Welp I'm back. The Mark Of Athena has given me like twenty ideas for this. Also I'm a little upset here. All of the House of Hades fics that I've read have all been focused on Annabeth and Percy, not that I don't love them and all but WHY CANT PEOPLE WRITE AMAZING FLUFF ABOUT NICO!? WHY! I don't think anybody in my family fully understands the intense Nico feels that I am under at the moment. I cried at the end of the book. And not because Annabeth and Percy fell, nope it was because Nico just lost like his older brother when he needed him the most. I CRIED! You have no idea. Also even though this contradicts what I wrote earlier I just had to do it.

I do not own Nico, but I would have his love children.

Nico curled into himself further. The pomegranate seed he just eaten seemed to lodge in his throat. The air in this hated jar had long ago turned poisonous. But he couldn't suppress in ingrained instinct to take a breath. He could feel the pulp of the seed dissolve into his body, nourishing it. He spit out the seed and curled up even further. Though he now had oxygen it didn't help the need to breath.

He had been stuck in here for 3 days. But he had been in hell for longer. He could feel himself on the brink of insanity and he couldn't find the strength to pull himself back from the edge. Maybe if Percy came soon, if he could be surrounded by that ocean smell. If warm arms could hug him and chase away the nightmares and if he would pull Nico from the edge. But Percy wasn't here. And even if he was Nico wasn't sure that he would do any of that. Now that Percy remembered him, remembered all the times he had betrayed him, would he hate him. Nico shuddered at the idea.

Nico knew how weak he was, how, if he was going to be saved he would be no help in any situation. At the moment he had put himself into a death trace. A state of meditation, where his breathing and heart rate slowed. This was the first time he had had to do it. And he hated that it was all he could do. Hazel would have controlled the bronze, Annabeth wouldn't have gotten caught, Jason could fill this with more air, Frank could but out of here easily. Piper could have charmspoken her way out of it, and Leo could have melted it. And Percy wouldn't have been caught at all. But Nico was glad that it had to be him. He didn't want his sister going through this, or his brother, Percy was extremely claustrophobic. If it had to be anyone he was ready to sacrifice himself to protect his family of the same fate.

Oh, Gods his family, were they okay, have they been injured. Those questions refused to leave him alone as they were flung around his skull like a battering ram. And what of his father. Was Hades worried about him. Or did he just not care. Not that it mattered to him. At all. Not even a little bit. He wondered if Bianca was watching this right now, then he remembered that she had chosen rebirth. That was what set him off. In the jar he began to cry. Silent tears trickling down his pale thin face. There was no sobs or any noise really, just water leaking out of his eyes.

Gods, he felt useless. Honestly Nico didn't care if he died. He really didn't. the only reason he hadn't just given up by now was because he had people who he cared for and who would heartbroken ( or at least he hopes so) if he died. And if Percy didn't come soon than that decision was out of his hands.

I… I just… NICO! * breaks down in sobs* to save Nico you must REVIEW. If you do not Percy won't save him! So review for his life! Totallyawesome out