Will POV
Nico walks across the grass towards Percy and Annabeth. He's been so hostile since I saw him again. Nico's never been particularly friendly, but it's almost like the last two years never happened.
I study him. He's definitely changed, his face is more sunken and he's even paler than I remember, not to mention he seems to flinch away from me even more.
I notice Percy gaping at Nico, seemingly confused by something he said.
After high fiving Annabeth, Nico makes his way back over to me.
"What was that about?" I ask.
"Nothing." He answers quickly. "Do I really have to spend three days in the infirmary. I'm fine."
I glare at him. "You are not fine. You're extremely pale."
He rolls his eyes.
I glare at him. "You are not fine. You're extremely pale."
He rolls his eyes. "I'm always pale."
"You look like you're wearing a bedsheet, Casper." I tell him, pulling him into the infirmary by his shoulder.
He flinches when I touch his shoulder.
"Why did you flinch?" I ask, narrowing my eyes.
He freezes. "Uh no reason…"
"Shirt. off. Now." I tell him, making him blush.
"No!"
I glare at him, challenging him to say no again.
He starts muttering about annoying sunspots, pulling his tropical shirt over his shoulder.
I can't help but stare. Is chest is littered with scars and bandages. The most obvious injury being the two blood soaked bandages over each shoulder.
"Sit down." I tell him, starting to unwrap the bandages.
I freeze when I see the two large claw marks from the top of each shoulder and into his chest.
"WHAT HAPPENED?!" I screech, pulling out healing potions, ambrosia, nectar and everything else I can get my hands on.
"My shoulders was a werewolf, and I can't remember the other scars. They all kind of blur together."
"Tartarus?" I ask, making him look away.
"Not the werewolf but the most of the others yeah." He says.
"You faced a werewolf?" I ask.
"The original pack." He corrects, before freezing and muttering. "Probably shouldn't have said that."
I take a deep breath. "YOU FACED LYACON!"
He shuffles nervously. "It's not like I asked him to come and try and kill me."
"You're an idiot." I decide.
"I thought I was just dense." He shoots back, raising an eyebrow.
I start treating his scratches best I can, but there's little I can do without magic. "This no magic over the summer rule is ridiculous." I mutter.
"Lets just hope they can't track it in the deepest pit of hell." Nico mutters.
"I still can't believe you went down there." I mutter.
He glares at me, before changing the topic. "Can't you just stitch up the scratches?"
"They're enchanted wounds. They take powerful magic to heal." I explain. "Haven't you read your textbooks?"
"I haven't exactly had a chance to pick up my new books." He mutters.
"You can borrow mine." I tell him, before adding, "You're going to have to stay in here for the rest of the holidays."
"NO!" He yells, standing up.
"I'm going to have to watch those scratches 24/7 until I can heal then properly at Hogwarts. Besides I need to make sure you don't use any of your powers." I tell him.
"But I have things to do this holidays!" he argues. "I have a cabin to redecorate! Romans to visit! Burial Rites to do!"
I glare at him. "I can help you with those, but no running off on your own or sleeping in your cabin. DOCTORS ORDERS!"
"YOU'RE THIRTEEN! You're not a doctor!" he yells.
"I'm better than most doctors." I huff.
"Let you need magic to heal my scratches." He huffs, making me glare even more.
"Do as your told or…"
"Or what?" he interrupts. "You'll put me under house arrest... oh wait YOU ALREADY DID!"
We continue bickering until Clovis yells out. "I'M TRYING TO SLEEP!"
"Didn't he fall asleep in the middle of the battle?" Nico questions.
"Yes, hence why he's here." I sigh. "Speaking of rest. You need it."
The next morning I drag the mummy wrapped Nico to the dining hall.
"HEY NICO!" Percy calls, making him freeze next to me.
"Children of the Big Three sit over here!" Jason calls.
I pull Nico towards their table, sitting down with him.
Percy gives me a confused look, but for some reason Jason just smirks at me.
"Hey! Apollo's not one of the most powerful gods!" Percy says when he sees me.
"He'd disagree." I mutter.
"He's babysitting me." Nico grumbles, glaring at me. "Apparently I'm too delicate to go anywhere myself."
"You could rip your stitches!" I exclaim, making the others smirk.
"You should listen to him, Nico." Jason says, giving him a meaningful look, which he responds to with a glare.
Nico reaches over to pour himself some water, but I stop him. "No reaching! You could rip the stitches on your shoulders!"
The others smirk even wider.
"What can I do?" he huffs.
"Your homework." I answer, making him groan.
"Wait, Will goes to this vampire school too?" Percy asks.
Nico (who had previously been ignoring Percy) turns to glare at him.
"Vampire school?" I ask, raising an eyebrow.
"About two years ago he was spit out of the shadows in full school uniform which made him look like a vampire even more." Percy explains.
"THAT'S WHERE YOU WENT!" I exclaim.
Jason chuckles.
"Jason, can you pass me the water?" Nico asks, ignoring us.
"You want water? I didn't think it would be your type!" Percy says, grinning.
Nico groans, falling back in his chair. "Jason, please pour the water on Percy's head."
Jason happily obliges, causing Percy to smirk, seemingly enjoying having water poured over his head.
"Seaweed brain." Annabeth chuckles, sitting next to him and ruffling his dry hair.
"I thought only children of the big three and baby sitters are allowed?" I ask.
Jason grins at me. "Girlfriends are boyfriends are also allowed."
The others smile at that, but Nico just glares even more.
I feel out of the loop. Probably some kind of inside joke from their time on the Argo II.
Three days later during dinner (when I am once again babysitting Nico at the big three table) I hear an owl screech.
MoJo lands on Annabeth's shoulder, carelessly dropping the letter on my plate.
Annabeth turns to scowl at me. "Why is Mojo here?"
"Hey, Mojo." Jason greets, petting her.
"How do you know Mojo?' Annabeth hisses, looking between us angrily.
"Um he came to the Argo II when you were… busy." Jason explains nervously.
Annabeth once again starts screaming at me about proper treatment of owls, while cuddling the owl.
I ignore her, choosing instead to read the letter.
HEY GLOWSTICK!
I don't even know if I should bother asking how you're doing as you'll probably use two word answers -_- but I'll ask anyway. How are you? Please answer in full paragraphs.
Anyway I'm awesome as always. GUESS WHAT? Nico sent me a house elf! I would have told you earlier, but MoJo disappeared for a while. Anyway, her name is Vergo and she is cutie pie. Alex and I have been having so much fun! Including an incident with a fan and grapes, and an incident where Miss Hannigan thought she was having a serious acid trip. Please write and if you see Nico tell him the same. I stopped writing him as I gave up and don't want my poor owl to have to travel the world looking for him.
Elladora/ Kat/ Awesome
I turn to Nico. "You gave Kat a house elf?"
Jason seems to be the only other person who understands what that means.
"I loaned Vergo to her." Nico corrects.
"She's been fanning her and feeding her grapes." I tell him, making him roll his eyes.
"Honestly I didn't expect anything else."
That night when I'm on night watch (apparently keeping all the campers awake) I notice Nico stirring in his bed.
I rush over to him. "Nico?"
He thrashes violently, muttering incomprehensibly.
I try to shake him awake, only to feel a pull in my gut and suddenly pass out.
I open my eyes to find myself in a large dark red cavern area with thick smoke through the air making it hard to breathe.
Where are we?
"Nico! How could you do this to me!" I hear a voice shout.
I turn to see Nico on his knees, tears in his eyes as a raven haired girl I remember as Bianca yells at him. "YOU KILLED ME!"
Nico must be having a nightmare. But how am I here?
Suddenly the girl transforms into Hazel, her expression of horror remaining. "BECAUSE OF YOU WE'RE ALL DEAD!"
Nico cries out in pain, as an invisible figure slashes him across the chest.
My heart breaks at the broken expression on his face.
"NICO!" I call out, rushing to his side.
He's looks at me with fear, as if expecting me to scream at his as well.
Suddenly a faceless spirit raises from the ground, muttering to himself. "…Until your little secret comes out… until your little secret comes out…"
Nico lets out a guttural scream, causing skeletons to raise from the ground.
"Will you hide among the dead, as you always do?" A deep voice echoes across the pit.
I take Nico's face in my hands, ignoring the skeletons raising around us.
"Nico!" I yell, causing his eyes to finally focus on mine.
"Please don't hate me." He whispers, looking utterly broken.
"I could never hate you." I whisper, pulling him into my arms.
Suddenly the scene around us changes back into the infirmary. Nico had woken up.
I then realize that I had fallen asleep on top of him.
I go to move, but Nico had taken my hand. "Please don't go."
He looks so utterly devastated. Nico always hides this side of himself from me.
"Okay." I agree, crawling under the covers next to him.
The next morning I wake up to the sight of Jason glaring at me, with Lou Ellen at his side smirking suggestively.
I then realize that Nico is currently wrapped in my arms
Nico stirs next to me, cuddling into my arms.
"What are you doing?" Jason hisses. "HE'S THIRTEEN!"
"Not really." Lou Ellen smirks.
Nico seems to have finally notice our position and pushes me out of the bed, blushing scarlet.
I land with a thump at the glaring Jason's feet.
Lou Ellen smirks even more.
"Uh it's not what it looks like!" Nico exclaims.
"Nico. Outside. Now." Jason says, pulling him from the bed.
When they were both gone Lou laughs. "How was your night together?"
"Shut up." I blush. "We're just kids, besides we're not…."
"Gay? Madly in love with each other? Adorable little school girl crushing on each other?" Lou Ellen offers, making me blush even more.
I glare at her, pulling myself from the ground. "I have patients to tend to."
I turn to see the smirking faces of all my patients.
Oh gods.