Nico felt weaker than he ever did in his entire live, including that time he was trapped in a jar. At first he thought he overused his powers again, but his body felt too weird for that. Usually he would get too much of the darkness and start to disappear in it, this time it felt different, almost as if someone or something had tried to cut all this connections the underworld.

Nico noticed that he wasn't wearing his clothes and he fealt uncomfortable by the though of someone else changing him. He also noticed that there where alles attached to him, which made him suspect he wasn't in the camp hospital, as they usually relied on nectar, ambrosia and the healing powers of Apollo's children.

He opened his eyes and immediately regreted it as the bright clean hospital light shined into his eyes. As he looked around the room he saw strange decorations and his suspicion was proved to be true.

"But", Nico thought. "Where am I? And where is Will? Where is... well everyone?"

The black haired boy wanted to ask both of these questions, but for some reason, his voice was to weak to talk out loud. His eyes started to hurt so he closed them again, then son of Hades heard an unfamiliar Voice, a door opening and foot steps comming towards him.

A male Voice started to talk to him and for some reason, he was unable to process some of those words. Nico tired to open his eyes again, which worked with effort, but the light was just as bright and uncomfortable as the first time he opened them.

The person behind the voice looked like a young adult who should go outside a bit more (as if Nico was one to judge), but other than that seemed nice. He also seemed genuinely happy about Nico having his eyes open.

"If you can hear me, blink twice.", the man
said. His eyes looked like they couldn't decide what colour they where and his hair was blonde, but not like Will's hair, more strawberry blonde.

Nico looked him in the eyes and bliked twice. He then opened his mouth, made a sound like dying bird and then stopped his attempt at taking.

"Most people who where in a coma for a bit longer have trouble with their vocal cords, don't worry about it.", the doctor said.

He wrote something down on his clipboard and then looked at Nico again. "I am Doctor Charly Jackson. If we-" Nico stopped listening. This man had the same surname as Percy and blonde hair. Since Jackson was a pretty common surname, he dint think too much of it, but this man could easily be Percy's and Annabeth's child. He made a mental note to tell them that the next time they meet.

"Hey are you even listening?", the doctor asked.

Nico managed to shake his head and look sorry while doing so. The doctor wrote something down again and then began taking again.

"We have no clue who you are and we understand that you are probably unable to communicate that with us just yet, but we really need to know that, okay?"

Nico nodded again.

He only wanted to close his eyes for a short while but he somehow fell asleep. The last thing he remembered thinking was that waking up from a coma feels like falling asleep in the hypos cabin.

After a long time of sleep, Nico woke up again. He opened his eyes, only to find a middle-aged man in expensive clothes and someone who looked like he was in his early 20s taking to the doctor.

"...daytime, but he has been asleep for almost 16 hours so he should wake up again soon enough.", the doctor explained.

"Bruce, I know you're tired, you have been here for quite some time.", the younger man said. "If you want yo go home and get some rest or go back to Wayne Enterprise, I can wait here. We-"

The doctore make eye contact with Nico and interrupted the younger man talking: "He's awake."

"You've slept quite some time, almost 16 hours.", the doctor informed him.

"So...", Nick's Voice cracked and he had to drink some water before he could continue to talk.

"Where am I?"

Nobody seemed surprised by this question, and the man named Bruce gave an answer straight away.

"You are in Gotham city."

"How did I get here?"

"We were actually hoping you could tell us that."

"And who-"

"We are sure you have a lot of question, but since you can speak now, could you tell us your Name first?", the middle aged man asked.

Nico nodded, drank another sip of water and then said his name.

"Okay Nico, I am Dick Grayson, this Bruce Wayne, and you already met doctor Charly Jackson, right?, the younger man asked. Nico nodded again.

"Okay, I think we should get right to it. Do you have parents or a legal guaridan?", Bruce asked.

Before Nico had a chance to answer, the doctor gave him a notepad and a pen.
"It's best if you write your answers down, at least for now. You just talked a lot and we don't want you possibly damaging your vocal cords now do we?"

"My Mother is dead and I don't live with my dad so no I guess." He wrote down, answering the first question.

"Since the orphanages in Gotham are already very full, Mr Wayne said you could be his forster child.", Dr Jackson said with a smile on their face, like that meant the news were good.

"Only if you want to of course.", Bruce said.

Nico thought about what he would do now. His first plan of action was to get back to the Camp, after all they should be worried about him. "What would be my alternative?"

The people in the room all seemed surprised by this question, apparently living with Bruce Wayne was considered a big deal. Nico never heard of him, but he never was one to know a lot of famous people, not in 1940 and not now in 2014.

"You would be put in Juvie because the foster system has almost no capacity left, at least in Gotham. The little space that is left is, unfortunatly for you, reserved for younger children."

"How long have I been in a coma anyways?" Nico wrote after a short while of silence.

"For almost 6 months. I'm sorry to say, but you missed new year's.", Bruce said and gave Nico a sad look.

"So, what date do we have?"

"It's the 12th of march.", the other younger man said. He gave Nico some time to take that information.

"I understand if you need more time to think about your decision, but please do let us know once you have decided if you want to live with us or not.", Bruce said.

Nico figured the Wayne family wouldn't be too bad to stay with, Bruce made a nice impression on him and so did Dick. Also it would be easier to get away from them than it would be from Juvie. Or at least so he thought.

"Yeah sure, I'll live with you.", he said and pressed his lips into a thin smile.

"So, I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, but what year do we have?"

"Oh, no need to apologise, it's 2066.", Dick said.

"What?!", Nico exclaimed, almost screamed, much to the surprise of everyone in the room. His neck began to hurt and he could see why he was supposed to write his answers down.

"How come you are so surprised?", Dick asked carefully.

"It's just..", paused writing for a second to think, when Hades' Voice suddenly told him: "You didn't think you where living on the streets that long."

"I didn't think I had been living on the streets that long.", Nico wrote, thankful his father had helped him out.
"I mean I missed my 15th birthday on the streets and by the looks of it my 16th birthday by being in a coma."

"Wait how long have you been on the streets for?", the younger man asked.

"Well that really depends on how you define "on the streets".", Nico wrote, dawing extra quotation marks on the paper. "But I guess since I was about 10 or 11."

They looked shocked but not surprised. Back in the 1940ies the stuff Nico heared about Gotham wasn't too bad, just that in this city more crime families had influence on stuff like politics than in other cities. Then in 2014, he heard about it slowly becoming a shithole, but still a good city to live in; so what happened that 10 year old homeless children didn't come as a surprise anymore?

More more and more questions where piling up in Nico's head and he wasn't really listening to the conversation the others had anymore. The only thing he thought he heard was Dick saying something about a Kid in the 1940ies and a kid from the 2010s who both mysteriously disappeared, who where both named Nico di Angelo and who both also had similarities to Nico here.

Finally the doctor said he had to visit the next patient, and he told Bruce Wanye and Dick to leave, so that Nico could get some more rest. When they where leaving he asked where his stuff was and the doctor told him he'd tell a nurse to get his stuff to his room.

When they all left Nico realised how tired he was and couldn't help but fall asleep.

Nico was alone the next time he woke up and he was happy about that. Aparently he was wearing a normal pair of black jeans, his usual skull t-shirt, his jacket and his backpack when he appeared in Gotham. Judging by the state his clothes were in, he wasn't involved in a fight before he appeared in Gotham, wich confused Nico. Before he could spend any real time thinking about that, he noiticed that there was some stuff in his backpack, that shouldn't be there. This stuff included things such as Will's Camp Half-Blood necklace and Percy's watch he knew could turn into a shield, and other things.

But Nico hadn't asked for his stuff just to look through it. He was looking for something specific, and he was relieved when he found his box full of ambrosia and his flask full of nectar. 

He ate half a ambrosia square and wanted to start drinking the nectar, when he rembered he could burn alive if he ate too much. After a quick scan of his room, he saw that there was other food available for him too, it was just standing at the other end of the room.

Nico got up, took exactly two steps, then his legs gave in and he fell.

Since the device on his left hand detecting his heartbeat also fell of when Nico fell, there now was no monitored heartbeat, which meant the machine previously showing his heartbeat now started to make an annoyingly loud beep sound.

Nico was a bit dizzy and it took him a while to be able to sit up straight and the minute he did that a nurse rushed in, worried something had happened to Nico.

They scolded him, saying he should be staying in bed at all times unless the doctor tells him otherwise and that if he wanted food he shouldn't get up, he could just call her by pressing the button to do just that.

Similar events happend throughout the week but with different nurses, until the ambrosia and nektar had worked well enough for him to be released. While the Doctors were clueless on how he recovered so fast, Nico was clueless on why it took the ambrosia and nektar so long to heal him properly.