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“Chiron!”
The centaur quickly looked up from where he was sitting playing Pinochle with Mr D as the son of Apollo stormed across the lawn towards the Big House, a frustrated, slightly angrily looking Nico di Angelo trailing behind him.
“Ah Mr Solace, Mr di Angelo, what can I do for you?”
“Nico needs to be enrolled in online school.” Will demanded, making the centaur start and Nico scowl harder.
“Oh?”
“He hasn’t been to school since he was ten and he had his memories wiped before that, so who knows how much he actually remembers!”
“Hey I remember some stuff! I can read and write and stuff. I’m also pretty good at geography and stuff, although I have no recollection of actually reading about them.”
Will frowned deeply.
“Okay sure, but do you know what happened at the end of world war two? Do you know about Yugoslavia? What about the cold war?” Will challenged.
“I lived through some of world war two I’ll have you know. I don’t know what the cold war is, and what do you mean about Yugoslavia, what happened to Yugoslavia?”
Will gestured at Nico and then to Chiron who was watching the boys with a slight smile on his face, while Mr D was grumbling to himself, angry that his game of Pinochle had been interrupted.
“See Chiron! He needs to be enrolled in school!”
“Well, I can definitely see where you are coming from, although it might take a while as there are some… difficulties.” Chiron said diplomatically.
“Difficulties?”
“I mean technically Mr di Angelo doesn’t exist.” Chiron informed the scowling son of Apollo.
“Nice.” Nico whispered with a grin.
“Not nice Nico! How do we… I don’t know… make him exist?”
Chiron frowned and shared a look with Mr D across the small table.
Will felt a slight dart in his chest. He loved Nico, and wanted to be with him forever, and at some point he wanted to marry him, not that Nico knew that as they were only a year into their relationship. He wouldn’t be able to do that if legally Nico didn’t exist.
He was also surprised education hadn’t come up before between them.
When the infirmary wasn’t busy, Will would do work which would be sent into a school in New York which allowed him to live at camp, work to his own schedule, but still get a high school diploma.
He had imagined that Nico was doing the same as all the other children in the camp that were year rounders did, so when Will asked if Nico wanted to do his homework with Will, he hadn’t been expecting Nico to say he hadn’t been to school in years.
“Well… I suppose we might be able to manipulate some mist and be able to create some legal documents for his existence.” Chiron said slowly.
“Might want to include a green card in that, just to be sure.” Nico added.
“Yes, yes quite right.”
“What will you do for parents? I mean if Nico exists surely he’ll need one put down?” Will added.
Nico paled significantly, and Will quickly reached back to grab his boyfriend’s hand, giving it a reassuring squeeze.
“Ah technically, any half blood living at the camp who has no living mortal parent has me down as a Foster-Dad.” Chiron said.
“Yeah, and I’m technically his partner in the eyes of the law.” Mr D added with a snort.
Will’s mouth fell open, and he stared at the two camp leaders, not believing what he was hearing. The idea of Mr D and Chiron dating in any capacity was kind of terrifying, and he knew if he opened his mouth he was going to laugh, or snort, and he didn’t really want to do either.
“What?” Nico muttered after a few moments of silence.
“Yes, well, they weren’t as likely to let a ton of kids technically be in the legal hands of a single guardian, and well Mr D is the other counsellor so…”
Will couldn’t help it and snorted violently, which made Nico shoot him a grin.
“Anyway, I’m going to tutor Nico until you can get him into school.” Will said, pulling his boyfriend after him towards the Hades Cabin.
“You better probably get on sorting school for Mr di Angelo soon, we wouldn’t want Mr Solace getting too distracted from the infirmary.” Mr D muttered.
“Yeah, yeah I will.”
“Good, now let me beat you at Pinochle.”