Nico being so used to stomping down his emotions, to bottle them up to the point the only emotion he feels is anger, that he just doesn't understand how fucked he is. He doesn't know how to feel, how to be happy so when he is with the 7, he ignores them, because he doesn't know how to communicate with anyone besides Hazel.
He is depressed, the apathy is swallowing him.
When he meets Will, Will starts to slowly unwrap all the layers of defense. And Nico is scared, and he's scared that he's scared, he feels emotions. Wow. That's something new and new means bad. So he runs away from infirmary and hides in his fathers castle. Hades finds him under one of the trees in Persephones garden.
Hades says " Remember what I said about my children rarely being happy? "
Nico looks at him with angry eyes " Yes I do, thank you "
Hades continues " And I said that I want your life to be different. I know that you are running away from your feelings, you are afraid -"
" I. Am. Not " Nico cuts him off. He doesn't feel fear. He never does.
" Yes you are, my child, but it is nothing bad. It means that you are a living human being. All the people in fields of Asphodel, they don't feel fear, they don't feel anything besides apathy. But you are alive, so it's natural that you feel. "
Nico listens to him, considers some things and then replies " The only thing I ever felt is misery. "
Hades looks him in the eyes " But that doesn't mean that can't feel anything besides that. Maybe you should give Will a chance. "
Nico shots up to his feet " What did you say? " He tries to hide his blush by frowning.
" Even though I am a little old, that doesn't mean I am stupid. Go, my son. "
Then Hades disappears into a black fog and everything around Nico starts to get blurry.
Nico wakes up again under the tree but this time right beside the dragon who guards the golden Fleece.
He slowly blinks morning tears out of his eyes and looks up to find Will standing over him.
" Oh gods, OH Gods, I finally found you. Where have you been!? You missed dinner and before that you dissapear out of - "
Nico lost Will's theard of thought after this because he look so beautiful under sundown sunlight.
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