Cosmic Love [A Nico Di Angelo Love Story]

Hold My Hand- I'm freezing cold!

Nico's P.O.V

I awoke to singing and a blinding light in my eyes. Blinking, I shielded my face from the sun with a hand, and made an attempt to adjust my eyes to the brightness. Once my eyes stopped screaming [I hate waking up to a bright light], I sat up, and scanned what was around me. Once I saw that I was in a clearing, memories flooded back to me, bad ones.

My sword was close to piercing into the Manticore, when it spun around and swatted me hard in the chest. I heard a sickening crack, and when I landed back on the grass, the pain started making me feel like throwing up.
I could barely keep my head up to watch Pietra fight the monster, but I needed to stay conscious. I watched the fight, while the commentary in the back of my mind was urging me not to black out. Then again, there was another voice that told me to just lie back, sleep, rest my head...
I was hardly conscious when Pietra came rushing towards me, but I managed a groan of what I hoped she heard as, 'Unicorn Draught'.
I closed my eyes and felt Pietra trickle something into my mouth- nectar. I sighed  as the taste of rich chocolate seeped into my mouth, it took my mind off the pain for a few moments at least. The choclatey taste was gone too soon. I groaned again, and hoped desperately that Pietra understood.

It was not long until I felt more liquid trickling into my mouth, a liquid I soon recognised to be unicorn draught. Along with the refreshing taste, came an instant numbing that disabled me from feeling any pain at all. I felt something being pushed in to my mouth, and I automatically swallowed. Consciousness faded away from me, and this time, I didn't hold on.

Now fully conscious, I gingerly held a hand up to my ribs, excepting a rush of pain to sweep through me, but it never came. Instead, I felt bandages and no shirt.

Okay, where did my shirt go?

I looked around again and used my ears to locate the sweet singing I had dismissed before. When I turned my head, I saw Pietra lying on her back, twiddling a long piece of grass in her fingers, and singing what I recognised to be 'The Parting Glass', an song that had been used in a game that I once was obsessed with- Assassin's Creed.

Of all the money, that ever I had,
I have spent it in, good company,
And all of the harm that I ever I had,
Alas it was, to none but me.

But since it falls, Unto my lot,
That I will rise, and you, shall not,
I'll gently rise, and I'll softly call,
Goodnight and joy be with you all. 

A man may drink- "Nico?"

Pietra's P.O.V

"Oh thanks the gods, you're alive!" It was hard not to sound excited when I thought that I had killed the poor guy- he'd been unconscious for what felt like forever.
He had a dazed smile on his face, and he blinked a couple of times as I woke him up from his day-dreaming.
"Wha-what? Oh, sorry." He shrugged meekly [and adorably], and ruffled his hair with his fingers.
"Ah, how long have I been unconscious?" He asked me, as I motioned for him to lie down so I could readjust the bandages and assess the wounds.
"Umm," I slid my phone from out of my pocket, "around 10 hours."
"What? 10 hours! You're joking, right." He looked up at me hopefully, but I shook my head.
"Sorry, but you were unconscious for that long." As Nico laid there with his mouth agape, I rummaged through the backpacks to find some ambrosia, nectar, and unicorn draught.
"How are your ribs?" I questioned him, wincing at the memory of his broken ribs and open wounds. He looked at me, confused, and then held a hand up to his ribs, feeling them carefully through the bandage.
"They seem fine to me- I mean, they don't hurt at all which is really weird..." He trailed off in thought.
"Hang on, who put the bandages on, who fixed my ribs?"

I started the process of taking off his bandages- to check if the wounds and ribs had correctly healed. "Well......it was me."
"...Okay..."
"How does that not surprise you?" I replied, glancing at him before continuing with the bandages.
"Well, you fixed Lucas when we were in the hospital wing."
I paused, "That's not even relevant!"
He arched an eyebrow at me, "It's not?"
"No, those are powers from Hecate, not Apollo."
"Yeah but you have powers from all of the gods- don't you?"
"I-i....well, yeah."
He rolled his eyes at my reply.

"But, how are you not mad at me?" I argued. It's not like I had really ever used my powers in a situation like this. "I could've freaking KILLED you!"

Nico sat up in surprise- causing me to freak out because his ribs would probably not go well under that pressure. "Whoa! Pietra, I'm okay!" He grabbed my hands that were gently pushing him back down, gave them back to me and smirked.
Then he jabbed a finger into his ribs. "See, fine. I'm not dead, I'm alive and not suffering from punctured lungs or blood loss or anything like that."

"I should've just called Chiron or something- it was a stupid idea."
"Seriously, Stone, they don't even hurt. I don't know what you did, but it worked pretty damn well."
"Really?"
He looked straight into my eyes, "Pietra, thank you."

I turned my glance from our joined hands onto him and gave him a faint smile.
"It's okay." 

He smiled back at me, then got up, urging me to as well. With his other hand, he swung his backpack over his shoulder, and I did the same with mine- then he pulled me close and put his arm over my shoulder. 

As we walked back through the tree-line, into the darkness, I pressed myself against him and enjoyed the warmth that we shared between us.

The bandages were left forgotten.

Author's Note
Hi guys!
Guess what? We have 6000 reads! :D :D :D :D
I can't stop smiling!

Anyway- I have decided [thanks to the help of beccachb] that I will be doing a one-shot book for the characters of Heroes of Olympus, but I will only be doing it after I finish writing Cosmic Love. I want to make sure that I can concentrate on CL so I can do regular updates- I'll try to be a bit better!

Well, That's all folks!

Haha! Just jks! Do you really think that I would leave before saying a huge thank you to these awesome people?
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So thank you, my awesome little demi-gods, and may evil not find you *does the 3 finger warding off evil sign*

If you have already read my 'Say What? Facts' book, I'm sorry that you have to sit through this...

Thank you awesome, beautiful, crazy, dazzling, exquisite, funny, gorgeous, hilarious, intelligent, jovial, kind, loving, magnificent, noble, optimistic, perfect [in your own little ways], quirky, random, spectacular, terrific, unique, versatile, wonderful, xylophone [I couldn't think of anything else :*( ], yummy [?] and zazzy people...

Bye Now!
That's all folks! ;D
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p.s. The vid is of the song that Pietra was singing.