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When Will heard the cries of agony coming towards the infirmary, he half expected to see a camper coming in with a limb missing. He did not expect to find a panicked Apollo marching up to the front desk complaining about ‘his imminent and painful demise.’
Will glanced at Nico, who was behind the front desk, looking like he couldn’t decide whether to laugh or pull his sword out and pommel-whip the ex-sun god. Will cleared his throat and Apollo’s head snapped in his direction.
“Will!” Apollo ran towards Will, grabbing his shoulders abruptly and shaking the young medic frantically. “You must help me! My entire skull is throbbing with a truly unbearable pain. Now know how Zeus must have felt when Athena sprang out of his head! You have to help me.”
A switch flipped in Will’s head, shifting from slightly-weirded-out-son to concerned medic. He gently grabbed Apollo’s hands, removing them from his shoulders and leading him towards an empty cot.
“Sit down,” said Will. “Can you describe the pain? Is it stabbing, throbbing, pulsating?”
“All of the above!” Apollo cried.
Nico chuckled, attempting to cover it up with a cough when Will shot him a glare. Apollo was a bad enough patient on his own, he didn’t need the snarky son of Hades to make things more difficult.
“Okay,” Will sighed, trying to think through the possible reasons why Apollo might be having such a severe headache. “Was it hurting all day, or just when you went outside? Because it’s really hot out today, maybe you just got a bit too much sun, or-“
“You think the god of the Sun could get too much sun?” Apollo moaned.
This time, Nico couldn’t help but laugh, ducking behind one of the cloth partitions to avoid another one of Will’s signature bitch faces.
“Oh, to be mortal!” Apollo continued. “The gods must be laughing from Olympus watching their old companion wither away from his own domain!”
Will mentally checked ‘heat exhaustion’ off his list of possible causes.
“Is there anything you can think of that might help me figure out why your head hurts? I can give you some painkillers or ambrosia, but I’d rather know what’s causing it before I start giving out medications.”
Apollo let out an exasperated sigh. “It hurt’s all the time! It hurts when I go to bed, when I wake up, it hurt horribly while I was eating my eggs this morning and-“
“-while you were eating?” Nico raised his eyebrow.
Apollo nodded, and Will and Nico exchanged a glance. Nico gestured to his mouth, miming biting down on something and Will nodded before turning his attention back to the distressed ex-god in front of him.
“I think I know what it is,” Will sighed. “It’s time for you to have your first ever dentist appointment.”