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Lilith suddenly fell lifeless as tears started sliding down her polished face. "Hey, girl, stop joking." Nico grabbed her arms and shook her gently. "This isn't funny." From the eerie silence, a loud snore erupted from Lily. "Really, you fell asleep here?"

Nico slid his arm under her legs and by her neck to hoist her up into the air. As he carried her near the cabins, he couldn't help but be tantalized by her sweet aroma. He thought about carrying her all the Poseidon Cabin, but soon realized that he was too exhausted form earlier in the game to do so. Eventually, he decided to just bring her back to Hades Cabin.

He slowly lowered the body of the sleeping Lilith onto his bed, since there were no other beds in his Cabin. Nico had planned to sleep on the floor, but Lilith refused to let go of his hand. So he had slipped into his bed with her. The warm heat that radiated off of her body had absorbed into Nico's cold skin. A child of Hades was born with skin as frigid as ice. He began to melt in her presence. Even he began to fall under the spell of sleep, which was rare for him. He suffered from night terrors and barely got 3 hours of sleep. But with Lilith, all of the fears began to fade away. Before he allowed himself to fall into his sub consciousness, he ever so gently placed a kiss on Lilith's forehead. As they both began to fade away into their dreams.

In the morning, Lilith awoke in a daze, in an environment she was not familiar with. She wiped her brown fringe out of her eyes and yawned.

"It's about time you woke up." Her heart began to throb uncontrollably inside her chest. She looked to her right and saw Nico standing upright. Water droplets dripped down his pale neck as he dried his hair off with a towel.

Lilith's eyes were agape as she covered herself in the blankets once more and exclaimed "Pervert!"

Nico threw the towel on a chair near his desk and sat down. "Do you know any other word?! You're the once that fell asleep in the woods yesterday. You should be thankful that I picked you up and carried you all the way over here. The Harpies would have gotten you for sure." He felt triumphant as he began to straighten up his dusky desk. It had been a while since he had come back to his home.

"If you carried me all the way here, then why didn't you just carry me all the way over to my cabin? It's just across the yard." Nico tried to hide the look of pure embarrassment on his face as he thought to himself; Why would I want to do that, idiot. He quickly dismissed the idea and reminded himself; She's nothing special. As he opened his mouth to respond, footsteps were heard around the cabin.

"Cabin inspections. Hurry, go out the back to your cabin, if they catch you in here, we'll both be in trouble." Lilith scrambled to get out of the sheets and out to the back door., eventually making it back to her cabin.

Percy greeted her when she walked inside. "Whoa, I just thought you were sleeping. And you are still in the same clothes from yesterday." She struggled to come up with an excuse. "I was too lazy to change last night and I forgot to grab my clothes. " Please let him believe, please let him believe Lilith thought to herself.

"Oh, then go ahead. I should have known you weren't the type to follow rules. What was I thinking?" Percy began to head to the entrance when he looked back and said "And you better clean your space, messiest cabin gets to clean all the dishes.

A look of horror shot across Lilith's face. Percy just smiled and said "I believe in you"

Lily began to sing to herself a song from her favorite movie.
"7 A.M. time for the usual morning line up,
Start on chores, Sleep till the floor's all clean,
Polish and wax, do laundry, mop and shine up,
Sweep again, and by then, its' like 7:15

And so I'll read a book, or maybe 2 or 3,
I'll add a few new paintings to my gallery
I'll play guitar and knit,
and cook and basically,
Just wonder when will my life begin"

A smile finally lit up upon her face as she began to sing. In truth, Lilith loved singing, but she was very insecure about how she sounded. Withered faces in her memories still haunt her with nasty words. The blank faces that looked back at her shot nothing but anger and rage. She never took criticism well and could never tell when people were joking.

By the time she finished cleaning her side of the room, the harpies had arrived. "Pass"

Lilith was never one to eat breakfast, and even if she did she would eat very little. She simply just gathered her things and decided to take a shower. Man, I reek. Did Nico notice that? More and more thoughts about Nico began to surface unintentionally inside her mind. She didn't know it then, but that night something beautiful had bloomed inside both of them, something warm, lively and wonderful that needed protection. Something that would change both their lives, forever.