Blake's POV

After returning with my shirt he took me to Chiron who was sitting outside with Mr. D.

" Hello Nico. Hello Blake. What brings you two to the Big House?"

" We must speak with you in private, now." Nico kind of looked mad and crazy and scared all at the same time as he said this to Chiron.

" Well surely, come in."

Mr. D. huffed in the background mumbling something about disrespect and trust.

Chiron closed the door behind us.

" What's so urgent now that we are alone?"

Nico grabbed my arm and showed Chiron my wrist which I pulled away almost immediately.

" My Blake. Those are many scars. Whose drawing is that anyway?"

" Nico's."

" It's a good thing you are looking out for her Nico."

" We're here because Blake just tried to take her life!" Nico was looked wild with despair.

" It's okay now Nico. You saved her. May you please leave though I need to talk with Blake alone."

He looked at me and I nodded so he walks out, reluctantly closing the door behind him.

" Blake, why do you do this?"

I explained the depression I'm going through and the feelings and the pain I feel everyday and everything.

" I see. You know this is never the answer. Cutting and suicide. Did you not seek help?"

" I know and I didn't. I didn't want people to worry. I had always withdrawn myself from people, I was only ever truly close to this guy named Ashton. He was a drummer and he was the funniest guy ever but his parents were transferred to Australia and I became really isolated and I went right back into my death spiral. He tried to contact me, I remember that but I pushed him away."

Right then Nico rushed in.

" Sorry to interrupt but Desdemona is cursing an Aphrodite kid."

" Not again. Whose the kid?"

" Jared."

" Again!"

Chiron raced outside to the sight where the boy named Jared was turning neon yellow.

I could hear Chiron screaming at her things like " You better stop this now." and " Desdemona stop torturing Jared he's a nice kid."

Nico looked at me.

" You feel better I can tell because you look optimistic for once. The last few times I saw you I only saw remorse and disappointment in your eyes."

" I feel much better. I finally have people to help me and love. That's something I never had before."

He enveloped me in a hug and I just sunk into him. After caring the weight of the world it felt nice to spread it out a little.

" Come with me." Following behind him I noticed somethings I didn't before, like how his shoulder sink as he walks or how he never looks up.

He stopped in front of his cabin. He's the only Hades kid and so he's all alone a lot. He walked inside and I followed behind.

I found out why he was stooping as he walked. Around his room were sticky notes covered in what I guessed to be the hurtful words that had been spoken to him over some time.

" Nico what's this?"

" I don't cut on the outside of my body like you do but these represent the cuts that are on the inside."

I felt like crying. The pain he felt was so much more internal than mine. I changed everything about the outside of my body because that's what everyone hated about me, but they hate him on the inside where changing is the hardest, you can lose fat, easy, you can put on makeup, easy but your personality doesn't have that.

" How- What- I don't know what to do."

" I don't want you to do anything I wanted to show you what I'm doing about it." He picked up one and ripped it then dropped it and moved on. He ran around the room ripping each one, one at a time until he was done with all of them and then he came over to me, put his hands on my shoulders and said,

" Your voice saved me and so I shall save you." He then stepped back only to collapse crying on his bed.

I decided though that I had too help him some how seeing as he's trying so hard to try and save me so I went around the entire room and picked up every piece of paper and put it in a garbage bin. When I finished this I sat beside him until he was done sobbing.

" I wish pain was fake, that pain couldn't truly be felt." I knew exactly what he meant and so I just nod.

" Chiron told me when I first got here that there was a quest I must go on. Only Death, Music and Nature may take the journey to the Labyrinth. It has resurfaced and we have to rescue the crazy Dionysus kids who on a dare went into Zeus's Fist. You are the only musical one who I would be comfortable with coming on this quest, will you consider it?"

" Consider it? I'm coming! I'm scared of myself when I'm left alone, you're the only one that will watch over me I can't let you go on this without me."

I saw relief in his eyes.

" Now we need someone from nature."

" How about a satyr?"

" Sure but who?"

" Zoya."

" Let's see what he says."