Flame's ToApril Works: 2026 Addition!!
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It takes over my life, I see you everywhere (the sweetest torture one could bear) by FlameLovesGreekMythology
Fandoms: The Trials of Apollo - Rick Riordan
01 Apr 2026
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Day 1: Gullible on the Ceiling
Jason was dead. And all because Leo wasn't.
Leo had grown up on the streets long enough to know by now that there was no such thing as a free meal. Really, it had been stupid of him to assume he'd truly escaped death unscathed.
There would always be a price.
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- Part 1 of Flame's ToApril Works: 2026 Addition!!
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'Cause this life can bring you down, so down (wake up world, it's time to go and turn around the opposite way) by FlameLovesGreekMythology
Fandoms: The Trials of Apollo - Rick Riordan
17 Apr 2026
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Day 2: Healing in Breaking
It wasn't like he didn't want to get up. He wanted to see his children. He wanted to visit Meg, and he wanted to hunt with his twin—something he hadn't done in centuries. He wanted to hang out with Lityerses at the Waystation, or take him up on that coffee he'd sworn up and down wasn't a date despite his face flushing as red as his bandana. All of that sounded great, really, it was just the getting up and doing it part that had Apollo hesitating.
Moving from his bed meant leaving the comfort the blankets provided, the safety they built by forming walls of fluff to shield him from the outside world. And the outside world was not a fun place, especially not on Olympus.
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- Part 2 of Flame's ToApril Works: 2026 Addition!!
- Part 1 of Straight from the Tortured Poets Department
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When I'm pure like a dove, when I've learned how to love (right here in the old therebefore) by FlameLovesGreekMythology
Fandoms: The Trials of Apollo - Rick Riordan
06 Apr 2026
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Day 3: Heatstroke
Epilogue to previous fic!! (Day 2)
Apollo gave him a weak smile, bringing a finger to his lips. "Shhh," he whispered. "They're sleeping."
"Oh," Lit said, lowering his voice. "Uh...I came down here to feed the griffins, but clearly you've already done that." He gestured to the father and son, rubbing the back of his neck with something that resembled sheepishness. His cheeks were tinged the faintest shade of red, and the sight of it had Apollo's stomach fluttering. Clearing his throat, he crouched low to settle down next to the sun god, their shoulders so close they nearly brushed together. "So, what're you doing in the nest?"
Apollo blew a stray curl out of his face. "I'm on an endeavor to satisfy my siblings. They think I spend too much time in my room."
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- Part 3 of Flame's ToApril Works: 2026 Addition!!
- Part 2 of Straight from the Tortured Poets Department
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Hangman, answer me now (you owe me a debt, you stole him from me) by FlameLovesGreekMythology
Fandoms: The Trials of Apollo - Rick Riordan
05 Apr 2026
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Day 4: Butterfly Affect/In Another Life
What if Apollo didn't pull himself up? What if, for the first time in the existence of the Earth, the sun didn't come back at dawn?
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- Part 4 of Flame's ToApril Works: 2026 Addition!!
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If you miss the train I’m on, you will know that am I gone (you can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles) by FlameLovesGreekMythology
Fandoms: The Trials of Apollo - Rick Riordan
08 Apr 2026
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Day 5: Desperate Gambit
“I love you.”
For the rest of his years, even if the stars tumbled from the heavens and the world fell to flames, even if the Fates themselves intervened, Apollon’s soul would forever be tethered to Hyacinthus’, his love for Sparta’s prince as eternal as the star the god embodied.
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My take on when Apollo begged his father to make him mortal in exchange for Hyacinthus' life.
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- Part 5 of Flame's ToApril Works: 2026 Addition!!
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There is a light, I feel it in me, but only, it seems, when the dark surrounds me (there is a dream and it sleeps in me, keeps me awake in the night, crying, “set me free”) by FlameLovesGreekMythology
Fandoms: The Trials of Apollo - Rick Riordan
11 Apr 2026
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Day 6: Reunion
Apollo rose with a sob and hugged her tight. Like, rib-crushingly tight. If she'd been a mortal, Artemis was sure her bones would have snapped immediately. Only when she realized her twin was weeping into her shoulder did she snap back to the present.
"Woah, there." She patted his back awkwardly. "Okay, little fella. You're alright now. You made it." Despite her brother being the god of poetry, she simply could not find words that would suffice for how glad she was that he'd made it. The sheer amount of joy her heart swelled with almost hurt.
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- Part 6 of Flame's ToApril Works: 2026 Addition!!
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Pass it down from kid to kid, the chain will never end ('less I decide to go to it, will I see the end?) by FlameLovesGreekMythology
Fandoms: The Trials of Apollo - Rick Riordan
13 Jul 2026
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Day 7: Beneath the Surface
Apollo's been avoiding Hermes ever since he came back from his trials. Hermes feels bad, which in turn makes him angry, because why should he feel bad for just trying to cope with the stress of his older brother's trials? He even apologized!
After consulting with Athena, Hermes figured he should at least try being the one to start the conversation.
This...doesn't end well.
In fact, Hermes ends up witnessing things he was never meant to see.
Next part from the coffee date!!
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- Part 7 of Flame's ToApril Works: 2026 Addition!!
- Part 3 of Straight from the Tortured Poets Department
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He says I'm pretty wearin' his clothes, and he's got hands that make hell seem cold (feet on the dashboard, he's like a poem I wish I wrote) by FlameLovesGreekMythology
Fandoms: The Trials of Apollo - Rick Riordan
01 May 2026
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Day 8: Anniversary
Lityerses shuddered. There wasn't a lot of things that could scare him, but the thought of his older siblings' reactions to his current situation was probably second place on his short list. Third might have been the way the heart that Lit hadn't even been sure he'd still had melted into warm, helpless mush every time—well, Apollo. It left him defenseless and completely caught off-guard. He let out a soft groan, careful to not accidentally wake up the sun god. He was so screwed. So incredibly head over heels that the whole concept wouldn’t have even been fathomable back in ancient days. Not for him. And yet, here it was, happening for him.
He loved Apollo in a way that would thrill a poet and terrify a therapist.
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- Part 8 of Flame's ToApril Works: 2026 Addition!!
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The emptiest of feelings, disappointed people (clinging onto bottles, when it comes, it's so, so disappointing) by FlameLovesGreekMythology
Fandoms: The Trials of Apollo - Rick Riordan
03 May 2026
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Day 9: Colors in the Dark
The first thing Apollo had ever seen was his sister's face. Artemis, his twin, had been the one to help their mother give birth to him, and in the sun god's first few seconds of existence, all he saw was her, in all her youthful beauty.
So why couldn't he remember what she looked like?
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- Part 9 of Flame's ToApril Works: 2026 Addition!!
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I'm everything that I've strived to be (so do I look like him?) by FlameLovesGreekMythology
Fandoms: The Trials of Apollo - Rick Riordan
03 Jul 2026
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Day 10: Not Who I Was
A realization, a growing doubt, and an existential crisis. In other words, Apollo's going through it, as per usual. The Jackson-Blofis family helps, as they always do.
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- Part 10 of Flame's ToApril Works: 2026 Addition!!
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When I see the devil’s eyes, a current travels down my spine (you found me) by FlameLovesGreekMythology
Fandoms: The Trials of Apollo - Rick Riordan
23 May 2026
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Day 11: Fall of a Beast
“You’re not going to love me after this.”
Zeus froze as he registered his son’s words. Apollo still trembled against his chest, sniffling softly. The sun god looked up at him with big, blue eyes that mirrored his own. The god king ran his fingers gently through the boy’s golden locks, careful not to let them catch and pull. “What makes you say that, sunbeam?”
Apollo’s chin trembled as he clutched the front of his father’s chiton. “Father…”
“I told you,” Zeus chastised lightly. “I’m your Papa. I don’t know why you keep insisting on the formalities."
“Most of the time you don’t allow me to call you anything other than ‘My Lord’.”
OR: Sometimes, the abused become the abusers. Zeus had sworn to end that, and failed without realizing it. This time, he remembers what it's like to be—
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- Part 11 of Flame's ToApril Works: 2026 Addition!!