Dark Prince (Nico Di Angelo x Reader)

Loosing a friend

How long had it been? A day? A week? A month? What difference did it make, when the pain felt just as excruciating as it did when you held onto your best friend’s lifeless body.

You fall onto your knees in front of her grave. The rain mixing in with your salty tears as it ran down the sides of your face.

‘I’m sorry.’ Over and over again you whisper these words, yet they will never suffice. Never bring her back.

You put down the two roses you were holding, on the grave in front of you. The heavy rain beating at them. The pain, as you sat there kept growing until you physically felt it.

How long you sat there crying, only the gods knew.

But when Nico Di Angelo finally found you lying on the ground in the pouring rain you had fallen asleep. The first time you’d been able to close your eyes for more than a few minutes.

His heart sped up as he saw you in your shorts and Camp Half-blood t-shirt unconscious. He ran the last few feet towards you.

He kneels next to your sleeping form, pushing the wet strands of hair from your face. He was about to carry you and take you back to Camp when you let out sob.Then a scream.

You were having a nightmare, or reliving a memory. Your face scrunches up in pain as you let out another cry.

Nico couldn’t take it, his heart hurt seeing you in this much pain. He had thought you were getting better. It had been 6 months since the attack and everyone had moved on, everyone except you.

You changed that day, stopped smiling and your usual cheerful-self robbed from you. You could bring yourself to wear color, it reminded you too much of her. And every time you tried to eat, the guilt washed over you like a tidal wave.

So you stopped, stopped trying to pretend to be happy when you felt like you were dying on the inside, you stopped wearing anything with color and stopped eating. But none of this did anything but worsen the pain.

You had brushed people off, giving excuses whenever they asked about the changes. You shut everybody out and eventually everybody stepped away. Stopped asking, stopped talking, stopped caring.

Everyone but one person, who knew exactly what was happening to you. It had happened to him too and he wasn’t going to let you go through it as well.

So every day he would bring food to the Poseidon cabin for you, sometimes even feeding you. He had been with you every step of the way. You had been getting better, until you snuck out in the middle of the night.

Your eyes flutter open as Nico shakes you awake. ‘Wh…Nico?’ he picks you up easily and you don’t even bother resisting. You look back at the grave and everything comes crashing back to you. The overwhelming grief pushing you over the edge.

You burst into tears clutching at Nico’s rain soaked shirt as he carries you to the car that had been waiting for the two of you. Jules-Albert opened the back door as Nico carefully placed you inside, but you weren’t ready to let go just yet.

‘It just hurts so much.’ you manage to chock out. Nico’s heart lurches as he lets you lie down, his back to the seat as you curled into him.

‘I know (y/n), I know.’ You felt light kisses on top of your head, making you feel the first emotion that wasn’t grief course through your body.

You looked up at the Son of Hades ‘Thank you.’ You whispered

Nico was taken aback as he looked at your wide, innocent, red rimmed eyes. ‘I’m always here for you.’

Was it the rain outside? Or just the way Nico looked, his black shirt clinging to him? You didn’t know, but you leaned up and pressed your lips to his in a light but passionate kiss.

When you pull back, Nico looks surprised, beyond surprised actually. ‘Wh…what was that for?’ he stutters out.

You felt a ghost of a smile on your lips but realized this and tried to cover it up.

Nico however noticed. ‘Was that a smile?’

‘Maybe.’

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I'm really sorry for the late update

i've had mocks all week and this is my first break. whew!

anyway, i don't know how i feel about this one-shot

never really done an angsty one before. but i didn enjoy writing it!

i'll be updating a lot more frequently now that i'm FREE!

(and i may have just found out about the dedication button on Wattpad...)

:D

-A