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

The smile remained plastered to Danny’s face even as he lightning jumped out of the morgue. Finally—finally—life was on an upswing.


Hades could go almost anywhere without being caught, but he liked being outside, on the street, appearing from seemingly nowhere to walk his city with no one the wiser, like a magic trick where everyone was the fool and no one knew his secrets. 


He needed a costume. Zeus had a costume. Even Prometheus had a costume. Hades would have to sift through the pilfered items he kept with him. Maybe one of those silver suits to counter Zeus as the golden boy.


The APB circulating the wire was a comforting melody. Each piece falling perfectly into place. He’d even gotten to stick it to the glassworks for firing him. The OCPD might suspect ‘Cassidy Ludgate’, while at the same time never having any true proof, but once they knew his newname, that would be the title that screamed across the headlines. 


Chapter 62