For better or worse

The Wood Working Test

"Guess who might be teaching in about a month..." Nico could hear Leo yelling out to the world, it was most likely that it was Leo himself, but he wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt.

"Who?" He asked, rolling his eyes, he was going to be due in about 5 weeks. Leo had suggested that he stay home, but he didn't want to miss school, plus the week he was due, was also the month of February vacation.

"Me! I get to take the test next week! I'm going to be a teacher!" Leo shouted, and Nico wondered if he actually had the mental capacity to handle a class, without freaking out every 10 seconds.

"Good for you amore, now come on, its Friday, and we all have to go out shopping for baby stuff," Nico reminded him, it was usually hard to explain stuff to the clerk, but he would manage.

"Okay, I'll get the cars set up, and you go get the others," Leo stated, they needed everyone to do this.

--At a baby supply store--

"So why are you looking for stuff then?" The clerk asked, Nico had been left alone to explain why 8 teenagers were looking for stuff for a child.

"My sister got herself pregnant, so she ran away, she wants to keep the child, but she's only 15, so she wanted us to look for stuff for her children," The explanation was somewhat odd, but it was exactly right at the same time.

"Say, you look like that guy that our new employee was talking about, he has amnesia, so I let him work here to get some cash," the guy started to explain, Nico was confused by now, but he didn't have a choice, but to follow the guy. He was dragging him after all. "Maybe you can tell his name, he's been living here, so I was also hoping that you would take him to your place, or back to his parents."

When the guy had finished dragging him to where ever he had dragged them, the sight that was in front astonished Nico. The very person who had tried to kill the Greeks, was standing there, smiling. It was weird, in the year that Nico had known the blonde boy, all he had done was scowl, frown, or smirk. Nico said, "That's Octavian. Last time I saw him, he was in New York, scowling and LARPing."

"Live Action Role Play? This dudes cooler than I thought!" The clerk stated, jumping into the air as though Octavian was his best friend in the whole wide world, he really was a strange one. "But how did he get here?"

"I don't know, but in the year I had known him, he never smiled like that. It was like he had been rejected by everyone for being himself. Like how I was before my friends," Nico whispered. Maybe they weren't so different. Maybe all that Octavian needed was a friend to cheer him up. "Are you his friend?"

"I guess. I've talked to him a few times, and he seemed to really enjoy the company," He answered, Nico thought on it and decide what to do.

"I'll take him in. I had to live with him for a while, but he seems different now. Maybe I can help him get some of his memory back," Nico sighed. He couldn't just leave the guy without memory or whatever. The other demigods would hopefully understand.

--At the house--

"You did what?!" Nico could hear all the demigods say at once. He thought they would understand, but they clearly didn't.

"He doesn't even remember who he is! He doesn't remember us, or anyone! He needs friends, not enemy's right now. A monster could have gotten to him or something!" Nico replied, Octavian was wondering around the house, when the others came home. Percy had drawn a weapon to the guys throat, and started to yell.

"But he tried to kill you," Hazel told him. She had always been somewhat protective of him. It was understandable, but seriously, why now?

"You and Percy are about to give life to five children, and you brought him here?" Piper asked him. It wasn't a foreign concept, but still. Nico  felt a little insane right now, and he probably was. But he was also sympathetic. "You're insane."

"He just needs a friend. Someone to help him get through everything," Nico told them. It wasn't the exact choice of words people usually use, but words hold power that are beyond the human minds cape. "I was like him at one point, you just have to give him a chance. Please."

"Nico's right. The world's filled with enough hate. Let's fill it with some more love," Frank had sided with Nico. It was a first, but there were probably many more times to go. "Hate is what makes people hate, love makes people love."

"Thanks for siding with me Frank," Nico hugged his to be one day brother in-law. He wasn't so sure that it was still okay for his sister to marry him, but if she liked him, then he could live with that.

"Okay, but he has fto go to school, also I need to go and make another room now." Leo sulked off to get his tool box, he had probably wanted to spend time with Nico, but Octavian had to come and ruin it.

"Thanks, come on Octagon, let's get you cleaned up!" Nico shouted, leading Octavian to the bathroom.

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That's all I have today! Hope you enjoyed!

-Aaliyah D.