A Different Reality (Percy Jackson Fanfiction)

Chp 43 - Hazel's POV

Hazel's Flashback

If you continue to pace, you'll wear a hole on the rug.

I'm worried about Nico.

Tell me something new...

What?

You have been worried about him since you saw him the first time. Doesn't matter if we're arguing, or in class, or eating; doesn't matter what have you angry, embarrased or talkative; deep down, you're always worried about him. I know, I can feel it.

Well, now I'm even more worried about him. Will being a girl just made everything more complicate.

Does he worries about you at least a fraction of what you worry about him?

He's my brother, of course he worries about me!

I don't know, he always seems so... secluded.

Nico had a hard life, but he really worries about me. He even got transformed into a maize by a god for me.

A maize?

Corn. Triptolemus got angry when Nico threatned him because of me.

Trip... how can you remember such complicated names?

Practice, I guess. But the point is, Nico really cares about me.

Even if he didn't, I guess you have worry for both of you. I wish I had a brother. It seems nice.

You don't have one?

I think I do, but I don't know him.

What do you mean?

Well, a while ago, I lived in Alaska for almost a year...

Yes...?

Well, there was an accident with a cave. I don't know what happened exactly, maybe an earthquake, but the cave collapsed, killing my mom and putting me into a coma for months. It was horrible, I was conscient, but I couldn't move or speak with anyone. All the doctors and nurses walking around me like I wasn't even there. I was hoping that someone, anyone, would talk to me, but they ignored me completely!

I know how that feels, the Fields of Asphodel were the same...

When I woke up, it didn't got any better. I was in an unknown land, with no family. After a while, I received a letter, saying that I had a brother, and I had to come here to meet him. An apartment, trustfund and documents were all ready, and a lawyer would come to meet me and introduce me to my brother. But he never came, and I have no idea how to contact him, so my brother is a mystery.

Maybe Nanni is your brother? Just like Nico is mine?

I don't know, we're nothing alike.

Nico and I aren't either... What about your father?

I know nothing about him, except he's the president of some big company, has a wife and doesn't have time for his kids, me or the brother I never knew.

Company of what?

Mining, mostly. And I think there's a branch about funerals, I'm not sure.

Oh, I believe there is.

Flashback over, back to present