Solangelo Stories

Chapter Thirty - I love you?

Will walked down the hallway whistling a tune. He was glad he was now a doctor, college was boring without Nico. During that time, it was nearly eight long years of long-distance with Nico, most of which Will was studying. Although there are times Nico stayed with Will months at a time. Parting was such sweet sorrow, one would say.

But now he was a general surgery doctor and Nico worked in the morgue below. It was strange that Nico would work with bodies but Will was just glad to have Nico here. No one in the hospital thought a second time when Will goes down to the morgue and comes back disheveled. Everyone assumes he got creeped out by the scary sleep-deprived dork who works in the basement living on coffee. But, well there are other reasons for that one. 

Will knocked on the door to Nico's office, there was a crash and a groan that could be heard inside. "Who is it?"

"Um me?" Will stated, sort of.

"Oh.. come in then."

Will opened the door with a slight chuckle, Nico was rubbing his head with a wince. "Did you fall?"

"Maybe, you scared me," Nico grumbled, "I was sleeping."

"Well don't stop on my behalf, I just came to bring you breakfast."

"Thanks," Nico yawned.

"You didn't come home last night," Will said kissing Nico's forehead. 

"Trust me I wanted to, I had a lot of paperwork to catch up on."

"It's alright, a call next time would be nice though."

"Sorry," Nico mumbled into his doughnut looking up at Will. His wide chocolate puppy eyes melted Wills's heart.

He couldn't stay mad, so he just laughed. "It's okay, I-" before he could say anything else his pager beeped.

"Hey, we can talk later," Nico said grabbing his hand.

"Yeah," Will grumbled, "I love you." He placed a kiss on Nico's lips before leaving the room.

"I love you too...?" Nico managed to say only after he had left.

That was the first time they've said 'I love you' in those exact words. There's been 'love you' 'love ya' 'see you love' 'bye love' 'my love' never  I Love You. It made Nico's heart jump out of his chest.

Still, he was surrounded by dead bodies so he tried not to smile too much. 

~*~

Will left the office, he was walking down the hallways before it hit him. He just said, "I love you." To Nico. His face flushed a deep red and he leaned against the wall. He felt queasy, that's not how he wanted to say I love you for the first time. A nurse ran towards him and rubbed his back.

"Are you okay?" she asked softly. It was nurse Sage, she was a kind older woman. Around her early fifties, she didn't want to retire from this job. "You look sick, did you go down to the morgue again?"

Will nodded, "I'm fine, thank you, Sage."

"You can't keep going down there if you keep getting sick."

"No, that's not it. I just.... never mind, it's personal."

"Are you sure, dear?"

"Yeah," Will nodded wearily before adding in a smile. "Thank you for-" his pager beeped again, "Sorry, I have to go."

"Be careful William, don't overwork yourself."

Will looked behind him once more giving her a faint smile. I guess worrying about saying I love you will have to wait later, Will thought.

~*~

Later Will stopped once more by the morgue. He heard mumbling inside, although he didn't hear a lot of it since it was in another language. Nico seemed to be on the phone with someone. Will- a few moments later of eavesdropping- knocked on the door causing him to end the call abruptly.

"William," Nico said breathlessly as he opened the door. 

"Nico about before-"

"I love you too!" Nico blurted out. He covered his mouth with wide eyes, "Was that not what you wanted to say. Did you not mean to say it or am I just ranting because if- hmph."

His rant was cut short by a pair of lips against him. They were soft against his, moving in sync. Will nibbled on his bottom lip, Nico knew what he wanted and allowed entrance. Their tongues danced together, the two were breathing hard against each other. Both breathless, Wills arm snaked around Nico's small waist pulling him closer. 

Nico's legs were slowly giving out, he was standing on his tippy toes trying to match a good hight with Will. It made things worse with a long heated kiss, but he wasn't about to complain. Will pulled away slowly, their lips connected by a string of silver. 

Both men had swollen pink lips, light tint of red sitting on their cheeks. "I love you too." Will replied breathlessly. 

"Oh good, I thought I've gone crazy."

"We're practically married Nico," Will mumbled.

"What do you mean?"

"We have been together since we were fifteen remember. "

Nico silently counted before he gasped, "Thirteen years?!"

Will hummed, "Hmmn." He pulled Nico into his chest. "Sorry."

"For what?"

"Not saying it sooner," he mumbled into Nico's hair causing him to laugh.

"I guess I should have to."

Will let go of Nico and walked to the door, he closed it quietly before adding the lock. He looked back at Nico, every intent of what he wanted to do was seen by Nico. Felt by him too, lets just say- he was unable to make sudden movements without his ass hurting.