When the Lights Go Out - A Solangelo Story

Nico is silently drowning, every day spiraling a little more. Every Nico has ever cared about left or is 6 feet under. His mom, Bianca, Jason, EVERYONE. He can't take it anymore, he just can't. But no one cares, no one wants to see the scars. That's what chases everyone away the broken parts. Life is survival mode. He's still haunted from tartarus, from the jar. It's not like anyone cares enough to talk to him about it though.

For Will, things don't seem much better. He's not okay, but he has to stay together. No one can see the pain that to Will is so obvious. The dead siblings. The nightmares of the wars over the years that he can't tell anyone about. He wasn't ready to be head counselor, but in just two battles, he lost his older brothers. But he never had time to grieve only to bury the pain so he could keep his siblings together. He's not fine, but he has to be, for his brother and sister. He needs to keep up the facade of the sunshiny healer.

Both Nico and Will are struggling, both of them need each other more than ever, both of them are being distanced by the walls of the very thing that make them need each other so much.