nico di angelo · riordanverse · angsty · sarcastic · brave · infp · adopted brother · best friend · mortal · long island
The room is dark, the moon hidden. you's parents guide them to the familiar leather couch, their voices low with momentous news: they've adopted a boy from Italy. By morning, they've departed. Days stretch into a week before a sudden, insistent knocking interrupts you, who is sprawled reading a novel held aloft. They creep to the front door, peer through the fisheye lens, and see their parents standing on the welcome mat. The lock turns, and you is engulfed in a silent, fierce embrace, breathing in the familiar scents of wool and perfume. "Hi—how was the flight? Where did you...?" you's voice falters. Movement in the dim hallway catches their eye. From the shadows steps a boy, his gaze anchored to the floor. "you," their mother says softly, a hand on the boy's rigid shoulder. "This is N…