A/N Here is your promised epilogue. This is, I repeat, is, the last chapter of this fic. I know I said it before, but I mean it this time.

It's shorter than usual, but I've tried to make it extra fluffy for the finale.

Thanks to everyone who has supported and reviewed me while I wrote this, special thanks to Silver Huntress of Artemis, xxXThalico-loverXxx, and TwiHarmonyDash.

Will had a cute way of breathing when he slept. Slowly in through the mouth, then out again in a slightly more forceful puff. Lying as he was, on his side facing the blond boy, Nico could just heat the exhaled air whispering out between his lips, like he was telling secrets to the night.

Are they good secrets? He wanted to ask; he stayed quiet. It wasn't often that he got to watch the blue eyed boy sleep.

They were sleeping in cabin 13 again, the seventh time in the month since the return of Will's memories, and Nico had woken up in the darkest part of the night for no apparent reason.

Not that he was complaining. He'd gladly spend the morning sleeping through advanced monster studies (since the discovery of the Ethel, Annabeth was trying to teach everyone about every different type of monster she could think of, real-mythical or fictional-fictional) if it meant that he got to watch Will like this.

They'd been sleeping back to back as they usually did when sharing Nico's bed (Will's bed had been used twice, but they preferred to sleep like this), and when he'd rolled over, Will had moved too. Now he was lying on his back as Nico gazed at him.

He whispered in his sleep, and Nico put out a hand, then stayed it. Will would hate to be woken, and in the dark, no less.

Then Will moaned, and Nico sat up to get a proper look at his face. His eyes were twitching beneath their closed lids; his lips fluttering slightly.

He cried out to the night. "No, stop! Stop, please! Don't- you're hurting him!"

Nico tried frantically to get in to his dream, to redirect it, to protect him; but he couldn't manage it. He wished he'd payed more attention to Clovis in that dream walking class...

Will shouted again, "Please! Don't hurt him!", and Nico decided. He couldn't let Will stay in this nightmare, no matter how much he hated waking up to the dark.

"Wake up! Wake up, Will!"

"No... no!"

He shook the sleeping boy's shoulder vigorously, and he jerked awake, bursting into noisy tears.

Nico wrapped his arms around him, pulling his head into the crook of his neck.

"It's alright," he crooned gently. "You're alright. It's going to be okay..."

Eventually, Will calmed down enough for Nico to let him go. "Do you want to talk?"

Gulping, the son of Apollo nodded, then scooted up to the headboard so that he was in a sitting position.

"Somebody... Somebody was hurting you..." he cleared his throat noisily. "And I couldn't- I couldn't do a thing. And you were screaming... bad there was so much... so much blood..."

He ducked his head back towards Nico's, who hugged him even tighter than before.

"It's okay, I'm okay, we're both okay. I won't let anything happen to either of us, Soleggiato, I promise."

"But... what if... what if I loose my memories again? What if someone tries to take you away? What if..." Nico had to strain to hear his next words, they were said so quietly. "What if you forget about me?"

He dropped a light kiss onto his sunshine's forehead, and smiled into his mop of blond curls. "That's not going to happen, Soleggiato. You wanna know why?"

Nico knew that Will knew what was coming next, but he nodded anyway. "You've said it before..."

"And I'll say it again, Soleggiato. We're simply meant to be."

Will sighed and snuggled back down into the queen sized bed, pulling the blood red covers up to his ears.

Gods, Nico loved Will. He dropped another kiss onto his cheekbone, just by the corner of his eye, and the blond smiled sleepily.

"Stay with me?"

"Always."

Will knotted his fingers through Nico's, and closed his eyes.

All was well.

The End

A/N So sue me, I quoted both The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Deathly Hallows. I own neither. And I'm not Rick Riordan. :(

I hope you enjoyed it. Your thoughts and opinions are still appreciated, because I might need pointers on what could be improved about this for my next fic...

Thanks again!

~Fi