The Son of Death in Gotham(A Nico Di Angelo Fan Fic)

2) Thanatos

*This chapter is dedicated to @QuetzalThePhoMaster who is probably chronically online, somehow added my story to their reading list and started reading it minutes after I published it. Like how do you even do that. And @Emaanlmran, whose one shot story I absolutely love even though it's only one chapter. And to everyone else who read, I'm only calling out those two because they commented and my stats won't show up so I can't see the rest of you but thank you so much. Have a great day/night(idk when I'm gonna post this) and enjoy the story. <3*

Obviously, Nico immediately fell into a dream, he's not even safe when he's unconscious. A beautiful man stood in front of him, he was lean and muscular, with honey gold eyes and a regal face. But his most noticeable feature was his large black wings, with hints of dark purple and blue.

"Thanatos." Nico said. He didn't love the god of death, he had taken too many people from Nico to like him, but he tolerated him. He knew what it felt like to be hated because of something you can't control.

Thanatos glared at him, messing with his perfect features, it was so hard to dislike him with that face.

No, bad Nico. That's wrong, he took your family from you.

Nico shook his head, it wasn't Thanatos' fault that he had the job god of death. It wasn't his fault who his mother was, the lady, sorry goddess, who still haunted his dreams after that place.

Thanatos cleared his throat, reminding Nico that he was there and tearing him away from his train of thought.

"You made your father quite mad, he's demanding that you be punished somehow." Thanatos smiled.

"How?" Nico kept a blank face, refusing to let his emotions show, but he was terrified. He had already suffered enough because of the gods, why couldn't he just get a break.

"Oh I don't know, that's the fates job." Thanatos smirked, "But that's not why I came to you, I have my own punishment for you. You made my boss mad, that makes more work for me, so I'm gonna make someone mad at you." He pointed his bony finger at Nico.

"I didn't do anything to you though, it's not my fault father can't control himself."

Thanatos shrugged and flicked his finger at Nico, dispelling the dream and bringing him back to reality. An amazing reality with Nico falling out of the shadow of the lava wall, right on his butt.

"Nico? Are you okay." It was Kayla, Will's half sister from Apollo cabin.

"I'm fine." Nico stood up grumbling a few choice words about Thanatos in Italian.

"Okay..." Kayla looked suspicious but let him go, probably knowing that he wouldn't make a big deal out of it unless it was a life or death situation.

Nico brushed himself off and headed for the Hades cabin, hoping to figure out what Thanatos meant by "make someone mad at you". He had a bad feeling about it.

Will's Pov

Nico had been gone for too long, Will knew that he went to his fathers palace every weekend for a "Family dinner" and Will hated it. He knew how Hades could be, Nico had come back to camp in a bad mood enough times for Will to know that the dinners weren't exactly like what Will's family dinners used to be like.

He was thinking about all the different ways that this could go wrong as he wrapped a bandage for Connor Stoll, like always, the Stoll brothers had tried to prank the Ares cabin and failed, miserably.

"Will." Kayla sang as she skipped into the infirmary, "Your boyfriend's back."

"He's not my boyfriend." Will replied, but he still immediately grabbed his medkit, just in case, and rushed to the Hades cabin, leaving the Stolls to his sister.