When they reached the City the streets were crowded. Everywhere busy people ran around holding cups of coffee or talking on a phone. School busses drove past them. Kids were playing soccer with empty cans.

Nico remembered his own time at school in Westover Hall. He only spent a few weeks there together with his sister Bianca. It still made him sad, thinking about her. Why couldn´t they have stayed in that damn Lotus Hotel. If they hadn´t gone to that school they wouldn't have met Percy, Bianca wouldn't had joined the Hunters of Artemis and she eventually would still be alive. She would definitely tell him everything was alright, he wasn´t a freak. She would love him for him being just him.

Nico kept watching out of the window. Tears were forming in his eyes, but he could not allow himself to cry. Not here. Not now.

A hand was placed on his shoulder. "Everything alright, Deathboy?" a soft voice asked. Will was looking right into his eyes. "…I was just thinking about school...and my sister." He said, the last part whispering. "Have you ever been to school?" He then asked curiously.

Will raised an eyebrow. "Sure. Everyone had to go to school. It´s law you know. At least we went there for primary and middle school. After Middle School I went to the Camp. My mom said it would become dangerous outside the Camp because my Dad is Apollo. Monster would appear." "You knew your Dad was Apollo?" Nico was irritated. Wasn´t he told, that the Demigods don´t know who their godly parent was until he was claimed. "Yeah well, most Apollo kids know he is their father. It has something to do with the way he is flirting." For some reason the Healers ears turned red. He was looking away, definitely ashamed.

Nico was grinning. After all that time Will was embarrassing him with his talk about doctors order and forcing him to sit at the Apollo table to watch his eating habit he finally now found something to tease him.

"Sooooo…. How is your dad flirting? I am reaaallly curious." He leaned a bit forward to watch the reaction of the blond boy. His eyebrows were twitching and he made an uncomfortable face. "nah..better you don´t know. It´s really nothing anybody would need to know." Was he trying to avoid.

"Well I can tell you." Nico jumped out of his skin. For the Moment he totally forgot about the other to sitting on the other side of the car. Lou Ellen was the one who spoke. "He tried one time, before he knew who my mother was. After that, he regretted it." "I was the one telling him better not be mingled up with daughters of Hecate. You should have seen him; he became as pale as death himself." Cecil announced proudly laying on hand over Lou's shoulder. Nico felt, his comment was unnecessary. First: it was nothing nice to say in front of a son of Hades and second, he even didn´t know how Thanatos was looking like. If he knew, he wouldn´t have said that. "Get off." Lou Ellen said and shoved the hand from her shoulder. "You know you are super stupid do you?!" Will was really angry looking at the Hermes son, probably knowing that Nico didn´t feel very comfortable with his word. "Oh, sorry. I didn´t mean to…I Mean. I…" It's ok. I am fine!" Nico was looking away. He don´t need a protector. He could deal himself with that.

"aaahh anyway, do you still want to hear the story" Lou Ellen was trying to rescue the situation. Nico nodded lightly turning his head back.

The Daughter of Hecate smiled. It somehow felt different inside the car and Nico knew she was manipulating the mist to match the atmosphere of her story.

"So one time at the Camp, I recently got acknowledged by my mother but still needed to stay in the Hermes Cabin, because of the lack of other choices, Apollo came to our Camp. Delivering someone or so….Don´t know." Nico knew exactly what time she meant, the day he and Bianca arrived at Camp Half-Blood. Apollo was the one bringing him, his Sister, Percy, Thalia and a Bunch of Huntress to the Camp. He felt a stich in his Heart but kept listening.

"Apollo was hanging around, visiting his children and so on. Cecil and I, we accidently spend our time at Cabin seven waiting for Will to hang out. He came along and stopped, looking at me with a crazy smile. And then he approached. „Lou Ellen paused.

"Hello there hot girl

I am Apollo the god

Nice to meet you

.

Get into my car

I will be gentle darling

Let´s have sex baby" was Cecil shouting with tears of Love in his eyes.

"That was what he was saying." He was chuckling with laughter. "Cecil, you idiot. You ruined my story." Lou was hitting him, but she couldn't stop the laughter which came from that really embarrassing flirt.

Nico turned into ripe tomato as the word sex fell. His Heart was racing and he intuitionally looked to Will who was almost as red as he was. They both locked eyes. Nico felt as if his heart was trying to leave his body. What the heck was wrong with him? As soon as the word fell he immediately saw the Face of the Healer in is inner eye. Was he associating that kind of action with that gods damn it good looking boy. Nico closed his eyes and shook his head. Stop it!, he thought. What´s that?...no.

"Well…now you know….Embarrassing isn´t it?" Will got an shy smile on his face. "I…I would never flirt like that." The Blush on his face got darker.
"But it does work right. Otherwise you wouldn't sit here. So, glad for you, it´s working. Maybe you should try it to, heh." Cecil was stupidly grinning and poking Will into his sides.

Again Nico felt some kind of stitch. So Will had someone he was trying to hit on. He was sure there was a long line of girls hoping to be with him.

"No never. She thought it was some kind of funny. And after that they talked normal. But I never would do such embarrassing thing. I ….I doubt it would work. "Will was avoiding Nico's gaze. Again he felt for some reason a hurt deep inside of him.

Suddenly the car stopped. They arrived the bus station and left the car. From now on they would be on their own, trying to kill some Monsters and freeing a Titan. How ridiculous.

But first they need to find a dishwashing god with bad flirting habits.