Nico

The voice was distant, someone was saying his name. Nico opened his eyes and found himself lying in the cold snow. The trees were bare, ice was forming on the branches. He was in the woods but how had he gotten there?

He started by sitting up and looking around, then he heard it.

"Nico," The voice said again, it was a girl. Nico scrambled up and looked around.

"Hello?" Nico replied "Whose there?" The voice seemed familiar but her couldn't quite figure out who it belonged too.

"Nico," this time he was sure of the voice, it belonged to his sister Bianca.

"Bianca? Where are you?"

"Nico, wake up!" The voice said as his vision went black, the voice still echoed in his head as the blackness darkened.

Nico eyes flutter open. It was bright the walls were white. To his right was a table with a chair next to it. On the table, there were bouquets of flowers with messages saying 'get well soon'. Nico didn't remember why he was here.

Nico tried to sit up and was hit with a wave of pain.

"Woah there, slow down sir." A male voice said. "You might not want to try and get up yet." Nico looks at the man, he looked like he was about in his mid-twenties he was wearing scrubs and a white doctor's coat. He had blonde hair and blue eyes and had tanned skin.

"What happened? Why am I here?" Nico asked.

"Well Nico, you were involved in a car crash with your family." The doctor said.

"Are they okay? Where is my sister?" The doctor looked down at his clip board.

"I promise we will tell you everything, but you need to rest, your cousin is on his way he will probably be here once you wake back up." Nico was about to protest when he felt himself slipping into unconsciousness.

"Nico, come on. We going to be late for our family Christmas eve dinner." Bianca said as she popped her head into her little brother's room.

Nico looked at her and smiled. "Just give me a second, I have to find my jacket."

"You mean this jacket?" Bianca said holding up Nico's favorite brown jacket.

"Thanks," Nico said taking the jacket and shrugging it on. "Alright let's go." He said grabbing his phone and his wallet as Bianca took his arm walking downstairs towards the door.

In the car, Nico was about to plug in audio cable into his phone to play music.

"Nico, give me the audio cord." Bianca said as she reached for the cord.

"No, you're just going to play Christmas music." Nico replied holding the cord out of her reach.

"No, I won't,"

"You promise?" Nico said knowing whatever her answer was they would still be listening to Christmas music.

"I promise." She had a slightly evil look on her face. Nico gave in and handed her the cord, in a matter of seconds they were listening to Jingle Bell Rock with Bianca singing loudly along.

"Sing with me Nico," Bianca said. Nico rolled his eyes.

"Bianca, you know I don't sing." Nico said

"Come on Nico, it's Christmas." Bianca said with her best puppy dog face. After another eye roll Nico decided to join in.

And then it happened. It was quick, like a blink of an eye. Nico heard the skidding of tires on ice and then a crash, he felt pain and then everything went black.

Nico woke up once again, still in the same hospital room again. He turned his head to find a girl with blonde hair and stormy grey eyes, she was wearing a red dress with dark grey leggings and a pair light grey winter boots.

Nico recognized his cousin's wife. He also recognized that she was pregnant. He couldn't remember how long, but she looked as if she was close to the end of her pregnancy. "Annabeth?" Nico said weakly. Annabeth looked up from her book.

"Oh, my gods, Piper he's awake." Annabeth said as she placed a bookmark in her book and set it on the table. Another face came into view.

"I'll go get the boys." Piper noted as she hurried out the door. Nico felt Annabeth put both her hands around his.

"Thank gods you're alive." Annabeth said.

"Did anyone else make it?" Nico asked.

"Nico, I'm so sorry." He watched as a tear fell own her cheek.

"Nico!" His two cousins Jason and Percy said as the came to his side. Nico felt his eyes start to sting. "It's okay were here for you," Percy said grabbing Nico's other hand.

"Can I have a moment alone?" Nico managed to say trying not to cry in front of his family.

"Sure, come on guys let's go tell the others he's awake." Percy said. He walked over to Annabeth and pulled her up from her chair, putting an arm around her as they walked out of the room.

As soon as Nico was alone he let the tears fall down his face. He remembered how happy Bianca was this morning. He remembered singing with her in the car. That was the last memory he would ever share with her. He cried harder each time he thought of her. Nico had already lost his mother when he was younger and now he lost his father, step-mother and his most favorite person in the world his sister.

"Gods! Why? Why me?" he cried. "Why?" he put his hands to his face, he didn't even notice the blonde doctor peeking in the window with his hand on the door. The doctor quickly walked away letting Nico have his alone time.