A/N: Enjoy. :3

'Will...WILL!'

Will jerked awake. His head hitting the bunk above his head.

'ummm up'

He slurred, rubbing sleep out of his eyes and yawning.

'You overslept.'

Wills vision focused onto Kayla, his step sister. 'Whaa...?' Kayla threw a fresh shirt and jeans onto his bed.

'We have breakfast in like five minutes, can you please hurry. Or all the watermelons gonna go again.' She whined.

Will threw his legs onto the floor and sleepily began pulling on his blue jeans and a white shirt.

'Who's on today' Will ran a hand threw his hair in a semi attempt to comb his locks.

'Me and Austin.' Kayla replied, picking at her nail varnish.

'Can you COME ON WILL.' She pulled him out of the cabin and across the green before he could even grab his pink flip flops.

The que for the food was undesirably long. Kayla angrily tapped her foot and glared at Will. Will walked over to the drinks and fruit and grabbed an orange juice and an apple with some grapes. He walked to the fire, slipping his grapes into the flames for Apollo. The warmth of the fire woke him up a bit, and he took a seat at Apollos table. He downed his drink and made small medical talk with Austin, who was on call for the infirmary today. He noticed a black mess of hair a few tables away, next to the cereals. He grinned, grabbed a bowl and sauntered over to the bran flakes.

'Amazing day.' Will purred facing the cereal.

'Mhmm.'The voice behind him mumbled. Will turned.

'Di Angelo. You're not eating.'

Nico looked up, despite all his sleep there were still light bags under his dark eyes, making him look almost hollow.

'Very observant.' Nico snapped.

Will frowned.

'Look, if this was about all that stuff yesterday, I can forget we even had that conversation.'

Will perched on the edge of the table.

'What conversation?'

Nico raised an eyebrow. Will grinned.

'Alright, but you need to eat.'

He placed the bowl of bran-flakes in front of Nico, who looked a little repulsed.

'I'm oka-'
'Doctors orders.' Will cut him off.

'You're not even working today.' Nico sighed, begrudgingly taking a spoonful.

'Very observant.' Will winked.

Nico groaned and took another bite.

'No I'm doing some training today.' Will smiled.

'Gotta up my game for capture the flag tomorrow.' Nico rolled his eyes.

'Is that tomorrow?' Will nodded. 'Will you be joining me?'

The question seemed friendly enough, it was just training... But it still knocked Nico off and he dropped his spoon, splashing milk over his jeans.

'Whoa buddy.'

Will grabbed up some paper towels from the middle of the table and mopped up Nico's knee. Which made Nico go red. He stumbled up quickly.

'See you later.' He mumbled. Will grabbed his wrist.

'Training?'

Nico took a breath and rolled his eyes.

'Don't make me kick your arse Solace.' He hissed. Then he turned on his heel and walked away.

'Is that a threat or a promise?'

Will shouted after him laughing. Nico flipped him off as he left the main room.

Nico stormed into the woods. He needed to cool down. Will did something to him, he made him frustrated. Like he was just trying to mock him. Nico sat down by a rock and kicked the dirt at his feet. He tried to breath deeply and he closed his eyes. Then he felt it. The darkness slithered up his arms and hooked around his next dragging him down. He kicked and kicked and finally let out an agonizing scream.

'Nico! NICO!'

His eyes snapped open and the darkness clinging onto him was a worried looking Jason. His glasses wonky. Nico had never felt panic like this before, his whole body was shaking.

'The darkness... the darkness!'

He gasped. Jason looked around wildly.

'Nico there's nothing here. D-do I need to take you to the infirmary.'

Nico frantically shook his head. Will couldn't see him like this.

'Okay, okay. Just breathe. Just breathe.'

Jason repeated, his hands still on Nico's shoulders. Nico realised and shrugged him off, leaning back against the rock and wiping the sweat building under his fringe.

'I closed my eyes, for a minute. I swear. Then it, it was all over me.'

Nico was breathing steadier now, but his heart was thumping.

'Hey Nico, the darkness isn't going to get you, I swear. You're safe at camp.'

Nico nodded, looking unconvinced.

'Do you wanna talk to Chiron?'

Jason adjusted his glasses. Nico shook his head.

'I'm fine, just panicked I guess. I don't know. Maybe I just need a lie down.' Jason pulled Nico up.

'Okay, lets go back to my cabin, it's less dark than yours.'

Nico felt too tired to argue. They walked the short distance to Zeus' cabin and Jason open the door.

'Welcome to ma crib.'

He put on his best Leo impression in an effort to make Nico smile. It worked, then they both let their smiles fall as they remembered Leo.

'Take any bed man, I'm gonna be out back. I'll wake you before training.' And just like that Nico was alone.

He sat on the nearest bed. It felt like a cloud. Softer than the stuff in Hades cabin. He kicked off his converse and crawled up to the pillow. As soon as his head hit it, he began to dream.

And he dreamed instantly. He was falling, but it wasn't an uncomfortable fall. He felt like he was falling from warm syrup. His fall was fast but his limbs moved slowly. Pushing slowly against the goo that encased him.

He didn't fight, he didn't want too. He was safe here. Nothing could break through. He looked down. He was wearing Will's long camp half blood t-shirt. And it felt nice. Nico found himself relaxing, allowing himself to give in against the sun. It made a difference to the terrifying dreams he'd recently had. This was just what he deserved. He lolled his head back, enjoying the gentle kisses on his face when the sound of a zip broke through the pleasant silence.

He strained his head to the left. A bow fell alongside him, it was a beautiful carved bow, long and slim. Nico reached out to touch it. His arm slowly extending at a snails pace until his fingers stroked the golden edge.

And the bow burst into flames. Angry hot flames that allowed Nico to yank his hand back and open his mouth in a silent scream. The bow blazed. Red, blue, orange flames until it extinguished leaving the burnt black remains, which fell double time to whatever lay at the bottom of this pit. Nico could feel his heart beating a little faster then comfortable. Maybe he wasn't so lucky to have a nice dream.

'Nico...'

The sound whispered across the orange around him. It was sharp, but not angry. It was so soft it could have lulled him to sleep. It sounded familiar to him and Nico actually smiled against it, falling deeper and deeper.

'Nico!'

The voice was louder, more desperate. Nico's eyes snapped open. He was still in his orange bubble. He moved his eyes to the sound of the voice.

'Not much time.' The voice wheezed. Nico had no voice to speak, but if he could. He would have screamed. The voice came from an old withered mouth, coming in and out of focus like smog. The lips were attached to a face, a sad face. With lines etched deep into their skin.

'Need...help.' The voice whispered. Nico couldn't stop looking at those eyes. Those deep blue eyes. So similar to...

'Nico!' The voice shrieked. 'Nico.' The face changed. A worried Jason swam in and out of view. 'Nico, wake up.'

And Nico woke. Jason was looking over him, a little nervous.

'Whaat?' Nico mumbled.

Jason smiled. 'Ah good, you had me there for a minute buddy. Takes ages to wake you up.'

Nico sat straight up. 'What time is it?' He asked.

Jason looked over to the window. 'About 2, you missed lunch. We can get something before training if you want or...?' Nico shook his head. Jason had the '' are you okay'' look on him.

'Im fine. Let's train.' He jumped up and headed out the door before Jason could even asked the question bubbling on his lips.

A/N: I'm surprised all of these campers don't have PTSD to be honest... okay so in reply to the review i have used different spacing, hopefully its easier to read:)