The white lines kept appearing on Nico's arm. No one would tell him why they were appearing, but he also added to them once he found out how. Scars slowly grew to cover his body, most at his own hand now. He thought no one cared, either that or no one noticed. He kept it up until he could not tell scar from skin, or pain from peace. Not all was bad at camp though.

Will Solace tried to discreetly glance at his arms and then at Nico's. Nico noticed, but did not comment on it. Nico started to notice more scars at the other's hand on their body, but knew that they were starting to cover almost all of his skin instead of just most of it. The scars on his hand looked like scalpel wounds. More appeared every day, and very few were on accident.

Percy noticed all of his scars but refused to bring it up to Nico after all of his suffering. It clearly wasn't affecting his health and it was his body. He may not cope well, but it is better than not coping at all. Nico observed the scars forming on his hands and then searched for a surgeon in the infirmary. He found Will Solace. He would not bring it up until Will did, but he would not dance around the topic.

Nico added on a daily basis now. Why not add when nobody noticed or cared and he was still alive. The blood oozing from the lines on his arms and wrists calmed him when he panicked. The scent of iron is synonymous with the son of Hades. They assumed it was just because of his godly parentage. It was all the unbandaged cut on his arms. It was why he always had his jacket on.

He was sent to the infirmary for the blood scent and to see if it was his godly parentage. Will was the one to check and could Immediately tell that it was from cuts. He had too many scars for it to not be that. For once, the jacket came off, and the scars showed. To tell scar from skin was near impossible. The hand scars on Will were on his hands as well.

A mere hug is all the child of Hades needed to sob as though it was his life mission. Will sat there and took it for close to six hours when he finally fell asleep. For once, he to was in the Infirmary resting. Will knew that he should take a break before he felt the need to carve into his skin just to stay awake and ready for patients. After all, what can an emotionally numb Doctor do.

It turns out that he was in a deep sleep. Not deep enough to prevent nightmares. It was so deep, that his body simply gave up after all of the misery.