually wanted to talk to in one place. Reyna, Jason, Piper, Hazel, and Frank.

   Reyna turned around and saw them, a giddy expression on her face."There's the happy couple!" Nico blushed and stepped closer to Will, earning a few laughs. They quickly lapsed into deep conversation, everyone making friendly fun of Nico and Will."Hazel cries daily about how cute you guys are together." Hazel blushed a furious red and stammered while wiping her eyes,"N-No I don't!"

They trouped over to the campfire pit, where the greek demigods were waiting. The remaining half of the seven and some more, like Lou Ellen and Cecil (Who were living together but not romantically involved, since Cecil was
aromantic) Who immediately came over and started up a conversation with Will, who had his arm around Nicos waist.

"Honestly Will! I never thought...You know...yeah, uh huh!" Nico tunes them out, missing parts of the conversation. It would almost be winter soon, he should probably buy a coat. He looked up at Will. Gods, how did he end up with such a gorgeous creature for a husband? Jason scuttled over, elbowing Nico in the ribs.

"Percy was over there talking about the titan war, you know, when you convinced Hades to fight." Nico squirmed and Will felt the need to add on to his punishment."Yeah, you were impressive back then. What happened?" Nico jabbed Will in the ribs, but lovingly so."I remember when Thalia crashed the sun chariot... "The voices slowly dissipated as they were lost in reverie.

——TIME SKIP——

As the Solaces relaxed in bed, Will nervously fingered his ring and fidgeted. Nico looked up from the book."You okay, Sunshine?" Nico asked gently. He had done that a lot more since they had started dating, being considerate and actually acknowledging that he cared about people.

Will nodded, but even as he was doing so blurted,"I mean...yeah....doyouwantkidssomedayormaybelikerightnow?!" He said it like it was one word, slurring so hard it took Nico a little while to decipher the meaning behind the block of words, and blushed bright scarlet.

"Do you?" He whispered, dog-earring his page and setting the book aside for good, snuggling up against Wills shoulder. Will nodded. It had been a long time since he felt this awkward around Nico, probably when they hadn't been dating yet but flirting extremely tentatively.

Will had always wanted kids, and he had no idea about what Nico wanted.

Nico somehow blushed even more and burrowed himself in the duvet."Well...yeah..." Will grinned, and put his arm around the shorter Solace, kissing him on the forehead."I love you so much, you know?" Nico smiled at Will and nothing else mattered.

Nico relaxed into Will and didn't realize he was crying until Will was wiping away his tears. He never once in his life thought he would be married, it would be a guy, and there would be talk of having kids. He was just happy it was his life. Happy. He also never thought he would be happy.

Happiness is a sad word until you have it. Then it's the best word in the world.