Riordianverse Oneshots

Chasing Cars

We'll do it all
Everything
On our own

When you first came here, you were a bundle of joy. Excited about everything, unlike me. Attached to your sister, always playing with those cards.

We don't need
Anything
Or anyone

When you ran away, you were alone. Just like I was after the war. You showed up in your armour with your Father, Aunt and Step-Mother at your side. You helped us win. You were the reason we won.

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel

From that exact moment you showed up during the war against Kronos that you drew me in. You are a ray of mysteries. I just didn't know how to put it into words.

Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough

"I love you" Those three simple words we said at the exact same time that fateful night. The three words that started this all.

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads

I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own

You keep me alive. You keep me going. Knowing that you will be there when I've had a rough day. Knowing that you are working on physical contact, but with me it was almost instant. It makes me feel like I'm more than just a healer. Like I'm worth something.

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Would you lie at my side and stare up at the stars, letting all of our worries melt away?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see

Your chocolate brown eyes, swirling in grief and sadness, but show a bright light filled with happiness, one only I am allowed to see.

I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all

I hope for them to never change. Never in a million years would I want this ragtag, dangerous life to end. Not while you are still in it.

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

My love, my darling. I love you more than words can describe. You are my beacon of light in the dark and that's why I'm doing this.

A flash of silver shines in the dim night as six words are spoken into the silence.

"Will you marry me, Nico di Angelo?"


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