AN: So, I've had this idea for a while, and just got around to writing it now. I hope you like it!
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters, plots, flying warships, or magic powers, those all belong to Uncle Rick. The songs used are classic French and Italian lullabies, so I don't think anyone owns them.
While on the Argo II, Hazel had learned that Nico suffered from horrible nightmares.
He was temporarily staying in Percy's cabin, which was beside her own. Hazel could hear him crying and silently screaming, so she decided to check it out. When she walked into the room, she found him on the bed, tangled in the sheets, with his head buried in the pillow, his cheeks wet with fresh tears.
"Nico." Hazel said, shaking him awake. He moaned in response "Nico, wake up."
His eyes fluttered open, fear obviously coursing through him as he didn't remember where he was, then, recognition came across his face, as he calmed down.
"Hazel... What?"
"You were screaming. So I came to see what was wrong"
"Just nightmares."
"Tartarus?"
He nodded in response "And Gaea."
"Wanna talk about it?" He shook his head, he clearly just wanted to get back to sleep, and Hazel couldn't blame him, they were all exhausted.
He laid back down, face in the pillow, a clear sign that Hazel's welcome was over. But, she stayed, and thought of a song she hadn't thought of in years. The one her mother would sing to her as a child, before Gaea destroyed their lives.
Dodo, l'enfant do,
L'enfant dormira bien vite
Dodo, l'enfant do
L'enfant dormira bientôt.
Une poule blanche
Est là dans la grange.
Qui va faire un petit coco
Pour l'enfant qui va fair' dodo.
Dodo, l'enfant do,
L'enfant dormira bien vite
Dodo, l'enfant do
L'enfant dormira bientôt.
Tout le monde est sage
Dans le voisinage
Il est l'heure d'aller dormir
Le sommeil va bientôt venir.
Her mother had always said that this song had magical powers, and, considering the fact that Nico was asleep already, Hazel actually believed that.
The war was over. The gods had won, but not without many losses. Frank Zhang and Piper McLean were among them, Hazel's boyfriend and best friend, both gone, dead. She was at Camp Half Blood, where she'd decided to stay. With Frank gone, there was nothing left for her at Camp Jupiter except painful reminders of him.
The shrouds for the deceased demigods, all eighty of them, had just been burned, and Hazel was one of the last ones still sitting around the fire.
She felt an arm drape around her shoulders, and someone sit down next to her. She was about to tell them to go away, but then she saw who it was.
"Are you okay?" Nico asked
She wasn't, and he knew that. But what else could you say to someone who'd just seen the two people closest to her go up in smoke.
Nico had been hit hard too. Percy had sacrificed himself to save Annabeth, but she had been killed just moments later. The only members of the Seven left were herself, Jason, who was in a condition much like her own, and Leo, but, after the war, he'd immediately set off on a boat to find someone.
She leaned into Nico's chest. He looked better than he had a few weeks before, but he was still painfully thin, she could feel his ribs through his shirt.
Hazel could feel her eyes drooping shut, she hadn't slept in days. She could feel Nico lift her off the bench they were sitting on, and carry her to what she assumed was cabin thirteen.
He laid her down on a bed, and sat beside her, then he started to, ever so quietly, sing a lullaby, much like what she'd done for him all those weeks ago.
Fa la ninna, fa la nanna
Nella braccia della mamma
Fa la ninna bel bambin,
Fa la nanna bambin bel,
Fa la ninna, fa la nanna
Nella braccia della mamma.
She couldn't understand the Italian, but she got a sudden feeling of warmth, as though everything were going to be okay.
Translations:
Lullaby, child, lullaby
The child will quickly go to sleep
Lullaby, child, lullaby
The child will soon be asleep.
A white hen
Is there in the barn
It will lay an egg
For the child who's going to sleep.
Lullaby, child, lullaby
The child will quickly go to sleep
Lullaby, child, lullaby
The child will soon be asleep.
Everybody's good
In the neighborhood
It's time to go to sleep
Very soon you'll be asleep.
Go to sleep, go to sleepy
In the arms of your mother,
Go to sleep, lovely child,
Go to sleepy, child so lovely,
Go to sleep, go to sleepy
In the arms of your mother.
AN: How was it, good, bad, do you wanna bash me on the head with a frying pan? Leave a review to tell me what you think!