//Rainbows for the Heroes// HoO AU

[14]An angry Nico is a scary Nico

[14]An angry Nico is a scary Nico

Leo's POV

And so I told him. Telling Nico of what Drew told me in the woods, how I so stupidly fell for her words and tricks, and what she told me. How she and the one guy dragged me further into the woods just to get into my head. Nico listened very intently, his face blank, giving away none of his emotions and thoughts. After about 20 minutes of talking, Nico gently grabbed my arms and pulled me closer to him, the leaned against the headboard of the bed, and I kept talking. To be honest, I couldn't stop, I just let it out, just like that other night. I had held in too much and the emotion bottle exploded.

"...and she pulled back, as if I'd accidentally burned her(Which I hadn't). I was confused until, she-she." This memory was particularly difficult. The way she said I was gross, as if it was an obvious statement, a fact. Nico coaxed me to continue gently.

"Holding it in isn't good Leo. It's okay, whatever it was, wouldn't change a thing." I nodded, refusing to let any tears fall. I know I've cried in front of Nico before, but that doesn't mean I liked it. I HATE crying in front of others with a passion. It makes me feel like I'll regret the entire cry/outburst later, and I usually do.

So, to prevent me from doing something I'm gonna feel ashamed of and regret later, I scooted forwards a bit, and grabbed a couple of parts from my belt, messing around with them to calm me down a bit. Nico didn't get frustrated at me for my actions, surprisingly, he just gave me a curt nod of understanding. "It's uh, it's okay." After I was a bit calmed, I spoke, refusing to look Nico in the eye.

"Drew, she told me that I was, filthy, or gross or something. Then yanked at my hair, while telling me that my curls were ratty and stupid and made me look like a child." I spoke clearly and effortlessly as I worked on whatever this thing would be, the building taking my mind off of the event. As if my voice was on autopilot and my mind was doing other things. Nico shifted, but said nothing. So I continued. "The bitch told me I needed to lose weight, and that she felt sorry for you." As I spoke more and more, my hands worked faster and faster, I was taking my self-anger and disappointment out on whatever I was building. The parts clicked into place and I shifted them around, hoping for whatever the outcome of this invention would work. "And when I felt those horrid tears spill over..."

I clicked a spring in the right side.

"She kept going...."

Shift, CLICK

"And when she talked about my hair...."

Tap, tap, CLINK

"She told me my mom must have had to fix it everyday..."

I placed a new metal control board in. Then shifted the side to settle in front of a panel. Then...Click,

shift,

place,

tap, tap tap,

Spring.

CLICK

SHIFT

PLACE

TAP, TAP, TAP

SPRING,

"And the worst part is. I FELL for it. Letting HER words get to ME! I was so weak-minded, and I'm selfish, only thinking of myself! And I unload on you whenever I can't take it! I'm so, so, so.... Useless!"

SNAP!

The memory picture frame I was making broke. The Medial Temporal Lobe scanner broke in half, rendering the device useless. The whole thing was supposed to be a memory scanner, and it grabbed memories that you wanted to see, and pulled them up on the screen, showing them to you. But, there was one thing I was leaving out. One thing that I didn't tell Nico that I tried to erase from my memory. Some other things, that Drew told me.