"I will be by your side until we no longer are in this existence, I will be by your side until the Apollo stops rising the sun, until Artemis stops rising the moon, I will be by your side until my last breath, until you tell me otherwise, Nico Di An...
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0000. PROLOGUE
trigger warnings for the following subject matters- mentions & implications of internalized homophobia
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"𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐊𝐄𝐄𝐏 𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆." It was a phrase that Angel learned early on in his life and one that he kept close to home. A smile was something that hid any and all secrets and feelings with enough practice and Angel's had a lifetime of it. Growing up in the spotlights of the Big Tent would give you enough experience with it to last you a lifetime, at least that was the case for Angel.
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐈𝐑𝐂𝐔𝐒 𝐇𝐀𝐃 once been a place that Angel Griffin knew to be his home, a comfort to him at that. Though that all changed once truths came to light and he felt as though he was thrown to the deep end with seemingly no way of surviving the weight of the knowledge he held of the place of his birth.
𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐒 Angel felt as though there was no escape from the hell he found himself in, an attack happened in the place he had once deemed his home which he would deem as his saving grace. A monster, or as he was later told, a chimera had sensed him and hunted him down and just when Angel thought the God above had come to claim him with a devil-shaped monster, a demi-god by the name of Luke Castellan stepped in and saved Angel from not only the monster, but the fate he would have held if he had stayed within the circus.
