Aftershock [Solangelo]

VI. This chapter is deep

So I just finished reading a fanfic and when I did I literally had to inhale and exhale ten times to calm my heart like the way people tell you to do when you need to calm down and I caught myself doing it and I was like 'you are such a fangirl you need to stop'
So that's the story of why I'm in fangirl rehab
Enjoy this chapter while I go cry

NICO
I ran, bolting down the long hallways of Hades' underworld palace. Shadows grinned down at me from the walls, laughing as I kept running. They were mocking me, whispering things in my ear. "You can't run.."
I turned a corner and saw Will. He beckoned urgently for me to follow him as we raced down the hallway. We got to a huge, gaping black hole in the middle of the antique carpet, and Will grabbed onto me as we jumped into it. But as we fell, Will writhed and transformed into a monstrous black shadow, enveloping me and blurring my vision. As I plummeted into darkness, I heard Will say in a twisted, gnarled voice, "You thought you could trust me."
I screamed and woke with a start.
Tears streamed silently down my face as I breathed heavily and reminded myself over and over again that "it was just a dream."
But it wasn't. Not really. It was the constant fear of being betrayed by someone you trusted. I trusted Will with every bit of me. He was the only one I shared my true feelings with.and here I was, blindly putting everything into this relationship with no idea where it was going.
But I had to trust him. You won't always know where you're going; you just have to go, and hope you don't get screwed over.
I cried noiselessly for what felt like hours, tears dripping down onto my white comforter. The darkness of the night enveloped me, leaving me feeling helpless and alone. So alone. The darkness wrapped around my heart. I felt anxious, and I started shaking as tears continued to stream down my face, so much that I couldn't see. The last thing I heard was my ragged breathing before I blacked out.

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"NICO! Nico, please wake up!" Will's urgent voice waking me. I opened my eyes to Will, shaking my shoulder with worry tainting his lively blue eyes.
I groaned and sat up, realizing I was sat on my hard wooden floor.
"why am I down here?" I wondered aloud and Will chuckled, sounding relieved. "You had fallen or something, and you were crying in your sleep when I went to get you for breakfast. Were you having a nightmare?"
I relieved what had happened last night. "You could say that." I murmured.
Will helped me up off the floor and I picked up my comforter from the ground, throwing it onto the bed.
He wrapped his arms around me and kissed me. I couldn't help flinching, remembering the dream I had last night. "You thought you could trust me.." Will's twisted voice sang in my head.
Will noticed my flinch and pulled away from me, confusion and worry etched on his face. "Are you okay?" His tone was gentle, and I realized how weak I looked. Cowering away from human contact like I was 11 again, fresh after the loss of Bianca.
I nodded, but avoided his gaze.
"Nico, you can tell me anything."
He sounded so much like the creature in my dream.
I squeezed my eyes shut, trying to get rid of the image burned on the inside of my eyelids.
"I think I'm not going to go to breakfast today, is that okay?" I said in a small voice, my eyes still closed. I couldn't see Will, but I heard worry in his voice as he said, "Okay... Are you sure you don't want to tell me what's going on?"
"I......I can trust you....right?" I could barely get the words out. I opened my eyes and Will was nodding, still in utter confusion and worry.
"I... had a dream. You....you said I could trust you......then you let me fall." I tried to sum everything up.
Will's expression changed from confusion to understanding as he wrapped his arms around me.
"Nico, you can always trust me. I will never let you fall."

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Short chapter, but I hope you enjoyed a tad bit of sad Nico. I certainly didn't enjoy it. Nico is my BBY and I will never let him be sad again
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