Hidden Angel

Chapter 14 Save him

They couldn't move Will so while a few of them waited with him to make sure that he was going to be alright. Meanwhile the others went back to the camp sites and grabbed more things from their tents, sleeping bags, blankets, clothes, anything they would need and brought it back with them. Luckily the weather was on their side and they didn't have much to worry about while camping under the stars, they took turns staying up and monitoring Will.

Will woke up just before dawn and Leo, who had been the one awake at the time, woke the others to let them know. As they sat together they waited patiently for Will to be able to tell them what had happened and how he had ended up on the bank of the stream just outside of camp.

Will had been a little shocked when he woke up and found Leo sitting close by and even more so when he saw the others that were there as well. He didn't recognize some of them but he felt like he could trust them, it seemed that they all had been willing to stay with him after they had found him and seemed to want to help.

Percy seemed to be getting impatient though because he was the first to ask questions. "So how did you end up out here?"

"Yeah and what happened to you? All of the sudden you went missing and your parents were really freaked out! You've been missing for almost two weeks." Leo said his concern for his friend clear on his face.

Will was shocked to find out that so much time had passed, while down in that cellar it had been hard to determine how much time went by but he hadn't thought that it would be two weeks already.

Will cleared his throat before speaking, he was still in pain from what had happened before but he needed to tell them how to find Nico so that they could rescue him. "The guy that was pretending to be Nico's dad came home early and caught us when I went over to try and get him out of there. When I saw the news I knew that it was him and that I needed to help him as soon as I could and he had said that his dad wouldn't be back for another day or so, so I thought it would work. I should have told someone." he could feel the tears spring up in his eyes as he thought back on it, like they did every time he thought back on it, if only he had just told someone then maybe he could have helped Nico then.

But he had gone it alone and look at where that had gotten them, Nico was probably locked back up in that awful cellar scared and alone. But he had to keep talking and try and get help this time so he went on.

"He knocked us out, then he drove us out of town and we went to some gas station somewhere and that's where he switched cars with someone. I had woken up by then but pretended to still be out so that they wouldn't know, I heard the other guy say that he worked at the hospital with my dad and he also brought more sleeping medicine that they use on Nico to keep him believing that he's sick. After we were taken into the new car the other guy took the old one and we drove to this cabin deep in the woods."

The others were all quiet as they listened intently to the story. No one dared interrupt so he went on.

"He kept us locked up down in a cellar below the cabin, he'd bring down food from time to time with those sleeping pills mixed in so that we'd sleep a lot. We tried not to eat it because we knew but when we got too hungry we had no choice, I had no idea how long we were down there but while he was gone I would try to find ways out until finally I managed to break off a piece of wood from the stairs and when he came down I hit him with it and we ran. Nico wasn't able to run so I tried to carry him, but the creep came after us soon after and followed us into the trees.

"Before I could get us to safety I tripped and we both fell, that's when he caught us and he didn't really care about me but he tried to take Nico again so I tried to fight him but he kept hitting and kicking me until I ended up falling over a ledge I hadn't seen and that's when I fell into the water. The next thing I knew I was here with you guys." he couldn't stop the tears now, he felt like even though he had tried, it hadn't been enough and he had failed to save Nico. What kind of friend was he? He was no knight that's for sure.

Someone had pulled him into a hug as he cried more out of frustration than pain. The others sat and watched as Piper held Will and rocked him gently as he cried, they knew that he had been though a lot and felt that it would be best to let him let it out before they discussed it further. Without it being said it had been unanimously agreed that they were going to do everything that they could to save Nico di Angelo and they wouldn't stop until they had succeeded.

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