"Nico?"

"No I'm Conner Stoll gone emo, of course I'm Nico!" He said exasperated.

"Sorry just a question," I said. Wait a minute. "How did you get here?"

His face got dark, well, darker than usual. He looked down at the floor as if it was the most interesting thing ever.

"Remember when I said I was going to travel for a bit?"

"Yeah."

"Well I was for a little bit and then…"

"And then…What?"

"I shadow traveled to China to go to this really awesome restaurant, when this huge hellhound came out of nowhere and just scooped me up and brought me here for… questioning." When he finished he sat down and rubbed his right arm almost unconsciously with his eyes looking at a faraway place.

My eyes widened and I rushed over knelt down next to him.

"What did they do to you?" I demanded. Nico was like a little brother to me and if they even laid a finger on him I would pound their head down into the Underworld.

He pulled away and faced the wall, he looked mad, whether at himself or me I did not know.

"Nothing!" He said too quickly, I took his arm and shoved up the tattered sleeve. I gasped at what I saw, there was a 3 inch long cut that was probably the same amount deep, and his arm was slightly swollen and had yellow around the edges and a partial scab on it. It looked like one of Kampe's scimitars had gotten him.

"Nico..."

"It's fine!" He said and pulled his arm away but winced.

"Nico if you don't get that treated-"

"Well it's not going to get treated! Don't you see? We are in a maximum security prison guarded by enemy half-bloods, monsters, and Titans! Even Kronos is here!" He paused and said in a mad calmness "We are prisoners of war,"

Hey! I know that this is short but I needed to get this out my way before I put out the next chapter so that I don't have anything plaguing my mind. I know I could have just added this but I didn't think it would flow too well sooo yeeeah Oh and this goes for every single story I have ever written

Disclaimer: If I owned PJO there would have been a lot more pain so therefore I do not own PJO…not matter how much I wish I did.