Chapter 8
Disclaimer: I do not own the PJ or HoO series by Rick Riodan.
"But I thought you said you wanted to find Lucas?" Nico inquires.
I sigh. "I don't know why I said that. If he hasn't called in months, maybe he doesn't want anything to do with me." I say, flopping onto the bed.
"Well, where is home?" Nico asks, laying down next to me and wrapping his arms around me.
I turn to face him. "Do you really have to ask that question?" I ask, raising an eyebrow.
"Right. Camp." he says.
"Exactly." I say, closing my eyes and burying my face in his chest.
"When do you want to leave? We can go now or wait till tomorrow." he says.
I think for a second then say, "Let's go now."
"Okay then." he says, sitting up and off the bed.
"Let me grab some stuff then I'll be ready." he says.
"Okay." I say, grabbing my bags.
He comes out of the bathroom with some toiletries. He opens his back-pack and puts them inside then goes over to his dresser and stuffs some clothes in there as well.
He zips it shut and turns to me.
"Ready?" he asks.
"Yea." I say, slinging my pack over one shoulder and the duffle bag over the other.
Nico walks over to the door and opens it, letting me go out first. He flips the switch and closes the door. We start walking down the hall, my glowing body lighting the way like a torch.
As we passed the Fields of Asphodel and came closer to the tunnel entrance, I noticed something. The entrance to the tunnel was blocked off by a huge stalactite. I stopped and tugged on the sleeve of Nico's aviator jacket.
He looked ahead and his face clouded over. He started walking at a fast pace towards the blocked off tunnel. I had trouble keeping up with his long strides.
When I caught up with him, slightly winded, I found him yelling at a skeletal construction worker. Nico had dropped his back-pack and was motioning angrily to the worker and then to the giant rock blocking our way.
"Nico." I say, putting a hand on his arm.
He stopped mid-sentence and looked over at me.
"What?" he asks.
"Surely there's a better way of going about this than yelling at a construction worker." I say.
Nico sighs, obviously trying to get his anger under control. He opens his eyes and looks at the worker. He opens his mouth to speak when I hear something behind me.
I turn around to find Hades, in his crisp suit and his arms crossed.
"Leaving so soon?" he asks.
"Yes, sir. Kyra decided that she needed to get to camp." Nico says.
I glare at him. Of course he pins why we're leaving early on me. Wasn't he the one that wanted to leave… Not that I wanted to stay here, but still.
"I see. Well, you're going to have to take the other way out. It appears these, ahem, bone-heads can't do anything right." Hades says, smiling a little at his pun.
"Is Charon going to be there?" Nico asks.
"Of course." Hades says, like this should be the most obvious thing on the planet.
Nico groans and closes his eyes, putting a hand to his forehead, looking like he had suddenly gotten a really bad headache.
He looks over at me and sighs. "Ready then?" he asks.
"Yea. What other way is there? I thought this was the only one." I say.
"No. This is the smaller entrance. You'll see where we're going." he says, conflicting emotions crossing his face.
A/N:
A bit of a short chapter, I know. But chapter 9 is longer. I think you guys are gonna love 9! I'm updating a teensy bit early because tomorrow I have so much to do. I have to help my pottery teacher clean the studio tomorrow morning, then after that I'm going to go with my friend to help her pick out a new bed, then I'm going to go to work with my mom when she goes in at 5 and my dad is going to pick me up when he gets off at 6. Like I said, extremely busy day tomorrow, like every Saturday. But, if I do manage to have time and don't collapse from exhaustion first, I'll post chapter 9!
So I'm going to start writing a multi-chapter Thalico songfic in a few days. I'm pretty excited about it! I already have 14 of the songs picked out and most of the plot planned out, I just need to write it all down. Every song will be one chapter so they will probably be short chapters. Most of the songs are Green Day and My Chemical Romance (my two absolute favorite bands on the planet) but Stelle123 suggested that I look into some Three Days Grace songs as well.
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