A play of light and shadows.(solangelo)

•chapter 5•

This chapter is not finnished 💀 Nico 💀

This morning I woke up from not-so-bad nightmares.

I heard Austin waking by, from time to time peeking though the courtain and asking:"Everything ok? "or "You need anything?"

"I'm fine." I answered.

He noded ,everytime saying"Ok, but if there's anything you need you can just call someone." allways followed by shuting close of the courtain and walking off to tend to another pacient.

I'm not sure what to think about him yet.

Will came in later that day to check on my wounds and overall healt.He looked better then yesterday, there was no sign of his late night sadness. Actually the opposite. Clothed in clean scrubs, hand raised in a greeting. He smiled so bright and vide it reached his oh-so deep blue eyes. The eyebags less prominent and more healthy colour in his cheeks said that he actually rested a little though he still looked kinda exhausted.

What really caught my attencion though, was how red and a little swolen his ears were and the weird device in them.

I quietly asked him about it while he was wraping some kind of device around my hand,"To measure your blood pressure", he said.

"Hmm?"

"I asked what are those things in your ears and why are they swolen?"

He finnished wraping the thing around my hand and touched his ear , his brows furrowed a little."Huh I didn't even notice. Ok now, don't speak or move too much for a while."

".....ya know you can breathe right?"

I let out a breath and my head spined a little in the proces.

Well aren't I a genious?

Hmm

"Well ," Will started." They're called hearin' aids. They help me hear things, like you speaking to me right now or music. And as to why are my ears like that, that's probably becoase I forgot to put'em off before going to sleep." I tilted my head.

Silence.

The thing around my hand started to get tighter and tighter until I could feel my heart beating in a rhythm on the inside of my hand. It was somehow calming yet frightening at the same time.

Suddenly the thing loosened it's grasp and I could feel the blood rushing to my arm again.

Will put the device away , frowning and started to write something in his notes." So "

"So?"

The son of Apollo inhaled deeply." So , your blood pressure is very low and.... your heart rate on the other hand is really hight and... that's not good. I would recomend normal amount of sleep once you're out of here, drinking a lot of water , fresh air, sun offcourse and a little bit of exercice if that's possible. "He finnished writing his notes and handed me a glass of water with that smile of his." Of course that also means no underworldy magic for you if it's not necessary , especially that shadow travel of yours. You understand me death boy?"

"Do not call me death boy!"

The healer just raised an eyebrow.

"Ok then......Mr. Doom and gloom."ught!

"Also I have noticed that you're very low on iron and severely underweight , so we're gonna work on that. I bet ya that your head hurts and is spinin' slightly right now."

I shifted, clearly uncomfortable about his statement and pulled my knees against my chest , hands wraped around them. I tore my gaze away from him.

I felt the mattress shift beside me as he sat there , but not too close and I was grateful for that.

"Hey,"he said softly.

I still didn't look at him.

"It's ok you know, we had a lot of kids in here who had an eating di-"

"I do not have an eating dissorder!" I now was fully facing him and was suprised to find him completelly calm. His facial expresion soft and patient as if waiting for me to continue defending my statement.

"Well," he started." What do you think it is then?"

I took a deep breath staring at my knees again. "There wasn't always a lot to eat you know? And then when it was I just didn't feel the need to eat much even if I could, that's all."

There was a moment of silence.

Then,

"Ok then ghosty, if that's what you believe, but you still need to gain some weight since you look like those skeletons that you like to summon. We will work it out don't worry. One day you're gonna be one healthy and strong man!"

A moment of silence.

"By that I don't mean that you're not strong right now, it's just," he laughed." Sorry, you know what I meant. Anyway, if you want to we can hang out for er...." he looked at the watch ,"for the next hour or so . I have a lunch break in a few minutes and you were my last pacient . I was going to bring us both food anyway."

Why was he so calm? Wasn't he even a little bit nervous? No it looks like he enjoys my company. Even like he wants to be friends with me.But why? I almost yelled at him when all he did was do his job. Everytime I just as frowned at someone they were either scared or angry. But this? This was new.

I don't like new.

What do I do?

I'm not used to this.

Tears started to gather up in my eyes so I sipped some water from the glass that I was still clutching in my hand. Why was getting so worked up over some son of Apollo being so, so-ught!

Ok, calm down. Calm down, this is just a normal human interaction , you will be fine.

I took a deep breath.

"Sure." I replied to his question.

"Sure, sure." I repeated ,mumbling to myself quietly.

I felt the matress moving once again as the medic stood up and patted his palms against his sides excitedly.

"Okay , I'll be back in a few with the food. Try not to burn this place down while I'm gone!" He said with a mocking tone in his voice loud and clear. Then he scatted behind the curtain only for him to poke his head in a second later. "Oh, and! I almost forgot to tell you but if you try and run out of here you can be very sure that I'll find you and personaly drag your sorry ass back in here." The son of Apollo warned his tone giving on a dangerous edge by the end.

Then he smiled brightly and and poped his head back out , dissapearing once again.

I stared kind of shocked at the place where that blonde-almost gold mop of hair was just a second ago.

After staring at the same place for quite a while , I finally like, ACTUALLY looked around scanning my surroundings. There were of course, the allways buzzing lights and the never-ending creaking beds ,occupied by injured campers groaning in pain with beeping machines beside them.