Together (After the giant war)- HOO fanfic [ON HOLD]

NICO

NICO

The three days weren't as bad as Nico thought it would be.

Will had ordered him to the infirmary as soon as he had come back from his 'explanation' to Percy and Annabeth.

Will had personally made sure that Nico took the requested medicine and had gone to sleep. He insisted on staying beside the bed till the moment he was sure Nico was asleep, just to make sure.

And admittedly, Nico slept better than he had ever before.

When he woke up in the morning, he was feeling groggily refreshed sohe decided to get up and just walk around the infirmiry.

There were many white beds seperated by colouful curtains to make the place feel less serious and hospital like. So many wounded patients were lying on the beds, most of them on the brink of death. Apollo campers were running around trying to sufficiently heal everyone.

It wasn't long when he saw Will carrying a metal tray out from behind a pink flowery curtain.

Before Nico could go to him, he saw him and his face morphed into a concerned look. He marched over grimly, discarding the objects in the metal tray into the nearest bin on his way over.

"Why aren't you resting?" He demanded.

"Hello to you too." Nico muttered.

"Get back there, di Angelo." Will ordered.

"I'm fine." Nico protested.

"Nico..." Will said, trailing off dangerously.

"Alright, alright I'm going." Nico said, turning around and plopping himself back onto the soft bed.

"Good now-" Will stopped talking immediately and his gaze travelled down to Nico's bare arms. "What happened there?" He demanded, moving to the younger boy's side and taking his hand in his.

Nico pulled away. "Nothing. Just a scatch."

Will looked at him incredulously. "Just a scratch!? This could be infected."

He rushed to get a square of Ambrosia and a canteen of nectar, ignoring the many protests of Nico and ran back to the son of Hades's side.

"Open your mouth." He said.

Nick scowled at him. "I can eat by my self."

Will ignored him and cupped his cheek gently, putting the brim of the canteen onto Nico's scowling mouth. "Drink up." He said.

Nico took the canteen from him muttering a thanks. Will smiled satisfactorily and retrieved his hand back to his side.

The curtains that had been drawn halfway around Nico's bed now pulled open, revealing a girl with straight blonde hair, wearing a green surgical shirt.

"Will, we need your help-" She started but was abruptly cut short when her eyes met the scene I front of her. A slow smile spread across her face. "Actually, it's fine. I'll call Ned."

Will stood up. "It's okay sis. I'll come." He glared at Nico, but his eyes said otherwise. They were soft and happy. A bunch of skeletal butterflies to erupt in his stomach.

"Catch you later Death Breath." He said. "And remember, rest. If you need me...I'll be here somewhere, close by. Not too far, okay?"

"Yeah. Okay." Nico muttered.

* * * (these stars will be named Bob, Damesen and Small Bob. *starts to sob and bawl uncontrollably* *brother drags me away* sorry. I'll just be going now. Insert line break here. * * *

As much as he wanted to, Nico couldn't go to sleep. He kept rolling about uncomfortably. When at last he couldn't take it anymore, he got out of bed and quietly headed outside.

Yes, it went against the 'doctor's orders' but Nico couldn't take it anymore.

He wandered around for a bit, not scared of the patrol harpies after what he had been through.

Memories of Tartarus still taunted him. It was so painful seeing that horrible place again. His dreams were consistent and always unwanted. Most of the time, he saw Bianca. What was even more painful was that sometimes, these dreams portrayed a possible future, one that he could never have now.

He walked along unconsciously around the cabins. The lights were all switched off. All but one.

The Zeus cabin still had it's light on. Nico headed towards it without thinking.

Without giving a single thought to what he was doing, he knocked on the door. No answer, but a few laughs could be heard and a faint, "Oh yeah! Beat that!"

Nico pushed the door open.

Inside, Jason was sitting cross legged on his bed, some cards in his hand and a few figurines in front of him. Piper was lying on her tummy in front of him with her own share of cards and figurines.

They looked over at the sound of the door opening.

Nico suddenly felt like he was intruding on a private moment but he couldn't help but stare at those cards.

"Sorry," he muttered. "I'll just-"

"Nico!" Jason cut him off. "Wanna play?"

Piper urged him forwards with a huge smile.

"Is that- mythomagic?" Nico asked tentatively closing the door behind him.

"Sure is, bud." Jason grinned at him.

* * *

In the morning Nico woke up to see a stern but amused Will.