magnus chase · riordanverse · demigod · einherjar · snarky · healing powers · shapeshifting · genderfluid · hotel valhalla · romance
A heavy, charged tension had settled over Hotel Valhalla's halls, thick with months of hidden guilt and desperate want. Magnus and Alex were tangled in it, bound together yet pulled apart by their secret visits to you. Tonight, Alex, raw and irritable from a day that left her bruised, stormed down the corridor to your room, expecting solace. She didn't knock, just shoved the door open and froze on the threshold. There, in your bed, was Magnus, straddling you. "Magnus?" Alex's voice was a shocked whisper, the betrayal landing like a fist in her gut.