Wings and Tails

Chapter Fifteen

Thanatos felt Tritons breathing slow down as he hugged his torso.

The death god looked down at him, seeing the quite pleasing visage of a sleeping Triton. He gently kissed the top of his head.

Tri hummed and snuggled closer against him. Pressing his face against Thanatos' neck.

The god couldn't help but smile. The merman really was quite touchy. He had thought that it was an act when he didn't know Tri particularly well but now he was convinced.

Tri was extremely hug-y.

And for some reason cold a lot.

Thanatos didn't care why nor did he mind. He got to hug the smaller god a lot.

His family wasn't exactly the affection showing type. The closest you could get to a hug with them would be in a headlock. He had grown up thinking that was how all families were. Disfunctional, confusing, violent and dramatic. All siblings fighting over everything. All of them brilliant fighters because of the constant need to stay vigilant. To stay focused. Half in and half out of touch with everything. Expecting an attack from every side while still concentrating on the matters at hand.

Thanatos had grown up in Tartarus, during the time of the Titans.

Being in Tartarus alone is no piece of cake. Even while being a god. If you could even call him a god. His mother is a Primordial, two of his siblings are also Primordials. He was born at the time of the Titans, yet he calls himself a god.

Thanatos preferred not to think about it. He would just identify as whatever deities ruled over the supernatural world at the time. Now it was the gods so a god Thanatos would call himself. It was easier that way. Instead of being constantly confused over what he is. Erebus some might even call Thanatos a Primordial.

He was about to wake Tri but then he hesitated. His hand centimetres away from Tritons shoulder.

Maybe he shouldn't wake him up. If he fell asleep then he must be tired, but they couldn't really stay here because monsters would come out. They usually do at night. They wouldn't bother Thanatos as he was of the Underworld, just like them. Tri was not. They would bother Tri.

But Thanatos could take him somewhere so that he could sleep. Then Thanatos would look like a creep that took people when they slept.

However sometimes he did do that. Wait wait not in a creept way some people do die in their sleep you know.

Thanatos finally decided he would wake Tri up to ask if he could take him somewhere so that he could sleep in peace. He tapped the gods neck lightly, but just enough that he would feel it.

Triton groaned and went to smack Thanatos' hand away but missed, by quite a bit. He ended up slapping himself in the face.

Thanatos smiled, "Do you want to go somewhere else so you can sleep?"

"Hmmm?"

"Do you want to go somewhere so you can sleep? Monsters vome out here at night."

"Sleep? Yes. Walk? No."

"I'll carry you."

"You could do much more to me if you wanted to," Tri mumbled.

Thanatos froze for a second, then he (metaphorically) shrugged the comment off. Imagining that it was just Tri messing with him.

He put his free arm under the mermans legs and double checked that his other arm was holding the other god right. That he wouldn't end up dropping him. Once he was sure that it was alright he moved slightly so that he was on one knee while still holding the sleeping god bridal style. He gently stood up and willed the shadows to take them back to the Underworld.