✧ ˚ ⋆ ｡ — lana couldn’t help but blush a little , and giggled , but as soon as she saw the face to the voice , she cleared her throat. LOGAN RIVERA , the boy who just wouldn’t leave her alone. the nemesis head had to be honest , the first few times logan had flirted with her she was as red as a tomato. she would politely decline , saying things like ’ if lexa broke up with you , i ’ m not sure i want in’ or ’ aren’t we t h r e e years apart ? ’ , to the point of her just trying to keep things casual , but not seem standoffish while doing so. “ hi , logan , ” she said with the signature costa-viro fake smile she had inherited at birth. “ it ’ s nice to see someone interested in my work , ”
a grin spreads across his face in victory. she can hide behind her apathetically composed self, but the evidence says otherwise by her briefly warmed cheeks. he’d never actually try anything with the daughter of nemesis, not with their current age gap anyway, he’s not a CREEP. still, her presence provides him entertainment and he wasn’t lying when he’d said how boring camp had been. “ of course, you’ve always got my undying support. ” what a joke coming from the most uncommitted person in the camp. still, he rests his elbows on the table, rests his head in his hands as he enthusiastically looks up at her. “ i beg of you, please tell me your secrets. otherwise, if i die of boredom, it’ll be on your hands. ”
“Second best dude?” Darin asked with a laugh. “I like the sound of that.”
“ Good man, ” he replies, leaning back in his chair. “ Because I’ve just returned from vacation and this place has been terribly boring. Apparently there was some ... incident ? and now it’s got everyone in a non-partying mood. ”
✧ ˚ ⋆ ｡ — MICHAELA DIDN’T BELIEVE IN INJURIES — , but her sprained wrist from yesterday evening ’ s night watch hurt like hell. ( note to herself: never underestimate the power of cats ) , and was currently studying the bruises while on her way to the infirmary. it had been a pretty unlucky day for the hunter , starting from pouring her food down another camper , and now spraining her wrist , what was soon coming at her was worse — bumping into someone. logan rivera , to be exact. grumbling a , “ i can ’ t believe this , ” she does her best to avoid him , all efforts futile.
logan doesn’t make a habit of ever visiting the infirmary. actually, he does his very best to avoid it at all costs. unfortunately, he’d had just a tad too much bourbon the night before and had somehow managed to climb a tree, and then land quite clumsily on his ass, his leg getting rather scratched up against the branches on the way down. he’s sitting on one of the cots now, waiting to be released, when a girl bumped into him. what an excellent way to waste time, he thinks to himself. “ m i c h a e l a ? ” he asks with a grin, as though it is christmas morning. “ are we .... infirmary buddies ? ”
Darin laughed. “It’s a gift and a curse,” he said. “I can’t always help what the hell I walk into. I can see why you’re the favorite, you seem like a good dude.”
“ Y i k e s, I can only image the weird shit you’ve had to put up with. ” Logan takes another swig of his drink and then grins at Darin’s remark. “ Why thank you, kind sir, I am the best dude. Stick around and you, perhaps, can become the second best dude. ”
A storm is raging on across the beach, not an uncommon occurrence for the coast of New York. The campers usually remain untouched, dry and warm, except for the rare occasions when someone manages to upset a child of Zeus so much that their carefully guarded atmosphere erupts into disarray. The demigod at fault tonight is Logan Rivera, and, while this certainly is not his first offense this summer, this storm he will not forget.
This is how it has always played out, for as long as Logan can recall. The two of them purposely navigating their conversations in such a way that their words reach through the cracks of the other’s carefully veiled and constructed images, hitting where it s t i n g s. Insults tossed around like candy, although an unsaid agreement has seemed to pass between them: mockery of one’s significant others, godly parents, friends ? Completely acceptable, but they never mention their mothers, those mortals their fathers fell in love with who they can never seem to please.
After a particularly biting argument with his sister where she decided their mother was not off limits of discussion, Logan found himself back at the beach where so many of his and Skye’s arguments take place. He’s not even quite certain what they’re arguing about tonight, too distracted to play attention, when her dark eyes meet his in a calculating glare.
“ Why won’t you just leave me alone ? ”
A harsh snicker escapes him, “ I believe this started because I chose to have a peaceful night at the beach and you interrupted. ”
“ I was here first and you know it, ” she defends, and he can only grin. He knows she’s right, but it’s been a year, and it’s yet to have been settled.
“ You never answered my question. Why aren’t you off flirting with all your girlfriends instead of bothering me ? ”
The daughter of Zeus is still glaring intensely, as if his very existence is a nuisance, but it feels as though her stare could reach the depths of his soul that he’s lost touch with years ago.
Perhaps it’s the fight with Lorelai. Perhaps it’s from being the reason they lost Capture the Flag a few hours ago. Perhaps it’s because this gods forbidden girl has drenched his Brunello Cucinelli button-down shirt in her anger, but Logan returns her glare with equal ferocity.
“ Skye Sinworth, you are the most d e n s e girl that I have ever met in my life. ”
She looks shell-shocked at first, because he has never insulted her intelligence, but when she opens her mouth to retort, he takes another step forward, cutting her off.
He has done so well at concealing this secret, just like all the others, but the moment the words begin tumbling out of his lips Logan is well aware there is no going back.
“ Why do I p e s t er you ? Gods, I’d give about anything to be flirting instead, but any time I so much as touch another girl I’m thinking how she’s not smart enough, not confident enough. She doesn’t have enough sass, enough style, enough ambition. ”
Perhaps she’s not understanding, so he takes another step closer, gently touches the soaked ends of her hair. “ They’re never good enough anymore, and gods I wish they were, but I close my eyes and I see the girl who won’t put up with my false pretenses, the one who’s never afraid to tell me what she thinks. She is ridiculous and infuriating and so gods damned beautiful and it almost causes me actual physical pain to not be able to shout to the world that y o u are all that I want. ”
A strike of lightning hits the sand a few yards away, and he’s not sure if he’s fried Skye’s circuits by her speechless face or if Zeus himself has been angered, but he closes the distance between him anyway. She belongs to someone else -- by technicality, as if Skye Sinworth could ever truly belong to anyone --, but Logan cannot find it in himself to care as his lips crash against hers, because her lips taste like heaven and it’s well worth the electrocution probably awaiting him.
• LOGAN CONOR RIVERA •
⌜ SKYEGAN ⌟ A E S T H E T I C
I kissed you the moment l i g h t n i n g struck.
I wanted to know, with bright certainty,
that for the rest of your l i f e,
every time you heard t h u n d e r,
you would taste my l i p s.
Darin took the bottle and poured a little more into his cup.
“I’m Darin. My dad’s Morpheus. And you?”
“ morpheus, huh ? man, i’d use that dream walking ability every night of my life. ” he admits with a chuckle, finishing off his own glass of old fashioned. “ i’m a son of poseidon, the favorite, besides maybe bella. ”
he pulls the chair beside the daughter of nemesis out from the table, sitting down with a flourish as he slowly looks her over. “ lana costa-viro, do you simply get more stunning every day ? ” he says this loudly enough that it is overheard at the nearby tables, wanting his obvious flirting with lana to reach the ears of others. “ please tell me you have good g o s s i p for me, it’s been so somber around here today. ”
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