A/N: Nico is doing some research with the gang.

Hades had been easy to persuade. He was almost eager to let me go to Italy, as if he wanted to see if there were any di Angelo's left as well. It meant part of my plan succeeded. Now it was time to do some research.

There was a centre of genealogy in camp Jupiter, where they obsessively kept track of family lines. Every line was written down in a huge book, which were a metre or so tall and broad. You couldn't even lay them down on a table, you had to sit on the floor with the book in front of you. So it was the best place to start.

Will went with me. He was the first I had told about my plans after my last therapy session. Already waiting by the centre was Hazel and furthermore, I had brought Pollux from Camp Half-blood with me. Dionysus already knew about my plan, so it felt safe to get his son on board.

I sat down in front of my book. 'Okay. We have a clear goal.'

'We're demigods,' Pollux noticed dryly. 'We never have clear goals. Or maybe we do, but it'll become less clear in a minute or so.'

I narrowed my eyes. 'Then we have one minute of serious study. Go. Search for Italy. Search for di Angelo.'

We managed to look through the Italian lines for a whopping five whole minutes before someone got distracted, when Hazel pointed at a name in her book: 'That's sounds like the last name of one of the new recruits.' Will left his own book (Which had a fold-out family tree; they went for extra in camp Jupiter) to go look over her shoulder. 'We have a new recruit called Gio Colombo. There is a Colombo over here.'

'From 1876,' Will thoughtfully said. 'That could be a possible connection'

'Maybe.' Hazel sighed and looked at the branch that came after the aforementioned Colombo. 'I don't think I'll be able to find Gio's name, though. Not like this.'

Will blinked, before smacking his hand against his forehead. 'We're idiots, too,' he mumbled. We all gave him a strange look. 'What Hazel just said made me think: We should have just started looking for Nico himself, instead of the di Angelo lineage. There might be lots of people with the name Di Angelo. After we found him, we can search for family members.'

I blushed a little. 'Eh, yeah, that sounds like common sense.'

Will sighed. 'We'll do that from here on out. Unless! Wait, before we make another mistake, Hazel, are there any maps for these books? As in, is there any way to see in which books which names are?'

'Eh… yeah, I think so. Let me go take a look, I am sure...'

'Of course we do.' A girl with a hoarse voice walked around the corner, with a map in her hands. She laid it out on the floor. 'Look. Over here, you can see the family name, which are sorted alphabetically, and the books the names are in. Then, you can look it up again, and…' There followed a whole lot of other instructions, which I kindly ignored.

When the genealogist walked away, I looked at my friends. 'Did any of you understand any of that?'

'There is something, somewhere, and it'll help us,' Pollux stated.

'Yeah, not. We'll just have to keep looking until we find… well, me,' I answered.

The rest mumbled something, before we all turned back to our books and maps.

After quite a lot of searching, Pollux tapped my shoulder. 'I found... a di Angelo, from the nineteen-thirties.'

I crawled over to him. 'Where?'

'Here. Francesca di Angelo,' Pollux muttered. He had a funny look on his face.

'Where did she live?' I asked.

'According to this, eh… Rizziconi? Is that how you pronounce it?'

'Could be. Rizziconi is not Venice, far from it, but Francesca is probably a woman, so…'

'So what?'

'It means she probably went to live with her husband. Which means we might be related.' Will, who was hanging above the book as well now, tapped the picture of the man next to her. 'Then again, if she has a husband, she probably took his last name…'

'Not according to this book? Her husband's name is not di Angelo,' Pollux answered. 'Oh, I see it now, her married name is right under her maiden name. Her married name is not di Angelo.' He sighed. 'Anyway, then we should go up, because her parents must be the di Angelo branch. The name probably comes from her father. He had a bunch of kids, anyway, eh, your mother might be around there somewhere, I think…'

'I see no Maria,' Will breathed into my ear.

'No,' Pollux stroked a strand of hair out of his face. 'Then we go up a ledge, maybe it is a different di angelo branch. Then we are looking for a man with a daughter named Maria, because at this point she can only have gotten that name from the male line if it is the correct line…' Pollux almost tore the paper out. My head began to spin.

'How do you keep track of this?' Will asked.

Pollux shook his head. 'I don't know. Anyway, I… still see no Maria di Angelo, I think, at which point we should go even further up… and that runs off the map, which means I have to flip a page.' He sighed.

Will looked over his shoulder. 'Hazel, did you find anything useful? We might find something here after another hour or so, but…'

Hazel pushed her book closer to ours. 'I have been looking at Hades' family line. The map doesn't show every family member of his children, but I think that if we combine our maps, we can find something.' She put her book under that of Pollux.

I looked over her shoulder. I saw my dad and, miracle miracle, my own name, next to Bianca's and slightly further away from Hazels'. It mentioned my mothers' name, the names of my grandparents and those of my great-grandparents. 'Pollux, do you have a… Nicola di Angelo somewhere?' I inquired. 'Never knew I was named after my grandfather, but alas, it made sense. Or otherwise a Marco di Angelo? He was my… great grandfather. It doesn't run further.' I took a deep breath and put my hand against my forehead. 'He… I mean Marco… was married to someone named Maria Veronese...'

'I have a Maria Veronese!' Pollux exclaimed, while excitedly pointing into his genealogy book. 'I got a Maria Veronese and praise the gods, she is married to a Marco di Angelo. They have a son, Nicola di Angelo, Who has a daughter, Maria di Angelo, who…' He took a deep breath. 'Has a son named Nico di Angelo.' He pointed into the book, before laying down with an arm over his eyes. His breathing went very quickly for some time, until it slowed down again. 'Oh, man.'

Wil kneeled down next to him. 'Are you okay?'

He opened his eyes. 'I am.' He shrugged, even though he was still on the floor. 'Information overrun. Dangers of the job.'

'If you want to see 'child of Dionysus' as a job,' I said, while staring into the book.

It was told me who of my family members had died. It was strange to see a 'deceased' next to Hazel and it hurt to see it next to my mother and sister. For a moment, I doubted whether I was doing the right thing by going to Italy, but I shook that thought off. I could worry about that later. Pollux didn't almost drive himself insane for me to walk away now.

'So. Unsurprisingly, all of my grandparents and their siblings have passed away. My mother had two sisters and a brother. Her brother didn't have any children... but her sister did. That, sadly, means she changed her last name and then moved to… Toulouse.' I raised my eyebrows. Sure, France, why not. 'Okay, but I can't do anything with that,' I muttered, a little sad. 'Alright, then her second sister, she had a daughter and two sons… blah-blah-blah… and...' I took a deep breath, 'to make a long story short, her three youngest descendents live in Foggia.' It felt like a relief. Finally. A place of reference.

Will produced a notebook from his pocket, with a pencil. 'I am writing that down. What are their names? Of the last decendants, I mean?'

'Sofia, Elena and Lucia. Their parents are still alive too, eh, Gabriella and Collin. That doesn't sound all that Italian to me… anyway, them.'

'Cool.' I looked up at Will, who wrote it all down, before looking back at me. 'Do you think that's' enough?'

'What do you think? Actually, Will, how do you feel about me going to Italy?'

'I am already worried and you haven't even left yet. However, it's Italy. I think Dionysus, Hades and Persephone, or, I don't know, Apollo for that sake, will be there to save you whenever you are almost getting yourself killed, or something.' He tugged on his shirt. 'You'll be fine. It's Italy, the gods are with you.'

I nodded. 'Thanks,' I whispered.

He gave me a tender smile. 'I hope you'll get something from it.'

'I hope so too,' I heard Pollux say in a defeated voice. 'Otherwise this whole exercise was for nothing and my head hurts.'

'Are you seriously hangover from a book?'

'Shut up, Nico.'

Hazel got up and stretched her limbs. 'Shall we go get something to drink? I'm parched.'

'I feel like getting lunch,' Will answered.

'I find these ideas top-notch, if I can be candid,' Pollux said from the floor. Slowly, he got up. 'Although I also got a life supply of grape-flavoured Gatorade with me.'

'That's called purple,' Will corrected him.

'Grape-flavoured.'

I sighed and stood up as well. 'Let's get something to eat. I got my information.' I took a deep breath. 'Now I just have to seek out contact with one of them, and then maybe...' I could actually go. To Italy. Now that it was basically within reach, it felt like the scariest thing ever.

A/N: More Nico/Dionysus kid interaction! I wanted to add Dakota but then the truth hit me. Honestly that still hurts me to no end, I loved my kool-aid boy.

Does Pollux have a canon last name, actually? I don't think so. I don't even think we are ever told about heir second parent is. In the fandom, it ranges from some mortal woman to some guy to Ariadne herself, I believe.