floriography [ stories five ]

gods & monsters || five

[ okay this skips forward like a year and we can all pretend that's unreasonable but for the greek gods solving conflicts i think a year is actually pretty decent.

it is?? so awkward for me to use the name 'isaiah' bc that's my juul addicted redneck cousin that's turning 18 this year lmao
unrelated but i just finished reading 'five feet apart' and i've been in tears for like half an hour send help

-lew. ]

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A year later, things hadn't gotten better.

I mean, generally speaking, anyway. This didn't count the technically nice things, like Harry and Logan adopting 'Cupid' (a six year old kid whose real name was Isaiah), or Logan practically becoming a father to most of the younger deities, or even Logan being nice enough to not break Nix's phone after the constant memes.

Initially, in that year since everyone's lives got turned upside down, Lewis wanted to keep Alex out of this bullshit. But, just a few short months after, Alex got a visit from everyone's favorite war god. (That's a lie, Ronnie's the favorite war god.)

Ezra's demands were pretty simple. Join his side willingly or be his test subject for what it takes to kill an immortal. Alex, wisely for once, chose option one.

The quick text Alex sent his husband that day almost got printed out and framed as a reminder of why Alex probably should've been dead by then. It read: 'hi honey i'm being recruited by the enemy lol pray for me'.

What a shining example of a human being.

But it ended up being a blessing in disguise. Following in the tradition of his predecessor, Ezra intended to have Alex follow him into battle. As if Alex would just betray all the people he actually liked just like that.

But Alex could be a much needed spy, to help direct Bailey. ("No, we don't need to hear about the snacks someone brought, we need to hear their plans, Bailey.") Understandably, Lewis wasn't fond of this idea, and when he found out that Logan knew before him, it was not a good time. Several of the younger children learned new curse words that day. (Plus, Alex spent a few awkward days crashing on Logan's couch. Not fun.)

But, for now, everything was calm. That morning, when Logan finally got out of bed, he wandered downstairs to find Harry and Isaiah (although, he still got called Cupid a lot, considering it was months before he told them his real name) sitting at the table, eating breakfast.

The first thing he did was wrap his arm around Harry and then kiss his temple. As soon as Isaiah looked up from his plate, he was up out of his seat to give Logan a hug. Of course, although he was kind of expecting it, it still made his heart melt a little. Logan never really thought he'd get an opportunity like this.

Obviously, he knelt down so it was easier, giving Isaiah a hug in return. "I thought you had school today, buddy."

He looked confused, but Harry chimed in, "Honey, it's Saturday. And... check the groupchat."

After a quick, affectionate forehead kiss and taking a moment to ruffle Cupid's hair, he pulls out his phone. Already, there's a pileup of messages, from both the original 'fuck ezra' chat and the new and improved, Nix-free, 'official business' chat. He visited the old one, just to clear out the plethora of notifications: memes and then yelling/scolding because of said memes.

The newest message in the new chat was from their Hephaestus, a man named Caleb, who was in his mid-twenties and missing his left leg from the knee down. All the message said was: 'next person to see alex irl tell him the net is done just come get it. he's not answering his phone'.