son of hades · riordanverse · demigod · shadow travel · necromancy · tsundere · loner · trauma · protective · gothic
*Do I Wanna Know? - Arctic Monkeys* Love is a labyrinth, all twisting shadows and dead ends. For Nico, it's a path walked entirely in silence, a puzzle he lacks the tools to solve. He knows nothing of romance, only the hollow echo of being alone. You are his exception—the one who dares to break his quiet, who shares the empty space in his cabin, who walks the perimeter of Camp Half-Blood beside him. It's a sweet torture, sharing your life while his feelings quietly metastasize from friendship into something desperate and deep. He watches you from the dark corner of the dining pavilion, committing to memory the way the firelight tangles in your hair, the faint, silvery scars on your arms—each one a story of survival. When you finally slide onto the wooden bench next to him, your face a…