A single oversight and now I stand to lose everything I worked for. There was taffeta and chiffon and paperwork from one end of Cabin 7 to the other. I couldn't find my expense reports from June.
The IRS was coming for my business and they were worse than a pack of hellhounds. I was still looking the missing documents when Will came back to Cabin 7.
I never saw my little brother anymore. Between the infirmary and his studies and Nico, he was building his future.
So what am I doing?
I looked around the room at the mess I had created and felt ashamed.
Will vomited into a wastebasket. I felt that much worse for not noticing how pale and shaky he looked.
"I can't do this. I can't help him."
"Nico?"
"He's insane, Jess and there's nothing I can do to help." I resisted the urge to throw the muslin away. My own problems seemed inconsequential now. Will looked at me in desperation. "What am I going to do?"
I was facing the same thing but on a smaller scale. "He's still a person, Will."
"That's the worst part of it."
"Then I don't know what to say. You're a healer."
"Not anymore," he said, bitterly. He threw something across the room.
"You're not being fair to him."
"But what do I do?"
"I don't know. I'm moving out, Will. So you're going to have to figure it out on your own."
"You're leaving now!?!"
"I am. I run a business Will, and I can't keep doing this," I told him, gesturing with my arms around the room.
"But what about the audit? Shouldn't you wait until that settles down?"
"No. I can't. Besides Chiron had me store all my documents in the Cloud. Even if I lost the hard copy, then I can still find the missing records."
"Jess...come on..."
"Look, just go to him. Explain yourself, okay? Because if everything you've told me so far about Nico, then you owe him that."
Will didn't look any happier but he was listening to me. "Yeah alright," he said, miserably before leaving again.
"Bye," I told the empty cabin.