Halfway through the salad, Nico started to complain . 

"This tastes bad!" He said 

"It does NOT! And it's good for you!!" Will told him

"What's this smushy stuff?" Nico tried 

Will looked into the bowl. "WHAT SMUSHY STUFF?!" He said 

"Is this green stuff even edible?" Nico asked 

"That's LETTUCE! DI IMMORTALES! Please stop complaining!"

"No! I'm not even hungry!" 

"Do I look like I care if you're hungry? Well... yes I do. Not the point! You are seriously underweight di Angelo! And you.are.going.to.eat!" Will scolded 

Nico grumbled and stuffed more salad down his throat 

"Are you even chewing?" Will asked 

"No." 

"Ugh! NICO! Please!" Will said pleading Nico 

Nico sighed and ate. 

After Nico finished his salad he got visitors.

"Nico you have visitors!" Will said 

Even though, they were supposedly friends now, Nico prayed it wasn't Percy. 

It wasn't Percy.

It was Hazel, Frank and Reyna. They had come to see Nico one last time before they left. 

"Hi Nico!" Hazel said as she walked over to the bed where Nico was eating 

"Hi Hazel." He said smiling slightly at his sister

"Is this why you weren't there in the cabin in the morning?" She asked

"Yeah...I got caught up..."  then Nico's eyes widened , "Where is Jason?" 

He had completely forgotten about his conversation with Jason! Will had called him and then he had to speak to Percy and then he came to the infirmary! 

"He was outside our cabin when I woke up. Is he okay?" Hazel asked

"Jason kinda woke me up, we talked about whether I was staying at camp half blood. Then Will called me and I got kinda...." Nico said blushing slightly as he trailed off 

"Caught up?" Asked Reyna 

"..yeah." Nico replied 

"So are you staying?" Hazel asked

"Yeah. I confirmed it. Can you tell Chiron?" Nico asked them 

"Okay, we'll tell Chiron." Frank promised 

"You'll visit right?!" Hazel asked

"Of course!" Nico said 

"We're enabling iris messages at camp Jupiter too. We'll be communicating on a weekly basis, Nico." Reyna said 

"Definitely Reyna!" Nico confirmed 

Hazel pecked her brother's forehead and Reyna ruffled his hair. 

"Bye Nico." Said Reyna 

"Bye brother, I'll miss you!" 

"I'll miss you guys too!" He said, "And Zhang, take good care of my sister!" Nico warned Frank 

"Of course." Said Frank as there was nothing else he would rather do, which soothes Nico to know his sister was in good hands. "Bye man" frank said as he closed the door.

"So...." Will said as he flopped down on a chair near Nico's bed , "We'll check for wounds, scars and stuff later. Now, you need rest." Will said, as he picked up his doctors notepad. 

"I'm not tired!" Nico whined 

"Yes you are!" Will whined back

Silence fell for a few minutes 

"I'm closing the lights and you are going to sleep! No exceptions! Doctors orders!!" Will said 

Nico layed down on the bed and Will shut the blinders and lights and went out silently. 

Nico's eyes betrayed him to a dreamless sleep. A first, and hopefully not last in many...years, he let sleep carry him away.

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𝐼 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑢𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑜 𝑓𝑎𝑟. 𝐼'𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒 (𝑜𝑏𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦) 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑜 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘. 𝐼 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑖 𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑠. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝐼 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒, 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑝𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛. 

𝐼𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑜 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑟 (𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝐼 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚) 𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑠𝑘 𝑎 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑝𝑚 𝑚𝑒. 

𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑜 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 13-19𝑡ℎ 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑒. 𝐴𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑝𝑚 𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑠. 

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