I have this idea that Will kills it on the football team, star quarterback but still super super nice, not afraid to take a hit, tougher than STEEL, but Nico’s always so busy with quests and the Underworld that he never makes it to Will’s games. Will doesn’t really mind that his boyfriend is never there, but you can tell he misses his boyfriend and every game he calls Nico beforehand for luck. The team is pissed, convinced that this Nico dude is stringing Will along and doesn’t care for him. So Will says that his boyfriend promised to be at the playoffs, even if it kills him, and the team isn’t holding out much hope, getting progressively more pissed as the game goes on and will starts losing confidence, making up for his screw ups with their anger. Just as half times coming to an end, just as it looks like they’re about to fall behind too far to catch up, just as they’re walking back to the field, there’s a loud whistle from the stands. Standing on the fence, covered in bandages with blood soaking through, black eye, broken nose that hasn’t been reset, cuts that probably need stitches everywhere, torn up clothes, and spitting out blood, is a little gothic kid with a sword that No One Seems to Notice waving at Will. And Will’s smile is blinding. He wipes the field with the other team. They win by a landslide and not even the biased refs can stop them. The story goes that Nico’s father is organizing the restoration and clean up of war affected areas (aka catching souls and killing monsters which escape the doors of death) the work is really dangerous and Nico’s in the thick of it trying to fix everything thats been destroyed. Hed been involved in a fight, but had left for the game before the medics could stitch him up, to which will gives Nico the most exasperated look.
It’ll be weeks before anyone gets up the nerve to question Will or Nico about the sword, or the wounds, or the rhino sized dog, and they come out about the monsters and sword fighting and the wars that just about destroyed the world. Before they all know that sometimes Nico isn’t even in the living realm or on the same continent when will has a game. That sometimes Nico was recovering from poison, and stab wounds, and broken bones.
But to the team, it was catching them in the locker room, Will stitching up Nico expertly while Nico smiled at him and asked him about the game, that really made them change their minds.
