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“I hate wolves”
“Huh?” Nico looked up from his meal as Will tossed a protein bar onto the table and sat next to his boyfriend, thunking his head down into the wood
“I fucking hate wolves! They’re so fucking creepy and fucking gross and fucking loud and fucking annoying and I FUCKING HATE THEM”
“Stop fucking swearing”
“No fuck you”
“Love you too, will” Nico hummed, turning back to his slightly soggy BLT
“They’re so creepy though” Will grumbled, ignoring Nico’s tease “they’re scary, and I keep hearing them in the night, I haven’t seen any in camp, but… like… yknow! It’s a reasonable fear! They could rip me to shreds… one bite and I could get rabies and FUCKING DIE! DID YOU KNOW RABIES IS INCURABLE ONCE SYMPTOMS APPEAR??" Will turned to his side and grabbed Nico by the shoulders, shaking him with an exasperated look on his face“Nico this is an entirely normal and reasonable fear”
Nico sighed “never said it wasn’t”
“YEAH BUT YOURE LOOKING AT ME LIKE I’M CRAZY”
“Will” nico slammed the sandwich back onto his plate, flecks of mayonnaise landing on the picnic table “I swear we’ve had this conversation eight times, I understand your fear of wolves but I also DON’T because none of us have ever seen a wolf in camp, sure some of us have heard them howl but I don’t even know if they can, like, get into camp? With the whole magic shit, I get that you have your fears,for fucks cake I’m scared of moths, but like… I dunno, I guess what I’m trying to say is, you need to calm down a bit”
Will was a bit stunned at the other’s words “… w… yeah I… guh…” he thumped his forehead back onto the table “I dunno…” Will’s voice went quieter, he wanted to speak, to tell the greatest person in his life what was wrong and the things he’d been seeing… the eyes in the tree lines, the dreams that kept him from having a restful sleep, the voices that seem to press at the edge of his brain, unable to understand their words but fully able to know that this wasn’t fucking normal. He’d wanted to tell Chiron, or maybe Percy, or just… anyone…
What would they say?
What would they think?
Would they think he was crazy?
What if they—
“Will? Will you’re zoning out” a voice teased from across the table, will blinked away his disorientation and tried to refocus his vision to whomever had sat down across from him
“O-oh, Percy hi… sorry I was just thinking, I’ve been thinking too hard today” will forced a laugh, leaning on Nico’s shoulder, which hurt his neck a bit considering how much shorter Nico was. Will reached out for the protein bar he’d lazily discarded onto the weathered wood of the picnic bench, he didn’t plan on eating it, but if he held it and fidgeted with the edges a bit Nico would get distracted and think he was fine
“Baby don’t forget to eat something, you skipped breakfast this morning, you gotta have something” Nico hummed wrapping an arm awkwardly around his lover’s shoulder.
Shit. Normally that worked.
“Why must you torture me so, Di Angelo?” Will whined, once more thumping his head against the table, Nico rolled his eyes and Percy snickered
“Don’t get splinters” Percy cackled, flicking Will’s forehead
Will groaned and pushed himself away from the picnic table “you two are insufferable, I’m gonna go… I… I dunno! Sit in the forest and eat poisonous mushrooms” he sighed, thin hands shoved into the pockets of ripped jeans. Will stalked off towards the treeline, he wasn’t sure why, he knew it was a stupid idea, he knew there could be wolves… but who cared… maybe he’d rather be eaten by a wolf than have to interact with Percy and his pretty, smug, annoying smirk. A poisonous mushroom didn’t sound half bad right now.
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