Battle Wounds: Solangelo Soulmate AU

𝑇𝑊𝐸𝑁𝑇𝑌-𝐸𝐼𝐺𝐻𝑇

NICO POV:
"Why haven't you guys been at school the past like three days?" Leo asked as Will and I sat down at our lunch table.
Will looked at me wide eyed, not knowing what to say.
"I was sick so Will stayed home with me too," I lie, not wanting to tell them the truth.
"Oh what did you have?" Annabeth asked.
"Like the flu or some shit," I say, hoping they won't ask anymore questions.
"Well I'm glad your back, Octavian been pretty ruthless," Frank adds, taking a bite of his pizza.
"How so?" Will asked.
"He's went back to tripping us in the hallways, shoving us into lockers, and all the old shit he used to do before Nico came," Leo informed, rolling his eyes in frustration.
"The security guard and teachers are still watching you like a hawk though, so you can't do anything about it," Annabeth interjected with.
"We've tried to get to leave us alone but it doesn't work," Jason adds, biting the insides of his cheeks.
I do feel bad, he only started messing with them again because he knows teachers always have there eyes on me. The way they were all talking though was making me feel like they wanted me to do something about it even though I would get in major trouble, which kinda pissed me off.
"I'm sure he'll get bored or something," Will says, trying to look on the bright side as always. I hoped they'd stop talking about it, I could tell they were trying to gaslight me into confronting Octavian even though I'd get in trouble.
"He just never leaves us alone, especially Frank and I," Leo complains, looking at me with puppy dog eyes.
"I think it's just so annoying now because we got a break from his shit and now he's back," Percy groans.
"Look I can't do anything unless I want to get in major trouble," I finally snap, slamming my fist on the table. Everyone-except will because he's used to me by now- just about jumps out of there skin at my outburst.
"S-Sorry," Leo's stutters, "I wasn't asking you to though."
"Yeah your just trying to make me feel bad so I'll do something," I sneer rolling me eyes, I could feel my hands clenched into tight fists.
"I don't think they were trying to do that babe," Will murmurs, putting his hand on my knee.
"If we were it wasn't on purpose," Jason says, putting his hands up as if warding off an angry dog.
"Yeah whatever, it's clear you guys want me to do something and you don't care if I get in trouble or not," I snap, standing up abruptly and starting to stomp away but Will grabs my arm.
"Hey, they didn't mean anything," he says, "Just calm down."
I jerk my arm away from him. "No, it's obvious they just want me to confront him already and don't care if I get expelled. If my friends don't care why should I! I might as well go over right now then," I growl as I turn towards Octavians table and start storming over. I feel Will grab my arm and pull me away, but I caught Octavians eye because he straightened up and started to stand up.
"No Nico," he stated firmly, dragging me back over to the table. "Not now."
"We don't want you getting in trouble, we weren't trying to get you to do anything," Percy adds, eyeing me cautiously.
"Great he's coming over here now," Annabeth mumbles, rolling her eyes at us.
"I saw you coming over to me but your little boyfriend pulled you away," Octavian's voice chimed from behind me. "What are you too scared to face me?"
"Just go away Octavian," Percy snarls.
"Oh but what fun would that be?" Octavian mocks.
I run my tongue over my top teeth, trying to stop myself from snapping at him.
"What's the matter Di angelo? Too scared to even look at me?"
"No, it's just not worth my time or energy," I drawl crossing my arms in front of my chest.
He grabs the back of my chair and flips it around so he's towering over me. I glare directly into his eyes.
"That didn't seem to be the case when you were walking over to my table," he narrows his eyes at me.
"Yeah, but then I realised I have better things to do," I sneer up at him, not bothering to stand up.
"Well I'm here now, what did you want to say to me?" He snarls down at me, raising his eyebrows.
"I was gonna tell you to leave my friends the fuck alone, but then I realised your small brain probably wouldn't understand what all the words meant," I mock, smirking at him.
"And what are you gonna do if I don't?"
"You and me both now I can't do anything at school, but outside it's free rein," I say finally standing up.
"Oh is that so?" he says through his teeth, "You act all tough and confident but we both know your a real pussy."
"I think it's the other way around, your all bark and no bite," I sneer, still smirking up at him.
"You better get that dumb smirk off your face before I do," he threats.
"Oh really? What are you gonna do about it?" I say stepping closer to him. He raised an eyebrow at me, but I saw his eyes waver nervously. "I knew you wouldn't do anything," I snicker turning to start walking away. As I look around to my surprise all the teachers were out in the hallway, so they couldn't see us.
He grabbed the hood of my sweatshirt and pulled me back and threw me to the ground. I saw a bunch of people start hurrying away.
"Nico!" Will exclaimed lurching toward me.
I jump up still smirking at him. "Your really gonna regret that," I say right before I punch him so hard in the face that he falls back and to the floor. Blood starting gushing from his nose and he tried to wipe it away but more kept coming. He jumped back up and went to punch me but I blocked his fist twisting his arm around hard, and then kicked him away from me. He stumbled back and fell into a group of people watching and taking videos.
I noticed his eyes flash with fear but he quickly changed his expression as he lunged at me again. He tried to punch me again but I ducked under his arm and pushed him away from me. I decided that if I only used self defence than they really shouldn't be able to do anything about it. He tried to punch me again but I grabbed his arm and twisted it behind his back.
"Is that all you got?" He groans, I could tell he was trying to sound confident but his voice was shaking slightly and he was breathing hard. I kicked in his knees from the back so he fell to the floor. He struggled to his feet and aimed another punch at my face.
"BREAK IT UP!" The security guard yelled as he ran into the lunchroom.
This distracted me so Octavian landed a single punch right at my face. I grabbed Octavians arm and pinned him flat against the table.
"This isn't over," he groaned right before Officer Aaron came and pulled me off of him.
"Octavian started it!" Leo exclaimed, wide eyed.
"Both of you to the office!" He ordered pointing to the door.