Mortals; Meet the Demigods

Solangelo - Thom Kane

Thom Kane wasn't in love with Will Solace. He wasn't..not in love with Will Solace either, but he was saving admitting he was in love with him until he'd asked him out.

Will would say yes.

Almost certainly.

Will was definitely not straight, he'd mentioned past boyfriends, and had a pan flag hanging on his dorm room wall. Thom had heard mention of some Nico guy, but Will had never really gone into that, so he assumed it wasn't really an issue.

——

It wasn't that they were friends, exactly. Will was in one of Thom's classes - Gross Anatomy. The guy was incredible, could probably dissect and label every single part of the human body by memory alone, and he always seemed to at ease doing it.

From the second Will had walked into the lab, Thom had thought he was gorgeous. Blond hair, curling ever so slightly around his eyes, brilliant smile, eyes cornflower blue that always managed to catch the light and sparkle. He was tall and tanned and muscled, and so completely genius that half of their anatomy class wanted him.

Thom hadn't made much of an effort to befriend him, his initial plan was to go for a quick roll in the sack, maybe a few times, but nothing on an emotional level.

Then their clinical work had started to overlap, and Thom had seen Solace interacting with patients and nurses and doctors around the hospital they were stationed at, and along with everyone else, Thom became absolutely enamoured with the guy.

Over the course of the semester, Thom had slowly been creating a plan to ask Will out, to see if he would go to the Winter Formal with him as his date and stay at his for the night.

The first few stages of the plan involved getting closer to Will. That went okay, Will was a friendly guy, was happy to talk to anyone and everyone, and always had a kind word to say. After a few weeks of successfully becoming friends, Thom decided it was time for the start of stage 2: flirting.

——

Stage 2 went a little slower. Thom would flirt for a while, and Will would seem to flirt back, then Thom would say something a little more outright, and Will would immediately backtrack.

Thom sat next to Will in the canteen in the medical block. "So, mr Sunshine, how did you find that pop quiz? How can they expect us to be able to label every bone in the leg by November? It's not even been a full semester?"

Will raised an eyebrow teasingly. "Sunshine? Where did you get that from? I found the pop quiz okay though. Completely forgot about the tibia though."

"Fuck, the tibia." Thom buried his face in his hands. "I just wrote shankbone."

"That is another name for it." Will hummed, grabbing a salad out of his bag.

"I don't think I even wrote shank bone though I think I just wrote shank. And sunshine is obvious, don't you think?" Thom looked Will up and down. Sure it was quite possibly the least subtle thing he'd ever done, but oh well. "Golden hair, tan, freckles, big smile. You're basically Rapunzel."

Will blushed. "Oh shut up."

"So, you going to Jake Heron's party?"

"Nah. I've got plans. Parties aren't really my scene either."

Thom rolled his eyes. "You mean you don't enjoy wearing practically nothing but glitter and grinding on someone in the dark?" He winked.

"What? No? My boyfriend's coming up on Friday anyway, and parties are his scene even less than they're mine."

What.

"Boyfriend?"

"Yeah? Nico?" Will cocked his head. God he was adorable. "I've definitely mentioned Nico before. Five six, looks kind of like he'd like to murder everyone and everything but is actually the sweetest person on the face of the earth?"

"I'm sorry. What? Have you got a picture?"

Will nodded, looking at him weirdly. He got his phone out and showed Thom the lock screen. The guy was cute, sure, sharp features, European maybe? But he was scowling at the camera, and even the faint puck blush across his cheeks wasn't enough to disguise from the fact that this dude looked angry as hell. "You're dating him? Isn't he a little..I don't know..goth? For you?"

"Nico's not goth, he's just fed up and sleep deprived. He wears black because he has no idea how colour theory works and he can't be bothered to figure it out most of the time."

Okay. That was weird. This Nico dude was coming up on Friday though. That meant that Thom had until Friday to prove to Will that he was better. He was gonna crush this, and then Will would be his and they'd ride off into the sunset or whatever it was people did these days.

——-

Spoiler alert: it didn't work.

Will responded exactly the same as he had been for the last couple weeks. He'd flirt along until Thom got outright about something, and then he'd get all weird and distant.

Then, Friday came.

They had classes together until four, and Thom managed to convince Will to let him meet Nico.

Thom was not expecting the guy to be ripped.

He wasn't massive, but he was closer to jacked than toned, and the black skull t shirt he was wearing was straining slightly at the sleeves.

He knew it was a lost cause when Will's face lit up the second they saw each other. Thom had been thinking the way Will smiled at him was a sure sign that he was interesting, but seeing Will look at Nico? It made his usual smile look like a flickering candle in the wind.

"Neeks!" Will yelled.

Nico looked up, and although he'd been cute angry, the smile that lit up his face made him look positively angelic. "Tesoro!" He stood up, and then second they got close enough, they were wrapped up in each other.

Eventually, Will seemed to remember Thom was there. "Neeks, this is Thom. He's a friend from my classes."

Ouch.

"Thom, this is Nico. My boyfriend."

Nico waved, a little awkwardly, but he was still smiling bright enough that Thom couldn't take offence. "Nice to meet you."

Thom nodded. "Likewise. So how long have you guys been together?"

"Three years." Will answered, kissing Nico's hair.

"D'y'know what?" Nico said after a moment of silence. "Not to be pushy and assuming, but you're completely my friend's type."

Will moved back to look at Nico. "One, I know exactly who you mean and you're one hundred percent right, two, who are you and what have you done with my boyfriend?"

Nico blushed and ducked his head. "Well Jay is my best friend, so me and Piper ended up hanging around a lot, which led to me becoming friends with Mitchell, who I think would want to lick your collarbones." He directed the last bit to Thom.

"Uh. Have you got a picture?"

"Somewhere on here." He pulled a phone out and started scrolling, tongue stuck out a little bit in concentration. "Here."

He held his phone out to Thom. Okay, damn. This was quite possibly the most attractive guy on the face of the planet. "Do you have his number?" Thom looked up at the pair.

"Yeah, Will can text it to you?" Nico glanced up at Will, who nodded. "Yeah of course. We've gotta go now, we've got plans, but I'll see you next week right? And text Mitchell, he's a great guy."

Thom nodded, a little speechless, as the pair said their goodbyes and walked off, hand in hand. They did look good together, he had to admit. Once his phone had beeped with a text from Will, he texted the number sent to him.

"Hi, is this Mitchell? My name is Thom, your friends say I'm your type? X"