It's been a little over a week since Nico decided to stay. At first, he stayed in his cabin most of the day, but after a while people started to see him around more and more. He sparred with Jason on a few occasions, and even won most of them. He went to the infirmary every few days until his cut was fully healed. Hazel decided to visit, and they walked around the lake having a nice conversation about what's been happening lately. No one seems too hostile about Nico staying at camp. There's always going to be a few that out right hate him, and want him gone, but you can't please everyone. Nico still doesn't eat much, but can now eat two extremely small meals, instead of just one. Which is an improvement.
Right now, Nico was on his way to the infirmary to help out. At first he didn't know if Will would want his help. 'I'm the son of Hades, who in their right mind would want me to help heal someone?' Nico kept thinking, until Will finally come up to him and asked.
Nico didn't do much to help, but at least it was something. Most of the time he was either cutting bandages, or organizing the medicine cabinets. It was very soothing to him to be there. To be able to hear the pain the patients were in, but also feel them getting better. Hear their heart beats, and feel their presents not about to leave. It was a very comforting feeling.
Today was different though. Once Nico opens the door, he didn't hear the normal moans of pain and hum of healers. It was almost deathly quiet. Well it would be if he wasn't the son of the Load of the Underworld. He could feel the presents of someone there, but no noise came from them. On closer inspection, Nico noticed the soul was Wills. He quickly walked over to where Will's presents was only to find the son of Apollo sound asleep in one of the beds. Nico didn't know if he should wake him to tell him to go to his cabin, or just leave him where he was. Before he could made a decision though, Will woke up.
Will yawned and stretched, before turning to face Nico. "Oh, hey. I didn't know anyone was here. Are you helping out today?" he said with a 100 volt smile. It was kind of painful to look at. Nico turned away from the smile to hide the blush forming. "Yeah. I just got here though. It doesn't look like you need any help though."
Will jumped from the bed. "I can always use help!" Then walked over to the storage room, and opened the door. "Because it's a quiet day, I was going to do some inventory, and relief some of the cabinets if they need anything."
The storage room was filled with all sorts of medicine. Ones that Nico hasn't seen when cleaning the smaller cabinets. The only problem with the storage was, nothing was organized. Just quickly glancing over, Nico saw nectar and amborsia in at least 5 different places, 6 different bottles of cold medicine in 3 different places, unopened boxes littered the floor, and jars of what could be anything from poison to green goo (they didn't have any labels, how would anyone know what they were?) almost falling off the shelves that were barely hanging on the wall.
"Will, when was the last time this was clean or anyone did inventory?" Nico asked as he finally walked closer to stand next to Will.
"Hu?" Will looked over with a confused expression. "Oh, um … maybe right after the war with Gaea? I'm not entirely sure myself." Nico just sighs. 'Figures.' Nico thought to himself. "Well, guess it's a good thing I came to help then." Rolling up his sleeve, Nico started pulling the boxes on the floor out. "Let's get these out of the way first, and start from there." Will nodded, and started helping moving the many boxes.
After they got all the boxes out, they started to take everything off the shelves and place them outside the room. Will's sister, Kayla, came by at one point, and Nico asked if she could go get some tools to fix the shelves from the Hephaestus cabin. She came back a few minutes later with a hammer and some nails. Once everything was out, Nico told Will to start sorting the supplies while he fixed the shelves. "Do you even know how to fix them?" Will asked. His hands on hips looking at Nico disbelieving. "I'm sure anyone could do a better job then what they are now." Nico replied as he took up the hammer. Will just grunted and turned away to start sorting.
Nico took off the first shelf and hammered the nails in a little more before putting the shelf back on the wall. 'At least it doesn't look like it's about to fall down any minute.' Nico thought when he backed up to look at the fixed shelf. It didn't take long to fix them, but then looked at the nails Kayla brought. 'Maybe I can add more supports under the shelves so if there's too much weight or something, it doesn't fall as easily?'
Nico picked up some nails and started adding more supports to all of the shelves. They looked better after he finished that. He finally turned to where Will was, just to see that he was done with sorting and even had a clip board in hand. Will looked up to see Nico watching him. "You done?" Nico nodded and got out of the way so Will could see them. "Wow. You did a great job. They look at lot better now than they did for years."
"Thanks." Blushed Nico rubbed the back of his neck. "Are you doing inventory? I can start putting the ones you are done with away."
"Yeah. You can start by putting everything on this bed" Will point to the closer of the few beds. "Away." Nico nodded and did just that.
By the time they were done with inventory and putting everything away, it was already time for dinner. "At least it's done. Let's head to the mess hall and get something to eat." Will called to Nico as he walked towards the door. Nico followed.