Finally updated! Sorry for taking a kajillion years again. So next chapter will have the REUNION OF KOLE AND NICO. However, this reunion will cease to exist unless fiiiive reviews are posted on this new chapter.

Nico: Please! I wanna see her again!

Kole: I have to find him!

Me: talk to them... *points to readers*

READY SET GO

Kole's POV

Three hours after her meeting with Aphrodite, Kole was squeezing between underdressed people in the Black Casino. She'd been searching for almost a whole hour.

Eventually she gave up. Kole climbed up on top of a pool table. "HADES!" she screamed. A man looked up from across the room and met her eyes. The security guards started heading towards Kole, but the god snapped his fingers and they appeared outside the casino.

"Aphrodite said you could get rid of my curses." Kole said, putting her hands on her hips.

"Aphrodite doesn't know what she's talking about. And who are you?" Hades asked.

"I'm Nico's g- friend. He's been taken by some psychopath goddess, which you would know it you cared about him at all." Kole glared at him.

"I do care, for your information. He's been hidden from my view for a while." Hades replied.

"Which you did nothing about. Now can you help me help him, or are you going to be the horrible father everyone thinks you are?" Kole knew she was playing a dangerous game, but she was getting desperate.

"You better watch yourself, young lady." Hades said. "I have half a mind to incinerate you and move on with my life."

"And leave your son to die? Or hate your guts for the rest of his life? Are you really just going to let him die?" Kole asked.

"Fine. I'll help you, but only for my son. You make him happy." Hades waved a hand, and Kole felt the weight of death leave her.

"Thank you." She had something else she needed to ask the god, though.

"Now if that's all, I'll be going." Hades said.

"Goodbye, my lord." Kole said. Hades disappeared in cloud of black. Kole rolled her eyes and headed for the nearest airport.

Kole found an airport easily, but it took all her mist manipulating and Hermesian powers to get on the plane, and within an hour, she was on her way to Virginia. Towards Nico.

Kole had been trying her best to keep moving, and ignore her feelings, as she'd done her whole life, but now, in the quiet and loneliness of the plane, it all hit her at once.

Nico was gone. She might never see him again. She'd get her heart broken in the end after all. But Kole refused to let that happen. She wouldn't stop fighting to get back to him. Kole was a little confused of how her feelings for Nico had gotten so strong. She felt as if she'd known him her whole life, like she knew everything about him. She'd been so sure that he would be the one to mend her heart, and then she'd lost him. Kole felt like she could be her real self around Nico, not having to hide her flaws, or her feelings. He accepted her, said he loved her, even. No one else had ever said that to her, in all her life.

And that was why she couldn't lose him.

Nico's POV

Nico spent hours wandering through the witch's maze. She'd told him that if he could find the exit, she'd let him go. He never really believed her, but he didn't really have much else to go on.

He doubted that he would ever be free, that anyone was worried for him, or trying to find him. His heart hoped Kole was missing him, searching for him, but he refused to hope that. He didn't want to think that she was in danger because of him.

Nico knew the witch's words were getting to him, making him lose his grip on hope, on sanity, even. He figured he would die here, alone.

His only regret would be leaving Kole, her heart broken after what he'd promised.

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