[Well if you'd ask Hiro would go get some. Jeeze. He sort of regrets even broaching the topic but that's an excellent point.
Messing up the way he had with Jason would end poorly. And he and Nico did seem to have an understanding most people didn't (which was bizarre in and of itself.)] We sort of talked about the Jason thing after Jason left. Nico's the one who told me to take Clifford and go apologize to him.
[...oh god it's happening again. That weird, twisted feeling in his gut that isn't out of emotional pain but rather something else he wasn't sure he wanted to think about. Thinking about Nico, or having to think of how to explain Nico to people, usually worked him up into a state where he felt his stomach twist and his heart beat a little faster as his brain went into overdrive and a strange, sort of pleased feeling took over.
Why this kept happening when Hiro firmly told his thoughts and emotions "no", he never understood.]
Older sister...sort of the same way Tadashi died. Trying to save somebody else. Nico was ten though. They're demigods so Nico's been sort of outcast his whole life for being a son of Hades which isn't fair since that's kinda not his fault but people treat him differently or are creeped out by his powers. I think I freaked him out when I told him his powers were kinda cool. He's...it's funny. He was born in the 30s but some stuff happened when he was a kid that he got stuck in a timeloop for like seventy years so that's why we're still the same age. He's a few months older than me though. He doesn't trust people very easily and you really have to work at it but when he does trust somebody that's kinda it. We're similar that way. It takes a lot to break trust for him and I haven't managed to do it yet. I've gotta be doing something right.
I don't know, he's just...good to have around. Sometimes I feel like Nico and I are the same person because he gets how my brain works. He gets how to use sarcasm and his sense of humor's kind of twisted but it's okay. Mine probably is, too. And he gets what it's like to want to learn everything in the world. I think he's just as curious as I am about how things work here even though he's been here way longer than me. He's a good storyteller if you can believe that. [A beat.] And he's probably just another reason I'm not dead yet because he's the voice of reason in this mission. Nico and I kind of work that way. He needs to loosen up and I think he thinks I need to calm down. [A mischievous grin.] I haven't told him it's working yet. We're a good team and I know he'd understand if I told him I have to leave for a while but...[And here he stops and he suddenly looks uncertain.] I guess the real thing is that I'm not sure I want to. Not for long anyway. Why can't I have a good balance and keep them both? That's what I want.
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Messing up the way he had with Jason would end poorly. And he and Nico did seem to have an understanding most people didn't (which was bizarre in and of itself.)] We sort of talked about the Jason thing after Jason left. Nico's the one who told me to take Clifford and go apologize to him.
[...oh god it's happening again. That weird, twisted feeling in his gut that isn't out of emotional pain but rather something else he wasn't sure he wanted to think about. Thinking about Nico, or having to think of how to explain Nico to people, usually worked him up into a state where he felt his stomach twist and his heart beat a little faster as his brain went into overdrive and a strange, sort of pleased feeling took over.
Why this kept happening when Hiro firmly told his thoughts and emotions "no", he never understood.]
Older sister...sort of the same way Tadashi died. Trying to save somebody else. Nico was ten though. They're demigods so Nico's been sort of outcast his whole life for being a son of Hades which isn't fair since that's kinda not his fault but people treat him differently or are creeped out by his powers. I think I freaked him out when I told him his powers were kinda cool. He's...it's funny. He was born in the 30s but some stuff happened when he was a kid that he got stuck in a timeloop for like seventy years so that's why we're still the same age. He's a few months older than me though. He doesn't trust people very easily and you really have to work at it but when he does trust somebody that's kinda it. We're similar that way. It takes a lot to break trust for him and I haven't managed to do it yet. I've gotta be doing something right.
I don't know, he's just...good to have around. Sometimes I feel like Nico and I are the same person because he gets how my brain works. He gets how to use sarcasm and his sense of humor's kind of twisted but it's okay. Mine probably is, too. And he gets what it's like to want to learn everything in the world. I think he's just as curious as I am about how things work here even though he's been here way longer than me. He's a good storyteller if you can believe that. [A beat.] And he's probably just another reason I'm not dead yet because he's the voice of reason in this mission. Nico and I kind of work that way. He needs to loosen up and I think he thinks I need to calm down. [A mischievous grin.] I haven't told him it's working yet. We're a good team and I know he'd understand if I told him I have to leave for a while but...[And here he stops and he suddenly looks uncertain.] I guess the real thing is that I'm not sure I want to. Not for long anyway. Why can't I have a good balance and keep them both? That's what I want.