Nico meets the Avengers

missions and memories

TW: panic attacks

Steve PoV 

The next morning, I woke up eager to meet the boy. And to get a burger.

I glanced at the clock, which woke me up. 5:00 am. 

I hopped out of bed and got dressed when I realized a very important fact. It was 5:00 am, it would take me no more than 5 minutes to get to McDonald's. The boy was probably asleep. I'm not that bright...

I left the bed fully dressed and decided, I needed breakfast for my brain to work in the morning, so I headed to the kitchen to make everybody some food.

2 hours later I made more than a dozen pancakes, a humorous amount of eggs, and 18 grilled cheese sandwiches. 

Natasha, Clint, Thor, and Bruce came soon after I had finished making breakfast. 

3rd PoV

Bruce was still in his pajamas, Natasha was in a blue drop shoulder sweatshirt and high-waisted mom jeans, Thor was in his normal Asgardian armor and Clint was wearing his purple and black Hawkeye uniform. As they all sat down Steve placed the finished breakfast on the table.

"So, going anywhere special?" 

Natasha asked while biting into a sandwich, realizing Steve was already dressed.

"yea I'd figured I would head to the Mcdonald's place Clint and Tony took me to yesterday," replied Steve as he sat down at the table.

Natasha was just about to make a snarky comment when J.A.R.V.I.S announced Fury wanted to talk to them about a mission. 

Steve muttered under his breath about the timing as he was just about to leave to see if the boy was at the fast-food restaurant, Steve stood up from the table to go meet Fury.

What? he was a soldier. He followed orders no matter the inconvenience in timing.

Nico PoV 

That night I didn't fall asleep. I couldn't. Every time I'm in my cabin alone, in the dark I close my eyes and suddenly I'm back, the smell of sulfur, and the horrible images ingrained in my mind refusing to leave.

 My mind kept trying to fight off the memories, but I knew it was futile. I knew I would eventually scream. Tears in my eyes. I recalled glimpses of walking around, the scent of the river of fire increasing as I neared it in agony.

 I had fought off a horde of empousai, trying to seduce me with their imitated beauty, it hadn't worked. but or a reason so shameful I wished it had. They had scratched my leg and it was bleeding. Fast. (A/N I don't think like this, but this is a memory in the pit, before the eros incident where he was outed by love itself)

 I fell to the side of the river as I had finally reached my destination, cupping my hands in the river, as it turned from the fire to blood. my eyes widened as I held back a scream. 

I was walking across his body, this isn't fire it's his blood. In the end, I had to will myself to drink. it felt like fire on my tung. but it wasn't, it stayed in its true form.

 I remember hearing a scream. Which was odd, Tartarus had sounds sure but none of them screams, there would be the bubbling of the Phlegethon, the squelching sound of my feet walking across Tartarus. But never once in the time he had been there, had he heard a scream. 

he looked to where he heard the screams coming from and saw the most miserable being he could ever imagine an-

NO. whatever happened he could not remember THAT encounter. He was sitting on his bed breathing hard, tears threatening to fall on his face pillows strewn across the floor. 

When had he thrown them?

 When had Will suddenly barged into his cabin opening the curtain as he ran towards him to shake him out of his panic attack? 

He knew he was having one. The struggle to breathe, the sobbing, the hands shaking and going numb.  

Will kept looking into Nico's dark chocolate brown eyes as he tried to talk to Nico. He couldn't hear anything though, and Will realized that. so he got up and went to pick up the pillows. 

But Nico thought he was leaving.

Like Bianca. 

He didn't know why his mind went there. It seemed his brain was going haywire. Thinking of every terrible thing that happened to him. Not concentrating on one of them for too long. 

Will understood slightly what Nico was trying to convey to him without using his words. He wanted Will to stay. 

So Will sat back down on the bed rubbing circles on Nico's back while singing a greek hymn in his ear as he laid down in bed with Nico hugging him close.

 Will had no intention of leaving him, to remember the pit. Slowly with Will still comforting Nico, he fell asleep, and Will followed soon after. 

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