The Stygian Blade Shines In The Sun [Percy Jackson] [Solangelo]

"Nico didn't know exactly when he had grown so cynical, so cold, so unresponsive to human connection. Maybe it had been when he had first realized just how different he was from others, and just how much that difference could cost him. Maybe it had been when his mother died. Maybe it happened when he learned that the boy he saw as an ideal to be reached was just a human, fallible and prone to error. Maybe it happened when he lost his sister. Maybe when he was dragged down to Tartarus. Maybe when the one person he thought he could trust, Minos, betrayed him. "

Nico di Angelo, the son of Hades, had always thought that he was a burden on others, someone to be tolerated, not loved and cared for. He thought that others simply saw him as a useful tool for their various quests. And he was fine with that. He could live with that. If that was his lot in life, he could accept that

Until of course, everything changed. Like a shining burst of light, Will Solace entered his life, and like the Sun illuminating even the darkest corners of the world, showed him that his life was nowhere near as lonely and isolated as he thought it was, and that there were people who loved him, chief among them being Will himself