Disclaimer: I don't own Sword Art Online or anything from Rick Riordan's world.

Warning: spoilers, more angst, panic attack

Enjoy!

Will stared at the screen blankly, barely registering what was happening. Nico was having some of his equipment upgraded, but nothing else was going on.

He didn't hear the shouts until someone burst into the cabin, causing him to jump and whirl around.

He inhaled sharply at the sight that met him.

Annabeth and Piper, supporting Hazel between them.

Despite her darker skin, she was unnaturally pale, and her eyes were red from lack of sleep. She looked skinnier than the last time he had seen her, too, which was worrying, considering it had only been a few days.

"Get her on the bed!" he ordered immediately.

Damn it, Nico would kill him if something happened to his half-sister.

The two girls quickly obeyed, though Piper quickly held Hazel's hand to show her that she was still there.

"I think she's having a panic attack." Annabeth said shortly, looking Will in the eye. "She was feeling dizzy, so she sat down, then her chest hurt and suddenly she couldn't breathe."

"Her pulse is dangerously high." Will muttered, letting go of the girl's wrist. "What happened?"

"We passed some new camper who was talking about the game." Piper whispered, wiping away a tear. "Hazel heard them. For gods' sake, we were trying to cheer her up a bit!"

Will paled, and he took a deep breath.

He wasn't the only one who was suffering, was he?

Yes, he had a crush on Nico. But this was Nico's sister. And besides them, all of Nico's other friends were worried too.

With that, Will crouched down to Hazel's level, and began the process of talking her down from the attack.

Hazel ended up staying in the infirmary for a few days after that, not that the girl minded.

After all, that was where Nico was staying.

That being said, she did get better. Will set her a strict dietary plan to ensure that she didn't starve herself, which Frank and her friends enforced. He had her take a mild sleeping draught to get rid of her sleeping issues, and her friends forced her to 'have fun' for at least an hour a day.

Slowly, she began improving, and within a few months was, for the most part, back to the Hazel they all knew and loved.

The situation also managed to snap Will out of his funk.

Nico wasn't his only patient, as harsh as it sounded. And while he hadn't been neglecting his duties, per say, he hadn't been entirely focused, either.

Besides, if one of Nico's friends got hurt because of Will's negligence, you could be sure that he would kick his ass for it.

What the Son of Apollo didn't realize was that Nico would be just as upset that Will wasn't taking care of himself.

Asuna's mother sighed, glancing away from her daughter.

Asuna had been put into the care of the best hospital in Japan, but they couldn't do anything to get her out of that stupid game.

Now, she didn't have a high opinion of 'video games' as it was, much less the more recent ones, where players could abandon their real lives.

How was her daughter supposed to find a handsome, well-off, and well-connected man to ensure her future if she was basically in a coma?

At the thought, the cold woman frowned thoughtfully as she recalled a nice young man working for her husband. What was his name?

Sugou Nobuyuki?

Yes, that was it.

He would make a fine husband for her daughter.

Thousands of miles away, another young teen sat beside her older 'brother', holding his head and staring blankly at his Nerve Gear as she thought.

Her brother had been ignoring her for the past couple years, no matter what she did to try and get him to connect with her again. Finally, she had been told why.

Kazuto wasn't her brother. He was her cousin.

When his parents had been killed in a car crash when he was a baby, her parents had adopted him. The problem?

They had never told him.

However, being the computer genius that he was, he had managed to find out on his own.

Everything had changed for him. His parents, his sister, they weren't what he thought they were. He had been lied to by omission.

He was still trying to figure out his place in the world.

But she knew.

Sister, cousin, friend, or whatever…

His place was right next to her.

'When he gets out, I'm going to kick his butt.' Suguha thought petulantly.

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Sorry if I screwed up the panic attack part, I don't know a lot about them. They're terrifying and probably really scare the people who witness them, and can cause symptoms like the ones I mentioned Hazel having.