Love Is Blind... Literally.

Agony

Nico's POV
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Oh Gods. Oh Gods. She's not breathing. What have I done? I let myself go hysterical; I'm hyperventilating, trying to tear out my hair and looking at all the cuts I've made on my arms and wanting to make more. I look at the blood on my hands, her blood. "It's all your fault" I tell myself over and over again. I see the world spin and a song comes to my mind, one Adriana showed me, Demons, despite the madness around me.

"I wanted to hide the truth, I wanted to shelter you, but with my beasts inside there was nowhere I could hide. I wish you could look in my eyes, that's where my demons hide." I say to her.

Eros lands and says, "GREAT NOW YOU'VE RUINED EVERYTHING YOU PATHETIC HADES SPAWN!" That's when I snap. I can't take it anymore. Too many people that I've loved have died. This is the last straw. I twist my skull ring around my finger and snap my fingers. A fissure appears and I raise a dozen skeletons up from the ground. I would raise more but I need a medic. I need to have enough energy to get Adriana somewhere safe. But what place is safe when you've got a h*llbent God trying to kill you and the ones you love? I decide anywhere would be good so I shadowtravel to the Argo II, knowing that I don't have the strength to shadowtravel back to Camp.

"HELP!" I scream.

I hear footsteps thundering on the steps. Of course the first person I see is Percy. The guilt almost kills me.

"Nico? What are you doing here?" He says and then looks down at Adriana's body, lying limp and lifeless in my hands.

"What-what happened? Is Adriana ...okay?"

I shake my head no, tears streaming out of my eyes and fight to stay conscious. I won't pass out now.

"YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT HER!!!! I TRUSTED YOU!!!" He screams in anger. He raises his hands and huge masses of water churn above his hands. "WHO THE H*LL DID THIS!?!?"

"I did." I weep.

The light goes out of his eyes. The water drops, spilling onto the deck. "What. The. H*ll. Do. You. Mean." He says trying to keep calm.

"I did. I hate myself. I want to die."

"What. The. H*ll. Happened."

"I CANT TELL YOU." I scream in agony, hating myself.

He pulls me by my collar and lifts me up. "FIND A WAY TO TELL ME THEN!!!" He screams.

"I CANT. I CANT. I CANT AND I HATE MYSELF FOR IT." I scream louder.

"YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT HER I TRUSTED YOU. YOU BOTH WEre supposed to come back alive...." He says breaking down mid sentence. Tears stream from his eyes.

"It's just like Bianca all over again." I say quietly to myself.

Percy takes Adriana from me and her head lolls to the side. Something in Percy's eyes just look like it broke.

"The least we could do is get her back to Camp Half Blood for a proper funeral." He says trying to be an optimist. He miserably fails.

"Where's everyone else?" I ask. They need to know that Adriana is dead.

"They went out to eat." He answers bluntly, obviously still in shock.

He heads down the steps and I follow after him silently, trying to be invisible. "You tried your whole life to get people like you. Why try anymore? Everyone hates you." I think to myself. Percy sets down Adriana on her bed. Her hair is matted with blood and quickly stains the pillow. I can't stand to look at my hands. As I watch her lying down on the bed I expect her to wake up any second. I know that she never will. Percy tries to feed her some ambrosia in a last minute attempt to save her. It doesn't. At least it stops the bleeding. Then Percy tries to Iris message the others. I hope that the skeletons are still holding Eros off. They're very resilient. We stay with her and wait until the others come.