Helpless (Solangelo fic)

Murder?

Nico woke up crying in a cold sweat, nightmares like every other night. The same nightmares that had cycled for the past weeks, Bianca dying, another prophecy, Hazel hurt, the two seventeen years old guys that got publicly hung for being gay, Will hating him, his last talk with Bianca, everyone he loves leaving him, the jar and Persephone. When was his life going to stop being such a disaster? A few tears ran down his face and he pulled his pocket knife and dragged it across his arms. Once, it barely bleeds. Again, deeper. Again, until his arms were red. The scarlet blood dripped on the floor, he felt numb. He took out a pack of cigarettes and walked outside lighting one. He stood behind cabin thirteen, breathing the smoke in and out, snubbing them out on the back of his hand. He didn't know how long he was out there for, when he walked back inside the Hades cabin the sky was a light blue-ish grey.
***
The son of Hades was sitting on his cabin floor looking at his old Mythomagic cards,
"Nico!" He flinched before looking up and seeing Frank Zhang, son of Mars through an Iris message.
"Um...hi? What's going on?"
"Hey... When can you come to Camp Jupiter?"
"What happened?!"
"Hazel-"
"-WHO DO I NEED TO KILL!?"
"I don't know what happened, she's been crying and won't come out of the cohort 5 cabin."
"Has anyone talked to her?"
"She won't talk to anyone."
"I'll be there as soon as I can, get her some lavender tea and dark chocolate. It's her favorite, it might help her calm down. Bye." Nico thought for a few seconds, driving is 44 hours, plane is a lot less but Zeus wasn't exactly the biggest fan of him. He could shadow travel but he would probably pass out the second he got there, pegasus. It wasn't the preferable option but it was probably the quickest; the Ghost King slipped on his Aviators jacket and ran towards Cabin 3.
"Jackson, I need your help." Percy opened the door, he was wearing a hoodie and shorts and looked like he just woke up.
"Hey Nico, what's up?"
"Pegasus are fast right? Like very fast?"
"Yeah...?"
"We're going to Camp Jupiter in five minutes."
"What?"
"Is there a faster way?"
"I don't think so...? Unless you want to go through the Labyrinth, times different there."
"How long will it take?"
"A few hours I think? Are you going to explain what's going on?"
"Hazel; hurry up, we need to go."
"Alright, I'll go tell Blackjack."
"Who?"
"My pegasus, I mean technically he's not mine but yeah."
"Okay." Nico said before running towards the stables.
***
"Nico, please, just tell me what happened."
"Shut the fuck up Jackson."
"Nico-"
"I DON'T FUCKING KNOW AND IT FUCKING SCARES ME! SO PLEASE, JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!...I just know something happened to Hazel and- fucking Hades I'm scared. If she's not telling Frank... I just want her to be okay." Nico said sobbing; he was sitting stiffly on the pegasus, they made him uncomfortable but he didn't really care, he needed to find out what happened to Hazel.
"Take a deep breath, we'll get there in an hour, alright?" The Ghost King just nodded in response, "She'll be okay, Hazel's strong."
"Well clearly what happened was bad considering she's been crying for hours!"
"Nico breathe, I know you're worried but stressing won't help."
"I'm trying, but I will be killing anyone who hurt her."
"I'm not going to deny you that privilege."
***
"Just leave me alone."
"Hey Haze."
"Nico?! Is that you?" Hazel said opening the door slightly, Nico slipped inside and closed the door behind himself.
"Are you alright? What happened?" More tears fell from her eyes Nico pulled the daughter of Pluto into a hug while sitting down on the bed. Hazel hugged him around the waist, crying into his shirt, he ran a hand through her curly hair. "Shhh, you'll be okay. Do you want to tell me what happened?"
"I..- I wanted to try going to high school... and I met so people... and they asked me if I wanted to meet them at one of their houses. Well... don't be mad... it was a party.... and this guy he-he.. gods I was scared..." She grabbed onto his shirt harder and started
"You're alright, you're safe now, I'll hurt anyone who has hurt you." Nico kissed her on the forehead, wrapping his arms around the daughter of Pluto more tightly.
"I didn't drink anything, I promise. The guy... Ralph Turnham he picked me up... I didn't want to go... he covered my mouth with his hand.... he- he took me to an empty bedroom and.....he- he stuck some sort of needles into my arms. I don't know what they were but... I felt dizzy... I think I passed out and some point. My memory's a bit fuzzy.. be-before he did it he punched me and- threatened...to kill me. He-he had a knife and....it was against my neck  and he pulled off my clothes and-" more tears fell from her eyes. "Every time I talked he did this..." Hazel sat up and lifted her shirt up, directly above where her ribs were there were cuts with dried blood covering most of the area."
"I will kill that bitch, he is not going to do this to you and get away with it."
"This morning I just remembered waking up in a house I didn't know, next to some guy I barely know with my clothes off, bleeding. I can remember more stuff now but it's still foggy."
"Sis, I'm going to take you to the infirmary okay? I will find this guy and make him pay." She just nodded, holding back any other tears.
***
"Do you know a guy called Ralph Turnham?"
"Yeah, there talking to that blonde girl near the gate."
"Thanks."
"No problem." The Ghost King walked over towards a tall guy with blonde hair and look that he only had three functioning braincells.
"You're Ralph Turnham right?"
"What do you want, freak?" Nico punched him as hard as he could in the jaw, the boy fell backward, a look of anger washed over his face.
"You'll pay for that you bitch." He went to punch the smaller boy in the face but he grabbed his arm, pushing him away.
"Meet me outside, I wouldn't want you embarrassing yourself."
"You're going die today you cunt."
"I very much doubt that, but you'll pay for what you did to my sister."
"You think you can actually take me in a fight? Imagine."
"Yes, I do actually."
"You're as useless as that whore, I wish I killed her. Nearly did you know, but I thought I'd do another round, the slut wasn't half bad for a n-" The son of Hades kicked him to the floor,
"Don't say another word about my sister you fucking piece of shit!"
"Let's take this outside, don't want all these witnesses when I kill you."
"Fine by me."
***
They walked in a moment of truce towards a blocked off alleyway before the taller boy punched the ghost king in the jaw, he staggered back before ducking under his next punch. He grabbed a knife, pushing it against Nico's neck but he managed to pull it off before he made a deep cut, pushing the older boy onto the floor. There was blood covering the floor, Nico stepped on the other boys nose, breaking it before he kicked him away, getting up. He managed to shove the son of Hades into the wall, placing his hands around his neck, having lost the knife. Nico kicked him, hard, the shock made him loosen his hands. Nico punched him in the head as hard as he could, the boy fell to the ground but was still conscious. Nico grabbed the discarded knife, he cut into his forearm, the boys flinched in pain, unable to speak as Nico dipped his fingers in the warm, scarlet blood. He wrote on the wall above him 'THE BITCH RAPED MY SISTER, HE FUCKING DESERVED IT' by the time he had finished Ralph was passed out and bleeding on the floor. Nico stepped towards him, stabbing him, multiple times, to ensure he would regret ever second of what he'd done. Just then he saw a blonde figure around the corner, giving a location. Fucking shit. The police would be on him, Nico started to run but soon he could hear the sirens, he was fast, but not out running cars fast. He broke off the main path, cars wouldn't be able to get through easily, the Ghost King started running towards Camp Jupiter. He could shadow travel but he didn't have the energy for Will's scolding and he was doing fine staying away from the police, then suddenly hands grabbed him, he had no choice but to fade into the shadows and show up coughing on the ground at Camp Jupiter. "Percy we have to leave, now. Rey, tell Haze that the bitch has been taken care of, also tell the police you haven't seen me. Bye, I'll miss you." He said while getting up, trying to ignore the faded, shadowy parts on his hands, it was only a small jump, he would be fine.
"Nico what did you do!?"
"No time to explain, Percy where's Blackjack and the other pegasus? We need to leave; Reyna please take care of Hazel."
"Of course-"
Nico half fell to the ground, in a fit of coughs, passing out. Percy picked the son of Hades up and ran towards the stables, ignoring the predators suggestion of taking him to the infirmary, he wasn't sure what Nico had done but he seemed adiment on the idea of getting out of California.
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