Percy and Nico Undercover at Hogwarts

Chapter Fifteen

Nico's POV

I walked into the hospital wing an hour after I had disappeared, carrying some clothes for Percy, and I saw him laying in his cot, holding an opened book in the air over his head.

"Are you reading?" I asked and he looked away from the book and laughed.

"Oh gods no. I'm just doing this so people would leave me alone."

"Does it work?" I asked and he nodded

"Yeah, surprisingly well," he told me with his adorable smile. "Can you help me sit up?" he asked and I did, then I sat on the bed in front of him.

"The next challenge is on Thanksgiving. Apparently they don't have Thanksgiving here, but yeah. We were told all the dates of the challenges. The third one is on Valentines day, the fourth is on St. Patties day and the last is one Cinco de Mayo . I don't know why, but they all seem to be on holidays. It's like they don't want us to be happy."

"It seems to be that a lot of people don't want us to be happy," Percy said and I chuckled.

After a minute or two, I said, "Can I see where the dragon..."

"Yeah, sure. The nurse said she'd be back to change my bandages, so you can do it now, if you want."

"Sure," I told him with a small smile as I unwrapped the gauze. "Oh my god," I said as the final layers came off. "They look terrible."

"They feel fine and Apollo said that they should be completely healed within a week. He told me that they only look like this because we have to make sure Madam Pomfrey thinks that I'm normal." I laughed at that.

"You? Normal? Never."

"Yeah, I know, right?"

"But seriously," I said as I looked back at his chest and I lightly ran my fingers over the jagged, dark red scars, "How painful was this?"

He shivered at my touch.

"It was one of the most painful things that has ever happened to me. The only thing that I can even think of that was more painful was bathing in the River Styx."

"Really?" I asked and he nodded. "Holy shit, that must've hurt."

"Nico," he said, looking at me. "The dragon ripped out two fair sized chunks of my body. Of fucking course it was painful."

I took the gauze that was sitting on the table next to Percy and I started to wrap him up in it.

"So, when I asked Apollo about the next challenge, he told me that you'd be able to figure it out easily. He said that we don't have to help Harry because another one of the challengers will."

By the time I'd finished wrapping up Percy, Madam Pomfrey walked in.

"Oh good, I was just about to do that," she said with a smile and then looked at Percy. "Mr. Jackson, your free to go, but if you feel any pain at all, come back and I'll fix you right up."

"Thank you Madam Pomfrey," he said and she walked out.

"Wanna go to dinner?" I asked him and he shrugged.

"Of course, I haven't ate in four days, why wouldn't I?"

Harry's POV