Chapter 11: HP

I wake up from the weight on my chest shifting. Looking down I notice Nico laying on top of me, somehow when we were asleep, he must have shifted. I smile and run my hand through his hair which is surprisingly soft, almost like bunny fur.

He wakes up and we decide to walk around camp during lunch because it would be rather awkward to explain everything, even to Delphi.

He brings me to the Strawberry fields for "lunch" because his boyfriend, Will Solace, wouldn't let him shadow-travel outside of the camp borders.

We walked around camp for a while, him pointing out things that he wasn't allowed to tell me about before.

Like the fact that he was here.

Although, I suppose that if his boyfriend had to tell him that he wasn't allowed to leave the camp unless it was approved by someone else, then he probably wasn't here all that often.

We ended up near the forest. Nico decided to surprise me by shadow-traveling me between trees.

It's worse than Apparating for the first time. Or even side-along Apparition. I believe that I puked each time we stopped. But when we finally reached the the docks, Nico was smiling, which was good, compared to the fact that he was almost crying earlier.

We lay down on the wooden planks and he sighed in peace.

"So, what do you want to know?" He asked.

"Well, for starters, how did you hide the owls from your friends?" I questioned him.

"After the first letter, which came while I was at boot-camp, Hedwig delivered all the letters to me while I was alone. Although, while I was in the Labyrinth, Percy found me sending one off. He left it alone though, which isn't what Annabeth would've done. But she didn't know me as well. Percy still hated me but he didn't think I would join the dark..." He told me. "I'm trying to remember what I've told you. "

"You didn't say anything about Camp Half-Blood other than that it was 'a camp you went to in the summer that toured the world sometimes.'" I help out.

"But I talked about the monsters?" He asks, unsure.

"Well, after I turned 13, yes. I had told you about fighting the European Basilisk." The only reason I had told him about that was because he had been killing the men in 1940.

"Oh. I remember now. The Tom dude still alive?"

"Well... It's complicated. He had split his soul into 8. That must have been a pain for your dad... Who's Hades?"

"Yeah, Hades or Pluto, the switch doesn't bother him as much."

"But half his soul is inside the diary. He's technically a child of Poseidon but in his Norse form... He had control over water, which includes poisons. He ended up manipulating the basilisk venom off of his soul, which remained intact. This part of him is held within the diary and after he split his soul.

"I did not know this until after I had completed school at Hogwarts. And he was "dead." His soul inside the diary only contains him until he made this Horcrux. He did not know this information and is "dead." He believes that he is dead, so he's stayed dead. After he had passed to the other side, this part of his soul is now completely separate from the insane side.

"We stumbled on this diary when the Aurors looted through Malfoy Manor after the war. Draco Malfoy moved to France after the war and Lucius and Narcissa passed. They passed the diary off to the boss of the Unspeakables. Since I dealt with all that is dark soul magic and death, it was passed to me.

"That's how he's living. He doesn't remember much about anything... He's like an Oracle but... not one. He knows a lot but he is not all-knowing. He has no recollection of being 'Voldemort.' He goes by a few names, but we like to call him 'Tom' as per his original name..."

"Oh. I haven't seen Hedwig in a while... did she... you know... pass?"

"She passed but now I have Cuddles." A snake slithered out of my jacket pocket.

Nico jumped back in surprise.

"I slept next to that thing?"

"Yes, and you didn't have a problem with it then, be nice to her!" I told him, "She won't bite you unless I say you've turned..."

He lay back against me, okay with the snake now that I explained that.

I sat back against the dock and watched the waves crash against the beach and dock.

But an uneasy feeling still sat in my stomach.