Nico di Angelo, Flowers of Death

Chapter 16

-Ambers POV-

I started talking, I told them about the time when I was 4 and hades visited me, when I was 9, and how last year at a friends funeral I had meet him. (I wasn't ok with telling them about Duncan yet.)

I told them how he haunted my dream and always told me the same thing. They where both very good at lessoning.

Leo just sat there, didn't fidget or pull gears from his tool belt (which I have learned is magic). His face emotionless, only his eyes betrayed some thing like admiration, confusion and... concern.

Nico on the other hand had absolutely, positively, no emotion. He sat there like a rock, didn't anchorage me to go on, or try to stop me.

"He visited me last night. He got mad and tried to use his guards to kill me" I say.

We sat in the same room as when I woke up. I haven't left all day, Leo sat in a Woden chair and just sort of nodded his head. I sat on the head of the bed crossed legged. My black sketchbook in my lap. Nico sat at the foot of the bed.

"You can't tell anyone. promise me you guys won't" I plead to them.

"We won't, on one condition, tell me is that what was in your memory flood just know. And don't lie" Nico says.

I bit my lip and look at my shoes, sorry I meant combat boot.

"No" I mutter, Nico nods his head but Leo opens his mouth.

"Then wh-" I cut him off.

"Look I don't want to talk about it, it might set another one off" I say. They both nod, I hear the door to our room open. I look up and find a boy standing there.

He looked like a surfer with shaggy blond hair, blue eyes and athletic build to him. He radiated some sort of soft glow and his smile was blinding. He wore a camp t shirt and shorts.

"Hey Will" Leo called.

"Oh yeah, hey" he replied. Will looked a little nervous and jumpy.

"I uh. I'm hear to talk to Amber" he said. I nodded. He looked at Leo and Nico, then me. There was an awkward silence before he spoke again.

"Umm! It's about your health" he was trying to hint at something but I wasn't quite sure what.

"Uhhh your previous medical treatment" he said looking at the ground.

I just sort of stared blankly at him. He scratched the back of his neck and looked up at the ceiling. I could tell he was trying to tell me something, give me a message, but I didn't really understand.

"You know, your previous wounds" he said before glancing at my arms. I could tell my face went pale, I smiled at him before turning to Nico and Leo.

"I think Will is trying to say he wants to talk to me alone" I tell them. They nod and leave the room the second the door closes behind them, Will lets out a breath.

"How much do you know" I hiss at him. He sits at the end of the bed, and looks at me sadly.

"I know what you're doing to yourself, it's not healthy. I am here to give you two choices." he says. I look down at my boots .

"I don't need your help. I am perfectly fine" I say my eyes never leaving the ground.

"Look Amber, I don't know you. I don't know what you have been through. But my job is to help you. No matter what. So you have two options. You either deal with this matter personally, come back everyday to get a check up and if it doesn't improve then I will be forced to tell your friends and deal with it that way....Or! We could skip the beginning step and just tell them. I always give my patience a choice. So choose" he says in his best doctors tone.

"I-I... you don't think people would get suspicious if I came and got a check up everyday."I mumble. I look up into Wills blue eyes, concern clearly visible.

"We can keep this between you and me. So long as it gets better." he replies. I think about the options. If people did find out I would be labeled a freak! A pathetic excuse for a life! Worthless! Stupid!

I nod my head at him and he smiles.

"Your free to go Amber, but I'll see you tomorrow." and with that he got up and left the room. Slowly I got up and walked outside of the infirmary. The sun was going down and campers where rushing to get back to there cabins for curfew. I saw Leo out of the corner of my eye. I waved to him and he beckoned me over.

"Hey Amber you feeling ok" I nod my head. "good cause I was wondering if your like to accompany me to bunker 9" I look up an smile at him. We link arms and when nobody is looking head off into the the woods.