I Don't Care That Much
Lore excerpt
Koiyans first night of sleep apnea
Koiyan never came out of her room to avoid crossing Hades’ path and making him even more angry that she was still in the underworld. Unfortunately for them, Hades always knows who is in his domain. Hades was in his office late at night when he felt her soul stir in unease. Hades sighed and continued his work until he didn’t hear her breathing. Hades didn’t notice at first but then a voice in his mind said that it was too quiet. Hades shrugged it off for a second before realizing that mortals needed to breathe and there was a mortal in his house. He scrambled out of his chair, tripping over his sandals as he ran.
“Shitshitshitshitshit-” Hades repeated like a mantra as he scurried down the hall to the room where Koiyan was staying in
He busted open the door and saw the kid asleep on their bed but no motion from her chest. Hades immediately woke Koiyan up, the fatherly side of him taking over his disdain for the girl. She woke up with a start, taking a deep breath in as she lay in the bed.
“Damn it girl, you can't just stop breathing out of nowhere kid!”
“I did?”
“You did.”
“Oh.”
Koiyan looked blankly at the roof of the canopy bed.
“Sorry.”
“What are you even sorry for, girl? You can’t control what your body does when unconscious.”
“For pulling you out of your work.”
“The work can wait. It’s just about shades final destination.”
“Isn’t that important?”
“...It can wait.”
Koiyan let out a small chuckle, the faint smile fading from her face after a beat of silence. Hades sat on the edge of the bed, looking at the bare room. Hades never usually had guests that weren’t shades or his relatives so the guest rooms were neglected. The newly dusted room only had a bed, bedside tables, and an empty shelf. Hades shifted in his spot, seeing not even the bare necessities were present in the room for a child like them.
“What do you like child?” Hades tilted his head to look at the ceiling, avoiding to look at the kid.
“... The night sky.”
“Then we shall install that into the ceiling then.”
“You don't have to do that.”
“You are staying here for a while now. It is only necessary for the room to reflect you.”
“You’re allowing me to stay?”
“Haven’t I been allowing you to stay ever since you came down here?”
Hades stood up from the bed and strode to the door, his back facing Koiyan.
“And do eat more. I have been hearing the servers worry about you after your meals. Do you really only eat just a part of your meal? Not even a fifth of the food?”
“The servings were too big…”
“That is only the correct serving size for a child your size what do you mean the portion is too much for you?” Hades' voice grew a bit irritated, not at Koiyan but at who had been taking care of the child before Zagreus found them.
“I’m just used to eating smaller.”
“Fine, your servings will be smaller but do try and eat more than what's given. You’re just skin and bones and that much will not satisfy you.”
Koiyan let out a small hum of acknowledgment before Hades exited the room, gently shutting the door. Hades let out a sigh and opened his eyes to see Nyx just standing there when she hadn’t been standing there before. Hades almost jumped out of his skin.
“Nyx!” Hades quickly quieted himself to a whisper from his startled yelp, “What are you doing here?”
“I was going to check on the child myself but it seems like you have had it covered,” Nyx gave a sly smile.
“It was only because she had stopped breathing, Nyx. Nothing more than that.”
“What was that about installing the night sky in their room?”
“Just something to let her get acclimated to the world down here.”
Nyx gave a knowing smile, seeing through Hades’ apathetic demeanor
“We shall get that situated tomorrow morning then,” Nyx nodded before disappearing in black smoke, leaving Hades in the hallway.
Hades sighed, dragging his hands down his face at the interaction. He didn’t see the kid as his family, but when her soul stirred again, Hades almost ran back into the room before sensing that she was alright and taking his hand off of the door handle. He banged the palm of his head to his forehead, trying to knock some ‘sense’ back into himself. She’s just a product of an affair. She is nothing, but Hades couldn’t help but worry.
“For the sake of me, that kid will be the end of me.”
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i'm sorry but I see everyone blaming annabeth for stopping percy from killing akhlys but annabeth had every single right to be scared and worried during the akhlys incident 😭
from her pov, a ticking time bomb who has accidentally exhibited power beyond anything seen in her generation is probably going insane from idk? trudging through literal hell? and oh yeah she also thinks that he's probably mad at her for dragging him into hell. she had every reason to think that percy would accidentally hurt her.
"b-but there should be trust in a relationship 🙏" that's for chadifer from your local high school nOT A HALF INSANE ELDRITCH HORROR HALF GOD MURDERING A PRIMORDIAL GODDESS IN FRONT OF YOU.
"ungrateful 🤬" yeah you're totally right, you got intense traumatic experience where you thought the most kind, good person you knew had finally broken and lost all the good inside them and was going to kill you. how are you not grateful for that, huh? when you were her age-
i'm sorry a frightened 16 year old young girl trying to calm down the dangerous power that is her bf tragically ruined your hot fantasies of dark percy but still.
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