Chapter 5.

"Oh my gods Liam. You were doing it with HER?" Drew sounds appalled.

"Drew, what's going on?" a boy with golden, tanned skin, shining sky blue eyes and sunshine blond hair jogs up to us. He's wearing scrubs and is accompanied by a boy with deathly pale skin and his dark blue eyes are sunken, his dark circles are almost as dark as his jet black hair. "Nothing, absolutely nothing." Liam insists. "We were building a fort in my bunk, this is my sister Katy by the way, and Drew found us and thought. Seriously? She's my sister!" Drew looks me up and down with a look of disgust on her face.

"I'm related to that?" She snarls.

"Thankfully, not. It would be an insult to say that a girl who cares more about making sure her eyeliner is straight rather than her facts is my sister." I snap.

"Move over. You've destroyed our cabin! You're cleaning this up!" She screams then slams the cabin door after her. "Don't you dare come back in here again!" She shrieks through the door.

"Well isn't she just a ray of sunshine?" The boy with black hair sighs. "I'm 'm Nico di Angelo, nice to meet you." I shake his outstretched hand.

"Hey, I thought I was your ray of sunshine? I'm Will, by the way, Solace. His doctor and, Neeks, what did you call me? Oh yeah, I'm his significant annoyance." Nico scowls at Will and I can't help but laugh.

"Em, I'm Katy, Thompson. His sister on our dad's side." I point my thumb at Liam

"Well, I've met Liam. Didn't know he had a half blood sister." Will says.

"Neither did I until is morning." Liam says.

"So, who's your mother?" Will asks.

"Athena," I say. This still feels so surreal.

"My dad's Apollo, and his is Hades. My dad didn't really like the thought of me going out with Nico because he's, well, he's the ghost king and my dad is all sunshine and crying."

"Don't call me that," Nico moans. "I was ten, ok?"

"He hates all my names for him, so I make up as many as possible." Will grins.

"So, what time did you arrive here?" I ask.

"We're year rounders." Will answers and I give a quick nod.

"Do you like it here?" I ask

"It's better than not dying. Personally though, I would rather be a mortal." Will replies. "I don't really want to go into it, but the average life span of a half blood is twelve."

Nico looks down at the ground and doesn't say anything.

"You ok?" I ask.

"Yeah," he says. His voice cracks as he replies.

"Come here." I go to wrap my arms around his neck but he pulls away.

"Please don't touch me." He says.

"No hetero," Will jokes

"Some thing like that." Nico's smile doesn't reach his eyes.

"It's almost dinner, and most of the campers will be arriving soon since school finished not long ago. Have you bagsee'd your bunk? Make sure you get the best one. Mine is right by the window." Will says.

"Well, I think I've got mine sorted," Liam grins. "I should probably get some rubbish bags ahead of time, how long do you think I'll be on rubbish duty for, Nico?"

"I think that my dad will marry Percy before you're off the hook."

Will covers his nose as he snorts before picking himself up again.

"Well, I've got to go and get the beds ready for any heroes who had to be the hero. I'll see you two soon, yeah?"

"Sure, make sure you use a towel." Liam raises his eyebrow and Nico does a gesture that I cannot describe because this fan fiction is family friendly.