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Nico was just helping the campers learn how to sword fight, which took a lot of convincing from Percy to help today. He was sitting on a chair watching the kids make sure they don’t accidentally kill each other or stab each other. When a kid picked up a sword BY THE FUCKING BLADE! So, Nico did the only thing anyone would do. Stand up and run after the kid that was a few feet away? No, he just threw himself at the kid from his sitting potion. And he fell onto the ground by the kid but he first landed on his wrist with all of his weight. Luckily the kid stopped what he was doing without getting hurt but that cannot be said for Nico. Percy, who was helping some kids on the other side of the arena when Percy heard the ruckus so he turned and screamed. Yes, you read the right he screamed out of horror because Nico was crying in pain from his wrist. Percy ran over to Nico and helped him up with his injured hand. “Okay, everyone, class is dismissed, I need to take Nico here to the infirmary. So, leave and do something else.” Percy said with a panicked expression on his face and in his voice. There are just tears now rolling down Nico’s face with a dead expression on his face. So the kids scattered out to gods knows where.
Everyone who sees Percy and Nico (who now just had tear-stained faces again with a dead expression) was extremely worried. No one has ever seen Nico even show emotion other than annoyance and now here is with a tear-stained face. Something terrible must have happened to him. An Aphrodite and Hermes campers that were on the date started spreading rumors that since Nico was cradling his arm (which was his right) with his left that maybe he was poisoned and it spread like wildfire. Half the camp was convinced this happened when Percy and Nico finally made it to the infirmary, listen, when there is only preparing for a quest that might never come it can get pretty boring quickly so gossip was a hobby of just about everyone, so it traveled faster than Hermes.
Percy threw open the door, which scared the shit out of Austin who was cleaning up the entrance because someone vomited early. “Oh, my God's Jackson! What the fuck was that for? You look fine and don’t you have that water thing that heals you? Why are you here?” Austin yells still startled by the outburst.
“Um, Nico hurt his. . .wrist?” Percy says more like a question than a statement. Austin, who didn’t see Nico now, immediately went into “Let Me See If I Can Help Or If I Need Will To Do It” mode. “Why did you say it like a question?” Austin asks now, going to Nico quietly and asking if he could hold and look at his wrist and he shook his head. Austin looks at it while asking “How did you hurt it?”
“I was watching the kids that were in sword fighting class and I saw one try to pick up the sword by the blade and I was sitting and I was so panicked about the kid hurting themselves that I threw myself from the chair near it,” Nico mumbles wincing once in a while when Austin prods too much.
“Well, it looks broken. So what did you really do Nico? I won’t tell Will.” Austin stops working and looks at Nico.
“What do you mean? That is what happened.” Nico asks looking at Austin's question and pain clear on his face and that pissed Austin off for some reason.
“You cannot break your wrist that way!” Austin yells and at that Percy slowly makes his way out of the infirmary.
“Well, tell that to my wrist!” Nico yelled back at Austin and at that point, Percy was gone.
“What in the hell is going on here?” Will asks coming in to see why there was yelling from his brother and boyfriend not being able to make out what they were saying. Once he laid his eyes on both of them and noticed that Nico was holding his right arm with his left, not wanting to touch his wrist out of fear of making the pain worse. “Nico, darling what happened?” Going into “Concerned Boyfriend” and “Doctor Mode” looking at Nico’s wrist.
“He broke his wrist,” Austin says, watching his brother.
“Why were you yelling then?” Will asks going to get some nectar to pour on it and some Ambrose for Nico to eat.
“Well, Nico said the way he broke his wrist was he was sitting watching the kids practice sword fighting, and some kid was going to pick up the sword by the blade and he threw himself off the chair and boom.”
“I landed on my wrist.”
“Oh, you didn’t say that. I am sorry. Man, I really should have thought more. I am so sorry Nico.” Austin says. “It just all says people would lie about how they got injured so they wouldn’t get in trouble. I should have been more understanding.”
“It’s fine. The Gods know I would have been pissed too.” Nico says as Will pours the nectar over the wrist and eats the Ambrose. “Are you feeling better dear?” Will asks, kissing his forehead. “Kinda.”
“Do you think you could move your wrist?” Will asks and Nico shook his head. “Okay, I don’t want to push it in case your pain gets worse so I am going to bandage it.” And so Will did that. So for the next week when he needed the bandage everyone was so accommodating. Nico thinks hovering was the word, especially Will and Austin. Will because that is how Will works with him. And Austin because he was guilty about snapping that day. Nico found it the most annoying thing along with that he couldn’t practice his sword fighting skills or really do anything he likes. All he could do was read, but the only positive thing about this was that Will gave him a lot of cuddles and since he couldn’t do anything else, it was nice to spend more time with his boyfriend.