A/N: The next chapter! Its good to know that there are people reading my work. Id never thought, that there is even one person giving this a closer look. I dont know, how many chapters this story will get, but let me know in the reviews, if there is anything I should add. As always, I dont own the characters. They belong to Rick Riordan.
"Mr di Angelo, what is the matter?" Chiron looked with surprise at the demigod, who burst into the Big House a minute ago. "Chiron. I have to speak with Mr D." "Ah, Im afraid, he is in a meeting with Lord Hermes at the -"
"Thats okay. I have to speak with both of them. Lord Hermes knows already." Chiron nodded thoughtfully. He rolled over to the door and knocked. "Lord Hermes! Mr di Angelo is here."
"What the Hades is going on here?" Will Solace came storming in, looking confused at his boyfriend. "Nico! First, you vanish for hours, not telling me anything, and then youre coming back, telling me, that you have to speak with Mr D and Hermes about something." "You'll know in a moment, la mia luce."
Mr D came opened the door to the centaur and the two demigods. "Nico. Will Solace. Come in. Hermes already explained everything." "But not to me! What is this here?", said Will frustrated. "I was visiting an … ah, old acquaintance of mine, when I met Lord Hermes. She is mentally unstable." "We thought, you and Dionysus might help us.", said Hermes with a voice, that remembered Will of the way Apollo spoke of his mother.
"And who is this acquaintance?" Nico gave him a sincere look. "May Castellan!" "May Cast- Oh!" Will remembered Luke. "Lukes mother?" "Yes. She tried to host the Oracle before Rachel. The curse hit her hard …", said Hermes in a low voice.
"I visited her since the Titan War. I thought, she needed someone to look after her. It isn't as if she can buy groceries or do her chores all by herself." Will suddenly had the urge to hug the life out of Nico. "She reminds you of yourself, right?", he asked. "Yes. We both were outsiders. We both had no one to look after us.", Nico whispered.
"I have to look at her myself, if you want to let me try to help her." "Yes. I already met her once, a few years ago. She has deep mental wounds. Her mind is shredded for the greatest part. I dont know, if there is anything we can do, but making it a bit better to endure. Both for her and for you.", Mr D spoke up. "We will try.", said Will with determination. "She doesn't have to live like that." "I'll take you to her in two days. I dont want to shadow travel more than I have to, and Im tired from the last jump."
A/N: I'm going to add a bonus chapter later. It will be about the first time Nico meets May and him telling Will about it. La mia luce is "my light" in Italian. I don't know Italian, I'm using Deepl translator, a website, that I prefer much more than Google translator.