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

42) Hugs and Kisses

*Sorry this is late, hope you enjoy :)*

Nico's Pov

Something had been nagging Nico since he visited camp.

It was that Apollo councilor, Will. He felt like he knew him for some reason.

He hadn't been able to get his face out of his mind since he saw him. Truthfully he wouldn't mind, his face was pretty, but it interfered with him doing work.

Like right now. He was running away from a HellHound as he tried to get back into Gotham. He hadn't been allowed to since the first time he'd tried, when he'd almost been caught by someone called "The Waynes."

But now Hecate needed him too. It was apparently important. So here he was.

He got to a run down apartment building. He was supposed to set it on fire, no witnesses. Once again Hecate hadn't told him why, just that he had to do it.

He couldn't help but do a quick soul search, there were currently twenty-seven people in the building. He felt guilty for destroying their home, but it was for his family. They were more important.

He cautiously stepped into the building. He found the nearest smoke detector and lit a little bit of hell fire under it. The heat made his jacket sizzle slightly. He frowned but continued. After a moment the alarm started blaring.

He quickly shadow traveled out, going into the alley next to the building. Once he counted all twenty-seven people leaving, including three babies which he was glad he took the time to save, he finished the job.

He shadow traveled back in and set a stack of papers on fire. It burned black and quickly spread. He immediately shadow traveled out of there. But the smoke messed up his senses and he couldn't think of a place to go fast enough. So he just thought home.

He thought that he might appear in Italy, or possibly the apartment his mother and Bianca had been in, wherever that was. But he didn't. Instead he appeared in... the Hades Cabin? This had never been his home.

But before he could try and get out of there, maybe call on Hecate for help. The exhaustion from working for days with no food or rest caught up to him. He passed out on the bed.

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He woke up in that same bed. For a moment he thought that he'd gotten lucky, nobody had found him and he could shadow travel out fast. Then he realized the problem.

He tries to move, but one of his wrists was chained down with Celestial Bronze hands cuffs. It may not have been much, but it was enough to stop him from shadow traveling in his weakened state.

He immediately shot up, eyes scanning the room until they locked in on a blond hair boy talking to Percy in hushed voices.

The blond haired boy.

"Will?"

That was all it took for both boy's eyes to snap to him. Will was immediately on his feet. He took a step towards Nico but Nico flinched away, expecting him to attack him. Will looked hurt for some reason.

"Nico," Percy put his hands up in a placating gesture, "Please don't try and fight us. You've been missing for two weeks, one week since you came to camp. You appeared in this cabin in the middle of the night and passed out for two days."

"You're fucking lying to me." Nico snapped, "Just like you've always lied. Just let me go, I have shit to do."

"And would that stuff be helping Hecate take over your new home?" Will asked, he'd been staring daggers at Nico since he woke up. For some reason that made him feel guilty instead of angry though.

"Is that any of your business?" Nico snapped back, "I don't even know you. What the fuck are you doing here?"

Will's expression melted into one of hurt, he turned and walked out of the cabin, Percy tried to call after him but he was ignored.

"Do you actually not remember him?" Percy looked at him confused.

"I don't know who the fuck he is." Nico snapped, feeling defensive for some reason, "All I know is that he's the counselor of Apollo cabin."

Percy looked sad for a moment, then the door opened again. In walked a boy that looked a bit like Percy, he had the same black hair and white streak, but Percy's streak was fading and this guy had brown eyes.

He froze when his eyes landed on Nico, then he immediately turned around and walked out.

"Oh no," Percy muttered, putting his head in his hands, "This is going to be chaotic."

"What is?" Nico was panicking slightly, "Who was that?"

But Percy ignored him, and a few minutes later the door opened again to reveal the boy from before, along with three other black hair boys. They all stared at Nico, then the shortest lunged at him.

Nico immediately flinched away, expecting to be attacked or at the least stabbed, but instead the unexpected happened. He was hugged.

The other three boys joined in. Nico was confused and panicked. He didn't know what was happening and he didn't like it. He shoved them off him with his unchained hand.

"Don't fucking touch me," He snapped, glaring daggers at them, "Who the fuck are you?"

The oldest stepped forward. He looked like he had slight tears in his eyes but he blinked them away.

"We're your family Nico. The Waynes?"