Heroes aren't meant to act like their villains -- or fall in love with them. The elements touch everyone on Earth -- Fire, Water, even Light -- but every so often someone becomes more attuned to their elemental leaning and develops true power. When an evil Elemental known as Thanatos arrived in Olympus City, it saw the rise of its first hero -- Zeus. But the death toll caused by defeating Thanatos changed Zeus, who by day is young detective Danny Grant. It's been six months since Thanatos terrorized the city at the start of Lovesick Gods. Danny should be used to his duty behind the mask, but the recent past haunts him. His girlfriend left him, he snaps at the barest provocation, his life feels empty -- he needs an outlet, any outlet to pull him out of his depression. Enter notorious thief Malcolm Cho, the Ice Elemental Prometheus. There was a time when Danny welcomed a fight with Cho, filled with colorful banter and casual flirtations that were a relief compared to Thanatos. Even as a criminal, Cho had recognized the threat Thanatos posed and promised to help Danny stop him, but the day Danny needed Cho, he never showed. Cho was the reason so many people died that day -- including Danny's mother. Danny decides to teach the man a lesson and fan the fire of their attraction into something more. At worst, he'll get some no-strings-attached sex out of the deal and finally blow off steam; at best, he'll get Cho to fall in love with him and then break his heart to spite him. Danny doesn't expect to fall for Cho in the process, and he certainly can't predict the much darker threat on the horizon.

Lovesick Gods

So, that morning, he’d mapped out all of the recent Ludgate sightings, along with his heist locations and any areas that had reported incidents of theft with similarities to the cases at Virgil Labs and the glassworks. Despite the randomness of most of the locations around the city, there was a definite grouping near a particular street west of downtown. 


Danny had shown the findings to Shan when the captain appeared looking for some sort of breakthrough in the case, and while it wasn’t evidence to help put Ludgate away, Danny had significantly narrowed their search area. 


“Good work, Grant,” Shan had said. 


Danny could count on one hand the number of times he’d received praise from the captain.


One of the forensics technicians passed by as Danny neared the autopsy room, jarring him from his thoughts. The man always seemed to have this resigned look about him that Danny used to associate with dealing with dead bodies all day, but Lynn never carried the same countenance. 


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