It was you
"Nico? Nico, please, you can't just sit there like that. You have to respond. Are you ok?" Will asked, trying desperately for the son of Hades to reply or respond in any way.
"Just leave me Will." Nico replied, and pushed Will away.
"Nico, please. You can trust me. What is wrong?"
"Look Will! I'm not going to be your pity person whom you are going to save from his darkness anymore. I know, that the only reason you stay with me, is because, you feel that I am weak and you can heal me and become a hero. Well you are not. I am not going to let you in. You are going to leave me. Or maybe you are doing this, so that I can help you in the future. No one helps me for the sake of helping me. So, get lost. I am not going to become your charity case. Go heal another demigod. LET ME BE!" Nico's voice rose with every sentence, while Will's face morphed from hurt to disbelief to anger. He rose, walked up to Nico and gave him a tight slap. Nico stared at him, holding his cheek.
"I did all this to help you and please stop thinking that you are the only person who has gone through heart break. Everyone at CHB has lost someone or the other at some point. I was near you all this time, because I liked you. Do you know why I liked you? Because, I felt that you were the only one who could understand me. But I was wrong. You feel that you are the only one who lost someone important like your mom and sister? Well, just so you know, I lost my mom, when I was being brought to camp, she threw herself in front of me to save me from the monster's poison stings. I had no one at that time. Later, Lee helped me come back to normal. He became my big brother, almost like my father. I started learning archery so I could make him feel proud of me. He helped me realize my healing capabilities. On the day of the battle of labyrinth, I didn't want him to go. He promised me he would be back. Do you know how he came back? Completely shredded, I couldn't heal him. I died a little instead that day. Then Michael helped me, but he couldn't bring me back. Anyways, next came the battle of Manhattan. He told me not to worry. Naturally, after lee, he was the next person I connected most to. So I went into the battle fields, trying to heal as many demigods as I could. Then Percy Jackson comes running to me, asking me to help him save Annabeth. And tells me, that Michael drowned, that they couldn't find him. Do you know what I wanted to do then? I wanted to kill him, to not heal Annabeth, to make him feel, what he so easily said. But, instead, I helped her. And the others. To make both Lee and Michael proud of me. Do you know how hard it is to assume the role of a head counsellor in between a battle? Especially when someone you loved very much died? Oh, after the battle, I tried to kill myself. It was the easy thing out. I wanted to be near those I loved. There was no one left for me. and no one loved me as I loved Lee or Michael. So no one would miss me. Of course I didn't die. Kayla helped me come back to normal. She was the only one who knew I had tried to die. During all this, the only person, I really idolized, was not Percy Jackson, but you. It was Nico this and Nico that. Both Lee and Michael had known about my crush on you. So, after my failed attempt of killing myself, I focused myself on you. I wanted to live for you. And I didn't want you to die. So I asked dad for help. I guess he created a one way empathy link. If that's even possible. So I could read all your emotions and go through all the stuff that you went to. So I practically have travelled through Tartarus, along with you. So don't tell me that you freaking have suffered a lot. That was my story. And you don't know what others have lost." Will finished and ran out of the Hades cabin, before Nico could reply.
Nico meanwhile sat shell shocked, unable to respond. That someone would go through so much just for him. And Will was right. He had never tried to realize that many demigods had lost someone important sometime in their life. But… to think that Will had suffered so much and still put a smile, to help his siblings through the day, so that others didn't go through the same thing as him, really shocked him. He sat the rest of the day, thinking about all that he had said to Will, in his moment of anger, had probably lost one of the few who really cared for him.