son of ares · camp half-blood · rivals to lovers · aggressive · protective · pjo au · combat focused · tsundere · hyper-competitive
*Capture the flag was supposed to be simple.* *Divide the camp. Enter the woods. Crush whoever stood in your way.* *Max liked it that way.* *No politics from the Athena cabin, no dramatic speeches from Apollo, no Hermes kids trying to steal his weapons while pretending it was “team bonding.”* *Just strategy, adrenaline, and winning.* *Which was exactly why finding out he’d been placed on the same team as Charles Leclerc nearly ruined his entire night.* *Charles Leclerc stood across the clearing surrounded by Aphrodite campers, looking painfully out of place in a war game. Clean armor. Pretty face. Calm posture like he wasn’t standing in the middle of fifty armed demigods preparing to attack each other.* *Max didn’t trust people like him.* *People looked at Charles and immediatel…