Forever.
Leo always knew he liked Piper. He just didn't know how much. Piper was always unsure of Jason. She just didn't know it was because she happened to love someone else. Someone called Leo.
Leo awoke to the sound of fighting. Obviously no other than Jason and Piper. Though Piper and Jason repeatedly insisted that every couple went through these 'hard times', he had a nagging suspicion that not every couple was this...irritated with each other. Seriously, if Leo could hear them (he was pretty sure he wasn't the only one) through the sound proof walls, he knew something was obviously wrong. Another thought popped into his mind while thinking about his friends breaking up. The keywords: breaking, wrong, and obviously pretty much triggered the thought he had been trying to get rid of for the past seven years. Somehow, the word breaking changed to the past progressive version of itself; broken. Then, it somehow, began to create synonyms for itself too. Some examples would be: LEO, LIFE, and, what was it? Oh yeah, LEO. What a smart alec his mind could be sometimes.
Almost instantly he had a flashback of the night of the fire. The last smile his mom gave him before she went back to retrieve her keys. When Gaea had locked the doors (not showing herself yet), killed his mom, broke his spirit and pretty much began to create the messed up boy Leo was today. She had told him it was no use and he should just give up, or he'd regret it or whatever. Ha. The flashback continued, showing Leo when his hand caught fire and he burned down the workshop, Gaea smiling sleepily as she watched and him blacking out from the smoke. Leo shook his head as if that would be enough to make the memory go away.
"Look at me now, Dirt Face," he muttered as he got out of bed.
"Not as broken as you wanted me to be huh?"
He walked into the bathroom shivering. Leo was pretty sure that he had all the rooms accustumed to the temperature the person there wanted. Weird. He brushed his teeth and put his clothes on.
After he was done, he walked back into the bathroom and stared at his reflection. His pointy elf ears were hidden behind his black mop of curly hair. His dark brown eyes glinted mischeviously. His smile was unusually wide and bright. Perfect.
"Man, I deserve an Oscar award for this." he said aloud.
He tried saying it again, but this time in a Darth Vader voice. Then in a British accent followed by a Canadian one. Then Russian. He continued on like this until he couldn't think of any more places in the world with strange or funny accents.
Finally he jogged out to the mess hall where he found Jason and Piper glaring daggers at each other, like usual. Frank, Hazel, Annabeth, and Percy where chatting nervously and randomly. I think they thought that Jason, a son of Jupiter and Piper, a daughter of Aphrodite fighting was more scary than Gaea awakening. OK. Maybe Gaea awakening was a shitload more scary but hey, it's a really close call.
"OK. Listen up everyone!" Percy called.
"It's time to have a serious conversation. And unless you want to die you better listen."
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