Um…. Hello? *runs screaming in the other direction* I didn't mean to wait this long! I swear! I've been really busy getting ready for midterms and having Christmas and new years and traveling A LOT to see relatives that have somehow managed to spread themselves all over this country. But anyway I'm back to break this cliffie (kind of) that I left you guys on.

I do not own but if I had my way there would be a lot more percy\nico hugs

Nico didn't hear anything for a while. He was still locked in his death trance. Eyes closed, barely breathing, he sat there pale and unmoving. He heard nothing of the turmoil going on around him. Then his prison tipped over and he spilled out in a tumble of pale motionless limbs. Still not breathing until the coldness of the floor registered feeling and he gave a great shuddering gasp. His world was black and silent. The ground beneath him spun in sickening tilts. He could feel the blood on his tongue and he swallowed it. The absence of a presence in his mouth caused him to violently cough. The powerful movements rocked his small fragile body, that had suffered so much abuse.

And then he could hear. Nico could hear Percy's deep tenor as he yelled, and Jason's baritone as well. And just above him he could hear Piper yelling. He gave a small groan as he found himself with the ability to breath once more. They had come for him. Percy had come for him. Nico wanted to break down in tears of relief but he had to get out of here, before he was hurt in this state.

And then the world exploded around him in noise and dust. He heard Piper scream above him and felt the tremors through the floor. He felt someone fall next to him on the floor and started coughing as he attempted to breath and ended up just swallowing more dust. He opened his eyes to slits and could make out a downed form next to him as Piper. Then Nico realized what had happened. The ceiling had fallen. Holy Hades THE CEILING HAD FALLEN! He had to get out of here!

Nico stretched himself along the floor, too weak to rise on his own. He managed to raise himself on his elbows and drag his unresponsive legs behind in a demented army crawl. He had reached two feet away when his arms started to give way beneath him. Nico was gasping for air in the dust filled room, and sweat beaded his forehead. Both his arms collapsed beneath him shoving him to the floor. With the last of his feeble strength he pushed himself onto his back and lay there panting and spent.

"where is Percy? I need him! What if he's hurt here because of me! What if he dies!"

All of these thought ran through Nico's mind as he lay there, and then suddenly the room was filled with light.

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Nico felt his body begin to hum with power, his particles shaking deep in his body. He felt the cold dusty ground disappear beneath him and the air cleared above him. He felt his weak body be gently guided into a padded chair. and he hung suspended above it for five seconds before he collapsed into the chair, too frail to hold his own weight up. Then he realized, the noises of the battle were gone, now all he could hear was silence.

Suddenly a hand touched his shoulder. Nico probably would have jumped a little if he didn't lack the strength to. He turned his head weakly to the left and saw a pale Piper sitting next to him with a bandaged shoulder. She held a glass of nectar in the hand of her good arm. He reached over and placed the glass on his lips. He weakly sipped from the glass and felt strength rush into his limbs. Nico sat up a little straighter in the chair, before grabbing the glass with a shaking hand and downing the rest of the nectar.

He sat up straight now and though he was stronger he was still grateful for the chair that meant he didn't have to stand. He looked around and that was when he realized that he was in a stadium, and what was in the middle.

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So this is what I think Nico felt during his rescue. And on account of me making him really weak, he went 5 days without air and no food or water, the nectar is how I make up for him being stronger in the book. So how do you like it? Am I forgiven? REVIEW totallyawesome out