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"Will! Will, let me in!" Nico bangs on the door.

Annabeth groans, "Owie..."

Nico hits the door so hard, he's afraid his knuckles will start to bleed. "Open up! It's an emergency!"

Will opens the door. "What is it? Oh, gods, Annabeth! Bring her in!" He sweeps some clothes off the bed and onto the floor. "Here, lay her down."

"Will! Will, my guy... my bestie..." Annabeth slurs.

"I think she's high," Nico says. "But look at those bites on her; gotta be spiders, right?"

"I've got a first aid kit on the bathroom counter."

Nico understands. He runs off to retrieve Will's equipment.

"What exactly happened here?" Will asks upon Nico's return.

"I'm not totally sure. We were mini-golfing and long story short, I dug her out of the windmill."

"So you have no idea why she's high?"

Nico takes his hair out of its ponytail. "Is that what it is?"

"I'm pretty sure she might have been drugged. She's not usually this incoherent."

"That tickles..." Annabeth mumbles.

"Do you think she'll be alright?" Nico asks.

Will cleans each of Annabeth's cuts, making sure they don't get infected. "Yeah, I think so. I mean, you had her walking most of the way here. That's a good sign."

Nico stands a little taller, feeling proud of himself.

"I just pissed myself a little," says Annabeth.

"That's very cool," says Will.

Nico sits at the foot of the bed. "Annabeth-"

"Woah, that's my name!"

Will furrows his eyebrows. Nico finds that cute.

"Annabeth," Nico starts again. "Can you tell us how you got into the windmill?"

"I saw Harry Styles!" she yells.

Will swallows and shushes her. "That's pretty cool too."

"You were right," she says in the middle of a yawn. "He is hot."

Nico laughs a little. "Wow, she just admitted you were right about something."

"Everyone's into Harry Styles just a little bit," Will says.

Nico's worried. "Can you tell us what happened after..." When was the last he'd seen Annabeth? Oh yeah. "Can you tell us what happened after you spoke to Percy earlier?"

She laughs hysterically.

"Maybe we should lay off on the questioning," Will says. "She seems a little traumatized."

"You think?" Nico asks. "I'm going to kill whoever did this to her."

"Woah, there, I'm right behind you on that. I wish I'd been there for her," Will says. "I'm always there for her. It was stupid of me to assume someone else would be when I'm not around."

"Hey, don't be so hard on yourself." Nico pats Will's back, only to be shrugged off.

"No, this is all my fault. I was so distracted that I didn't even think to protect her from people here. Oh gods, what if someone tried to take advantage of her?"