here's hope
summary: Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
–—NicoAnnabeth (pre The Lost Hero)
side notes: All requests from alligator skies will be carried onto here ; I wanted to do a NicoAnnabeth just because Annabeth said she felt nothing for him ; I finished MoA at almost 11:30 last night hehe.
one. if i just lay [here]
In the calm before the storm, you lie with a boy in the grass and stare at the stars and gods that are not there.
He points out Zeus, Poseidon, Hades—their Roman forms: Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto—but you see nothing. You're holding hands and it feels almost not really maybe quite alright. You think about how, in Roman form, Pluto was much more respected and Poseidon was not—because you're just so symbolic or something like that.
Nico di Angelo, king of ghosts, son of the god of the dead, best friends with death—he makes you feel like the most alive person in the entire world. You wonder what trickery this is.
.
You want to ask Annabeth Chase how long this will last. You think you love her but you're really still a child so what do you know? Hades always gets the worst lot.
You kiss her instead. She tastes like strawberries.
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You wonder how lonely or odd you have to be to fall in love with the son of the dead. Because you are falling in love, aren't you, Annabeth Chase?
Nico di Angelo kisses you, and now you're more confused than ever.