Death and Water

He never let go of my hand. Not until we stop long enough to catch our breath and look up in front of us. I don’t know how, maybe he came here before on one of his travles, and if he had, I don’t want to know with who, but we ended up in front of an old run down motel. I looked up surprised to see that the sun was setting. I guess the thing in the museum must have been longer than it seemed. I felt as we had fought for only minutes, when I guess it was actually hours.
Nico leads me inside and orders us a two bed room. The old man hands us the key, winking at Nico, before showing us the way. I roll my eyes and follow Nico as he opens the door and holds it open for me. I step inside, turning on the lights, only slightly surprised that there was no monster hiding in there ready to kill us.
“You can take the bathroom first” he says, flicking on the T.V. and settling on the bed. I shrug and head in the bathrrom, taking a long warm shower, watching as the scars begin to close up and fade. I slowly lower myself to the bottom of the tub, and watch the blood slither down the drain, the green poison form the hydra spit following it. The water collects on my skin, as if it doesn’t want to leave me, but I force it to, and with a little will, it acts like normal water once more. I stare at my legs for a long time, watch as the water droplets collect on my thighs. Water drips down my eyelashes, blurring my vision, but that didn’t matter. I stuck my head right under the nozzle, and I could breathe perfectly.
I stand up once agin, testing out each of my fingers and toes, moving my joints, and flexing each muscle. I wash out the cut in the back of my head as thoroughly as I can, but it won’t do much good if I don’t get some ambrosia.
There was a gnarly scar on my rib cage that would need some ambrosia as well, but other than that, the water had helped me a lot.
I step out of the shower, shaking my head with a towel. I wrap another towel around me and step outside into the bed room, the steam following me into the cooler air. “You can go” I say to nico. He causally gets up and walks past me, closing the door behind him. I change into some sweat pants that I had brought for my pjs, and grab the remote control from his bed.
As I bend over to reach for it, I smell the unmistakeable metallic scent. I peel of the sheet to see fresh blood. I growl and storm over to the bathroom, knocking on the door hard.
“Nico! Let me in!” I yell.
I hear the shower switch off, and nico opens the door a crack, I could see his long dark hair hanging in front of his exhausted looking eyes. The bags underneath seemed to be turning almost purple with fatigue. “Look if its a mouse or seomthign ill get it-“
“You're bleeding” I satte. He looks at me surprised.
“A little but not that much, nothing that ambrosia-“
“Chemira bites are poison, ambrosia won’t do much good until we suck it out, now let me in” I see pushing my way in. The room was steamy from the hot water, and he had a towel wrapped around his waist, which added together made me instantly warm.
“How do you propose we do that” he says, sunning a hand through his wet hair. I set him down on the toilet and let the shower run.
“Watch this” I say, as I cup my hands and carefully pour it over a cut on his hand. It sizzled a little, and the green poison came up to the top before dissolving into thin air.
He looks at his hand in amazement, then looks up to meet my eyes. “wow” is all he manages. I roll my eyes, but laugh a little, and continue pouring water on him. Working my way up around his arms to his chest, I softly press my hands against his beating heart, which was beating a little faster than normal. We both chuckle awkwardly, before he gently grabs my hands and moves them up his chest around his neck. Then he gently puts an arm around my waist and slowly leads me into his lap. We say nothing, just look at each other, letting our emotions roll of each others eyes. I know I should call Percy, I know I should get off of Nicos lap and leave the room. But the steam, and the smell of him, and our proximity was making me dizzy.
“I should go” I finally manage to stammer out.
“Thank you” he says softly when I finish. I smile sadly and squeeze his hand softly, the small amount of energy I had left dissapearng. He must have noticed because he picks me up and puts me in my clean bed. “I’m going to take a quick shower then I’ll get us something to eat” he says.
“No” I manage to mutter, wrapping my hands around his neck and pulling him towards me, the sickly sweet stench of heavy sleep medicine hanging around him like it usually does beckoning one to close ther eyes and never open them again.
He chuckles slightly, but grabs a pair of underwear, and lifts the sheet, waiting for me to make some room, and slips under the covers as well. I sigh in relief, and lay my head on his chest, ever since this morning that I woke up on his chest, I have wanted nothing more than to lay back on it again, and after the day we’ve had, there was nothing wrong with seeking human warmth.

Notes

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