#this fic is an interpretation of nico and will meeting. like. the meeting mentioned in tsats but its also a will coming out to his mom fic

[fuckingyrs]

The sound of a body throwing itself onto one of the infirmary cots echoed through the mostly empty room, followed closely behind with a dramatic, but melodic sigh. “Can I say something mean?” 

“Probably not in front of the baby.”

Will groaned, looking up from his pile of patient reports he had been sorting for the past… year. “I hardly think eleven still counts as being a baby.”

Lee, who had been refilling first aid kits for the past two hours, contemplated this for a moment. “Maybe, but that’s besides the point. I’m six years older than you. You’ll always be a baby.”

“I’m going to say something mean. Will, cover your ears.”

“I’m not covering my ears, Taylor. Unlike you, I’m working right now and I need my hands.”

“Oh,” Taylor dragged, a taunt evident in her voice, "someone's grumpy.”

“He’s mad I put him on infirmary duty during arts and crafts.”

“Will, you aren’t good at arts and crafts.” Lee slapped her arm. “And you like working in the infirmary, you are constantly taking my shifts. It’s why I love you.”

Lee slapped her arm again. “Taylor, what the heck.”

Taylor groaned, “Fuck. Just say fuck. I’m begging you.”

“That’s besides the point. I had it with Cecil. We were going to finish our board game.” Will turned to Lee, pointing an accusing finger at him, “You knew this.”

Lee let out a long-suffering sigh and Will almost felt bad for causing a fuss, but really, Lee brought this upon himself. “Taylor, stop pawning off your shifts to Will. Will, stop letting Taylor’s pawn off her shifts to you. Also: I’m sorry about arts and crafts. The last few days have been hectic and I needed your help. I’ll make sure to not schedule you over arts and crafts next week.”

“I’m going to be home next week! Mama is picking me up, remember?”

Lee had the decency to look ashamed when he said, “Heck. I forgot. I’m sorry, Will.”

Taylor got up from her self-designated cot and walked over to Will, ruffling his hair once she was close enough. “I’ll take over the rest of your shift, buddy. You go have fun.”

Will shook his head, “No, it’s okay. I’m already here. Arts and crafts is half-way done anyway. We wouldn’t be able to finish.”

“If you’re sure,” Taylor sighed as she pressed a kiss to his forehead and Will let out a cry of protest because he could feel the lipstick stain there. He tried rubbing it away with his fingers but by the look on Lee’s face and the snickers Taylor was making behind him, he only made it worse.

Lee graciously handed Will a wipe before glaring at their sister. “Taylor, what are you even doing here?”

“I think I made that pretty obvious when I threw myself onto a bed and stated I was gonna say something mean. I came to gossip.”

“You should be at archery right now.”

“Mike was being a piss-baby. He wouldn’t let Josh and I try to hit one another. What’s the point of being in advanced archery if you can’t shoot at your brother? Moving targets!”

“So you left?”

“Yep. I found Silena and she offered to do my nails before I came by.”

Lee pinched the bridge of his nose in a way that resembled an old man at the end of his rope. Will suppressed a giggle at his brother’s anguish as Lee said, “You can’t do that.”

“Do what? My nails?”

“Leave Michael like that.”

“Why? He’s not in charge of me.”

“But I am. And he’s my second in command, so yes he is.”

Taylor groaned, flopping back onto her cot. “One, he’s like three weeks older than me, unfair. And two, none of that is important right now. What is important is that our father was here and didn’t say hi to any of us. Who does that?”

“Our father, apparently.”

Taylor flipped Lee off, showing off her new manicure. It was baby pink, like her lipstick, with a little sun in the center. “He gives those kids a ride, none of them his, and has the audacity to leave before saying hi? Hell, Will over here has never met him. He has time to bring a group of kids to camp, but can’t spare a lousy minute to check in on us? And I can’t say this to Michael or he’ll claim I’m “on the other side”.” Taylor sighed, a faraway look in her eyes. Will had only seen this look on her face a few times before: every time Luke was mentioned. “I’m just tired of feeling abandoned and I’m sick of feeling like it’s bad to think that.”

Lee stepped towards her, a soft, “Tay–” passing through his lips, before she sat up and shook herself out of her stupor.

“Instead of saying hi, he just causes chaos and disappears! He brings Percy back, which is never a good sign. Thalia is driving the sun chariot, and crashes it! Oh, and he brought that new weird kid that keeps bombarding everyone with questions.”

Will saw through the change of topic, and Lee clearly had to as well, but he allowed it to happen. He slapped her on the arm for the third time, “He’s not weird. He’s, like, eight. The kid is just excited. You were excited about camp once upon a time.”

Taylor turned to Will, jerking her head at Lee, “I think he’s finally lost it. When have I ever been excited by anything ever?”

Will grinned, “Yesterday, you beat Madi at Josh’s song quiz and you danced around the cabin for ten minutes.”

Taylor gasped loud and dramatic, clutching at her chest as she fell back onto her cot, chestnut hair falling all over her face in her fall. “William! How dare you accuse me of such things!”

#will solace #lee fletcher #solangelo #wip wednesday #solangelo fic #solangelo fanfiction #pjo #pjo fandom #mine.doc #i swear nico is in this just... later #for now its just cabin seven sibling antics #this is a wip wednesday so please ignore any mistakes #i want to have this fic posted saturday but i'm historically not great at self-inflected deadlines #my “birthday” fic was posted five days after my birthday soooo #my goal is to post this at the airport before i get on a plane but we shall see #this fic is an interpretation of nico and will meeting. like. the meeting mentioned in tsats but its also a will coming out to his mom fic #but like. not all that serious. in fact its very silly #if you read my fic 'a little house on the edge of town' it mentions will coming out and this is the story that alludes to #look at me just yapping in tumblr tags #rip taylor you would have loved kayla #thats a joke taylor knew kayla before she 💀

[bebepac]

The City of Oaks (Happy Birthday Robin 2021)

The Book:  TRR  (NC AU) The Pairing: Liam x Riley? Warnings: Profanity, drinking, mention of a ‘shotgun wedding’ Rating:  PG Word Count: 2845

Original Post:  08/17/21 at 11:47PM EST

EEEEEEEEEEPPPPP!!!!  I couldn’t wait any longer!!!!!!!!!

It’s been another revolution around the sun since we were last here on this day and a lot has changed for your life since your last birthday.  Good changes, and different changes have now brought you closer to my area.  NGL I’m glad you are here.  Being able to spend time with you face to face was awesome. Well now if we meet up again (mask to mask) .  I felt like we’ve been friends forever. 

I hope that you have a wonderful birthday, and I hope that you enjoy what I’ve done here with this fic, using interpretations of characters you use SGL and Riley B and I hope you enjoy this.  

You inspire me to step out of my comfort zone, and to be a better writer.  Last year when I wrote your birthday fic, I was too nervous to use your characters, thus I gifted you my own in a story, now you encouraged me to step outside of this comfort zone, and try something different.  

And I find it hilarious in some of the questions I asked you about SGL and Riley B, I was actually dead on with the idea.  

Liam and Riley are PB characters, however they have my interpretation of  @dcbbw​ original spin on them, Jili belongs to @queenjilian​ , Mia is a PB character with my expanded idea of TRR MC, and all others are my own original characters to help us tell this story.

Song inspiration for this one shot:  The Wobble by V.I.C.

I don’t own any rights to the music.

So here we go!   Because this is probably my favorite ever birthday Meme you’ll always see this one.

Riley opened the letter knowing completely what it was. A loud groan escaped Riley's lips and she  flopped down on her couch to think, still holding the letter in her hand.

Every three years her family got together in the JoCo, the cut of North Carolina and had a weekend of family togetherness….a family reunion…. that usually resulted in someone getting arrested, getting in a drunken fight, the law being called, or a combination of all three.  But that’s what the JoCo was.  It’s the country, and it’s out in the cut, and it’s a state of mind.  People take their drinks out on the porch and drink it on those summer evenings with their friends. A place where having a bonfire has nothing to do with the temperature but more to do with what your uncle’s cousin’s sister’s husband's ex wife’s baby daddy had to burn.  

Music could be heard from the lawns of the people, not utilizing the cooler temperatures in the evening to be on their riding lawn mowers cutting grass to avoid the heat of the day, and not to mention the smell of cut grass, the long fields of corn and cotton, and tractors and farm hands everywhere.  

Riley B remembered those summers well with her cousins Mia and Jilian on the back porch being told by her Grand Mommie Ethel to ‘go outside and play.’  They instead got on their bikes and rode down to the creek bridge 

to play and swim in the water playing spin the bottle and truth or dare with the neighborhood boys Nico and Jaiden.  Grand Mommie Ethel was turning 98 this year, and was still in fairly good health and was the matriarch of the Brooks family.  Don’t misunderstand what is happening here.  Riley loved her family, but it was just easier to love them from a distance.   That’s just how they got along best.

“What’s wrong?”  Liam asked as he came out of the kitchen, heading towards the couch.  “I know that particularly loud Drake-ish brooding sigh.”  

“It’s that time again!”  

“What time is that?”  Liam’s dark obsidian colored eyes held no recollection of what Riley B was referring to.  

She sat up abruptly.  “Oh that’s right.  We’ve only known each other for two years.  Every three years my family has a family reunion… in North Carolina. It’s that time again.”  

“So are you going Riley B, and why do I feel like there’s more to this?”

“Because it’s me.  Every time I go home it’s like a different place, a different time.  You know the last time I was there, I got stuck behind a tractor for five miles.  FIVE MILES!!!!  It was too big to pass on the two lane road, so what did I do?  Drive eight miles an hour for five miles.”

“Your eye is twitching.”  

He lifted Riley B’s feet to slip under them and sat at the end of the couch gently rubbing her feet.   He glanced at her socks, she was wearing the reading rainbow socks he had gotten for her, when he found out how much she used to love the same childhood show he did.  She would not be getting kicked out of bed later.

“Even my voice changes around my family with their thick accents.  The accent that is dramatically softer now, changes once I set foot in the JoCo.  You can take the girl out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the girl. Yes of course, I’m gonna go.”  

“How are you going to get there?”  

“I’m not flying, that's for sure.”  

“So I’m taking you then?  We both know you’re not driving.”

"Yeah that would be good."

She handed him the letter. Liam skimmed over it.

"And we get tee shirts too, with our names on them! Sweet!!!!"

"That's the Jones and Brooks family reunion."

"I need to plan this out. Give me a few minutes."

Ten minutes later, Liam was still on his surface tab.

“What are you doing?”

“I have created the perfect to-do list to prepare for our trip.”

Riley was nosy and decided to peep over his shoulder.

“Why are new socks number one on the list?”  

“Would you let me take care of this my own way, Woman?!? I got this! Don’t question the genius!”  

She knew she was in good hands, so she would let Liam handle it.  The other bullet points were pertinent except 'important phone call.' It appeared he had everything under control.  She sent in the money for their shirts and portion of the catered meal, and let Liam do his thing.  She would just pack her bag and show up.  

And show up Liam did that morning they planned to leave; he had rented a White ford explorer for the drive down to North Carolina.

That morning she also caught the first glimpse of Liam’s number one on the list.

“You’re wearing North Carolina flag  themed socks?”  

“I’ve never been to North Carolina before, and I want to make a good impression.”  

“Um, where I am from, making a good impression  means you decide whether you bleed Duke Blue or Carolina Blue.  And depending on the crowd you are with, that will make you or break you.”

“What color do you bleed Riley B?”  

“For my family, Carolina Blue.”    

“I’m actually digging Maxwell’s ultimate road trip playlist.”  

“Me too.”  

Both sang life is a highway  at the top of their lungs as they drove down I-95 south.  

Before long,  Riley B started seeing some of the landmarks meaning she was getting close to her childhood home.

“This is Five County Stadium, we grew up knowing it  as the Mudcats Stadium.  Our claim to fame here is when Michael Jordan was playing baseball he came here once.  And of course he went to UNC.” 

“I didn’t know you knew about baseball Riley B.”

“Trust me, that’s all I know.  I was a bat girl for a summer with my cousin Jili to make a little extra money.” 

“That’s interesting. I’m starving. What's a good place to eat around here?”

“Take a left at the next light I’ll tell you the way.”  

“Okay Riley B.”  

In a few minutes they arrived at a little Carolina Blue Diner.  

“Pop’s Place?”

“Best place for good cheap food and get your belly and your soul full, as Pops would say.”  

They walked into the crowded restaurant.  

“Riley!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!!”  

“Mia!!!!!!!!!!”  

The girl pushed Liam out the way to grab Riley B and hug her.

“I was hoping to see you before the reunion!!!!”

She glanced back at Liam.  “I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to push you, but I was just so damn excited.”    

“It’s alright.”  

“Are you going to introduce me?” Mia looked over Liam, giving Riley a slight nod in approval.

“Oh!  Liam, this is Mia, my cousin.  Mia, this is Liam my…… My Liam.”  

Mia raised a knowing eyebrow  at Riley.  

“Nice to meet you Liam.  You know, you’re the first guy she’s brought home to meet the family. She must like you.”  

“MIA!!!!”  

“I’m just saying….  I had someone, I used to have a hard time describing who he was when people asked about him.”

Liam was eating this up. He was definitely going to bite since Mia was baiting the hook for him.  

“And what happened in your situation Mia?”

Mia held out her hand showing her wedding band.

“I married him.  Y'all have to come sit with us.”  

“Say whaaat now?”

“I married Jaiden.  We thought why not be with the one you love?  Life is too short, and Grand Mommie Ethel  would have chopped my head off, us having the baby and not being married. So we had a shotgun wedding last week.”

“You’re just full of surprises Mia damn.”  

She walked them over to the table, where Jaiden was sitting and he jumped up to hug Riley.

“It’s good to see you back!”  

He  shook hands with Liam. 

“Jai, meet Riley’s Jaiden, AKA Liam.”  

Jaiden smiled.  “These Brooks and Jones women, you have to chase them a bit.”  

Liam glanced at Riley  as she sat in the booth next to him.  

“I know.  Riley B is worth it.”

Riley turned to look at him as he smiled at her for a moment.  

“Oh my gawd!!!!! That’s so cute he calls you Riley B.  I love it!”  

Liam watched Mia talk and giggle, she said anything and everything that was on her mind.  Riley B fed on her intensity  and both before long were talking and laughing loudly.  Jaiden joined in as well, as they talked about times when they were young, and he felt like he was learning about a different side of his Riley B.  Growing up she was this rambunctious, carefree country girl that was a fierce protector of her family and friends. 

He noticed as she talked with them the slightest hint of her southern drawl was coming back, which made her even more endearing to him.

After they ate, they said their goodbyes to Mia and Jaiden. Liam had booked them a room at the Umstead.  

“You know I’ve never stayed here?”  

“Seemed like a nice place, and they have some amazing spa packages.  That’s why we’re staying a few extra days, so you can have some downtime after the family  reunion. I can tell you love your family Riley B, but I can also tell they stress you out.”  

“I can’t stay a few extra days, my job is expecting me back on Monday.”  

“Are they though? I don’t think they are after I talked to your boss.”  

“Was that the ‘important phone call’ on your to-do list?”  

Liam nodded.

“Told you I could take care of you, if you let me.”  

She walked up to him silently and gave him a hug.  

Liam closed his eyes, that feeling in his heart was growing stronger for her.  Riley B didn’t have to say anything at all.  He felt exactly what was on her mind. That night when he fell asleep, he felt a little closer to her.

Family Reunion Time

“You alright Riley B?”

He could almost feel the spike in her stress level.   

As soon as they started making their rounds he immediately figured out why.

Riley B was the oldest of her cousins, and the last one not officially in a relationship, married, or had children.  

Liam was on display as well as he had shown up with her.  

“Hi Grand Mommie Ethel.”  

“Look at you, and who is this you brought with you?  Come here, let me get a look at you.”  

Liam strolled up to Grand Mommie Ethel, and did a slow turn.

Grand Mommie Ethel laughed.  “Look at this one peacockin’.   

You have just the personality for our Riley.”  

“I’m Liam, ma’am.  Nice to meet you.”  

“Nice to meet you too Liam.  Tell me Liam, are you finally going to be the one to take our Riley off the market?”  

“That’s up to her.”  

He winked at them both.

 “Boy, you better get away from me with that wink!!!!  You like older women Liam?”

Liam laughed out loud.

“Well as they say, women like fine wine get better with age.”  

Riley’s grandmother laughed. 

“And those socks, you’re training him right Riley.  We bleed Carolina Blue in these parts!”  

He knew spending those extra few minutes picking out his socks for the family reunion would be important.  He had decided on wearing the Carolina blue and white socks he had purchased with Rameses the ram the mascot of UNC Chapel Hill.  But more importantly, he had lightened the moment for Riley as he could tell that she was starting to get stressed.

After the family prayer, Liam glanced around at all the food.  There was so much of it, he didn’t know where to begin.  They had a pig pickin’  and a low country  seafood boil  with shrimp, sausage and corn.

“Put some chitterlings on my plate honey.”  The woman in front of him said.

Liam whispered to Riley.

“What are chitterlings?”  

“Can’t you smell them?  Clearly something you don’t want!!!! And something I definitely don’t eat!!!!

Liam skipped that dish, whatever it was.  He might have to google it later.  After filling his plate of food a second time,  Liam sat back in his seat completely content. 

“And we still have dessert to Go Liam.  Don’t worry, it’s game time, this is like our intermission between dinner and dessert.”

“What kinds of games do you all play?”

“Some of my family will play spades which i’m about to do. Cuz i’mma about to win back my $40 from the last family reunion.  I see you Jili!”  

Riley screamed  across the  lawn,  rubbing her fingers together at her cousin signifying she was about to get that money.

“Bring it!”  Jili screamed back.

“We also got Dominos, and Prison Rules Uno.”  

Liam laughed.  “What’s Prison Rules Uno?”  

Jaiden happened to be walking by stopping dead in his tracks shaking his head.

“Man…. it’s Uno like you played when you were a kid, but so not!!!!”

He watched Riley B playing spades for a bit, but he couldn’t really get into it, so he decided to come over to the Prison Rules Uno table.

“We’re about to start another game you want in?”  Jaiden asked.

“Sure, I'll play.”  Liam sat next to Jaiden.  

As Liam glanced at the deck of uno cards, he had never seen a deck so large before, and he quickly understood what the Prison Rules part of this uno game meant.  That mammoth deck of cards was full of Draw 4, Draw 2, Skips and Reverses and the Brooks and Jones family knew just how to use it to inflict pain on unsuspecting players.  

“I still don’t understand how i’m drawing 24 right now.”  Liam said as he continued pulling cards from the deck.  

“Because Nico skipped those two, reversed it, then reversed it again, then wild draw four on yellow and skipped and skipped those two  and reversed it then back again, and went wild draw 4  plus his pairs  and now it’s your turn again Liam. Riley told you it was Prison Rules Uno.  This is not a game.” 

Liam still had half the deck when the game ended.  

“I’m gonna get y’all next time.”  Liam confirmed.  

Everyone laughed.  

He got some apple cobbler  and some chocolate cake for dessert.  

Jaiden sat down with him.

Riley B screamed from the spades table.  “What den what!!!  Itch betta have my money!!!”

The table roared in laughter.

Liam smiled at her.  

“So you and Riley?”  Jaiden asked.

“I mean……”

“I get it.  I had to play the long game with Mia.  I fell in love with Mia, when we were five on the first day of school.”

“How long did it take you to win her heart?”  

“Senior prom. So many times I wanted to give up, when I saw her with other guys, when I knew, I was THE guy. It hurts.  But I can tell, Riley cares about you too.  These Jones and Brooks women like to feel safe and secure before they fall.”

“Can I have your attention please?”  

“Case in point, watch what is about to happen, you met Nico playing Prison Rules Uno, he’s Jili’s boyfriend.”  

“For all y’all that don’t know me, and everyone knows me, I’m Nico.  When I moved here, I didn’t have a family.  And this ragtag bunch of neighborhood girls, and Jaiden asked me to play with them one day.

You all gave me a home.  Sunday dinners with Grand Mommie Ethel, made me feel like I belong.”

“Because you do baby!”  Grand Mommie Ethel said loudly.  “Jili, go stand by your man.”

Jili walked up to Nico, taking his hand.  

“You are everything to me Jilian.  I thought I had a rough hand in life, living in a group home.  No family, until I met you.  Then you showered my life with love, and I felt like a person again.  A person who deserved love.  And I thank you for that.”

Jili’s eyes filled with tears.  “What are you doing?”  

“Grand Mommie Ethel said I’m family, but I want to make it official.”  

Nico knelt to one knee.

“Jilian Na’Shell Winchester, will you marry me?”

“Yes!”

“Hallelujah!” Grand Mommie Ethel screamed as the pair kissed, and  Nico slipped a modestly sized diamond ring on Jili’s finger.

“Now this isn’t a shotgun wedding is it?”  

“Maybe after a few more drinks and some baby making music, it could be.”  Nico kissed Jili’s neck.

“Let’s get this party started!”  

The beginning to The Wobble started playing over the speakers.

“Hey y’all ain't gonna play us no Luther?  We just got engaged!!!!!!!  OH COME ON!!!!! Not even skinny Luther?”

“It looks like we’re gonna wobble. Congrats Jili.”  

“Thanks Riley.”  

Riley glanced to her right and Liam was by her side.  She smiled at him, Liam had moves and he was most definitely holding his own with his artistic flourishes on the Wobble.  

No one knew they were being scored on their wobble until it was over when Riley’s other cousin Taylor for New York won.  

“But I have to give this honorable mention to our newcomer Liam.  You got some moves Liam.  And can I say your sock game is on point!!!!  We look to see you at our next family reunion.”  

“I’ll be here.”  Liam’s eyes locked with Riley’s.  

“Anything for Riley B.”  Liam whispered.

After two more days spent in the Umstead getting pampered, the pair finally headed for home.  

“I almost don’t want to leave, I had such a good time.”  

"We'll be back though."

"You're right, we will."

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