PC: WILL & LILLIUM 💀

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w0 tuesday

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[ is this after truth or dare in the park. i don't know, you guys can pick. it doesn't matter because today in the lounge on the second floor of phoenix dorm there is nico. there is a nico sitting on a couch with shame the cocoa puff in his lap. his legs are draped over the lap of a blond boy and he's leaning against him in a half-cuddle while holding up what looks like a package of konbini donuts. ]

I think it's getting greedier. [ he says, continuing to spoil the demon. ]

[stunwhistle]

Should we change its name to "Shameless"?

[that's a terrible joke. will, who has an arm wrapped around nico's shoulders and is also spoiling the demon by using his free hand to slip it a potato chip every so often from the bag he's eating from, does not seem to care about how terrible it is]

[perennation]

[ He comes out of his room to go to the kitchen, but has to see this on the way there...

And just turns back to return to his room without saying anything. ]

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[ honestly i would also leave if i had to watch two teens be useless and gay. he's aboutt o answer will, but nico hears footsteps and he can really only think of one person in this dorm that would just, like, leave so he turns a little to call over his shoulder. ]

You may as well get used to him being here, Lillium. Especially since he's going to help us.

[ it's sort of a bribe, but also. please get used to him. ]

[stunwhistle]

[he waves to him cheerfully. sup.]

[perennation]

I'm used to him enough, my dark liege. I'm just not keen on being a third wheel.

[ sound of the door closing. ]

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[ ohhhh my god. well he kind of looks a little annoyed for a second because of that name. ]

There is no third wheel! [ yelling uselessly at a closed door. but now he's just kind of pouting. rude. ]

[stunwhistle]

Come on, Lillium, it's not like we're making out on the couch!

[


yet.

anyway, he shifts a little and kisses nico's cheek to try to get that pout off his face.]

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[ he accepts the cheek kiss and it does actually make him stop pouting. ]

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[ except he's using a free hand to punch will in the shoulder. ]

Don't say it like that or he's never gonna come back!

[stunwhistle]

Ow!

[he says ow, but he's laughing.]

What? It's not like I said "yet" at the end of that!

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Yeah, but you're definitely thinking it. I know you, Will Solace. [ huff. the fuck is he even objecting for. probably the fact that he literally has a bedroom they can make out in. ] It'd be like if I said the same thing to any of your teammates.

[ the joke is that nico would literally never imply they're even dating to will's teammates and it's debatable if any of them know anyway. ]

[stunwhistle]

Soooo what you're saying is if you said it to my teammates you'd also be thinking "yet"?

[he chuckles]

That kinda makes it sound like you're thinking it right now.

w1 thursday

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[ later, lillium gets a text. ]

i'm at fox with will.

[ which is all he says but lillium probably has some Awareness that nico didn't come home and perhaps already knows he was gone, who's to say. he's just going to stay curled up into will instead to see what happens. ]

[stunwhistle]

[lillium is really just gonna keep finding nico and will cuddling huh




anyway will shall be holding onto nico for as long as he wants, so.]

[perennation]

[ DID SOMEONE LET HIM INTO THE DORM??? ]

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[ imagine if i said no.

anyway yeah, they will let him in! it means lillium gets to see nico is just as broody as ever and he's staring up at him plaintively before stepping aside to let him in.

he could fucking stand to explain. anything. but it's fine. will can talk. ]

[stunwhistle]

[will has an arm slung around nico's shoulders when they let him in, but he raises his free hand in a wave.]

Hey, Lillium.

[perennation]

[ you guys going to go back to snuggling on the couch? Lillium will stand there with arms crossed. this is a funny scenario to imagine. ]

Hey. [ ... ] We good?

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[ listen they were cuddling in will's bed this is an improvement also shut up they are all still standing. he seems to be staring at lillium patiently like he's searching for something before he slowly exhales. ]

Better, now. [ ... ] I was going to come back to the dorm this morning, but I didn't get that far. And then when I got back I didn't...[ how do you say "I didn't want to deal around people who aren't used to my specific neuroses" without making it sound like a bigger deal than you think it is. ] It made sense to let you know.

[ Lillium really single-handedly shamed him into checking in always. ]

[stunwhistle]

[they are not snuggling on the couch right now!! god!!! they have a guest over. lillium will keep them from snuggling but he will not keep them from being clingy with each other.

anyway will, for his part, is kind of quiet as the two of them talk, but he does look grateful that nico has lillium looking out for him.

(he does not say thank you this time though.)]

[perennation]

[ Squints at Will in the way that someone uncomfortable with a grateful and bright smile would, but not entirely hating it. It. Is just nerves. ]

All right. I'm not going to ask what happened unless it's important. [ ... ] So was it at all important? Learn anything useful?

... Go beyond Oceanside?

[ HE WANTS TO FUCKING LEAVE SO BAD ]

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It wasn't important. [ he says that. like. way too quickly. he does not want to talk about what actually happened right now because he thinks it doesn't matter to lillium in a sense that he needs to know to understand things. ]

...I ended up in Las Vegas. [ dry. but he does reach into his pocket for a piece of paper. ] This is probably the most important part.

[ the paper is handed to lillium and it says:

The stakes so far have been too boring. It’s no fun when all they do at the end of the day is go home, so for the next round, we’ll spice it up a bit. If they want a chance for anyone to return at all, they’ll have to take that chance from someone else.

One death each week is enough to keep the door open. Kill, or lose everything any of them have cared about. Let’s see how heroic they can be in those conditions. ]

Jolyne was there, too, I guess. I didn't see her, but their team got a similar paper. I can show you that as well. [ he glances at will. ] Am I missing anything, you think?

[stunwhistle]

[will frowns slightly when nico says it wasn't important, but - it was nico's adventure, so he won't contradict him. instead, he watches as he procures the piece of paper and explains what he heard about the other team.]

...I think that's the stuff that's most relevant to all of us here, yeah.

[perennation]

[ He accepts it isn't important and doesn't ask, but he grimaces at the mention of Las Vegas.

Takes the paper. ]

... Great.

[ NOT GREAT ]