* Time skip! Brought to you by Centaur horn cream; No point massacring heroes if you don't look good doing it!*

Nico watched in the corner as the infirmary began to fill up. It was a slow game tonight. Maybe, just maybe, Camp would beat the Hunters. Without him. Suddenly, he felt something change. Someone was hurt. If they didn't get help now, they would be joining his father. He ran out of the infirmary and, despite Will's warnings, he shadow travelled to the place he could feel a life fading. As he stumbled out of the shadows, he found himself over a sobbing Hazel and a very injured Malcolm. Hazel looked up as he stumbled and whispered:

"Can you help him? I-I- didn't mean to. I-I- can feel him going. Please get him t-to Will," Nico nodded and shadow travelled back to the infirmary.

"Will!" he cried as he arrived. "Will, he's slipping, fast, if we don't do something, he'll be seeing my father soon," Will looked up, asked Kayla to take over bandaging a broken arm, and ran over to a spare bed as Nico dragged Malcolm over. Nico laid him down and Malcolm winced in pain. Nico turned to leave, but Will grabbed his arm.

"I need you to stay. I need to know if I'm too late. Tell me if he changes" Nico nodded, but Will was already dealing with Malcolm. He had a spear going through his shoulder and a shard of metal sticking out of the side of his stomach. Will dealt with the shard first.

*A/N: pls don't follow anything I say here, I'm making this shit up*

Will called for ambrosia and gave a square to Malcolm. He took it and a look of relief spread across his face as the pain eased. But Nico knew that the damage was still there. Will got to work trying to extract the metal shard, and every time he did, Malcolm winced in pain, despite the ambrosia. Hazel ran in, sweaty, bloody and with panic in her eyes.

"I-I-I thought he was a monster, his aura was wrong, and he surprised me, I had a spear going for me anyway, and I ducked. It hit him as I was turning to attack him. I, I can get the metal out, if you need me too, I may have enchanted it, I can do that when I don't want a monster to pull it out"

Will looked up as she entered and sighed, gestured for her to do so, and stepped back. She closed her eyes, and slowly the shard of metal came out. Will moved back to his position and, as the metal came out, he pushed his hands against the open wound. His hands began to glow, and the bleeding slowed. He shouted through gritted teeth to:

"Get the needle. Need. To. Stitch" one of his siblings, a girl named Leyla, gave it to him, and he stitched up the wound in record time. He sighed and moved on to the spear. As it can out and he healed the wound, Annabeth came in and ran to Malcolm's side. She looked at Will, then Nico. Will nodded and Nico hesitated a moment before also nodding. His soul was still vulnerable, but was coming back towards the border of life. He would be fine. After that Annabeth gave him a hearty smack over the back of the head.

"Ow!" Malcolm exclaimed. "That hurt 'Beth," but he was smiling

"I know it did. It was meant to you twat. Never EVER do that to me again, you hear me?"

"Yes Mum," he retorted, earning himself another smack. Will chuckled but stepped in.

"He'll be fine Annabeth, but only if you leave him alone," Nico watched from the corner, his arms crossed. Suddenly a look of confusion crossed his face. He turned to his sister, who looked relieved that she hadn't killed someone.

"You said his aura was wrong. How so?"

Hazel looked at him for a moment before responding.

"He felt like a monster," behind them Malcolm cursed.

"Fuck those Stolls. Sold me some aura cloaking ointment, but it must have been monster aura ointment," Annabeth looked at him in shock.

"Why the fuck did you trust those imbeciles? You're a son of Athena, I thought you were wiser than that!" Malcolm laughed, but it turned into a hacking cough.

"I thought I was too. Turns out I wasn't though, was I?" Will looked back at his patient, then back at Annabeth.

"Annabeth, as much as I know you were scared for him, right now you're being about as much help as a hippo in here. Could you leave? We're still on for dinner," Annabeth looked at him before swearing.

"Shit! Thanks to you being out of the picture for a while," she prodded Malcolm, "I have no one to look after Lucas!" At that, Leyla stepped forward.

"I could help you. I have a baby sister - mortal - and I used to babysit her while dad was out with Linda"

*Her dad is mortal, and yes, Apollo was still a guy. It has happened. I actually believe that one other Apollo kid has two dads. If you can remember who, let me know*

Annabeth looked at Leyla, and after a moment, huffed and said

"Oh alright. But only really because your brother just saved my one's life," Leyla smiled and nodded her head. Will turned to begin dealing with other patients.

"Oh," Annabeth said. Will, Nico, Hazel, Leyla, and Malcolm looked at her. "Who won the game?"