━━━━GREAT GODS!
❝ but do you feel like
a young god? ❞
( the blood of olympus )
( multiple characters x ocs! )
( "heroes of old" book three )
( heroes of...
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━chapter twenty, ❝sanitizing is a complimentary community service!❞ 『R O M E O』
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━━━Two days ago, Romeo had felt his uncle die.
He had woken in a cold sweat, feeling as though his throat was constricting, tightening, and something deep in his stomach was knotting, a feverish sickness spreading throughout him. He felt so insanely cold and yet so feverishly warm━and he had been so certain that Death had come to him that he began crying.
Then he felt it.
A tug on his heart, a simple knowing in his soul━his uncle was going. Death's cold hand had touched his uncle's shoulder, had swept up his soul, and took him to the underworld.
He had stumbled to the nearest room━Valentina. She seemed to have just woken.
Cold sweat had been dripping down his face. "Uncle Julius is dead."
And then there had been a scream ━ the voice of his little cousin letting out a cry, and Romeo could have sworn she had yelled, "Ajax!" The following noise sounded something like a choked sob and Romeo turned around at once, storming down the hall, Valentina right behind him.
He threw open the door of Regina's cabin and there she was, hunched over, head in her hands, sobbing so loudly; Hazel was rubbing her back, trying to get her to calm down. For some reason, something in Romeo stopped.
His theta mark prickled on his wrist.
Valentina had pushed past him and comforted Regina at once.
Romeo was shaking. The tightness in his throat disappeared and the knot in his stomach wavered and died, and emotion hit him. Replaced in his throat was a dryness, the building of a sob, and he felt weak. So, so dangerously weak.
He could not stand to see Regina so upset. To see Valentina so upset. He could not bare to think of what his mother and Uncle Marcel was feeling right now. He did not want to think of the fate of the world on their shoulders, on his shoulders, which included the lives of his family.
He would never see his mother again━that much he knew. And he knew how much his cousins loved him, and though that should've brought him warmth, it brought him nothing but guilt. He would die. Death━his very father━would sweep up his soul and take him to the underworld. And Romeo was afraid of that. So deeply afraid of where he would end up, of what would happen to his family, of what the feeling of dying would feel like ━ how would he die? Would it be anything like what happened to Bryce Lawrence, or his Uncle Julius? Would it be so painful, so sickening?
