So this is a short multichap fic I wrote for World Suicide Prevention Day. It's based off an AU prompt thingy I saw on tumblr that was like "penpals who vent to each other every week" but it's not entirely that. (If anyone is waiting for Fighting for the Future, I swear I'll update soon, I just have to get past the writer's block I'm having for it at the moment, sorry.)

Disclaimer: I don't own Nico or Will or any other mentioned characters. They belong to Rick Riordan

Warnings: Contains mentions of suicidal thoughts and self-harm, because of poor baby Will. :( So yeah, please watch out if you think you'll be triggered. ILY. And language in later chapters will be sorta bad... Also the grammar/spelling sucks, esp. in this chapter and any sections with IM/texting b/c in this one they're 13 and in the other ones, they're on IM sooooooo yeah.

Chapter One: 2013

July 5, 2013

Dear will solace,

I'm going to admit that writing to a penpal seems ridiculous. This was my cousin's gf's idea b/c I "need to socialize more." (My dad said that, btw, not Annabeth (cousin's gf). Like he can talk. He hardly ever leaves the house. Like, not even for work or to visit my cousins/uncles. WTH?)

Anywayz, this was Annabeth's solution to that, b/c I don't like people. I still think this is stupid. I socialize with my cousins (Percy, Jason, Thalia, and Tyson) and my sisters and their friends. I just don't rly have friends of my own. Whatever, it should still count. :(

Um. Annabeth says I should tell you a little about myself. My fave color is black, and the bands I like are MCR, Panic! At The Disco, Bring me the Horizon and Falling in Reverse.

Those are stupid things to tell someone. How bout something interesting, like that my older sister, Bianca, almost died three years ago in a plane crash, but she didn't b/c… idk why it was magical. I guess. Or that my mom died when I was really little, like three or four, so we were sent to live with our dad. (They were divorced by then. Idk why.) I have a stepmother, Persephone, who hates me, and Bianca and our younger half-sister, Hazel, like to act like my mothers. Its annoying.

Also, my dad is Hades Dis, owner of DOA Recording Studio. Just btw.

IDK what else to write so I'm gonna go now.

Bye, I guess.

Nico di Angelo

July 8, 2013

Dear Nico,

WAAAAT? Penpals are awesome! I have two of them – you and this kid named Cecil who I started writing to for school last year. He's cool, but he has SO MANY SIBLINGS that it's hard to keep track when he talks about them.

I have lots of siblings too. (My dad is kinda a player oops, lol.) In order, its: Lee, then Michael, then ME, and then Kayla, Hallie and Lillie (they're twins!), and Harley, and then Tate, who's pretty much still a baby. We all live with my dad in his mansion. It's HUGE b/c my dad is Apollo of Apollo Records. I guess tht means we have something in common – our dads are in the music biz.

It must be cool to have two siblings instead of six. (Well, I actually have more that are like half-siblings from my mom and there's Tessa who's Dad's but she's twenty-four, and Dad used to be a foster parent before Lee was born, but yea.)

All my sisters do is sing and put on plays and stuff. Hallie likes to write songs/plays and Lillie and Kayla perform them. Harley just plays dolls by herself or with Tate, and she's REALLY quiet, and doesn't like crowds or people and HATES paparazzi, which like is understandable, but the quiet thing is weird.

And my older brothers just boss me around and practice archery and stuff. I'm normally alone, which sucks, but t means that I've read a LOT of Medical Journals. I could tell you scary things about the human body.

I haven't listened to any of the bands you like, but Tessa likes them. She says they're too hardcore for me, but I listened to a couple of MCR's songs (My Chemical Romance, right?) and they're really good. I mostly listen to like. Country. (Plz don't judge me, lol.)

Anyway, write back soon!

Will Solace