Disclaimer: I don't the characters, they belong to Rick Riordan. I don't own the plot, it belongs to MBC. I just joined them for fun.

Episode 15: Part 1

As soon as Will saw the floating letter, he walked back inside the hotel and to the front desk.

"May I help you?" One employee wondered to him.

"What's the date?" At this point, Will was past caring if he sounded insane or not. And if the question was weird, the front-desk employee didn't say.

"The 15th of August."

"August?" Will repeated, surprised. We were in September last time... A small lightbulb turned into his head and faced the front-desk employee. "No way! Are we in 2020?"

"Yes." The employee replied, confused.

No more than Will at the moment.

I was unconscious a whole year... I missed a whole year...

It took a moment for Will to actually acknowledge that information. The things that could have happened in the meantime were many. He was debating with himself what to do next when he caught a glimpse of Reyna coming out of an elevator. He decided to approach her, hoping she wouldn't think he was creepy.

"Excuse me... Reyna Ramirez-Arellano?" Will called her and Reyna turned to see him.

"Yes? Who are you?" It was obvious Reyna didn't know him.

"Can I talk to you for a bit?" Will asked her, politely. Reyna didn't deny the request, just looked at him.

"I feel like I've seen you before. Who are you?" She insisted and Will decided to be honest with her. Or as honest as he could.

"I'm Will Solace." Will could see the name sparking recognition on Reyna's memory.

"Oh! Aren't you that person from last time? The one who was with CEO di Angelo when he was on the run." She remembered now, somehow feeling more at ease to Will's surprise. "I will contact CEO di Angelo's company for you. He's been looking for you, so he will probably be able to help you. I don't work there now." She informed him, surprising Will.

"Why?"

"I've quit last year." She explained to him before searching for something on her phone. "Hold on, he changed his number." She justified her search.

"What is CEO di Angelo doing right now?" Will questioned tentatively but that only made Reyna switch moods.

"Don't you know what happened?" She argued back but not in a fighting stance. More as if she couldn't believe he was asking that.

"I was gone from the USA for a year..." Will lied to her.

"The police caught him last September." Will's eyes widen. He- he was in prison...? "He was discovered at the doors of the hospital, beaten badly. After he was taken to the hospital, he got arrested right away. Because his fake death was revealed, there was a huge commotion. Since then, he's been in jail."

"He's been in jail for a year?" Will wanted her to clarify and Reyna didn't disappoint.

"It's a murder charge. He is accused of murder, being a fugitive, fabricating evidence, and even forgery of an official document." She numbered, sighing softly. "Tomorrow is the judgment day for the appeal at New York Appellate Court. You can meet him at court tomorrow."

"What about you? Aren't you going?"

"I'm on the way to the airport for a business trip to Europe." Reyna shook her head, explaining. "I really hope things will turn out alright. Please give my regard to him." Without any more words, Reyna nodded her head and kept walking to her destination. Will realized that Reyna finally moved on and broke the mold of her predestined path.

He was happy for her.

Now, he only had to wait until the morning.

When the morning came, Will called a taxi and headed to the court Reyna had helpfully pointed out.

He immediately searched the room for the appeal case and found it soon enough in the public notices board. He walked into the room and tried to be as inconspicuous as possible but that didn't do it.

None of the presents had noticed that he had walked into court- except maybe the judge but he was busy talking. The lawyers, attorneys, and the public were enthralled in the judge's words that didn't notice Will walking into the room.

But Will had eyes for Nico. Well, the back of his head.

He ignored what the judge was talking about and walked through the aisle, fixated in Nico to concentrate on something else. He was stopped by a hand holding his wrist and only noticed when the owner of the hand turned him to look at it.

"Mr. Solace!"

Percy Jackson's voice broke monotonous monologue of the judge and Will saw how Nico turned slowly to face him. Nico's face gave away nothing, or at least gave away less than Will's. He felt that he stared at him for a long time but it only had been a few seconds because the judge immediately called for Nico's attention.

"Defendant, are you listening?" After a small smile, Nico was forced to turn around and pay attention to the judge while Percy gently dragged Will into a seat next to him so he could see the end of the appeal.

"What happened?" Percy asked him, clearly surprised about this turn of events. "Were you really alive? That time, you suddenly opened your eyes then disappeared. Do you know how bewildered I was?" Will couldn't blame Percy for saying those things.

But he had something bigger to concentrate now.

Nico wasn't lucky regarding the appealing trial.

But he was really happy to see Will again.

What was left of the trial, he kept glancing back and catching Will's eye and smiling softly. He felt that everything would be solved now- maybe not in the way he wanted but they would resolve themselves.

A few seconds after the judge officially rejected his appeal, it didn't take long for someone to try to cross the bar to get him.

"You can't go in." Nico got up from his seat before Will started to even argue with the official that tried to stop him.

"I'm sorry. Just for a moment." Nico apologized and the guards stood back, giving them privacy. "Why are you only appearing now?" Nico wanted to know and Will didn't disappoint into answering.

"I came right away but what can I do when a year has passed by then." Will explained himself, the truth would sound like an excuse for everyone else but not for Nico. He knew they lived in a crazy world.

"You came right away?" He checked and Will nodded.

"I came back as soon as I woke up." He confirmed to him and Nico snorted to himself.

"What's this?" He asked himself before giving himself an answer. "Then was I the only one who spent a whole year worrying?" Nico concluded, not able to joke about the situation. "'Why isn't he coming? Percy said he saw him opening his eyes...'. 'Did he perhaps change his mind and is meeting another man?'. I worried about all sorts of things." Nico admitted before continuing. "Or 'is he frightened after watching the manhwa, and is not wanting to come back because he doesn't want to care for a criminal who received a death sentence?'". Will kept staring at him in silence. "You got married to a self-made young millionaire and now he's broke and not just that, he's a condemned criminal. I could understand that."

"You can joke at a time like this?" Will scolded him but Nico noticed that he was trying to sound more playful than he looked.

"Let's go." One of the guards that were standing there got closer to him to take him away.

"Wait a moment." Nico stopped him, gently. "He's my husband whom I haven't seen in a year. Just a moment." The guards relented and walked away just a few meters.

"Why didn't you go out? You could have just come out." Will wondered, lowering his voice.

"I couldn't get out." Nico saw the surprise and the worry all over Will's face. "I tried countless times for a whole year but it didn't work. I couldn't go out." It was Nico's time to explain.

"Why all of a sudden?" Will questioned, not mainly to him.

"I think because it's the last chapter." Nico answered anyway.

"You need to go." The officers ordered him and started to drag him away but Nico didn't fight them.

Though he did have parting words for Will.

"Do you know that? This is 'W' last chapter?"

"You should come with me." Nico heard faintly Percy suggesting it to Will after the guards took him to another room. "The trial isn't all over yet. You should gather strength and prepare for the next."

We all have to, cousin...

Nico was now waiting in the courthouse holding cells to be transported.

He had kind of resigned to his fate when he saw the impossible.

A key on his handcuffs appeared out of nowhere.

Nico's mind went overdrive. There were only three people in his little world who had the knowledge to do so. One of them wanted him to be dead, so he wouldn't risk it. Of the other two, he just saw one and the other...

His eyes widen in the realization of what was happening.

Glancing around, he only saw one guard behind a desk as the other one was preoccupied to take another inmate to its hearing. Trying not to make noise, Nico unlocked the handcuffs off him and walked to the cell's door... where another key appeared.

Taking his chance, he unlocked the cell's door too and once he did, a gun appeared on his hand.

His fate had been changed and was sealed when his plan didn't work out the first time.

It would seem it's to improvise...

"Let's go to the penthouse." Percy suggested to Will once they were out of the courthouse and on the car. "It's empty because CEO di Angelo said to leave it be since you would be coming back."

"You want me to live in a big place by myself? I don't want to." Will declined the offer, thinking it was too big for him. "I just need a single room."

"A small place is hard to guard. Just go there." Percy insisted before he got a call. "Hello. Yes, we already left." He told whoever was on the other side. Will imagined it was one of the few guards still loyal to Nico. "What?! CEO di Angelo, did what?!"

Will's brain was overdrive now.

Something had happened.

Meanwhile, Zeus Olympia was finishing at a gathering with kids as part of his official run for the presidency.

He disliked every second spent with the children but if the media thought he was doing good, it was worth the trouble.

"These days, why are the kids so aggressive." He complained to himself once he was alone in his car. "How did they educate those kids?" He mumbled before answering his ringing phone. "How did it go? Is it a death sentence?" He was kind of upset that he couldn't witness Nico di Angelo's appealing trial but had someone gone for him. "What? Escaped?!"

"No, how could he escape?" Will wanted to know the details Percy just got told.

"He got his handcuffs off, opened the cell's door and got a gun. How on earth did he get the handcuffs off, that bastard." Percy was almost spitting fire at the troubles his cousin was causing. However, Will was seeing this from another angle. Who would help him...? I can't, so... "Now, I'm not even surprised since he has caused so many problems. First, I think we need to go back to the courthouse-"

"Can you drop me somewhere?" Will asked him. Percy looked confused but did anyway, dropping Will in the next corner. "I think it would be more dangerous if we go together." Will explained to him before getting out. "So if he gets in touch with you just tell him that I'm here."

"Can I ask you just one thing?" Percy suddenly asked Will, who nodded. "I heard from CEO di Angelo but I can't believe it is true." Nico, what did you say...? "He said there is a different world that is like this. And you came from there." There was some silence following that statement. "Is that true?"

"Yes." Will admitted to him.

"I understand."

Another self-aware character... Are we doing them good...?