"I am the son of Hades," he thought. "I go where I wish. The darkness is my birthright."

Will and Nico are on the roof of the Apollo cabin. There's a picnic blanket below them, and they're cuddled up together, looking up at the stars as they wait for the sun to arise.

Nico was relatively quiet throughout the night, but out of the blue, breaking a comfortable silence, he points up at a bundle of stars. "That's the Seven Sisters. It's actually over four hundred stars clustered together, though."

Will lifted his eyebrows, "Damn. How'd you find that out?"

"And that one," Nico continued, "isn't a star, it's a planet. You can tell by the lack of twinkling."

Will smiled fondly, listening to Nico as he want on about three other phenomena in the sky.

Nico settled his arm across Will's chest, "Bianca."

The son of Apollo tilted his head, "Your sister?"

Nico nodded, "Yeah. When she joined Artemis' Hunt, she learned all about the stars, mapping them out with Zoe Nightshade. She would show me them."

Will pulled Nico a little closer, entangling their legs as Nico spooned Will's side, "That's beautiful. Now you can remember her every time you look up."

Nico hums, looking up at Will, "But I don't."

"You don't?" Will questioned.

"I don't. I remember you."

"Me?" Will chuckled, "But I'm the son of Apollo! I have nothing to do with the night."

"I beg to differ."

"How so, then?"

"Because... every time I look at your face, the stars are plastered all over you. Your cute little freckles. The stars are dead by now, the ones we're seeing. Dead, lightyears away. But when I look at them, they only remind me of love, not death. Because everyone I love finds a way to look just like them."

Will swallowed. Nico didn't get romantic like that, but when he did, it meant the world. Will's adorable, interesting boyfriend just compared his freckles to the stars, and he internally screeched. He started blushing, his face a dark red as he tried not to tear up.

"Now they're like the sun," Nico joked, noting how Will's blush hid his marks, freckles and blemishes.

A/N: Dedicated to simp4swordsmen for always being the first person to read/vote on my one-shots <3