Something there, I swear.
Chapter 1- Three Day Stay
Nico POV
The two demigods Will and Nico left a cackling Annabeth and a dumbfounded Percy Jackson on the field and headed the way towards the infirmary.
Before the quest of having to return the Athena Parthenos, Nico would definitely not have promised to go to the infirmary with Will for 3 days as he said. He only let Reyna help stitch it up cause, well she's hard to say no to and he was pretty sure he was passed out. The quest, however, made him realize that he didn't want to be completely cut off from people anymore. It made him bitter, sad, and angry. Now that didn't mean he was all of the sudden going to become a social butterfly, but he doesn't mind conversing with the people at Camp Half-Blood, unlike before, at least with the Argo II crew.
They reached the infirmary which was Nico's first time. He's obviously been in the Big House a few times, but inside he would avoid the infirmary as much as possible. Not that he stayed much at camp to need it. When he stepped inside the infirmary, it was all white walls, white marble tiles, with light blue colored beds laid out against the walls in a row. The room had big windows throughout the walls, bring in plenty of sunshine. He glanced and saw there were a few campers who were still here.
"Which bed shall I be residing in these 3 days?" asked Nico.
Will laughed. "None of these, Death Boy. I got a special room for you."
"Don't call me Death Boy!"
The two walked to the back where there was a wall separating the room. They went through the doors and the noise from the main room died down and in the center was a there was a hallway which had 4 separate rooms. They walked into the one labeled #3. The minute Nico touched the doorknob, the 3 had his name next to it, which was pretty cool.
"A private room for the Ghost King," said Will. Nico was grateful for the privacy.
"Thank you. Also, could I please get another shirt, I need to burn this infernal one."
"Don't burn it! It's the most colorful shirt I've seen you in!"
"Not by choice," grumbled Nico.
"Would you prefer one of our sunshine hospital gowns?" teased Will. Nico glared at him. Will merely laughed, to Nico's annoyance. His glares were his specialty at making people stop messing with him. "Alright, alright. I'll be back with some medical supplies and some clothes."
Nico sat on the bed and relaxed while Will got the supplies. It's not that he didn't mind the blonde's present, but after the day, well life he has had, he appreciated the silence and being alone for a minute. He's been through a lot and being the introvert that he is, being alone was much needed after the weeks he has had.
Will came back a few minutes later with medical supplies and a pair of black scrubs.
"Why do you even have black scrubs?" Nico asked curiously from the bathroom as he changed.
"Every healer has a different personality! Just 'cause I like green or teal scrubs doesn't mean everybody does," Will responded. Nico came out of the bathroom and sat back on the bed. He saw Will rub his neck and look back at the medical supplies quickly. Nico twisted the ring on his finger, waiting anxiously for the young healer to bring back and look at the wound on his arm that Lycaon had left.
Will having seen many battle wounds from The First Titan War till now, so he did not freak out over Nico's wounds when he unwrapped the bandages that covered them, he simply asked, "How did you get these wounds?"
"A werewolf."
"Well, at least it's claw marks and not a bite eh?" joked Will trying to lighten the mood.
Nico shook his head and rolled his eyes and watch as Will took out the old stitches which Reyna had to do in a hurry, and replaced them with new ones and much more delicately woven in. He got some syringes and flushed out the wound with a burning solution (Will said it wouldn't hurt- he lied). After that, he rubbed some salve on it. Then, Will put his hand on the stitches and sang a song which Nico did not recognize. He was more surprised at how well Will sang, well he shouldn't have considering he was the son of Apollo, but still. He didn't even realize he was staring at Will till the blonde went to get more bandages. He could feel himself blushing, but he looked at the stitches and could see the previous work slowly fading.
"You might have a light scar but for now you won't be dying of infections. Now on to your other problems," Will stated.
Nico looked at him annoyed and scoffed. "What other problems?"
"What, you thought the redoing stitches was going to take 3 days? Nah man, we got a list to fix. For starters, you still have darkness in you, I could tell when I was healing the wound. Also, you're severely dehydrated, malnourished, sleep deprived and got various other bruises and wounds as well."
"Is that all?" grumbled Nico feeling self-conscious.
"Yup, but luckily I can start the process if you drink this," Will said handing him a pitcher that was a dark purple. Nico examined the contents in the pitcher, wondering if it was ambrosia.
"Is this ambrosia? Cause that won't work on me," Nico said.
"Oh, Coach told me all about that. That's how I got the idea of getting you to stay here for 3 days. Anyways, this is not ambrosia. It is unicorn draught, with some woodland magic as well as a couple of other gifts from gods," Will said.
"Like what?" asked Nico curiously. He was also going to have to talk to Coach Hedge about sharing information with other people.
"Something from Clovis' mom and something from your dad, now drink up!" Will said. Nico sighed and obliged. The drink tasted of pomegranates, lemons, honey, and natural sugar. He felt a warm glow on his body and he felt his eyelids get heavy. It didn't even occur to the Son of Hades that Will drugged him and knocked him out for 5 days.
Will was going to punch Nico when he woke up.
"I've got no friends, I don't belong at either camp," Nico told Will. 'No friend my ass' Will thought annoyed. It'd not been but a merely 4 hours after Nico was brought into the infirmary and he's got every god's kid showing up at the infirmary demanding to see Nico. Jason came first, complaining that Nico wouldn't even know he was there. Then later he came back with Reyna, Hazel, and Frank. Even Clovis came in, and knowing him, it's rare for him to be anywhere other than the meetings or sleeping, and the meetings, demigods have to drag him to. Then Percy and Annabeth came as and then Jason came in again with Piper.
"Mate, listen I put Nico in like a medical coma. He won't wake up for like 3-5ish days, so he wouldn't know if you were here or not," Will tried to explain.
"Look, he's been through a lot, we just want to check and make sure he's doing okay, plus we got some clothes for him when he wakes up," Jason said showing him some black t-shirts and jeans along with a new aviator jacket.
Will gave in. "Fine, just don't move him or make a lot of noise. He's in room 3." Once the two had left, the exhaustion hit him like a ton of bricks. He hadn't slept much in the past 3 days, as he was trying to heal the demigods that were injured from the war with Gaea. He took a quick shower, hair still dripping wet, and came back to the infirmary to see the clothes for Nico laying on the dresser in the room. He sat in the chair that was in the room and fell asleep.
He hated being the Son of Apollo some days.
He hated waking up early, but no matter what time he slept at night, he was always awake by 7 or 8 am, whether from actually getting the necessary amount of sleep, or the other kids of Apollo waking up naturally by then and waking him up as well.
His half-sister Claire knocked on the door and came in. "Will, it's time for breakfast. Plus, it's inventory day after food."
Will groaned. "Fine, I'll be down there in 5."
Clair tilted her head, her blonde ponytail turning sideways. "Are those my scrubs on Nico?"
"Yeah, sorry he was very adamant about changing out of his colorful attire," Will said glancing at Nico who was still asleep soundly.
"Well, he does look good in them," Claire said looking at Will, waiting for his reaction.
He nodded. "Yeah, he does," Will said. Then he paused for a second, realized what he said and blushed furiously. Before he could say anything to his sister, she left, and he heard her laughing as she left. He was glad no one was there yesterday when he first saw Nico in the scrubs. Seeing him in black scrubs made his heart leap a bit. He was definitely more flustered then than now.
Throughout the rest of the days, Will periodically checked on Nico. Every hour or so, he would check to see if how much darkness was left in the system, check his nutrition status which was getting closer to being healthy instead of underweight, but still far from what he needed. His wound from the werewolf towards the 5th day was getting a lot better. It was half- healed now along with the other wounds on Nico's chest which were healing quicker. There was another gash as one on the side of his torso which he stitched and bandaged.
He got a little worried that Nico hadn't woken up yet. Yeah it was the 5th day like Clovis said he should be waking up, but it was already towards the evening and he still hadn't come out of it. He went down to the Hypnos cabin and found Clovis hugging a pillow and snoring.
"Clovis wake up!" he poked the sleepy demigod who groaned.
"Whaaaaat?"
"Nico still hasn't woken up from the herbs you gave me and it's nearly 7 in the evening," Will said. He had to poke him again to wake him up.
"Eh, he's doing fine. Dreaming and all. His body needed it, which is why he has been out as long as he had," Clovis said yawning.
"Do you know when he supposed to wake up?"
"In like an hour, good night dream boy," Clovis said hugging his pillow and snoring just as he was earlier. Will didn't know why Clovis called him dream boy but shrugged and left.
After he got his dinner, he went back to the infirmary. Technically, he wasn't supposed to be working tonight, but Will figured Nico would be expecting Will to be there. After arriving 10 minutes in the infirmary, Nico started to stir from his sleep. He looked a bit dazed and tried to get up quickly.
"Woah Sleeping Beauty, you're in the infirmary. How are you feeling?" asked Will.
"I, I'm not sure," Nico said sounding hoarse. Will got him some water. "How long have I been sleeping?"
"Um," Will said getting nervous and rubbing his neck. "Around 120 hours or so."
Will saw Nico trying to figure out the math and glared at the blond when he realized what happened. "You knocked me out for 5 days!" Nico said.
"Yes, but you needed it! You look a lot better, I mean not that you looked bad for, because you didn't, but like healthy good now not appearance good, which you look fine too! I mean- I'm going to stop talking now," Will said blushing, rubbing his neck, and looking around the room avoiding Nico's gaze, whose face was also red.
"Well, I do feel better. I don't feel like I'm going to collapse, thank you for that. Just tell me if your gonna knock me out and how long okay?" said Nico breaking the silence.
"Okay, Death Boy," Will said looking back at Nico. "So, you deciding to stay at Camp Half-Blood?"
Nico gave a small smile and nodded. "Yeah."
"What made you change your mind?"
Nico shrugged. "I guess realized I'm tired of being on my own. I've done it for the last four years, and it's nearly killed me. Plus have you seen the Hade's cabin? It's hideously designed."
Will laughed and afterward, the two demigods talked for a couple of hours till they heard the noise to let them know that curfew was near and to get back in the cabins. Nico decided to stay another night in the infirmary since Will was okay with that.
That night formed a bond, that will turn to friendship to something else in the future, if they let it.
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