Nico

We thought after his first say it'd be a fun idea to send an IM. William was here year-round. Just finish school here, hopefully get claimed. Our school started in a week.

"Just as the fucking guy out already." Said a guy soundly oddly familiar. And if that wasn't terrifying to everyone who has figured out Percy had a boyfriend, well.

"No." The voice didn't belong to Percy as they opened the door and five of them entered the building. "Okay I just... No."

"You guys are a bunch of fucking weirdos." Percy told them.

"We're all half god, that's already not normal."

Wait.

Oh.

Oh gods. Styx.

"It can't be..." I heard Grover say under his breath.

"No way..." Thalia remarked.

Pollux started walking towards us.

"Pollux, I almost forgot." Will saved Pollux's emotional sanity. "I have to show you something."

"Show me after we talk to Percy."

"No, I was thinking-"

"Ten minutes, Will. I think it can wait ten minutes. It's not like Castor's there."

Um... About that, Pollux... You see....

Suddenly there was a scream from the IM and they all looked surprised.

"Whoever that was, they need to calm their shit." Castor remarked.

It was Mr. D that finally got their attention and heard us.

"Ay. What are you brats doing?"

"It wasn't us, it was the neighbor bitch." Beckendorf claimed, thinking he was referring to them. "Wait, was that's Mr. D's voice? We're in England, why in God's names are we hearing Mr. D's voice?"

"The question is where the IM is." Michael remarked and Will's eyes widened at the voice of his older brother.

They did find us.

We all talked for like 20 minutes and Pollux actually did go with Will for those 20 minutes so nobody died, and after five minutes Leo had joined us.

Now mind you the whole gay thing and me with Will thing has been kept away from Hazel. I was going to tell her the same day she found out about Bianca, just tell her all now at once and whatever. But she got pissed and stormed off so I don't have a sister and now Frank won't talk with me he's so busy babying her.

"What even happened to Hazel?" Thalia and Piper, also Jason brought it up later on.

"Don't know. She just left." Leo remarked. "I was on border patrol at the time. She seemed pissed off, but didn't say anything about it. Just told me she'd be at Camp Jupiter."

"Do you know?" Grover asked me.

I shook my head.

"She was pissed off and left." I told them. "That's all I got out of it."

Grover knew it was a lie, but knew better than to push the subject. It was only a few weeks ago. Will knew what happened, I did tell him. He was the only one, though. Will had been called down to the infirmary, so he wasn't here at the moment.

When I woke up the next morning I woke up to Jason and Leo and Grover and Thalia arguing with Hazel and Frank. In my cabin.

"I don't care, I'm not staying here as long as he's here." Hazel remarked and I knew she referred to me. "Okay, if he can't even have the courtesy to be honest with me why should I have to be courtesy to be honest and nice to him?"

That's how Grover and Thalia knew something happened after she found out about Bianca and my mother.

"You're pissed he had another sister?" Thalia could barely believe it.

"Yeah, I'm fucking pissed. He had no right to do what he did with the information. I'm his sister. I doubt his sister treated him like that."

You have no idea.

As soon as she found out I liked guys when I was like 7 or 8 she made me swear I'd never tell another soul. Because it was bad.

That's why I never came out to everyone at Camp. Why I was afraid. Why I was terrified in the first place.

My sister.

So repeat that again, Hazel.

"Hazel, you don't..." Grover started off.

"I don't what, Goat Boy?"

You.

Fucking.

Didn't.

"Shut your whore mouth." Thalia was quick to respond, now pissed off. "You don't know Grover, Hazel. You have no right to make fun of him because you're mad and he's trying to get you to um, I don't know, not hate your brother. Because trust me, when somebody you can at least consider family pulls something like this, it sucks, and don't ask me how I even know, because it's none of your business. What Grover was trying to tell you was that you don't understand what your brother has been going through these past few years. You didn't know him when he was new here and didn't seem to want to know what he was like. He's had it harder than most of us. He was new to the century. He lost his sister. He didn't even have a place to stay so no wonder he didn't feel accepted. No wonder he felt like an outcast because that's how he was treated and if he wasn't treated like it he freaked out because he was the outcast and nobody should think any other way. Because he had that mindset for years. He used to be so happy, Hazel. He was this talkative little piece of shit but he was happy at least. Okay? All of us, that considered him a friend, watched him fight through hell and try to cope in the middle of a war. On top of it, he doesn't have a family to go home to. That's us. If you're wondering why it sucked for him when Percy left is because Percy was a close friend to him. Percy was so desperate to find Nico when he went missing both times it was worse than Annabeth when Percy went missing. And she didn't sleep for 3 days at a time. He went a week without sleep. When you showed up, Hazel, its the happiest I've seen him ever since she died. He cares about you. I wouldn't doubt he hadn't told you because he couldn't talk about it himself. It happens. I never told anyone about Jason. He just showed up. I mean, I assumed he had died. So shut your whore mouth if you don't even care to know what actually happened."

"You're 14, why should I listen to you?"

I had to watch her reaction to that. So I hid in a shadow and watched.

She looked murderous.

"Would you like to say that again, Diamond Bitch?"

Jason and Grover backed away. So did Frank.

"You're a kid." Hazel said, with pride. "I have no need to listen to you, Pine Face."

She wasn't tolerating that.

Thalia grabbed my not so much sister by her shirt and slammed her against the door.

For everyone sake, I won't repeat what she said. You can imagine how that went down.

Eventually, I fell back into my depression. It took about six months. Will diagnosed it and he tried to help with it but there's only so much you can do. Hazel refused to interact with me at all and word got out and once again I was the freak of Camp Half-Blood.

Grover

A guy showed up a month after Nico fell back into his depression. And it hadn't gone unnoticed. But he could've cared less. Hazel stayed at the Ares Cabin. So it's not even she was gone. It was like taunting him.

The guy was maybe 20 to 25. Young, but older than everyone here. An olive toned tan. Ebony hair styled nicely and very dark blue eyes. Some freckles were scattered across his face and he had a small scale by his eyebrow.

"Hi." This dude said. "Is there anyone with the last name Di Angelo here?"

"Maybe...?" I told him. "What's it to you?"

"We're related." He quickly explained to me. "Half related. I was Maria's kid, but I didn't belong to their father, my dad died in combat before I could even remember him. I've been in the Lotus Casino for years. I got out a year or so ago. I know they got out, it was a huge deal. I wasn't sure where they'd be, eventually I overhead talk of this place and I'm here now, so. Sorry. My name is Amo. Amo Di Angelo. Would there be a Bianca or a Nico here?"

"Bianca." I said and remained silent for a moment. "Unfortunately, no, she isn't here any longer. She fell deceased quite a while. But Nico is here, were all having lunch right now if you'd want to join us."

"That'd be great! Thank you."

So I bring him to the table that consisted of Leo, Thalia, Jason, Nico, and me. Leo, Jason, and Thalia still bickering about whatever. Nico just kept to himself, didn't really eat much. A few small bites. Will kind of gave up on him a few weeks ago, it didn't end well from what I heard, and because of that he hasn't been eating as much. Then again, Will next to forced him to eat, so. He lost the color to his skin again, he wasn't at a healthy weight anymore. He just gave up.

Again.

And this time Percy wasn't getting drive him insane about it. I tried to help. We all did. But we weren't Percy and Percy always seemed to have an affect on him when it came to this stuff. Like there was some kind of trust between them.

Nico went to burn what he didn't eat and Amo spoke.

"So what one is Nico?"

I point at the son of Hades.

"No." Amo didn't believe it. "It can't... No."

"What?"

"That... He isn't my brother." Amo said. "That's not my little brother."

"Youd be surprised what can happen to a person when they lose everything." I tell Amo. "He was depressed for a few years, got better, and about a month ago it just all fell apart again. We try to help but the person who did help him out last time went to college in Europe this fall, so. He has another half sister here, but she's having nothing to do with him anymore, so. And his boyfriend broke up with him over this whole depression thing, so it's just been kind of shitty for him."

"Oh God." Amo remarked. "And I suppose he won't know it's me because we were seperated when he was just a little kid. When Mom died. And even I've changed over the years. I just... Wow. I mean, that sucks that's horrible. I can't imagine how that went for him. If I would've known I would've looked a little harder but you can only know so much right?"

Nico handed his plate to the harpies, shoved his hands in his pockets, and next the pavilion. People pointed and made fun along the way.

Even Hazel.

Even Will.

William

I had spent the month with my parents for the Holidays and just got back. They must be in lunch or something. It seemed vacant.

Until I noticed somebody bump into me and look to see who.

Nico.

I barely even recognized him. And that wasn't a good thing.

"Nico?" I asked with slight concern. "Are you okay?"

He kept walking away. Hands in his pocket, head down.

"Nico." I said again and grabbed his arm this time.

He just jerked himself away from me and kept walking like it was nothing.

So that night after dinner, I sent an IM to Percy. I planned to anyways. Long distance sucked. But we were making it work.

"Hey." Percy said when he saw me with a small smile, in his bedroom. "How's it going there?"

"Pretty good." I was honest. "I just got back today, so. But have you been talking with Nico lately?"

"Not ever since Hazel left camp in August, no." The son of Poseidon tells me," why?"

"I'm concerned about him." I explained to my boyfriend. "When I saw him today he didn't seem like himself. And not in a good way."

"How so?"

"He was paler, skinnier, he didn't eat much of his dinner, picked at it, people weren't very nice to him for whatever reason. Even Will was being an asshole to him. Grover, Thalia, and them weren't. But pretty much everyone else aside a few people. Apollo didn't say much, he's been keeping to himself lately. I just... I thought you might know something."

"I... Yeah," Percy confirmed for me," that's his depression. He was finally out of it this summer but I imagine with what happened between him and Hazel got to him after a while and Will couldn't handle it so he broke up and just... I'd love to help, I'll IM him later. But I'm not sure what else I can do, I'm in Europe."

Percy

William and I talked for about 15 minutes and I called Nico right after and caught him in the act.

Cutting.

I sat there for ten minutes before he cleaned the slit marks and he saw me and jumped ten feet.

"What the fuck, Jackson?" Back to the old attitude again. "You don't just do that. What did you see?"

"Enough." I answered, still in shock that this is what Nico did now. This is what he had come to while I was gone. "Nico, what... What happened to you?"

"Why do you care?"

"Because, Nico, I'm your friend." I told him honestly. "Or at least, I thought I was..."

Nico just laughed. But not a happy laugh. Like he found that funny.

"Yeah, I don't have friends. Nice one, Jackson." The son of Hades told me. "I have nothing, don't you recall?"

And for a while that's how the conversation went. He was a little shit but calm until:

"Would you just leave it the fuck alone!" Nico snapped at me, "Okay!? You've never cared, you still don't! Just like everyone else! They can't be friends with me. Because I'm the creepy son of Hades who just lost his stupid sister two times over in two different ways. That's all I have ever been. All I'll ever be."